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Priya Swamy,
Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memo…

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Mike Pitts
Island at the Edge of the World

In the tradition of Hampton Sides and Simon Winchester comes a vital and timely work of historical adventure and reclamation by British archeological scholar Mike Pitts---a book that rewrites the popular …

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Amy Cox Hall
The Taste of Nostalgia

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.

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Sweetening and Intensification

Explores how these two currents are shaping the contours of contemporary Hindu worship, myth, and visual and material culture in contemporary South Asia and its diasporas.This volume focuses on two altern…

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Teresa Pinheiro
Urban Memories

Hispanic Urban Studies

The book explores the symbolic emergence of the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid's public space in the aftermath of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Despite the constraints of a transition to democracy p…

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Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Born to Rule

The Economist , Best Books of 2024 The Times , Best Ideas Books of 2024 A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like …

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Susan Greenhalgh
Soda Science

"Recent years have brought growing concern about the power of huge corporations to distort science for corporate benefit, often to the detriment of human health. This book unearths a kind of corporat…

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Louis V Headman
Walks on the Ground

Walks on the Ground is a record of Ponca Elder Louis V. Headman's personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades.

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Soundtracks of Climate Change

Examines the functions, reach and effectiveness of sound in communicating and disseminating climate-related content across a variety of audiovisual media.

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Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry White
Ways of Eating

"The intricate ways in which human history is formed by food are catacombs full of stories, waiting to be exposed, unraveled, and told. Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry White's vignettes and chapters are f…

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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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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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Fang Fang,
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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Mardi Reardon-Smith
Making Do

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used f…

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Mardi Reardon-Smith
Making Do

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used f…

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Josh Brahinsky
Tongues of Fire

In Tongues on Fire , 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 practice of spea…

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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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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 displacementTo the extent that Mid…

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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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