Category - Social Science
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinar...
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Abina and the Important Men
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association—and widely acclaimed by educators and students—Abina and the I...
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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The fifth volume in the Voice of Witness series presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, e...
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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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The Girls Ate Last
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This book tells the story of Inder Kaur, an Indian woman growing up in the early 20th century. Girls were expected to eat last after the men and bo...
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Finding Soul from Silicon Valley to Africa: A Travel Memoir and Personal Journey Through Twenty Countries in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An inspiring story about a rather unsuccessful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who traveled to 19 countries in Africa and learned deeply about empathy,...
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High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa...
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High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa...
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The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This "elegant" and "unfailingly empathetic" narrative (The New York Times) follows th...
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The Work of Repair: Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 20...
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Young Women Against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual vi...
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Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880-1963
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of violence were not in...
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Historical Archaeology in South Africa: Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa to provide a rich pict...
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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, economic, and human rights crises. This...
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Abundance: Sexuality's History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that...
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The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.Product Det...
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Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City
HardcoverOriginal price $102.95 - Original price $102.95Original price $102.95$121.99$121.99 - $121.99Current price $121.99| /Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai's Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in...
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Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai's Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in...
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The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the larges...
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Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists w...
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Indian Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Myths, Gods, and Goddesses from India
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From the creation of the universe to celestial wars to reincarnation, Indian mythology features enigmatic tales of time, creation, and spirituality...
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Whose Samosa Is It Anyway?: The Story of Where 'Indian' Food Really Came from
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Did the European traders come to India before the Arab conquerors? Can you say cinnamon is an Indian spice even though it first grew in Sri Lanka ...
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands Volume 10
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northe...
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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A deft combination of adventure, history, reportage and elegy."--Washington Post A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe...
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