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  • Delaware's Forgotten Folk Delaware's Forgotten Folk
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    Delaware's Forgotten Folk

    Delaware's Forgotten FolkThe Story of the Moors and NanticokesC. A. Weslager. Photographs by L. T. Alexander. Drawings by John Swientochowski"In 1943, Weslager's book helped Delaware's American Indians better understand their history, and now, more than...
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  • The Genome Incorporated The Genome Incorporated
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    The Genome Incorporated

    The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures. It explores questions about what it means for a technoscience to thoroughly saturate everyday life, and places the interrogation of the science/media...
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  • Technology and Medical Practice Technology and Medical Practice
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    Technology and Medical Practice

    The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care. What happens to the patient in a...
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  • Ritual and the Sacred Ritual and the Sacred
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    Ritual and the Sacred

    Ritual and the Sacred discusses some of the most important issues of modern socio-political life through the lens of a neo-Durkheimian perspective. Building on the main lesson of Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this book articulates values...
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  • Lifestyle Migration Lifestyle Migration
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    Lifestyle Migration

    Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have...
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  • Intellectuals and their Publics Intellectuals and their Publics
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    Intellectuals and their Publics

    How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics? What is the role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties? What challenges face female intellectuals and those speaking from an ethnic, national or class position? ...
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  • Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia
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    Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia

    Throughout the world, the number of festivals has grown exponentially in the last two decades, as people celebrate local and regional cultures, but perhaps more importantly as local councils and other groups seek to use festivals both to promote tourism...
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  • Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health
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    Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health

    Rendering the suffering of the marginalized visible has been an important aspect of feminist sociological studies of health, illness and medicine, with the subjective experience of those without access to institutional power being at the forefront of the...
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  • International Migration and Rural Areas International Migration and Rural Areas
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    International Migration and Rural Areas

    While immigrants are still predominantly choosing urban areas to locate to, there is now increasing evidence of immigration to rural areas which poses its own challenges for those relocating, from the scarcity of high quality jobs to the provision of...
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  • Contested Categories Contested Categories
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    Contested Categories

    Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and...
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  • Plural Masculinities Plural Masculinities
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    Plural Masculinities

    Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, pathways through which men are remaking their identities. Proceeding from the premise that it is impossible...
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  • Accession and Migration Accession and Migration
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    Accession and Migration

    The expansion of the European Union in May 2004 through the entry of ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe, has generated considerable media interest - interest which was revived by further expansion in January 2007 when Bulgaria and Romania...
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  • Preference Organisation and Peer Disputes Preference Organisation and Peer Disputes
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    Preference Organisation and Peer Disputes

    How do children get their own way in arguments? What is the most effective way of pursuing one's own goals in preschool? 'Use your words' is an instruction frequently heard in nurseries and pre-schools encouraging young children to resolve the situation...
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  • Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition
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    Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition

    Explicitly comparative in its approach, Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition discusses central issues regarding multiculturalism in today's Europe, based on studies of Norway and the Netherlands. Distinguishing clearly the four social fields of the media,...
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  • Living Gender after Communism Living Gender after Communism
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    Living Gender after Communism

    How has the collapse of communism across Europe and Eurasia changed gender? In addition to acknowledging the huge costs that fell heavily on women, Living Gender after Communism suggests that moving away from communism in Europe and Eurasia has provided...
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  • The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture
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    The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture

    The universal act of dressing-shared by both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, minority and majority-has shaped human interactions, communicated hopes and fears about the future, and embodied what it means to be Somali. Heather Marie Akou...
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  • Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures
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    Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures

    In Africa, where the birthrate of twins is among the highest in the world, twins can be seen as a burden to their families and a threat to the social order, or they can be seen as a gift from God and beings with unique abilities who bring about social...
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  • Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine
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    Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine

    In postsocialist Ukraine, with privatization and the scaling back of the social safety net, it is primarily women who have been left as leaders of service-oriented NGOs and mutual aid associations, caring for the marginalized and destitute with little or...
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  • Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow
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    Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow

    In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies...
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  • Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean
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    Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean

    While devotional practices are usually viewed as mechanisms for reinforcing religious boundaries, in the multicultural, multiconfessional world of the Eastern Mediterranean, shared shrines sustain intercommunal and interreligious contact among groups...
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  • The Rise of an African Middle Class The Rise of an African Middle Class
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    The Rise of an African Middle Class

    Offers an extremely sophisticated, nuanced view of the social and political construction of an African middle class in colonial Zimbabwe." -Elizabeth SchmidtTracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia's unilateral...
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  • Cultures of Vision Cultures of Vision
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    Cultures of Vision

    This is a very strong, thought-provoking [volume]... "-George MarcusAs home photographs shift from the print format to digital technology and as video moves from the television screen to multimedia, it is crucial to develop new strategies of interpreting...
    $71.00

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  • Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church
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    Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church

    This unique collaboration by academic historians, Oneida elders, and Episcopal clergy tells the fascinating story of how the oldest Protestant mission and house of worship in the upper Midwest took root in the Oneida community. Personal bonds that...
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  • Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution
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    Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution

    The study of human reproductive ecology represents an important new development in human evolutionary biology. Its focus is on the physiology of human reproduction and evidence of adaptation, and hence the action of natural selection, in that domain. But...
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  • De Chineezen In Nederlandsch-Indie (1900) De Chineezen In Nederlandsch-Indie (1900)
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    De Chineezen In Nederlandsch-Indie (1900)

    De Chineezen In Nederlandsch-Indie is een historisch boek geschreven door Henri Borel en gepubliceerd in 1900. Het boek beschrijft de geschiedenis van de Chinese gemeenschap in Nederlands-Indi�����, vanaf hun eerste aankomst tot aan het einde van de 19e...
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  • Das Hotel De Rambouillet Und Die Precieusen (1868) Das Hotel De Rambouillet Und Die Precieusen (1868)
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    Das Hotel De Rambouillet Und Die Precieusen (1868)

    Das Buch ""Das Hotel De Rambouillet Und Die Precieusen"" von F. A. Fischer, welches im Jahr 1868 ver������ffentlicht wurde, besch�����ftigt sich mit der franz������sischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Insbesondere wird auf das...
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  • De Amsterdamsche Weeskamer (1878) De Amsterdamsche Weeskamer (1878)
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    De Amsterdamsche Weeskamer (1878)

    De Amsterdamsche Weeskamer (1878) is een historisch boek geschreven door Nicolaas de Roever. Het boek beschrijft de geschiedenis van de Weeskamer in Amsterdam, een instelling die zich bezighield met de zorg voor weeskinderen en armen. De Roever...
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  • Das Weib Als Verbrecherin Und Prostituirte (1894) Das Weib Als Verbrecherin Und Prostituirte (1894)
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    Das Weib Als Verbrecherin Und Prostituirte (1894)

    ""Das Weib als Verbrecherin und Prostituierte"" ist ein Buch von Cesare Lombroso, das im Jahr 1894 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Lombroso war ein italienischer Kriminologe und Anthropologe, der als einer der Begr�����nder der modernen Kriminologie gilt. In...
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  • Das Volksleben In Steiermark V1-2 Das Volksleben In Steiermark V1-2
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    Das Volksleben In Steiermark V1-2

    Das Buch ""Das Volksleben in Steiermark V1-2: In Charakter und Sittenbildern (1875)"" von Peter Rosegger beschreibt das Leben und die Sitten der Menschen in der ������sterreichischen Region Steiermark. Der Autor gibt Einblicke in die Kultur, die...
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  • Das Turkenvolk Das Turkenvolk
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    Das Turkenvolk

    Das Buch ""Das T�����rkenvolk: In seinen ethnologischen und ethnographischen Beziehungen"" wurde im Jahr 1885 von Hermann Vambery ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Studie �����ber die t�����rkische Bev������lkerung und ihre...
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  • Das Salz Das Salz
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    Das Salz

    Das Buch ""Das Salz: Seine Geschichte, Seine Symbolik Und Seine Bedeutung Im Menschenleben"" wurde im Jahr 1875 von Matthias Jacob Schleiden ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der Geschichte und Bedeutung von Salz in verschiedenen Kulturen...
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  • Das Schaui Das Schaui
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    Das Schaui

    Das Buch ""Das Schaui: Ein Beitrag Zur Berberischen Sprachen Und Volkerkunde"" von Adam Graf Sierakowski wurde im Jahr 1871 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Studie �����ber die berberischen Sprachen und Kulturen, insbesondere �����ber die...
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  • Das Recht Der Azteken (1892) Das Recht Der Azteken (1892)
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    Das Recht Der Azteken (1892)

    Das Buch ""Das Recht der Azteken"" von Josef Kohler, ver������ffentlicht im Jahr 1892, besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Rechtssystem der Azteken, einer indigenen Zivilisation, die im heutigen Mexiko lebte. Kohler untersucht die verschiedenen Aspekte des...
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  • Das Opium Als Genussmittel (1898) Das Opium Als Genussmittel (1898)
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    Das Opium Als Genussmittel (1898)

    Das Buch ""Das Opium als Genussmittel"" von Carl Hartwich wurde im Jahr 1898 ver������ffentlicht. Es ist ein umfassendes Werk �����ber die Verwendung von Opium als Genussmittel. Der Autor beschreibt die Geschichte des Opiums, seine Wirkung auf den...
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  • Das Matriarchat Das Matriarchat
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    Das Matriarchat

    Das Buch ""Das Matriarchat: Das Mutterrecht bei den alten Arabern (1884)"" von George Alexander Wilken besch�����ftigt sich mit der Rolle der Frauen in der arabischen Gesellschaft. Der Autor untersucht die Bedeutung des Mutterrechts in der arabischen...
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  • Das Leben Der Vorislamischen Beduinen Das Leben Der Vorislamischen Beduinen
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    Das Leben Der Vorislamischen Beduinen

    Das Buch ""Das Leben der vorislamischen Beduinen: Nach den Quellen geschildert"" wurde im Jahr 1895 von Georg Jacob ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Darstellung des Lebens der Beduinen vor der Entstehung des Islam, basierend auf...
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  • Das Landarmenwesen Das Landarmenwesen
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    Das Landarmenwesen

    Das Buch ""Das Landarmenwesen"" von Emil Munsterberg wurde im Jahr 1890 im Auftrag des Deutschen Vereins f�����r Armenpflege und Wohlt�����tigkeit sowie der von ihm niedergesetzten Kommission ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Thema der...
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  • Das Kaiserreich Brasilien, Part 1-2 (1885) Das Kaiserreich Brasilien, Part 1-2 (1885)
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    Das Kaiserreich Brasilien, Part 1-2 (1885)

    Das Buch ""Das Kaiserreich Brasilien, Part 1-2 (1885)"" von Alfred W. Sellin beschreibt das Kaiserreich Brasilien w�����hrend des sp�����ten 19. Jahrhunderts. Es ist in zwei Teile unterteilt und enth�����lt eine umfassende Darstellung der politischen,...
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  • Das Junkerthum Das Junkerthum
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    Das Junkerthum

    Das Buch ""Das Junkerthum: Wie Es Entstanden Ist Und Wie Weit Es Uns Gebracht Hat"" wurde 1863 von Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der Entstehung und Entwicklung des Junkertums, einer sozialen Schicht im...
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  • Das Fremdenrecht Das Fremdenrecht
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    Das Fremdenrecht

    Das Buch ""Das Fremdenrecht: Und Seine Volkswirthschaftliche Bedeutung"" von Ludwig von Bar wurde im Jahr 1893 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Analyse des Fremdenrechts und seiner Bedeutung f�����r die Volkswirtschaft. Der Autor...
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  • Das Ethnographische Verhaltniss Der Kelten Und Germanen Das Ethnographische Verhaltniss Der Kelten Und Germanen
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    Das Ethnographische Verhaltniss Der Kelten Und Germanen

    Das Buch ""Das Ethnographische Verh�����ltnis der Kelten und Germanen: Nach den Ansichten der Alten und den sprachlichen �����berresten"" wurde im Jahr 1857 von Heinrich Bernhard Chr. Brandes verfasst. In diesem Werk besch�����ftigt sich der Autor mit...
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  • Das Erste Jahrhundert Das Erste Jahrhundert
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    Das Erste Jahrhundert

    ""Das Erste Jahrhundert: Aus Dem Leben Einer Hauptstadtischen Gemeinde"" ist ein Buch von Eduard Alexander Doleschall aus dem Jahr 1887. Es beschreibt das Leben einer Gemeinde in einer Hauptstadt w�����hrend des ersten Jahrhunderts. Das Buch gibt einen...
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  • Anthropology of Our Times Anthropology of Our Times
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    Anthropology of Our Times

    This anthology represents the culmination of a series of public discussions with some of the leading international anthropologists of today -organized by the editor, Sindre Bangstad-at the House of Literature in Oslo, Norway. Thus, it provides fresh and...
    $162.00

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  • Japanese Robot Culture Japanese Robot Culture
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    Japanese Robot Culture

    Japanese Robot Culture examines social robots in Japan, those in public, domestic, and artistic contexts. Unlike other studies, this book sees the robot in relation to Japanese popular culture, and argues that the Japanese 'affinity' for robots is the...
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