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Courtney T Wittekind
City of Speculation

In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar's first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch "new city" just outside Yangon, the country's former…

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Daniel K Thompson
African Border Worlds

Every border is a world of stories, not just a line on a map or a political frontier. This book introduces readers to the worlds of African borderlands by following border-jumpers, asylum seekers, return …

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Karen Stocker
Return to Storytelling

Return to Storytelling is a lyrical ethnographic work that presents stories from healers, community members, storytellers, witches, sceptics, and tricksters in an intentionally unnamed Central American In…

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Maznah Mohamad, Bahar Gürsel, Suriani Suratman
Visual Interrogations of Femininities in the Malay World

This book curates and examines colonial-era photographs from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries sourced from photo-archives of former British and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia, uncovering…

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Camilo Arturo Leslie
Invested

A riveting and revealing new account of the precarity of the middle class todayTo be middle class today connotes a certain prudence when it comes to financial decision-making -- steadily building one's ne…

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Camilo Arturo Leslie
Invested

A riveting and revealing new account of the precarity of the middle class todayTo be middle class today connotes a certain prudence when it comes to financial decision-making -- steadily building one's ne…

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David C Thompson
Where the Sun Rises Square

Brazil's prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 650,000, the third highest in the world behind the US and China. Systematically targeting poor, Black communities, Brazil's pr…

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Aidan Seale-Feldman
The Work of Disaster

A compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal.In a world marked by escalating disasters, the forms that care takes are increasingly fraught. In this powerful book, anthropologist A…

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Circe Sturm
Texas Tavola

Every spring in Bryan, Texas, Sicilian American women gather to build altars honoring Saint Joseph. Like Sicilian Americans elsewhere, they do so to safeguard the well-being of their loved ones and expres…

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Circe Sturm
Texas Tavola

Every spring in Bryan, Texas, Sicilian American women gather to build altars honoring Saint Joseph. Like Sicilian Americans elsewhere, they do so to safeguard the well-being of their loved ones and expres…

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David C Thompson
Where the Sun Rises Square

Brazil's prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 650,000, the third highest in the world behind the US and China. Systematically targeting poor, Black communities, Brazil's pr…

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Matthew Magnani, Natalia Magnani
The Craft of Belonging

The Craft of Belonging explores the role of craft and its mediation of social boundaries, particularly in communities that are under state pressure.Anthropologists Matthew Magnani and Natalia Magnani blen…

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Oscar von Seth
Queer Waiting

The act and experience of waiting - and refusing to wait - is a central feature in queer people's lives: from waiting to come out, to waiting for political and social recognition, to refusing to wait whil…

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African Urbanisms and Their Hinterlands

This volume revisits contemporary cultural and artistic imaginaries of African cities through a focus on their manifold connections with rural hinterlands. Tracing the multidimensional movements and flows…

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Ian Hamnett
Chieftainship and Legitimacy

First published in 1975, Chieftainship and Legitimacy by Ian Hamnett is a seminal work in the anthropology of law. Hamnett argues that law should be recognized as a distinct social category rather than me…

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The Lowland South American World

The Lowland South American Worldshowcases cutting-edge research on the anthropology of Lowland South America, providing both an in-depth knowledge of Lowland South American life ways and engaging readers …

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Taiwo Ehineni
Yoruba Names

This book focuses on the naming tradition among the Yoruba, one of Africa's largest ethnic groups, consisting of over 40 million people.Investigating the sociocultural significance of names in Yoruba soci…

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Andrew Littlejohn
We Live with the Sea

In We Live with the Sea, Andrew Littlejohn addresses the implementation and controversy surrounding safety infrastructures following the March 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan. While the Japanese govern…

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Monica Patrice Barra
Good Sediment

When saving wetlands imperils Black futures, restoration demands reimagination Coastal Louisiana is losing land at an unprecedented rate, and in response, scientists and policymakers have turned to massiv…

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Andrea Louie
Chinese American Mothering

A journey from Chinese immigrant to "U.S. Mother of the Year" unpacks the roots of the model minority myth and its legacy In 1952, Toy Len Goon, a Chinese immigrant widow who raised eight childr…

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