Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
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Trapped: Life Under Security Capitalism and How to Escape ItExploring the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states. Calls to defund the police or to stop brutal police violence, argue Mark Maguire and Setha Low, will never succeed as long as there are those who enjoy and take comfort...
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The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before IndependenceAfter the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions,...
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The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore EssaysThe Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explanation of folklore. Can we confidently regard jokes as the catharsis of sexual and aggressive impulses? What is the basis for characterizing...
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Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese CitySeeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells...
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Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful LearningIn Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation,...
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Revivalism: Representing an Afro-Jamaican IdentityMaria A. Robinson-Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town setting, with bands coming together from...
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Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri LankaAt the pilgrimage site of Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka, a footprint is embedded atop the mountain summit. Buddhists hold that it was left by the Buddha, Hindus say Lord Siva, and Muslims and Christians identify it with Adam, the first man. The Sri...
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Moldova: A HistoryMoldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries toiling under Ottoman control,...
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Misogyny: The Male Malady"Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."--Semonides, seventh century B.C. Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afar--and to take better aim at them for...
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Mapas Corporales: Historias, Relatos Y Conceptos Que Nos Atraviesan / Body Maps. Stories, Tales, and Ideas That Come Through Us«Al hablar del cuerpo como un territorio, nos referimos a que es un espacio impactado por diversos problemas, un lugar en donde se inscriben una serie de normas y discursos culturales que lo fraccionan y establecen sus regiones y bordes, mapas a través de...
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Japanese Foodways, Past and PresentSpanning nearly six hundred years of Japanese food culture, Japanese Foodways, Past and Present considers the production, consumption, and circulation of Japanese foods from the mid-fifteenth century to the present day in contexts that are political, economic, cultural, social, and religious. Diverse contributors--including anthropologists,...
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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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