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Assyrians in ChicagoThe pictorial history of Assyrian immigration to Chicago encompasses more than 100 years. Their first pioneers came to the United States in the late 1800s. Eventually, by the turn of the century, they began to reside in Chicago. Following several waves of persecution in...
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American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: Shannon Lee DawdyPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 12/12/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.35w x 0.79dISBN: 9780691254708About the AuthorShannon Lee Dawdy is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and filmmaker. A professor at the University of Chicago and a MacArthur Fellow, she is the author of...
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After the Tsunami: Disaster Narratives and the Remaking of Everyday Life in AcehThe 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused immense destruction and over 170,000 deaths in the Indonesian province of Aceh. The disaster spurred large-scale social and political changes in Aceh, including the intensified implementation of shari'a law and an end to the long separatist conflict. After...
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Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern AddictionThis pioneering work explores why our culture is plagued by addictions-by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.Author: Bruce WilshirePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublished: 10/27/1999Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.97h x 5.85w x 0.68dISBN: 9780847689682
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Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological HistoryViolence and Inequality explores the deep-time archaeological relationship between violence and inequality, focusing on prehistoric archaeology's contribution to the understanding of the human dynamics among coercive force, aggression, and the state. Detailed archaeological case studies within a strong theoretical framework built from historical studies...
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The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, GovernanceWhat if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective...
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The Paiján People: Burials and Paleoindian human remains from coastal PeruFrom 1972 to 1997, archaeological research was undertaken on open air early sites on the north coast of Peru (Cupisnique region: about 7 30 south latitude). These sites contained lithic tools and faunal remains belonging to the Paiján tradition, dating from around 13000 to...
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words EvolvedA top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex...
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The Japanese: Who Are They?The Japanese: Who Are They? is a non-fiction book written by Thomas W. Plant that explores the cultural and social identity of the Japanese people. The book delves into the history, traditions, and customs of Japan, examining the country's unique cultural practices and how...
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The Future of Bangalore's Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global CityBangalore is often heralded as India's future--a city where global technologies converge with multinational capital to produce a cosmopolitan workforce and vibrant economic growth. In this narrative the city's main challenge revolves around its success: whether its physical infrastructure can support its burgeoning population....
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The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in BrazilThroughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing religious group in the country. Officially, Brazilian Protestants do not involve themselves in racial politics. Behind the scenes, however, the community is deeply involved in...
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The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock CityEach August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth-largest...
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Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable AgeSignificant Emotions is a piercing examination of the rising use of emotional signifiers in public debate and the rhetoric of an increasingly expansive array of social problems. Building on ideas developed in Ashley Frawley's previous book, Semiotics of Happiness, it examines in detail the...
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Raising Two Fists: Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multicultural ColombiaRaising Two Fists is a historically grounded ethnography of Afro-Colombian political mobilization after the multicultural turn that swept Latin America in the 1990s, when states began to recognize and legally enshrine rights for Afro-descendants. Roosbelinda Cárdenas explores three major strategies that Afro-Colombians' developed in...
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Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand: One Foot Out of the ClosetA Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand.Queer Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zealand can suffer erasure caused by the dominance of whiteness in queer spaces. Written as...
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Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle Volume 5We live in a world shot through with evil. The twentieth century has witnessed suffering and human cruelty on a scale never before imagined. Yet, paradoxically, in recent years the doctrine of original sin has suffered neglect and ridicule. In this philosophically sophisticated treatment...
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Oral Tradition as HistoryJan Vansina's 1961 book, Oral Tradition, was hailed internationally as a pioneering work in the field of ethno-history. Originally published in French, it was translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Hungarian. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise of Vansina's success in subjecting oral...
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Nicaragua - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & CultureMore and more travelers are discovering the delights of Nicaragua--a land of lakes and volcanoes. The image has persisted of a country racked by revolution and war, but the reality awaiting travelers couldn't be more different. The largest country in Central America, Nicaragua is...
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Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic WritingCreative and diverse approaches to ethnographic knowledge production and writing Ethnographic research has long been cloaked in mystery around what fieldwork is really like for researchers, how they collect data, and how it is analyzed within the social sciences. Naked Fieldnotes, a unique compendium...
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Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on VulnerabilityAs monstrous bodies on-screen signal a wide range of subversive destabilization of the notions of identity and community, this anthology asks what meanings monsters and monstrosity convey in relation to our recent circumstances shaped by neoliberalism and the pandemic that have led to the...
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