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Praying For Justice - Faith, Order, And Community In An American Town

de Carol J. Greenhouse

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Anthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law in a predominantly white, middle-class, suburban, principally Southern Baptist community.
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Hispanas De Queens - Latino Panethnicity In A New York City Neighborhood

de Milagros Ricourt e Ruby Danta

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 What happens when persons of several Latin American national groups reside in the same neighborhoodâ€" Milagros Ricourt and Ruby Danta consider the stories of women of different nationalitiesâ€"Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Puerto...
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Going Native - Indians In The American Cultural Imagination

de Shari M. Huhndorf

156,82€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Huhndorf looks at modern cultural manifestations of the desire of European Americans to emulate Native Americans, showing how seemingly harmless images of Native Americans can articulate and reinforce a range of power relations including slavery, patriarchy, and oppression.
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The Art Of English Poesy - A Critical Edition

de George Puttenham

156,82€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The first modernized and fully annotated edition of Puttenham's 1589 text.
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Distant Companions - Servants And Employers In Zambia, 1900â€“1985

de Karen Tranberg Hansen

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 Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial period until after independence. Emphasizing the interactive nature of relationships of domination, the book is useful for readers who seek to understand the dynamics...
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Chinese Working-Class Lives - Getting By In Taiwan

de Hill Gates

25,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Taiwanâ€™s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwanâ€™s history, showing how...
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Joyce - The Return Of The Repressed

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 Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever divided and never fully known to himself? This volume reads the dialogue of contradictory cultural voices in Joyceâ€™s worksâ€"revolutionary and reactionary, critical and subject to critique, marginal and...
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Cities, Classes, And The Social Order

de Anthony Lee

26,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 This volume brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the influential anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925â€"1989), whose pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings in the US, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal.
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Reckoning With Homelessness

de Kim Hopper

22,51€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Kim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to address the problem of homelessness in the United States. In this powerful book, he draws upon his dual strengths as anthropologist and advocate to provide a deeper understanding of the roots of homelessness.
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Dismantling Apartheid - A South African Town In Transition

de Walton Johnson

41,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Providing an informed account of change and continuity in one town, Dismantling Apartheid is a compelling preview of future social relations in South Africa....
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Civilized Women - Gender And Prestige In Southeastern Liberia

de Mary Moran

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 Civilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking among the Glebo people of Cape Palmas, in southeastern Liberia.
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Becoming American, Being Indian - An Immigrant Community In New York City

de Madhulika S. Khandelwal

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changedâ€"the highly educated professional elite who came to this...
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The Varieties Of Ethnic Experience - Kinship, Class, And Gender Among California Italian-Americans

de Micaela Di Leonardo

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present.
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American Odyssey - Haitians In New York City

de Michel Laguerre

35,14€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Caribbean immigrants have now become part of the social landscape of many American cities. Few studies, however, have treated in detail the process of their integration in American society. American Odyssey assesses the development and adaptation in...
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Sunbelt Working Mothers - Reconciling Family And Factory

de Felipe Gonzales, Louise Lamphere e Patricia Zavella

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States, and working women were at the center of these changes. Sunbelt Working Mothers compares the experiences of Mexicanâ€"American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in Albuquerque and illuminates the ways in which individual...
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The Powers Of Prophecy - The Cedar Of Lebanon Vision From The Mongol Onslaught To The Dawn Of The Enlightenment

de Robert E. Lerner

33,79€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Powers of Prophecy is an original attempt to investigate the subject of medieval eschatological prophecies: how and in what circumstances they were written; how they circulated; what they told people about the future; and how they were received.
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Ginseng And Aspirin - Health Care Alternatives For Aging Chinese In New York

de Zibin Guo

39,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Navigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a dizzying array of specialists, practitioners, and clinics from which to choose, and are forced to make decisions regarding drugs and treatments...
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A Neighborhood Divided - Community Resistance To An Aids Care Facility

de Jane Balin

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 When a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to respond, "Not in my backyard." But, as Jane Balin recounts in A Neighborhood Divided, when that community is known for its racial and ethnic...
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Inside The Revolution - Everyday Life In Socialist Cuba

de Mona Rosendahl

28,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The first ethnographic study of life in Cuba to emerge in over twenty years, Inside the Revolution offers a rare, close view of how socialist ideology translates into everyday experience in one Cuban municipality. Mona Rosendahl draws on eighteen...
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Lady Friends - Hawaiian Ways And The Ties That Define

de Karen L. Ito

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Many indigenous Hawaiians who have moved to the islands' cities languish at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale and are thought to have lost their cultural roots. Initially apolitical urban Hawaiians were often skeptical of activists who sought to...
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Ginseng And Aspirin - Health Care Alternatives For Aging Chinese In New York

de Zibin Guo

86,52€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Navigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a dizzying array of specialists, practitioners, and clinics from which to choose, and are forced to make decisions regarding drugs and treatments...
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The Magic City - Unemployment In A Working-Class Community

de Gregory Pappas

33,79€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Thirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas here provides an intimate account of the economic, social, psychological, and medical consequences of one such closing.
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Underground Harmonies - Music And Politics In The Subways Of New York

de Susie J. Tanenbaum

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is the first book on New York's subway musiciansâ€"modern troubadours who perform on platforms, mezzanines, and even trains pounding through the city. Illustrating her account with captivating photos, Susie J. Tanenbaum draws on interviews with...
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Reckoning With Homelessness

de Kim Hopper

27,03€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Kim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to address the problem of homelessness in the United States. In this powerful book, he draws upon his dual strengths as anthropologist and advocate to provide a deeper understanding of the roots of homelessness.
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