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  • Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

    by Lorraine Aragon, Andrew Causey, Holly High, Judith Nagata, Harold C. Conklin, Hjorleifur Jonsson, John Clammer, Christina Schwenkel, Susan Darlington, Nancy Smith-Hefner, Katharine Wiegele, Pattana Kitiarsa, Sandra Cate, Nir Avieli, Shaun Kingsley Malarney, Elizabeth Traube, Eve Zucker, Chris Lyttleton, Robert Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, Juli Edo, Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Gene Ammarell ...
    This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Overwhelming Terror

    Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among Semai of Malaysia

    by Robert Knox Dentan ...
    Series series War and Peace Library
    This powerful ethnography of a people believed to be the least violent in the world explores how they maintain peaceful relations even under the most dire circumstances. Robert Knox Dentan, the world's foremost scholar of Semai, brings its members vividly to life. His book includes translations of their poetry, dramatized accounts of particular events, and extensive quotations from a wide range of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980

    A Generation Reflects

    by Mary Elmendorf, John L Landgraf, Harry F Wolcott, Dwight B Heath, Marjorie M Schweitzer, Willis E Sibley, Jim Weil, J. Anthony Paredes, Norman E. Whitten Jr., Shepard Krech III, Dr. Alice Beck Kehoe1, Dr. Robert B Textor, Ph.D2, Dr. Walter Rochs Goldschmidt, Ph.D3, Dr. Dell Hymes, Ph.D4, Dr. Nathalie F.S. Woodbury, Ph.D5, Paul L. Doughty6, Dr. Thomas Weaver, Ph.D8, Herbert S. Lewis Jr.9, Dr. Susan R. Trencher, Ph.D0, Dr. William O. Beeman, Ph.D1, Dr. Robert Knox Dentan2 ...
    Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields, frequently on the initiative of individual practitioners. The Association of Senior Anthropologists ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Through Feminist Eyes

    Essays on Canadian Women’s History

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Future of Whiteness

    by Linda Martín Alcoff ...
    White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Ethnography

    A Way of Seeing

    by Harry F. Wolcott ...
    One of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive about ethnography and what it means to conduct research in the ethnographic tradition. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Wolcott ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • What Is Curriculum Theory?

    by William F. Pinar ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.Not only the implementation of objectives to be assessed by standardized tests, curriculum is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies

    Edited by Chris Andersen, Jean M. O'Brien ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies is a synthesis of changes and innovations in methodologies in Indigenous Studies, focusing on sources over a broad chronological and geographical range. Written by a group of highly respected Indigenous Studies scholars from across an array of disciplines, this collection offers insight into the methodological approaches contributors take to research, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Land Education

    Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives

    Edited by Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie ...
    This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land. This analysis discusses the necessity of centring historical and current contexts of colonization in education on and in relation to land. In addition, contributors explore the intersections of environmentalism and Indigenous rights, in part inspired by the realisation that the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology: Volume 1

    Core Areas in Sociology and the Development of the Discipline

    Edited by Kathleen Odell Korgen ...
    Whether a student, an instructor, a researcher, or just someone interested in understanding the roots of sociology and our social world, The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, Volume 1 is for you. This first volume of the Handbook focuses on core areas of sociology, such as theory, methods, culture, socialization, social structure, inequality, diversity, social institutions, social problems, deviant ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • Frames of Protest

    Social Movements and the Framing Perspective

    by Hank Johnston, Robert D. Benford, Jorge Cadena-Roa, Lyndi Hewitt, Padraic Kenney, Jan Massens, Holly J. McCammon, Pamela E. Oliver, Cathy Schneider0, David A. Snow1, Stephen Valocchi2, Stefaan Walgrave3, David L. Westby4 ...
    Frames of Protest brings together important empirical research and theoretical essays by leading sociologists, political scientists, and media specialists that focus on social movement frames and framing practices. Frames are new ways of understanding political and social relations that emphasize injustice and the need for change. As such, they are crucial for the development of social movements ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Our Daily Bread

    Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West

    by Geoff Mann ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues Geoff Mann. Beyond being a quantitative reflection of productivity or bargaining power, a wage is a political arena in which working people’s identity, culture, and politics are negotiated and developed. In Our Daily Bread, Mann examines struggles over wages to reveal ways in which the wage becomes a critical component in the making of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD