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Japan: Its History and Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes...
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political...
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Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Two structuring concepts have predominated in discussions concerning how Middle Eastern men enact their identity culturally: domination and patri...
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From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about th...
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Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous st...
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Who Counts?: The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economi...
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Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the co...
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Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastTo...
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Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encount...
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How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question o...
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Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it o...
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The Book of Tea Classic Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables ...
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Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Connections between what people eat and who they are—between cuisine and identity—reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...
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From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /While the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belonging to a...
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The Chrysanthemum And The Sword
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork explores the political, religious, and economic life of ...
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The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The Dominican Republic was once celebrated as a mulatto racial paradise. Now the island nation is idealized as a white, Hispanic nation, having a...
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The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a v...
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Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karl...
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Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which P...
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A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ec...
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year“A p...
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A History of Japan: Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a sing...
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A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that...
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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of ...
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