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Humanism Revisited: An Anthropological PerspectiveThe West emancipated itself from the old humanism long ago and in doing so distanced itself from 'heteronomy' it declared that man, and not a non-human power, should be the first reference to approach people and nature. Today, as heirs of this tradition, we...
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Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely GrocerIn a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-scale ventures struggle to survive, as anthropologist Cathy Stanton discovered when she joined the effort to save a small food co-op in a former mill town in western...
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Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What...
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Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural ProductionNearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Displacing Kinship examines how Vietnamese American cultural productions register lived experiences of racism in...
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Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late AntiquityFrom the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian...
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Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking Through Comics JournalismHow can we better protect survivors? How can we learn from their stories without causing further harm?With a pen in one hand and watercolours in the other, graphic journalist Dan Archer embarks on an investigation into human trafficking and how comics can be used...
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Underground: Dreams and Degradations in BucharestThis book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania's capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life not just upward into higher skylines, and outward to ever more distant peripheries, but also...
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The Sounds of Social Space: Branding, Built Environment, and Leisure in Urban ChinaA giant statue of a six-pipe musical instrument stands in the heart of Kaili city. Yet despite its prominent placement, intended to convey the essence of the city, residents hold extremely low opinions of music-making in Kaili, particularly when compared to the "authentic" music...
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The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business CardYou are more than your job. Optimize your happiness, bank account, personal growth, with this practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance--perfect for readers of The Good Enough Job and What Color Is Your Parachute? "An actionable guide to leading a balanced life." --...
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The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and PeopleA novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion 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...
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The Descent of ManThe most accessible edition ever published of Darwin's incendiary classic, edited by "as fine a science essayist as we have" (New York Times) The Descent of Man, Darwin's second landmark work on evolutionary theory (following The Origin of the Species), marked a turning point...
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Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies: An Archaeology of Human ResilienceExamining dynamic interactions betweenhumans and island environments Thisvolume explores the impacts humans have made on island and coastal ecosystems andthe ways these environments have adapted to anthropogenic changes over thecourse of millennia. Case studies highlight how island populations developed socialand political strategies to effectively...
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Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating AppsLifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app. Instead of the fun, easy experiences advertised on swiping platforms, she discovered endless upkeep, ghosting, fleeting moments of...
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Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist TimesIn Silicon Valley Imperialism, Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and...
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Processing Mimetic Reality: Harmonizing Alfred North Whitehead and René GirardMeaning is not simply discovered but created. Two exceptional thinkers who can help us with this creative meaning-making process are the French academic René Girard and the British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Dr. Rabe demonstrates that deep, broad, and significant harmonies exist between process...
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O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of EcologyCan friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern...
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Mythology of the Prenatal LifeMYTHOLOGY OF THE PRENATAL LIFE by Francis J. Mott with annotations by R.D. Laing This book is a sequel and companion volume to "The Nature of the Self", which explores the intricacies of prenatal experience, demonstrating how these processes are a reflection of an...
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'I Am Here', Abraham Said: Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological ScienceOne of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century - the philosopher of 'the Other' - Emmanuel Levinas' work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the 'secrecy' of subjectivity - a fundamental...
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Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal RelationshipsGrateful Prey uncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Asinskâwôiniwak, or Rock Crees, of Northern Manitoba. Brightman maintains that subsistence strategies need to be analyzed in terms of the foragers' own ethnoecological categories and postulates, both sacred and secular, a...
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Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in MoroccoEven in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from a low-income household, continue to invest a lot of work in preparing good food for their families. Through the lens of domestic food preparation, this book...
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