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Textures of Belonging
Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma
Racleş, A.
The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday level.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 1996
The Iron Gates Mesolithic
Radovanovic, I.
The Mesolithic sites in the Iron Gates Gorge of the Danube River, between Yugoslavia and Romania are reviewed in this volume. The author offers fundamental re-analyses and interpretations of stratigraphies, relative and absolute chronologies, architecture and settlement organization, the placement and styles of altars and sculptural elements, the chipped and polished stone industries, the bone and antler artifacts, the mortuary practices, ecology, and social organization of this remarkable archaeological culture.
Subject: Archaeology
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Published June 2019
Invisible Founders
How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College
Rainville, L.
Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies
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Published November 2017
From Clans to Co-ops
Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
Rakopoulos, T.
From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition
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Published June 2018
The Global Life of Austerity
Comparing Beyond Europe
Rakopoulos, T. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2016
Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness
An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland
Rakowski, T.
Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland, which left many people impoverished and unemployed.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2008
Against Machismo
Young Adult Voices in Mexico City
Ramirez, J.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2003
French Women in Politics: Writing Power
Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies
Ramsay, R. L.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2022
Punching Back
Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Rana, J.
In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 1998
Autonomy
Life Cycle, Gender, and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists
Rao, A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2008
The Practice of War
Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence
Rao, A., Bollig, M. & Böck, M. (eds)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published May 2010
News as Culture
Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions
Rao, U.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2005
Celebrating Transgression
Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Cultures
A book in Honour of Klaus Peter KoeppingRao, U. & Hutnyk, J. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
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Published December 2016
Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History
Raphael, L. (ed)
This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day.
Subjects: History (General) Sociology
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Published July 2012
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The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology
Rapport, N.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published April 2024
‘I am Here’, Abraham Said
Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science
Rapport, N.
One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’s work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts on ‘humanistic science’ equally seriously and offers tentative conclusions.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2010
Human Nature as Capacity
Transcending Discourse and Classification
Rapport, N. (ed.)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published August 2015
Topographies of Suffering
Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
Rapson, J.
Examining the Holocaust in literature, landscape and memory, this book examines three sites of murder by the Nazis: Buchenwald, Germany; Babi Yar, Ukraine; and Lidice, Czech Republic. Balancing scrutiny with the way their violent histories are remembered globally, these sites emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes in which difficult pasts can be comprehended in the present.
Subjects: Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2015
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 February 2025
Market and Monastery
Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora
Ratanapruck, P.
In this enlightening ethnography of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck highlights the way social institutions have boosted Manangi trade opportunities. Examining how capital production and accumulation interacts with the Manangi’s pursuit of social and spiritual aspirations, Market and Monastery illuminates an intriguing form of capitalism.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2021
The Paradoxical Republic
Austria 1945–2020
Rathkolb, O.
Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the potential fracturing of the European Union.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2024
Adoption, Emotion, and Identity
An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society
Rauchholz, M.
Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published May 2019
One Sound, Two Worlds
The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990
Rauhut, M.
Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2015
Transatlantic Parallaxes
Toward Reciprocal Anthropology
Raulin, A. & Rogers, S. C. (eds)
Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal production of knowledge.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published December 1997
An Understanding of Judaism
Rayner, J. D.
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published March 1998
A Jewish Understanding of the World
Rayner, J. D.
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Published May 1998
Jewish Religious Law
A Progressive Perspective
Rayner, J. D.
Subject: Jewish Studies
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Autistic Dreaming
Vibrant Memory, Activism, Environment
Reading, A.
An exacting reassessment of neurodiversity within activist and artistic communities, Autistic Dreaming illuminates how the integration of neurodivergent perspectives within critical memory studies has the opportunity to expand ideas about the relationship between the individual and collective, and reform our method of remembrance.
Subjects: Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published February 2010
When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue
and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology
Rebel, H.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2022
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis
An International Casebook
Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)
The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology
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Published April 2003
Discerning Palates of the Past
An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and Plant Usage in India
Reddy, S. N.
This book analyzes the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (ca. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought-resistant millet crops is reconstructed using ethnographic studies of crop processing, palaeoethnobotany, and carbon isotope analysis. New directions are provided for discerning archaeologically how pastoralism and agriculture may be integrated in complex economic systems.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2019
Bourdieu and Social Space
Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
Reed-Danahay, D.
French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology
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Published July 2003
Papua New Guinea's Last Place
Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison
Reed, A.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2006
God's Eugenicist
Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline
Reggiani, A
Subject: History (General)
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Published March 2011
The Kings and the Pawns
Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II
Rein, L.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published June 2018
Archaeogaming
An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games
Reinhard, A.
Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2024
Practical Archaeogaming
Reinhard, A.
As a sequel to Archaeogaming: an Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, the author focuses on the practical and applied side of the discipline, collecting recent digital fieldwork together in one place for the first time to share new methods in treating interactive digital built environments as sites for archaeological investigation.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2024
Machine-Created Culture
Essays on the Archaeology of Digital Things and Places
Reinhard, A.
Machine-Created Culture offers archaeologists of any level new ways of interpreting electronic and digital artifacts, sites, and landscapes. Playfully told through the misadventures of a reluctant digital archaeologist, this book gently leads readers into emerging topics including quantum archaeology, entropy, psychogeography, complexity science, and more.
Subject: Archaeology
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Published April 2006
Claims to Memory
Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean
Reinhardt C.
Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published July 2023
Exceptional Experiences
Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork
Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)
Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2018
Empathy and History
Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education
Retz, T.
The History and Function of Empathy in Historical Studies is the first comprehensive account of empathy’s place in historical scholarship, history pedagogy, and the philosophy of history. It explains how empathy became central to teaching history in schools, and traces its roots in nineteenth-century German historicism.
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies
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Published December 2005
Reading Germany
Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933
Reuveni, G.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies Media Studies
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Published December 2010
The Economy in Jewish History
New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life
Reuveni, G. & Wobick-Segev, S. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Jewish Studies
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Published August 2016
Deadly Contradictions
The New American Empire and Global Warring
Reyna, S. P.
As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2017
Starry Nights
Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology
Reyna, S. P.
Starry Nights formulates something of an un-canon: it critiques postmodernism while devising its own strategy for conducting research. It envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published September 2023
Mary Douglas
Richards, P. & 6, P.
This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published February 2008
Practicing Public Diplomacy
A Cold War Odyssey
Richmond, Y.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2009
Bringing Culture to the Masses
Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR
Richthofen, E. von
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 1996
Tolerance Between Intolerance and the Intolerable
Ricoeur, P. (ed)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2020
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)
Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.
Subjects: Archaeology Applied Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published May 2017
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Riese, J.
This book provides an inside look at Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with sophisticated systems-theory analysis, it examines the organization’s failure to end Norwegian whaling, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published August 2024
Oscar Lewis in Cuba
La Partida Final
Rigdon, S. M.
The experience of Oscar Lewis’ Project Cuba offers lessons on the difficulties of doing social science research in any highly surveilled, politically controlled environment however sympathetic the principal investigator.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology
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Published April 2010
Godless Intellectuals?
The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented
Riley, A. T.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology of Religion
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Published August 2013
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts
Riley, A.T., Pickering, W.S.F., & Watts Miller, W. (eds)
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2018
The Virago Story
Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon
Riley, C.
The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2018
Back to the Postindustrial Future
An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City
Ringel, F.
Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city, it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published January 2001
Toward a Social History of Knowledge
Collected Essays
Ringer, F.
Subjects: Educational Studies History (General)
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Published February 2013
The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination
Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent
Rinner, S.
Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published May 2007
The Power of Perspective
Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu
Rio, K, M.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2008
Hierarchy
Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations
Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
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Published January 2023
Cosmopolitan Refugees
Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg
Ripero-Muñiz, N.
Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg: two cosmopolitan urban hubs in the global South.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2007
A History of Oxford Anthropology
Rivière, P. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)
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Published May 2016
Fascist Interactions
Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945
Roberts, D. D.
Increasingly, scholars of fascism have called for a new agenda with research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with classification, and sustained attention to the relationships among different fascist formations. Starting from a critical assessment of these imperatives, this volume charts a path that deemphasizes rigid distinctions while still deploying reasonably rigorous criteria of differentiation.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2014
Domesticating Youth
Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan
Roche, S.
“This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.” · Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published September 2000
Voices in Times of Change
The Role of Writers, Opposition Movements, and the Churches in the Transformation of East Germany
Rock, D. (ed)
Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published June 2002
Coming Home to Germany?
The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic since 1945
Rock, D. & Wolff, S. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2023
Calling on the Community
Understanding Participation in the Heritage Sector, an Interactive Governance Perspective
Rodenberg, J., Wagenaar, P., & Burgers, G.-J. (eds)
There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. This series of studies contributes to a better understanding of public participation in the heritage sector by applying Public Administration theory on collaborative governance.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2022
Land and the Mortgage
History, Culture, Belonging
Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)
The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2014
Shaping the Transnational Sphere
Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s
Rodogno, D., Struck, B. & Vogel, J. (eds)
In the second half of the nineteenth century a new kind of social and cultural actor came to the fore: the expert. During this period complex processes of modernization, industrialization, urbanization, and nation-building gained pace, particularly in Western Europe and North America. These processes created new forms of specialized expertise that grew in demand and became indispensible in fields like sanitation, incarceration, urban planning, and education.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2019
Privileges of Birth
Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa
Rogerson, J. J. M.
Focussing ethnographically on private sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of birth attends to the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Examining the ethics of care in midwife-attended birth, the author offers a unique account of birthing care in the context of elite care services.
Subject: Medical Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2016
Constitutional Courts in Comparison
The US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court
Rogowski, R. & Gawron T. (eds)
The side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court provides a novel socio-legal approach in studying constitutional litigation, focusing on conditions of mobilisation, decision-making and implementation.
Subject: Sociology
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Published October 2022
Ӧmie Sex Affiliation
A Papuan Nature
Rohatynskyj, M.
The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies
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Published October 2007
A Single Communal Faith?
The German Right from Conservatism to National Socialism
Rohkrämer, T.
Subject: History (General)
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Published October 2018
Changes in the Air
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Rohland, E.
Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies
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Published July 2014
Pacific Futures
Projects, Politics and Interests
Rollason, W. (ed)
Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published December 2023
Compliance
Cultures and Networks of Accommodation
Rollason, W. & Hirsch, E. (eds)
Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade, compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries
Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland
Rollins, J.
Lullabies and Battle Cries examines the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in Northern Irish republican parading bands, exploring how rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 1999
An Outline of European History From 1789 to 1989
Romano, S.
Subject: History (General)
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Published November 2022
Sexual Self-Fashioning
Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging
Roodsaz, R.
Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of self-fashioning.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2019
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)
Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology
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Published June 2022
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)
At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History
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Published April 2023
Things of the House
Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal
Rosales, M. V.
Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after their independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family ties and networks of belonging, as well as in the social dynamics of positioning, hierarchy and distinction.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
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Published May 2017
Between Empire and Continent
British Foreign Policy before the First World War
Rose, A.
Historians have commonly interpreted Britain’s attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
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Published August 1995
Roads to the Palace
Jewish Texts and Teaching
Rosenak, M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Educational Studies
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Published October 2024
Voices in the Dark
The Energy Lives of Refugees
Rosenberg-Jansen, S.
In refugee camps all over the world, refugees are forced to secure their own access to energy and are provided with limited cooking resources and minimal electricity. Voices in the Dark draws upon a decade of original research to provide evidence on the energy lives of refugees.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published December 2019
A Human Garden
French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
Rosental, P.-A.
A Human Garden explains the longevity of the Ungemach Gardens, an experimental eugenic city that survived on the outskirts of Strasbourg from the 1920s to the 1980s. He reveals the inheritance of eugenics, examining ways in which eugenics have come to influence social, health, and educational policymaking in the post-war era.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published November 2024
Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath
New Approaches to a Complex Campaign
Rossoliński-Liebe, G. (ed)
An illuminating re-examination of the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath refocuses attention on the multiethnic nature of this military campaign, by considering the role played by troops from Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Spain, and others in Hitler’s plans for the Eastern Front and the Holocaust.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II Genocide History
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Published March 2021
Agent of Change
The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)
Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published March 2018
Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
Roth, C.
de Jong, W., Perlik, M., Steuer, N., & Znoj, H. (eds)This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies
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Published December 2021
Repressed, Remitted, Rejected
German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece
Roth, K. H. & Rübner, H.
Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and confronts German aversions to reparations debt.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2008
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union
Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
Roth, S. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2019
In Pursuit of Belonging
Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces
Rottmann, S, B.
The story of one remarkable woman, Leyla, a mother, who has struggled against pain and shame to live a life that makes her proud and which also inspires others. Using her story, In Pursuit of Belonging enhances our understanding of key issues in the anthropology of ethics and migration.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published June 2015
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe
Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses
Rountree, K. (ed)
Though all Pagan and Native Faith movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners’ beliefs, practices, goals and agendas are diverse. Contributors to this volume draw on ethnographic cases within Europe to explore the interplay of nationalism and transnationalism within these recently emerging and diverse groups.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2021
Defeating Impunity
Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914
Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)
Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspective to take the reader through both little known and prominent trials.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published August 2017
World War I and the Jews
Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America
Rozenblit, M. L. and Karp, J. (eds)
World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East participated in and were changed by the Great War during and after the conflict.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I
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Published September 2011
The Allure of Capitalism
An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis
Røyrvik, E. A.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published October 2019
Regimes of Responsibility in Africa
Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)
How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. The work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2011
Mapping Difference
The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine
Rubchak, M. J. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published June 2015
New Imaginaries
Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm
Rubchak, M.J. (ed)
Contributors to this volume infuse their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology and writing linger. This, as a result, is a paradigm articulating “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western — offering a fresh portrait of Ukrainian society seen through a new generation of feminist scholars.
Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Jewish Inclusion in Ethnic Studies Education
Issues, Obstacles, and Excuses
Rubin, D. I.
A clarifying re-examination of the issues affecting ethnic studies education in K-12 schools, this book explores how the program’s disregard for the lives of American Jews correlates with the increase in antisemitism with the U.S. Consequently, it advances a renewed framework for thinking about the Jewish experience in contemporary American education.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Educational Studies Sociology
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At Home in Postwar France
Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort
Rudolph, N. C.
After World War II, France embarked on a national project of modernization, which included the development of mass housing. At Home in Postwar France reveals how modernizers saw the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building, and identifies the emergence of a “right to comfort” that shaped new expectations for well-being.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies
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Published December 2021
Germany and the Confessional Divide
Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989
Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)
Germany confessional identities developed against cultural, religious, and political tensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unpacking the conflicted religious history, this collection focuses on defining traumatic events, tracing their origins across division between Catholics and Protestants, hinderance of German unification, and transforming religious identities, allegiances, and practices
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2024
Social History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Rürup, M.
Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2005
History
Narration, Interpretation, Orientation
Rüsen, J.
Subject: History (General)
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Evidence and Meaning
A Theory of Historical Studies
Rüsen, J.
One of the premier historiographers alive today, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last half-century, while offering a clear, economical account of his theory of history.
Subject: History (General)
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Western Historical Thinking
An Intercultural Debate
Rüsen, J. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2006
Meaning and Representation in History
Rüsen, J. (ed)
Subject: History (General)
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Time and History
The Variety of Cultures
Rüsen, J. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Thinking Utopia
Steps into Other Worlds
Rüsen, J., Fehr, M. & Rieger, T. W. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2022
The Cracked Art World
Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland
Rush, K.
This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published December 2007
Between Tradition and Modernity
Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg
Russell, M. A.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2009
Reproducing Class
Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul
Rutz, H. J. & Balkan, E. M.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2006
From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism
Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden
Rydgren, J.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published December 2003
The Populist Challenge
Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France
Rydgren, J.
Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published June 2013
Family Upheaval
Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark
Rytter, M.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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