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The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference...

Author: Andrew M. Gardner
ISBN: 9781501774980
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""This book is concerned with how the extraordinary demography and proportions of migration and how global human...  Read More >>

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian...

Author: Natalia Gutkowski
ISBN: 9781503637726
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Time is central to agriculture, in growing seasons, harvesting cycles, and market temporalities. The mediation of...  Read More >>

Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe

Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe...

Author: Myriam Arcangeli
ISBN: 9780813080581
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Examines potsherds from four colonial sites in the Antillean island of Guadeloupe to discover what these everyday...  Read More >>

The Nahua: Language and Culture from the 16th Century to the Present

The Nahua: Language and Culture from the 16th Century...

Author: Galen Brokaw ,  Pablo Garcia Loaeza
ISBN: 9781646425778
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Revealing the resiliency of Nahua culture and language while highlighting the adaptations and changes they have...  Read More >>

Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers, and Strangers: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 36, No. 1

Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers,...

Author: Mostafa Mohie
ISBN: 9781649032300
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A study of how the city of Port Said was created, and its spaces mutually produced and transformed through the practices...  Read More >>

Understanding the Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema: A State Venture: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 3

Understanding the Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema:...

Author: Tamara Chahine Maatouk
ISBN: 9781649032287
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Public and government attitudes to the role of the public sector in Egyptian cinema In 1957 the public sector in...  Read More >>

On Friendship between the No Longer and the Not Yet: An Ethnographic Account: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 4

On Friendship between the No Longer and the Not Yet:...

Author: Soha Mohsen
ISBN: 9781649032294
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"An ethnographic study of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young Egyptians There...  Read More >>

Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation, and the Making of Archives: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 1

Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation,...

Author: Hoda Elsadda
ISBN: 9781649032355
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Challenges, opportunities, and methodological issues in the creation of oral history archives in the Arab world...  Read More >>

International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 2

International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region:...

Author: Ibrahim Awad
ISBN: 9781649032270
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A multilayered, multidisciplinary examination of migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region during two centuries...  Read More >>

Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial...

Author: Chloe Ahmann
ISBN: 9780226833613
Format: Paperback
$47.95

"A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures....  Read More >>

Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: Environments, Politics and Cultures

Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: Environments, Politics...

Author: Matthias Kowasch ,  Simon P. J. Batterbury
ISBN: 9783031491429
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This open access book provides a unique overview of geographical, historical, political and environmental issues...  Read More >>

North Korean Migrants in China: Whether Illegal Migrants, Refugees, or Human Trafficking Victims

North Korean Migrants in China: Whether Illegal Migrants,...

Author: Hyoungah Park
ISBN: 9781793627544
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Hyoungah Park interviews fifty-eight North Korean migrants in China and analyzes their stories, exploring why they...  Read More >>

Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology: Pioneers and Discourses

Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology: Pioneers...

Author: Iryna Dovhalyuk ,  Tamila Dzhani-zade
ISBN: 9783205219170
Format: Hardback
$229.68

New perspectives on the early European history of what was later coined as “ethnomusicology”.  Read More >>

The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 2-1 Appendices

The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the...

Author: William C. Young
ISBN: 9789004690394
Format: Hardback
$287.76

In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups that are named after wolves, birds, and plants. Why these names?...  Read More >>

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space...

Author: Grazia Ting Deng
ISBN: 9780691245799
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean

Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the...

Author: Allison O. Ramsay, University of the West In ,  Jerome Teelucksingh
ISBN: 9781666943979
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This essay collection addresses past and current debates surrounding colonial relics and monuments, colonial vestiges,...  Read More >>

Toward an Embodied Decolonial Pneumatology: Dishoming Space

Toward an Embodied Decolonial Pneumatology: Dishoming...

Author: Toar Banua Hutagalung
ISBN: 9781666938159
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This book is an interdisciplinary work that combines theological anthropology and pneumatology through a postcolonial/decolonial...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females

The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females...

Author: Kevin Lee Teather
ISBN: 9780198886716
Format: Hardback
$172.95

Written from an evolutionary perspective, The Evolution of Sex emphasizes the idea that males and females are influenced...  Read More >>

Life Beyond the Tohoku Disasters: Autonomy and Adaptability in Coastal Japan

Life Beyond the Tohoku Disasters: Autonomy and Adaptability...

Author: Alyne E. Delaney
ISBN: 9781793616555
Format: Hardback
$177.00

This book shows the profundity of life for fishing families living in a disaster-strewn world in Japan. Using their...  Read More >>

The Anthropocene and the Undead: Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination

The Anthropocene and the Undead: Cultural Anxieties...

Author: Kyle William Bishop ,  Mikaela Bobiy
ISBN: 9781793625847
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing...  Read More >>

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian...

Author: Natalia Gutkowski
ISBN: 9781503636828
Format: Hardback
$248.99

Time is central to agriculture, in growing seasons, harvesting cycles, and market temporalities. The mediation of...  Read More >>

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the...

Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN: 9781517916237
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows...  Read More >>

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
ISBN: 9780691238777
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for...  Read More >>

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