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Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Signs of Race)
Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Signs of Race)
by Paul Outka
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Winner of the 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Prize for 'Best Book of Ecocriticism,' Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance examines a neglected but centrally important issue in... (read more)

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Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior
Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior
by Peter B. Gray
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Few things come more naturally to us than sex--or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to... (read more)

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Buying Into Fair Trade: Culture, Morality, and Consumption
Buying Into Fair Trade: Culture, Morality, and Consumption
by Keith R. Brown
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Stamped on products from coffee to handicrafts, the term “fair trade” has quickly become one of todays most seductive consumer buzzwords. Purportedly created through fair labor practices, or in ways that are environmentally sustainable, fair... (read more)

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Library of Modern Turkey #02: Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender and Ethnic Identity
Library of Modern Turkey #02: Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender and Ethnic Identity
by Anna Grabolle-celiker
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The question of Kurdish identity and belonging is counted among the most controversial and challenging issues in modern Turkey. Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey cuts to the heart of this debate in an exploration of shifting ethnic identities brought... (read more)

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Addiction Trajectories (Experimental Futures)
Addiction Trajectories (Experimental Futures)
by Eugene (edt) Raikhel
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Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based on ethnographic research conducted in sites from... (read more)

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Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological Perspectives
Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological Perspectives
by Carlos Fausto
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“Broadens and deepens the anthropological project of understanding histories and historicities in Lowland South America that has emerged as a central theme in recent decades. . . . The outstanding quality and ethnographic richness of the nine case... (read more)

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Fast-Forward Family: Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America
Fast-Forward Family: Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America
by Elinor (edt) Ochs
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"The CELF study is a monumental achievement, an inestimable contribution to the field of ethnography and to an understanding of the lives of dual-career, middle-class American families. This book, which brings together many of the study's key findings... (read more)

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Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution
Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution
by Travis Rayne Pickering
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"Using his firsthand research and a tremendous depth of knowledge, Travis Pickering offers a scientifically based meditation on the intertwining roles of aggression, hunting, and violence. Pickering takes the reader back in time to examine the roots and... (read more)

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Reasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germany
Reasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germany
by Stefan Sperling
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The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? In Reasons... (read more)

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Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
by Jinah Kim
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"This is an important work on the well known but little-studied Buddhist manuscripts created in eastern India during the last centuries of major Buddhist activity there. Her use of contemporary evidence in Nepal wonderfully grounds historical imagining... (read more)

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Anthropology: A Continental Perspective
Anthropology: A Continental Perspective
by Christoph Wulf
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Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf’s Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science,... (read more)

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The New Mind of the South
The New Mind of the South
by Tracy Thompson
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There are those who say the South has disappeared. But in her groundbreaking, thought-provoking exploration of the region, Tracy Thompson, a Georgia native and Pulitzer Prize finalist, asserts that it has merely drawn on its oldest tradition: an ability... (read more)

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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
by David Graeber
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A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—as seen through the lens of the most transformative political movements of our time and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America  ... (read more)

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Politics of Origin in Africa: Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict
Politics of Origin in Africa: Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict
by Morten Boas
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In this revealing new book, Boas and Dunn explore the phenomenon of "autochthony" - literally meaning "son of the soil" - in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues... (read more)

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Politics of Origin in Africa: Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict
Politics of Origin in Africa: Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict
by Morten Boas
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In this revealing new book, Boas and Dunn explore the phenomenon of "autochthony" - literally meaning "son of the soil" - in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues... (read more)

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The Other Face of the Moon
The Other Face of the Moon
by Claude Levi-strauss
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Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from... (read more)

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Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World
Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World
by Claude Levi-strauss
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Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye toward the future as his own distinguished career was drawing to a close,... (read more)

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Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
by Viviana A. Zelizer
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"Economic Lives is an outstanding collection by one of the most original thinkers in economic sociology. In addition to bringing together some of her most brilliant papers, Viviana Zelizer provides an integrative analysis of her work and how it relates... (read more)

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Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations
Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations
by Felicity Aulino
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In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to develop a historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science. The book's chapters, drawing on research in East... (read more)

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Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia
Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia
by Timothy P. (edt) Daniels
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The Muslim-majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia are famous for their extraordinary arts and Islamic revival movements. Using ethnographic methods to analyze performance text, social and historical context, and local perspectives, the contributors... (read more)

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