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Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World

This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participant…

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R M W Dixon
A New Grammar of Dyirbal

This book offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland. It includes updated analyses of key features of the language based on recent theoretical advances, and dr…

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William Von Hippel
The Social Paradox

From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans' two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and ho…

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Thomas Piketty,
Nature, Culture, and Inequality

"Originally published in French as Nature, culture et inâegalitâes: Une perspective comparative et historique in 2023 by Sociâetâe d'ethnologie, Nanterre, France"--Title page verso.

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Sonic Icons

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community's struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacementTo the extent that Mid…

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Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity

Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians.Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants and C…

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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Maryann Bylander
The Trade-Offs of Legal Status

"The Trade-Offs of Legal Status explores the costs, risks, and unfreedoms produced alongside migrant regularization in Southeast Asia. In 2017, Thailand's military government enacted a new migration …

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Isabela Seong Leong Quintana
Urban Borderlands

"Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of Mexican and Chinese men, was met with …

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Race and the Question of Palestine

"This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine - like other imperial and settler colonial projects - cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question …

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Fang Fang,
Wuhan Diary

Das Tagebuch der berühmten chinesischen Schriftstellerin Fang Fang aus einer abgeriegelten Stadt ist ein einzigartiges, ergreifendes Zeitdokument über den Kampf gegen einen unsichtbaren Feind, den die Men…

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Harvey Whitehouse
Inheritance

An "exhilarating" (Irish Times ) and "ambitious" (The Guardian) account of the ancient inheritance that made us who we are--and is now driving us to ruin.Why do humans everywhere belie…

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David Baron
The Martians

The New York Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many believed intelligent life had been discovered on Mars. The Martians -a bizarre tale reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, lett…

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April M Beisaw, Dania Jordan-Talley
The Archaeology of American Protests

This book uses historical and contemporary archaeology to explore the past 400 years of American protest history, revealing how ideals such as equality, prosperity, and self-determination have been challe…

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David Keen
Shame

The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spiral---a vortex of mutual shaming tha…

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Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
A Guide to Gender and Classifiers

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the numeral classifier systems of Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classe…

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Anna Strhan, Rachael Shillitoe
Growing Up Godless

"How children's non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday lifeThe number of those identifying as "non-religious" has risen rapidly in Britain and many other parts of Europe and Nor…

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Karl Swinehart,
Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia

"This ethnographic account of Indigenous language activism explores how Aymara media and cultural workers combat the threat of language obsolescence by making the language audible in diverse corners …

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Sonic Icons

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community's struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacementTo the extent that Mid…

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Josh Brahinsky
Tongues of Fire

In Tongues of Fire , anthropologist Joshua Brahinsky embarks on an 18-year journey into the mind-body practices of charismatic evangelicals-Christians known for their exuberant worship and the enigmatic p…

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