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Land of Open Graves
Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
Häftad, 2015
389 kr
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In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as …
Pathologies of Power
Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Av Paul Farmer
Häftad, 2004
339 kr
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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic …
United States of War
A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
Av David Vine
Inbunden, 2020
382 kr
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2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, HistoryA provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life.The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in …
Birthing the Nation
Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel
Häftad, 2002
299 kr
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In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. Distinguishing itself amid the media maelstrom that has homogenized Palestinians as "terrorists," this important new work offers a complex, …
Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
Av Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
403 kr
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Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, "Reimagining Global Health" provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work …
Laughter Out of Place
Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
Häftad, 2013
307 kr
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Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life …
Twice Dead
Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
Häftad, 2001
299 kr
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Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of …
Annihilating Difference
The Anthropology of Genocide
Häftad, 2002
316 kr
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Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation …
Buddha Is Hiding
Refugees, Citizenship, the New America
Av Aihwa Ong
Häftad, 2003
443 kr
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Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be …
Chechnya
Life in a War-Torn Society
Häftad, 2004
307 kr
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This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective--that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov, a leading ethnographer who has also served in several important political posts, examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, …
Total Confinement
Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison
Häftad, 2004
307 kr
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In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the 'supermaximums' - and the mental health units that complement them - Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and …
Why Did They Kill?
Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide
Häftad, 2004
316 kr
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Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation …
Shadows of War
Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2004
307 kr
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In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front …
Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong
Anthropologists Talk Back
Av Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson
Häftad, 2005
264 kr
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In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, …
Yanomami
The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It
Av Rob Borofsky
Häftad, 2005
264 kr
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"Yanomami" raises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy - one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios - …
Paradise in Ashes
A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope
Av Beatriz Manz
Häftad, 2005
272 kr
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Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz--an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of …
Prisoners of Freedom
Human Rights and the African Poor
Häftad, 2006
443 kr
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In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, "Prisoners of Freedom" shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of …
When Bodies Remember
Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa
Häftad, 2007
290 kr
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In this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis - the failure of the ANC government to stem the tide of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Didier Fassin traces the deep roots of the AIDS crisis to apartheid and, before that, to …
Global Outlaws
Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
Häftad, 2007
443 kr
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Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of …
Counting the Dead
The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia
Häftad, 2007
443 kr
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At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, …
Archaeology as Political Action
Häftad, 2008
334 kr
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This book develops a theory and framework to describe how archaeology can contribute to a more humane world. Recognizing that archaeology is an inherently political activity, Randall H. McGuire builds on the history of archaeological theory and Marxist dialectical theory to point out how …
Righteous Dopefiend
Av Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg
Häftad, 2009
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
346 kr
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This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying …
Unimagined Community
Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa and in so doing, reframes current debates about the disease. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's …
Transforming Cape Town
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule …
Partner to the Poor
A Paul Farmer Reader
Häftad, 2010
307 kr
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For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to 'make human rights substantial', Farmer has treated patients …
Democratic Insecurities
Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti
Inbunden, 2010
1156 kr
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"Democratic Insecurities" focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti, during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and …
Democratic Insecurities
Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti
Häftad, 2010
371 kr
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"Democratic Insecurities" focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti, during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and …
My Name Is Jody Williams
A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize
Inbunden, 2013
280 kr
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As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "Jody Williams is many things - a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a …
Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
Av Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1190 kr
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Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, "Reimagining Global Health" provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work …
I Did It to Save My Life
Love and Survival in Sierra Leone
Häftad, 2012
272 kr
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Utilizing narratives of seven different people - soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician - "I Did it To Save My Life" provides fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. Individuals in the town of Makeni …
