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Anand Pandian
Something Between Us

"Whether the plight of refugees or the recent pandemic, the climate crisis or systemic racism, so much turns on the care and concern we can muster for lives and circumstances beyond our own. And yet,…

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Chip Colwell
So Much Stuff

How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edged obj…

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David Graeber,
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is someth…

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Donna Young
A Bridge to Nowhere

This lyrical ethnography sheds light on the lives of people in remote settlements in Canada, exploring themes of memory and the lingering legacies of resource extraction and rural poverty.

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Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual

Re/Search - Band 12

First published 20 years ago, "Modern Primitives" is still called "the bible of the tattooing-piercing underground." Here is a celebratory reprinting, complete with a new introduction …

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Monuments and Memory

This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of hi…

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Eliot Stein
Custodians of Wonder

"A vivid look at the ten key people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving…

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States of Return

"State of Return theoretically explores the concept of "return" and ethnographically traces different experiences of return migration across the globe with emphases on temporality, kinship,…

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Hervé Corvellec
Waste as a Critique

Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society.

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David A B Murray
Queer Anthropology

Queer Anthropology offers a short introduction to an evolving subfield of socio-cultural anthropology, exploring its historical development, critiques over the past two decades, and responses to emerging …

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David A B Murray
Queer Anthropology

Queer Anthropology offers a short introduction to an evolving subfield of socio-cultural anthropology, exploring its historical development, critiques over the past two decades, and responses to emerging …

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Kristina Wirtz
Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santería

Examining the religious lives of Santería practitioners in Santiago de Cuba, this book explores how practitioners of different backgrounds create and maintain religious communities.

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Myriam Lamrani
The Intimacy of Images

La Santa Muerte becomes a lens for understanding how Oaxacans relate to saints, loved ones, and other "special dead."

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Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
The Privileged Few

Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton show that elite privilege is not a mere by-product of wealth but an organising principle for society as a whole. They explore the practices and processes that sustain, leg…

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Myriam Lamrani
The Intimacy of Images

La Santa Muerte becomes a lens for understanding how Oaxacans relate to saints, loved ones, and other "special dead."

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Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T L Taylor
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds

A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online cultures, and beyondEthnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind---a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers…

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Michael Lambek
Cohabiting with Spirits

Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits that come t…

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Michael Lambek
Cohabiting with Spirits

Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits that come t…

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Caroline M Parker
Carceral Citizens

"In Carceral Citizens, anthropologist Caroline Parker offers an ethnographic portrait of faith-based therapeutic communities in Puerto Rico. A joint product of the carceral state and the non-profit s…

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Markus Eberl
War Owl Falling

Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, this book shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies

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