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  • Divorce Portals

    The Postdivorce in Asian Contexts

    de Shalini Grover, Shalini Grover, Kaveri Qureshi, Kaveri Qureshi, Geetika Bapna, Livia Holden, Katy Gardner, Asha L. Abeyasekera, Kailing Xie, Asuncion Freznosa-Flot0, Jayaprakash Mishra1, Janet Carsten2 ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Across Asia and its global diasporas, marriage remains a dominant and public institution, and divorce generates widespread comment and concern. Breaking new ground, Divorce Portals reveals divorce to be generative of transformations in individual intimate lives and wider societies. Through compelling, sensitive ethnographic accounts inviting readers into the lives of people undergoing separation ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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  • Marriage and the Moral Imagination

    de Janet Carsten ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservative terms, Carsten highlights their transformative possibilities. The book argues that marriage is a close encounter with difference on the most intimate scale, carrying the seeds of social ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Relative Values

    Reconfiguring Kinship Studies

    de Janet Carsten, Gillian Feeley-Harnik ...
    The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a group of internationally recognized scholars—examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Blood Work

    Life and Laboratories in Penang

    de Janet Carsten ...
    Series series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    What is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia. She tells the stories of blood donors, their varied motivations, and the paperwork, payment, and other bureaucratic processes involved in blood ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Blood Will Out

    Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows

    Edición de Janet Carsten ...
    Series series Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series
    Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together 10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood.An interdisciplinary study that unites the work of noted historians and anthropologistsIncorporates insights from recent work in symbolism, kinship studies, medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion, the sociological study of finance, and ... Leer más

    $29.00 USD

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  • Feminism, Interrupted

    Disrupting Power

    de Lola Olufemi ...
    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
    'I was blown away' - Angela DavisPlastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But feminism isn't a commodity up for purchase; it's a weapon for fighting against injustice.This revolutionary book reclaims feminism from consumerism through exploring state violence against women, reproductive justice, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beginning postcolonialism

    Second edition

    de John McLeod ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area.Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in ... Leer más

    $12.29 USD

  • The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism

    White Nation, Against Paranoid Nationalism & Later Writings

    de Ghassan Hage, Amani Haydar ...
    A groundbreaking collection of seminal works by renowned anthropologist and cultural critic, Ghassan Hage. Praised by internationally acclaimed author of Complaint!, Sara Ahmed, as 'a new way of accounting for race, its affective grammars, its holds and habits.'The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism brings together some of the most important and sought-after works by one of Australia’s ... Leer más

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  • Fundamentals of Sociology

    de P. Gisbert ...
    F"Fundamentals of Sociology is an introduction to the definition, methods and fundamental concepts of sociology. The book prepares the ground for the study of the origins and structures of society and social groups in correlation with other social sciences. In doing so the author looks into the most important facet of social structure—social institutions—which in their varied forms act as agents ... Leer más

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  • Melayu

    The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness

    Edición de Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
    People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "Malay", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Policing Sexuality

    Sex, Society, and the State

    de Julian C. H. Lee ...
    Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD