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...
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...
The historical emergence of centralised mineral resource governance in Ghana can be tied to its failed colonially transplanted legal system. This book offers a sobering reflection of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) formalisation, with a focus...Loe edasi...
This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of the Mediterranean region through the lenses of environmental design, heritage conservation, urban regeneration, and sustainable territorial development. Divided into four interconnected parts, this...Loe edasi...
Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call akrasia that is, the possibility t...Loe edasi...
Through ethnographic research primarily in Bulawayo,Economies of Care addresses the intersection of kinship, state functions and migration in sustaining livelihoods amidst Zimbabwes economic and political instability....Loe edasi...
Our modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital artifacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of digital artifacts is no longer the exclusive d...Loe edasi...
Archaeological literature has often placed the role of crafting within discourses of craft specialization, anchoring it to questions related to sociopolitical complexity, which linked political processes with productive organization. This book invit...Loe edasi...
Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and...Loe edasi...
