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  • Post-Migration Experiences, Cultural Practices and Homemaking
    Sabrina Dinmohamed
    Shining a light on previously ’invisible’ immigrant communities, this book explores how attention to feelings of home and cultural practices provides insights into immigrants’ settlement experiences. ...
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    143,11 €

  • Cultural Treasures
    Kevan Joey
    profound impact that books have on our culture, identity, and shared human experience. Thisthought-provoking book delves into the multifaceted ways in which books shape and enrich ourlives, shedding light on their enduring significance in an ever-evolving world.Drawing from a diverse array of perspectives and case studies, 'Cultural Treasures' examineshow books serve as reposit...
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    29,41 €

  • Essays in Linguistic Ethnography
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose. ...
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    48,07 €

  • Essays in Linguistic Ethnography
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose. ...
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    169,68 €

  • The Yalaku
    Ross Bowden
    This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare ...
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    219,77 €

  • Medina by the Bay
    Maryam Kashani
    From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic s...
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    36,55 €

  • Medina by the Bay
    Maryam Kashani
    From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic s...
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    138,40 €

  • Dialect and Nationalism in China
    Gina Tam / Kirill Batygin
    Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform ’peasants’ into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin. She traces how, on the one hand, lingu...
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    40,60 €

  • Antropología del amor. Estructura esponsal de la persona
    Blanca Castilla de Cortázar / Pedro-Juan Viladrich
    Este libro trata de lo básico para entender a la persona humana, varón y mujer, y para comprender el amor. Dos realidades profundamenteentrelazadas, pues sólo el amor da sentido a la vida humana. Es un hecho que 'el hombre no puede vivir sin amor. Él permanece para sí mismo un ser incomprensible, su vida está privada de sentido si no se le revela el amor, si no se encuentra con...
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    33,51 €

  • Dear Sister
    Dannielle
    In this thought-provoking and heartfelt book, Paula Dannielle presents Dear Sister: There’s Something Black Women Want You to Know, a powerful collection of eight letters that amplify the voices and experiences of Black women. Tackling topics covering their experiences, including identity, beauty standards, relationships, mental health, career challenges, and societal expectati...
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    21,72 €

  • Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
    Sidney Gig-Jan Wong
    A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand.Queer Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zealand can suffer erasure caused by the dominance of whiteness in queer spaces. Written as a deliberate challenge to this invisibility, author Sidney Gig-Jan Wong 黃吉贊 reflects on his li...
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    23,73 €

  • Creative Resistance
    Cindy Horst
    How can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration?For the people featured in this book, this is not a philosophical question - it is a lived reality. Drawn from first-hand experience of violent conflict and displacement, the stories in this book belong to three extraordinary individuals who found a path to hope through action in the face of vio...
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    23,44 €

  • Bihar Days
    Carolyn Brown Heinz
    Prior to 1947, the Maithil Brahmans dominated North Bihar culturally, politically, and economically. Darbhanga Raj, the richest zamindari estate in British India, was owned by a family of the elite sub-group of Brahmans, the Srotriyas. The high prestige of this elite was based on a lifestyle prescribed by ancient law codes involving simplicity of life, daily Vedic rites, and in...
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    18,42 €

  • Transnational Spaces
    This volume celebrates fifty years of NeMLA’s important presence in the world of academia with a collection of essays that adopt a transnational critical lens. With the present selection, we intend to add our voices to the ongoing debate centered on the renegotiation of space, national, and cultural geographies; to foster both the re-thinking of language(s) and literature(s) no...
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    39,96 €

  • Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons
    Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
    This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America. ...
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    158,25 €

  • Hunters among Farmers
    Akira Takada
    Through moving life histories, Akira Takada gives the !Xun of north-central Namibia a voice in their own history. In contrast to other marginalised San minorities, the !Xun foster co-operative relationships with their neighbours, the Ovawambo and with the state. In the face of radical social changes over the past century, they have maintained traditional hunting and gathering a...
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    44,81 €

  • (C)over Your Head
    One of the most enduring symbol of Moorish presence the world over: the Moslem turban. Seeking to invoke the impression of an educational stroll through a niche art gallery, this text examines the Moslem Turban from a Moorish American perspective using historical references. Includes the metaphysical meanings of decorative elements, adaptations over time and space, wrapping ins...
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    24,26 €

  • Hawaiian Legends
    William Hyde Rice
    'Mr. Rice’s theory as to the origin of these legends is based on the fact that in the old days, before the discovery of the islands by Captain Cook, there were bards and storytellers, either itinerant or attached to the courts of the chiefs...these bards or storytellers sometimes used historical incidents or natural phenomena for the foundation of their stories, which were hand...
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    17,87 €

  • Brown Saviors and Their Others
    Arjun Shankar
    In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of 'brown saviors'-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated...
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    140,67 €

  • Genomics with Care
    Mike Fortun
    In Genomics with Care Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, statistics, and ethics. Fortun examines genomics in terms of care-a dense composite of affective and cognitive forces that drive scientists and the relations they form with their objec...
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    37,75 €

  • Brown Saviors and Their Others
    Arjun Shankar
    In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of 'brown saviors'-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated...
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    37,50 €

  • Lev Shternberg
    Kan Sergei / Glebovskaya Aleksandra
    ENGThis intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country’s peoples. Lev Shternberg, who as a political exile during the late tsarist period had conducted ethn...
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    61,11 €

  • An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade
    Mileta Prodanović / Maria Milojković
    This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Milošević years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mi...
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    100,85 €

  • An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade
    Mileta Prodanović / Maria Milojković
    This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Milošević years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mi...
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    38,12 €

  • Мертвое время
    Светлана Еремеева
    Книга исследовательницы Светланы Еремеевой представляет собой анализ репрезентаций военных похорон 2022 года в публичном пространстве. Автор стремился выяснить не столько то, как сегодня хоронят военных, сколько то, что это значит для его близких, для общества и государства в целом. Определяя контуры жизненных миров, стоящих за проводами погибших, автор показывает несостоятельн...
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    27,68 €

  • Sonic Histories of Occupation
    This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the wo...
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    51,03 €

  • The Human Factor In Changing Africa
    Melville J. Herskovits
    This groundbreaking work by anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits explores the complex interplay of culture, society, and history in the changing landscape of Africa. With a focus on the human factor of social change, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the modern African experience.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally im...
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    43,14 €

  • The Human Factor In Changing Africa
    Melville J. Herskovits
    This groundbreaking work by anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits explores the complex interplay of culture, society, and history in the changing landscape of Africa. With a focus on the human factor of social change, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the modern African experience.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally im...
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    31,81 €

  • Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises of All Races in All Ages [electronic Resource]
    Iwan 1872-1922 Bloch
    Discover the fascinating and sometimes unsettling practices of sexual cultures throughout history and around the world. Iwan Bloch provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of sexual practices and attitudes in various cultures. From ancient civilizations to contemporary societies, readers will gain a better understanding of the diversity of human sexual behavior and customs....
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    25,18 €

  • Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises of All Races in All Ages [electronic Resource]
    Iwan 1872-1922 Bloch
    Discover the fascinating and sometimes unsettling practices of sexual cultures throughout history and around the world. Iwan Bloch provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of sexual practices and attitudes in various cultures. From ancient civilizations to contemporary societies, readers will gain a better understanding of the diversity of human sexual behavior and customs....
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    36,50 €


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