Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dancing across borders Dancing across borders Anthony Shay "This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms among mainstream Americans. Throughout the 20th century, millions of Americans have begun learning and performing va… OL11913448W
Deleuzian Intersections Deleuzian Intersections Casper Bruun Jensen,Kjetil Rodje Edited volume outlining a Deleuzian approach to analytical science, culture, and politics. Contributors: Isabelle Stengers Mariam Fraser Katie Vann Steven D. Brown Geoffrey C Bowker… OL16533385W
Black social dance in television advertising Black social dance in television advertising Carla Stalling Huntington "This work investigates the anthropologic aesthetic of black social dance in television advertising. Covering the 1950s through 2010 in the United States, each decade is explored as dance is shown to… OL16624513W
An Anthropology of Ethics An Anthropology of Ethics James D. Faubion "Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropologi… OL16642999W
The economics of health and wellness The economics of health and wellness Donald C. Wood This 26th volume in the Research in Economic Anthropology series differs in two main ways from all those that have come before. For one, it is the first REA volume to focus exclusively on the issue o… OL16957551W
Designs for the pluriverse Designs for the pluriverse Arturo Escobar,Arturo Escobar Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls ""autonomous design""--A design practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward w… OL17890251W
Juvenescence Juvenescence Robert Pogue Harrison How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age withi… OL19989042W
Stigmas of the Tamil stage Stigmas of the Tamil stage Susan Seizer This is a feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in t… OL20545766W
Sportsex Sportsex Toby Miller "Sportsex examines the landscape of sports writ global. And it is about the way sport allows men and women - but mostly men - to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their … OL2690551W