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Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica
ISBN: PB: 9780226373416, ISBN: HB: 9780226373386, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table
The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men – men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical ine...
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£26,00
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£67,50
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Sociology of Modern China
ISBN: PB: 9781849043533, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise "Sociology of Modern China" wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society in little more than a 130 pages, all the while avoiding cliches and s...
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£22,00
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Feelings at the Margins Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia
ISBN: PB: 9783593500058, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones
"Feelings at the Margins" offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional impact on affected individuals and groups. By combining anthropological, political, and historical per...
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£37,00
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American Lynching
ISBN: PB: 9780300205879, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd, Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined in order to understand this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the U...
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£23,00
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Black Oxford The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars
ISBN: PB: 9781908493835, Signal Books, October 2013
104 pp., 21.4x14.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alu...
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£7,99
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Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm
Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...
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£30,00
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£100,00
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Interpretation and Social Knowledge On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226706740, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
216 pp., 22x14 cm, 12 line illus.
For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. "Interpretation and...
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£21,00
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Building Globalization Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China
ISBN: PB: 9780226709819, ISBN: HB: 9780226709802, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 maps, 15 tables, 18 halftones
From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork, historical research, and network...
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£28,00
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£90,00
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Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones
Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...
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£11,50
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