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Male Homosexuality in 21st-Century Thailand: A Longitudinal Study of Young, Rural, Same-Sex-Attracted Men Coming of Age
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book presents the very first analysis of male homosexuality in modern rural Thailand that is based on sociological/anthropological research di...
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Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chi...
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Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of "brown sav...
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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology
HardcoverOriginal price $190.00 - Original price $190.00Original price $190.00$216.99$216.99 - $216.99Current price $216.99| /Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the con...
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Coming Out in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Traditionally the Japanese have shunned those not fitting the majority heterosexual mould. Those with a homosexual orientation have always endure...
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Brown and Gay in La: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association The stories of second-generation immigrant g...
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The Significance of Chinatown Development to a Multicultural America: An Exploration of the Houston Chinatowns
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The Houston Chinatown's dramatic transformation from a Chinese enclave decades ago to a continually expanding multiethnic boomtown today contrasts ...
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Vietnam's Modern Day Boat People: Bridging Borders for Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In 2016, a newspaper published an article about four childrendue to be sent to an orphanage after their parents were punished for attempting to fl...
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Christians in the City of Hong Kong: Chinese Christianity in Asia's World City
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Christians in the City of Hong Kongtells the story of a multi-faceted, constantly evolving Christianity in a vibrant metropolis that has always bee...
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Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters Between Germany and Korea
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea undertakes an interdisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted d...
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A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Environmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and...
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Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of later-generation JapaneseAmericans Japanese Americans are seen as the "model mino...
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Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized...
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Visions of Marriage: Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new...
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From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Illuminating the complex processes of China's uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this bo...
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Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state i...
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Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state i...
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Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State-Society Relations
HardcoverOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China examines the key mechanisms operating at the grassroots level in China that contribute to urban development ...
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The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul displays how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoul--the...
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City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges t...
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City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges t...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity in Manila and Singapore
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Provides vivid accounts of commercial and leisure spaces that captivated the public imagination in the past but have since been destroyed, forgot...
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