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Paperback. Explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. This book finds that weddings - as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation - are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ; JHBK; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
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- New
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- Illustrated
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- V9780822329893
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- 9780822329893
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Paperback. An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
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- New
- SKU
- V9780822329480
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- 9780822329480
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Paperback. What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high school students define white identities, this book offers insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JFSP2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
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- New
- SKU
- V9780822328926
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- 9780822328926
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Paperback. Suitable for anthropologists and historians, but also for scholars in colonial, postcolonial, and globalization studies, this book gathers essays that seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emergent relations between archive and field. Editor(s): Axel, Brian Keith. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 171 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
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- New
- SKU
- V9780822328889
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- 9780822328889
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Paperback. Offers an historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, this book envisions a future of politically equal and economically empowered citizens through the democratisation of power and the socialisation of property. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
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- New
- SKU
- V9780822328667
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- 9780822328667
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Paperback. Collection of anthropological essays studying radical social transformation - including violence - and its effects on the everyday lives of people in a variety of world regions. Editor(s): Greenhouse, Carol J.; Warren, Kay B.; Mertz, Professor Elizabeth. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 672.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
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- New
- SKU
- V9780822328483
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- 9780822328483
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Paperback. Suitable for all those for whom the politics of subjectivity pose real problems of authority, identity, and belief, this book discusses its roles within the fields of legal theory, social science, fiction, philosophy, and ethics. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
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- New
- SKU
- V9780822328391
- ISBN
- 9780822328391
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Paperback. An investigation of deceit and concealment that proposes a new theory of fiction, both as a new genre of literature and as a strategy in the social world. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
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- New
- SKU
- V9780822328216
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- 9780822328216
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paperback. Has kinship become more structureless, commodified, and flexible in the global era? Do such representations overlook the "diffuse, enduring ties" that kinship has long signified? What has been the effect of contemporary bio-politics on kinship practices and theories? This title deals with these questions. Editor(s): Franklin, Sarah; McKinnon, Susan. Num Pages: 536 pages, 11 b&w photos, 1 table, 6 maps, 15 figures. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 36. Weight in Grams: 828.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
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- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822327967
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- 9780822327967
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Paperback. Argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to - and even dependent on - death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, this title interrogates an American public sphere that fetishised death as a crucial point of political identification. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JHBZ; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327721
- ISBN
- 9780822327721
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Paperback. Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalise, pathologise, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. This book reveals how each group, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327486
- ISBN
- 9780822327486
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Paperback. With its recurrent themes of trans-nationalism, globalisation, and postcoloniality, this title considers various embodiments of the Asian diaspora, including a rumination on minority discourses and performance studies, and an historical look at the journal Amerasia. Editor(s): Chuh, Kandice; Shimakawa, Karen. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327394
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- 9780822327394
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paperback. Focusing in particular on western acquiescence to a system that underpays and under-represents the vast majority of the population, this title moves beyond typical studies of this phenomenon by stressing more than its political and economic dimensions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822327165
- ISBN
- 9780822327165
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Paperback. A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Editor(s): Feldman, Lawrence H. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326243
- ISBN
- 9780822326243
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Paperback. In the early twentieth century, a group of elite Eastern-coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. This book provides a narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market to investigate the social construction of value. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AB; ACBK; GTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326182
- ISBN
- 9780822326182
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Paperback. Elaborates on author's pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work's implications for the fields of evolutionary theory, developmental and social psychology, feminism, and epistemology. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JHMP; JMA; JMC; PSAJ; PSC; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822324720
- ISBN
- 9780822324720
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Paperback. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, this title demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, religion, and politics. Num Pages: 448 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323907
- ISBN
- 9780822323907
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Paperback. Presents a comprehensive collection of writings, including essays from the 1980s and 1990s that present an argument about the AIDS epidemic. The author addresses a range of issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries. Num Pages: 496 pages, 83 b&w images. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; MBNS; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 38. Weight in Grams: 807.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323181
- ISBN
- 9780822323181
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Paperback. Explores the role ethnic minorities from China, Japan, North Africa, and the Middle East have played in constructing a national identity, thereby challenging dominant notions of Brazilian nationality and citizenship. By examining how acculturating minority groups have represented themselves, this title re-envisions what it means to be Brazilian. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 b&w photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFFN; JFSL1; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822322924
- ISBN
- 9780822322924
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Paperback. Presents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. This book examines such topics as the legacy of slavery and its abolition, and race-related violence. It is suitable for those interested in the larger issues of political and social movements centered on the issue of race. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322726
- ISBN
- 9780822322726
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paperback. Most would agree that American culture in the 1980s differed dramatically from that of the 1960s. Yet the 1970s is still thought of as a cultural wasteland. This text debunks this notion by examining a wide range of political and cultural phenomena. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 432 pages, 29 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 699.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822321668
- ISBN
- 9780822321668
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paperback. Investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and the ethnicisation of the political. This book explores various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the nineteenth century. It is aimed at readers engaged in postcolonial and cultural studies. Editor(s): Mudimbe, V. Y. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780822320654
- ISBN
- 9780822320654
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paperback. Emphasising the integration of traditional labour history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, and community, this volume explores working women's agency and consciousness and offers details regarding women's lives as daughters, housewives, mothers, factory workers, trade union leaders, and political activists. Editor(s): French, John D.; James, Daniel. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 5 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822319962
- ISBN
- 9780822319962
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Paperback. Shows what guanxi production, the formation of social connections, reveals about the evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender in Dengist China. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 b&w photographs, 3 maps, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318736
- ISBN
- 9780822318736
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