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Hardback. Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359760
- ISBN
- 9780822359760
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€ 110.75
€ 110.75
Hardback. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; GTF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359784
- ISBN
- 9780822359784
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€ 122.85
€ 122.85
Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo
Hardback. In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359883
- ISBN
- 9780822359883
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€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Paperback. In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360018
- ISBN
- 9780822360018
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€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Paperback. Zoe H. Wool explores how the most severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rehabilitating at Walter Reed Medical Center-whether recovering from losing a limb or sustaining a traumatic brain injury-struggle to build some kind of ordinary life in a situation that is anything but ordinary. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 264 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360032
- ISBN
- 9780822360032
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€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360087
- ISBN
- 9780822360087
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€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Hardback. In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of models of social change to show how ingenious and subversive acts disrupt traditional practices of liberal citizenship in order to exercise political agency. Num Pages: 311 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360216
- ISBN
- 9780822360216
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€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. Editor(s): Hanna, Monica; Harford Vargas, Jennifer; Saldivar, Jose David. Num Pages: 445 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 445
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360247
- ISBN
- 9780822360247
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Condition: New
€ 128.47
€ 128.47
Hardback. In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 239 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360261
- ISBN
- 9780822360261
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€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBBEN; HBJH; JFFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360278
- ISBN
- 9780822360278
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€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. In this ethnography of the Cancha mega-market in Cochabama, Bolivia, Daniel M. Goldstein examines what it means for the market's poorest vendors to maintain personal safety and economic stability by navigating systems of informality and illegality and how this dynamic is representative of the neoliberal modern city. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360285
- ISBN
- 9780822360285
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€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360292
- ISBN
- 9780822360292
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Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
Paperback. In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of models of social change to show how ingenious and subversive acts disrupt traditional practices of liberal citizenship in order to exercise political agency. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360377
- ISBN
- 9780822360377
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€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360438
- ISBN
- 9780822360438
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29
Hardback. In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFSL4; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360483
- ISBN
- 9780822360483
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Condition: New
€ 110.74
€ 110.74
Hardback. Containing nine performance scripts by black and Latino/a queer playwrights and performance artists-each accompanied by an interview and essay, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of sexuality, blackness, and Latinidad. Editor(s): Johnson, E. Patrick; Rivera-Servera, Ramon H. Num Pages: 584 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFSK; JFSL3; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 36. Weight in Grams: 930.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360506
- ISBN
- 9780822360506
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Condition: New
€ 144.32
€ 144.32
Hardback. In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Num Pages: 384 pages, 111 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; ACBS; HBJH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9780822360803
- ISBN
- 9780822360803
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Condition: New
€ 122.85
€ 122.85
Hardback. Placing the body at the center of critical improvisation studies, the contributors to Negotiated Moments explore the challenges of negotiating subjectivity through improvisation in various forms-from jazz, Japanese taiko drumming, and Iranian classical music to sound walking and political street theater. Editor(s): Siddall, Gillian; Waterman, Ellen. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 376 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360827
- ISBN
- 9780822360827
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Condition: New
€ 115.80
€ 115.80
Hardback. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; APT; HBJD; JFDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360858
- ISBN
- 9780822360858
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Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor applies feminist and critical theory to recent developments in neuroscience and new materialist social thought to demonstrate how the brain interacts with and is impacted by power, social structures, and inequality. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361077
- ISBN
- 9780822361077
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Condition: New
€ 107.36
€ 107.36
Hardback. In Biocultural Creatures Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to create a new theory of the human that explains the mutual constitution of the body, environment, biology, and habitat, while offering new resources for responding to political and environmental crises. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361091
- ISBN
- 9780822361091
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Condition: New
€ 107.77
€ 107.77
Hardback. Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to Sao Paulo. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; HBTK; JFFN; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361152
- ISBN
- 9780822361152
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Condition: New
€ 111.11
€ 111.11
Hardback. In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the lives of Indian IT coders temporarily working in Berlin, showing how their cognitive labor reimagines race and class and how their acceptance and resistance to their work offers new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFFN; JFSL3; JHBL; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361176
- ISBN
- 9780822361176
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Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology in which she uses everyday items to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHMC; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361183
- ISBN
- 9780822361183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.87
€ 109.87