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Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass produce synthetic... Læs mere
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Framed: Women in Law and Film (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Intervenes in the emerging discipline of law-and-film by developing a framework for evaluating how films represent "gender crimes" and how those representations affect audiences' ideas about women, their legal rights, and their roles in society
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From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Suitable for anthropologists and historians, but also for scholars in colonial, postcolonial, and globalization studies, this book gathers essays... Læs mere
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The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debate, arguing that it is riddled by conceptual incoherence.
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Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state, and subjects into citizens. The author considers several ways that identification with the nation-state was produced and consolidated during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Medical Anthropololgy at the Intersections, leading figures in medical anthropology reflect on the field s past, present, and future, considering how it has developed dynamically in relation to activism, other anthropological subfields, and other disciplines.
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A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus; and prompts a teacher, rather than aiming for full world coverage, to pick an interpretive focus and thread it through the course.
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The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late nineteenth- through late-twentieth-century aesthetic works from... Læs mere
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Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A history of industrial design reform in 19th century Britain, this book demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labour, and... Læs mere
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German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the 19th-century assumption that the advancement of a society could be measured by its treatment of women. This book shows how race was an additional - and... Læs mere
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Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international... Læs mere
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