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.
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
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.
A powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory.
This sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between visuality and countervisuality, or the right to look.
A groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century
This ethnography of a river restoration project in Kathmandu, Nepal s capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia, contributes to the nascent anthropology of urban environments.
An ethnography of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions including Candomble shows that the lines separating one tradition from another are much less fixed than anthropologists and Afro-Brazilian religious elites have maintained.
Presents lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. This title covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire and the conversion of the invading Franks to the rise of Charlemagne's family.
Focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of... Læs mere
Shows how female cosmopolitanism re-contextualises the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their... Læs mere