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The Romance of Crossing Borders

Studying and Volunteering Abroad

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance – the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing – and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the...
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Cutting and Connecting

'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Questions regarding the origins, mobility, and effects of analytical concepts continue to emerge as anthropology endeavors to describe similarities and differences in social life around the world. Cutting and Connecting rethinks this comparative enterprise by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical...
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Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets...
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Traveling Cultures and Plants

The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic...
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The Women's Liberation Movement

Impacts and Outcomes

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017

For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women’s Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents...
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Indeterminacy

Waste, Value, and the Imagination

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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018

What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to...
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Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

An Ethnographic Account of Namibia

by John T. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices...
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Intimate Mobilities

Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World

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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people’s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations...
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Capturing Quicksilver

The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore

by Arielle A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018

Since the turn of the century Singapore has sustained a reputation for both austere governance and cutting-edge biomedical facilities and research. Seeking to emphasize Singapore’s capacity for “modern medicine” and strengthen their burgeoning biopharmaceutical industry, this image has explicitly...
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Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face....
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Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018

Who do “we” anthropologists think “we” are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think, write, and do anthropology? This volume explores how the anthropological “we” has been construed, transformed, and deployed across history and the global...
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Pacific Realities

Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance

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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018

Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities....
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Curating Live Arts

Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group...
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Poland Daily

Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

by Ewa Mazierska
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

Like many Eastern European countries, Poland has seen a succession of divergent economic and political regimes over the last century, from prewar “embedded liberalism,” through the state socialism of the Soviet era, to the present neoliberal moment. Its cinema has  been inflected by these changing...
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