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Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government a...
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Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Oil is one of the world's most important commodities, but few people know how its extraction affects the residents of petroleum-producing regions. ...
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Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, S...
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Practicing Asylum: A Handbook for Expert Witnesses in Latin American Gender- And Sexuality-Based Asylum Cases
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...
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Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged withi...
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Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Awar...
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The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western s...
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Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the German House, in Constantinople...
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A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam's Age of Anxiety Volume 17
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520392168 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 09-12-2023 Pages: 177 Serie...
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Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys' experiences of circumcision. In Turkey, circumcision is...
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Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in...
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Meat Matters: Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon thirty y...
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Go with God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil Volume 12
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, the city'...
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Llamas Beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.Product Det...
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Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.Pro...
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Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, s...
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The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood Among Young Afghans in Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle...
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Florentine Codex: Book 1: Book 1: The Gods Volume 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagún's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in...
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Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Studying the relationships cultivated by mediums between the living and the dead "A major empirical contribution to the debate about antirepresenta...
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Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Ayya's Accounts explores the life of an ordinary man--orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather--during a century of tremendous hope and upheava...
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Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /A poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new ...
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Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /Rolling in Ditches with Shamans charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Ja...
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China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's Republic
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the...
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Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through t...
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