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The Social Life of Things

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine…

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John Parker
In My Time of Dying

"Why do people die and where do they go when they are dead? How should the dead be buried and mourned in order to ensure that they continue to work for the benefit of the living? How have perceptions…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

This book examines how the label and identity of Down syndrome is gaining increasing cohesiveness in Jordan's capital city of Amman. Focused on the experiences of mothers, who serve as an entry point for …

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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 B…

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Simona Supekar,
Stock Photo

Brochures, billboards, websites, menus, and memes. We are immersed every day in the imagery of carefully-curated stock photography. Stock Photo blends memoir and cultural history to mine how this unique m…

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John Vaillant
Fire Weather

**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION - FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION - A stunning account of a c…

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Erik Peterson
The Shortest History of Eugenics

The Shortest History Series

For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children.…

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Lynne Sedgmore
Presence Activism

In this book, author Lynne Sedgmore integrates presence, climate activism, and the alleviation of climate anxiety in an innovative and unique synthesis and new term - Presence Activism. By offering a prof…

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Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity

Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians.Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and C…

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Cristina Douglas, Andrew Whitehouse
More-Than-Human Aging

Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans -- be it other species or technology -- become entangled or carved out. The contributions to …

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Isabel Jijon
Good Kids

"One in ten children worldwide is involved in some form of child labor. While almost half are in occupations that put their safety at risk, the other half have "gray" jobs like industrial f…

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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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Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship

The open access volume "Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship" presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship,…

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Aaron T Hollander
Saint George Liberator

A compelling investigation of how representations of Orthodox Christian saints serve as means of resistance amid cultural and political dominationOn the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, repeatedly …

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Kathrin Lang
Ornithophonia

Cultural Animal Studies - Band 25

Dieses Buch rekonstruiert die mehr-als-menschliche Dimension des Lieds im späten neunzehnten und frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Untersucht wird die Darstellung von Vogelgesang in deutschsprachiger Lyrik,…

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Ken Chitwood
Borícua Muslims

The stories and struggles of Puerto Rican Muslims in modern day America

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Sally Coulthard
A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024: Nature WritingThe untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts¿ ' A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

This book examines how the label and identity of Down syndrome is gaining increasing cohesiveness in Jordan's capital city of Amman. Focused on the experiences of mothers, who serve as an entry point for …

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Christophe Darmangeat,
Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be

When was male domination established in human societies, and why did it take hold? How does humanity's most distant past inform today's feminist struggles?This new, updated edition of Primitive Communism …

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Sally Coulthard
A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024: Nature WritingThe untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts¿ ' A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration…

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