Duke University Press Forlag
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My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A bestseller in Tibet until it was banned by China, this moving memoir chronicles Naktsang Nulo's childhood in Tibet's Amdo region during the uprising against the Chinese invasion of the 1950s.
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The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines diaries, letters, and the practical writings of the classical economists to show how Adam... Læs mere
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Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This ethnographic account of Brazil s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery.
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On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Building on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization of facts, or the creation of factishes.
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Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Cultural study of the effects of sound technologies--from the phonograph to the Walkman--on African American literature, art, and music in the twentieth century
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Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking within the movements against corporate globalization.
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision.
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The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An introduction to Indonesia s history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches.
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Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. This title shows how workers' refusal to be treated... Læs mere
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Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This ethnographic analysis of violence that broke out in a South African gold mine soon after apartheid ended in 1994 shows how violence comes to be blamed on ethnic differences retrospectively-and often wrongly.
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Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
