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Brenner: The Domestication of Desire. Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java. Paperback
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  • Domestication of Desire. Women, Wealth, and  Modernity in Java. Paperback
  • Suzanne April Brenner
  • xiii, 301 pages. 1998. The author portrays the Javanese neighbourhood she discovered in the late 1980s - Laweyan had embraced modernization under Dutch colonial rule only to fend it off in the late 20th century. Brenner examines the making of the "unmodern", focusing on the importance of gender.

Brewer: Ethnography. Paperback
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  • Ethnography. Paperback
  • by  John D. Brewer
  • Post-modern critics attack the methodological status of ethnography and challenge its representations of reality. Others argue that globalization narrows its application as localism disappears. This text provides a defence of this method and establishes its relevance in the social sciences.

Bridge, Watson: The Blackwell City Reader. Paperback
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  • Blackwell City Reader. Paperback
  • edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. xiv, 579 pages. 2002

Brohman: Popular Development. Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Development. Paperback
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  • Popular Development. Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Development. Paperback
  • by John Brohman
  • 400 pages. 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, digital reprint 2005. This critical evaluation of development strategies examines development frameworks, and looks at their theoretical underpinnings and the results of their implementation in practice. It covers all the major regions, including Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Bromley: Cults, Religion, and Violence. Paperback
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  • Cults, Religion, and Violence. Paperback
  • Edited by David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton
  • 270 pages, 2002. This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted.

Bryceson, Kay, Mooij: Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Paperback
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  • Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Paperback
  • edited by Deborah F. Bryceson, Christobal Kay and Jos Mooij
  • x, 333 pages. 2000, reprinted 2005. This text argues that the peasant transition process has reached a critical juncture. With: "Peasant Theories and Smallholder Policies: Past and Present"

Bryman: Social Research Methods. 3rd edition. Paperback
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  • Social Research Methods. 3rd edition. Paperback
  • Alan Bryman. xxxix, 748 pages. 2008, 3rd edition

Burke: History and Social Theory. 2nd edition. Paperback
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  • History and Social Theory. 2nd edition
  • Peter Burke 2005. Paperback, 198 pages, bibliography, index
  • Offers a reappraisal of the relations between history and the social sciences.

Burton: Culture and the Human Body. An Anthropological Perspective. Paperback
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  • Culture and the Human Body. An Anthropological Perspective. Paperback
  • John W. Burton
  • viii, 129 pages. 2001

Caldeira: City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in Sao Paulo. Paperback
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  • City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in Sao Paulo. Paperback
  • by Teresa P. R. Caldeira
  • xvii, 487 pages. 2001

Callender, Edney: Introducing Time. Paperback
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  • Introducing Time. Paperback
  • edited by Edney, Ralph / Callender, Craig / Appignanesi, Richard
  • 175 pages. 2005

Cameron, Kulick: Language and Sexuality. Paperback
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  • Language and Sexuality. Paperback
  • Deborah Cameron (University of London) and Don Kulick (New York University)
  • 192 pages. 2003. This lively and accessible textbook looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from personal ads to phone sex, from sado-masochistic scenes to sexual assault trials, the book provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality.

Caputo: Deconstruction in a Nutshell. A Conversation with Jacques Derrida. Paperback
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  • Deconstruction in a Nutshell. A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
  • Edited by John D. Caputo.
  • Paperback, 230 pages, 229 x 152 mm

 
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      Carsten: After Kinship. Paperback
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      • After Kinship. Paperback
      • by Janet Carsten
      • 230 pages. 2003

      Cartwright: Disease and History. Paperback
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      • Disease and History. Paperback
      • by Frederick F. Cartwright and Michael D. Biddiss
      • 280 pages, 16 illustrations. 2004. This fully updated edition of 'Disease & History' examines diseases such as the plagues which brought down ancient Greece and Rome, the Black Death which devastated 13th century Europe and, more recently, AIDS and the SARS epidemic

      Castles, Miller: The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Paperback
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      • Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Paperback
      • by Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller
      • Third Edition. 2003

      Caws: Structuralism: A Philosophy for the Human Sciences. Paperback
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      • Structuralism: A Philosophy for the Human Sciences. Paperback
      • by Peter Caws
      • xxvi, 278 pages. 1997

      Channa: Basic Elements of Tribal Religion. Cloth indian publication
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      • Basic Elements of Tribal Religion. Cloth
      • S.M. Channa: editor. Contributors: E.B. Tylor, G. Parrinder, H.I. Hogbin, J.H. Hutton, E. Adamson Hoebel, R. Fulton Benedict, R.A. Reminick, J.H.M.Beattie, M.G.Spiro
      • 312 pages. 2002

      Channa: Oracles, Omens and Dreams. Dream Beliefs among Tribals. Cloth
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      • Oracles, Omens and Dreams. Dream Beliefs among Tribals. Cloth
      • Edited by S.M. Channa
      • 292 pages. 2002. 1. Navaho dreams. 2. Dreams and Omens among the Nagas. 3. Divination "Adaptive" from whose perspective? 4. Dreams and dream beliefs in north western Australia. 5. The dreaming of Kunukban. 6. Dreams of change: in traditional Melanesian religion. 7. Oracles and dreams among the Lepchas. 8. Ndembu divinatory symbolism. 9. Oracles among the Azande. 10. Manus religion. 11. A Zulu diviner

      Channa: Symbolism in Tribal Religion. Cloth
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      • Symbolism in Tribal Religion. Cloth
      • edited by S.M. Channa, contributions by Stanner, Bonser, Smith, Kroeber, Wilson, etc.
      • 312 pages, some illustrations. 2002

      Chatterjee: The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Paperback
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      • The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories.
      • Partha Chatterjee 1993
      • Paperback, 296 pages, 229 x 152 mm
      • Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity.
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      Chattopadhyaya: Anthropology and Historiography of Science. Hardcover
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      • Anthropology and Historiography of Science. Hardcover
      • by D.P. Chattopadhyaya
      • 264 pages. 1990

      Cheater: The Anthropology of Power. Paperback
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      • Anthropology of Power. Empowerment and Disempowerment in Changing Structures
      • by Angela Cheater, editor
      • 213 pages, with index. An edited collection which examines the theoretical issues surrounding power, and particularly empowerment, which uses ethnographic analysis as its basis. It takes material from the Middle East, Canada, Columbia, Australasia and various parts of Europe and Africa.

      Chinas: La Zandunga: Of Fieldwork and Friendship in Southern Mexico
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      • Zandunga: Of Fieldwork and Friendship in Southern Mexico. Paperback
      • Beverly Newbold Chiñas
      • 178 pages, with glossary and with blackwhite and colour illustrations. 1993
      • One of the best accounts of how to become an anthropologist doing fieldwork! Students will enjoy this insightful portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls that anthropologist Beverly Chiñas experienced while studying women’s roles in the culture of the Isthmus Zapotec

      Clarke: New Religions in Global Perspective. Paperback
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      • New Religions in Global Perspective. Paperback
      • Peter Clarke. 2006. Clarke’s in-depth account explores the innovative character of new religious movements and new forms of spirituality from a global vantage point.

      Clifton: The Paganism Reader. Paperback
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      • Paganism Reader. Paperback
      • by Chas S. Clifton
      • 387 pages, many figures, 15 halftones, index. 2004. A selection of primary sources in Paganism, ranging from its ancient beginnings to its 20th century reconstruction and revival

      Coakley: Religion and the Body. Paperback
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      • Religion and the Body. Paperback
      • edited by Sarah Coakley
      • 330 pages, 12 half-tones. 2000. This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the ‘body’, and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it.

      Cockerham: Social Causes of Health and Disease
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      • Social Causes of Health and Disease
      • William C. Cockerham. 240 pages, illustrations. 2007

      Cohen, Kennedy: Global Sociology. Paperback
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      • Global Sociology. Paperback
      • by Robin Cohen, Paul M. Kennedy. xxiv, 584 pages. 2007

      Connell: Gender. Paperback
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      • Gender. Paperback.
      • By Raewyn Connell.
      • 2nd edition 2009
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      Corbin, Strauss: Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Paperback
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      • Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Paperback
      • by Juliet M. Corbin and Anselm L. Strauss
      • xv, 379 pages. 3rd Edition. 2007

      Costello: Signing: How to Speak with Your Hands. Paperback
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      • Signing: How to Speak with Your Hands. Shares more than one thousand hand gestures from the American sign language, representing words for things, people, foods, adjectives and adverbs, numbers, time, places, health, recreation, religion, and emotions. Paperback. Ca. 19x27cm
      • by Elaine Costello. 250 pages. 1983, 1988

      Counihan: Food and Culture: A Reader. Paperback
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      • Food and Culture: A Reader. Paperback. ca. 18x25cm
      • edited by Carole Counihan and Penny van Esterik
      • 624 pages, index. 2007. The articles presented in this text explore the social, symbolic and political-economic role of food in diverse cultures including the practices of giving, receiving and refusing food and the connections between body image, eating, gender and sexuality.

      Counihan: The Anthropology of Food and Body. Gender, Meaning, and Power. Paperback
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      • Anthropology of Food and Body. Gender, Meaning, and Power. Paperback
      • Carole M. Counihan
      • 256 pages, notes, bibliography, recipes, index. 1999. Exploring the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations, this text takes a cross-cultural approach to ask questions about eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, bodily changes in reproduction, and gender differences around food.

      Cowan: Cults and New Religions : A Brief History. Paperback
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      • Cults and New Religions: A Brief History
      • Douglas E. Cowan, David G. Bromley 2007

      • Paperback, 272 pages, 189 x 137 mm

      • This is an overview of the development of new religions and the controversies surrounding them in late modern society. This is a stimulating, course-friendly overview of the history and development of new religious movements (NRMs) in the late twentieth century. This book explores eight cults and NRMs, including the Church of Scientology, Transcendental Meditation, Unificationism, The Family International, the Ramtha School of Enlightenment, the Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, and Wicca.
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      Cowan: Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives. Paperback
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      • Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives. Paperback
      • Edited by Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Richard A. Wilson
      • 258 pages. 2001. Through detailed case-studies from around the world they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives.

      Creswell, Plano Clark: Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research. Paperback
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      • Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research. Paperback
      • John W. Creswell. Vicki L. Plano Clark. 2006

      Crewe: Whose Development? An Ethnography of Aid. Paperback
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      • Whose Development? An Ethnography of Aid
      • Emma Crewe, Elizabeth Harrison
      • Paperback, 256 pages, index, 215 x 135 mm
      • The authors argue for a more nuanced account of power through analysis of the relationship between individual agency and structural constraint. Their study shows how a simple dichotomy between "us", the developers, and "them", the victims of development, misconstrues the nature of the processes involved.
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      Critchley: Deconstruction and Pragmatism. Paperback
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      • Deconstruction and Pragmatism
      • Simon Critchley 1996

      • Paperback, 112 pages, 234 x 156 mm

      • The purpose of this volume is to bring deconstruction and pragmatism into critical confrontation with one another through staging a debate between Derrida and Rorty, itself based on discussions that took place at the "College International de Philosophie" in Paris in 1993. The ground for this debate is layed out in introductory papers by Simon Critchley and Ernesto Laclau, and the remainder of the volume records Derrida's and Rorty's responses to each other's work. Chantal Mouffe gives an overview of the stakes of this debate in a helpful preface.
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      Csapo: Theories of Mythology. Paperback
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      • Theories of Mythology. Paperback
      • by Eric Csapo
      • xiii, 338 pages, with 11 illustrations. 2005. Eric Csapo introduces the major theories of myth from the 19th century to the present day. He covers comparative approaches, psychoanalysis, ritual theories, structuralism and ideological analysis. He also supplies readers with the theoretical tools for imitating each method.

      Dean: At the Risk of Being Heard : Identity, Indigenous Rights and Postcolonial States. Paperback
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      • At the Risk of Being Heard : Identity, Indigenous Rights and Postcolonial States
      • Bartholomew Dean, Jerome M. Levi (eds.)
      • Paperback, 356 pages, 11 photographs, 10 maps, 232 x 152 mm
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      Denzin, Lincoln: Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Third Edition. Paperback
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      • Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Third Edition. Paperback
      • Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln
      • 712 pages. 2008. The Third Edition of this bestseller now contains: 1: A new Reader's Guide prepared by the editors to help students navigate through the chapters, locating the different methodologies, methods, techniques, issues, and theories relevant to their work. 2: A newly added, abbreviated Glossary of terms offering students a ready resource to help decode the language of qualitative research. 3: Recommended Readings to provide readers with additional sources on specific topic areas linked to their research.

      Denzin: Images of Postmodern Society. Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema. Paperback
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      • Images of Postmodern Society. Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema. Paperback
      • Norman K Denzin
      • 192 pages. 1991, 2001. Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and Marxism through the ideas of key theorists (Mills, Baudrillard, Barthes, Habermas, Jameson, Bourdieu, Derrida and others). He relates these ideas to the problematic of the postmodern self as exposed in cinema centering on the decisive performance of race, gender and class

      Denzin: Performance Ethnography. Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture. Paperback
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      • Performance Ethnography. Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture. Paperback
      • Norman K Denzin
      • 336 pages. 2003. Part I covers pedagogy, ethnography, performance, and theory as the foundation for a performative social science. Part II addresses the worlds of family, nature, praxis, and action, employing a structure that is equal parts memoir, essay, short story, and literary autoethnography. Part III examines the ethics and practical politics of performance autoethnography, anchored in the post-9//11 discourse in the United States.

      Denzin: Reading Race. Hollywood and the Cinema of Racial Violence. Paperback
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      • Reading Race. Hollywood and the Cinema of Racial Violence. Paperback
      • Norman K Denzin
      • 240 pages. 2002. Norman K Denzin argues that the cinema, like society, treats all persons as equal but struggles to define and implement diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination

      Derrida: Writing and Difference. Paperback
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      • Writing and Difference
      • Jacques Derrida. Second Edition 2001

      • Paperback, 480 pages, 198 x 129 mm

      • In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read Writing and Difference, the classic introduction.

         
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      Dillon: A Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Paperback
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      • Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Paperback
      • by Michele Dillon
      • xiii, 481 pages. 2003

      Dirks: Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Paperback
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      • Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Paperback
      • by Nicholas B. Dirks
      • xiii, 372 pages. 2001

      Douglas: Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. Paperback
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      • Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. Paperback
      • by Mary Douglas
      • 240 pages, illustrations. 2003. One of the most important works of modern anthropology.

      Douglas: Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Paperback
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      • Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Paperback
      • by Mary Douglas
      • 272 pages. 2002. Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. She reveals its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge.