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Hasia R Diner
Opening Doors

"The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America. Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United St…

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Erik Peterson
The Shortest History of Eugenics

The Shortest History Series

For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children.…

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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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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

"How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple B…

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Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

"Aligning discourses surrounding hegemonic colonial visions of the environment and disability, this volume illustrates the ways in which colonial understandings of disability were and continue to be …

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David Keen
Shame

The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spiral---a vortex of mutual shaming tha…

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
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 Mid…

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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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Josh Brahinsky
Tongues of Fire

Speaking in tongues-incomprehensible speech spoken in a state of religious ecstasy-is widely practiced in the charismatic evangelical tradition. For eighteen years anthropologist Brahinsky observed and st…

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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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Maryann Bylander
The Trade-Offs of Legal Status

"The Trade-Offs of Legal Status explores the costs, risks, and unfreedoms produced alongside migrant regularization in Southeast Asia. In 2017, Thailand's military government enacted a new migration …

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Thomas Piketty,
Nature, Culture, and Inequality

"Originally published in French as Nature, culture et inâegalitâes: Une perspective comparative et historique in 2023 by Sociâetâe d'ethnologie, Nanterre, France"--Title page verso.

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Language and Social Justice

Explores how language both facilitates and undermines social justice in complex ways around the globe, through a broad range of international case studies.

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
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 Mid…

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Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

"Aligning discourses surrounding hegemonic colonial visions of the environment and disability, this volume illustrates the ways in which colonial understandings of disability were and continue to be …

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Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World

This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participant…

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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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R M W Dixon
A New Grammar of Dyirbal

This book offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland. It includes updated analyses of key features of the language based on recent theoretical advances, and dr…

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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 C…

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