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The Anthropology of News & Journalism

• Paperback | Engels
• The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological p... Lees meer

Dystopia's Provocateurs

Edyta Materka

• Hardcover | Engels
• Toward the end of the Second World War, Poland's annexation of eastern German lands precipitated one of the largest demographic upheavals in European ... Lees meer

Sixteen Cowries

William W Bascom

• Paperback | Engels
• " . . . a landmark in research of African oral traditions." --African Arts " . . . a significant contribution to the understanding of Yoruba religious... Lees meer

Fiddling in West Africa

Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje

• Paperback | Engels
• Fiddling has had a lengthy history in Africa which has long been ignored. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje corrects this oversight with an expansive study on... Lees meer

Earth Before the Dinosaurs

Sébastien Steyer

• Paperback | Engels | Life of the Past
• This beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning... Lees meer

Departure Stories

Elisa Bernick

• Hardcover | Engels
• "We weren't religious per se. The most frequent mention of God in our house was my mother yelling 'Goddammit!'" Elisa Bernick grew up "different" (i.e... Lees meer

Charles Sanders Peirce (Enlarged Edition), Revised and Enlarged Edition

Joseph Brent

• Paperback | Engels
• "[Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispens... Lees meer

A Century of Ambivalence, Second Expanded Edition

Zvi Gitelman

• Paperback | Engels
• Now back in print in a new edition! A Century of Ambivalence The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present Second, Expanded Edition Zvi... Lees meer

The Holocaust and History

• Paperback | Engels
• "A huge and hugely significant collection of much of the best Holocaust scholarship to appear in the last half-century." --Kirkus Reviews ". . . magni... Lees meer

The Socialist Good Life

• Hardcover | Engels
• What does the good life mean in a "backward" place? As communist regimes denigrated widespread unemployment and consumer excess in Western countries, ... Lees meer

Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• "Hannah Kliger has provided an important service to historians . . . " --Journal of American Ethnic History " . . . Hannah Kliger has provided a valua... Lees meer

Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?

Baptiste Brossard

• Hardcover | Engels
• Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? What are the reasons certain people resort to self-in... Lees meer

Surrogate Motherhood

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• " . . . glimpses of intriguing changes in social arrangements and cultural understandings in relation to surrogacy. Disturbing motherhood indeed." --N... Lees meer

Four Years with General Lee

Walter Taylor

• Paperback | Engels
• " . . . it offers a sure, quick, eyewitness assessment of all Lee's campaigns." -- Southern Partisan Walter Taylor was "first to last the closest" of ... Lees meer

Western Women and Imperialism

• Paperback | Engels
• "[ Western Women and Imperialism ] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the ... Lees meer

Yiddish Paris

Nick Underwood

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Yiddish Paris explores how Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Western... Lees meer

Kinsey

Cornelia V Christenson

• Paperback | Engels
• Alfred C. Kinsey was perhaps the most controversial figure in the US during the 1950s. His books on sexual behavior in the human male and female made ... Lees meer

Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan

• Paperback | Engels
• "A charming and agreeable surprise . . . A welcome gift to Western readers." --Kirkus Reviews "Editor Jayyusi offers a major example of the Arabic fol... Lees meer

Animated Film and Disability

Slava Greenberg

• Paperback | Engels
• While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived ex... Lees meer

Blue White Red

Alain Mabanckou

• Paperback | Engels | Global African Voices
• This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer ... Lees meer

Buggies and Bad Times

• Paperback | Engels
• Stories of horse-drawn buggies and cars with rumble seats, World Wars, rationing, and the Great Depression. Lees meer

Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity

Lucy Green

• Paperback | Engels | Counterpoints: Music and Education
• Musical identity raises complex, multifarious, and fascinating questions. Discussions in this new study consider how individuals construct their music... Lees meer

Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Antisemitism
• How is the Holocaust remembered in Romania since the fall of communism? Alexandru Florian and an international group of contributors unveil how and wh... Lees meer

Borders and Healers

• Paperback | Engels
• In southeast Africa, the power to heal is often associated with crossing borders, whether literal or metaphorical. This wide-ranging volume reveals th... Lees meer