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| Vogt, Evon Zartman: The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Mayan Way of Life
Book Number: 48638
Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1990 8vo softcover 157pp b/w illus. very good+.
Keywords: anthropology ethnography indigenous mexico The Zinacantecos of Mexico A Modern Mayan Way of Life Vogt Evon Zartman
Price: $14.00 |
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| Woollacott, Angela: Gender and Empire
Book Number: 48639
Palgrave Macmillan 2006 8vo softcover 164pp index. Near Fine. This is the first single-authored book to survey the role of gender in the "new imperial history." Through key topics and episodes across a broad range of British Empire history, Angela Woollacott examines how gender ideologies and practices affected both sexes and saturated imperial politics and culture.
Keywords: Gender ideologies
Price: $30.00 |
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| Martin, Emily: Flexible Bodies. the role of immunity in American culture from the days of polio to the age of AIDS
Book Number: 48640
Beacon Press 1994 8vo softcover 320pp. Index, b/w illus. fine. From Booklist: Basing her intriguing book on the responses of both nonscientists and scientists (who vary greatly socially, politically, and in income-levels) to a survey concerned with knowledge of the immune system and also on radio and TV reporting and magazine and book literature, Martin shows how views of the immune system have changed during the course of a half century. Her presentation becomes especially provocative as it turns to the current scene. For just as businesses now seek more employee flexibility so that they--the businesses--can adjust quickly to changing conditions, her respondents expect more flexibility from the human immune system. Martin points out the disturbing implications of the belief that individuals can train their immune systems like businesses train employees and that groups of persons can be ranked in society by the quality of their immune systems. Enhanced by illustrations from many sources, her effort will make an excellent focus for study and discussion groups. William Beatty.
Keywords: american culture anthropology
Price: $15.00 |
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| Ong, Aihwa: Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism
Book Number: 48653
Routledge 1996 8vo softcover 343pp. Index, b/w illus. near fine. In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on "overseas Chinese" and their unique location in the global arena.
Keywords: china chinese culture cultural studies diasporas emigration globalization immigration international business Ungrounded Empires The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism Ong Aihwa
Price: $25.00 |
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| Fullilove, Michael: World Wide Webs Diasporas and the International System
Book Number: 50492
Lowy Institute 2008 8vo softcover 195pp. very good+.
Keywords: World Wide Webs Diasporas and the International System Fullilove Michael
Price: $15.00 |
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| Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe: Civilizations
Book Number: 50506
Macmillan 2000 8vo Hardcover in d/w. 600pp near fine. Civilizations is a radical cultural history of mankind's relationship with nature, which advances a new understanding of what it means to be civilized.
Keywords: Civilizations Fernandez Armesto Felipe
Price: $18.00 |
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