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Honor and Political Imagination

In Honor and Political Imagination, Smita A. Rahman reckons with the enduring power of honor in contemporary political and popular culture and the desire for heroism that accompanies it, while attending t…

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Joseph Odùmósù,
Book of Healing

The first book-length study of YorÙbÁ therapeutics, encompassing thousands of remedies for more than 160 different ailments,ÌwÉ ÌwÒsÀn (Book of Healing ) was originally published in 1910 by Ìjẹ̀bÚ healer,…

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James L Fitzsimmons
Blood on the Wind

The story most often commonly told about the Maya involves their spectacular collapse at the height of their civilization in the early ninth century CE. Crops died, disease and malnutrition spread, and sc…

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Savoring Care

Rethinking life with type 2 diabetes, Savoring Care flips the script on how people with this chronic illness foster wellness, emphasizing care and community by sharing resources, food, stories, and suppor…

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Suraj Milind Yengde
Caste

A unique exploration of caste oppression and caste resistance around the world, from one of India's leading public intellectuals.

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People, Place and Nature in Indigenous-Settler Relations

Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World - Band 10

This edited collection is an essential resource for understanding contemporary Indigenous-settler relations across three major settler colonial contexts, bringing together First Nations and settler schola…

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Heritage and Its Missions

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the Southern ConeInterdisciplinary in scope and classed under …

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Heritage and Its Missions

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the Southern ConeInterdisciplinary in scope and classed under …

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Sumit Paul-Choudhury
The Bright Side

A reassuring look at the philosophy, psychology, and practice of optimism, and why being optimistic is a moral obligation--even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. Scrolling through our da…

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Syrians in the Shadow of War

Gripping accounts of how ordinary Syrians strove to survive the hardships that preceded the Assad regime's collapseActivists striving in the shadow of Syria's police state; widows launching small business…

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Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature

An exploration of the multifaceted dimensions of violence represented in the literature of South Asia.

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Alistair Moffat
The North Sea

The North Sea, a maritime highway and the edge of a nation of islanders with a proud sea-faring past. Running from Kent and the Rhine estuary to the Norwegian coast and the tip of the Shetland islands, it…

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A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity covers the period from 1000 BCE to 500 CE. As different cultures expanded so did their interactions with insects, largely seen as vectors of disease and as agric…

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A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1300, a time when the uses and value of insect products greatly increased. Silk, in particular, created economies and led to…

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Daniella Gandolfo
A Day in the Hole

A single day in a semilegal market in Lima, Peru, reveals a social world that defies conventional economic logic.In the heart of Lima's historic center, the markets of El Hueco ("The Hole") and …

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Ideology, Post-Ideology and Anti-Ideology in Latin America

The Latin American political landscape has already changed substantially in the 21st century. This book offers an approach to the Latin American political panorama that makes room for a post-ideological p…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Curare

Curare wurde 1978 von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (bis 2018 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin) begründet. Sie bietet ein internationales und interdisziplinares Forum für die wissenschaft…

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A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance covers the period from 1300 to 1600, examining the profound impact of insects on the flowering of culture. In the early part of this period, the unpreceden…

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Tomas Cole,
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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