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Gendered Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 470

Gendered Lives

Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. Each research-based chapter ...

Land Grab
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Land Grab

Land Grab is a rich ethnographic account of the relationship between identity politics, neoliberal development policy, and rights to resource management in Garifuna communities on the north coast of Honduras, before and after the 2009 coup d’état. The Garifuna are a people of African and Amerindian descent who were exiled to Honduras from the British colony of St. Vincent in 1797 and have long suffered from racial and cultural marginalization. Employing approaches from feminist political ecology, critical race studies, and ethnic studies,Keri Vacanti Brondo illuminates three contemporary development paradoxes in Honduras: the recognition of the rights of indigenous people at the same time...

The Globalization of Childhood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

The Globalization of Childhood

  • Categories: Law

Through a qualitative, comparative study of the diffusion of a single human rights norm--the abolition of the death penalty for child offenders--this book argues that the growth of state control over children contributed to the consolidation of the state and the creation of international order.

The Spirit of Michigan State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

The Spirit of Michigan State

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The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 537

The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-26
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view The Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well as offering practical tools for solving environmental problems. Haenn, Wilk, and Harnish pose the most urgent questions of environmental protection: How are environmental problems mediated by cultural values? What are the environmental effects of urbanization? When do environmentalists’ goals an...

Agricultural Standards
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Agricultural Standards

A collection of studies of agri-food standards in the modern economy, this work addresses these and helps to define the scope of the emerging study of the politics of standards setting. It contains an overview essay dealing with the multiple ways of thinking about, approaching and defining food and agricultural standards.

Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 780

Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Year Book, Trotting and Pacing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2762

Year Book, Trotting and Pacing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bearing Culture, Wielding Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 576

Bearing Culture, Wielding Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Standardbred Sires and Dams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1928

Standardbred Sires and Dams

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1964
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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