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Anthropology of the Name

Lazarus Sylvain

ISBN: HB: 9780857422309, Seagull Books, August 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Translated by Gila Walker for the first time into English, "Anthropology of the Name" is French thinker Sylvain Lazarus's response to the intellectual caesura of May 1968. Taking up thought, politics, and the name, Lazarus presents an original doctri...

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Discourse of Race in Modern China

Dikotter Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781849044882, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! First published in 1992, "The Discourse of Race in Modern China" rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the...

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Pauperland Poverty and the Poor in Britain

Seabrook Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781849045841, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland'. More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by May...

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Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society

DeBrabander Firmin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208931, Yale University Press, July 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Possibly the most emotionally charged debate taking place in the United States today centers on the Second Amendment of the Constitution and the rights of citizens to bear arms. In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, the gun ri...

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Christianity

Women Studies

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge

Hamori Esther J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...

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Anthropology

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Modes of Uncertainty Anthropological Cases

Samimian-Darash Limor, Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226257105, ISBN: HB: 9780226257075, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 5 halftones

"Modes of Uncertainty" offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose un...

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Racial Order

Emirbayer Mustafa, Desmond Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226253527, ISBN: HB: 9780226253497, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 line drawings

Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond set out to reformulate how we think about this most difficult of topics in American life. In...

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Becoming a Marihuana User

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226332901, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
88 pp., 15.2x10 cm, 6 halftones

OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz musician, expert on "deviant" culture, and founding NORM...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sarojini N., Marwah Vrinda

ISBN: HB: 9789383074525, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women's bodies. Viewed...

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Gender Studies

Criminology

Landscape of Silence Sexual Violence Against Men in War

Misra Amalendu

ISBN: HB: 9781849042826, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all, why, throughout history, have victims, perpetrators and s...

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