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Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An analysis of the dominant patterns in the representation of erotic and romantic love between women in contemporary film, television, and fiction from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Looks at the initial confrontation of the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies.
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Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studies
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Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation, definition, and use of archival evidence in the writing of history
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Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Interpreting South Asian and diasporic texts, Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization.
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Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book... Læs mere
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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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