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Local actions
Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as "ghettos," these anthropologists explore the many routes p...
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Darwin's harvest
Darwin's Harvest addresses concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of the world. With contributions from evolutionary biologists, geneticists, agronomists, molecular biologists, and anthropologists, this collection discusses how economic development, lo...
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Fragments of solidarity
Maria Giannoula takes an elaborated look at the emotional and spiritual aspects of political participation within an activist group in Greece in the 2010s.
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Coming of age on the streets of java
This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of res...
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Namibia's children
Many children in Namibia find themselves facing a social crisis. For three years, Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer conducted interviews in Namibia with women who take care of vulnerable children. The book gives these children a voice in interviews and essays.
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Not ours alone
Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, tradition, and community...
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Karma and grace
Through vivid ethnography and keen observations of media events, Karma and Grace illuminates disputes over religious freedom and pluralism amid the rise of charismatic Christianity in Sri Lanka.
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Being a parent in the field
How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher’s positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge? Based on regionally and thematically diverse cases, this collection explores methodological, theoretical, and ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork.
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Living the opposite sex
This ethnographic study concerns individuals in Andalusia, Southern Spain, who do not fit the sex and gender assigned to them at birth. Imhof investigates issues leading back to the repressive situation during the dictatorship of Franco and to contemporary endeavours and achievements regarding ac...
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The naqab bedouins
The Naqab Bedouins represents the first attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last century, including the Ottoman era, the British Mandate, Israeli military rule, and the contemporary schema, and document its broader relevance to understanding state-minority relations in th...
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O my friends, there is no friend
The porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human.
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Working misunderstandings
As exemplified by project collaboration across three offices of a multinational consulting firm in India, Frauke Mörike explores how misunderstandings shape the organizational system and why they prove not only necessary but even productive for organizational functioning.
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Fire craft
In Fire Craft, Erin E. O’Connor interweaves an immersive firsthand account of her experiences learning to blow glass with a sensuous ethnography of embodiment and community among glassblowers.
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Waiting town
Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is a formally experimental book about how we come to know the worlds about which we write. The narrative follows the author’s fieldnotes through a series of ethnographic puzzles that emerge in the wake of a hi...
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Medieval tastes
Italy’s best-known food historian travels back to the birth of “modern” cuisine and reveals the remarkable links between medieval tastes and our own. Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—and details how food transformed from a simple staple to a s...
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Excursions in chinese culture
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The metamorphoses of fat
Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.
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The depths of illusion
A long overdue investigation into the relationship between simulation and reality.
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As wide as the world is wise
Understanding the human condition through ethnography and critical philosophy.
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Tangier/gibraltar – a tale of one city
By studying the relationship between the Moroccan city of Tangiers and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Dieter Haller shows how cross-boundary experiences, practices, and identifications create a sense of neighborhood beyond official discourses.
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The rituals of dinner
“One of the most important books ever written about food.”—Bee WilsonA New York Times Notable Book from one of our sharpest, most irresistibly witty writers, Margaret Visser’s feast of fact The Rituals of Dinner is the definitive history of one of our most primal rituals: the mealThe cult classic...
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The american game
From “the master of new journalism [who always] hits it over the fence” (New York Times) and “one of the finest writers on sports anywhere” (USA Today), the scintillating story of lacrosse—the game invented by the Haudenosaunee, played with more passion than any other, that stubbornly mirrors Ame...
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Waiting at the mountain pass
An intimate meditation on aging and dying in exile among elderly Tibetans in Dharamsala, IndiaIn a Tibetan saying, the journey of life is likened to a climb up to a mountain pass. Upon reaching it, the journey concludes and one must cross over into death and the next rebirth. The impermanence of ...
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Principles and forms of sociocultural organization
The volume explores the development of systems of social institutions in a variety of historical and regional contexts and traces the influence of certain key principles and common factors on social and political developments throughout human history.
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Island in the net
An exploration of Cuba’s emerging digital culture and Cubans’ creation of grassroots networks, digital black markets, and online spaces for public debateUntil just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the least-connected countries in the world. But as digital technology has become increasingly availa...
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Beyond despair
A bracing look at the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the eyes of children.
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Father time
A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venera...
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Why not build the mosque?
An ethnography of a long-unbuilt mosque in Greece that explores government operations and contemporary democracyWhy Not Build the Mosque? tells the story of the Greek state’s centuries-long attempt to build a central mosque. After the fall of Ottoman Empire, Greek Orthodoxy entwined with Greek na...
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Growing up godless
How children’s non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday lifeThe number of those identifying as “non-religious” has risen rapidly in Britain and many other parts of Europe and North America. Although non-religion and non-belief are especially prevalent among younger people, we know littl...
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Redefining irishness in a globalized world
Reimagining 'Irish' identity on a uniquely intimate level, this richly thoughtful work aspires to a more egalitarian society in Ireland, Europe and beyond, encouraging readers to rethink their own national identities in turn.
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Vote of faith
A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglementsWhat does desire have to reveal about the nature of power? Through a detailed focus on the lives and loves of Catholic priests as they enter the profane world of party politics, May...
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The covenant's veil
An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships“Ethiopia stretches her hand upon God,” the narrative of Sheba and Solomon, the material presence of the Ark of the Covenant in Axum. For Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, these cl...
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Forensic fantasies
How progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, and reveal evidence of state violenceForensic Fantasies explores the role of medical documentation and evidence in uncovering human rights violations. Anthropologist Başak Can examines...
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Selective solidarity
An ethnography of Senegalese households in Paris and Dakar that analyzes ways families negotiate transnational kinshipSelective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families negotiate “economic moralities,” or expectations about material obligations. Analyzing...
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The future of cultural tourism
This book provides multi-layered and nuanced perspectives on how drivers of change may influence cultural tourism on a global, national and local level. As such, it contributes to a greater understanding of how cultural tourism will be governed, performed and experienced within a volatile, uncert...
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Health, money, commerce, and wealth
Exploring the interconnectedness and uncertainty of today’s economic world, this volume thoughtfully considers core themes, current trends, and possibilities for the future.
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Syria, revolt and war in the digital age
An intimate portrayal of protest through images during the Syrian warNever before in history has a conflict been so extensively filmed by its own warring parties, generating a wealth of sound and image. From the start of the Syrian revolt in 2011, several million videos were posted online by demo...
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Researching contemporary wellness cultures
Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures brings together scholars examining the various ways and spaces in which wellness is constructed and practices within various sociological sub-disciplines across and in related fields including anthropology, cultural studies, and internet studies.
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Fashion industry and tourism strategy
Fashion Industry and Tourism Strategy explores the growing intersection between fashion events and tourism, highlighting their socio-economic contributions to global destinations.
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Master peace
Examines the politics of expertise in the practices of peacemaking in post–civil war LebanonBased on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, but tracing international peace work as far as Switzerland and the United States, Master Peace examines the politics of expertise in the appl...
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The time of the cannibals
The Time of the Cannibals rethinks conspiracy theory as an analytic category through a case study set in Cyprus, and proposes a particular kind of cross-contextual comparison as a way out of persistent ethnocentrism in scholarship and media coverage of conspiracy theory.
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Intercultural citizenship in language education
This book explores Intercultural Citizenship across a variety of US learning contexts. The chapters, which comprise both conceptual and empirical studies, represent a wide variety of languages at levels ranging from beginner to advanced. They urge us to look at how Intercultural Citizenship enhan...
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New directions in educational ethnography
The primary objective of Studies in Educational Ethnography is to present original research monographs based on ethnographic perspectives, and methodologies.
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Living right
A sobering look at the seductive power of fascist ideas for the youngRadical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right provides an in-depth account of the ideas and practices that are driving the varied forms of far-right activism by young people from all walks o...
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The systemic approach in sociology and niklas luhmann
The systemic approach to sociology is widely considered to be one of the most important conceptions in sociology at the end of the 20th century. In this book Šubrt provides a comprehensive overview, and critical appraisal of the theory of social systems.
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Greece in the 1940s
This edited volume brings together academics, researchers, and practitioners to investigate historical continuities and discontinuities in the public discourse and the creation of diverse sets of opinions around conflict in Greece and internationally.
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The economics of ecology, exchange, and adaptation
This book consists of three sections. The first, concentrating on ecology, further explores the theme of climate change. The second section focuses on exchange transactions and relations in a variety of situations and settings. Finally, papers in the third section share a concern with individual ...
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Dilemmas
The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditionsDilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, from climate change, political conflict, and social injustice, to balancing one’s own needs against those of others. Pushing back against the tendency ...
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Anti-abortion activism in the uk
Taking a lived religion approach that draws on extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK explores the sacred and profane commitments of anti-abortion activists and counter-demonstrations outside clinics, examining the contestations over...
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Women’s work
When women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained in postconflict societiesIn Women’s Work, Jennifer Moore presents a reimagined theory of peacebuilding and transformative justice based on the experien...
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