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Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana

Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among...

Author: Giorgio Scalici (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy,)
ISBN: 9781350236257
Format: Hardback
$170.00

"""This book explores how the Wana people use music and religion to control their emotions in situations of emotional...  Read More >>

Unmaking Russia's Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics

Unmaking Russia's Abortion Culture: Family Planning...

Author: Michele Rivkin-Fish
ISBN: 9780826506979
Format: Hardback
$316.67

Examines the creative strategies of Russians who promoted family planning in place of routine abortion. Rather than...  Read More >>

Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives

Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the...

Author: Laura Menin
ISBN: 9780815638308
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Moving between public and clandestine interactions and within online environments, Quest for Love in Central Morocco...  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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing

Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing...

Author: Denielle Elliott ,  Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN: 9781517916138
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Creative and diverse approaches to ethnographic knowledge production and writing Ethnographic research has long...  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 >>

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American...

Author: Emily Thorson ,  Emily Durante
ISBN: 9798874761431
Format: Audio
$105.57

"In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation...  Read More >>

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American...

Author: Emily Thorson ,  Emily Durante
ISBN: 9798874761448
Format: Audio
$121.31

"In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation...  Read More >>

Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach

Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today:...

Author: Gil Hizi
ISBN: 9789463723992
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, so-called “self-development.” Whether...  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 >>

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

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

Author: William C. Young
ISBN: 9789004697478
Format: Hardback
$419.76

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

The Thousand and One Days: "A Companion to the ""Arabian Nights"""

The Thousand and One Days: "A Companion to the ""Arabian...

Author: Miss Pardoe
ISBN: 9789357945189
Format: Paperback
$59.00

"The Thousand and One Days: A Companion to the ""Arabian Nights"", is a classical and a rare book, that has been...  Read More >>

Sport in der totalen Institution – eine Gefängnisethnographie

Sport in der totalen Institution – eine Gefängnisethnographie...

Author: Johannes Müller
ISBN: 9783658437527
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Die Befunde zeigen, dass sich Sport für einen Teil der männlichen Insassen als Bewältigungsstrategie zur Linderung...  Read More >>

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and...

Author: Jenny Kleeman
ISBN: 9781035004973
Format: Paperback
$36.99

In surprising stories that take us into the worlds of hitmen, insurance frauds and modern-day slaves, Jenny Kleeman...  Read More >>

Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World

Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World...

Author: John Vaillant
ISBN: 9780525434245
Format: Paperback
$52.80

"PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION •...  Read More >>

Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset

Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset

Author: Jay Hasbrouck
ISBN: 9781032463094
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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