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Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of 20th-century Chinese identity. The contributors argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of 20th-century Chinese history.
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After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Focuses on the evolution of American spirituality over the years. This title uses interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how... Læs mere
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After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Attempts to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. This book traces today's sexual... Læs mere
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Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. This work examines... Læs mere
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An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In studying the human subject and the way the human culture mirrors itself, the author redefines holography as "the exact equivalence, or comprehensive identity, of part and whole in any human contingency".
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Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examining the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics, this text proposes an "ethical anthropology" that analyzes how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundation of cultures.
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Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village, Updated and Expanded Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In 1925, William and Charlotte Wiser arrived in the North Indian village of Karimpur. Over the next five years... Læs mere
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American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This work investigates American klezmer: its roots,... Læs mere
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Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as... Læs mere
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American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Presents a cultural history that investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848 - including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans.
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American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Historically, Filipina/o Americans have been one of the oldest and largest Asian American groups in the United... Læs mere
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A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Tells how organized participation in nature protection provided an arena for affirming and perpetuating self-generated social identities in the USSR and preserving a counterculture whose legacy survives today.
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