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An Ethiopian Family's Journey of Entrepreneurship in the US: A Story of Determination, Resourcefulness, and FaithWhat does it take to become a successful entrepreneur in the US?Through reflective narrative, Yoni Medhin documents his father's traumatic upbringing in war-torn Ethiopia, and escape to the US. Medhin tells the inspirational story of his discovery of personal validation and purpose at the...
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Ancient Riddles Solved: Science Unveils Histories"Old Enigmas Settled: Science Discloses Chronicles" is a captivating investigation into the confounding embroidered artwork of our past, winding around together the strings of history and science to unwind the secrets that have astounded mankind for quite a long time. This enthralling excursion takes...
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177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher offers a transcultural perspective on gender and sexuality through engaging personal accounts of the author's participant-observation research in multiple countries and cultures across the globe. Dr. Leanna Wolfe draws from anthropology, sexology, evolutionary psychology,...
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Young Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial JusticeYoung Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice tells the stories of how Black youth become changemakers and speaks to researchers, educators, community organizations, and the public. Through many kinds of action, Black youth are driven by a larger purpose to improve the...
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When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary JapanThrough an ethnographic study inside Japan's Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials. Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, "the grave of the graves" (o-haka no haka) houses acres of...
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The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH -A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest - and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and biodiversity converge. A tale...
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The Rise and Fall of Generation NowIs the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine them as layers, succeeding one...
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The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area Since the 1960sAmong the most consequential pieces of Great Society legislation, the Immigration Act of 1965 opened the nation's doors to large-scale immigration from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A half century later, the impact of the "new immigration" is evident in the transformation of the...
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The Exploitation of Fishing Resources and the Maritime Skills of Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast AsiaIsland Southeast Asia is one of the world's marine biodiversity hotspots. Marine environments with dense concentrations of fauna rich in fatty acid nutrients are thought to have been important to Homo sapiens' subsistence, leading to coastal highway hypotheses for dispersals in the Wallacean and...
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The Dreamtime: Australian Aboriginal MythsThe Dreamtime is one of the greatest Australian publishing successes. The first edition was published in 1965, and one million copies have sold in Australia alone. The original concept of the paintings was developed by an association between Ainslie Roberts and Charles Mountford, well...
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Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in FranceDuring the era of French colonial rule in Indochina, as many as two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France. Subjects and Sojourners is a vivid and comprehensive social, cultural, and political history of this diverse group, which ranged from ruling monarchs to the most...
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Soseki Natsume's Kokoro: The Manga Edition: The Heart of ThingsA timeless psychological study of a young man's deep alienation from society. Set in the early 20th century, Kokoro opens with a chance encounter on a beach near Tokyo that irrevocably links a young student to a man he simply calls Sensei (Teacher). Intrigued...
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Science Interrupted: Rethinking Research Practice with Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, and EthnographyScience Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracy--work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to...
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Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West BankAs frequent intermediaries between Israeli military authorities and Palestinian citizens, Palestinian lawyers stand close to the fault line dividing Israeli and Palestinian societies. The conflicts and tensions they experience in their profession mirror the larger conflicts between the two societies. Thus, as George Bisharat...
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Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in JapanMaiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular TurkeyIn Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized by long-standing secularist laws and disdained by contemporary Islamist government, fortunetelling cafés proliferate in part because they offer shelter...
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From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New EnglandAn anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume is accompanied by Cottrol's introduction, which discusses their significance and the window that they open on the lives of black...
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Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in GermanySufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to 'breathe well' along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and...
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Awakening a Living World on a Kūṭiyāṭṭam StageExplores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.Author: Einat Bar-On CohenPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 03/01/2024Pages: 239Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438496924This title is not returnable
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A History of VirilityHow has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male domination and privilege and examining how it persisted, with significant alterations, for...
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