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The Good Oak
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ISBN: 0874178975 9780874178975 0874176026 9780874176025 Year: 2005 Publisher: Reno, Nevada ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : University of Nevada Press,

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The Spanish Arcadia : sheep herding, pastoral discourse, and ethnicity in early modern Spain
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ISBN: 1442667664 9781442667662 9781442647275 1442647272 1442667672 Year: 2014 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,


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The restless anthropologist : new fieldsites, new visions
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ISBN: 1280126132 9786613529992 0226304973 9780226304977 9781280126130 9780226304892 9780226304908 0226304892 0226304906 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,

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What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In The Restless Anthropologist, Alma Gottlieb brings together eight eminent scholars to recount the riveting personal and intellectual dynamics of uprooting one's life-and decades of work-to embrace a new fieldsite.Addressing questions of life-course, research methods, institutional support, professional networks, ethnog


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Geographical diversions : Tibetan trade, global transactions
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ISBN: 1299448623 0820345733 9780820345734 9780820338668 0820338664 9780820345123 0820345121 9781299448629 Year: 2013 Publisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press,

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Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India. How might we make connections between seemingly mundane daily life and more abstract levels of global change? Geographical Diversions focuses on two generations of traders who exchange goods such as sheep wool, pang gdan aprons, and more recently, household appliances. Exploring how traders ""make places,"" Harris examines the creation of geographies

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