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Learning From The Children - Childhood, Culture And Identity In A Changing World

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 This book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, and Ethiopia. Attention is focused on the child's perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in child-adult relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning, and parenting in a changing world.
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Tourism, Magic And Modernity - Cultivating The Human Garden

by David Picard

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 Tropical islands are magical, volcanoes are magical and coral reefs are magical. Classical ruins, old town centres, modern artworks, and contemporary architecture are magical as well. Even local people are magical. The attribution of magical qualities appears central in the constitution of contemporary tourism attractions.
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Recalling The Belgian Congo - Conversations And Introspection

by Marie-Benedicte Dembour

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 When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, widely held in present-day Belgium: these officers were not the "baddies" she had expected to meet. Exploring the colonial experience through the respondents' memories resulted in a far more complex picture of the colonial situation than she had anticipated, again forcing her to question her original assumptions. This resulted not only in a more differentiated perspective on Belgian colonialist rule, but is also sensitized her as regards the question of anthropological understanding and of what constitutes historical fact. These two aspects of her work are reflected in this study that offers specific material on the way Belgian colonialism is remembered and reflects on its conditions of production, thus combining ethnographic analysis with a theoretical essay.
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Rebordering The Mediterranean - Boundaries And Citizenship In Southern Europe

by Liliana Suarez-Navaz

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 The extension of the EU into the Mediterranean areas led to a redefinition of social difference in Spain, creating new boundaries in the interior. This text traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the EU.
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Living Before Dying - Imagining And Remembering Home

by Janette Davies

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 This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.
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Nourishing The Nation - Food As National Identity In Catalonia

by Venetia Johannes

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 As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.
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Goddess In Motion - Visual Creativity In The Cult Of Maria Lionza

by Roger Canals

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 Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of Maria Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.
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Honour And Violence - Gender, Power And Law In Southern Pakistan

by Nafisa Shah

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 This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery.
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Envisioning Eden - Mobilizing Imaginaries In Tourism And Beyond

by Noel B. Salazar

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 As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness.
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Documenting Transnational Migration - Jordanian Men Working And Studying In Europe, Asia And North America

by Richard T. Antoun

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 Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret traditions in such a way as to mix the old and the new in a scenario that incorporates both worlds. Focusing on the humanistic aspects of the migration experience, this book examines questions such as birth control, womens work, retention of tribal law, and the changing attitudes of migrants towards themselves, their families, their home communities, and their nation. It ends with placing transnational migration from Jordan in a cross-cultural perspective by comparing it with similar processes elsewhere, and critically reviews a number of theoretical perspectives that have been used to explain migration.
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Burgundy - The Global Story Of Terroir

by Marion Demossier

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 Demossier s engrossing analysis of Burgundy the wine, the place, the brand should be imbibed (pun intended!) on many levels and slowly, for best appreciation. foodanthro.com Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social, and cultural world of Burgundy wines, the role of terroir (the environmental factors that affect a crop's character), and its transnational deployment in China, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. It demystifies the terroir ideology by providing a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept. While the Burgundian model of terroir has gone global by acquiring UNESCO world heritage status, its very legitimacy is now being challenged amongst the vineyards where it first took root. From the introduction: Superficially then, Burgundy might appear to be simply acquiring recognition for its unchanging landscape, tradition and culture. Yet, for all the power of its rich local identity, folklore and culture which is broadcast to the world, there hides underneath the comforting blanket of this seamless place, untouched by change or conflict, a far more complex reality. Burgundy s listing as a World Heritage landscape emphasises its international reputation as a traditional and historical site of wine production and opens a new chapter in the production and marketing of its quality, differentiation and authenticity. It is also about readjusting Burgundy and the grands crus in response to a changing global market and the shifting kaleidoscope of world wine values.
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Everyday Invisibility - The Lives Of African Women In Greece

by Viki Zaphiriou-Zarifi

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 In the wake of Greeceâ€™s 2008 economic collapse, African women in Athens navigated intensified discrimination shaped by the intersecting forces of gender, race and migration status. This book argues that gendered racialization renders these women not only invisible but also hyper-visible in stereotypical ways that heighten their exposure to discrimination and precarity.
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Everyday Invisibility - The Lives Of African Women In Greece

by Viki Zaphiriou-Zarifi

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 In the wake of Greece s 2008 economic collapse, African women in Athens navigated intensified discrimination shaped by the intersecting forces of gender, race and migration status. This feminist ethnography investigates how processes of racialization intersect with gender and migration status to produce complex forms of disadvantage. This book argues that gendered racialization renders these women not only invisible but also hyper-visible in stereotypical ways that heighten their exposure to discrimination and precarity. Through everyday survival tactics, home-making practices and collective mobilization, these women resist exclusion and marginalization. Acting individually and collectively, they work to improve material conditions and gain social intelligibility, ultimately challenging normative boundaries of belonging in contemporary Greece.
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Facing Discrimination - Religion And Agency In Contemporary European Contexts

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 Through six micro-level studies from Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, Facing Discrimination offers insight into the dynamics of religious beliefs and bodily practices among those who are discriminated against. It examines how religion as a source of agency interacts with processes of marginalization.
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Facing Discrimination - Religion And Agency In Contemporary European Contexts

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 Across Europe, racialised groups and other minorities are often subject to discriminatory policies and practices. Facing Discrimination offers insight into the dynamics of religious beliefs and practices among those who are discriminated against, showing how religion as a source of agency interacts with processes of marginalization. Six micro-level studies from Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands examine stigmatised groups and individuals, analysing how religious involvement in its multiple forms and interpretations, affects the capacity to respond to exclusion and shape the acceptance or rejection of imposed categories.
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Beyond Ethics And Pragmatism - Evocative Moments In Doing Ethnography

by Moshe Shokeid

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 Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.
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Beyond Ethics And Pragmatism - Evocative Moments In Doing Ethnography

by Moshe Shokeid

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 Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.
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On The Nervous Edge Of An Impossible Paradise - Affect, Tourism, Belize

by Kenneth Little

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 There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. Lives turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.
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Feeling Of The Fall - An Ethnographic Writing Experiment Between The Belize Barrier Reef And The Edges Of Toronto, Ontario

by Ines Taccone

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 As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time â€œbeyond ruinâ€ in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.
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The Feeling Of The Fall - An Ethnographic Writing Experiment Between The Belize Barrier Reef And The Edges Of Toronto, Ontario

by Ines Taccone

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 As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time â€œbeyond ruinâ€ in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.
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Bodies Of Evidence - Burial, Memory And The Recovery Of Missing Persons In Cyprus

by Paul Sant Cassia

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 In the course of hostilities between Greek and Turkish Cypriots between 1963 and 1974, over 2000 persons, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, went "missing" in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean with a population distribution of 80 per cent Greeks and 18 per cent. The conflict has still not been resolved and the memories are still alive.
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Television Broadcasting In Contemporary France And Britain

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 This is the first study that is devoted to the highly significant roles played by France and Britain in the formulation of European audiovisual policy and that provides a truly comparative analysis of the contemporary audiovisual scene in the two countries. Overall, this volume offers a constructive contribution to the continuing debate...
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The War For The German Mind - Re-Educating Hitler'S Soldiers

by Arthur L. Smith, Jr.

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 There are several important studies on Allied efforts to re-educate German civilians after the fall of Nazism. The simultaneous major program of the U. S., Britain and Soviet Union to influence the future of German politics and society through the re-education of prisoners of war has not previously been studied.
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A Sentimental Economy - Commodity And Community In Rural Ireland

by Carles Salazar

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 An ethnographic study of the rural economy of the west of Ireland, concentrating on the social organization and cultural construction of work in a community of 65 family farms.
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