Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
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This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding
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▪ Abstract Much of the literature about globalization exaggerates the degree of novelty. In
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In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit
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Across America, middle‐class and upper‐middle‐class gated communities are creating new
forms of exclusion and residential segregation, exacerbating social cleavages that already …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the emerging technologies, which is widely used
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Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of
community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of …

The new urban social order depends on a complex combination of systems of punishment,
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This paper has been prompted by a journal debate at the start of the new millennium on the
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This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology.
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