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Discusses the value attached to material objects by different cultures. This book considers the sacred nature of objects that are exchanged between individuals, the value and power of markets, money, and credit, and the ways in which contemporary people bestow symbolic value on objects or individuals.

A textbook on gaining access to field settings for qualitative researchers in the social sciences. Prescriptive advice and a series of vignettes from actual research projects.

Reveals the way in which state power supports male dominance in American and other western political systems. This book turns a gendered lens on states, power, and governance, showing the inherent inequalities in political systems and gender systems and how they intersect.