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Anthropology in the Meantime: Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Providing a history of experimental methods and frameworks in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century.
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Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism.
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Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Rosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade economy and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital.
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Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Christina Schwenkel analyzes the collaboration between East German and Vietnamese architects and urban planners as they attempted to transform the bombed-out industrial city of Vinh into a model socialist city.
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Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color.
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Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—from yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses—that played central roles in the history of British imperial control.
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Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.
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The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and... Læs mere
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Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Cressida J. Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against them.
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Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the International Criminal Court in order to theorize affect's role in shaping forms of justice.
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Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they... Læs mere
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Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining the relationship between emotional intensity and difficulty in works of avant-garde art, Jennifer Doyle seeks to develop a critical language for understanding affectively charged contemporary art.
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