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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Raw life, new hope Raw life, new hope Fiona C. Ross vi, 248 pages : 23 cm OL15570114W
Burials, texts and rituals Burials, texts and rituals Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin,I Wayan Ardika The villages on Bali’s north-east coast have a long history. Archaeological finds have shown that the coastal settlements of Tejakula District enjoyed trading relations with India as long as 2000 yea… OL16964770W
Social Media in Northern Chile (Free open access PDF) Social Media in Northern Chile (Free open access PDF) Nell Haynes Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily liv… OL17357785W
Social Media in Rural China Social Media in Rural China Tom McDonald China’s distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation’s vast number of internet users, but has China’s countryside been ‘left behind’ in this communication revolu… OL17366747W
Ontological terror Ontological terror Calvin L. Warren,Calvin L. Warren The author intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. The author use… OL17893080W
Biohistory Biohistory Penman, Jim (Social theorist) "Biohistory is a revolutionary new theory that explores the biological and behavioural underpinnings of social change, including the rise and fall of civilisations. Informed by significant research i… OL19755500W
Ecologics Ecologics Cymene Howe Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to w… OL20082802W
Mixtec Evangelicals Mixtec Evangelicals Mary I. O'Connor MIXTEC EVANGELICALS is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cult… OL20236882W
Making Refuge Making Refuge Catherine Besteman In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality a… OL20240916W
Cold War Anthropology Cold War Anthropology David H. Price In a wide-ranging and in-depth study of the recent history of anthropology, David Price offers a provocative account of the ways anthropology has been influenced by U.S. imperial projects around the … OL20241067W
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela Iselin Åsedotter Strønen petro-state; corruption; extractive capitalism; Hugo Chavez; revolution OL20852923W
The Spectral Arctic The Spectral Arctic Shane McCorristine Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voy… OL20930334W
Teaching ?Proper? Drinking? Teaching ?Proper? Drinking? Maggie Brady "In Teaching ?Proper? Drinking?, the author brings together three fields of scholarship: socio-historical studies of alcohol, Australian Indigenous policy history and social enterprise studies. The c… OL20930847W
Christianity, Islam, and Ori?a Religion Christianity, Islam, and Ori?a Religion J.D.Y. Peel "The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous ori?a religion. In this comparative study, at … OL20932460W
Ethnography #9 Ethnography #9 Alan Klima "ETHNOGRAPHY #9 looks at Thai spiritual and financial practices, and at the relationship of these local practices to global capitalism's abstraction of monetary value. Through his examination of mone… OL20935450W