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  • Unjust Conditions

    Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and th... ... Read more

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  • The Hybrid Face

    Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

    Edited by Massimo Leone ...
    Series series Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
    This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face.The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept of masks ... Read more

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  • Sounds of War and Peace

    Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945

    Series Book 10 - Eastern European Studies in Musicology
    This book vividly evokes for the reader the sound world of a number of European cities in the last year of the Second World War. It allows the reader to «hear» elements of the soundscapes of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Lwów/Lviv, Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław that are bound up with the traumatising experiences of violence, threats and death. Exploiting to the full methodologies and research tools developed ... Read more

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  • Local Communities and the Mining Industry

    Economic Potential and Social and Environmental Responsibilities

    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various locations in Canada, the Philippines, and Scandinavia.Mining’s contribution to economic development varies greatly across countries. In some, it has been a major engine of development, but in others, disputes ... Read more

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  • Koreana - Summer 2012 (English)

    Koreana is a full-color quarterly on Korean culture and arts, including traditional heritage as well as modern and contemporary activities. Each issue includes in-depth coverage of a selected theme, followed by an array of articles on artists and artisans, historic and cultural landmarks, natural attractions, reviews of stage performances and exhibitions, literary pieces, and todays lifestyles. ... Read more

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  • Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean

    Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death

    This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and ... Read more

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  • Turkish Drama Serials

    The Importance and Influence of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon

    by Miriam Berg ...
    The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to explore its ramifications across the Global South. We learn how this phenomenon has transformed Turkey—a Muslim-majority country—into the world’s second-largest producer of scripted television serials, ... Read more

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  • A History of Participation in Museums and Archives

    Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities

    Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for understanding how participatory modes in natural, cultural, and scientific heritage institutions intersect with practices in citizen science and citizen humanities.Drawing on perspectives in cultural history, science and technology studies, and media and communication theory, the book explores how ... Read more

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  • Feminism, Writing and the Media in Spain

    Ana María Matute, Rosa Montero and Lucía Etxebarria

    Series Book 8 - Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
    This book explores the different treatment of writing by women andwriting by men in twenty-first-century Spain. Focusing on contemporarySpanish authors Ana María Matute (1926–2014), Rosa Montero (1952–),and Lucía Etxebarria (1966–), the author examines how Spanish womenwriters are marketed in Spain and, in particular, how current marketingstrategies reinforce traditional structures of femininity ... Read more

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  • Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond

    A Guide for Students, Instructors and Researchers

    by Mark Tessler ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Sociology
    This book presents and discusses the logic and method of social science research adapted mainly for instruction at Arab universities and for research in Arab countries, but with applicability beyond the region. It illustrates major concepts and methods pertaining to research with examples of previous studies carried out in the Arab world and with exercises using Arab Barometer and other datasets. ... Read more

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  • Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies

    Perspectives from UCL Anthropology

    This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Series series Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • Digital Healthcare and Expertise

    Mental Health and New Knowledge Practices

    by Claudia Egher ...
    Series series Health, Technology and Society
    This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from STS, medical sociology and media studies. It addresses topical questions, including: How do different stakeholders engage with online technologies to perform expertise about bipolar disorder? How does the use of the internet for processes of knowledge ... Read more

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  • Policing Methamphetamine

    Narcopolitics in Rural America

    In its steady march across the United States, methamphetamine has become, to quote former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, “the most dangerous drug in America.” As a result, there has been a concerted effort at the local level to root out the methamphetamine problem by identifying the people at its source—those known or suspected to be involved with methamphetamine. Government-sponsored anti ... Read more

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  • Robotics in Germany and Japan

    Philosophical and Technical Perspectives

    Series Book 5 - Dresden Philosophy of Technology Studies / Dresdner Studien zur Philosophie der Technologie
    Germany and Japan are two of the worldwide leading countries in robotics research. Robotics as a key technology introduces technical as well as philosophical and cultural challenges. How can we use robots that have a human-like appearance in everyday life? Are there limits to technology? What are the cultural similarities and differences between Germany and Japan? These are some of the questions ... Read more

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  • Digitalization and Society

    This book presents a collection of papers by researchers from several different institutions on a wide range of digital issues.Digitalization describes the phenomenon of how knowledge is processed and the processed knowledge provides social transformations beyond digitization, interaction, annihilation of time and space, the phenomenon of usage in multimedia. Transformed is not only the society ... Read more

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  • Anthropology's World

    Life in a Twenty-first-century Discipline

    by Ulf Hannerz ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.Raising fundamental questions such as 'What is anthropology really about?', 'How does the public understand, or misunderstand, anthropology?' and 'What and where do anthropologists study now, and for whom do they write?', ... Read more

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  • Cryptopolitics

    Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

    Series Book 12 - Anthropology of Media
    Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, “cryptopolitics,” are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media ... Read more

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  • On the Significance of Religion for the SDGs

    An Introduction

    Series series Religion Matters
    This timely volume addresses the rising interest in the role of religion in global issues worldwide. The ambitious Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as the framework for this exploration, discussing questions such as:What role does religion play in poverty and poverty alleviation?How does religion inspire people in combatting gender inequality?What is religion’s ... Read more

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  • Veterans, Victims, and Memory

    The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland

    Translated by Simon Lewis ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Contemporary History
    In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to ... Read more

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  • Landscapes of Care

    Immigration and Health in Rural America

    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care delivery and immigration ... Read more

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  • Engendering Climate Change

    Learnings from South Asia

    This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability.The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns, floods, droughts, heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressures, ... Read more

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  • Koreana - Winter 2013 (English)

    Koreana is a full-color quarterly on Korean culture and arts, including traditional heritage as well as modern and contemporary activities. Each issue includes in-depth coverage of a selected theme, followed by an array of articles on artists and artisans, historic and cultural landmarks, natural attractions, reviews of stage performances and exhibitions, literary pieces, and todays lifestyles. ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Sport and Nation-Building

    Interrogating Sámi Sport and Beyond

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The first book to offer an in-depth study of sport and an Indigenous people in the context of nation-building and national identityAddresses key contemporary themes in the social sciences including colonialism, post-colonial research, and cultural identityDraws on original empirical research into the Sámi people of NorwayOffers insight on other Indigenous people and culture around the world ... Read more

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