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  • Ethnic Identity

    Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century

    de Lola Romanucci-Ross, George A. De Vos, Andrea Boscoboinik, Fabienne Doucet, Louis Freedberg, Mary Kay Gilliland, Philip Hermans, Lotte Hughes, Czeslaw Milosz0, Eugeen Roosens1, Yos Santasombat2, Nancy Scheper-Hughes3, Carola Suarez-Orozco4, Hiroshi Wagatsuma5 ...
    In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, with ten new chapters, the editors provide thought-provoking discussions on the importance of ethnicity in different cultural and social contexts. The authors focus especially on changing ethnic and national identities, on migration and ethnic minorities, on ethnic ascription versus self-definitions, and on shifting ethnic identities and political control ... Leer más

    $55.09 USD

  • The Color of Hunger

    Race and Hunger in National and International Perspective

    de Nazir Ahmad, Kevin Danaher, Tshenuwani Simon Farisani, Percy Hintzen, Mutombo Mpanya, Beatriz Manz, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, David L. L. Shields, Michele Tingling-Clemmons, Dessima Williams ...
    The first book ever to examine the links between hunger and race, The Color of Hunger probes the contemporary and historical reasons hunger is concentrated among people of color, both domestically and globally. ... Leer más

    $44.59 USD

  • Commodifying Bodies

    Edición de Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loïc Wacquant ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Violence at the Urban Margins

    Edición de Javier Auyero, Philippe Bourgois, Nancy Scheper-Hughes ...
    Series series Global and Comparative Ethnography
    In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

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  • What is Migration History?

    de Christiane Harzig, Dirk Hoerder ...
    Series series What is History?
    The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers an acute analysis of key issues across several disciplines. It takes in its scope an overview of migrations through history, how classic theories have interpreted such movements, ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The World

    A Beginner's Guide

    de Göran Therborn ...
    What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged, and what is driving human society in our times? In short, what is the state of the world today as we enter the second decade of the 21st century?This is the first book which deals with planetary human ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • A Life Beyond Boundaries

    A Memoir

    de Benedict Anderson ...
    An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined CommunitiesBorn in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Globalizations and Social Movements

    Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere

    Edición de John Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy, Mayer Zald ...
    Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization not only spurs the creation of social movements, but affects the way many social movements are ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD

  • Body Studies

    An Introduction

    de Margo DeMello ...
    In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students.Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the ... Leer más

    Antes $87.99 USD Ahora $78.99 USD

  • Global Multiculturalism

    Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation

    de Grant H. Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard, Henley Adams, Patricia Alden, Anne Csete, Judith De Groat, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, Louis Dupont, Kirk Fuoss, Randall T. H. Hill, William Hunt, Joseph Kling, Nathalie LeMarchand, John Makumbe, Celia Nyamweru, Laura Nuzzi O’Shaughnessy, Ansil Ramsay, Steven F. White ...
    Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries-each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    de Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Leer más

    $68.50 USD