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The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this ethnography Liisa H. Malkki reverses the study of humanitarian aid, focusing on aid workers rather than aid's recipients. She shows how aid serves the needs of its recipients and providers.
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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjorkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic... Læs mere
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My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A history of Partition--the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947--from a personal and feminist perspective.
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The Korean Popular Culture Reader (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This collection provides a timely and essential foundation for studying Korean popular culture ("K-pop") by looking at its global popularity, relation to the contemporary cultural landscape, and historical roots.
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Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring more than 125 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960.
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Nature in Translation: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Nature in Translation Shiho Satsuka studies Japanese tour guides who lead Japanese tourists on trips through the Canadian... Læs mere
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Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell takes an historical and ethnographic approach to understanding how a controversial coal power plant... Læs mere
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Photography's Other Histories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Moving the critical debate about photography away from its Euro-American center of gravity, this title breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of a Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals.
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party in February 1970, this title tells the definitive story... Læs mere
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The Labor of Job: The Biblical Text As a Parable of Human Labor (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the Old Testament book of Job, the pious Job is made to suffer for no apparent reason. The heart of the story is Job's quest to understand why he must bear, and why God would allow, such misery. This book presents a Marxist interpretation of Job's story.
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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
