Mainstreaming Midwives

The Politics of Change

Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Christine Barbara Johnson

Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of...

Published March 28th 2006 by Routledge.

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Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Identity-Based Movement of Plain Indigenous in Taiwan

By Jolan Hsieh

This book examines, through in-depth interviews, questionnaires, field observations, and analysis of governmental and United Nations documents, the perspectives of those directly involved in the...

Published March 21st 2006 by Routledge.

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Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands

By Arne Røkkum

Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan...

Published March 10th 2006 by Routledge.

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Sufism in the West

Edited by Jamal Malik, John Hinnells

With the increasing Muslim diaspora in post-modern Western societies, Sufism – intellectually as well as sociologically – may eventually become Islam itself due to its...

Published March 8th 2006 by Routledge.

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Negotiating Claims

The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States

By Christa Scholtz

Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? In this book Scholtz explores why a government would...

Published February 3rd 2006 by Routledge.

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Genetics, Mass Media and Identity

A Case Study of the Genetic Research on the Lemba

By Tudor Parfitt, Yulia Egorova

This is the first book to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of Southern Africa and the phenomenon of Israelite...

Published January 26th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Future of Visual Anthropology

Engaging the Senses

By Sarah Pink

From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure

A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish

By Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo

This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that...

Published December 9th 2005 by Routledge.

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Third Text

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Published November 17th 2005 by Routledge.

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Politics of Culture in Iran

By Nematollah Fazeli

This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text...

Published November 15th 2005 by Routledge.

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