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Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examines social representations of the fat body. This work questions discursive constructions of fatness while analyzing the politics and power of corpulence and addressing the absence of fat people in media representations of the body.
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Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, this text looks at the history of racial formation in the US by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies.
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Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)A commentary on the 18th-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791).
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Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed... Læs mere
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Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Moving the view of cultural citizenship to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines and Sarawak, East Malaysia, this text shows that notions of nationhood and citizenship are not given, but created in dialogue between the state and local communities.
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Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A study and movement analysis of the sacred dances and the 'backstage' work involved in the festival that take the author deep... Læs mere
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Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Explores Jewish identity - or, more accurately, Jewish identities - from the mutually illuminating perspectives of anthropology, art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German history, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
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Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A biography that follows Edward L Doheny's story from his days as an itinerant prospector in the dangerous jungles of... Læs mere
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Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The New Thought Movement was a popular late 19th century spiritual movement for women. This work uncovers the... Læs mere
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Cultivating Music: The Aspirations, Interests, and Limits of German Musical Culture, 1770-1848 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)German and Austrian music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries stands at the heart of the Western... Læs mere
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California's Frontier Naturalists (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Chronicles the story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to California's spectacular natural bounty over the decades from 1786, when... Læs mere
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Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This text compares Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. It examines the position: of... Læs mere
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