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Capturing Expressivity

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used for studying expressivity in language, particularly in language documentation settings. The chapters explore a variety of different expressive item…

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Sayaka Chatani
A Nation Within

The presence of hundreds of thousands ethnic Koreans in Japan, or "zainichi Koreans," is one of the visible legacies of Japanese colonialism. A surprising and influential group among zainichi Ko…

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Race and the Question of Palestine

"This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine - like other imperial and settler colonial projects - cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question …

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Wuhan Diary

Das Tagebuch der berühmten chinesischen Schriftstellerin Fang Fang aus einer abgeriegelten Stadt ist ein einzigartiges, ergreifendes Zeitdokument über den Kampf gegen einen unsichtbaren Feind, den die Men…

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Sonic Icons

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community's struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacement To the extent that Mi…

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Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World

This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participant…

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Sayaka Chatani
A Nation Within

The presence of hundreds of thousands ethnic Koreans in Japan, or "zainichi Koreans," is one of the visible legacies of Japanese colonialism. A surprising and influential group among zainichi Ko…

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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R M W Dixon
A New Grammar of Dyirbal

This book offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland. It includes updated analyses of key features of the language based on recent theoretical advances, and dr…

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Race and the Question of Palestine

"This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine - like other imperial and settler colonial projects - cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question …

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Jelani Cobb
Three or More Is a Riot

From one of the definitive journalists of this era---acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism---comes a kaleidosco…

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Afua Hirsch
Decolonising My Body

'Remarkable'Observer 'Intimate' Guardian 'Vital' i newspaperOur bodies tell our story.Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body im…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhis…

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Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
A Guide to Gender and Classifiers

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the numeral classifier systems of Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classe…

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Anna Strhan, Rachael Shillitoe
Growing Up Godless

"How children's non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday lifeThe number of those identifying as "non-religious" has risen rapidly in Britain and many other parts of Europe and Nor…

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Harvey Whitehouse
Inheritance

An "exhilarating" (Irish Times ) and "ambitious" (The Guardian) account of the ancient inheritance that made us who we are--and is now driving us to ruin.Why do humans everywhere belie…

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David Keen
Shame

The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spiral---a vortex of mutual shaming tha…

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Asad Ghanem, Nohad Ali,
Violence and Crime Among the Palestinian Minority in Israel

In the last two decades the rates of crime and violence among the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel have increased dramatically. This book is the first to describe, analyze and understand this phenomeno…

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David Baron
The Martians

The New York Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many believed intelligent life had been discovered on Mars. The Martians -a bizarre tale reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, lett…

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Josh Brahinsky
Tongues of Fire

In Tongues of Fire , anthropologist Joshua Brahinsky embarks on an 18-year journey into the mind-body practices of charismatic evangelicals-Christians known for their exuberant worship and the enigmatic p…

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