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Surface Tensions
Left Coast Press 2011; US$ 32.95Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change—the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on... more...
Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people?s sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renewed interest in technology and the ?social life of things,? including... more...
Australian Ways
Allen & Unwin 1985; US$ 16.35This collection illustrates the richness of data and analysis born of the anthropological study of contemporary white Australian society. Inspired by the need to demonstrate the especial skills and insights of anthropology when brought to bear on familiar 'everyday' data, Australian Ways will be of interest to anyone curious about the colour... more...
Reframing Disability and Quality of Life
Springer 2013; US$ 99.99This volume brings together two parallel fields of interest. One is the understanding among psychologists and other social scientists of the limits to psychometric measurement, and the challenges in generating information about quality of life and wellbeing that enable comparison across time and place, at both individual and population levels. The... more...
Flows of Faith
Springer 2012; US$ 109.99Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movements whose incidence is growing across the region. In Flows of Faith, the contributing authors take as their starting point questions of how religions manifest outside their cultural boundaries and provide... more...
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States
Rutgers University Press 2010; US$ 29.95Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of... more...
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