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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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Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity.
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Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this engaging and moving book, E. Patrick Johnson combines magical realism, poetry, and performative writing to bear witness to the real-life stories of black southern queer women in ways that reveal the complexity of identity and the challenges these women face.
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Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in a dialogue with European science.
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Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance.
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