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The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina
PaperbackOriginal price $47.00 - Original price $47.00Original price $47.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /An exploration of omissions, or silences, in previous investigations of agrarian transformations by foregrounding indigenous experiences of capital...
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Raving
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York's t...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran, Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Law of Desire explores an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. Drawing on rich...
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Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two...
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The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Atatürk f...
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Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the...
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Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the ea...
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Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran investigates the ways in which Armenian minorities in Iran encountered Iranian nati...
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Magic Carpet Exodus of Yemenite Jewry: An Israeli Formative Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /In 1949-50 Operation Magic Carpetbrought the majority of the Jews of Yemen to Israel through secret co-operation between the Imam of Yemen, the Bri...
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Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Pressing Onward centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing ...
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Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Pressing Onward centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing ...
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Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Informed by Eric Wolf's Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin Ame...
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South Africa - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /South Africa has been described as "A World in One Country" and a "Rainbow Nation." Its landscape ranges from miles of glorious beaches to the inla...
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Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This ambitious interdisciplinary study is the first to examine the interlinked economic uses and cultural practices and beliefs surrounding cattl...
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Daily Life of the Aztecs
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Tireless speech-makers and lovers of verse, the ancient Aztecs were also prodigious record keepers, using a pictographic system to keep records o...
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with ...
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The Racial Order
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Mat...
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Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Selected by Kirkus for "Best of 2021: Our Favorite Nonfiction" It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, withou...
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A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. ...
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A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Spanning three centuries of Brooklyn history from the colonial period to the present, A Covenant with Color exposes the intricate relations of domi...
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The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In this penetrating collection of original essays, legendary gadfly and esteemed critic Stanley Crouch tackles the notion on authenticity-what it i...
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Stylin': African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presente...
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