Examining topics from tango and samba to sex workers in Costa Rica, from eating tamales to selling ice in the Andes, and from building and moving houses to buying cell... Læs mere
This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for... Læs mere
Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical... Læs mere
Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy,... Læs mere
This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G.... Læs mere
Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth... Læs mere
Explores the differences and similarities between two groups: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and socials... Læs mere
Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed... Læs mere
Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift... Læs mere
In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains... Læs mere
Written for practitioners and practitioners-in-training of education development, this book reviews education issues in developing countries and provides in-depth case studies from Egypt, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence... Læs mere