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Modeling social behavior
A comprehensive introduction to mathematical and agent-based modeling of social behaviorThis book provides a unified, theory-driven introduction to key mathematical and agent-based models of social dynamics and cultural evolution, teaching readers how to build their own models, analyze them, and ...
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Modern dharma
How middle-class families in Nepal pursue “well-being” in a rapidly changing social landscapeModern Dharma asks how middle-class Nepalis pursue an ethical, good life in a rapidly evolving society. In the aftermath of a decade-long civil war that raged between 1996 and 2006, social change accelera...
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Moral atmospheres
Timothy P. A. Cooper examines the diverse and coexisting moral atmospheres that surround media in Pakistan, tracing public understandings of ethical life and showing how they influence economic behavior.
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Moral engines
What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation ...
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Morality at the margins
What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows how Muslim societies critically engage...
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Mountain at a center of the world
Considering the diverse heritage of the pilgrimage site of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, Alexander McKinley develops a new account of pluralism based in political ecology, representing the full array of actors and issues on the mountain.
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Moves - spaces - places
This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors.
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Moving the centre
Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western nations.In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the restricti...
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Murujuga
A fascinating case study of the archaeological site at Murujuga, AustraliaLocated in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia, Murujuga is the single largest archaeological site in the world. It contains an estimated one million petroglyphs, or rock art motifs, produced by the Indigenous Aust...
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Muslim lives in eastern europe
Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small population of Pomaks...
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Nairobi in the making
Examines the making and remaking of Nairobi, one of Africa's most fragmented, vibrant cities, contributing to debates on urban anthropology, the politics of the past and postcolonial materialities.What does it mean to make a life in an African city today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by c...
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Namibia's children
Many children in Namibia find themselves facing a social crisis. For three years, Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer conducted interviews in Namibia with women who take care of vulnerable children. The book gives these children a voice in interviews and essays.
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Narrating the multispecies world
International artists and scholars share their stories of loss and hope regarding today's polycrises and their effects on animals, plants, and humans all over the world.
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Narrating victimhood
The only ethnographic analysis of right-wing nationalism in post-war Croatia Unique description of the pilgrimage site in the Dalmatian town of Sinj and the apparition site in Gala One of the first scholarly analyses of the situation of war veterans in post-war Croatia Descriptio...
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National identity and education in early twentieth century australia
This book explores the inculcation of an Australian national identity through a deconstruction of the content of the required reading curriculum for children in schools in the state of Victoria during the first two decades after Federation in 1901.
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Nationalist politics and everyday ethnicity in a transylvanian town
Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural and political center. Yet heated nationalist...
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Nature's pharmacopeia
This beautifully illustrated textbook pairs research on the biochemical properties and physiological effects of medicinal plants with a history of the ways in which humans have cultivated plant species and investigated their effects. Nature’s Pharmacopeia fosters an appreciation of the chemistry ...
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Naturekind
A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism an...
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Negotiating mistrust
Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. It offers a holistic study of the medical lands...
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New directions in educational ethnography
The primary objective of Studies in Educational Ethnography is to present original research monographs based on ethnographic perspectives, and methodologies.
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Nomadic cinema
Nomadic Cinema is a groundbreaking history of early-twentieth-century exhibition films, analyzing them as visual records of colonialism that also offer new possibilities for recognizing Indigenous histories.
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Not ours alone
Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, tradition, and community...
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O my friends, there is no friend
The porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human.
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Objects and imagination
An exciting and innovative addition to the study of material culture, art and aethetics. Comprised by accomplished, previously published scholars in the field of art history and social anthropology. Explores how we conceptualise our social surroundings through the framework of the im...
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Objects and objections of ethnography
The essays in this volume, in all their astonishing richness and diversity, focus on the question of the “other.” Brimming with whole flotillas of new ideas, they delineate subtle and various ways in which that question can be made the basis of an ethnographic project.In them, the author responds...
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Oikos and market
Describes how the ideals of self-sufficiency shape economic activity in many post-socialist areas. Six comparative studies of post-socialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy. Examines how economies depend not only on the macr...
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On british islam
On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shariʿa councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why? Taking a histor...
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On conservation as a human science
Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic...
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On the doorstep of europe
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Greece has shouldered a heavy burden struggling with internal political and financial insecurity as well as hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum seekers who arrive by land and sea. In On the Doorstep of Europe, Heath Cabot presents an ethnogra...
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On the move
This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China.
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Ordinary ethics
What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is...
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Orphaned landscapes
This book examines the proliferation of monumental Christian street art in a Muslim/Christian conflict to show how ephemeral phenomena are inherent to sociopolitical change.
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Our broad present
An internationally acclaimed theorist examines the consequences of our changing relationship to time and space.
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Our emotions and culture
In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
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Out of one, many
A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their wa...
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Paradoxes of utopia
A social history of revolutionary ideas and lifestyles.
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Parental grief and photographic remembrance
Felicity Hamer explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices propelled by a desire to commemorate the death of a child.
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Parenthood between generations
A focus on the intergenerational transmission of parenthood. Brings together innovative, qualitative research by anthropologists, historians and sociologists.
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Parkour, deviance and leisure in the late-capitalist city
This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the parado...
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Partisans of the nude
Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab.
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People's car
People's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land...
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Perfect order
Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each ...
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Period
A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual’s period as useless, and some doc...
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Plurinational afrobolivianity
In Bolivia, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to transform society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and politi...
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Pogrom in gujarat
In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. The ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party blamed Gujarat's entire Muslim minority for the tragedy and incited fellow Hi...
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Political participation in the digital age
This book explores the potential of the internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. With an ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, it offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike ...
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