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Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

Author: Eugenio Paradiso (North York Community House, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032603995
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the interplay between football, politics, violence, passion and morality in Argentina. Drawing...  Read More >>

Politics of the Gift: Towards a Convivial Society

Politics of the Gift: Towards a Convivial Society

Author: Frank Adloff (University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9781529226232
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', this book shows that trust is the...  Read More >>

The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal

The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical...

Author: Yonatan Adler
ISBN: 9780300276657
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migration in the Global South

Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migration in...

Author: Gerda Heck ,  Eda Sevinin
ISBN: 9781649033178
Format: Hardback
$184.80

A rich interdisciplinary study of the diversity and dynamics of the migrations of displaced peoples across the Global...  Read More >>

Experiments in Worldly Ethnography

Experiments in Worldly Ethnography

Author: Sevasti-Melissa Nolas ,  Rachael Stryker
ISBN: 9781598745399
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume experiments with ‘worldliness’ as found in theory, method, and fieldwork practice. It provides readers...  Read More >>

The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field

The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field...

Author: Michel Anteby
ISBN: 9780691255361
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A practical and theoretical guide for field researchers struggling with access Resistance is the bane of all field...  Read More >>

Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History

Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History

Author: Marc Millon
ISBN: 9781911723462
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.  Read More >>

Good Intentions in Global Health: Medical Missions, Emotion, and Health Care across Borders

Good Intentions in Global Health: Medical Missions,...

Author: Nicole S. Berry
ISBN: 9781479825363
Format: Hardback
$193.00

"""Good Intentions in Global Health is an engaging ethnography of the world of DIY global health. It argues that...  Read More >>

Dispatches, From Racial Divide to the Road of Re – A Collection of Essays

Dispatches, From Racial Divide to the Road of Re – A...

Author: Carolyn L. Baker ,  Mark R. Warren
ISBN: 9781734618181
Format: Paperback
$32.95

A collection of essays challenging White Americans to work against racism.    This collection of thirty-two essays...  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 >>

Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir...

Author: Omer Aijazi
ISBN: 9781512823608
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how...  Read More >>

Working in the 21st Century: 105 Portraits

Working in the 21st Century: 105 Portraits

Author: Mark Larson
ISBN: 9781572843332
Format: Hardback
$62.99

"""From nurses and teachers to rideshare drivers and funeral directors-an intimate, honest, and illuminating collection...  Read More >>

Unfinished Nature: Particle Physics at CERN

Unfinished Nature: Particle Physics at CERN

Author: Arpita Roy
ISBN: 9780231205535
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest

Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest

Author: Bruce O'Neill
ISBN: 9781512825831
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania's capital,...  Read More >>

The Making of Little Saigon: Narratives of Nostalgia, (Dis)enchantments, and Aspirations

The Making of Little Saigon: Narratives of Nostalgia,...

Author: Tung X. Bui ,  Quynh H. Vo
ISBN: 9780761874287
Format: Paperback
$42.99

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Displacing Theory Through the Global South

Displacing Theory Through the Global South

Author: Iracema Dulley ,  �zg�n Eyl�l İşcen
ISBN: 9783965580671
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Displacing Theory Through the Global South calls for reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities...  Read More >>

Spearthrower Owl: A Teotihuacan Ruler in Maya History

Spearthrower Owl: A Teotihuacan Ruler in Maya History...

Author: David Stuart
ISBN: 9780884025023
Format: Paperback
$184.67

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Unfinished Nature: Particle Physics at CERN

Unfinished Nature: Particle Physics at CERN

Author: Arpita Roy
ISBN: 9780231205528
Format: Hardback
$232.95

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Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest

Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest

Author: Bruce O'Neill
ISBN: 9781512825824
Format: Hardback
$316.80

"This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania's capital,...  Read More >>

Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time

Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing...

Author: Thomas Hale
ISBN: 9780691238128
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generations Climate change...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages

The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts...

Author: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Free University of Berlin, Germany) ,  Torsten Jost (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367696702
Format: Hardback
$431.00

Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages,...  Read More >>

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