Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New NatureNature 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...
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Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern ChinaEven in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China explores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. A Central Asian Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people, the Uyghur are identified in China as one...
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Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian WitnessSouthwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Evangelism/Missions/Global Church)Drawing on forty years of teaching and mission experience, leading missiological anthropologist Darrell Whiteman brings a wealth of insight to bear on cross-cultural ministry.After explaining the nature and function of culture and the importance...
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Creative Resistance: The Social Justice Practices of Monirah, Halleh, and DialaHow can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration?For the people featured in this book, this is not a philosophical question - it is a lived reality. Drawn from first-hand experience of violent conflict and displacement, the stories in this...
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Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790-1840In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by colonial and post-colonial historians alike. By examining how early Hawaiian chiefs appropriated Western sailing technology to help build their island nation,...
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Being-in-America: White Supremacy and the American SelfWhite supremacy and American-style individual autonomy are mutually supportive and co-dependent. Attacking white racism will not dislodge white supremacy, which the author contends is the greatest danger facing America. That can only be accomplished by making concurrent and significant modifications in American individualism. Yet,...
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Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings Are Reshaping the WorldAll aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new...
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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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