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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...

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...

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...

The Stuff of Hollywood

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

Florida Water - Poems

Inspired by the cleansing water often used in spiritual baths, Florida Water is an ode to the myriad ways a poem can rinse, reflect, reve...

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...

iᑎᐹᒋᒧᐧᐃᓂᔥᐦ; Histoires en cours de route; Stories Along the Way

A collection of very short - often funny, often moving - stories and vignettes gathered during the writing of The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou I...

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...

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...

Odagahodhes - Reflecting on Our Journeys Volume 104

Odagahodhesfollows an Indigenous sharing circle, relaying teachings by Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs and the diverse experiences...

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...

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...

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 ...

This Land Is Not for Sale - Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal wi...

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...

Black Visions of the Holy Land - African American Christian Engagement with Israel and Palestine

This book examines African American Christian involvement in Israel and Palestine to show how competing visions of ¿the Black Church¿ are...

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...

Resistance, Refuge, Revival - The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica

What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wake of the European onslaught? All but a few were wiped out. This remark...

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...

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...

Santa Isabel - A Pictorial History from Solomon Islands

This portrait of Santa Isabel in over 600 pictures shows an island transformed by its colonial history yet maintaining a confident and di...

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...

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...

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 ...

Exploring CQ - Building Relationships using Cultural Intelligence

Exploring CQ is an invitation to confront our fears, move beyond tolerance, and embrace learning from others as we foster genuine connect...

Global Science - The Last Option Before Collapse

This book presents the culmination of a 14-year pathbreaking research project examining the risks of civilisation collapse and potential ...

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 Precarity of Masculinity - Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon

Since the 1990s, an increasing number of young men in Cameroon have aspired to play football as a career and a strategy to migrate abroad...

The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

"First edition published as the Dobe !Kung."

Cemetery Citizens - Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds

"Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean he...

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...

Embodying Borders - A Migrant's Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providi...

Remaking the Human - Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions - is now part of...

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...

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...

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...

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...