Social And Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Social Sciences

Fuchsia Dunlop
Invitation to a Banquet

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDThe epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When …

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Schlüsselbegriffe gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts

Dieses kritische Vokabular durchleuchtet die rasante Verbreitung der Rhetorik vom »gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt« in verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Praxis- und Konfliktfeldern. Ließe sich die politis…

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Ellena Savage
Blueberries

'I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.' Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explores Portuguese police stations and Portlan…

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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

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William C Meadows
The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache

"The North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spirited C…

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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

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Bruno Huberman,
The Palestinians and East Jerusalem

"Over the last two decades, the Israeli government has implemented policies for the development of East Jerusalem. These comprise urban revitalization as well as professional training and the promotion of…

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Sally Coulthard
A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024: Nature Writing The 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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Nyron N Crawford
Marked Men

"Examines the racial content and effects of Black Americans' suspicion regarding the potential political harassment of Black Elected Officials"--

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Scott W Aalgaard
Homesick Blues

Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that author Scott Aalgaard ca…

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The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture

The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture is the first comprehensive English-language volume covering a history of Soviet artistic and literary underground. In forty-four chapters, an internationa…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century

Looks at the revolution of botanical study and the evolution of the new science of biology in the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, popu…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era

Examines how our relationship with plants has evolved since 1920, through advances in agriculture, industry, science, and technology,, the impact of urbanization, and our increased understanding of the si…

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Franziska Reiffen
The Social Life of the Mall

Urban Studies

Paseo La Estación, a mall in Buenos Aires, is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter, where long-term residents and newcomers, people with and without jobs, homeowners and those without housin…

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Tankstellen und Raststätten in den Künsten

Tankstellen und Raststätten sind omnipräsente Orte industrialisierter Kulturen, an denen sich die Diskurse ihrer Zeit verdichten. Aus der Kombination - Orte des Zeitgeistes und der Alltagswelt - speist si…

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Soha Mohsen
On Friendship Between the No Longer and the Not Yet: An Ethnographic Account

"There is a great deal to be said about ideas and imaginations of the "future" when one does not have the luxury of maintaining a slot in the present. In the midst of acute conditions of precarity and str…

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Hasia R Diner
Opening Doors

"The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America. Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States …

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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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A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.

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