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\"logo\"<\/a>We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the Society for Applied Anthropology<\/a>\u00a0(SfAA) annual meeting in Portland, Oregon on March 19-23, 2019. Please stop by our stand to browse our latest selection of books at a special discounted prices and pick up free journal samples.<\/p>\n

If you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount<\/strong> on all Applied Anthropology<\/a> titles found on our website. At checkout, simply enter the discount code SfAA2019<\/strong>. Just a reminder that our journal, Anthropology in Action<\/em> is OPEN ACCESS<\/strong><\/a> through Knowledge Unlatched!<\/p>\n

Visit our website\u00ad to browse new enhanced subject searching features\u00ad for a complete listing of titles and don’t forget about our expanding list of eBooks available for download directly via our site. Visit our Anthropology eBook site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"TransformingTRANSFORMING STUDY ABROAD<\/a>
\nA Handbook
\nNeriko Musha Doerr<\/p>\n

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Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts \u2013 such as \u201cculture\u201d, \u201cnative speaker\u201d, and \u201cimmersion\u201d \u2013 from a number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as an occasion to analyze constructions of \u201cdifferences\u201d in daily life.<\/p>\n

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\"RefugeeREFUGEE RESETTLEMENT<\/a>
\nPower, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance
\nEdited by Ad\u00e8le Garnier, Liliana Lyra Jubilut, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik<\/p>\n

Volume 38, Forced Migration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations, social work, political science, and numerous other disciplines, this ground-breaking volume highlights the conflicts between refugees\u2019 needs and state practices, and assesses international, regional and national perspectives on resettlement, as well as the bureaucracies and ideologies involved.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Refugee Resettlement as Humanitarian Governance: Power Dynamics<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"CashCASH TRANSFERS IN CONTEXT<\/a>
\nAn Anthropological Perspective
\nEdited by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle Piccoli<\/p>\n

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Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.<\/p>\n

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\"Economy,ECONOMY, CRIME AND WRONG IN A NEOLIBERAL ERA<\/a>
\nEdited by James G. Carrier<\/p>\n

Volume 36, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many people would consider wrong.<\/p>\n

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\"ReconceivingRECONCEIVING MUSLIM MEN<\/a>
\nLove and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
\nEdited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib<\/p>\n

Volume 38, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume provides intimate anthropological accounts of Muslim men\u2019s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic communities in the West.<\/p>\n

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\"AnthropologyANTHROPOLOGY AND PUBLIC SERVICE<\/a>
\nThe UK Experience
\nEdited by Jeremy MacClancy<\/p>\n

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\u201cA good contribution to mainstream anthropological literature. Anthropology and Public Service will be a valuable and interesting resource for applied and practicing anthropology.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Riall Nolan<\/strong>, Purdue University<\/p>\n

Read Chapter 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Introduction\u2028: Anthropology and Public Service<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Gender,GENDER, VIOLENCE, REFUGEES<\/a>
\nEdited by Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Ulrike Krause<\/p>\n

Volume 37, Forced Migration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026an excellent read and contribution to the fields of refugee and gender studies\u2026[that] should be a required reading for graduate students and scholars of (forced) migration and policymakers working with displaced populations.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Gender & Society<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"LivingHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BBC THINKING ALLOWED<\/em><\/a> ETHNOGRAPHY AWARD<\/p>\n

LIVING BEFORE DYING<\/a>
\nImagining and Remembering Home
\nJanette Davies<\/p>\n

Volume 41, New Directions in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a poignant account of a yearlong observational study of a large nursing home\u2026 Overall, a practical and empathetic consideration of elder care.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"GypsyGYPSY ECONOMY<\/a>
\nRomani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
\nEdited by Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, and Martin Fotta<\/p>\n

Volume 3, The Human Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI specifically recommend this book to those who are interested in anthropology, ethnography, or in the everyday lives of Roma in general. However, those who are interested in unusual economic processes will find this volume interesting, too.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Cornivus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE ONLINE WORLD OF SURROGACY<\/a>
\nZsuzsa Berend<\/p>\n

Volume 35, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cBerend\u2019s insights here both contribute to and are consistent with the newer school of thought in economic sociology that views economic relations as socially embedded\u2026 [Her] work fills a crucial oversight in sociological knowledge about surrogacy and the connections between economic and personal relations\u2026<\/em>” \u2022 Contemporary Sociology<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"ReflectingREFLECTING ON REFLEXIVITY<\/a>
\nThe Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise
\nEdited by T. M. S. Evens, Don Handelman and Christopher Roberts<\/p>\n

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Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Reflexivity and Selfhood<\/a><\/p>\n

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Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/em><\/a> Series<\/h5>\n

Published by Berghahn Books under the auspices of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology (AAGE)<\/a><\/em> and the American Anthropological Association<\/em><\/a> Interest Group on Aging and the Life Course.<\/p>\n

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\"TheVolume 5<\/p>\n

THE GLOBAL AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY MOVEMENT<\/a>
\nA Critical Appraisal
\nEdited by Philip B. Stafford<\/p>\n

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This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Theorizing and Practicing Age-friendly Development<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"CareVolume 4<\/p>\n

CARE ACROSS DISTANCE<\/a>
\nEthnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
\nEdited by Azra Hromad\u017ei\u0107 and Monika Palmberger<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Care Across Distance<\/a><\/p>\n

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Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies<\/em><\/a> Series<\/h5>\n

Together with its sister journal,\u00a0LATISS<\/a>, this series provides in-depth analyses of these changes and how those involved \u2013 managers, academics and students – are experimenting with critical pedagogies, reflecting upon the best organization of their own institutions, and engaging with public policy debates about higher education in the 21st Century.<\/p>\n

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\"TheVolume 4<\/p>\n

THE EXPERIENCE OF NEOLIBERAL EDUCATION<\/a>
\nEdited by Bonnie Urciuoli<\/p>\n

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The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"DeathVolume 3, New in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

DEATH OF THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY?<\/a>
\nUncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
\nEdited by Susan Wright and Cris Shore<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026this book makes a unique and ethnographically-based contribution to the study of universities. Chapters are well written and avoid repetition, despite their overlapping concerns.\u00a0Finally, as Shore and Wright note in their introduction, the volume focuses on contexts in the Global North, where the \u2018neoliberal\u2019 university is seen as most pervasive and enduring. Explorations of public universities elsewhere, which have received virtually no attention to date, may in future build on the work presented here, exposing further radical possibilities.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Anthropological Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"AnthropologyOPEN ACCESS!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anthropology in Action<\/a>
\nJournal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice<\/p>\n

Editor:\u00a0Christine McCourt,\u00a0City, University of London<\/p>\n

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Current Issue: <\/strong>Vol. 25, Issue 3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MigrationMigration and Society<\/a>
\nAdvances in Research<\/p>\n

Editors: Mette Louise Berg,\u00a0University College London
\nElena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,\u00a0University College London
\nJohanna L. Waters,\u00a0University College London<\/p>\n

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Hospitality and Hostility Towards Migrants: Global Perspectives (Vol. 1, Issue 1)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"JournalJournal of Legal Anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor: Narmala Halstead,\u00a0University of Sussex<\/p>\n

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Current Issue: Vol. 2, Issue 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 1 is free to access.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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