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  • A Messy Miracle

    MY PLOT; GOD'S PLAN

    by Charles E. Briggs ...
    The book gives a message to many that no matter how messed up you think your life is or has been, there is yet some good that will come out of it! The book is basically a biography of my childhood up until my late teens to early twenties. The book contains some graphic story telling that isn't suitable for children under 18. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Making Health Public

    How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life

    by Charles L. Briggs, Daniel C. Hallin ...
    This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and disease. The authors advance the notion of ‘biomediatization’ and demonstrate how health knowledge is co-produced through connections between dispersed ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Scope of Theology and its Place in the University

    by Charles A. Briggs ...
    The American colleges have been gradually casting off the bonds of ecclesiasticism and dogmatism which enslaved them to denominationalism and made them the citadels and prisons of sectarianism. The elimination of the theological seminary from the college removed the chief difficulties in the way of the liberation of the college: but at the same time it resulted in increasing the bondage of the ... Read more

    $2.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tell Me Why My Children Died

    Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice

    by Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult experiences of doctors, patients, parents, local leaders, healers, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Unlearning

    Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge

    by Charles L. Briggs ...
    A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field, that scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse theories across disciplines when they collaborate ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Incommunicable

    Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

    by Charles L. Briggs ...
    In Incommunicable, Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing linguistic and medical anthropology into conversation with Black and decolonial theory, he theorizes the failure in health communication as incommunicability, which negatively affects all patients, doctors, and healthcare ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Stories in the Time of Cholera

    Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare

    by Charles L. Briggs ...
    Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Governance of Kings and Princes

    John Trevisa's Middle English Translation of the De Regimine Principum of Aegidius Romanus

    Edited by David C. Fowler, Charles F. Briggs, Paul G. Remley ...
    Series series Garland Medieval Texts
    This is the first edition of the Middle English version of an influential treatise on governance entitled De Regimine Principum. The first volume contains a critical text of the Middle English prose and second will provide an introduction, textual notes and a glossary. Aegidius Romanus (Giles of Rome), an Augustinian friar and professor of theology at the University of Paris, composed the Latin ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance

    by Erica Acevedo-Ontiveros, Katherine Borland, Kit Danowski, Lisa Gabbert, Lisa Gilman, Sarah M. Gordon, Gregory Hansen, Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius, Eric Mayer-García, celia meredith, Pris Nasrat, Sabra Webber ...
    Just over half a century ago, the rise in what became known as the "performance turn" in folklore studies led to the diffusion of performance as both a lens and a key concept across a wide range of humanistic disciplines. Now, it's time to take stock of the myriad ways in which performance and folklore studies have developed along both parallel and intersecting paths.Emerging Perspectives in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Latent Growth Curve Modeling

    by Kristopher J. Preacher, Aaron Lee Wichman, Robert Charles MacCallum, Nancy E. Briggs ...
    Series series Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
    Latent growth curve modeling (LGM)—a special case of confirmatory factor analysis designed to model change over time—is an indispensable and increasingly ubiquitous approach for modeling longitudinal data. This volume introduces LGM techniques to researchers, provides easy-to-follow, didactic examples of several common growth modeling approaches, and highlights recent advancements regarding the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • The Meanings of Macho

    Being a Man in Mexico City

    by Matthew C. Gutmann ...
    Series Book 3 - Men and Masculinity
    In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface that updates the stories of the book's key protagonists. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

    by Eduardo P. Archetti, Ann S. Blum, Alejandra Bronfman, Arlene J. Díaz, Lessie Jo Frazier, William E. French, James N. Green, Cymene Howe, David S. Parker0, Pablo Piccato1, Lara E. Putnam2, Wendy A. Vogt3, Erica M. Windler4 ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these ... Read more

    $49.39 USD