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Bioethics and the Humanities: Attitudes and Perceptions (2007)
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Downie, R., & Macnaughton, R. (2007). Bioethics and the Humanities: Attitudes and Perceptions. Routledge-Cavendish. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203945025

Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation. Illustrating some humanistic ways of understandi... Read More about Bioethics and the Humanities: Attitudes and Perceptions.

Order and anarchy: civil society, social disorder and war (2006)
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Layton, R. (2006). Order and anarchy: civil society, social disorder and war. Cambridge University Press

Argues against the view that the Capitalist market economy is uniquely conducive to the creation of civil society. Shows that Locke and Ferguson identified civil society with social co-operation based on rational self- interest in all human societies... Read More about Order and anarchy: civil society, social disorder and war.

Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands (2003)
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Sillitoe, P. (2003). Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands. Routledge

Managing Animals in New Guinea analyses the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parame... Read More about Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands.

Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands (2002)
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Sillitoe, P., Stewart, P., & Strathern, A. (2002). Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands. University of Pittsburgh

This monograph provides a range of materials on subsistence gardening practices in different parts of the highlands region of Papua New Guinea. It consists of one main case study executed in considerable depth of detail on a single people, the Wola,... Read More about Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands.

Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus (2005)
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Sant Cassia, P. (2005). Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus. Berghahn Journals

This book examines the way how Missing Persons in Cyprus, individuals lost in the course of inter-ethnic hostilities, have been used by the political leaders of both ethnic groups to carry and project messages of loss, recovery, and ethnic incompatib... Read More about Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus.

An anthropological analysis of local politics and patronage in a Pakistani village (2004)
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Lyon, S. (2004). An anthropological analysis of local politics and patronage in a Pakistani village. (12). Edwin Mellen Press

Asymmetrical power relationships are found throughout Pakistan’s Punjabi and Pukhtun communities. These relationships must be examined as manifestations of cultural continuity rather than as separate structures. The various cultures of Pakistan displ... Read More about An anthropological analysis of local politics and patronage in a Pakistani village.

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (2023)
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Heywood, P., & Candea, M. (Eds.). (2023). Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Cornell University Press

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it... Read More about Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation.