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Xianglong Zhang,
Family and Filiality

Compares Chinese and Western perspectives on the family.This book is a timely contribution to the growing field of the philosophy of the family. Drawing on a lifetime of research in Western and Chinese ph…

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To Belong Here

To Belong Here delves into how queer, trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian people make sense of life in the mountains. Featuring contributors whose identities across race, gender, and socioeconomic backgroun…

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Steve Grove
How I Found Myself in the Midwest

In this passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local.Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executi…

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Nathan Pippenger
A Common Country

Nathan Pippenger shows that for American democracy to flourish, egalitarians must not reject the ideal of shared American peoplehood, but instead lay their own distinctive claim to its meaning. In contras…

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Justin Pack
Prehistoric Philosophy

Prehistoric Philosophy challenges the narrative of progress and other civilizational myths by looking at their origins in the neolithic revolution. Once we reject the simplistic and often racist stereotyp…

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A Cultural History of Insects in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Insects in the Modern Age covers the period from 1920 to the present, a time of tremendous scientific advances in our understanding of insects and their place in the natural world. T…

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Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthr…

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Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthr…

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Museums of the Future

This book presents a visionary and comprehensive exploration of how museums are adapting to the evolving demands of contemporary society. It highlights the multiple roles museums play, as cultural institu…

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Randy Malamud
Crash!

"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the v…

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Ashanté M Reese
Gather

How can we create a world where everyone has enough? We can start by focusing less on lack and more on abundance. In Gather , anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese argues for a new vision of food justice that c…

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Randy Malamud
Crash!

"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the v…

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C J Pascoe
Nice Is Not Enough

This provocative story of contemporary high school argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do more lasting harm than good.Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatche…

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Afua Hirsch
Decolonising My Body

'Remarkable'Observer 'Intimate' Guardian 'Vital' i newspaperOur bodies tell our story.Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body im…

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Capturing Expressivity

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used for studying expressivity in language, particularly in language documentation settings. The chapters explore a variety of different expressive item…

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Vera Proskurina
Канон и его границы в русской литературе XVIII -- &

В центре внимания книги Веры Проскуриной - русские писатели XVIII -- начала XX веков, которые бросили вызов устоявшимся литературным формам, идеям, жанрам, и творили на стыке культурны парадигм, активно п…

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Sayaka Chatani
A Nation Within

The presence of hundreds of thousands ethnic Koreans in Japan, or "zainichi Koreans," is one of the visible legacies of Japanese colonialism. A surprising and influential group among zainichi Ko…

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Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship

The open access volume "Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship" presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship,…

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Jennifer T Roberts
Out of One, Many

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in…

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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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