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Where Words and Images Meet

Why do we put bookplates in books in our personal libraries? Why do we keep photographs? How do popular illustrated journals and magazines function? Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely r…

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Karl Swinehart,
Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia

"This ethnographic account of Indigenous language activism explores how Aymara media and cultural workers combat the threat of language obsolescence by making the language audible in diverse corners …

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Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
A Guide to Gender and Classifiers

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the numeral classifier systems of Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classe…

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Raphael Reichel
Männerparadies

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Sie hoffen auf ein Paradies unter Palmen: Tausende deutsche Männer verbringen ihren Ruhestand dauerhaft in Thailand. Doch ihr Ruf ist alles andere als schmeichelhaft - oft gelten sie als rücksichtslose Se…

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Harvey Whitehouse
Inheritance

Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases-conformism, religiosity, and tribalism-shaped humanity's past and imperil its future.

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Crisiswork

The world's attention has often turned to Lebanon in moments of crisis, including, recently, during the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020 and the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Less told is the story of ho…

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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Katie Rose Hejtmanek
The Cult of Crossfit

"Based on seven years of research on CrossFit, this book uses the fitness regimen as a window into the way American historical legacies are meaningful today. This includes cultural Christianity, fron…

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Nick Bano
Against Landlords

The controversial case for why building more housing will not solve the housing problem

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Religious Plurality in Africa

Explores similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Christianity, Islam and African religious traditions.

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Hal Crowther
Bible Belt Blues

Like most progressive Southerners, Hal Crowther is decidedly angry about current social and political events, but few writers are more able than he to articulate the problems, the issues, and even the bit…

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Capturing Expressivity

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used for studying expressivity in language, particularly in language documentation settings. The chapters explore a variety of different expressive item…

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Michael Fuerstein
Experiments in Living Together

Michael Fuerstein explores how democracy drives social progress despite the potential ignorance and irrationality of democratic citizens, arguing that democracy enables "experiments in living": …

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Crisiswork

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Aaron T Hollander
Saint George Liberator

A compelling investigation of how representations of Orthodox Christian saints serve as means of resistance amid cultural and political dominationOn the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, repeatedly …

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Franziska Reiffen
The Social Life of the Mall

Urban Studies

Paseo La Estación, a mall in Buenos Aires, is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter, where long-term residents and newcomers, people with and without jobs, homeowners and those without housin…

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Simone Murray
The Digital Future of English

The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies takes a refreshingly optimistic approach to the future of English studies by examining how digital technologies recast and expand understandings of wh…

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Race and the Question of Palestine

"This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine - like other imperial and settler colonial projects - cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question …

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Susan Greenhalgh
Soda Science

"Recent years have brought growing concern about the power of huge corporations to distort science for corporate benefit, often to the detriment of human health. This book unearths a kind of corporat…

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Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity

Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians. Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and…

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