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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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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $29.95
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Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen D. Thomas
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Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 996.6
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Publication Date: 1997-10-01
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Reading Level: 307
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Description: Nonfiction account of a young American man's sojourn in the South Pacific, on the Micronesian island of Satawal in the Caroline archipelago, studying traditional navigation with Mau Piailug, the last of the palus. It was Piailug who navigated a Polynesian vessel from Hawaii to Tahiti without compass or charts, as documented by a PBS film of the voyage. Thomas learns how to navigate by stars, wind, swell, birds, and memory. It is a story of seafaring, a dying culture, and self-discovery.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $23.95
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Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Colin M. Turnbull
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Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
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Edition: Facsimile
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.096751
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Publication Date: 1983-02
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: A study of the Mbuti pygmy hunter/gatherers of Zaire, with historical background on the Huri Forest, suggested correlatives between different forms of social organization and the environment, and details of the changes brought about by the "Zimba revolution" and independence.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $26.00
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8
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Publication Date: 1996-12-26
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Reading Level: 472
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Description: Although the term "ethnicity" is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and on every continent, and have played an important role in all societies. The sense of a common ethnicity remains a major focus of identification for individuals even today. Ethnic community and identity are also often associated with conflict, particularly with political struggles in various parts of the world. Yet there is no essential connection between ethnicity and conflict, and in many instances, relations may in fact be peaceful and cooperative.
This Oxford Reader offers explanations for the often contentious nature of ethnicity, its worldwide effects, and the possible means for overcoming conflicts. It includes extracts by all the major contributors to debates on ethnicity, including Weber, Brass, Hechter, and Horowitz, and focuses on ethnic groups in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, and North America, as well as other areas.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $21.17
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Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.01
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Publication Date: 2006-01-04
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West’s knowledges—especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges—of the non-Western world. The essays that make up this volume treat diverse aspects of this remarkable body of work. Among them: the relationship between colonial power and academic knowledge; the historical shifts giving shape to the complexly interrelated categories of the secular and the religious, and the significance of these shifts in the emergence of modern Europe; and aspects of human embodiment, including some of the various ways that pain, emotion, embodied aptitude, and the senses connect with and structure cultural practices. While the specific themes and arguments addressed by the individual contributors range widely, the essays cohere in a shared orientation of both critical engagement and productive extension. Note that this is not a festschrift, nor a celebratory farewell, but a series of engagements with a thinker whose work is in full spate and deserves to be far better known and understood.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nigel Randell
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 990
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Publication Date: 2004-11-03
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: In 1868, Jack Renton, a teenage Scots sailor, was shanghaied in San Francisco. In 1876, he was rescued from captivity on the Pacific island of Malaita, home to a fearsome tribe of headhunters. After the rescue, in a sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore at Malaita, was stripped of his clothes, possessions and his very identity, but lived to serve the island's tribal chief Kabou eventually as his most trusted adviser. For all the authenticity and riveting detail, however, it turns out that Renton's chronicle glossed over key events that made him the man that Kabou said he loved, "as my first-born son." Mining the oral history passed down in detail from generations of Malaitans, documentary filmmaker Nigel Randell spent seven years piecing together a more complete and grislier account of Renton's experience—as a man forced to assimilate in order to survive. While The White Headhunter is the story of a man transformed by an island, it is also the story of a man who transformed the island as he prepared it for the onslaught of Western civilization.
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Manufacturer: Univ of Texas Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Annette Weiner
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Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 392.09953
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Publication Date: 1983-07
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Reading Level: 321
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Description: This study of women, men, and exchanges of wealth in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, makes an interesting comparison with the work of pioneer ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski, who conducted his seminal research there between 1915 and 1918. While Malinowski and others have focused on men, dismissing "women's work" as unimportant, Weiner shows that women play a vital role in Trobriand society.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.44
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Manufacturer: Periplus Editions
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Miguel Covarrubias
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Publisher: Periplus Editions
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 1999-04-15
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: This book describes the island of Bali and the Balinese. It considers the spirit of the dance, theatre, music, arts and sports of Bali, as well as its religion, sexual customs, family life and economic and political organization. Beginning with a picture of Bali as the casual tourist sees it compared with what it actually is, Covarrubias leads the reader deeper into the life of the island, its history and beliefs.
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $53.95
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael H. Agar
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8001
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Publication Date: 1996-06-21
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Reading Level: 276
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Description: This new edition of a classic introductory text opens with an extensive chapter that brings ethnography up-to-date and aims it toward the next century. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, Agar shows how the fundamentals endure even as they adapt to a world unimagined when the research perspective developed more than 100 years ago. Contemporary discussions of ethnography are loaded with choices, primarily "either-or" options. Just as the first edition crossed the qualitative-quantitative divide, the new edition integrates classical scientific notions with new concepts such as narrative and interpretation. Agar updates the contrast between the researcher's apprenticeship to knowledgeable informants and the hypothesis-testing mode that still dominates social science, while demonstrating the complementarity of the two. Drawing extensively from his own research experience, he illustrates the stages of the ethnographic process from inception through the emergence of a focus, and toward a subsequent formalization of methods and analysis. In the process, he illustrates several approaches designed to reconcile the contradictory demands of the scientific process and human behavior.
Analyses the changes in ethnographic studies during the last fifteen years
Outlines the conflict between science and interpretation
Presents the politics of ethnography, both personal and global
Describes the 'new' participant observation
Sheds light on ethno-logic
Includes methods for the non-positive
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Waveland Pr Inc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Debra Picchi
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Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 981.00498
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Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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Reading Level: 248
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Description: For over twenty-five years, Debra Picchi has documented how the Bakairí Indians have addressed and endured change. This up-close portrayal of how a remarkable indigenous people of Brazil has managed to hold on to many of their traditions after years of contact with mainstream Brazilian culture is written in a down-to-earth, conversational style, yet does not avoid complex issues. The original edition represented one of the first ethnographies on South American Indians to espouse political ecology explicitly as a theoretical orientation. Expanded coverage in the second edition includes material on the theory of political ecology, different methodological approaches used to collect data on populations, the latest archaeological findings taking place in Brazil, how Bakairí gender constructs have changed over the last 100 years, and the effects of population increases, mechanized production, and wealth accumulation. Both accessible and rigorous, Picchi packs much information into a slim volume, which serves as a reminder of the value of long-term fieldwork and demonstrates that research is as much about process as it is about product. Text includes reader’s study guide.
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