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Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger by Adeline Masquelier 9780822326335
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $159.89Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is also the practice of taming these wild forces in the context of possession ceremonies. In... -
The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law by Larry Alexander 9780822327363
RRP: $207.90Booksplease Price: $168.08Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained... -
In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages by Ariel Dorfman 9780822329879
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76In the world of Chilean poet Ariel Dorfman, men and women can be forced to choose between leaving their country or dying for it. The living risk losing everything, but what they hold onto-love,... -
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora by Martin F. Manalansan 9780822332176
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $39.88A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a... -
Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald 9780822341284
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $169.72How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the... -
The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere by Pablo Piccato 9780822346531
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $169.72In the mid-to-late nineteenth century, as Mexico emerged out of decades of civil war and foreign invasion, a modern notion of honor-of one's reputation and self-worth-became the keystone in the... -
A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship by Lina Penna Sattamini 9780822347361
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil's dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May... -
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones 9780822348733
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $48.30A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kellie Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers in Manhattan's East Village and absorbed in black nationalist ideas... -
Iraq Perspectives by Benjamin Lowy 9780822351665
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $65.79Selected by William Eggleston as WinnerThe Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in PhotographyBenjamin Lowy's powerful and arresting color photographs, taken over a six-year... -
Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience by Michelle Murphy 9780822353317
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $139.57In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a... -
Black Power TV by Devorah Heitner 9780822354093
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston's Say... -
Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing by Neil L. Whitehead 9780822354475
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite the collected essays, which are based on... -
Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire by Kate Schechter 9780822357087
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $188.79A pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis, Illusions of a Future explores the political economy of private therapeutic labor within industrialized medicine. Focusing on psychoanalysis in Chicago, a... -
Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia by Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier 9780822357360
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $139.57In this audacious book, Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation by Nicholas Sammond 9780822358404
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $164.66In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early... -
Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema by Jean Ma 9780822358657
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $188.79From the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences. In Sounding the Modern Woman, Jean Ma shows how their rise to stardom attests to the changing roles of... -
Haydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression by Margaret Randall 9780822359425
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $152.69Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiance, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling... -
Gut Feminism by Elizabeth A. Wilson 9780822359517
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $152.69In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and... -
Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler 9780822362524
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active... -
Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness by Benjamin N. Lawrance 9780822362807
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $159.26Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue-either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it... -
The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music by Licia Fiol-Matta 9780822362821
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $187.11Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers-Myrta Silva, Ruth FernAndez, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita BenItez-to explore how their voices and performance style transform... -
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice by Keith Gilyard 9780822369851
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $159.89Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to... -
Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism by Nicholas Brown 9781478001591
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $50.38In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art... -
Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World by Jairus Victor Grove 9781478004219
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $146.77Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that contemporary global crises are better understood... -
Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life by D. Asher Ghertner 9781478006091
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $187.11Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril,... -
Ireland at the Polls 1981, 1982, and 1987: A Study of Four General Elections by Howard R. Penniman 9780822307549
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $156.60Ireland at the Polls, 1981, 1982, and 1987: A Study of four General Elections is another in the series of national election studies prepared by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy... -
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria by Abiodun Alao 9781478015536
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $142.84In Rage and Carnage in the Name of God, Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in postindependence Nigeria, where Christianity, Islam, and traditional religions have... -
The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gilbert M. Joseph 9781478015734
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.67The Mexico Reader is a vivid and comprehensive guide to muchos Mexicos-the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico. Unparalleled in scope, it covers pre-Columbian times to the present, from the... -
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West by Fran Martin 9781478014935
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $146.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478014935Author Fran MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint -
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume 2, Orisa: Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination by Dianne M. Stewart 9781478013921
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $143.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478013921Author Dianne M. StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint < -
Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance by Torin Monahan 9781478016113
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.27In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance. He focuses on artists ranging from Kai WiedenhOEfer, Paolo Cirio, and Hank... -
The Anzalduan Theory Handbook by AnaLouise Keating 9781478016281
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $143.47In The Anzalduan Theory Handbook AnaLouise Keating provides a comprehensive investigation of the foundational theories, methods, and philosophies of Gloria E. Anzaldua. Through archival research and... -
Sexology and Its Afterlives by Joan Lubin 9781478017578
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27As a field of study, sexology emerged in the nineteenth century bringing together academics, non-medical professionals, and reformers in Europe and North America who sought to systematically study... -
Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean by Andil Gosine 9781478014584
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In Nature's Wild, Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual... -
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. Ross 9781478015215
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present... -
Good night the pleasure was ours by David Grubbs 9781478015543
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $129.72With Good night the pleasure was ours, David Grubbs melts down and recasts three decades of playing music on tour into a book-length poem, bringing to a close the trilogy that includes Now that the... -
The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide by Rosa-Linda Fregoso 9781478017103
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.27In The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and... -
On Paradox: The Claims of Theory by Elizabeth S. Anker 9781478016335
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $143.47In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century... -
Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine by Jennifer Lynn Kelly 9781478016656
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $141.54In Invited to Witness, Jennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary solidarity tourism across Occupied Palestine. Examining the relationships among race, colonialism, and... -
To Be Nsala's Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze by Chérie N. Rivers 9781478019091
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75In To Be Nsala’s Daughter, Chérie N. Rivers shows how colonial systems of normalized violence condition the way we see and, through collaboration with contemporary Congolese artists, imagines ways we...