The Performance of Gender: An Anthropology of Everyday Life in a South Indian Fishing Village 1000321223, 9781000321227

Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village 9780857452009

The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book pr

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The Anthropology of Performance: A Reader 9781118323991

The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area.  This cutting-edge volume on t

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Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village 9780226150338

Thomas Gregor sees the Mehinaku Indians of central Brazil as performers of roles, engaged in an ongoing improvisational

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The Sea Commands: Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village 9781789209129

Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago,

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Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa 0691152950, 9780691152950, 9780691152967

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an

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Fierce gods : inequality, ritual, and the politics of dignity in a South Indian village 0253345766, 0253217652, 2004025823

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Tambo: Life in an Andean Village 9780292763425

Perhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is to be a stranger in a strange land. Julia Meye

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Constructing School Knowledge: An Ethnography of Learning in an Indian Village 8178291363, 9788178291369

Author uses an social constructivist approach drawing on Dewey, Berger and Luckmann, and Holzer to analyse learning and

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The myth of population control: family, caste, and class in an Indian village. 9780853452843, 0853452849

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Life in an Indian Outpost

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