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Hardback. In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life-the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia-to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DD; HBJD1; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360599
ISBN
9780822360599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.26

Paperback. Exploring the practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid, Anne-Maria Makhulu how these squatters engaged in an important form of resistance that helped to end apartheid. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 256 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359661
ISBN
9780822359661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores how Cuban raperos (black-identified rappers) in Havana craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship in the face of continuing racism and marginalization during an era in which the Cuban economy, society, and nationhood have been under constant flux. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AVGR; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822358855
ISBN
9780822358855
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Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Hardback. Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, this title explores how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research. It involves relations between European men and indigenous or African women, gender is a key factor in Latin American genomics and the analyses in this book. Editor(s): Wade, Peter; Lopez Beltran, Carlos; Restrepo, Eduardo; Santos, Ricardo Ventura. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 photos, 2 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHMC; MFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356486
ISBN
9780822356486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Paperback. Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim and a virtuoso survey of the ways that black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Num Pages: 176 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JHMC; LN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822355953
ISBN
9780822355953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Hardback. Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnography about the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea; an enormous gold mine operated by an international conglomerate on Ipili land; and the process through which "the Ipili" and "the mine" brought each other into being as entities. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354949
ISBN
9780822354949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.75

Paperback. Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Editor(s): Whitehead, Neil L.; Finnstrom, Sverker. Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMC; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354475
ISBN
9780822354475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Singing for the Dead chronicles how indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest state, have reversed decades of cultural and linguistic erosion by reviving and reinventing ethnic traditions, particularly by speaking and singing the local indigenous language. Num Pages: 328 pages, 23 photographs, 4 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354314
ISBN
9780822354314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. The indigenous peoples of the Pacific nations of Vanuatu and New Zealand are reconfiguring global cultural and intellectual property regimes as they successfully advance claims to ancestral practices such as ephemeral sand drawings. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 328 pages, 26 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 171 x 19. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354277
ISBN
9780822354277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 40 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJG; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550. Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore. Series: Radical Perspectives. 392 pages, 40 photographs. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJG; JFSL1; JHMC. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 23. Weight: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353591
ISBN
9780822353591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life. Series: Narrating Native Histories. 360 pages, 52 illustrations, 2 figures. Explores the multiple identities of a community of people in the Bolivian highlands through their own lived experiences and their own voices. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFSL9; JHMC. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 20. Weight: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352679
ISBN
9780822352679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Examines how African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States Num Pages: 248 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFN; JHMC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372. Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. 240 pages, 5 illustrations. Examines how African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFN; JHMC; JPVH1. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352617
ISBN
9780822352617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. An ethnography of post-Soviet Cuba s health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 illustrations, 3 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMP; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352051
ISBN
9780822352051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Num Pages: 384 pages, 19 photos, 10 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; GTB; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532. Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands. 384 pages, 19 photographs, 10 tables, 3 maps. Examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the Lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; GTB; JFSL; JHMC. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 24. Weight: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351856
ISBN
9780822351856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Details the technical, ethical, and affective formation of physicians Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; MBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444. An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education. Series: Experimental Futures. 312 pages. Details the technical, ethical, and affective formation of physicians. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM; MBD. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 19. Weight: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351573
ISBN
9780822351573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy. Editor(s): Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit. Num Pages: 376 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HRK; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544. The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing. 392 pages, 9 illustrations. Editor(s): Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit. This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HRK; JHMC. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351337
ISBN
9780822351337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity. 408 pages, 71 photographs. Editor(s): Wallace, Maurice O.; Smith, Shawn Michelle. Brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJC; GTB; JFC; JHMP. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 29. Weight: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350859
ISBN
9780822350859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Based on the analysis of community records in a Peruvian village, The Lettered Mountain tells how Andean peasants thought to be illiterate appropriated the Roman alphabet long ago. Num Pages: 392 pages, 72 illustrations, 7 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; CFC; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350446
ISBN
9780822350446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day. Editor(s): Gotkowitz, Laura. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350439
ISBN
9780822350439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Reveals how Peru s early-twentieth-century labor reforms excluded the majority of the country s laborers. They were indigenous, and the nation s elites saw indigeneity as incommensurable with work, modernity, and industrial progress. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HB; JHBL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350132
ISBN
9780822350132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

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