Social and cultural anthropology Books
University of Arizona Press The Ancient Maya Marketplace
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University of Arizona Press Imprints on Native Lands
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University of Arizona Press Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in
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University of Arizona Press Knowing the Day Knowing the World
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University of Arizona Press Shells on a Desert Shore
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University of Arizona Press Moral Ecology of a Forest
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University of Arizona Press Foreign Objects
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University of Arizona Press The Winged
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The University of Arizona Press The El Mozote Massacre Human Rights and Global
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University of Arizona Press Painting the Skin
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University of Arizona Press Educating Across Borders
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University of Arizona Press The Davis Ranch Site
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University of Arizona Press The Prehispanic Ethnobotany of Paquim and Its
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University of Arizona Press Mexicos Community Forest Enterprises Success on
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Birds of the Sun
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press States Of Exception
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Letters From The Promised Land Swedes in America
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Exchanging Clothes Habits of Being II
Book SynopsisHow garments—signaling and altering identity—circulate through culture and the economyTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsClothing, Dress, Fashion: An ArcadeIntroduction. Walking the Walk: Circulation and ExchangePaula Rabinowitz1. Accessory QuestionsLaura Montani2. Krizia and AccessoriesMariuccia Mandelli3. The Dress of Thought: Clothing and Nudity in Homer, Virgil, Dante, and AriostoAnne Hollander4. Orbits of Power: Rings in James Merrill’s PoetryAndrea Mariani5. Sheer Luxury: Kate Chopin’s “A Pair of Silk Stockings”Cristina Giorcelli6. Traveling Light: Nellie Bly’s All-Inclusive BagCristina Scatamacchia7. Like Their First Pair of High Heel Shoes: Continental Accessories and Audrey Hepburn’s Cinematic Coming of AgeAlisia Grace Chase8. Word-Processed for You by a Professional SeamstressKaren Reimer 9. Slips of the Tongue: Lesbian Pulp Fiction as How-to-Dress ManualsPaula Rabinowitz10. A Safety Pin for Elizabeth: Hard-Edge Accessorizing from Punk Subculture to High FashionVittoria C. Caratozzolo11. A Knot to Untie: Social Power, Fetishism, and Communication in the Social History of the TieNello Barile12. Ornaments and Feminine Clothing Tradition in Algeria; or the Identity QuestChafika Dib-Marouf13. It Is a Garage Sale at Savers Every Day: An Ethnography of the Savers Thrift Department Store in MinneapolisKatalin MedvedevCoda: Speaking Out and Speaking Up: The Circulating Power of FashionCristina GiorcelliContributors
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University of Minnesota Press Meeting Place
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paul Carter's commentaries on cross-cultural encounters have long been philosophically sophisticated and deservedly influential. His new book raises the question of what the value of meeting is, in whose terms. It takes us to the very heart of the histories of encounter and confrontation that have proven so intractable for so long in Australia and elsewhere." —Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge"The Meeting Place, Carter’s latest foray into colonial and postcolonial encounters of peoples, epistemologies, and longings, exposes what he foregrounds and reiterates as a ‘meeting place’ of desired belonging and social union. It is an imaginative, referentially capacious, formally demanding, as well as theoretically inventive book." —Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsContentsResponseBorderlineAsideRendez-vousHollowed OutCladdingCatching UpEcho LocationScalesOver and AboveThirdingsAll ChangeLiaisonsSinging ThroughX Marks the SpotG/hostsEnigma VariationsIn PassingPigeon HolesErotic ZonesFirst ImpressionsWithin a CooeeDangerousI Read Marx (I Don’t)TerminalMiddle GroundBlind SpotSave the WallAll EarsI Have Wondered beyond AbsolutesAccompanimentProxyNotesIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Landscape of Discontent
Book SynopsisTrade Review"From Haussmann to Charlie Hebdo, Paris has always demanded our attention. Efforts to vigilantly reimagine the city and its inhabitants remain one of the most important tasks in this urban century, and Andrew Newman’s Landscape of Discontent provides masterful insights into what urban nature has been and can be."—Nik Heynen, University of Georgia"Andrew Newman has crafted a dynamic account of how local residents and activists can transform a social and physical urban environment by drawing in the very political forces—including city planners—that imagine themselves as the true shapers of that reality."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"This is a fantastic book that should be required reading for anyone invested in debates on the right to the city, urban political ecology, and the cultural politics of belonging in contemporary France."—Antipode"An important contribution to a small, but growing body of Anglophone literature on housing and the built environment in late twentieth-century France."—H-France Review"Landscape of Discontent makes an important contribution to the politics of urban development, environmental activism, political power, and ethnocultural relations within the contemporary global city of Paris."—American Anthropologist"The author describes the grassroots protests opposing the rail company–led project for economic development and the political moves leading to the building of the park, bringing to light the actions and motives of activists and inhabitants, through interviews, conversations, and his own involvement in daily activities in the neighborhood."—Journal of Urban Affairs"Through research with residents, activists, and urban planners, Newman weaves together a detailed ethnography of grassroots mobilization with a structural analysis of neoliberal urbanism."—MetropoliticsTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviations Introduction1. Poets and Locomotives: Ecology and Politics on the Margins of Paris 2. Space, Style, and Grassroots Strategy in the Éole Mobilization3. Cultivating the Republic? Parks, Gardens, and Youth4. The End(s) of Urban Ecology in the Global City5. To Watch and Be Watched: Urban Design, Vigilance, and Contested Streets6. The Political Life of Small Urban SpacesConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Oil Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden's Oil Culture offers lively and passionate discussions of oil's ubiquitous yet sometimes invisible cultural presence."—Journal of Historical Geography"The collection’s strength lies in its ability to provoke new lines of inquiry, especially with regard to the intersections of energy studies and cultural studies."—Environmental History"Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden's Oil Culture offers lively and passionate discussions of oil's ubiquitous yet sometimes invisible cultural presence."—Journal of Historical Geography"The collection’s strength lies in its ability to provoke new lines of inquiry, especially with regard to the intersections of energy studies and cultural studies."—Environmental History"What Oil Culture brings to the table of global scholarship is an incredibly savvy intellectual manoeuvre that links Oil Studies with Cultural Studies"—Oil Culture"A groundbreaking work in oil studies that will provoke future critical conversation about and study of petrocapitalism, cultural representations of oil, and imaginative renderings of a ‘post-oil future.’"—The Year’s Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsContentsForewordAllan StoeklAcknowledgmentsIntroductionRoss Barrett and Daniel WordenPart I. Oil's Origins and Modernization1. Whale Oil Culture, Consumerism, and Modern ConservationHeidi Scott2. The Wizard of Oil: Abraham James, the Harmonial Wells, and the Psychometric History of the Oil IndustryRochelle Raineri Zuck3. Picturing a Crude Past: Primitivism, Public Art, and Corporate Oil Promotion in the United StatesRoss Barrett4. A Short History of Oil Cultures; or, The Marriage of Catastrophe and ExuberanceFrederick BuellPart II. Oil’s Golden Age: Literature, Film, and Propaganda5. Essential Driving and Vital Cars: American Automobile Culture in World War IISarah Frohardt-Lane6. Fossil-Fuel Futurity: Oil in GiantDaniel Worden7. Liquid Modernity: Sundown in Pawhuska, OklahomaHanna Musiol8. From Isfahan to Ingolstadt: Bertolucci’s La via del petrolio and the Global Culture of NeorealismGeorgiana BanitaPart III. The Local and Global Territories of Oil9. Aramco’s Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi ArabiaChad H. Parker10. Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta and the Gulf of MexicoMichael Watts11. Petro-magic-realism Revisited: Unimagining and Reimagining the Niger DeltaJennifer Wenzel12. Refined Politics: Petroleum Products, Neoliberalism, and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial LifeMatthew T. Huber13. Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual RelationsSheena WilsonPart IV. Exhibiting Oil14. Mixing Oil and Water: Naturalizing Offshore Oil Platforms in American AquariumsDolly Jørgensen15. Petroaesthetics and Landscape Photography: New Topographics, Edward Burtynsky, and the Culture of Peak OilCatherine Zuromskis16. Fossil, Fuel: Manifesto for the Post-Oil MuseumStephanie LeMenagerPart V. The Future of and without Oil17. Retrofutures and Petrofutures: Oil, Scarcity, LimitGerry Canavan18. Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil DocumentariesImre Szeman19. Oil and Dust: Theorizing Reza Negarestani’s CyclonopediaMelanie Doherty20. Imagining Angels on the GulfRuth SalvaggioContributorsIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Players and Their Pets
Book SynopsisIn Players and Their Pets, Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy chart the brief life of a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) called Faunasphere, examining how the game evolved over the course of its entire life cycle from 2009 to 2011 in terms of design as well as how its player community responded to changes and events.Trade Review"Players and Their Pets features a deep dive into a rich online world and a rare opportunity to see a the nearly complete life cycle of a game. A great read for anyone interested in studying, designing, or thinking about online games and virtual worlds."—Christopher A. Paul, Seattle UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Different Kind of World1. Introducing the Caretakers2. Those Were the Days: Interacting with Beta Players3. Shifting Platforms and Troubled Ground: Faunasphere and Facebook4. The End of the World5. “Why Am I So Heartbroken?” Exploring the Bonds between Players and FaunaConclusion: Saying Goodbye to Rock GardenAppendixNotesGameographyBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Genetic Geographies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important contribution to the growing body of social science critiques of human population genetics." —Peter Wade, coeditor of Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America"Excellent as a baseline study of ancestry and genealogy and, most importantly, addresses the misconceptions that have so long dominated race and ancestry."—CHOICE"The most original contribution of Genetic Geographies is found in Nash’s reading of the assumptions about sex, sexuality, and reproduction on which anthropological genetics builds its historical tales. Nash explores in vivid detail how the assertion of fundamental sex differences is essential to interpreting the genetic data."—Bulletin of the History of Medicine"This is an important read — for anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and STS scholars, students and academics alike. It is written in an accessible and engaging style that also reaches out to audiences beyond the social sciences."—Anthropos"Genetic Geographies illuminates how genetics are understood scientifically, politically, socially, and historically. Moreover, Nash reveals that while information can be gained through exploring genetic geographies, interpretations are inevitably shaped by current social, cultural, and political ideologies and perspective."—New Genetics and SocietyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Geography, Genetics, Kinship1. Genome Geographies: The Making of Ancestry and Origins2. Mapping the Global Human Family: Shared and Distinctive Descent3. Our Genetic Heritage: Figuring Diversity in National Studies4. Finding the “Truths” of Sex in Geographies of Genetic VariationConclusion. Degrees of Relatedness: “Natural” Geographies of Affinity and BelongingNotesIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Life Support Biocapital and the New History of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Life Support is an ethnographic study of the biopolitics of vital energy from the perspective of Indian call centers and surrogacy hospitals. Kalindi Vora argues that affective and reproductive labors produce more than economic value by helping to form new life and socialities. This book enlivens feminist theories on the ethics of female empathy and exchange in the outsourcing of care."—Aihwa Ong, coeditor of Asian Biotech and Worlding Cities "The reader of this slim volume is likely to be astonished in that Vora’s book genuinely makes good on its title, delivering an original, dense, and entirely coherent theorization of biocapital."—Antipode"[A]n engaging read."—CHOICE"Vora’s analysis in terms of 'vital energy' is given particularly force because of her choice to set labor of a very literally embodied sort—the biological labor of pregnancy, 'commissioned' by intending parents from far away and compensated by a flat fee—alongside capital flows that are easier to mistake as simply financial and immaterial. Her comparison returns us sharply to the biological substance or embodied materiality of all labor."—Somatosphere"An engaging and provocative read that makes a significant contribution to current debates on globalization and labor."—Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Life Support: India’s Production of Vital Energy1. Limits of Labor: Affect and the Biological in Transnational Surrogacy and Service Work2. Call Center Agents: Commodified Affect and the Biocapital of Care 3. Information Technology Professionals: Innovation and Uncertain Futures4. Transnational Gestational Surrogacy: Expectation and ExchangeEpilogue: Imperial Pasts and Mortgaged FuturesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Excavations at Wickliffe Mounds
Book SynopsisWickliffe Mounds overlook the Mississippi in Kentucky. Around 1100 CE, farmers and traders with a culture resembling the indigenous tribes of the Southeast created a settlement there, where they lived for 250 years. This volume is a compilation of 70 years' archaeological excavations at the site.
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The University of Alabama Press Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the
Book SynopsisAymara Indians are indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near the Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. Amy Eisenberg bases Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes on a framework of collaborative research and a detailed understanding of issues from the native point of view.
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University of Alabama Press Beautiful Politics of Music Trova in Yucatan
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA sophisticated examination of cultural tradition and innovation that makes the argument for cultural imagination and aesthetic choice, which is extremely important today when hard lines are once again being drawn around heritage and the arts, who defines them and who owns them."" - Anya Peterson Royce, author of Becoming an Ancestor: The Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death and Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
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The University of Alabama Press Life in a Mississippian Warscape
Book SynopsisArgues that to understand the big histories of warfare, political fragmentation, and resilience in the past archaeologists must also analyse and interpret the microscale actions of the past. These are the daily activities of people before, during, and after historical events.Trade Review“A theoretically nuanced and data-rich addition to our archaeological understanding of Mississippian warfare. This is a must-read for those interested in the historical interplay of violence, foodways, and identity.”— Gregory D. Wilson, coeditor of The Archaeology of Food and Warfare: Food Insecurity in Prehistory“This volume is an innovative look at the role of warfare in Mississippian societies that convincingly argues we can identify the presence and effects of warfare in the past. Through an examination of settlement patterns, ceramic and zooarchaeological Buchanan creates a compelling narrative that interprets archaeological data with an anthropological understanding of the daily costs of living through warfare.”— Maureen Meyers, coeditor of Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States
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The University of Alabama Press The Anthropology of Florida Classics in
Book SynopsisConstitutes the summary of anthropological information on Florida. This book considers previous research on Florida archaeology, physical anthropology, and aboriginal history. It also contains Hrdlicka's analysis of every human bone from Florida that he could find in collections.
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University of Alabama Press Anthropology and the Politics of Representation
Book SynopsisExamines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. AntiAmericanism in Europe Volume 527
Book SynopsisA revealing look at how, as the process of post–cold war European unification has progressed, anti-Americanism has proven to be a useful ideology for the definition of a new European identity. The author details the elements in this movement and tells why it is likely to remain a feature of relations between the US and Europe for the foreseeable future.
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MJ - Ohio University Press African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya 19001950
Book SynopsisThis book explores the history of African womanhood in colonial Kenya.Trade Review“This is the most interesting general Kenyan social history that I have had the pleasure to read for many years. It fills a large gap in the colonial history of Kenyan women as they negotiated changes in the most domestic areas of their experience. Within a broad analysis of colonial opportunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives.” -- John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge“A superb study of how, across the colonial period, the range of indigenous, government, and mission authorities...struggled to control and redefine the cultural and institutional practices that regulated women's lives.” * The Historian *
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MJ - Ohio University Press African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya 19001950 Eastern African Studies
Book SynopsisThis book explores the history of African womanhood in colonial Kenya.Trade Review“This is the most interesting general Kenyan social history that I have had the pleasure to read for many years. It fills a large gap in the colonial history of Kenyan women as they negotiated changes in the most domestic areas of their experience. Within a broad analysis of colonial opportunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives.” -- John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge“A superb study of how, across the colonial period, the range of indigenous, government, and mission authorities...struggled to control and redefine the cultural and institutional practices that regulated women's lives.” * The Historian *
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University of Hawai'i Press A Faraway Familiar Place Returning to Papua New
Book SynopsisA book for readers seeking an excursion deep into little-known terrain but allergic to the wide-eyed superficiality of ordinary travel literature. Author Michael French Smith savours the sometimes gritty romance of his travels to an island village far from roads, electricity, telephone service, and the Internet, but puts to rest the clichà of âœStone Ageâ Papua New Guinea.
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Tpp Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice
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Michigan State University Press Asian Indians in Michigan Discovering the Peoples
Book SynopsisSince 1970, a growing number of Asian Indians have called Michigan home. Here, Arthur W. Helweg shows how Asian Indians in Michigan contribute to the richness and diversity of Michigan's culture through participation in local institutions, while maintaining an ethnic identity rooted in India.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press People of the Big Voice
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Return to Wake Robin One Cabin in the Heyday of
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Return to Wake Robin
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Mexicans in Wisconsin People of Wisconsin
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WW Norton & Co DNA USA
Book SynopsisCrisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.Trade Review"Starred review. Human genetics energetically elucidated, entertaining travel writing, the fascinating personal stories of DNA volunteers, and Sykes’ candid musings on his awakening to the complex emotional and social implications of hidden biological inheritances make for a milestone book guaranteed to ignite spirited discussion." -- Donna Seaman - Booklist"Starred review. Sykes combines history, science, travel and memoir in one grand exposition of what it means to be an “American.” In a graceful text, the author delivers rich images of the American landscape, conversations with strangers, and historic asides on the waves of immigration, the Indian diasporas and the various federal laws that shaped the movements of people across the continent. ...Sykes should also be applauded for his skills as a storyteller, science expositor, travel companion and compassionate human being." -- Kirkus Reviews"An authority on ancient DNA analysis, Sykes provides a nontechnical introduction to how Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA may be used to reveal ancestral heritage. Combining in-depth interviews with volunteers along with these genetic techniques, he attempts to create a biological portrait of the United States. Using a travel diary approach to describe his three-month coast-to-coast journey, he introduces the people he meets and reflects on how ancestry and heredity play into our culture, customs, and beliefs. While Sykes acknowledges that the sample is too small to draw significant conclusions, the results provide interesting perspectives on life in early America… These DNA portraits illustrate the complexity of human inheritance and how difficult it is to assign individuals to distinct groups." -- Library Journal"As the author of The Seven Daughters of Eve and other books, Sykes is an old hand at writing about genetics for the general public. His experience shows as he deftly introduces highly technical information in reader-friendly ways… During his journey, Sykes encounters people who embrace DNA testing as a way to clear up messy genealogical records. He also meets skeptics, who see the technology as a way to discredit their cultural heritage. Sykes doesn’t shy away from these criticisms, presenting a well-balanced view of the disparate attitudes." -- Tina Hesman Saey - ScienceNews"It may seem odd for the author of a book on human genetics and heredity to thank his travel agent in the acknowledgments, but in the case of this hybrid work of science and cross-country reportage it’s a fitting gesture… Sykes writes lucidly, creating his own unique mixture in a book that might be described as Travels With Charley meets The Double Helix." -- Abigail Meisel - New York Times Book Review
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Russell Sage Foundation Skin Color Power and Politics in America
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Russell Sage Foundation TexasStyle Exclusion
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Utah State University Press Living Folklore An Introduction to the Study of
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Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. Beyond Survival and Philanthropy
Book SynopsisWhat will hold American Jewry and Israel together as the traditional crisis glue melts down and the familiar Israeli call for aid retreats to the remote background? This book is a collection of answers to this complex question offered by leading Israeli and American scholars, educators, journalists, and communal leaders.Trade Review"Provocative essays"". - Howard Wachtel, American Jewish History
£25.17
Slavica Publishers Empire Jews
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£28.85
Ohio University Center for International Studies BitterSweet The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century Research in International Studies Southeast Asia
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HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTIO Economy Hall
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