Browse by Subject: Anthropology

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The Anthropology of AIDS: A Global Perspective

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An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City, Revised and Expanded Edition

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Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil

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Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological Perspectives

Without imposing traditionally Western notions of what "time" and "change" mean, the collection looks at how native Amazonians experienced forms of cultural memory and at how their narratives of the past helped construct their sense of the present and, inevitably, their own identity.

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Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration

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Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti

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Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience

Based on twelve months of fieldwork, this study shows how believers experience their religion in its various dimensions. 

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Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment

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Haitians in New York City: Transnationalism and Hometown Associations

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Braindance, Revised and Expanded Edition: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution

When first published in 1992, Braindance presented a revolutionary look at the origins of the human brain.