Once Upon a Time is Now A Kalahari Memoir
Author: Megan Biesele Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at...
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View ArticleEnacted Relations Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community
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View ArticleCentennial Fever Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish Nationalism
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View ArticleWorking Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962 Work, Culture, and the Politics...
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View ArticleToo Jewish or Not Jewish Enough Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the...
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View ArticleEdges of Noir Extreme Filmmaking in 1960s America
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View ArticleIntimate Histories African Americans and Germany since 1933
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View ArticleAsian Lives in Anthropological Perspective Essays on Morality, Achievement...
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View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors The Yenidze Cigarette Factory, Dresden
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View ArticlePlaying the Hand We Are Dealt The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in...
Author: Michael Jackson The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ‘hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to...
View ArticleKubrick's Mitteleuropa The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley...
Author: Edited by Nathan Abrams and Jeremi Szaniawski Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage,...
View ArticleMobile Pastoralist Households Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological...
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View ArticleDaisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette Protective Marks in Gravestone Art
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View ArticleSubjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins
Author: Edited by Moisés Kopper and Matthew A. Richmond Extreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective subjectivities at Latin America’s...
View ArticleSinister and Righteous Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record
Author: C. Riley Augé In recent years, archaeologists have begun to consider the potential for left and right positioning of elements in the material record to reveal cultural ideas about gender,...
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