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ISBN: 9781845206031 - Anthropological Practice Anthropological Practice
Judith Okely

ISBN10: 1845206037  ISBN13: 9781845206031
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd Berg Publishers
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2012
Anthropological Practice provides students with the tools to understand and develop practice-based and open-ended methodology. Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis... More

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ISBN: 9781845206024 - Anthropological Practice Anthropological Practice
Judith Okely

ISBN10: 1845206029  ISBN13: 9781845206024
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd Berg Publishers
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2012
Anthropological Practice provides students with the tools to understand and develop practice-based and open-ended methodology. Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis... More

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ISBN: 9780857852526 - Fashion Theory (Volume 16 Issue 2) Fashion Theory (Volume 16 Issue 2)
Valerie Steele

ISBN10: 0857852523  ISBN13: 9780857852526
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd Berg Publishers
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2012
Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding... More

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ISBN: 9780300169249 - The End of the Chinese Dream The End of the Chinese Dream
Gerard Lemos

ISBN10: 0300169248  ISBN13: 9780300169249
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 18 May 2012
Investigates a China beyond the tourist trail. This title offers an account of the thoughts and feelings of Chinese people regarding various facets of their lives, from education to health care, unemployment to old age, politics to wealth. More

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ISBN: 9780691152967 - Melancholia of Freedom Melancholia of Freedom
Thomas Blom Hansen

ISBN10: 0691152969  ISBN13: 9780691152967
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 May 2012
Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and... More

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ISBN: 9780230341128 - Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance
Michaela Paasche Grudin, Robert Grudin

ISBN10: 0230341128  ISBN13: 9780230341128
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 May 2012
Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision. Boccaccio's Decameron and the... More

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ISBN: 9780230363366 - The American Success Myth on Film The American Success Myth on Film
Julie Levinson

ISBN10: 0230363369  ISBN13: 9780230363366
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 May 2012
In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about success and work in America. Contemporary... More

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ISBN: 9780822351047 - The Camera as Historian The Camera as Historian
Elizabeth Edwards

ISBN10: 0822351048  ISBN13: 9780822351047
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2012
Looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages... More

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ISBN: 9780822351313 - The Mayan in the Mall The Mayan in the Mall
J T Way

ISBN10: 0822351315  ISBN13: 9780822351313
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 May 2012
Examines the historical development of modern Guatemala and argues that it is far from being an underdeveloped nation. This title shows that the changes that have occurred since the end of the civil war have also widened the gap between rich and... More

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ISBN: 9780230117860 - Displaced Displaced
Olivia Bennett, Christopher McDowell

ISBN10: 0230117864  ISBN13: 9780230117860
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 May 2012
Although displacement is often associated with conflict zones, millions of people are resettled yearly in the name of development and progress. They endure social and cultural disruption as well as economic upheaval, and their voices are rarely... More