Material Culture and Kinship in Poland: An Ethnography of Fur and Society 1000185478, 9781000185478

Material Culture and Kinship in Poland: An Ethnography of Fur and Society 9781501345623, 9781350084926, 9781350084902

In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and

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Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness: An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland 9781785332418

The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherer

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Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood 9781978814004

Active aging programs that encourage older adults to practice health- promoting behaviors are proliferating worldwide. I

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Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society 1783274891, 9781783274895

Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its hi

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Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies 9781512821628

"Skillfully edited by Joyce and Gillespie, the volume Beyond Kinship illustrates the breadth of investigations into

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Reassessing Communism: Concepts, Culture, and Society in Poland 1944–1989 9789633863794

The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative

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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India 9780822378242

In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in Ind

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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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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India 0822323907, 9780822323907

In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in Ind

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Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology: Towards a Better Understanding of Cultural Encounters and their Influence on Material Culture 9783700187981

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