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At Home and in the Field High quality books At Home and in the Field By:Suzanne S. Finney,Mary Mostafanezhad,Guido Carlo Pigliasco,Forrest Wade Young Published on 2015-07-30 by University of Hawaii Press Crossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork. Unique in its inclusion of |homework|—ethnography that directly engages with issues and identities in which the ethnographer finds political solidarity and belonging in fields at home—the anthology contributes to growing trends that complicate the distinction between |insiders| and |outsiders.| The obligations that fieldwork engenders among researchers and local communities are exemplified by contributors who are often socially engaged with the peoples and places they work. In its focus on Asia an...

Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands High quality books Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands By:Koen Wellens Published on 2011-04-01 by University of Washington Press Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging from religious studies to anthropology to political science. This book examines contemporary religious practices among the Premi people of the Sichuan-Yunnan-Tibet area, a group of about 60,000 who speak a language belonging to the Qiang branch of Tibeto-Burman. Koen Wellens's ethnographic research in two Premi communities on opposite sides of the border, and his analysis of available historical documents, find multiple advocates and rationales for the revival of both formal Tibetan Buddhism and the indigenous Premi practices centered on ritual specialists called anji. Wellens argues that the variety in the shape the revitalizat...

Money from Nothing High quality books Money from Nothing By:Deborah James Published on 2014-11-19 by Stanford University Press Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion—dubbed |banking the unbanked|—which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals the varied ways in which middle- and working-class South Africans' access to credit is intimately bound up with identity, status-making, and aspirations of upward mobility. She draws out the deeply precarious nature of both the aspirations and the economic relations of debt which sustain her subjects, revealing the shadowy side of indebtedness and its potential to produce new forms of oppression and disenfranchisement in place of older ones. Money from Nothing uniquely captures the lived experience of indebtedness for those many millions who att...

Money to Burn High quality books Money to Burn By:Horace Coon Published on 1938 by Transaction Publishers Originally published in 1938, this is a classic muckraking account of the role of philanthropic foundations. Horace Coon's journalistic indictment of the state of philanthropy in the 1920s and 1930s emphasizes how great wealth perpetuates itself through the mechanism of the foundation. Coon looks at how foundations influence education and public thinking, the extent to which they support scientific, medical, and social science research, and their financial operations. But |Money to Burn |is more than an example of what we today would call investigative journalism. It is also one of the first serious efforts to describe the history of modern American philanthropy. Coon discusses the origins of philanthropic foundations in Western history and the establishment of the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, reviews the founders' motives, and launches a biting critique in the con...

Class Counts High quality books Class Counts By:Erik Olin Wright Published on 1997 by Cambridge University Press The research in this study covers a wide range of topics, including the class character of friendship patterns, class mobility, the sexual division of labor in housework, gender differences in managerial authority, and class consciousness. They are united by a common explanatory factor: class. This Book was ranked at 8 by Google Books for keyword Cambridge equation. Book ID of Class Counts's Books is YzuLVijEFbgC, Book which was written byErik Olin Wrighthave ETAG "wdeB894UnIY" Book which was published by Cambridge University Press since 1997 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780521556460 and ISBN 10 Code is 0521556465 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "576 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at "" This eBook Matur...

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The Hidden Brain High quality books The Hidden Brain By:Shankar Vedantam Published on 2010-01-19 by Spiegel & Grau The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire the thin woman but pay her less than the man doing the same job. It can direct us to safety when disaster strikes and move us to extraordinary acts of altruism. But it can also be manipulated to turn an ordinary person into a suicide terrorist or a group of bystanders into a mob. In a series of compulsively readable narratives, Shankar Vedantam journeys through the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science to uncover the darkest corner of our minds and its decisive impact on the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Filled with fascinating character...