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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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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia. This book looks at how social and... Læs mere
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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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