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Published July 2023
Once Upon a Time is Now
A Kalahari Memoir
Biesele, M.
Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
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Forthcoming December 2024
This Land Is Not For Sale
Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda
Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)
As violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions, and the management of conflicts.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sociology
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Published August 2024
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Murphy Thomas, J.
Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies
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Published July 2024
Grazing Communities
Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions
Bindi, L. (ed)
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. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies
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Published July 2024
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Mason, A. (ed)
Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published September 2024
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Perminow, A. A.
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published August 2021
Contemporary Megaprojects
Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century
Schindler, S., Fadaere, S., Brockington, D. (eds)
Contemporary “megaprojects” have evolved from the centralized, modernist projects undertaken in the past. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well as their significant impact on both society and the environment.
Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2024
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Bender, S. O.
Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2023
After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Straube, C.
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.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology
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Published October 2023
Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published June 2022
Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Clemensen, N.
Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of Zambian children interacting, combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Educational Studies
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Published October 2023
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Mattes, D.
Looking at Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
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Published May 2019
Management by Seclusion
A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty
Cochrane, G.
Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published February 2023
Rethinking and Unthinking Development
Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (eds)
Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume attempts to rethink (and unthink) development discourses and practices in southern Africa. The authors explore the ways in which legacies of colonialism impact development, as well as other factors such as regional politics, corruption, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2023
Cash Transfers in Context
An Anthropological Perspective
Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)
Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2019
Indigeneity and the Sacred
Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)
This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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Published January 2022
The Forest People without a Forest
Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
Lueong, G. M.
The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published May 2020
Living on Thin Ice
The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska
Dinero, S. C.
Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies
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Published October 2018
Who Knows Tomorrow?
Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
Calkins, S.
Uncertainty, though intertwined with all human activity, is experienced differently—sometimes obsessed over and other times ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns, which at times present debilitating problems, but also may offer opportunities to create other futures.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published September 2018
Making Ubumwe
Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project
Purdeková, A.
Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. The book investigates this project of civic education, the explosion of neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the uses of camps and retreats that come together to shape the “ideal” Rwandan citizen.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published September 2020
In the Absence of the Gift
New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community
Rasmussen, A. E.
Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives “What about me?” This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like “community” can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology
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Published September 2016
The State and the Grassroots
Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents
Portes, A. & Fernández-Kelly, P. (eds)
Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, researchers focus on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published July 2015
Social Quality Theory
A New Perspective on Social Development
Herrmann, P. & Lin, K. (eds)
Tracing the expansion of social quality theory and presenting its different aspects, this volume assesses societal progress and makes proposals that are relevant for policy making. Its rich diversity of approaches and cross-national comparisons reveal the increasingly important role of social quality theory for informing political debates on development and sustainability.
Subjects: Sociology Development Studies
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Published May 2020
Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011)
Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities
Casciarri, B., Assal, M.A.M. & Ireton, F. (eds)
Based on original fieldwork collected in Sudan from 2006 to 2011, contributors’ look at “access to resources” from various disciplinary approaches — socio-anthropology, geography, politics, history, linguistic. The book analyzes major transformations, from the 1980s to South Sudan’s independence in 2011, which affected the country in the framework of “globalization.”
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published April 2017
Beyond the Lens of Conservation
Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another
Keller, E.
This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published February 2015
Trapped in the Gap
Doing Good in Indigenous Australia
Kowal, E.
Trapped in the Gap explores what happens when a group of state-supported, intelligent and well-meaning people attempt to help without harming. This group of “white anti-racists” find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds, a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published September 2016
People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis
Perspectives from the Global South
Hart, K. & Sharp, J. (eds)
The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published April 2017
Sustainable Development
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. Bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America this volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region and beyond, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Geography
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Published October 2015
The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Custom and Conflict in East New Britain
Martin, K.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published April 2015
Bridging Divides
Ethno-Political Leadership among the Russian Sámi
Overland, I. & Berg-Nordlie, M.
Subject: Development Studies
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Published September 2014
Differentiating Development
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Venkatesan, S. & Yarrow, T. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2014
Nordic Paths to Modernity
Árnason, J. P. & Wittrock, B. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies History (General) Sociology
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Published May 2017
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
Geissler, P. W. & Molyneux, C. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
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Published April 2023
Patrons of Women
Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
Hertzog, E.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2013
Adventures in Aidland
The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development
Mosse, D. (ed)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies
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Published February 2014
Urban Pollution
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Dürr, E. & Jaffe, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2012
Politics of Innocence
Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life
Turner, S.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies
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Published March 2013
Ethnobotany in the New Europe
People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Pardo-de-Santayana, M., Pieroni, A. & Puri, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2012
Landscape Ethnoecology
Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space
Johnson, L. M. & Hunn, E. S. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2009
United in Discontent
Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization
Theodossopoulos, D. & Kirtsoglou, E. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2012
Virtualism, Governance and Practice
Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation
Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published June 2013
Gardening the World
Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water
Strang, V.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published April 2012
The Power of Law in a Transnational World
Anthropological Enquiries
Benda-Beckmann, F. von, Benda-Beckmann, K. von & Griffiths, A. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2012
Landscape, Process and Power
Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Heckler, S. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2011
Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development
Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century
O'Kane, D. & Hepner, T. R. (eds)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2010
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey
The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast
Knudsen, S.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2010
Slipping Away
Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean
Moberg, M.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published November 2010
The Impact of Electricity
Development, Desires and Dilemmas
Winther, T.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2007
The Problem of Money
African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana
Bierlich, B. M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
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Published October 2009
Traveling Cultures and Plants
The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations
Pieroni, A. & Vandebroek, I. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2007
Migration Without Borders
Essays on the Free Movement of People
Pécoud, A. & Guchteneire, P. de (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Development Studies
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Published November 2007
Experiencing New Worlds
Wassmann, J. & Stockhaus, K. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2007
On Perpetual Peace
A Timely Assessment
Senghaas, D.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies
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Published March 2008
Rethinking Migration
New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Portes, A. & DeWind, J. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies
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Published March 2011
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies
Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia
Ellen, R. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2011
Sustainability and Communities of Place
Maida, C. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2007
Making Peace with the Earth
What Future for the Human Species and the Planet
Bindé, J. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published March 2009
Local Science Vs Global Science
Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2007
Green Encounters
Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica
Vivanco, L. A.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published November 2009
Changing Properties of Property
Benda-Beckmann, K. von, Benda-Beckmann, F. von & Wiber, M. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2005
Development-induced Displacement
Problems, Policies and People
de Wet, Chris (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published April 2005
Rights in Exile
Janus-Faced Humanitarianism
Verdirame, G. & Harrell-Bond, B.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2006
A New Look At Thai Aids
Perspectives from the Margin
Fordham, G.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
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Published December 2006
Resistance in an Amazonian Community
Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy
Ziegler-Otero, L.
Subjects: Development Studies Sociology
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Published April 2005
Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics
Essed, P., Frerks, G. & Schrijvers, J. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published April 2003
Water for People – Water for Life
United Nations
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published December 2002
Globalization in Southeast Asia
Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives
Yamashita, S. & Eades, J.S. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published October 2004
Tibetans in Nepal
The Dynamics of International Assistance among a Community in Exile
Frechette, A.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published October 2002
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development
Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published July 2003
Bali and Beyond
Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism
Yamashita, S.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2001
Fear in Bongoland
Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania
Sommers, M.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies
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Published October 2002
Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World
Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination
Biesele, M., Hitchcock, R. & Schweitzer, P. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published March 1999
Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty
Recent Developments in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Russia, and Mongolia
Atal, Y. (ed)
Subjects: Development Studies Sociology
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Published December 1998
Engendering Forced Migration
Theory and Practice
Indra, D. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published July 2003
Indigenous Rights and Development
Self-Determination in an Amazonian Community
Gray, A.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2003
The Last Shaman
Change in an Amazonian Community
Gray, A.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Development Studies Literary Studies
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Published August 2003
Mythology, Spirituality, and History
Gray, A.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Development Studies Literary Studies
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Published September 1996
Understanding Impoverishment
The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement
McDowell, C. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published August 1996
After Socialism
Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe
Abrahams, R. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
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Published July 1996
Coping with Tourists
European Reactions to Mass Tourism
Boissevain, J. (ed)
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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