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| Ugly Duckling's Love Revolution: v. 1 |
Can a raging sweet tooth really get in the way of one girl's attempt to catch the eye of a pretty boy?
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| After the Cult |
In many parts of the world the white manA" is perceived to be an instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity. However, so far anthropologists have paid little attention to the actual heterogeneity and complexity of whitenessA" in spe
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| Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects |
In spite of having been short-lived, WeimarA" has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic's place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end-Germany's defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of p|http://waterstones.at/ExcitingAds/7116829.html|http://waterstones.at/ExcitingAds?CTY=9&CID=234&DURL=http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=7116829|http://www3.waterstones.com/wat/images/nbd/s/noimage.gif||GBP|58.00||||0.00|1|Pre-Order|||Does not apply to books|New||||||||1845456890|||||||||||||||||||||||||0.10|1845456890|
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| Terror from the Sky |
In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II. The contributors address the decision to e
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| Zimbabwe's New Diaspora |
Zimbabwe's crisis since 2000 has produced a dramatic global scattering of people. This volume investigates this enforced dispersal, and the processes shaping the emergence of a new 'diaspora' of Zimbabweans abroad, focusing on the most important conc
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| Out of the Study and into the Field |
Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures
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| Kin, Gene, Community |
Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the applicatio
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| Historical Memory in Africa |
A vast amount of literature-both scholarly and popular-now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its
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| Class, Contention and a World in Motion |
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is
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| The Ethnographic Self as Resource |
It is commonly acknowledged that anthropologists use personal experiences to inform their writing. However, it is often assumed that only fieldwork experiences are relevant, and that the personal appears only in the form of self-reflexivity. This boo
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| Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies |
The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data - brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs, and charts, etc.
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| Region Building: Global Proliferation of Regional Integration v. I |
After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are
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| Region Building: Regional Integration in the World: Documents v. II |
After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are
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| Post-Communist Nostalgia |
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread di
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| News as Culture |
This important volume contributes to an emerging debate about the impact of the media on Indian society. Furthermore, it convincingly demonstrates the inseparable link between media related practices and dynamic cultural repertoires.
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| Morality, Hope and Grief |
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-p
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| Friendly Enemies |
During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc's most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer t
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| The Early Morning Phonecall |
As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. Despite considerable research on the impact of migration and remittanc
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| Berlin, Alexanderplatz |
This book is both a critical contribution to the anthropology of contemporary modernity and a radical intervention in contemporary cross-disciplinary debates on the city of Berlin.
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| Multicultural Dialogue |
As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority g
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