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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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S L Price
The American Game

From "the master of new journalism [who always] hits it over the fence" (New York Times ) and "one of the finest writers on sports anywhere" (USA Today), the scintillating story of lac…

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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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Angela Ju
Identities Matter

Higher-status immigrant communities in the Global South with ties to more developed countries might form identities and political strategies that reinforce an association with their heritage country rathe…

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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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Paul Elie
The Last Supper

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times | Named an Essential Read by The New Yorker This enthralling group portrait brings to life a moment when popular culture became t…

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Bodies, Spaces, Claims

This book asserts that there is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, or politically engaged entertainers appear in public, they make or constitute political repre…

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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