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Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the AmericasINDIGENEITY AND THE SACRED
Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
Edited by Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner

Volume 22, Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiologyal Analysis

 

“The effect of the whole [volume] is to emphasize the importance of saving sites locally sacred to Indigenous or majority peoples, and to take full account of how they are regarded and how they must be reverently and civilly managed to keep from offending…Highly recommended.”Choice

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The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène BobanTHE MAN WHO INVENTED AZTEC CRYSTAL SKULLS
The Adventures of Eugène Boban
Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping

 

“An excellent biography of a little-known but important figure in the nineteenth-century history of American archaeology…”Norman Hammond, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University

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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and SongsNON-HUMANS IN AMERINDIAN SOUTH AMERICA
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía

Volume 27, EASA Series

 

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.

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Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban CommoningWORLDWIDE MOBILIZATIONS
Class Struggles and Urban Commoning
Edited by Don Kalb and Massimiliano Mollona

Volume 24, Dislocations

 

The book examines cases of mobilization across the globe, and employs a Marxian class framework, open to the diverse and multi-scalar dynamics of urban politics, especially struggles for spatial justice.

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Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and SurvivalMIGRATION BY BOAT
Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival
Edited by Lynda Mannik

Volume 35, Forced Migration

 

“This impressive collection of essays, centred on migration, borders, identities, and humanitarian ideals is both theoretically astute and ethnographically rich. Each contribution is solid and together they challenge readers to rethink the politics of migration.”Refuge

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Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and MigrationCARE ACROSS DISTANCE
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
Edited by Azra Hromadžić and Monika Palmberger

Volume 4, Life Course, Culture and Aging

 

This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad.

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Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate WorldINTIMATE MOBILITIES
Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World
Edited by Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez

Volume 3, Worlds in Motion

 

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people’s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world

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The Experience of Neoliberal EducationTHE EXPERIENCE OF NEOLIBERAL EDUCATION
Edited by Bonnie Urciuoli

Volume 4, Higher Education in Critical Perspective

 

Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified “experiences” have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment.

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Tourism and Informal Encounters in CubaTOURISM AND INFORMAL ENCOUNTERS IN CUBA
Valerio Simoni

Volume 38, New Directions in Anthropology

 

“The book should become a classic read for tourism anthropologists and, more generally, for those who see in touristic phenomena something more than an industry of illusions and golden hordes.”Tsantsa: Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association

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Berghahn Journals:

 

Cover Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and SocietyJOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA MEMORY AND SOCIETY

Editor: Eckhardt Fuchs, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

Published on behalf of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

JEMMS explores the knowledge and understanding of past and present societies as constituted and conveyed via formal and informal educational media, within and beyond schools. Its focus is on various types of texts and images found in textbooks, museums, memorials, films and digital media.

 

Cover Historical Reflections/Réflexions HistoriquesHISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

Editor: Elizabeth C. Macknight, University of Aberdeen and Co-Editor: W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College

HRRH has established a well-deserved reputation for publishing high quality articles of wide-ranging interest for over forty years. The journal, which publishes articles in both English and French, is committed to exploring history in an interdisciplinary framework and with a comparative focus.

 

 


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