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Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. "Globalization" refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, wh...

In the foreword to the first edition, renowned anthropologist Victor Turner wrote that this book was a "succinct and lucid account of the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the past four decades . . . the introduction we have all been waiting for." Unique in its field, this book offers a comprehensive overview of political anthropology, including its history, its major research findings, and its theoretical concerns both past and p...

This book presents testimony of "feminisms" in process. The accounts are filled with tensions, not least an uneasiness with feminism itself, and the question of what exactly it means to be a feminist in education in the contemporary world. It is their respect for their own differences and the honesty with which they write that makes this such a rich text." From the Foreword by Kathleen Weiler Educators committed to social change face the commo...

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This volume uses the concept of culture to explore the parameters of aging and being old in a worldwide context, thus providing a true cross-cultural and qualitative approach to social gerontology. Containing both specific case studies and broader analytical articles, this revised second edition focuses on the multitude of cultural solutions societies have available for dealing with the challenges, problems, and opportunities of growing old. E...

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This collection of essays present a range of theoretical approaches and ethnographic case studies which highlight the interrelation of gender, hierarchy and culture. Debates in the study of households and gender relations from cross-cultural perspectives are introduced.

As part of the "Language and Ideology" series, this volume draws upon contemporary critical theories in order to examine issues proceeding from our occupation of pedagogical and political spaces.

This book describes the educational welcome accorded Latino newcomers in a small Georgia city, which was a product not just of the particular, unorthodox, binational partnership that was created to respond to rapid demographic transformation, but also of the dialectic between local and national scripts regarding what immigrant newcomers deserve and need and whose prerogative it is to determine how they are schooled.

The Language Teacher's Portfolio: A Guide for Professional Development is written for use by both preservice and inservice teachers. It links elements of educational practice and theory that students of education frequently find difficult to assimilate in language teaching. This text purposefully integrates material such as foundations of education, educational psychology, elements of planning and lesson preparation, reflective teaching, and c...

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Provides a comprehensive introduction to critical language awareness and critical language pedagogy for educators and future educators in virtually all subject areas and at all levels.

This text reviews both similarities and unique cultural, linguistic, and script differences of Chinese relative to alphabetic reading, and even across Chinese regions. Chinese reading acquisition relies upon children's strongly developing analytic skills, as highlighted here. These 16 chapters present state-of-the-art research on diverse aspects of Chinese children's reading development.

This book is a collection of papers inspired by the work of Mary Elmendorf, a pioneer in applied anthropology and community development. Dr. Elmendorf spent much of her career studying the roles of women in Maya communities, as well as problems of health, community development, human rights and the environment. Unlike the classic "festschrift" that frequently is little more than a random assembling of papers united only by their being somehow ...

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A discussion of issues in archaeology health and safety. It highlights the broad range of disease vectors and industrial contaminants that lie silently within American soils as well as information for minimizing risk to the archaeologists who excavate in potentially dangerous places.

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