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Pathologies of Power
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.16Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our time. In Pathologies of Power Farmer uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to link... more...
The Hausa of Nigeria
University Press of America 2009; US$ 38.99This book is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria. This work looks at the notion of identity formation and its relationship to history, religion, warfare, gender, economics, various other dimensions of Hausa life, minority group relationships, and creolization. more...
Kurdish Culture and Society
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 175.00Unique, timely, and up-to-date, this volume is the first comprehensive bibliography on Kurdish culture and society. Compiled to help students, educators, researchers, and policy makers find relevant information with ease, the book includes more than 930 items in four major languages--Arabic, English, French, and German. This work covers the fields... more...
Popular Justice and Community Regeneration
ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 168.00Formal justice systems have not served the human rights of native and aboriginal groups well and have led to growing natural and international pressure for equal treatment and increased political and legal autonomy. Indigenous activities in areas of community healing have created a fervor of interest as native peoples have shared experiences with programs... more...
Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 25.00Traces the history of refugees and migrants within a reconstructed twentieth-century Middle East. more...
Language, Culture, and Mind
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 88.00Examines how social relationships are developed and maintained through language. more...
Politics of Piety
Princeton University Press 2004; US$ 27.95Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as... more...
Daughters of the Earth
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 18.99She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings. She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted pottery, played field hockey and rode racehorses. Frequently she enjoyed an open and joyous sexuality... more...
In the Time of Oil
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 25.95This compelling historical ethnography explores how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced dramatic transformation in their lives following the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, and now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion. more...
The New Media Nation
Berghahn Books 2010; US$ 80.00Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical... more...









