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Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when... In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new...
This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist... In recent years, evidence-based medicine (EBM), clinical governance and professional accountability have become increasingly significant...
Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of ëforgettingÃÂ, and... Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide...
Demography has developed into a remarkably coherent field and now stands as a firmly established discipline with strong ties to... This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems (graphic, non-phonetic systems for representing...
Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East remain even today significant elements of contemporary life in the region. Dawn... The authors explain how the whole dendritic arborization contributes to the generation of various output discharges and elucidate the...
In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process... How does cultural hierarchy relate to social hierarchy? Do the more advantaged consume ǃÚhigh' culture, while the less advantaged...
Honor in nineteenth-century Germany is usually thought of as an anachronistic aristocratic tradition confined to the duelling elites. In... Why is national identity such a potent force in peopleǃÙs lives? And is the force positive or negative? In this thoughtful and...
Democracy's checkered past and uncertain future in the developing world still puzzles and fascinates. In Latin America, attempts to... Paul M. Kellstedt explains the variation in Americans' racial attitudes over the last half-century, particularly the relationship between...
The First Boat People, first published in 2006, concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces... In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are...
This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical... The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have...
Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has... In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth,...
Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and... This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker...
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