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  • Living on a Time Bomb

    Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

    Series Book 30 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of ... Read more

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  • Dorf- und Hofläden in Sachsen-Anhalt: Standorte, Rechtsformen, Öffnungszeiten und digitale Präsenz

    Der schleichende Verlust wichtiger sozialer und gewerblicher Infrastrukturen im ländlichen Raum geht in vielen kleineren Ortschaften mit einem erheblichen Rückgang der Lebensqualität insbesondere für ältere und damit oft aus körperlichen oder finanziellen Gründen weniger mobile Menschen einher. Wenn neben dem letzten Frisör, der letzten Arztpraxis und dem letzten Gasthof auch noch der letzte ... Read more

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  • Contag 1963-2023

    ações de reprodução social e formas de ações coletivas

    O presente livro merece ser duplamente celebrado, pois chega em um momento simbólico de 60 anos da Contag e, ao mesmo tempo, cobre uma lacuna ao fazer um balanço sistemático dessa longeva trajetória. Resultado de mais de uma década de pesquisa colaborativa, Marco Antonio Teixeira nos presenteia com muito mais do que uma reconstrução histórica da Contag. Os leitores e leitoras também encontrarão ... Read more

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  • Race and Rurality in the Global Economy

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Issues of migration, environment, rurality, and the visceral "politics of place" and "space" have occupied center stage in recent electoral political struggles in the United States and Europe, suffused by an antiglobalization discourse that has come to resonate with Euro-American peoples. Race and Rurality in the Global Economy suggests that this present fractious global politics begs for closer ... Read more

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  • Life at Four Corners

    Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945

    Defined less by geography than by demographic character, Block, Kansas, in many ways exemplifies the prevalent yet seldom-scrutinized ethnic, religion-based community of the rural midwest.Physically small, the town sprang up around four corners formed by crossroads. Spiritually strong and cohesive, it became the educational and cultural center for generations of German-Lutheran families.Block ... Read more

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  • Bang Chan

    Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand

    Series series Cornell Studies in Anthropology
    Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings of a pioneering interdisciplinary research project that began in 1948. Changes in Bang Chan's ... Read more

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  • Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape

    Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures

    Series series Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
    Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case of hubristic global development, critics classified this project another in a line of failed modern ... Read more

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  • Grazing Communities

    Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

    Edited by Letizia Bindi ...
    Series Book 29 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. ... Read more

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  • Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South

    The Path Toward Environmental Social Justice

    Series series Diverse Perspectives on Creating a Fairer Society
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.The COP27 climate change conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt made it clear that fighting global warming will require continuing commitment, cooperation, and collaborative action from multiple constituencies around the world. Urging readers from the Global North to rethink ... Read more

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  • Sentient Ecologies

    Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

    Series Book 31 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes, ... Read more

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  • Everyday Sustainability

    Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling

    by Debarati Sen ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist AnthropologyWinner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner of the 2018 Global Development Studies Book Award presented by the Global Development Studies Section of the International Studies AssociationEveryday Sustainability takes readers to ... Read more

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  • A pluriatividade na agricultura familiar

    Este livro se propõe a examinar as relações da agricultura familiar com a emergência e a consolidação das atividades não-agrícolas no espaço rural e a formação de unidades produtivas crescentemente identificadas com a pluriatividade das famílias rurais. Neste sentido, agrega-se, às pesquisas que vêm sendo realizadas para aprofundar os conhecimentos sobre a agricultura familiar e suas ... Read more

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  • Empty Fields, Empty Promises

    A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm

    Series series Rural Studies Series
    The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely related to agriculture. But since their adoption, there has yet to be a comprehensive analysis of what these laws do and who they benefit. This book offers the first national analysis and guide to these laws. It reveals that ... Read more

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  • The Development of Rural America

    Edited by George Brinkman ...
    In the last decade, rural development emerged as one of the prominent challenges facing the United States. Strong support for rural development is now found in both major political parties and at federal, state, and local levels. There is little doubt that the development of rural America will become even more important in the future.Despite unprecedented growth, both urban and rural areas in the ... Read more

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  • Proletarian Peasants

    The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest

    In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to one of the major debates in contemporary peasant studies. Edelman's subject is the peasantry of the right-bank Ukraine, and he uses local and regional archives seldom available to ... Read more

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  • The Limitations of Household Surveys: Methodological Considerations in the Selection of the Unit of Analysis

    by Rodolfo Tello ...
    One of the most widely used methods of socioeconomic data collection employed by international development and environmental conservation organizations is household surveys. The information gathered in such surveys is frequently used to support a variety of arguments, but the methodological aspects of these surveys are rarely discussed. The anthropological literature on households, however, has ... Read more

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  • After Corporate Paternalism

    Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

    Series Book 24 - Integration and Conflict Studies
    In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt. Touching on topics including industrial history, colonial town planning, social control and materiality, gender ... Read more

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  • An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States

    Seeking an interview with the infamous "Devil" Anse Hatfield, an intrepid Yankee New York journalist enters the back hill country of West Virginia in 1888, at the height of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. What followed is Theron Clark Crawford's true harrowing story of "An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States" first published in 1889. It is a remarkable story of the truth which is ... Read more

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  • Letters From My Windmill

    The stories are all told by the author in the first person, typically addressing a Parisian reader. The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria.Considered to be light-hearted, and often a bit tongue-in-cheek, the stories vary from day-to-day events in southern France to Provençal ... Read more

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  • How To Observe Morals and Manners

    "How To Observe" is a guidebook written by Harriet Martineau in 1859 that provides practical advice on how to observe and record information about the world around us. The book is divided into three sections: the first section focuses on the importance of observing, the second section provides guidance on how to observe, and the third section provides examples of how to record and use observations ... Read more

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  • Capture and Escape: Life Among the Sioux

    "Though the Indians hunted them day and night, they succeeded in eluding them and got back to the fort, after suffering unmentionable cruelties." -Bratt, "Trails of Yesterday"The stories of those who have escaped from captivity among the Indians in the Wild West are full of harrowing interest, and one of the most characteristic is that told by Larimer in her narrative of captivity among the Sioux ... Read more

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  • The Lizard Day

    The Lizard Day is a magical tale of how caring influences the happiness of a couple. We initially meet the couple on their porch, observing a bicycle race of lizards streaming past. Through caring for an injured participant they reinforce their own bond. The poem initially does not rhyme and, as the story unfolds, adds rhyming elements in order to semi-lyrically present the couple’s deep-felt ... Read more

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  • Harbor Jim of Newfoundland

    "Don't lose your logic, 'cause there's no harm in mixin' logic and religion. If religion is any good it'll stand logic. Remember the Lord knowed what He was a-doin' and He ain't abandoned His children.Bob McCartney was a Newfoundlander born and bred and had left with his ancestors in Ireland the gift of blarney. Bob had become all animation as he told of the finding of his friend. If I had not ... Read more

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  • Castes In India

    Evils like rigid caste system and religious fanaticism have existed in India since a long time. Dr B.R. Ambedkar has accomplished a tremendous work out of making the voices of the people of the scheduled caste heard. He has been one of the social reformers who stood fearlessly against so many difficulties but only spoke what was stark reality. This made everyone sit up and take note of how a ... Read more

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