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An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China. The author...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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Some of the most interesting of South's finds concern the confluence of two traditions of pottery and stoneware production. One of these is represented by 40 pottery wheel-thrown types and forms made...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racism in American culture. Using a broad range of material, historical, and ethonographic resources from Annapolis, Maryland, during the...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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This publication provides a material culture analysis of passengers' belongings found on the steamboats Bertrand and Arabia, which served 19th-century emigrants travelling west on the Missouri river....
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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A discussion of the historical archaeology of one of the largest cities in the world following four centuries of marginal positioning in regard to empires, trade routes, and the production and...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-12-29
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This authoritative overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization' of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; drugs and dance cultures; drug use...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-12-23
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This book is one of the first to take an in-depth look at how an advertising image works. It situates the Nike swoosh logo in terms of political economy, sociology, culture and semiotics. Nike Culture describes and deconstructs the themes and structures of Nike's...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-12-22
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In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-12-15
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`As a companion to Foucault's original texts, carefully showing what he's done and why - and how that could be applied elsewhere - it's outstanding' - www.theory.org.uk
`Very much a `hands-on' tool kit of a book, scholarly but accessible.... a very useful textbook...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-12-04
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`I would recommend the book to anyone with an interest in the family, whether their interest is in constructs of "old" family values and morals, or in the "new" alternatives, and (possibly from a political point of view), threatening family. It provides food for thought...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-12-04
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This book provides the first accessible introduction to neural network analysis as a methodological strategy for social scientists. The author details numerous studies and examples which illustrate the advantages of neural network analysis over other quantitative and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-09-24
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Anthony Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period. This is the first full-length work to examine Giddens' social theory. It guides the reader through Giddens' early attempt to overcome the duality of structure and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-09-24
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In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two. He develops clear usable strategies to encourage theory development in the practical context of social...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-09-04
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Choosing a research method can be bewildering. How can you be sure which methodology is appropriate, or whether your chosen combination of methods is consistent with the theoretical perspective you want to take? This book links methodology and theory with great clarity...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-08-26
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Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays' implications extend...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1998-08-07
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This book provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumerism. It then moves on to examine the experience of consumption in the areas of space and place, technology, fashion, `popular' music and sport. Throughout, the author brings a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1998-07-28
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Addressing the problem of men's violence to known women, this book considers the scale of, and critically reviews the theoretical frameworks used to explain this violence.
From the perspective of `critical studies on men', Jeff Hearn discusses issues, challenges and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1998-07-08
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`I recommend this book to all readers interested in thinking about the self; I am sure that anyone who reads it will come away with some new ideas' - Therapeutic Communities
This critical and comprehensive examination of the relation of theory and identity discusses...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-07-08
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