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  • The Meaning of Whitemen

    Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World

    by Ira Bashkow ...
    A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Justice for Animals

    Our Collective Responsibility

    A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Ancestral Lines

    The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest, Second Edition

    by John Barker ...
    This compelling ethnography offers a nuanced case study of the ways in which the Maisin of Papua New Guinea navigate pressing economic and environmental issues. Beautifully written and accessible to most readers, Ancestral Lines is designed with introductory cultural anthropology courses in mind. Barker has organized the book into chapters that mirror many of the major topics covered in ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Animal Rights

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Paul Waldau ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book covers the full spectrum of issues, beginning ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ancestral Lines

    The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest

    by John Barker ...
    More than a century of interaction with colonial and global agencies and forces have brought many changes to the lives of the Maisin people who live on the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet ancestral traditions continue to strongly inform their way of life. Their beautifully designed tapa cloth, made from the pounded inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, most vividly connects the past ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Kin

    Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose

    The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Dispossession and the Environment

    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    by Paige West ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Conservation Is Our Government Now

    The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD