Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom – serie
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109 produkter
White Lies About the Inuit
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
325 kr
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Down and Out in Utopia
Unemployment As Moral Education in Norway
Häftad, 2026
259 kr
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Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: "Who or what can I depend on now?" The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on where you live. In Norway, a small European social democracy, you would almost certainly turn to the country's comprehensive public welfare system. …
Return to Storytelling
An Inverted Ethnography
Häftad, 2026
316 kr
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Return to Storytelling is a lyrical ethnographic work that presents stories from healers, community members, storytellers, witches, sceptics, and tricksters in an intentionally unnamed Central American Indigenous community. Anthropologist Karen Stocker investigates how stories of all kinds – …
Fields of Play
An Ethnography of Children's Sports
Av Noel Dyck
Häftad, 2012
344 kr
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Thousands of children participate in community sports every year, enjoying recreation time with their peers, getting healthy exercise, and learning a variety of personal and group skills. At the same time, children's sports are not without controversy: parents can be overly invested in their …
Hidden Heads of Households
Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil
Häftad, 2007
213 kr
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In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy-in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to the …
Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry
Häftad, 2004
274 kr
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Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, …
Living on the Land
Change Among the Inuit of Baffin Island
Häftad, 1992
288 kr
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As recently as three decades ago most Inuit lived a lifestyle much like that of their forbearers: "living on the land," with the men hunting according to time-honoured methods and the women performing the same round of daily tasks that their grandmothers and great grandmothers had done. Today these …
Maya or Mestizo?
Nationalism, Modernity, and Its Discontents
Av Ronald Loewe
Häftad, 2010
368 kr
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The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of …
Rites of the Republic
Citizens' Theatre and the Politics of Culture in Southern France
Av Mark Ingram
Häftad, 2011
368 kr
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In this fascinating exploration of citizenship and the politics of culture in contemporary France, Ingram examines two theatre troupes in Provence: one based in a small town in the rural part of the Vaucluse region, and the other an urban project in Marseille, France's most culturally diverse city. …
StreetCities
Rehousing the Homeless
Av Rae Bridgman
E-bok, 2005
391 kr
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StreetCities charts the development of an alternative communal housing model for chronically homeless men and women in downtown Toronto. In her recounting of the stories and narratives of residents and staff at the original "StreetCity" and the second generation "Strachan House," Bridgman explores …
In the Shadow of Antichrist
The Old Believers of Alberta
E-bok, 2013
383 kr
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The Old Believers constitute the most conservative branch of Eastern Christendom; they remain the last guardians of the ideology of 'holy Russia'. The outstanding trait of the people is their determination to remain separate from the outside society, which they believe to have succumbed to the …
Life Among the Yanomami
E-bok, 1998
391 kr
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Life Among the Yanomami builds on literature and the author's personal experience of the northern Brazil people, the Mucajai Yanomami, with whom he lived from 1958 to 1967 and whom he has since frequently visited. The result is a rich and well-rounded understanding of this famously isolated people. …
Over the Next Hill
An Ethnography of RVing Seniors in North America, Second Edition
Av David Reese Counts, Dorothy Ayers Counts
E-bok, 2001
343 kr
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Living either full or part time in a recreational vehicle has been an alternative lifestyle in North America since the 1920s. By the 1930s, Wally Byam's Airstream company could not keep up with the demand for his self-contained "house trailers." And today, "RVing" has become so widespread that, for …
Women's Voices, Women's Power
Dialogues of Resistance from East Africa
E-bok, 1997
343 kr
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Most ethnographic treatments of other cultures restrict the voice of their "subjects"; at most, description and analysis by the observer are accompanied by brief selective quotation. With a methodological openness that may be particularly appropriate to gender studies, anthropologist Judith Abwunza …
Back Door Java
State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java
E-bok, 2006
375 kr
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In the densely populated urban neighbourhoods of Java, women manage their houses and their communities through daily exchanges of food, childcare, and labour. Their domestic work is based on local ideas of community cooperation and support, but also on the Indonesian government's use of women as …
Person in Dementia
A Study of Nursing Home Care in the US
E-bok, 2006
420 kr
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Winner of the Society for Medical Anthropology's 2009 New Millennium AwardImagine yourself in advanced age, forced to depend on others for all your basic needs. What would you want to retain of your personal life?This question is at the heart of a set of case studies that examine the lives of …
Waiting for Macedonia
Identity in a Changing World
E-bok, 2006
391 kr
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Waiting for Macedonia gives insight into one of the most moving moments in post-war European history: the hope for a new Europe in the years following the collapse of communism. In this ethnography, Thiessen explores the different ways in which identity has been negotiated in Macedonia since the …
Contested Representations
Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa
E-bok, 2013
375 kr
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Contested Representations examines the controversy surrounding the Into the Heart of Africa exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto in 1989-90. The exhibition was meant to travel to the US and Canada, but four major museums cancelled their contracts due to its controversial nature. …
Hidden Heads of Households
Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil
E-bok, 2007
285 kr
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In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy-in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to the …
Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance
Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry
E-bok, 2004
343 kr
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Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, …
White Lies About the Inuit
E-bok, 2013
342 kr
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The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic. The mix of the familiar and the exotic has resulted in the creation and perpetuation of a number of "White Lies." These are stories that have been developed over long periods of time, reproduced in …
Made in Madagascar
Sapphires, Ecotourism, and the Global Bazaar
Av Andrew Walsh
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
231 kr
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Since the 1990s, the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar has developed a reputation among globe-trotting gemstone traders and tourists as a source of some of the world's most precious natural wonders. Although some might see Ankarana's sapphire and ecotourist trades as being at odds with each …
Fields of Play
An Ethnography of Children's Sports
Av Noel Dyck
E-bok, 2012
375 kr
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Thousands of children participate in community sports every year, enjoying recreation time with their peers, getting healthy exercise, and learning a variety of personal and group skills. At the same time, children's sports are not without controversy: parents can be overly invested in their …
Maya or Mestizo?
Nationalism, Modernity, and Its Discontents
Av Ronald Loewe
E-bok, 2010
403 kr
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The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of …
Culturing Bioscience
A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science
Häftad, 2014
358 kr
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Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture …
Culturing Bioscience
A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science
E-bok, 2014
375 kr
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Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture …
Culturing Bioscience
A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science
E-bok, 2014
375 kr
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Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture …
Red Flags and Lace Coiffes
Identity and Survival in a Breton Village
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented …
Red Flags and Lace Coiffes
Identity and Survival in a Breton Village
E-bok, 2011
343 kr
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This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented …
Red Flags and Lace Coiffes
Identity and Survival in a Breton Village
E-bok, 2011
343 kr
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This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented …
