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The Russian Male Macho Register and Performances of Masculinity
From Ethnographic to Contemporary: How an Artist Interview May Direct the Study and Conservation Treatment of a Balinese Cili Figure
Excavating the Imagination: Dreaming and reverie among Yolmo-Nepali Buddhists in New York City
Now They Say the Land Is Not Ours: On Rapanui Worldviews and Land-Being Relations
Reappropriating Desires in Neoliberal Societies through KPop
Wilderness Ideologies in a Settler Colonial Society: A case study of the Everglades National Park
Transnational Television, International Anxieties: Examining Cross-Cultural Representations of Workplace Power Struggles and Tensions over Hierarchical Standing in "The Office"
A Case Study of the Cook Inlet Regional, Incorporated 2000 Special Distribution
Punjabi Sikh families in Los Angeles: Discourses of identification and youth socialization practices
Outsourcing otherness: Pursuing modernity in the global handicrafts market
Dark matter: Towards an architectonics of rock, place, and identity in Brasilia's utopian underground
Translating stereotypes: Italian television and the cultural politics of reformatting
Celebrating community and cuisine: Tradition and change in the Sagre Festival in Italy
Youth groups and youth savers: Gangs, crews, and the rise of Filipino American youth culture in Los Angeles
Moving from entertainment towards art: A new model for creating performance on HIV/AIDS
The lived worlds of gay co-father families: Narratives of family, community, and cultural life
A community of sentiment: Indo-Fijian music and identity discourse in Fiji and its diaspora
Reforming the dead: The intersection of socialist merit and agnatic descent in a Chinese funeral home
Body portraits of spiritual selves: Culture working though relationships in an Afro-Brazilian community
Pediatric epilepsy intervention in Kilifi Kenya: Understanding ecocultural barriers to treatment, community intervention and family well-being
Improvisation, identity and tradition: Experimental music communities in Los Angeles
Motherhoods and childhoods in transnational lives: Gender and ethnic identities among Japanese expatriate families in Los Angeles
Generation DIY: Youth, class, and the culture of Indie production in digital-age Indonesia
Risky business: Aspiring Hollywood actors and the selling of the self
The Mashreq in Mexico Patronage, property and class in the postcolonial global
The Kazakh qyl-qobyz: Biography of an instrument, story of a nation
Moroccan immigrant children in a time of surveillance: Navigating sameness and difference in contemporary Spain
Women, work, and body image: The life of a Las Vegas cocktail server
The Yaqui warrior myth: Representations of Yaquis in twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican and Chicana/o literature and theatre
South of Hope: The impacts of US - Mexican state-level restructuring and faltering corn production on the lives of Indigenous Zapotec maize farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico
Striking prayers and mediating powers: An ethnographic and hypertextual interpretation of Pentecostal and "charismagic" cultural production in Ghana
Festival celebrations as public pedagogies in contemporary China: Spectacles, narratives, and globalized imagination of national identity
German wine and the fermentation of modern taste, 1850-1914
Urtiin Duu: The Mongolian Long Song in Mongolia and China
The Encryption Theory: Studies in Brazil and the United States Testing an Evolutionary Explanation of Humor as an Honest Signal
Reputation and the Evolution of Social Behavior
Facing HIV / AIDS Stigmatization in South Africa Through Language and Music
Silence and Sacrifice: Intergenerational Displays of Virtue and Devotion in Central Vietnam
Rationality Revisited: Religion and Science within Spiritism in Brazil
Revolutions in Microcosm: Migration, Meaning, and Mothering by Iranian-Americans
The Return of Martin Ocelotl: A Nahua eschatological discourse in early colonial Mexico
Music Tourism in New Orleans and Bali: A Comparative Study of Cultural Tourism Development
The effects of a participatory action research intervention on middle school students' understanding of schools, culture and place
Chinese Medicine in the US: Culture, Interaction, and the Construction of Patient-Centered Care
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs Can Tell Us About Human Evolution
Edicion y estudio del manuscrito aljamiado-morisco ms. 4963 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid
Saudades de Itapuaa: Music, Black Identity, and Community in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Emotions in the Classroom: Teachers' and Students' Affective Practices in a Persian Heritage Language Classroom in Los Angeles
Marriage Customs of the Religious Communities of the Late Sasanian Empire: An Indicator of Cultural Sharing
Growing up Fast: The Rhetoric of Resilience among Inner City Neapolitan Girls
Translation as Everyday Practice in U.S. Chinese Medicine
"Not Just a Guy in a Dress": Transsexual Identity, Embodiment, and Genital Reassignment Surgery in the United States
Taste is Within: Decorative Material Culture at Home in Los Angeles and Lima, Peru
Reforming the American Public Sphere: The Media Reform Models of Progressive Television Journalists in the Era of Internet Convergence and Neoliberalism
Choreographing [in] Pakistan: Indu Mitha, Dancing Occluded histories in "The Land of the Pure"
Above Sea: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Ruins of Shanghai's New Heaven on Earth
Shifting Meanings for Gender and the Family Among the Maya in Chiapas, Mexico
Doing Death in Texas: Language and Jury Decision-Making in Texas Death Penalty Trials
Enemy Music: Blind Birifor Xylophonists of Northwest Ghana
Space, Place, and Music in New Orleans
The Evolution of Cognitive Mechanisms for Ethnic Reasoning: Tests from the Quechua-Aymara linguistic boundary in the Peruvian Altiplano
Household Diversification and Children's Economic Socialization: An Examination of In-Home Businesses Among Urban Mexican Families
Folk Talking, Folk Listening: How Alcoholics Anonymous Works
Old Oyo Influences on the Transformation of Lucumi Identity in Colonial Cuba
New World Songs for Catholic Saints: Domestic Performances of Devotion and History in Bahia, Brazil