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Donna Young
A Bridge to Nowhere

Artfully written and meticulously crafted, A Bridge to Nowhere explores the lives of men and women in isolated settlements across Canada, examining how their experiences are shaped by memory, precarity, a…

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Yishan Wang
Nature-Watching and Affective Encounters with More-Than-Human Beings in Post-Reform Beijing

This study investigates ordinary Beijingers' urban encounters with more-than-human beings through the simple yet powerful act of nature-watching (ziran guancha ¿¿¿¿)-such as bird-watching and plant observ…

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Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volume Two

This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings. This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically-based analysis helps to b…

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Amen Jaffer
The Social Life of Islam

How do Islamic discourses, practices and symbols become a concrete and meaningful facet of the lives of individuals and communities in the cities of contemporary Pakistan? How do they constitute relations…

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Matan Kaminer
Capitalist Colonial

"For decades, the agricultural settlements of Israel's arid Central Arabah prided themselves on their labor-Zionist commitment to abstaining from hiring outside labor. But beginning in the late 1980s…

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Norma E Cantú
Fiestas in Laredo

This book celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider's perspective and blending memoir, ethnography, and a folkloristic analysis, the author …

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Leslie G Virnelson
Fruit of Her Hands

Fruit of Her Hands considers how specialized roles for women are reflected in the texts of the Hebrew Bible, with a focus on four--midwives, diviners, weavers, and sex workers. Virnelson investigates the …

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Corrie Decker
The Age of Sex

As in much of the world, societies in precolonial East Africa---what is today Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda---used rites of passage to chart an individual's social and developmental progress toward adulthoo…

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Anabel Maler
Seeing Voices

Seeing Voices explores the phenomenon of music created in a signed language and argues that music can exist beyond sound and the sense of hearing, instead involving all of our senses, including vision and…

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Michael Stasik
Bus Station Hustle

Bus stations are among the most prominent sites of social and economic activity in Africa. Integral to transport, trade, and exchange over distance, they provide livelihoods for large numbers of people. T…

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Children in Domestic Violence Shelters

This edited collection provides a detailed picture of children's lives when living at domestic violence shelters (also termed refuges) which provide a safe space for victims. It draws on original empirica…

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Georgia Munro-Cook
Building the WNBA

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), exploring the role of gender, race, and sexuality in the continuing growth of the league. As the …

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Micah F. Morton
Enchanted Modernities

Enchanted Modernities tells the story of an Indigenous community's work to decolonize and reclaim its collective ancestral identity. In this rich, theoretically informed ethnography, Micah F. Morton follo…

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Luisa T. Schneider
Love and Violence in Sierra Leone

In the decades following the civil war that took place in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, new laws were passed to rebuild the state, and to prevent rape, teenage pregnancy and domestic violence. In th…

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Niklas Woermann
Seeing Style

How do social practices shape experiences, and how does embodied experience organize practice performance? The concept of style offers a fresh answer to the old question how doings and sayings are linked …

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Donna Young
A Bridge to Nowhere

Artfully written and meticulously crafted, A Bridge to Nowhere explores the lives of men and women in isolated settlements across Canada, examining how their experiences are shaped by memory, precarity, a…

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Great Plains Ethnohistory

Great Plains Ethnohistory offers a collection of state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of ethnography, …

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Ruth E. Toulson
Necropolitics of the Ordinary

Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, …

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Hao Wu
(Suffering) for the Family

From the vantage point of rural grandparents' mediated structure of feelings, this book explores changing family intimacy and dynamics in contemporary rural China in relation to media. Based on a 10-month…

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Markus Kröger
Clearcut

Regionally dominant extractive sectors - including Brazilian cattle ranching, Amazonian narco-gold mining, and Finnish paper pulping - provide the foundation for this book's analysis of the range of motiv…

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