(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649033703)
A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentially hybrid forms and becomes p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295754703)
Essential for scholars of anthropology, postcolonial studies, and Asian and diaspora studies, as well as readers seeking a deeper understanding of Philippine life, Town of Dollars exposes how violence lingers not in moments of crisis but in the ordi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295754697)
Essential for scholars of anthropology, postcolonial studies, and Asian and diaspora studies, as well as readers seeking a deeper understanding of Philippine life, Town of Dollars exposes how violence lingers not in moments of crisis but in the ordi...Loe edasi...
This book offers a sharp ethnographic immersion into the high-stakes world of nightclub security in Southern Italy. Following months of firsthand fieldwork, it uncovers how authority is truly negotiated beyond the velvet rope....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197745809)
Edited by Simran Jeet Singh, Modeling Religious Pluralism brings together global leaders and experts to share experiences and practical advice on bridging divides across religious difference....Loe edasi...
Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject mat...Loe edasi...
This book delivers a fresh approach to understanding cultural heritage amid an underexplored yet dynamic global force: the uncertainty of political transition. This book delivers a fresh approach to understanding cultural heritage a...Loe edasi...
This is the most up-to-date collection of essays in English on the trajectory of Taiwan and its modernist art movement currently available. Situated in a unique geopolitical and historical juncture, Taiwan provides a sole paradigm in Asia that crit...Loe edasi...
This edited collection offers a distinctive contribution to death studies by foregrounding analytical autoethnographic narratives from researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the field. Unlike works centred on personal bereavement, it expl...Loe edasi...
Exploring Zora Neale Hurstons life and work through a decolonial lens, this book traces Hurstons journey from her early life (18911919) and struggles at the margins (19201930) to her peak as a pioneering ethnographer and writer (19311956) and her la...Loe edasi...
William R. Seaburg, Laurel B. Sercombe, Jay Miller, Elizabeth D. Jacobs
Sari: Global Indigenous Literatures
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246158)
Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories comprises forty-five narratives dictated by Coquelle Thompson, an Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian residing on the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon, during the fall of 1935. Elizabeth D. Jacobs tra...Loe edasi...
Francisco P V Miguel, Matthew Waites, Marc Epprecht, Danilo da da Silva, Agnaldo Bata, Nicola Biasio, Maria Judite Chipenembe, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Daria Trentini...
Queer Mozambique offers a wide-ranging exploration of Mozambiques distinctive cultures of sexual and gender dissent and fluidity, from the mine compounds of the late nineteenth century to the current LGBTIQ+ movement and the formation of new sexual...Loe edasi...
Francisco P V Miguel, Matthew Waites, Marc Epprecht, Danilo da Silva, Agnaldo Bata, Nicola Biasio, Maria Judite Chipenembe, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Daria Trentini...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Wits University Press, ISBN-13: 9781997461050)
Postcolonial Mozambique decriminalized homosexual acts in 2015. This legal reform was not a response to litigation or public pressure, but came from a parliamentary initiative and lobbying by a few organizations. Subsequent public opinion polls show...Loe edasi...
Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepals Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end...Loe edasi...
Pedagogies of Value explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of worth. This book investigates how value is taught, contested, and transformed in everyday encounters and reveals how foreign intermediary attempts to educate Chinese consumers...Loe edasi...
With biographical undertones, Pierre Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation is an anthropological essay that offers a singular and nuanced reflection on the originality and scope of Pierre Vergers experience as a photographer in...Loe edasi...
Syrians living in refuge in Lebanon and Turkey during the war in Syria continued to reckon with the Syrian State as a direct and indirect force in their lives. Through an ethnographic account of everyday life in Syrian families with a variety of pol...Loe edasi...
