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"The Savage Hits Back" Revisited - Art and Alterity in The Colonial Encounter

In einer weitgehend in Vergessenheit geratenen Intervention kehrte der Kurator und Ethnologe Julius Lips den kolonialen Blick auf die "An...

1001 Ways of Seeing

How do we see art works? How do we see artefacts? How do we see our surroundings? How do we see the world? This book opens up a worldwide...

Afropean - Notes from Black Europe

Winner of the Jhalak Prize Winner of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 'A revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes the blur o...

A Genealogy of Method - Anthropology's Ancestors and the Meaning of Culture

This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology's role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the meth...

All Roads Home - A Life on and Off the Ice

All Things Become Alive by the Touch of the Parabola: Wolfgang Paalen's Northwest Passage - Wolfgang Paalen's Northwest Passage

All Things Become Alive by the Touch of the Parabola is the first full account of the journey by surrealist artist Wolfgang Paalen and po...

Anthropological Theory - An Introductory History

The #1 bestselling anthropological theory textbook - now available in ebook format

Anthropology and Ethnography Are Not Equivalent - Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the sub...

A Taste of Power - A Black Woman's Story

"A stunning picture of a black woman's coming of age in America. Put it on the shelf beside The Autobiography of Malcolm X." -Kirkus Revi...

Atmospheric Violence - Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flouris...

Azan on the Moon - Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway

Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Based on extensive...

Behind Closed Doors - Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School

Behind Closed Doors features written testimonials from thirty-two individuals who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The sc...

Berbers and Others - Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib

Berber and Others offers fresh perspectives on new forms of social and political activism in today's Maghrib. In recent years, the Amazig...

Beyond Wild and Tame - Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which tr...

Blackbird's Song - Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa People

This stirring account reflects on the lived experience of the Odawa people and the work of one of their greatest advocates.

Black Feminist Anthropology, 25th Anniversary Edition - Theory, Politics, and Poetics

In the discipline's early days, anthropologists by definition were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated ...

Blacks and Jews in America - An Invitation to Dialogue

A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups' unspoken history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing American dem...

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism - Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

The vast majority of forced migrants & refugees seek shelter and respite in countries of the Global South, where humanitarian spaces and ...

Carolina Clay - The Life and Legend of the Potter David Drake

The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth c...

Cities Made Differently

Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them different...

Classicism in Digital Times - Cultural Remembrance as Reimagination in the Sinophone Cyberspace

Topics covered include Chinese/Sinophone identity in the digital age; the challenges and opportunities of digital media, including the im...

Color Matters - Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Postracial America

In the United States, as in many parts of the world, people are discriminated against based on the color of their skin. This type of skin...

Configuring Contagion - Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the...

Crafting a Tibetan Terroir - Winemaking in Shangri-La

Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" (from the famous 1930s novel and film Lost Horizon) by the Chinese government ...

CRUEL/CRUEL

"CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity. These poems use g...

Cultural Change Among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. Focusing on those living around Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi...

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope - Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation

The Graduate Programs in Education faculty and staff at Thompson Rivers University are actively engaged in strengthening our heartbeat in...

Deaf Mobility Studies - Exploring International Networks, Tourism, and Migration

Examines the global lives of deaf people, crafted by five deaf ethnographers.

Dervishes Along the Silk Roads: Between Past and Present

This book highlights aspects of the spiritual culture within Islam that flourished along the 'Silk Roads' - the term coined by Ferdinand ...

Desiring Arabs

Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. This title reveals the history of how...

Engaging Environments in Tonga - Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in t...

Enough! Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights - Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus -- a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indige...

Ethnocracy - Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine

For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity i...

Every Day Is a Good Day - Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women

A rare and often intimate glimpse at the resilience and perserverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richnes in...

Everything to Play for - An Insider's Guide to How Video Games Are Changing Our World

The inside story of the video games industry and how they can be used to make a better world

Freak Inheritance - Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

In Freak Inheritance, both leading authors and emerging voices use cutting-edge disability and cultural theories to expose the operations...

Friction - An Ethnography of Global Connection

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us Rubbing two stic...

From Forest Farm to Sawmill - Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State

"Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates first-hand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing...

Grandmothers' Wisdom - Living Portrayals from the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

Grandmothers’ Wisdom is a vibrant tribute to the lives of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, an unprecedented...

Grazing Communities - Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads...

Hebrews to Negroes - Wake Up Black America!

"The book "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America" touches on subjects too controversial for most authors to reveal to the people. Thi...

Historieta Doble - A Graphic History of Participatory Action Research

Drawing on archives, oral narrative, and ethnographic fieldwork, this graphic novel uncovers the vibrant history of social science resear...

Hokkaido Dairy Farm - Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan

Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of fron...

Hold Your Own

"A collection of poems by Nikki Wallschlaeger"--

Immigrant Industry - Building Postwar Australia

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industrie...

INSTEAD - Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative

Bringing together Indigenous voices, this collection examines strategies for protecting and recuperating Indigenous environmental and cul...

Jim Crow, American - Selected Songs and Plays

Jim Crow has long represented Americäs imperfect union. This edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents essential performa...

Kernels of Resistance - Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power

Right before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modifi...

Landscapes of Law - Practicing Sovereignty in Transnational Terrain

International scholars offer ethnographic analyses of the relations between transnationalism, law, and culture The recent surge of right-...

Learning to Lead - Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education

Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented college students, showing how they build polit...

Leaving Biddle City

A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina America...

Living on a Time Bomb - Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil ext...

Managing Sacralities - Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? What are --religious or secular--sources of expertise ...

Master Peace - Lebanon's Violence and the Politics of Expertise

Mobility and Armenian Belonging in Contemporary Turkey - Migratory Routes and the Meaning of the Local

What remains and becomes Armenian in a historically informed moment of increased mobility? Taking an anthropological approach with ethnog...

Molefi Kete Asante - A Critical Afrocentric Reader

Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor's space in higher education over th...

Mumbai on Two Wheels - Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility

"Mumbai on Two Wheels shows how pedaling through the city produces embodied and expert knowledge that should be considered when imagining...

Native American Clothing - An Illustrated History

"The book's large format and beautiful color images make this title a worthy addition to any collection in need of information about Nati...

Necropolitics of the Ordinary - Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise - Affect, Tourism, Belize

There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible...