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Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women...

This volume offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through...

University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental...

Sweden, as many other prosperous nations, is presently reassessing its national goals, political culture and collective identity. Newer groups in society are demanding equal treatment, and others whose struggles for recognition are older and unwon, are...

It is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their stories-the human brain is a social brain. Jane Austen's characters are so believable, that for many of us, they are not just imaginary beings but friends. Brilliantly original and...

Contrasting views of race and society make for heated debate in the United States. From the perspective of assimilation, society operates in a fair, open, and meritocratic fashion. Racial discrimination, while not completely eliminated, arguably has...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804718073Author H. L. MalchowFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 953g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977133304Author Keli SipperleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Pebble BooksPublisher Pebble BooksWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510478114Author Marcellus AlbertinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hodder EducationPublisher Hodder Education

When natural disasters and emergencies strike, the short- and long-term effects of these events on first responders-the very people society relies upon in the midst of a catastrophe-are often overlooked. Policing in Natural Disasters provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483163658Author Ezequiel Ander-EggFormat PaperbackImprint CCS PublishingPublisher CCS Publishing

Syrian and Lebanese immigrants to Brazil chose to settle in urban areas, a marked contrast to many other migrant groups. In Sao Paulo, these newcomers embraced new lives as merchants, shopkeepers, and industrialists that made them a dominant force in the...

A companion volume to Out in the Field, a benchmark examination of lesbian and gay experiences in anthropology, Out in Theory presents lesbian and gay anthropology as a distinct specialization and addresses the theoretical issues that define the emerging...

Why, Diane Davis asks, has Mexico City, once known as the city of palaces, turned into a sea of people, poverty, and pollution? Through historical analysis of Mexico City, Davis identifies political actors responsible for the uncontrolled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510478107Author Marjorie BrathwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hodder EducationPublisher Hodder Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588342911Author Monica L. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives brings together a collection of readings from the scholarly literature on health, medicine, and health care. Edited by two leading experts in the field, the Eleventh Edition of this anthology for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497840750Author Lisa ParkinsonFormat PaperbackImprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa Editorial

The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In...

George Magoon (1851-1929), a notorious moose and deer poacher in Maine, was the hero of scores of funny stories of how he outwitted game wardens. Preserving these oral histories, Edward Ives documents Magoon's life and explores his significance as...

"Well argued and documented, Politics and Scholarship is a fascinating reading of a broader historical perspective of feminist concerns than just the three journals of focus: Feminist Studies, Frontiers, and Signs. The author's historical framework...

This volume combines two classic works of anthropology. The Little Community draws on the author's own notable studies of the villages of Tepoztlan and Chan Kom to explore the means by which scientists try to understand human communities. It contains,...

In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study...

What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at...

This handbook analyses the different types of shields used by soldiers in the Neo-Assyrian army and their opponents. Written, visual, and material sources are analysed to illustrate practical aspects of defensive weaponry in the ancient Near East in the...

When it comes to explaining the origins of electoral populism in the United States, we often look to the characteristics and conditions of voters, overlooking the reasons why populist candidates emerge in the first place. In The Making of the...

A story of freedom and flourishing in a community of former slavesIn 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen of his former slaves founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on a 9,000-acre block of land in Ontario set aside for sale to blacks...

Based upon historical and archival research, as well as the author's years of fieldwork in indigenous communities, Michael Uzendoski's theoretically informed work analyzes value from the perspective of the Napo Runa people of the Amazonian Ecuador. ...

Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at...

Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of hypocrisy in the American promises of freedom and equality. This probing history examines government attempts to manipulate...

This collection represents Michael Rosen's encounter with an 'ethnography of the center'-the study of cultural orders in the heart of the metropolis. Considers occupational worlds from finance and advertising to the subworld of drug dealing.Book...

How humans think and feel about their work handling food animalsHow humans think and feel about their work handling food animalsAbout the AuthorRhoda Wilkie is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Aberdeen, where she earned her doctorate in 2002...

This new edition of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society continues to emphasize intuition and common sense, while demonstrating the link between the practice of statistics and important social issues. Recognizing that today's students live in a...

Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography exposes the intimate relationship between ethnographers as both family members and researchers. The contributors to this exciting volume question and problematize the "artificial divide" between work and family...

Who decides where "normal" stops and "perverse" begins? In Vicarious Kinks, Ummni Khan looks at the mass of claims that film, feminism, the human sciences, and law make about sadomasochism and its practitioners, and the way those claims become the basis...

Essays explore the transformation in leisure activity and its effects on class relations in American societyEssays explore the transformation in leisure activity and its effects on class relations in American societyAbout the AuthorRichard Butsch is...

How is the meaning of the hyphen in "nation-state" changing in the context of globalization and proliferating political struggles? How can we investigate the transformation of the nation-state by marking the normally unmarked hyphen in "geo-graphy"?...

Left Behind in Rosedale is a stunning analysis of community and neighborhood decline. Through creative application of ethnographic analysis, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, Scott Cummings' unique book breathes human life into one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197578438Author Kristin J AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Rachel Kahn Best asks why disease campaigns have dominated a century of American philanthropy and health...