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  • af Andrew Brandel
    249,95 - 698,95 kr.

  • af Alexandra Widmer
    226,95 - 588,95 kr.

  • af Andreas Bandak
    274,95 - 563,95 kr.

  • - Information Politics in Urban Indonesia
    af Sheri Lynn Gibbings
    307,95 kr.

    Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.

  • - Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname
    af Stuart Earle Strange
    274,95 - 571,95 kr.

    This ethnography considers how spirit mediums interactively create self-knowledge out of interpersonal suspicion in the racially and religious diverse Caribbean country of Suriname.

  • - Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore
    af Robert Phillips
    351,95 kr.

    This book provides the first detailed, yet accessible, ethnographic case study looking at changes in LGBT activism in Singapore.

  • - Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
    af Sarah Shulist
    307,95 kr.

    Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of S o Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.

  • - Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal
    af Joseph Hill
    364,95 kr.

    Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how Sufi women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership.

  • - Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel
    af Damien Stankiewicz
    353,95 kr.

    Damien Stankiewicz's ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel.

  • - Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal
    af Tom O'Neill
    261,95 kr.

    The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of Tom O'Neill's experiences undertaking ethnographic fieldwork in Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal.

  • - Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People
    af Gregory L. Forth
    387,95 kr.

    Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia.

  • - African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
    af Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
    387,95 kr.

    Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an account of his experience listening to these storytellers and of how oral tradition continues to evolve in the modern world.

  • - The Encounter between the LoDagaa and 'the World on Paper'
    af Sean Hawkins
    444,95 kr.

    Drawing on the work of a variety of other fields and disciplines - from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology - the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing.

  • - Indigenous Everyday Life in Auckland
    af Natacha Gagne
    387,95 kr.

    Grounded in an ethnography of everyday life in the city of Auckland, Being Maori in the City is an investigation of what being Maori means today.

  • - Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress
    af Sam Migliore
    307,95 kr.

  • - Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia
    af Kee Howe Yong
    330,95 kr.

    This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s.

  • - History, Society, and the State in Sardinia
    af Antonio Sorge
    307,95 kr.

    In Legacies of Violence, Antonio Sorge examines highland Sardinia's long history of resistance to outside authority and the effects that a history of violence exercises on collective representations.

  • - Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost
    af Girish Daswani
    318,95 kr.

    Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the Ghanaian diaspora in London.

  • - Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania
    af Gediminas Lankauskas
    421,95 kr.

    Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Land of Weddings and Rain examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding in post-socialist Lithuania.

  • - Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil
    af Allan Charles Dawson
    318,95 kr.

    In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

  • - The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples
    af James B. Waldram
    479,95 kr.

    Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.

  • - An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon
    af Carlos Londono Sulkin
    332,95 kr.

    Londono Sulkin explains a number of key issues and debates in Amazonian anthropology with great clarity, making People of Substance a useful text for students.

  • - Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
    af Anne Meneley
    341,95 kr.

    Meneley explores the deep reliance of Middle Eastern men on their female kin to establish, maintain, and indeed increase the family's honour in the eyes of the wider community by engaging in the exchange of hospitality.

  • - An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
    af Michael Lambek
    364,95 kr.

    This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.

  • - Explorations in Political Economy and Hegemony, 1800-1950
    af Marilyn Silverman
    479,95 kr.

    In An Irish Working Class, Marilyn Silverman explores the dynamics of capitalism, colonialism, and state formation through an examination of the political economy and culture of those who contributed their labour.

  • - Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy
    af Cristina Moretti
    353,95 kr.

    Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan.

  • - An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland
    af Glynis (Assistant Professor George
    363,95 kr.

    This important study continues the work of feminist ethnographies by such scholars as:Abu-Lughod, Behar, Cole, DiLeonardo, Ginsburg, and Lowenhaupt-Tsing. Avoiding the all too common pitfall of folkorization in rural studies, The Rock Where We Stand represents an innovative and experimental contribution to the field.

  • - The Making of Silences and Commemorations
     
    398,95 kr.

    This collection of case studies from around the world uses a new approach in historical anthropology, one that focuses on heterogeneity within cultures rather than coherence to explain how we commemorate certain events, while silencing others.

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