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Divine Rulers in a Secular State
Ghana in 2000–2001 and 2005–2006, data drawn from several archival sources located in Ghana and the United Kingdom, and the anthropological and historical literature on Ghana and the Asante."
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- 9789522226822
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- 322.1 KAL d
Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. It is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and Jewish studies…
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- 9781789202304
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- 301 KAS m
Going to Pentecost: An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of r…
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- 9781789201406
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- 301 BLA g
The Appalachian Experience
The Proceedings of the 6th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference contains papers on a variety of academic disciplines and contemporary issues, reflecting interest in Appalachia from both scholarly and activist viewpoints. Topics addressed include ethnic diversity, literature, politics and government, culture, and economic development.
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- 9781469636733
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- 360 APP a
From Clans to Co-Ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos’s ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food,…
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- 9781785336065
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CHAPTER 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based…
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- 9781785330841
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- 300 BRI c
Beyond the Horizon : Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society
Society is never just a localized aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its members’ narrative and conceptual awareness of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala’s work this idea evolves into a broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds beyond the horizon, in the double sense of “past” and “abroad.” This book is a tribute to Jukka’s contributions to anthropology…
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- 978-951-858-069-3
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- Studia Fennica Anthropologica 2
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- 301 BEY
Borders Across Healthcare: Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Examining which actors determine undocumented migrants’ access to healthcare on the ground, this volume looks at what happens in the daily interactions between administrative personnel, healthcare professionals and migrant patients in healthcare institutions across Europe. Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus. The volume documents t…
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- 9781789207439
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Appalachia / Americ
This volume of the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1981, offers a collection of some of the more important papers presented at the conference. Paper topics include labor and the economy; land in Appalachia; urban Appalachia; education; and values and culture.
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- 9781469636924
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... A Right Good People
A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974, the stories collected in "... A Right Good People" were originally published in the Charlotte Observer, the largest newspaper in the Carolinas in the 1970s. These stories were written with the intention of illustrating the heritage of the Appala…
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- 9781469638362
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