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This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward...

How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do...

Most early approaches to encouraging social development focused on economic and technical issues. This volume begins from the premise that...

Politics: a static network of structural and functional models? Is it a "given" set of rules, statuses and procedures? Or...

The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as...

Ideological blinders have led to millions of preventable AIDS deaths in Africa. Dr. Edward C. Green, former director of the...

Few would doubt that social science is in serious need of a new conceptual framework for the study of human...

The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of pr......

Healing by Hand presents the first cross-cultural perspective on manual medicine studies-the practice of body therapists that is routinely overlooked...

This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the...

It started as a class project-a young, married, small-town white woman interviewing a gay acquaintance and his circle of friends....

Urbanization is probably the most important process taking place in African countries. This book provides a lucid and informative...

Of the estimated 12 million refugees in the world, more than 7 million have been confined to camps, effectively "warehoused,"...

Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes,...

Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law,...

Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive...

The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate regarding...

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial...

Ancient Panama adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at the time of...

Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity-they live in a...