SUNY series in Anthropological Studies of Contemporary Issues – serie
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Symbols, Conflict, and Identity
Essays in Political Anthropology
Häftad, 1993
590 kr
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This book investigates cultural and social identity in contemporary complex societies, focusing especially on Eastern Europe. Mach explains the role of symbols and symbolic forms in he relations between groups and the protection and development of their identities, especially ethnic identity. He …
Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities
Av Kendall M. Thu, E. Paul Durrenberger
Häftad, 1998
463 kr
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Using the pork production industry as an example, this book illuminates the processes and consequences of agricultural industrialization for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural United States.This book illuminates the processes and consequences of …
Intentional Community
An Anthropological Perspective
Häftad, 2001
455 kr
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Uses classical anthropological theory to understand "intentional communities" in the United States.Although anthropologists have studied intentional communities in the past, they have seldom exerted a concerted effort to evaluate the intentional community in terms of the anthropological language of …
Petty Capitalists and Globalization
Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development
Av Alan Smart, Josephine Smart
Inbunden, 2005
1040 kr
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Examines how small firms, like large ones, are mobilizing to compete in a global economy.Globalization is often seen as driven by large corporations and supranational organizations. Enterprises operated by petty capitalists may be small, but there is nothing petty about their significance for the …
Petty Capitalists and Globalization
Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development
Av Alan Smart, Josephine Smart
Häftad, 2006
383 kr
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Examines how small firms, like large ones, are mobilizing to compete in a global economy.Globalization is often seen as driven by large corporations and supranational organizations. Enterprises operated by petty capitalists may be small, but there is nothing petty about their significance for the …
Refugees of a Hidden War
The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala
Av Beatriz Manz
Häftad, 1987
463 kr
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Political violence and military repression have displaced some two million people in Central America in the 1980s. While conflict elsewhere in Central America has received considerable attention, the war against an unarmed civilian population in Guatemala has largely been hidden from the outside …
Manaus
Social Life and Work in Brazil's Free Trade Zone
Häftad, 1991
414 kr
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Manaus, an urban-industrial center in the Amazon, serves in this book as a microcosmic case of dependent capitalist development in Latin America. With the creation of a Free Trade Zone and a strong program of fiscal incentives in 1967, the Brazilian government initiated a large-scale project …
Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities
Av Kendall M. Thu, E. Paul Durrenberger
Inbunden, 1998
1111 kr
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Using the pork production industry as an example, this book illuminates the processes and consequences of agricultural industrialization for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural United States.This book illuminates the processes and consequences of …
Intentional Community
An Anthropological Perspective
Inbunden, 2001
1111 kr
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Uses classical anthropological theory to understand "intentional communities" in the United States.Although anthropologists have studied intentional communities in the past, they have seldom exerted a concerted effort to evaluate the intentional community in terms of the anthropological language of …
Culture, Economy, Power
Anthropology as Critique, Anthropology as Praxis
Inbunden, 2002
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Confronts major questions facing anthropology, Marxist theory, cultural studies, feminism, and history.Grounded in a conviction that anthropological knowledge implies critique and that engaging in anthropology is also ultimately an act of praxis, various contributors explore the ways in which the …
Culture, Economy, Power
Anthropology as Critique, Anthropology as Praxis
Häftad, 2002
414 kr
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Confronts major questions facing anthropology, Marxist theory, cultural studies, feminism, and history.Grounded in a conviction that anthropological knowledge implies critique and that engaging in anthropology is also ultimately an act of praxis, various contributors explore the ways in which the …
