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Published November 2024
Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers

Solving the Existential Puzzle

Djolic, M. R.

A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of existential anxiety.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2024
Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.

After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2024
The New Australian Military Sociology

Antipodean perspectives

West, B. & Carter, C. (eds)

In exploring the insights that the Australian case has for theorising civil-military relations, the book serves as a model for other country case studies. This antipodean contribution to the field includes analysis of the changing demographics, new domestic and international responsibilities, Industry-Defence cooperation, women in the armed forces and contemporary veteran wellbeing.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2024
One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)

Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Published February 2024
Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

Rauchholz, M.

Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published January 2024
Enacted Relations

Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community

Tamisari, F.

Enacted Relations explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published January 2024
Melanesian Mainstream

Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu

Ellerich, S. T.

Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Performance Studies

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Published October 2023
Assembling Financialisation

Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment

Langford, Z.

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global change, it is assembled by a diverse range of often contradictory work.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

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Published August 2023
Temple Tracks

Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

Sinha, V.

The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion.

Subjects: Transport Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion
Published May 2023
Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology

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Published May 2023
Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development

Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas

Conroy, J. D.

The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, British, Australian and Dutch – this book recounts Hart’s effort in 1972 to introduce the informal ‘sector’ into development planning in Papua New Guinea.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Colonial History

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Published January 2023
At Home in a Nursing Home

An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

Zhang, A. R. Y.

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published October 2022
Pacific Spaces

Translations and Transmutations

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)

Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

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Published October 2022
Ӧmie Sex Affiliation

A Papuan Nature

Rohatynskyj, M.

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies

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Published September 2022
Borders in East and West

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)

The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Published July 2022
Tangled Mobilities

Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)

Increasingly, scholarly works are approaching the challenges of peoples’ spatial movements across state frontiers as tied to various forms of mobilities that people experience. Using a plural and comparative lens with case studies, Tangled Mobilities brings fresh insight to the wider social phenomenon of mobility and the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Published April 2022
Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

Bratrud, T.

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2022
Engaging Environments in Tonga

Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

Perminow, A. A.

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

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Published October 2021
Carnivalizing Reconciliation

Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm

Teichler, H.

This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is carnivalesque, temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies.

Subjects: Memory Studies Literary Studies Film and Television Studies

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Published September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)

Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Medical Anthropology

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Published August 2021
Stories from an Ancient Land

Perspectives on Wa History and Culture

Fiskesjö, M.

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come

Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

Demian, M.

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2021
Merchant Kings

Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870

Schrauwers, A.

Merchant Kings offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java during the nineteenth century. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, it offers a bracing new approach to understanding the development of modern corporations within the context of empire.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2021
Ethnography in the Raw

Life in a Luzon Village

Moeran, B.

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with a Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles north east of Manila. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published April 2021
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

New Lives of Old Imaginaries

Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)

Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as “traveling concepts” that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse. The chapters are contextualized by a strongly theorized introduction that considers how notions of authenticity and authorship have developed in Western societies too.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published October 2020
Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Skrzypek, E. E.

The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

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Published October 2020
What Now

Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Dalley, C.

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published October 2020
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia

Values, Family, and Identity

Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finis, K. (eds)

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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Published July 2020
Beyond Filial Piety

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)

This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published July 2020
Tides of Empire

Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia

Work, C.

Set at the forested edge of Cambodia’s frontier, this book shares stories and insights from migrants, loggers, and soldiers carving homesteads into a new village. The stories included in this book show the fluid boundaries of social, economic and political classifications in the area, and that the inhabitants’ poverty or wealth reveal the legacy of imperial power.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Published May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity

Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands

Sharples, R.

Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement, and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2020
Beyond Wild and Tame

Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

Oehler, A. C.

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.

Subject: Environmental Studies (General)

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Published February 2020
If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink

Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu

Petrou, K.

Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanization and internal migration in the Global South.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published January 2020
Sustaining Indigenous Songs

Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia

Curran, G.

Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, Curran lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centers on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony to illustrate the modes in which core cultural themes are being passed on through song to future generations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2019
Heritage Movements in Asia

Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity

Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)

This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2019
Claiming Homes

Confronting Domicide in Rural China

Bruckermann, C.

Explores how ‘care’, defined as ‘work done on behalf of others’, allows villagers to forge belonging and stake claims over the locality, its values, and each other, in defiance of the social exclusion projected by China’s politics of place and localization of class.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published July 2019
The Anti-Social Contract

Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

Højer, L.

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2019
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)

Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology

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Published June 2019
24 Bars to Kill

Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

Armstrong, A. B.

Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 2019
Money Games

Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Pickles, A. J.

Since the Colonial era, gambling has come to dominate nighttime activity in Papua New Guinea. This richly detailed ethnography intersects with theories of money, value, play, money, exchange, informal economy, materiality, social change, leadership, and the anthropology of Melanesia.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 2019
Market Frictions

Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

Endres, K. W.

Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published March 2019
Persistently Postwar

Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan

Guarné, B., Lozano-Méndez, A., & Martinez, D. P. (eds)

Persistently Postwar approaches the topics of social memory and political discourse through an exploration of Japan’s post-war mass media. Diverse disciplinary backgrounds and contrasting perspectives offer a nuanced dialogue in which the functions of mass media are explored as more than a simple ideological tool.

Subjects: Media Studies Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

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Published March 2019
How Materials Matter

Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

Were, G.

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2019
Fate Calculation Experts

Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China

Li, G.

As the practice of divination, long stigmatized as an immoral superstition, enjoys a revival in contemporary China, Fate Calculation Experts explores the various ways in which diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published February 2019
Going to Pentecost

An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism

Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, and in recognition of the increasingly non-territorial nature of religion in the contemporary world, Going to Pentecost offers an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements, and Pentecostalism in particular.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published January 2019
Monetising the Dividual Self

The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia

Hopkins, J.

Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies

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Published November 2018
Artifak

Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

DeBlock, H.

Artifak investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in Vanuatu, in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, and in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in the context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies

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Published November 2018
Explorations and Entanglements

Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I

Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)

Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascinating and hitherto much neglected arena of transnational encounters.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Colonial History

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Published November 2018
Pacific Realities

Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance

Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)

In the context of dramatic changes and processes of “glocalization” across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional “local-global” dichotomies, this volume explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance and resilience through which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2018
Gulag Memories

The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past

Bogumił, Z.

Gulag Memories explores the impact of the Gulag on collective memory as it applies to the language of commemoration in Russia, focusing on four regions particularly affected by the Gulag: Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy

Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia

Zeitzen, M. K.

An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2018
An Australian Indigenous Diaspora

Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition

Burke, P.

This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, exploring how they sustain their independent lives and examining their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published May 2018
Capturing Quicksilver

The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore

Smith, A. A.

Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, “multiracial” nationalism, and the management of history and heritage. Theoretically and methodologically developed within medical anthropology, it explores embodied experience and individual and group creativity vis-à-vis state agendas.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2018
Dreams Made Small

The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia

Munro, J.

Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published May 2018
Searching for a Better Life

Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok

Mahony, S.

This book offers an ethnographic account of young people growing up in the slums of Bangkok, exploring their struggles to get by in conditions of severe structural constraint and the outcomes and side effects of their endeavours; in doing so, it offers an antidote to neoliberal assumptions about personal responsibility.

Subject: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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Published April 2018
Cutting Cosmos

Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot

Mikkelsen, H. H.

Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published March 2018
World Heritage Craze in China

Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory

Yan, H.

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism

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Published March 2018
The Southeast Asia Connection

Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

Chew, S. C.

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than a region of peripheral entrepôts.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 2018
Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand

Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China

Fleischer, F.

Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand examines different modes and ideologies of help/support, as well as reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published November 2017
Selfhood and Recognition

Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality

Galuschek, A. C.

The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2017
Culture Change and Ex-Change

Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Knapp, R.

Analyzing perceived and performed cultural change by members of the Bena Bena language group in Papua New Guinea, Knapp offers a new understanding by conjoining traditional anthropological models as well as recent pursuits such as collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published October 2017
Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

Lazreg, M.

Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference. It also traces the philosophical-theoretical sources of his conception of difference, and uncovers the contradictions of his dismissal of empirical anthropology to know human beings.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2017
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

Mageo, J. & Hermann, E. (eds)

How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2017
Growing Up in Transit

The Politics of Belonging at an International School

Tanu, D.

Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

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Published August 2017
The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938

Complicating the Picture

Wakabayashi, B. T. (ed)

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, making this even more relevant as we approach the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2017
Emptiness and Fullness

Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China

Bregnbæk, S. & Bunkenborg, M. (eds)

As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2017
Footprints in Paradise

Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa

Murray, A. E.

In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

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Published May 2017
Death of the Public University?

Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy

Wright, S. & Shore, C. (eds)

Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new landscapes of higher education emerging across Europe and Australasia.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2016
Leaving Footprints in the Taiga

Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters

Brandišauskas, D.

Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate dramatic environmental and social changes that have unfolded in post-Soviet Siberia.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2016
Reluctant Intimacies

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Świtek, B.

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published June 2016
Mortuary Dialogues

Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Lipset, D. & Silverman, E. K. (eds)

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published May 2016
Being and Becoming

Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra

Elkholy, R.

In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2016
Cutting and Connecting

'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange

Myhre, K. C. (ed)

Cutting and Connecting rethinks anthropology’s comparative endeavor by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. The contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent anthropological studies of Melanesia to analyze contemporary life on the African continent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published January 2016
Engaging with Strangers

Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

McDougall, D.

Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with foreigners across many realms of life, describing startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published December 2015
Ecological Migrants

The Relocation of China's Ewenki Reindeer Herders

Xie, Y.

This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published September 2015
In the Absence of the Gift

New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community

Rasmussen, A. E.

Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives “What about me?” This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like “community” can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

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Published April 2015
Reclaiming the Forest

The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya

Kolås, Å. & Xie, Y. (eds)

The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer.” To some, their future seems troubled, but this volume’s literary and academic contributions instead focus on the present, as the Ewenki attempt to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published February 2015
Re-orienting Cuisine

East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century

Kim, K. O. (ed)

Foods are changed by those who produce and supply them, and also by those who consume them. The contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

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Published February 2015
Trapped in the Gap

Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

Kowal, E.

Trapped in the Gap explores what happens when a group of state-supported, intelligent and well-meaning people attempt to help without harming. This group of “white anti-racists” find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds, a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published June 2014
The Ethnographic Experiment

A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

Hviding, E. & Berg, C. (eds)

In 1908 Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers brought about a turning point in modern anthropology. The two pioneers’ fieldwork in Island Melanesia brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. Contributors to this volume—who have all carried out fieldwork in Melanesian locations—situate the scholars’ efforts in the contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Published November 2013
Japanese Tourism

Spaces, Places and Structures

Funck, C. & Cooper, M.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Sociology

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Published September 2013
A Policy Travelogue

Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada

Kingfisher, C.

“This is a groundbreaking book…that represents a sophisticated assemblage of ideas to frame and drive the analysis of data gleaned through long-term engagement with each site…Using the well-delineated concepts of travel, assemblage, and translation, [Kingfisher] explains the contradictory ways in which policy discourse is produced and through which traveling ideas ‘touch down’ in varied places and times and are selectively taken up by people in varied systems of social relations and grounded experiences.” · Judith Goode, Temple University

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published September 2013
The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation

From Territorial Subject to American Citizen

Schachter, J.

“Schachter has produced a powerful and moving account of Native Hawaiian elders who have now passed physically but continue to live on in spirit in the prose that she has assembled from the writings gifted to her. This work represents the best that anthropology has to offer Indigenous peoples seeking to remain Native in a decidedly anti-Native world—a document that gives voice to the truths they know and which connects generations in a lineage of discourse.” · Ty Tengan, University of Hawaii

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2013
Foodways and Empathy

Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea

Poser, A. von

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2013
The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

Custom and Conflict in East New Britain

Martin, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published March 2013
Communities of Complicity

Everyday Ethics in Rural China

Steinmüller, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2012
Performing Place, Practising Memories

Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State

Henry, R.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2012
Narrating the Future in Siberia

Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

Ulturgasheva, O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published June 2012
Fortune and the Cursed

The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination

Swancutt, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Published May 2012
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics

Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison

Bosma, U., Lucassen, J. & Oostindie, G. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published April 2012
The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

Dousset, L. & Tcherkézoff, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2012
Engaging the Spirit World

Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia

Endres, K. W. & Lauser, A. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published February 2012
Saltwater Sociality

A Melanesian Island Ethnography

Schneider, K.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2011
Legends of People, Myths of State

Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2011
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia

Zigon, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2011
Growing Up in Central Australia

New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence

Eickelkamp, U. (ed)

This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2011
The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

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Published December 2010
Medicine Between Science and Religion

Explorations on Tibetan Grounds

Adams, V., Schrempf, M. & Craig, S. R. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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Published October 2010
Latin America Facing China

South-South Relations beyond the Washington Consensus

Fernández Jilberto, A. E. & Hogenboom, B. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2010
Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

Whittaker, A. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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Published May 2010
Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities

The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era

Gdaniec, C. (ed)

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2010
After the Cult

Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2010
China in Oceania

Reshaping the Pacific?

Wesley-Smith, T. & Porter, E. (eds)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published November 2009
Virtualism, Governance and Practice

Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation

Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

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Published October 2009
Unveiling the Whale

Discourses on Whales and Whaling

Kalland, A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2009
Gardening the World

Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water

Strang, V.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

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Published April 2009
The Mirage of China

Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World

Liu, X.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2009
Kinship and Beyond

The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

Bamford, S. & Leach, J. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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Published December 2008
Hierarchy

Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published July 2008
Melanesian Odysseys

Negotiating the Self, Narrative, and Modernity

Josephides, L.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2008
Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism

Levey, G. B. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2007
Sugarlandia Revisited

Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940

Bosma, U., Giusti-Cordero, J, & Knight, G.K. (eds)

Subject: Colonial History

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Published October 2007
Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published July 2007
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Ellen, R. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

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Published June 2007
The Future of Indigenous Museums

Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific

Stanley, N. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2006
Media and Nation Building

How the Iban became Malaysian

Postill, J.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2004
Genocide and Settler Society

Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History

Moses, A. D. (ed)

Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History

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Published July 2003
Papua New Guinea's Last Place

Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

Reed, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2003
The Road to War

France and Vietnam 1944-1947

Shipway, M.

Subject: Colonial History

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Published December 2002
Globalization in Southeast Asia

Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

Yamashita, S. & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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