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The Accidental Playground: Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned
The Accidental Playground: Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned
by Daniel Campo
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Highly illustrated and artfully researched, the book will draw readers into a unique space in one of New York City's most popular boroughs. The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied... (read more)

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Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by Michelle M. Jacob
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The Yakama Nation of present-day Washington State has responded to more than a century of historical trauma with a resurgence of grassroots activism and cultural revitalization. This path-breaking ethnography shifts the conversation from one of... (read more)

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How to Think Like a Neandertal
How to Think Like a Neandertal
by Thomas Wynn
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There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal... (read more)

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The Story of Black
The Story of Black
by John Harvey
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As a color, black comes in no other shades: it is a single hue with no variation, one half of a dichotomy. But what it symbolizes envelops the entire spectrum of meaning—good and bad. The Story of Black travels back to the biblical and classical... (read more)

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Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia
Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia
by Robert T Boyd
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Chinookan peoples have lived on the Lower Columbia River for millennia. Today they are one of the most significant Native groups in the Pacific Northwest, although the Chinook Tribe is still unrecognized by the United States government. In Chinookan... (read more)

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Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
by Chloe Silverman
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"Too few books tell the history of autism. Chloe Silverman bravely takes this on, without avoiding the difficult eras in this history. Sensitively exploring Bruno Bettelheim and Andrew Wakefield's involvement, while skillfully painting the evolution of... (read more)

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Mediating the Global: Expatria's Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu
Mediating the Global: Expatria's Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu
by Heather Hindman
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Transnational business people, international aid workers, and diplomats are all actors on the international stage working for organizations and groups often scrutinized by the public eye. But the very lives of these global middlemen and women are... (read more)

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Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
by Sarah Iles Johnston
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"[This work] will represent the principal study of ancient Greek beliefs in the intervention of the dead, a topic of acute relevance to the study of classical literature, Greek religion, and the later cultures that spawned curse tablets and versions of... (read more)

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Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State
Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State
by Erica Cusi Wortham
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In Indigenous Media in Mexico, Erica Cusi Wortham explores the use of video among indigenous peoples in Mexico as an important component of their social and political activism. Funded by the federal government as part of its "pluriculturalist"... (read more)

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Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
by Tracy L. Brown
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Pueblo people reacted to Spanish colonialism in many different ways. While some resisted change and struggled to keep to their long-standing traditions, others reworked old practices or even adopted Spanish ones. Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial... (read more)

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Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley
Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley
by Suzanne E. Joseph
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“Provides rich new ethnographic material on a little-known population, the Bedouin of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. It positions such marginal populations in the broader theoretical context of modernization and health and demographic transitions... (read more)

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Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State
Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State
by Erica Cusi Wortham
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In Indigenous Media in Mexico, Erica Cusi Wortham explores the use of video among indigenous peoples in Mexico as an important component of their social and political activism. Funded by the federal government as part of its "pluriculturalist"... (read more)

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Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes #28: Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes #28: Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
by Marc L. Moskowitz
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Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC.... (read more)

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Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
by Jonathon Miller Weisberger
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Chronicling the practices, legends, and wisdom of the vanishing traditions of the upper Amazon, this book reveals the area's indigenous peoples' approach to living in harmony with the natural world. Rainforest Medicine features in-depth essays on plant... (read more)

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Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes #28: Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes #28: Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
by Marc L. Moskowitz
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Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC.... (read more)

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Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination
Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination
by Juliette Harrisson
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The history and literature of the Roman Empire is full of reports of dream prophecies, dream ghosts and dream gods. This volume offers a fresh approach to the study of ancient dreams by asking not what the ancients dreamed or how they experienced... (read more)

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Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic
Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic
by Samantha Pinto
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In this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African... (read more)

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Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain
Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain
by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver
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Spain has one of the highest per capita international adoption rates in the world. Internationally adopted kids are coming from many of the same countries as do the many immigrants who are radically transforming Spain's demographics. Based on interviews... (read more)

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Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
by Cymene Howe
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Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was... (read more)

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An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns
An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns
by Bruno Latour
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In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern, a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the... (read more)

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