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Focusing on the USA, this text analyzes portrayals of the "Free Market", its values and the people within it, as a way of teasing out its assumptions and contradictions. It also describes extensions and practical applications of the free market model in policy-making in the USA.

Addresses the problem of social understanding and cultural translation from different theoretical as well as ethnographic perspectives. The contributors represent several different academic traditions and communities - Britain, Finland, France, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Norway, the former Soviet Union, and Sweden.

Provides an overview of the social, political, economic and population problems of countries in what is usually referred to as the Third World. Emphasis in this volume is placed on the interrelation of major social institutions, their impact on economic and social development, and the effect of rapidly expanding industrialization on the ecosystem.

Provides an overview of the social, political, economic and population problems of countries. Although colonialism is considered as a contributing factor to underdevelopment, emphasis in this volume is placed on the interrelation of major social institutions, their impact on economic and social development.

Aims to offer an up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research, with a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. The book is intended for students of social anthropology.

How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? This volume argues that a powerful and related set of methodologies can further our understanding of the intertwined processes of ethnicity and community, class and gender.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series and based on extensive fieldwork, this volume addresses a range of subjects of interest to peoples of the Pacific Island nations.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text builds upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series and based on extensive fieldwork, this volume addresses a range of subjects of interest to peoples of the Pacific Island nations.

This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since the Second World War - the British Pakistanis in Manchester.

Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments.

Focusing on the USA, this text analyzes portrayals of the "Free Market", its values and the people within it, as a way of teasing out its assumptions and contradictions. It also describes extensions and practical applications of the free market model in policy-making in the USA.

Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western dichotomy between society and cosmos is not always to be found in the communities it studies.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text builds upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres.

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

An anthropological study of Europe post-1989. The contributors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration, with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation.

Talks about complexity and power of landscape. The authors - geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists - explore landscape as something subjective that alters through time and space and that is created by people through their experience and contact with the world around them.

Taking an ethnographic approach, this work offers a critical assessment of the "development encounter", emphasizing that "development" is a multi-faceted process, and a complex site of contestation.

Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers think development entails and how those people affected understand the ensuing processes.

This text reviews the concepts of "nature", both as scientific devices and ideological constructs, and is organized around three themes: nature as a cultural construction; the cultural management of the environment; and relations between plants, animals and humans.

Integrates developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas.

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

Integrates developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches radically alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas.

How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? This volume argues that a powerful and related set of methodologies can further our understanding of the intertwined processes of ethnicity and community, class and gender.

This volume discusses such topics as: successes and contradictions in "multiracial" Brazilian football; the political role of football for Palestinians in Jordan; and football and violence in war-torn Africa - soccer and social rehabilitation in Sierra Leone.

An anthropological study of Europe post-1989. The contributors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration, with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation.

Examines how groups of young male fans come to be identified as football 'hooligans, and challenges the assumption that violence is wholly central to the match-day experience for these supporters. This book is for undergraduates of social anthropology, sociology and criminology, and also for the general reader with an interest in football culture.

Aims to offer an up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research, with a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. The book is intended for students of social anthropology.