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Ursina Jaeger
Children as Social Butterflies

Children as Social Butterflies offers an analysis of how children negotiate social belonging. Ursina Jaeger followed the children of a kindergarten class in a stigmatized and diverse neighborhood for seve…

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The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory

A one-of-a-kind overview of the lasting impact of mimetic theory and the extent of its interdisciplinary applications, a century after René Girard's birth.

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Ruth Horowitz
Passionate Work

"Corps de ballet literally means the "body" of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group of dancers puts together portfolios of work, often acro…

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Jeanine Anderson, Jessaca B Leinaweaver
Care and Agency

This book describes the lives of children in rural communities of the Andes Mountains of Peru. It foregrounds the children’s own perceptions and feelings, so far as they can be known by researchers using …

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Michael Luo
Strangers in the Land

"From New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo, a vivid, urgent history of two centuries of Chinese exclusion and the birth of anti-Asian feeling in America. In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chi…

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Julia H Meszaros
Economies of Gender

Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor explores the global dating industry, challenging stereotypes by examining how men seek "feminine capital" in international partners…

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Amélie Barras
Faith in Rights

"Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian non-governmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations. The book interrogates the idea that the secular and the religious are distin…

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Kristina Jacobsen
Sing Me Back Home

This multi-sensory ethnography invites readers and listeners to discover the Italian island of Sardinia through storytelling, music, and song.

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Steffen Köhn
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 debate Until just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the l…

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Jeanine Anderson, Jessaca B Leinaweaver
Care and Agency

This book describes the lives of children in rural communities of the Andes Mountains of Peru. It foregrounds the children’s own perceptions and feelings, so far as they can be known by researchers using …

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The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language

This volume brings together case studies and surveys of recent research to address foundational questions regarding the scope, structuring, use, and consequences of ritual language. The chapters examine t…

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Julia H Meszaros
Economies of Gender

Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor explores the global dating industry, challenging stereotypes by examining how men seek "feminine capital" in international partners…

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Roger Luckhurst
Graveyards

From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burials Why, how, and where do we inter our dead? How…

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Thomas J Barfield
Shadow Empires

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The world’s first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known,…

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Afua Hirsch
Decolonising My Body

'Exceptionally rich, inspiring, challenging' Bernardine Evaristo | 'Something on every page that you didn't know before' Sathnam Sanghera | 'Celebrates women how they are, as they are' | Gillian AndersonO…

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Heather Akou
On the Job

Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of…

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Freedoms of Speech

This collection brings together leading anthropologists and fresh new voices in the discipline to consider freedoms of speech with a wide comparative lens.

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Briony Hannell
Feminist Fandom

"This book draws upon four years of ethnographic research with young people on Tumblr which locates media fandom at the juncture between fourth wave feminisms, popular culture, and digital cultures"--

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Shane Burley, Ben Lorber
Safety Through Solidarity

"Journalists Shane Burley and Ben Lorber present a sorely-needed progressive and intersectional approach to the vital question: What can we do about antisemitism? From online trolling of Jews by the 'alt-…

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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new one- they are true tools for thinking. In Tools of Endless Invention, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked fact…

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