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  • Forecasts

    A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster

    by Caroline Schuster ...
    Series series ethnoGRAPHIC
    Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graphic novel brings together original ethnographic research and Paraguayan gothic art to confront the limitations of finance to respond ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edited by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Read more

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  • Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

    by Ailton Krenak ...
    Translated by Anthony Doyle ...
    “Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” — Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen FeathersIndigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.From Brazil comes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

    Edited by Ilana Johnson, David Pacifico, Robyn E. Cutright ...
    Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often ... Read more

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  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    by Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Performance

    by Diana Taylor ...
    "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Patients of the State

    The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

    by Javier Auyero ...
    Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Viva la historieta

    Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

    by Bruce Campbell ...
    ¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • I'm Neither Here nor There

    Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

    by Patricia Zavella ...
    I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • U.S. Central Americans

    Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance

    Edited by Karina Oliva Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, Ester E. Hernández ...
    In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States.While much has been written about U.S. and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Eating Soup without a Spoon

    Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World

    by Jeffrey H. Cohen ...
    Significant scholarship exists on anthropological fieldwork and methodologies. Some anthropologists have also published memoirs of their research experiences. Renowned anthropologist Jeffrey Cohen’s Eating Soup without a Spoon is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of the two, expertly melding story with methodology to create a compelling narrative of fieldwork that is deeply grounded in anthropological ... Read more

    $26.99 USD