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Jenny Banh
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland

Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China go…

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, Feifei Zhou
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene

Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene-an era many date to…

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Anna Bonnell Freidin
Birthing Romans

How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politi…

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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 burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead? How h…

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Charles E Apekaum,
Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian

Anthropologist Benjamin R. Kracht presents one of the few Kiowa autobiographies in publication---the life narrative of Charles E. Apekaum of the Kiowa Nation of Oklahoma, whose services as a translator we…

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Elisabetta Porcu
Negotiations of the Sacred

Negotiations of the Sacred offers a fresh perspective on one of Japan's most famous festivals, the Gion Matsuri, held in Kyoto in July. Dating back more than a thousand years, the festival today features …

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The Oxford Handbook of the History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology

Archaeology publications tend to focus on the history of archaeology through a lens of an account and summary of discoveries without considering the contexts (cultural, intellectual, political, economic) …

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The Pacific Islands

"The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas exte…

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Tim Ingold
The Rise and Fall of Generation Now

Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine …

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Jane Borden
Cults Like Us

An author and culture journalist argues that doomsday beliefs, deeply rooted in American history, have shaped the nation's culture, from its fascination with heroism and consumerism to its susceptibility …

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Love Apocalypse

Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-a…

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Love Apocalypse

Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-a…

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Beth Linker
Slouch

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America---from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture"In 1995, a scandal erupt…

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Philip Carr-Gomm
A Brief History of Nakedness

"In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the…

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Aja Y Martinez, Robert O Smith
The Origins of Critical Race Theory

Explores the lives and intellectual influences of the creators of Critical Race Theory Critical race theory (CRT), a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship, has transformed our unders…

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Alice Echols
Black Power, White Heat

A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.One of the…

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Steve Grove
How I Found Myself in the Midwest

"A passionate tribute to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Minnesota native son shares an urgent invitation to rediscover the grounding power of community through his story of leaving…

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Jennifer G Kahn
Fenua and Fare, Marae and Mana

"In 1767 the shores of Tahiti first appeared in the sights of Captain Samuel Wallis, and ever since this tropical paradise has captured the imagination of explorers, merchants, missionaries, historia…

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Steve Grove
How I Found Myself in the Midwest

In this passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local.Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executi…

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Catherine Harper,
The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland

The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland presents a textiles and material culture view of Irish shame, oppression, morality and repression.Ireland - North and South - has sustained significant change in…

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