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Searching for a New Paradigm: A Cultural Anthropology Reader brings together articles that address the polemics surrounding what constitutes an authentic reality of the human experience.
The selected readings provide a variety of perspectives on biological and evolutionary origins, culturally constructed notions of self and others, and the increasing knowledge that the perceived realities represented by theoretical models may not accurately reflect current notions of truth.
The book combines issues of human rights with biology and culture while also exploring colonial...

"Childhood Unmasked: The Agency of Brazil's Street and Working Children argues that Western European social constructions that define childhood as a time of innocence and vulnerability are often not relevant to the lives of economically poor children.
Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with street and working children in Brazil, Childhood Unmasked speaks to the adverse effects these imported notions of childhood have on them. It links the notions of innocence to Brazil's complex racial history and social class divisions, and considers them as a cause of the...