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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Challenges to Identity and Power | |
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Continuity and Change in Aztec Culture: From Imperial Lords to Royal Subjects | |
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Setting the Stage: Some Themes | |
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The Aztec Empire on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest | |
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Imperial Strategies | |
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Political and Territorial Organization: the Altepetl | |
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Social Stratification | |
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Commerce | |
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Religion | |
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The Stage Is Set | |
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New Lords of the Land | |
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Aztecs to Nahuas: Continuity and Change in the New Order | |
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Demographic Disaster | |
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The Altepetl and Cultural Identity | |
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Social Stratification: Disintegration Over Time | |
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Occupations and Commerce | |
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Taking Advantage of New Things and Ideas | |
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Religious Syncretism | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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Change in the Lives of a Brazilian Indigenous People: To Pluck Eyelashes (or Not?) among the Canela | |
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The Canela Today | |
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Some Background to the Current Canela Situation | |
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Tracing Culture Change Through Individuals | |
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Basket Lifter and her Son, Speechless | |
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Hard Bed | |
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Anaconda | |
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Angelo Carampei | |
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Edible Vine | |
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Summary: Factors in Culture Change | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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Cultural Identity in China: The Rising Politics of Ethnic Difference | |
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The Soviet Union as China's Prologue? | |
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Nationality in China | |
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Han Nationality as Invented National Unity | |
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Identity Politics and National Minorities | |
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Internal Divisions among the Han Majority | |
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Internet Cafes, Discos, and Democratization? | |
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Conclusion: National Disunity? | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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The Vice Lords Today: Sociocultural Change in an African American Street Gang | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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Change in Gender Hierarchies | |
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Sambia Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change | |
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Precolonial Sambia Society | |
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Traditional Gender Roles and Initiation | |
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Social Hierarchies among the Sambia | |
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Marriage and the Traffic in Women | |
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Social Change and Resistance | |
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Schools and Gender Change | |
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Change over the Past Decade | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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Mothers to Daughters: Social Change and Matrilineal Kinship in a Minangkabau Village | |
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Minangkabau and Their Houses | |
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Reconfiguring Daughters' Desires | |
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Education | |
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Marriage Rights | |
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Models of Domesticity | |
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Contradictory Housewives | |
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Social Change and Small Houses | |
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Households, Demographics, and Migration | |
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Residence and Matriliny | |
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Daughters Who Leave | |
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Daughters' Claims | |
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Matriliny in Single-Family Households | |
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Husband and Wife Contributions | |
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Reconstituting Single-Family Households | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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The Ju/'Hoansi at the Crossroads: Continuity and Change in the Time of AIDS | |
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Four Decades of Change | |
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Nyae Nyae: A Struggle for Survival | |
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Ju/'Hoansi in the Twenty-First Century: Progress and Poverty | |
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Botswana | |
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Namibia | |
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Regional Developments: From the End of Apartheid to the Coming of AIDS | |
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AIDS and the Ju/'Hoansi | |
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The Ju/Hoansi's Lower Rates: Macro and Micro Factors | |
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Ju/'Hoan Women's Autonomy | |
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Forces Driving the Epidemic | |
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The Larger Social Framework of AIDS Risk | |
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The Tsumkwe Junior Secondary School | |
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The Old-Age Pension Affair | |
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Craft Buying as Income Generation | |
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The Kashipembe Crisis | |
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The Wider Nyae Nyae and Dobe Region | |
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Conclusion: Back from the Brink? | |
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References | |
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Note | |
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From Field to Factory and Beyond: New Strategies for New Realities in a Yucatecan Village | |
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Theoretical Perspective | |
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Yucatan and the World System: Historical Perspective | |
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Yucatan and the Modern World System | |
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Yaxbe | |
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1990s-The Fall of the Ejido: New Strategies for New Realities | |
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Economic Diversification in the Village | |
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Agriculture | |
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Nonagricultural Occupations | |
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Women and Income Production Within the Home | |
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Women and Income Production Outside of the Home | |
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Women in Solidarity: The Horchateras | |
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Commuting as Economic Strategy | |
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Factory Jobs | |
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Professional Occupations | |
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Other Occupations | |
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Men and Commuting | |
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Women and Commuting | |
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Migration as Economic Strategy | |
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Conclusion: The Impact of Globalization | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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New Patterns of Migration and Mobility | |
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The Yolmo People of Melemchi, Nepal: Change and Continuity | |
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Melemchi: A Yolmo Temple-Village | |
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The Village | |
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Traditional Subsistence Strategies | |
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Social and Political Organization | |
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Religion and Worldview | |
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Moving into the Twenty-First Century: 1971-2000 | |
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Changes in the Subsistence System | |
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Changes in Circular Migration | |
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Incorporation into the Langtang National Park | |
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A Primary School in Melemchi | |
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Melemchi in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges of the Future | |
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The Changing Demography of Melemchi | |
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Dependence on External Remittance | |
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Viability of the Village Subsistence System | |
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Maintaining Cultural Knowledge | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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The Mardu Aborigines: On the Road to Somewhere | |
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Introducing the Mardu Aborigines | |
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Fieldwork among the Mardu | |
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Conceptualizing Social Change and the Challenge to Analysis | |
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The Mardu in a Wider Australian Context | |
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Early Contacts with Europeans: Defining the "Whitefella" | |
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The Mission and Its Aftermath: From Masters of the Desert to Children of the Devil | |
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"Self-management": The Perils of Well-Meaning Government Policy | |
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On Mobility, Dispersal, and Aggregation | |
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The Mardu Today: On the Road to Somewhere | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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From Local "Tribe" to Transnational Arab: The "New" Rashaayda Bedouin of Sudan | |
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Geographical and Historical Background | |
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The History of "Tribal" Affiliations in Eastern Sudan | |
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The Economic Internationalization of Eastern Sudan | |
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International Politics and the Unstable National Border Between Sudan and Eritrea | |
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The War in Eritrea | |
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The War in Sudan | |
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The Bani Rashiid in Saudi Arabia | |
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The Bani Rashiid Campaign to Rework Genealogies and History | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction: Lessons from Research on Transnational Migration | |
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Why is Transnational Migration Important for Anthropologists? | |
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A Love-Hate Relationship with Immigrants | |
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Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction | |
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Immigration and Culture Change | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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Effects of Economic Change and Modernization | |
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Scottish Crofters: Narratives of Change among Small Landholders in Scotland | |
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Doing Fieldwork | |
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Narratives about Crofting | |
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Narratives about Speaking Gaelic | |
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Narratives about the Free Church | |
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Narratives of Home and Exile | |
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Summary of Changes | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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A Village in Greece: Vasilika Then and Now | |
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Migration and the Fates of Migrants | |
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Gender Roles | |
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Epilogue | |
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References | |
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Additional Works on Vasilika | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Through Japanese Eyes: Culture Change in a Midwestern Town | |
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Changing Eyes-From Analogue to Digital | |
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Two Views of Downtown and the Public Square | |
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A Tranquil Place and an Intense Site | |
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Changes in Farming Practice | |
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A Changing Ethnic and Economic Map | |
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The Transformation of the Senior Center | |
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Concluding Remarks | |
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References | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |