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Gender Diversity

Crosscultural Variations, Second Edition

By: Serena Nanda

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Gender Diversity

Crosscultural Variations, Second Edition

By: Serena Nanda

Anthropologist Serena Nanda has heralded the importance of understanding human similarities and differences throughout her writing and teaching career. This was especially evidenced in her groundbreaking work, Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations, a masterful, far-reaching examination of the relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality and how they are culturally constructed. Rich ethnographic examples representing nine cultures illuminate the need to analyze sex/gender roles and identities on the basis of broad cultural patterns and distinct cultural features, including social class, ethnicity, age, religion, urban or rural residence, and exposure to Western cultures. The latest edition incorporates new material on hijras in Bangladesh, three gender alternatives in Indonesia, and global changes related to migration, health, and communication. Concept-reinforcing questions have been added to each chapter. Gender Diversity, Second Edition encourages readers to think in new ways about what they consider natural, normal, or morally right. As a concise supplement with multidisciplinary appeal, the enhanced edition is sure to energize the undergraduate classroom.

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Waveland Press

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147861546X

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Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

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Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

This text provides an overview of the core cultural anthropology topics while instilling into the student a full sense of the world's diversity.

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Cengage Learning

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0534506372

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Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

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Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

The Study Guide includes chapter outlines, learning objectives and key terms intended to guide students in their reading of the chapter material. Each chapter also includes practice tests consisting of multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, short answer and essay questions.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0495128899

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9780495128892

Culture Counts

A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

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Culture Counts

A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

Updated to account for the extraordinary developments of the last five years, the Fifth Edition of Culture Counts offers a concise introduction to anthropology that illustrates why culture matters in our understanding of humanity and the world around us. Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms draw students in with engaging ethnographic stories and a conversational writing style that encourages them to interact cross-culturally, solve problems, and effect positive change.

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SAGE Publications

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1544336276

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9781544336275

Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

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Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

Cultural Anthropology integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts students to think creatively about today’s culture and society. Authors Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms show how historical studies and anthropological techniques can help readers reflect on the nature, structure, and meaning of human societies. Updates to the Thirteenth Edition include a new chapter on race and ethnicity; emphasis on areas such as inequality, power, gender, race, and history; discussions of issues around medical care and public health; and new features that reflect changes in world culture. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Learning Platform / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality SAGE textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It’s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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1071858246

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COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities

By: J. Michael Ryan,Serena Nanda

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COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities

By: J. Michael Ryan,Serena Nanda

COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities examines the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities, and countries, a fact seldom acknowledged and often suppressed or invisible. Taking a global approach, this book demonstrates how the impact of the pandemic has differed as a result of social inequalities, such as economic development, social class, race and ethnicity, sex and gener, age, and access to health care and education. Economic inequality between and within nations has significantly contributed to the chances of individuals contracting and dying from the virus. Developing nations with weak health care systems, workers whose jobs cannot be performed remotely, the differences between those with and without access to soap and water to wash their hands, or the ability to practice physical distancing also account for the unequal impact of the virus. Racial and ethnic minorities experience higher death rates from the virus, which has also unequally affected indigenous peoples and urban and foreign migrants around the world. Inequality is also embedded in national and international responses to the pandemic, as giving and receiving aid is often impacted by inequalities of demographic and national power and influence, resulting in national and global competition rather than the collaboration needed to end the pandemic. Along with the other titles in Routledge’s COVID-19 Pandemic series, this book represents a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to what many believe to be the greatest threat to global ways of being in more than a century. COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities is therefore indispensable for academics, researchers, and students as well as activists and policy makers interested in understanding the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and eradicating the inequalities it has exacerbated.

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Routledge

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1000537269

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Love and Marriage

Cultural Diversity in a Changing World

By: Serena Nanda

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Love and Marriage

Cultural Diversity in a Changing World

By: Serena Nanda

Cultural anthropologist Serena Nanda mines a wide range of ethnographic research to examine the patterns of love, marriage, sexuality, and family unique to eight cultures around the world. After reviewing changing patterns in the United States, readers are taken to China, India, Brazil, Iran, Indonesia, Nigeria, the South Pacific, and Nepal to explore traditions and transformations and the intertwining dynamics of kinship, class, politics, religion, and gender roles in love and marriage. An additional chapter traces the diversity of LGBTQ relationships, with contemporary examples drawn from the US, Indonesia, and India. A valuable summary chapter features a brief analysis of similar and different cultural configurations. Nanda’s ethnographically rich examples and fresh perspective will challenge readers to understand that their own culture is not natural or superior but rather just one of many possibilities adapted to specific environments and subject to changes.

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Waveland Press

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1478638826

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The Gift of a Bride

A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder

By: Serena Nanda

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The Gift of a Bride

A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder

By: Serena Nanda

This ethnographically based murder mystery is set within New York City's Indian community. A young Indian woman's arranged marriage brings her to the city to join her husband shortly after her wedding. The plot unfolds as the couple copes with joint family living, sexual and financial issues, and hostile neighbors. Central to the mystery are the cultural conflicts affecting both men and women negotiating the differences between American society and their own traditional upbringings. A major theme of the book is violence against women as this plays out both within domestic situations and through the gender inequalities of Indian and American society. Supportive characters such as an anthropology professor, an Indian detective and his American sidekick, a young, assimilated Indian neighbor, and an established family elder reveal various aspects of immigrant life. Through this rich, exciting and ethnographically detailed foray into one particular community, the reader learns about arranging a marriage, Hindu weddings and festivals, and the rich psychological motivations of culturally-patterned behavior of both immigrant men and women. The main principles of cultural anthropology and ethnographic method are woven into the novel, making it a compelling read in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759118531

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9780759118539

COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities

By: J. Michael Ryan,Serena Nanda

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COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities

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Assisted Dying

An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast

By: Serena Nanda,Joan Young Gregg

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Assisted Dying

An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast

By: Serena Nanda,Joan Young Gregg

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast to examine American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, and aging, retirement, death, and dying are just some of the issues illuminated. The novel skillfully draws readers in, teaching students key concepts in the social sciences as they follow cultural anthropologist Julie Norman in her quest to solve the dark mystery.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759119945

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Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard Warms

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Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard Warms

Build your own awareness of cultures around the world with CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY! Emphasizing the issues of gender, stratification, ethnicity, globalization, and the similarities and differences among all cultures, this anthropology text provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Take advantage of CengageNOW, which saves you time and enhances your performance in the course through Pre-Tests, Personalized Study Plans and Post-Test materials. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Cengage Learning

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0534617069

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Culture Counts

A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

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Culture Counts

A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

By: Serena Nanda,Richard L. Warms

Now Available with SAGE! Culture Counts is a concise introduction to anthropology that illustrates why culture matters in our understanding of humanity and the world around us. Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms draws you in with engaging ethnographic stories and a conversational writing style that encourages you to interact cross-culturally, solve problems, and effect positive change. The brief format gives majors and non-majors the essentials they need and frees up the instructor to teach the course the way they want to teach it. The Fifth Edition includes new examples and vignettes that are important to the study of cultural anthropology. Issues of gender, identity, globalization, intersectionality, inequality, and public health have been incorporated throughout the book, as well as a new chapter on race and ethnicity that brings the book in step with recent conversations about power, race, and history. Also available as a digital option (courseware). Learn more about Culture Counts - Vantage Digital Option, Fifth Edition [ISBN: 978-1-0718-2037-7]

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Sage Publications, Incorporated

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1544336268

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Assisted Dying

An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast

By: Serena Nanda,Joan Gregg

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Assisted Dying

An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast

By: Serena Nanda,Joan Gregg

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast to examine American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, and aging, retirement, death, and dying are just some of the issues illuminated. The novel skillfully draws readers in, teaching students key concepts in the social sciences as they follow cultural anthropologist Julie Norman in her quest to solve the dark mystery.

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0759119961

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40 Perfect New York Days

Walks and Rambles in and Around the City

By: Joan Gregg,Serena Nanda,Beth Pacheco

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40 Perfect New York Days

Walks and Rambles in and Around the City

By: Joan Gregg,Serena Nanda,Beth Pacheco

Celebrate New York's legendary diversity of places, people, and things to do in a series of upbeat and offbeat day trips. 40 Perfect New York Days: Walks and Rambles In and Around the City is your knowledgeable, trustworthy companion in and around the city. City University professors, life-long New Yorkers, and enthusiastic walkers, authors Joan Gregg, Beth Pacheco, and Serena Nanda know every nook and cranny in and around the city that never sleeps. Take a tour of: The soul of soul in Harlem The one place from which Houdini couldn't escape The most beautiful shop near the most beautiful block in New York The interior of a Renoir painting Active New Yorkers, their out-of-town guests, and independent tourists will love our guide's unique approach to the city and its surroundings-one perfect day at a time.

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0595297420

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