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  • Indigenous Healing as Paradox

    Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony

    Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony, where an intervention fostering well-being might simultaneously aim to eliminate distinct Indigenous societies. This book aims to explain and complicate the prominence of “Indigenous healing” in Canadian public discourse in recent decades through theoretically-informed historical and ethnographic analysis disentangling the multiple ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Shortest History of Eugenics: From "Science" to Atrocity - How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists (Shortest History)

    Series Book 0 - Shortest History
    A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have children—and who was worthy of life. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest ... Read more

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  • Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

    Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls‘ Comics Artists and Fans

    by James Welker ...
    Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms in the 1970s and 1980s. These spheres encompassed activists in the ūman ribu (women’s liberation) movement, members of the rezubian (lesbian) community, and ... Read more

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  • Soulmate Dog

    SOULMATE DOG takes readers gently through the messiness of grief on a raw healing journey.SOULMATE DOG is a memoir of a unique twenty-first century love story. It is much more than that, though; as the title implies, animal communication and a philosophical examination of the special relationship between humans and dogs is part of this story too. Because Brady became seriously ill at the age of ... Read more

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  • Why War?

    Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight.Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was “a way of delivering mankind from the ... Read more

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  • Chasing Traces

    History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

    In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected ... Read more

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  • Kneeling Before Corn

    Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

    Series series biodiversity in small spaces
    The cultivation of the three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) on subsistence farms in El Salvador is a multispecies, world-making, and ongoing process. Milpa describes a small subsistence corn farm. It is derived from the word milli (‘field’, or a piece of land under active cultivation) in Nahuatl. The milpa is a farming practice that uses perennial, intercropping, and swidden (fire and fallow) ... Read more

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  • Middle Tech

    Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough

    by Paula Bialski ...
    Series Book 36 - Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech companyContrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply “good enough.” In Middle Tech, Paula Bialski offers an ethnographic study of software developers at a non-flashy, non-start-up corporate tech company. Their stories reveal why ... Read more

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  • Birthing Romans

    Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome

    How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing Romans sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, experienced, and managed in ancient Rome during the first ... Read more

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  • Physicians of the Future

    Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine

    The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.Physicians of the Future interrogates the hidden logics of inclusion and exclusion in functional medicine (FM), a holistic form of personalized medicine that targets chronic disease. Rosalynn Vega uncovers how, as “wounded healers,” some FM practitioners who are former chronic disease sufferers turn their ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Food Activism Today

    Sustainability, Climate Change, and Social Justice

    Series Book 6 - Social Transformations in American Anthropology
    Illuminates how food activism has been taking shape and where it is headedAs climate change, childhood obesity, and food insecurity accelerate at an alarming pace, activists around the country are working to address the pressing need for healthy and sustainable solutions to feed the population. Food Activism Today investigates the new approaches food activists are taking as they formulate ... Read more

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  • Unruly Domestication

    Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

    How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing, internationally endorsed "war on poverty" shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima. Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest and most recently founded “extreme poverty zone,” Kristin ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Livability

    Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru

    What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformationIn recent years, the concept of “livability” has captured the global imagination, influencing discussions about the implications of climate change on human life and inspiring rankings of “most livable cities” in popular publications. But what really makes for a livable life, and for whom?Cultivating Livability ... Read more

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  • Asylum and Conversion to Christianity in Europe

    Interdisciplinary Approaches

    Edited by Lena Rose, Ebru Öztürk ...
    Drawing together previously disjointed scholarship on the topic of asylum and conversion from Islam to Christianity, this book shows how boundaries of belonging are negotiated between Middle Eastern ex-Muslim asylum seekers, church representatives, lawyers, legal decision-makers and policymakers.With case studies from European countries such as Germany, Austria, Finland and Sweden, the book takes ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia

    Aymara Radio and Song in an Age of Pachakuti

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
    This book offers ethnographic accounts of Aymara language media activism in Bolivia during the presidency of Evo Morales (2006–2019). It draws on research conducted among Aymara language radio broadcasters, hip hop artists, and community members during a period of radical social change and Indigenous political resurgence (pachakuti) in South America's most Indigenous republic.The Plurinational ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • The Divine Economy

    How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People

    A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth. Religions in many traditions have honed their ... Read more

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  • Chinese Espresso

    Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy

    Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product—so much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO’s official list of intangible heritages of humanity. The coffee bar is a ... Read more

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  • Out of One, Many

    Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

    A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and ... Read more

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  • Father Time

    A Natural History of Men and Babies

    A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babiesIt has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were ... Read more

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  • Struggling for Time

    Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine

    Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene

    The New Nature

    Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.Human action has transformed our planet and ushered in a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. The effects are global in scope, but take shape within distinct social and ecological "patches," discontinuous regions within which the key actors may not be human, but the plants, animals, fungi, viruses, ... Read more

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  • Past Progress

    Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea

    by Ed Pulford ...
    While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • When History Returns

    Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning

    Series series SUNY series, Transforming Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Studies in Education
    When History Returns brings together psychoanalytic theories of learning with the antinomies of social strife. From a psychoanalytic perspective, history returns through transitional scenes of inheriting a past one could not make, experiencing a present affected by what came before, and facing a future one can neither know nor predict. Taking such scenes as the subject of education, Deborah P. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • New Worlds, Year Seven

    More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding

    by Marie Brennan ...
    Series Book 7 - New Worlds
    Realms of story and wonder . . .New topics take center stage in this volume of award-winning author Marie Brennan’s set of worldbuilding guides for science fiction and fantasy writers. Ranging from the poverty-stricken reality of beggars and servants up to the heights of imperial rule, from the solidarity of guilds and unions to the spirituality of saints and miracles, the NEW WORLDS series offers ... Read more

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