Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century – serie
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Life at the Center
Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston
Häftad, 2024
306 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In Life at the Center, Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and …
Kigali
A New City for the End of the World
Häftad, 2025
306 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the government of Rwanda hired American and Singaporean design firms to transform …
Tackling the Everyday
Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
Inbunden, 2025
818 kr
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A Black feminist take on exploitation and care in America's favorite game. Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different reality, facing dangerous injuries, few pro-career opportunities, a free …
How to Love a Rat
Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia
Inbunden, 2024
843 kr
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How to Love a Rat takes place in a Cambodian minefield. Working amid hidden bombs, former war combatants use explosive-sniffing rats to clear mines from the land. In total, an estimated four to six million landmines in Cambodia have been left behind by wars that ended decades ago. This has created …
Mortal Doubt
Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City
Inbunden, 2018
1156 kr
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The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation, maras …
Mortal Doubt
Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City
Häftad, 2018
306 kr
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The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation, maras …
Contingent Kinship
The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States
Inbunden, 2019
1156 kr
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a …
Contingent Kinship
The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States
Häftad, 2019
263 kr
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a …
Tasting Qualities
The Past and Future of Tea
Av Sarah Besky
Inbunden, 2020
818 kr
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What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the …
Tasting Qualities
The Past and Future of Tea
Av Sarah Besky
Häftad, 2020
263 kr
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What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the …
Captured at Sea
Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
Av Jatin Dua
Inbunden, 2019
1156 kr
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How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the …
Captured at Sea
Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
Av Jatin Dua
Häftad, 2019
371 kr
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How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the …
Fires of Gold
Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana
Inbunden, 2020
818 kr
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Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal …
Fires of Gold
Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana
Häftad, 2020
263 kr
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Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal …
Pinelandia
An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire
Av Nomi Stone
Inbunden, 2022
843 kr
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Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special …
Pinelandia
An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire
Av Nomi Stone
Häftad, 2022
271 kr
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Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special …
Zainab’s Traffic
Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders
Av Emrah Yildiz
Inbunden, 2024
733 kr
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What is the value—religious, political, economic, or altogether social—of getting on a bus in Tehran to embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine outside Damascus? Under what material conditions can such values be established, reassessed, …
Zainab’s Traffic
Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders
Av Emrah Yildiz
Häftad, 2024
263 kr
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What is the value—religious, political, economic, or altogether social—of getting on a bus in Tehran to embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine outside Damascus? Under what material conditions can such values be established, reassessed, …
Waste Worlds
Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability
Inbunden, 2021
843 kr
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Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes …
Waste Worlds
Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability
Häftad, 2021
271 kr
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Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes …
Industrial Ephemeral
Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction
Inbunden, 2022
843 kr
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What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains behind architecture, real estate, and construction in areas surrounding New Delhi, India. The …
Industrial Ephemeral
Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction
Häftad, 2022
271 kr
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What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains behind architecture, real estate, and construction in areas surrounding New Delhi, India. The …
Stuck Moving
Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology
Av Peter Benson
Inbunden, 2023
818 kr
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This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, …
Stuck Moving
Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology
Av Peter Benson
Häftad, 2023
263 kr
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This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, …
Go with God
Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil
Inbunden, 2023
818 kr
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Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, the city's expansive and sprawling peripheral communities. Based on sensory ethnographic fieldwork and attuned to religious desire and manipulation, this book …
Go with God
Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil
Häftad, 2023
263 kr
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Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, the city's expansive and sprawling peripheral communities. Based on sensory ethnographic fieldwork and attuned to religious desire and manipulation, this book …
Tackling the Everyday
Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
Häftad, 2025
263 kr
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A Black feminist take on exploitation and care in America's favorite game. Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different reality, facing dangerous injuries, few pro-career opportunities, a free …
Thousand Tiny Cuts
Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands
Av Sahana Ghosh
Inbunden, 2023
1190 kr
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making and management of threat in relation to …
Thousand Tiny Cuts
Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands
Av Sahana Ghosh
Häftad, 2023
271 kr
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making and management of threat in relation to …
Where Cloud Is Ground
Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland
Av Alix Johnson
Inbunden, 2023
818 kr
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Where Cloud Is Ground offers an ethnography of the international data storage industry and an inquiry into the relationship between data and place. Based in Iceland, which is fast becoming a hot spot for data centers—facilities where large quantities of data are processed and stored—the book traces …
