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'city of the future'
First ethnographic monograph of Astana; Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist (‘social-constructivist’) approaches to place and space in social...
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On retaliation
The book constitutes a unique interdisciplinary approach. It brings together contributions from psychologies, economic science, legal history, international law, criminology, social anthropology. The book forges a bridge from the fundamental analysis of the concept and theories of re...
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Irish/ness is all around us
A detailed ethnography of Irish-speaking and Irish-speakers in contemporary west Belfast Sheds new light on the issues attending language revivalism in Ireland and its intersection with historic conflict in N.Ireland Explores the complexities of changing and contradictory senses of I...
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Staying at home
A migration study that focuses on those who do not migrate. Explains a malleability attaching to ethnicity through people’s daily lives. Disentangles the notion of diaspora from its inherent attachment to ‘homeland’. Combines a fertile mix of qualitative and quantitative approach...
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Petun to wyandot
Charles Garrad’s unique work resurrects the memory of the Petun and traces their route from their creation myth to their living descendants scattered from southwestern Ontario to Kansas and Oklahoma.
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Old man’s playing ground
Oral traditions of the Piikáni, together with textual records spanning centuries, reveal the enduring cultural significance of prehistoric intergroup trading and gaming grounds.
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The life and work of w. b. nickerson (1865-1926)
William Baker Nickerson's life story spans the transition of North American archaeology from museums and historical societies to universities, throwing light on a phase of history that is little known.
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Canadian perspectives on community development
This book presents a theory of community development that attends to multiple aspects of diversity and marginalization in contemporary Canadian society. It will be of particular value to graduate students in the field.
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Choosing buddhism
Why has there been an upsurge in Canadians converting to Buddhism in recent decades and what does it mean to lead a Buddhist life in contemporary Canada? This book answers these questions and more athrough life stories richly complemented by images and contextual readings.
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Trafficking trajectories
Highlights the role structural vulnerability plays in the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors before, during, and after traffickingDrawing on survivor narratives and ethnographically rich accounts from frontline workers in New England, specifically Maine and New Hampshire, Traff...
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Temptations in ruin
An ethnographic account of the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day TurkeyTemptations in Ruin examines the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day Turkey, focusing on the region of Muş (Moush). Anthropologist Alice von Bieberstein explo...
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Sonic icons
A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community’s struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacementTo the extent that Middle Eastern Christians register in Euro-American political imaginaries, they are usually invo...
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Substance use and the family
Featuring a broad variety of chapters across the many issues pertaining to substance use and addiction, topics include those such as spousal addiction and marital quality, parenting and substance use, financial tolls of addiction upon families, coping with adolescent substance use and addiction, ...
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The feminist utopia project
This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes).In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harri...
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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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A break in the future
Investigates how Lebanese activists work through failure to keep the possibility of political change aliveA Break in the Future considers how activists keep hope alive and work toward future change when social movements fall apart and protests fail. Anthropologist Fuad Musallam investigates the e...
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Souls in the kalyug
How migrant workers in contemporary India strive toward, and at times realize, elements of a good lifeThe economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming f...
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Elder care and the family
This collection covers topics such as financial strains of elder care, healthcare decision making, family communication, mobility and family residence, stress and burnout, gender differences in the provision of elder care, elder abuse, mental deterioration and family care, stressors related to ca...
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The chosen few
Just a game? This intriguing visual title looks deep into the underbelly of football (soccer) fandom, featuring a vast photographic archive of fans' graffiti and street art captured by a pioneering ‘graffitologist’. At the intersection of the street and sport we find themes of the day: how racial...
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The emerald handbook on teaching global competencies
Chapters redefine citizenship by revealing how cultural, linguistic, and technological transformations are reshaping our collective identity and suggest that education must transcend traditional, geographically bound disciplines to fully equip learners for the challenges and opportunities of a ra...
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Disintegration: bad love, collective suicide, and the idols of imperial twilight
Marx. Durkheim. Critical Theory. Disintegration brings sociology, psychoanalysis, and dialectics together to offer a rousing critique of modern life.
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Sovereignty suspended
A journey into de facto state-building based on ethnographic and archival research in the Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusWhat is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or t...
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Under the same sky
An ethnographic study of the everyday lives of religious minorities near Turkey’s border with SyriaHow do people coexist in a world shaped by longstanding differences, political instability, and recurrent displacement? In Under the Same Sky, Seçil Daǧtaș addresses this question by exploring the e...
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Community development through craft heritage and creative tourism
Community Development Through Craft Heritage and Creative Tourism explores how craft heritage, creative tourism, and community engagement intersect to drive sustainable development.
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Until my freedom has come
A collection of authoritative essays mapping Kashmir's turbulent past, present, and possible futures.
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The dread heights
Understanding the devastation of the Syrian war through the Islamic tradition.
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Power, mobility and voice
Reflecting on and advancing Jan Blommaert’s work on language and power, this edited volume explores chronotopes, language ideologies, normativities in online and offline spaces, and voice as agency. It uses Blommaert’s frameworks as a starting point to approach the challenges of a changing social...
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Dark emu
Contradicts the conventional wisdom that native peoples were primitive hunter-gatherers
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Aesthetics after darwin
The book reveals a strong humanist heritage which renders Darwin’s theory of song and poetic language far more nuanced and interesting than a monolithic “singing for sex” hypothesis.
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Ethnicity and old age
Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award 2021. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, this book proposes a new research agenda for scholarship that focuses on ethnicity, race and old age. It argues that in a time of increased international migration, population ageing and...
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How media and conflicts make migrants
Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of “migrantification” – in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society.
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It's a london thing
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London’s precious, embattled multiculture.
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Unearthing childhood
Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. Readers in archeology and those with interests in childhood will gain new perspectives from this survey of the d...
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Queen mothers
This text explores the complex roles of Black women as mothers, teachers, and leaders, challenging their devaluation and highlighting their contributions. It examines their experiences, the influence of spirituality on their leadership, and their unique positions in personal and professional spaces.
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Assemblages of belonging
Showing the ways in which Ndebele women in South Africa engage tradition-based art to navigate identity, history and the present.
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Socially wired
In Socially Wired, Matthew W. Schelke uses the stories of patients with neurological illness to show how social and cultural environments transform the brain.
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Exploring fields of the ineffable in literary anthropology
Maja Nazaruk explores Vincent Crapanzano’s poetic anthropology, focusing on themes like otherness, the body, and trauma. She highlights his use of literary slippage to convey cultural indeterminacy, linking his work to broader debates in literary and philosophical thought.
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Worlding and storying forced displacement
How are art's worldmaking and storytelling capacities activated in contemporary artistic representations of forced displacement?
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The glow of the dim
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s meditation on traditional Japanese aesthetics finds unexpected beauty in shadows, silence, and cold.
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A short history of myth
A 'visionary . . . crisp and lucid exploration of myth-making' (DAVID MITCHELL) from the bestselling author of A History of God
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Everyday europe
Drawing on unique research and rich data on cross-border practices, this book offers an empirically-based view on Europeans’ interconnections in everyday life. It looks at the ways in which EU residents have been getting closer across national frontiers: in their everyday experiences of foreign c...
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The mediating power of sport
Encouraging readers in other international settings to consider this topic from their own cultural contexts, this collection demonstrates how China has created new forms of influence through sport and considers what this might mean for how we understand the deeper role sport can play on the world...
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Sport and cultural transformation in southeast asia
This volume covers the long-term development of sport in Southeast Asia, affirming the importance of sport in every era. It opens with discussions of the colonial and early modern eras, before guiding readers through the landscape of sport in postcolonial and Cold War settings.
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Subcultures
Subcultures is delightful reading for those who are interested in groups at the fringes of society such as Dead heads, members of the LGBTQ culture, gamers, and even subcultural elements of some alt-right groups.
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Cohabitation and the evolving nature of intimate and family relationships
Given the tremendous diversity in cohabiting couples, as well as the increasing prominence of this form of intimate relationships, this volume provides a more thorough comprehension of the structures, effects, and intimate practice of cohabitation around the world.
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Towards a pacific island sociology of sport
Extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity for sociology of sport scholars to widen the scope of their research in search of fuller understandings of the forms, meanings, dynamics and impacts of sport for Pacific peoples.
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Disability and the family
Disability and the Family provides a broad examination of disability and the family. Including diverse theoretical and methodological submissions which explore the many issues pertaining to how families deal with disability issues.
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More than just a ‘home’
Considering the ways in which a family socially constructs a home, this is a much-needed investigation into how the house, its architecture, spatial arrangements and internal and external divisions shape and reshape family relationships in the face of constant challenges and change.
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The retreat from marriage and parenthood
The Retreat from Marriage and Parenthood seeks a broad examination of the retreat from marriage and parenthood. Featuring diverse theoretical and methodological chapters exploring the many issues pertaining to these seismic changes, the authors chronicle the many dramatic impacts from shifts in a...
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