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1851
Silvie Jacobi, "Art Schools and Place: Geograph...
The book draws on ethnographic research in Manchester and Leipzig, comparting and contrasting two nations, two educational systems, and two cities, to show the different approaches to training and supporting contemporary culture...
37 min
1852
Kathryn A. Mariner, "Contingent Kinship: The Fl...
Mariner offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the United States through the inner workings of a private adoption agency in Chicago, IL...
34 min
1853
Micha Rahder, "An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, ...
Rahder offers a rich ethnography of knowledge-making practices in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, the largest nature reserve in Central America...
55 min
1854
Suma Ikeuchi, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migrat...
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazilian nationals to Japan...
76 min
1855
Andrea Chiovenda, "Crafting Masculine Selves: C...
Against the backdrop of four decades of continuous conflict in Afghanistan, the Pashtun male protagonists of this book carry out their daily effort to internally negotiate, adjust (if at all), and respond to the very strict cultural norms and rules of masculinity...
59 min
1856
M. Newhart and W. Dolphin, "The Medicalization ...
Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs...
46 min
1857
Gregory Forth, "A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a ...
Forth focuses on how the Nage understand metaphor and how their knowledge of animals has helped to shape specific expressions...
55 min
1858
Minjeong Kim, "Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immi...
Through in-depth interviews with thirty-five Filipinas, twenty-five Korean husbands, and eight Korean community members, Kim explores emotional citizenship created between couples, in-law families, as well as the transnational network of Filipina migrants...
55 min
1859
Sara Luna, "Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex a...
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas...
38 min
1860
Li Zhang, "Anxious China: Inner Revolution and ...
Zhang offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times...
73 min
1861
Alexey Golubev, "The Things of Life: Materialit...
Golubev offers a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era...
57 min
1862
Kristina M. Lyons, "Vital Decomposition: Soil P...
Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations...
39 min
1863
Tahseen Shams, "Here, There, and Elsewhere: The...
Drawing from the experiences of diasporic South Asian Muslim community in America, namely Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Indians, Shams introduces an innovative conceptual notion of “elsewhere” which informs her new multicentered approach to the study of globalized immigrant identities...
57 min
1864
Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely, "Interpretive Soc...
Bevir and Blakely make a case for why interpretivism is the most philosophically cogent approach currently on offer in the social sciences, and for anti-naturalism as the best option among interpretivist alternatives..
48 min
1865
Ahalya Satkunaratnam, "Moving Bodies, Navigatin...
How can dance be sustained by its practitioners in the unstable political and geographical landscape of war?
42 min
1866
Fernando Domínguez Rubio, "Still Life: Ecologie...
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading?
55 min
1867
Joseph E. David, "Kinship, Law and Politics: An...
Why are we so concerned with belonging? In what ways does our belonging constitute our identity?
47 min
1868
Adam Auerbach, "Demanding Development: The Poli...
India’s urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to basic public goods and services—paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some vulnerable communities able to secure development from the state while others fail?
58 min
1869
David Barash, "Threats: Intimidation and Its Di...
What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?
40 min
1870
John W. Traphagan, "Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depo...
Traphagan presents a series of deeply contextualized ethnographies of small-business entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of contemporary rural Japan...
102 min
1871
Jennifer J. Carroll, "Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, a...
Carroll considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are...
56 min
1872
Sophie Richter-Devroe, "Women’s Political Activ...
Richter-Devroe offers an analysis of the forms assumed by women’s political resistance in Occupied Palestine and interrogates how an understanding of such activism might be expanded if one attends to the ‘everyday’...
42 min
1873
Denise E. Bates, "Basket Diplomacy: Leadership,...
Before the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana became one of the state’s top private employers—with its vast landholdings and economic enterprises—they lived well below the poverty line and lacked any clear legal status....
46 min
1874
Berit Brogaard, "Hatred: Understanding Our Most...
What is it that makes hatred so addicting?
36 min
1875
David Tavárez, "The Invisible War: Indigenous D...
Tavárez guides his readers through four centuries of the Mexican Inquisition in the episcopal sees of México and Oaxaca...
58 min