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  • Paranormal America (second edition)

    Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture

    An “engrossing and intellectually stimulating” portrait of the countless Americans who believe in paranormal phenomena (Journal of Religion and Culture).Popular culture makes clear that there’s a seemingly insatiable public appetite for information and entertainment about what we call the paranormal, supernatural, or mystical. But how many Americans believe in the paranormal, and who are they? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of Thin Air

    Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia: Winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022

    'Full of wonderful insights and lessons from a world where the ability to run is viewed as something almost mysterious and magical.' - Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the KenyansWhat we can learn from Ethiopian running culture – written by an anthropologist and 2:20 marathon runner who trained with the Ethiopians.'Ethiopia is a place where I have been told that energy is controlled by ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Empire of Normality

    Neurodiversity and Capitalism

    ‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly’ Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes‘Argues that a radical politics of neurodiversity is necessary, not only for neurodivergent folk, but for our collective liberation’ Professor Hel Spandler, editor, Asylum ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brief History of Japan

    Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fighting to Breathe

    Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore

    Series Book 54 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which can lead to premature death. Fighting to Breathe ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Who Counts?

    The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide

    In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, as well as in Mayan revitalization and grassroots environmental struggles. In the aftermath of thirty-six years of civil war, to count—both numerically and in the sense of having value—is a contested and qualitative ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Indians of Texas

    From Prehistoric to Modern Times

    by W.W. Newcomb ...
    Series series Texas History Paperbacks
    An anthropological history of Native Americans in the Lone Star State.First published in 1961, this study explores the ethnography of the Indian tribes who lived in the region that is now the state of Texas since the beginning of the historic period.The tribes covered include:CoahuiltecansKarankawasLipan ApachesTonkawasComanches;Kiowas and Kiowa ApachesJumanosWichitas<... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cosmopolitan Conceptions

    IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai

    In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In Cosmopolitan Conceptions Marcia C. Inhorn highlights the stories of 220 "reprotravelers" from fifty countries who sought treatment at a “cosmopolitan” IVF clinic in Dubai. These couples cannot find safe, affordable, legal, and effective ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • How Religion Evolved

    And Why It Endures

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    One of the world's foremost scholars of evolution tackles one of its essential mysteries: why we believe. Our species diverged from the great apes six to eight million years ago. Since then, our propensity toward spiritual thinking and ritual emerged. How, when, and why did this occur, and how did the earliest, informal shamanic practices evolve into the world religions familiar to us today? What ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing:

    Adventures in Discovering News-Making Connections, Unexpected Ancestors, and Long-Hidden Secrets, and Solving Historical Puzzles

    The acclaimed genealogist and New York Times–bestselling author reveals how she solved some of the most fascinating mysteries of family lineage.Part forensic scientist, part master sleuth, Megan Smolenyak has a unique way of digging up our historical roots. She discovered Barack Obama’s Irish ancestry—and his relation to Brad Pitt. She revealed the true story of Ellis Island’s first immigrant, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys

    Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica

    by Lucy Neville ...
    This book investigates what women enjoy about consuming, and in some cases producing, gay male erotic media–from slashfic, to pornographic texts, to visual pornography–and how this sits within their consumption of erotica and pornography more generally. In addition, it will examine how women’s use of gay male erotic media fits in with their perceptions of gender and sexuality. By drawing on a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD $31.99 USD

  • Producing Guanxi

    Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village

    Throughout China the formation of guanxi, or social connections, involves friends, families, colleagues, and acquaintances in complex networks of social support and sentimental attachment. Focusing on this process in one rural north China village, Fengjia, Andrew Kipnis shows what guanxi production reveals about the evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender, and local patterns of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Reclaiming the Discarded

    Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

    In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Gringolandia

    Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism

    by Matthew Hayes ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    A telling look at today’s “reverse” migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American cityEven as the “migration crisis” from the Global South to the Global North rages on, another, lower-key and yet important migration has been gathering pace in recent years—that of mostly white, middle-class people moving in the opposite direction. Gringolandia ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Alchemy of Meth

    A Decomposition

    by Jason Pine ...
    Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into goldMeth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Living Buddhism

    Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community

    With a beautiful blend of stories, research, and her own field experience, Julia Cassaniti unlocks the secrets of creating calmness and the power of letting go. Living Buddhism is a must-read for everyone―expert and nonexpert alike―interested in how our cultures shape our emotional lives. — Hazel Markus, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, coauthor of Social ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • City of Gods

    Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens

    This study of a New York neighborhood’s remarkable religious diversity “deserves a place alongside Robert Orsi’s The Madonna of 115th Street” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Known locally as the “birthplace of American religious freedom,” Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it’s become a microcosm of world religions. City of Gods explores the history ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fear of Knowledge : Against Relativism and Constructivism

    Against Relativism and Constructivism

    The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or knowledge from a particular perspective. He demonstrates clearly that such claims don't even make sense. Boghossian focuses on three different ways ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Many Globalizations

    Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World

    Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. Here Berger and Huntington bring together an array of experts who paint a subtle and richly shaded portrait, showing both the power and the unexpected consequences of this great force. The stereotypes of globalization--characterized ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Tacit Subjects

    Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men

    Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Age of Insecurity

    Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

    by Astra Taylor ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Finalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingThese days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Shamanism in Siberia

    Shamanism in Siberiafrom Aboriginal Siberia, by M. A. CzaplickaA comprehensive review of the ethographic literature concerning Shamanism in Sibera."Siberia is regarded as the locus classicus of shamanism. It is inhabited by many different ethnic groups. Many of its Uralic, Altaic, and Paleosiberian peoples observe shamanistic practices even in modern times. Many classical ethnographic sources of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Hatred and Forgiveness

    Translated by Jeanine Herman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought.Kristeva ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Cosmologies of Credit

    Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China

    by Julie Y. Chu ...
    Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel nor ... Read more

    $21.99 USD