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Between Two Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

Between Two Cultures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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Understanding the Cultures of Fishing Communities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Understanding the Cultures of Fishing Communities

By the Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Crisis in the World’s Fisheries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Crisis in the World’s Fisheries

For over twenty years, an alarming trend has emerged in the world’s fisheries: there are too many fishers chasing too few fish. This book provides a broad overview and fundamental reassessment of fisheries management policies around the world.

The Terror of the Machine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 475

The Terror of the Machine

Born of thirteen years of field research, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border. Devon Peña examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the maquiladoras. He describes the workers' struggles for workplace democracy, social justice, and sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from the factory to the community, highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s. Female maquila worke...

Mutual Life, Limited
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Mutual Life, Limited

Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "just" meaning? Mutual Life, Limited spends time among those who, in acknowledging the fictions of finance, are making money anew. It documents ongoing efforts to remake money and finance by Islamic bankers who seek to avoid interest and local currency proponents who would stand outside of national economies. It asks how alternative moneys both escape and reenact dominant forms of money and finance, and reflects critically on their broader implications for scholarship. Based on fieldwork among participants in a local currency system in Ithaca, New York, and among Islamic banking practitioners in the United States, Indonesia, and ...

The Culture of Autobiography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The Culture of Autobiography

Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures.

Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980

This book examines American anthropology's participation in the expansion of the social sciences after World War II. Anthropology itself expanded into diverse subfields at this time on the initiative of individuals. The Association of Senior Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) askes some of these individuals to give accounts of their personal inovations in this discipline which provides primary source material on the history of American anthropology.

Handbook of Stress in the Occupations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 545

Handbook of Stress in the Occupations

The Handbook of Stress in the Occupations sets a new agenda for stress research and gives fresh impetus to scholars who wish to focus on issues and problems associated with specific jobs, some of which have received little attention in the past. Written by researchers who are true experts in the field of each occupation, this comprehensive Handbook reviews stress in a wide range of jobs including transport, education, farming, fishing, oil rig drilling, finance, law enforcement, fire fighting, entrepreneurship, music, social services, prisons, sport, and health including surgery, internship, dentistry, nursing, paramedics, psychiatry and social work. Several occupations such as oil rig drill...

Bibliographie Internationale D'anthropologie Sociale Et Culturelle 1991
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Bibliographie Internationale D'anthropologie Sociale Et Culturelle 1991

The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Foreign Affairs Research Papers Available
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 822

Foreign Affairs Research Papers Available

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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