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By: Kristen Ghodsee
ISBN: 9780691139555
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. This work explores how gender relations among the Pomaks had to be renegotiated after the collapse of both Communism and the region's state-subsidized lead and zinc mines.
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By: Jenny White
ISBN: 9780691161921
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish model should be viewed as a success story or a cautionary tale.
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By: Wimal Dissanayake
ISBN: 9780816626571
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1996
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Underlining the importance of understanding the operations of human agency, this work emphasizes the cultural and historical conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of China, Japan and India.
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By: Allaine Cerwonka
ISBN: 9780816643493
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of "foreigners.
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By: Nadav Samin
ISBN: 9780691164441
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia What compels the strivers and climbers of the new Saudi Arabia to want to prove their authentic descent from one or another prestigious Arabian tribe Of Sand or Soil looks at how genealogy and tribal belonging have informed the lives of past and present inhabitants of Saudi Arabia and ho
Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism
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By: Megan C. Thomas
ISBN: 9780816671977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology
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By: Carl Frankel
ISBN: 9780972635769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing Company
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"Raises the literature on sustainability to a new level. Destined to be a classic."--Hazel Henderson
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By: Allan Pred
ISBN: 9780816644063
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Through one figure- Badin, an eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean slave given to the Swedish royal court- Allan Pred shows how stereotypes endure through the repeated confusion of facts and fiction, providing a highly original perspective on the perpetuation of racializing stereotypes in the West.
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By: Hugh Gusterson
ISBN: 9780816638604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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People of the Bomb mixes empathic and vivid portraits of individual weapons scientists with hard-hitting scrutiny of defense intellectuals' inability to foresee the end of the cold war, government rhetoric on missile defense, official double standards about nuclear proliferation, and pork barrel politics in the nuclear.
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By: Nancy Bleck
ISBN: 9780991858804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
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By: Mary Siisip Geniusz
ISBN: 9780816696765
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Luci Attala
ISBN: 9781837720484
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This book takes a journey around the world to demonstrate how plants influence peoples lives. From mealtimes to belief systems, from addictions to medical support, plants are instrumental in organising what people do, and what it means to be human.
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By: Kristin Koptiuch
ISBN: 9780816625390
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
ISBN: 9780691151779
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. This title provides a riveting ethnographic account of this collective violence.
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By: Simon Watney
ISBN: 9780816630257
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1997
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Timothy Mitchell
ISBN: 9780816631346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Jan Lin
ISBN: 9780816629053
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1998
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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This volume presents a real-world picture of New York City's Chinatown, countering the "orientalist" view by looking at the human dimensions and the larger forces of globalization that make this neighbourhood both unique and broadly instructive.
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By: Saba Mahmood
ISBN: 9780691153285
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Editors: Jan. 1902-Jan. 1905, J.S. Bassett; Apr. 1905-Jan. 1919, W.H. Glasson (with Edwin Mims, Apr. 1905-July 1909; W.P. Few, Oct. 1909-Jan. 1919); Apr. 1919- W.K. Boyd, W.H. Wannamaker.
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By: Rebecca A. Adelman
ISBN: 9781517907488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Rebecca A. Adelman
ISBN: 9781517907471
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Peter Skafish
ISBN: 9781517915155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
ISBN: 9781517911652
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
ISBN: 9781517911645
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Beatriz Sarlo
ISBN: 9780816630097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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