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  • Contagion Narratives

    The Society, Culture and Ecology of the Global South

    Edited by R. Sreejith Varma, Ajanta Sircar ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    This volume is a collection of ten essays that direct their gaze to the unfolding of contagions in the non-classical contexts of Asia and Africa. Or, to borrow from the title of one of Partha Chatterjee’s books, they are reflections on the pandemic in most of the world. Featuring many scholars (of the humanities and social sciences) in the Global South, these chapters take as their intellectual ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada

    by Paul U. Angelini ...
    Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Red Tape

    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Introducing Anthropology

    What Makes Us Human?

    by Laura Pountney, Tomislav Marić ...
    The perfect starting point for any student new to this fascinating subject, offering a serious yet accessible introduction to anthropology.Across a series of fourteen chapters, Introducing Anthropology addresses the different fields and approaches within anthropology, covers an extensive range of themes and emphasizes the active role and promise of anthropology in the world today. The new edition ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Small Places, Large Issues

    An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read’ Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute for Social ... Read more

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  • Applied Ethics

    A Multicultural Approach

    Edited by Larry May, Jill Delston ...
    This best-selling text continues to fill an existing gap in the literature taught in applied ethics courses. As a growing number of courses that include the perspectives of diverse cultures are being added to the university curriculum, texts are needed that represent more multicultural and diverse histories and backgrounds. This new edition enhances gender coverage, as nearly half of the pieces ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Feminist Futures

    Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

    by Amy Lind, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Ifi Amadiume, Raka Ray, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Dana Collins, Peter Chua, David McKie, Banu Subramaniam, Arturo Escobar, Wendy Harcourt, Ming-yan Lai, Minoo Moallem, Anjali Prabhu, Linda Klouzal, Julia D Shayne ...
    Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Daughters of the Tharu

    Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls

    by Mary Ann Maslak ...
    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in Nepal. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Migration, Workers, and Fundamental Freedoms

    Pandemic Vulnerabilities and States of Exception in India

    Edited by Asha Hans, Kalpana Kannabiran, Manoranjan Mohanty, Pushpendra ...
    The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration.The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and the Third World

    Issues and Discourses

    by Subrata Sankar Bagchi, Arnab Das, Marie-Luisa Frick, Clarence J. Dias, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Sayan Bhattacharya, Agus Wahyudi, Dip Kapoor, Ram Puniyani0, Debi Chatterjee1, Pranta Pratik Patnaik2, Semahgn Gashu3, Pawan Dhall4, Tushar Kanti Saha5, Francis Machingura6, Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh7, Satyabrata Chakrborty8, Dipankar Sinha9, Subhasis Mukhopadhyay0, Scott Simon1, Awi Mona2 ...
    Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1. Whether alternative ... Read more

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  • Indian Tribes in Transition

    The need for reorientation

    by Yogesh Atal ...
    India has witnessed a sea change in its social structure and political culture since Independence. Despite the developmental model that the country opted for, the hangover of the Raj continued to encourage fissiparous tendencies dividing the Indian populace on the basis of religion, ethnicity and caste hierarchy.This book argues for the need to develop a fresh approach to dismantling the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD