Domestic government: kinship, community and polity in North Yemen 9780755612178, 9781850439189

Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok 9780226331751

What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop th

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Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage, and Government Stability (Anthropology of Kinship and the Family) 1498582176, 9781498582179

In Political Kinship in Pakistan, Stephen M. Lyon illustrates how contemporary politics in Pakistan are built on complex

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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective 9781805390930

Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic

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Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community 9780834844827

A heartfelt call and primer for community-oriented models of wellbeing in our age of polarization and turmoil. Creating

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Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China 9781503624986

This book examines major areas of late imperial Chinese culture, and their relation to Chinese culture today, focusing o

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Continental Community?: Independence and Integration in North America 9780773595811

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The Decline of Marriage in Namibia: Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community 9783839443033

In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declin

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The Gargantuan Polity: On The Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance 9781442688155

The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how in

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Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America 9780812207408

Not in This Family shows how gays and their heterosexual parents both have animated each other's sensibilities, con

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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands 9781469603223, 9780807827147

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within

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