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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $26.95
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Harry F. Wolcott
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8001
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Publication Date: 2008-02-28
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies, offering important suggestions on improving and deepening research practices for both novice and expert researchers.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $26.95
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Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin Academic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Josephine Flood
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Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 994.0049915
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Publication Date: 2007-04-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Offering insight into the life and experiences of the world’s oldest culture, this account of Australia’s Aboriginal history spans the mythologies of the Dreamtime through the modern-day problems within the community. Culture and history enthusiasts will get answers to such questions as Where did the Aborigines come from and when? How did they survive in such a harsh environment? and What was the traditional role of Aboriginal women? This story emphasizes the resilience and adaptability of the Aboriginal people, especially throughout their relationship with the Europeans who eventually colonized the continent. |
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $39.67
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Manufacturer: Skira
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Claudia Antipina::Temirbek Musakeev
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Publisher: Skira
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915
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Publication Date: 2007-03-27
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Never before has a book of the costumes of the nomadic peoples of Central Asia been published in American or Western European literature. This lavishly illustrated volume features the work of eminent Russian anthropologist Claudia Antipina, who died in 1996 at the age of 92. Antipina was one of only a small number of Russian anthropologists who devoted their lives to research among the nomadic Kyrgyz, and she herself lived most of her life in Kyrgyzstan. The costumes and documentation in this volume represent a substantial body of research collected by Antipina during the years of her life in Kyrgyzstan, and have never before been published. The book is illustrated with the watercolor images by Temirbek Musakeev and the photographs of French/Argentinean photographer Rolando Paiva.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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Publisher: Vintage
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 968.83004961
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Publication Date: 1989-10-23
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review
In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization -- with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol -- swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own.
"The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own....The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing."
-- The Atlantic
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Price: $51.95
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Sale: $18.30
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mart Hammersley
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.018
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Publication Date: 1995-01-12
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten, the second edition of this popular textbook is now even more relevant and useful for students and researchers. In this accessible introduction to the methods of ethnographic fieldwork, Hammersley and Atkinson reconsider the status of ethnography and seek to place it quite explicitly in a general methodological context. Ethnography provides a systematic and coherent account of ethnographic principles and practices.
From an outline of the principle of reflexivity the authors go on to discuss and exemplify the main features of ehtnographic work, such as the selection and sampling of cases, the problems of access, observation and interviewing, recording and filing data, and the process of data analysis. There is also consideration of the ethical issues surrounding ethnographic research. Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic and more recent studies in Britain and the US.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $24.45
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Manufacturer: Waveland Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
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Publisher: Waveland Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 916.46
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Publication Date: 1988-11
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Reading Level: 382
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Description: This is a reflexive account of an American woman and her family's unpredictable journey through the private and public worlds of a traditional Muslim city in the process of change. As a Western stranger in Marrakech, Fernea was met with suspicion and hostility. The story of the slow growth of trust and acceptance between the author and her Moroccan neighbors involves the reader in everyday activities, weddings, funerals, and women's rituals. Both the author and her friends are changed by the encounters that she describes. A Street in Marrakech is a crosscultural adventure, ethnographically sound, and written in an accessible style.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $39.86
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Manufacturer: National Geographic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: National Geographic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8
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Publication Date: 2001-11-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Expert at documenting the peoples of the world, National Geographic has drawn together a notable international team of anthropologists to compile this first-of-its-kind, illustrated volume of the traditions and ways of life of ethnic groups around the globe. Now, as never before, cultures are faced with extinction as globalization overtakes them. But Peoples of the World offers compelling essays and stunning photographs that capture the astounding array of cultures still surviving on Earth and shows how the people in these cultures define themselves and their worlds through their customs, religions, livelihoods, even their food, clothes, and shelter. The book will feature chapters on eight world regions: North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and the Arctic. Each region will begin with an insightful general essay on the cultural mix of the region as a whole and will be followed by smaller essays on individual ethnic groups within the region. Several topical essays by well-known anthropologists will also cover ethnicity and its impact on history and people's lives; immigration and how it reinvents ethnic identities, and cultural survival of marginal ethnic groups now threatened with extinction. Extensive, specially commissioned maps will show the topography of small areas of the world and how the lay of the land has impacted cultures. A comprehensive list of the hundreds of ethnic groups in the world and where they are found will be part of the front matter.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $11.41
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Margaret Diane LeCompte
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8001
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Publication Date: 1999-08-28
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: Book Five of the Ethnographer's Toolkit series provides the reader with a variety of methods for transforming piles of fieldnotes, observations, audio and videotapes, questionnaires, surveys, documents, maps, and other kinds of data into research results that help people understand their world more fully and facilitate problem solving. Using methods common to qualitative and quantitative methods, this slim volume discusses ways of organizing, retrieving, rendering manageable, and interpreting the data through everything from simple statistics to narratives, graphic representation to triangulation. The volume keeps a continuous focus on producing results that can be used in policy and programmatic settings.
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Price: $62.95
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Sale: $52.55
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Don C. Locke
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Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 1998-02-03
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Increase your awareness, knowledge, and skills to more effectively recognize the influences of cultural group membership. Now, more than ever, counselors and other health professionals must broaden their understanding and appreciation for the role culture plays in the way people think, feel, and act. In the newly revised and expanded edition of Increasing Multicultural Understanding, Don C. Locke provides the tools necessary to foster positive and productive relationships among culturally diverse populations. The book encourages readers to explore their own cultural background and identity, and in the process, begin to better understand others. A best-seller in the first edition, Increasing Multicultural Understanding, Second Edition still presents its classic framework for critical observation with 10 elements, including the history of oppression, religious practices, family structure, degree of acculturation, poverty, language and the arts, racism and prejudice, sociopolitical factors, child-rearing practices, and values and attitudes. Two new chapters focus on Muslims and Jews in America, while chapters on such specific groups as African Americans, Japanese Americans, Native American Indians, Vietnamese in the United States, and the Old Order Amish have been thoughtfully updated. Increasing Multicultural Understanding provides both undergraduates and graduate students in multicultural education or counseling with invaluable skills. It also successfully crosses disciplines to a variety of other fields in which the demand to understand cultural membership is growing, and works well for courses that cover specific information on a number of cultural groups.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $46.70
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Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas A. Offit
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 331.310972811
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Publication Date: 2008-11-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic research on the streets of Guatemala City, toppling conventional wisdom that the region's youth workers are solely victims, or that their labor situations are entirely the result of poverty and family breakdown. Documenting the voices and experiences of the city's working children, this fascinating study reveals counterintuitive motivations for those who choose to abandon schooling in favor of participating more fully in their families' economies. The processes of developing skills and planning for their social and economic futures are covered in depth, presenting evidence that many members of this population operate well above survival level and are decidedly not marginalized or members of an underclass. Conquistadores de la Calle also makes important distinctions between these young workers--a generation of Maya and Ladino boys and girls--and the homeless children or gang youth who have been so much more widely studied. Contextualizing a variety of data, ranging from detailed ethnographic portraits of the children's lives and the monthly income of children engaged in common street vocations (such as shining shoes or serving as porters) to educational histories and socialization activities, Thomas Offit has produced a rich trove of findings in a significant segment of urban economics that is tremendously important for anthropologists, Latin Americanists, and those interested in the lives and labors of children in the cities of the developing world.
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