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Reckoning and Framing - Current Status and Future Prospects of Hungarian Ethnography in the 21st Century

It is necessary for every discipline to take Stock of its own current state every 20-30 years. Such review helps determine the discipline...

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...

Superior - The Return of Race Science

Paperback edition of the book which provides an insight into the social and political history of the concept of race, and how 'race scien...

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...

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...

Visual Cultures of Africa

The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultu...

Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia's Emergence

Explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs

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...

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...

It's Always Been Ours - Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies

We will rewrite the narrative of Blackness that centres and celebrates our joy. For too long Black women have been left out of discussion...

Working with Grandpa: My Years Living and Working with the Oldest Living Lakota Medicine Man, and Afterward

Prototype Nation - China and the Contested Promise of Innovation

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "c...

Remedies for Disappearing

"A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood...

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...

Presidential Power in Latin America - Examining the Cases of Argentina and Chile

What explains variance in presidential power between countries? In Presidential Power in Latin America Dan Berbecel provides a general, s...

Red Cloud

"No Indian of modern times can compare with him in ability, courage and statecraft." Denver Times, 16 April 1902 A celebrated warrior who...

Where the River Ends - Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta

Shaylih Muehlmann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in Language, Culture and the Environment at the Univer...

The Anthropologist as Curator

Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology?...

The Way of Tea - Health, Harmony, and Inner Calm

"Readers will learn ... about all aspects of tea--from the practical to the spiritual--and how they can implement the accompanying ancien...

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...

Method and Madness - The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza

In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza St...

The Roma - A Minority in Europe - Historical, Political and Social Perspectives

The main issues arising from the encounter between Roma people and surrounding European society since the time of their arrival in Mediev...

Tecumseh and the Prophet - The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Projectland - Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village

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...

The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

"First edition published as the Dobe !Kung."

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...

The Stuff of Hollywood

"A collection of poems by poet Niki Herd"--

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 ...

"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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hold Your Own

"A collection of poems by Nikki Wallschlaeger"--

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...

Water, Life, and Profit - Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger

Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the man...

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 ...

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...

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...

Tangled Mobilities - Places, Affects, and Personhood Across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related ...

The Black PhD Experience - Stories of Strength, Courage and Wisdom in UK Academia

Drawing on students' experiences of structural racism in the UK higher education institutions, this book offers an informed analysis on t...

Feeling Machines - Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to arti...

The Latin American Revolutionary Movement - Proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, June 1929

This important volume collects the proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina in ...

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...

In Her Own Words - Appreciating the Writings and Historical Contributions of a Métis Matriarch

Part historical biography, part compilation of the written works of Mary Rose Delorme Smith (1861-1960), a prolific and accomplished Méti...

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...

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...

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...

Unbroken - My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

"A remarkable life story. . . Angela Sterritt is a formidable storyteller and a passionate advocate."—Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marr...

The Man in the Dog Park - Coming Up Close to Homelessness

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who be...

INSTEAD - Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative

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

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...

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...

Selfishness and Selflessness - New Approaches to Understanding Morality

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfis...

What Now - Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal...

Who Are 'We'? - Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Who do "we" anthropologists think "we" are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think, writ...

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...

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...