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  • - Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
    af Brian Larkin
    323,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. This work provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point.

  • - An Ethnography of Wall Street
    af Karen Ho
    263,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance.

  • af Erica Rand
    335,95 - 993,95 kr.

    A study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigration

  • - Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
    af Paige Raibmon
    263,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Analyzes cultural adaptation among aboriginal people in the Pacific Northwest, tracing the colonial origins and political implications of ideas about native "authenticity."

  • - African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial
    af Karla F. C. Holloway
    243,95 - 593,95 kr.

    A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life.

  • - Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
    af Piya Chatterjee
    288,95 - 1.113,95 kr.

    Provides an examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. This book reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements came to symbolise the heart of colonialism in India. It exposes how this image has distracted from working conditions, low wages, and coercive labour practices enforced by the patronage system.

  • - Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its Intellectuals
    af Rudolf Mrazek
    263,95 - 998,95 kr.

    An unconventional, evocative work of history and a series of moving reflections on memory, modernity, space, and time, all based on the authors interviews with elderly Indonesian intellectuals.

  • - Village Industry in Indonesia
    af S. Ann Dunham
    353,95 kr.

    President Barack Obama's mother, S Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist who specialized in social and economic development in Indonesia. This book reflects Dunham's commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; and her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem-solving.

  • - Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
    af Bliss Cua Lim
    273,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple 'immiscible' temporalities that strain against homogeneous time.

  • af Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, James D. Faubion & mfl.
    271,95 - 953,95 kr.

    Features a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge and practice. This book focuses on how anthropology understands its subject and how ethnographic research projects are designed and carried out.

  • af Linda Williams
    428,95 - 1.108,95 kr.

    For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. This title investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations.

  • - The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
    af Charles F. Walker
    309,95 - 953,95 kr.

    A social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746, looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster.

  • - The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
    af Jake Kosek
    273,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.

  • - W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
    af Shawn Michelle Smith
    310,95 - 958,95 kr.

    An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900

  • - Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
    af Sherry B. Ortner
    233,95 - 933,95 kr.

    The award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity.

  • - An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal
    af Orin Starn
    333,95 - 888,95 kr.

    This book examines the career of Tiger Woods, from child star to global sports celebrity. Starn shows that while the scandal following the revelation of Tiger's infidelities was like many similar media-generated scandals of recent years, by examining the way Woods was seen afterwards, we can learn a lot about race and sex in contemporary America.

  • - Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
    af Ann Laura Stoler
    362,95 - 1.229,95 kr.

    In Duress Ann Laura Stoler traces how imperial formations and colonialism's presence shape current inequities around the globe by examining Israel's colonial practices, the United State's imperial practices, the recent rise of the French right wing, and affect's importance to governance.

  • af Alain Badiou
    270,95 - 883,95 kr.

    In Can Politics Be Thought?-published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time-Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism in which he argues for the continuation of Marxist politics.

  • - Political Essays
    af Etienne Balibar
    336,95 - 1.104,95 kr.

    The preeminent political theorist Etienne Balibar examines what he calls "equaliberty," the fundamental tension in modern democracies between equality and liberty, humanity and citizenship.

  • - The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil
    af Esther Gabara
    393,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Looks at the role of photography in the Brazilian and Mexican avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. This illustrated study introduces the concept of a modernist 'ethos' to illuminate the intertwining of aesthetic innovation and ethical concerns in the work of leading Brazilian and Mexican literary figures.

  • - Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
    af Daisuke Miyao
    351,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    Critical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race and nationality in the early twentieth century.

  • - A Political Ecology of Things
    af Jane Bennett
    298,95 - 933,95 kr.

    Theorizes the political agency of things and natural phenomena-such as trash, food, weather, and electricity-to examine how non-human elements exert force on human politics and social relations.

  • - A Gayle Rubin Reader
    af Gayle S. Rubin
    398,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    Gayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history.

  • - Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    af Kathi Weeks
    320,95 - 998,95 kr.

    The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.

  • - Creolization in the Early French Caribbean
    af Doris L. Garraway
    273,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.

  • - History and Culture in the United States
     
    411,95 kr.

    A kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States, addressing history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including essays, memoirs, journalism, poetry, and interviews.

  • - The Surprise of Otherness
    af Barbara Johnson
    373,95 - 1.230,95 kr.

    Offers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers.

  • af Judith Halberstam
    248,95 kr.

    Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions

  • af Achille Mbembe
    298,95 - 1.047,95 kr.

    Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression.

  • - Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
    af Diana Taylor
    335,95 - 993,95 kr.

    Provides an understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. This title shows how the repertoire of embodied memory - conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances - offers alternative perspectives to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact.