Bøger i Yale Agrarian Studies (YUP) serien
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- Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge
538,95 kr. This work contains ten chapters on rural society and agrarian issues, encompassing various disciplines, historical periods, and regions of the world. It examines such topics as poverty, subsistence, cultivation, ecology, justice, art, custom, law, ritual life, co-operation and state action.
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- 538,95 kr.
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- Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
812,95 kr. Drawing on research among Luo people in western Kenya and abroad, this book examines how Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. It focuses on nonmonetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity.
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- 812,95 kr.
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- Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land
689,95 kr. From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. This collection presents a complex historical portrait of the American character through its relationship to the land.
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- 689,95 kr.
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- Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside
513,95 kr. Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, this book shows how and why agrarian Americans - yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike - accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.
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- 513,95 kr.
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- A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo
1.038,95 kr. "The Hikayat Banjar", a 17th-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. This title employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous people of Borneo and the world system.
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- 1.038,95 kr.
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- 571,95 kr.
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- The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization
698,95 kr. Examines the inner workings of the World Bank, the foundations of its global achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach.
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- 698,95 kr.
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- How a Global Corporation and Environmental Activists Transformed a Tarnished Brand
785,95 kr. 'Smart Alliance' tells the story of how Chiquita, formerly the notorious United Fruit Company, reinvented itself as an ally of conservation and together with the Rainforest Alliance set about establishing a 'Better Banana' seal of approval to certify genuine efforts to protect the environment.
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- 785,95 kr.