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Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487553869
Pub Date: October 2024
This multi-sensory ethnography invites readers and listeners to discover the Italian island of Sardinia through storytelling, music, and song.
Amdo Lullaby
An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau
Price:
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487558673
Pub Date: October 2024
This book analyses the everyday conversations of children in eastern Tibet (contemporary People's Republic of China) to demonstrate how they use language to navigate the social and cultural changes caused by rural to urban migration.
Relative Strangers
Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
Price:
$60.00
ISBN: 9781487558710
Pub Date: October 2024
Engaging classic anthropological theory, Relative Strangers offers a fresh perspective on kinship in Palestine by focusing on Romani families of the region.
Thailand’s Far South
Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487556129
Pub Date: October 2024
Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand’s Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand’s southern region.
Sticky, Sexy, Sad
Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487549305
Pub Date: April 2024
Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad – an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist who lays her own life bare as she explores the cultural matrix of digital courtship.
A Winning Dialect
Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway
Price:
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487545963
Pub Date: April 2024
A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.
Toxic
A Tour of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487509521
Pub Date: April 2024
This graphic novel ethnography takes the reader on a "toxic tour" of the Ecuadorian Amazon and reveals the struggles for environmental justice in everyday life.
Sugar
An Ethnographic Novel
Price:
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487554989
Pub Date: March 2024
This captivating ethnographic novel tells a story about global inequality through a rich, poignant, and often humorous portrait of everyday life in the postcolonial Pacific.
On Stony Ground
Russländer Mennonites and the Rebuilding of Community in Grunthal
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487547424
Pub Date: February 2024
On Stony Ground traces a generation of Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union to Manitoba, detailing their adaptation to a new land.
Bloom Spaces
Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica
Price:
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487549695
Pub Date: January 2024
This creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Moving Words
Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487543693
Pub Date: July 2023
A richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin’s status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capital for the arts.
Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
Price:
$28.95
ISBN: 9781487542238
Pub Date: May 2023
This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.
Under Pressure
Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada
Price:
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487548216
Pub Date: April 2023
Told from the vantage point of the "Hub of the North," this student-friendly ethnography examines the boom and bust of Canada’s diamond industry.
Truly Human
Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa
Price:
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487545864
Pub Date: April 2023
Truly Human explores the lifeworlds, ethics, and political strategies of Indigenous peoples in Taiwan amid colonialism, geopolitical tensions, and internal political conflicts.
The Dervishes of the North
Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487545451
Pub Date: April 2023
The Dervishes of the North traces the legacy of the thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and examines contemporary Sufism in Canada.
Moral Figures
Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487543211
Pub Date: January 2023
Moral Figures examines entanglements of quantified population indicators, medical birthing practices, and Indigenous relationalities to understand gendered consequences of making reproduction public
Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487553869
Pub Date: October 2024
Amdo Lullaby
An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487558673
Pub Date: October 2024
This book analyses the everyday conversations of children in eastern Tibet (contemporary People's Republic of China) to demonstrate how they use language to navigate the social and cultural changes caused by rural to urban migration.
Relative Strangers
Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
$60.00
ISBN: 9781487558710
Pub Date: October 2024
Thailand’s Far South
Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487556129
Pub Date: October 2024
Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand’s Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand’s southern region.
Sticky, Sexy, Sad
Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487549305
Pub Date: April 2024
A Winning Dialect
Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487545963
Pub Date: April 2024
Toxic
A Tour of the Ecuadorian Amazon
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487509521
Pub Date: April 2024
This graphic novel ethnography takes the reader on a "toxic tour" of the Ecuadorian Amazon and reveals the struggles for environmental justice in everyday life.
Sugar
An Ethnographic Novel
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487554989
Pub Date: March 2024
On Stony Ground
Russländer Mennonites and the Rebuilding of Community in Grunthal
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487547424
Pub Date: February 2024
On Stony Ground traces a generation of Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union to Manitoba, detailing their adaptation to a new land.
Bloom Spaces
Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487549695
Pub Date: January 2024
This creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Moving Words
Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487543693
Pub Date: July 2023
A richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin’s status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capital for the arts.
Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
$28.95
ISBN: 9781487542238
Pub Date: May 2023
This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.
Under Pressure
Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada
$26.95
ISBN: 9781487548216
Pub Date: April 2023
Told from the vantage point of the "Hub of the North," this student-friendly ethnography examines the boom and bust of Canada’s diamond industry.
Truly Human
Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487545864
Pub Date: April 2023
Truly Human explores the lifeworlds, ethics, and political strategies of Indigenous peoples in Taiwan amid colonialism, geopolitical tensions, and internal political conflicts.
The Dervishes of the North
Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487545451
Pub Date: April 2023
The Dervishes of the North traces the legacy of the thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and examines contemporary Sufism in Canada.
Moral Figures
Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487543211
Pub Date: January 2023
Moral Figures examines entanglements of quantified population indicators, medical birthing practices, and Indigenous relationalities to understand gendered consequences of making reproduction public