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  • Marriage and the Moral Imagination

    by Janet Carsten ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservative terms, Carsten highlights their transformative possibilities. The book argues that marriage is a close encounter with difference on the most intimate scale, carrying the seeds of social ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Relative Values

    Reconfiguring Kinship Studies

    by Janet Carsten, Gillian Feeley-Harnik ...
    The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a group of internationally recognized scholars—examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Blood Work

    Life and Laboratories in Penang

    by Janet Carsten ...
    Series series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    What is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia. She tells the stories of blood donors, their varied motivations, and the paperwork, payment, and other bureaucratic processes involved in blood ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Blood Will Out

    Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows

    Edited by Janet Carsten ...
    Series series Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series
    Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together 10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood.An interdisciplinary study that unites the work of noted historians and anthropologistsIncorporates insights from recent work in symbolism, kinship studies, medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion, the sociological study of finance, and ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

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  • Beginning postcolonialism

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    by John McLeod, Peter Barry ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area. Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in ... Read more

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  • The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism

    White Nation, Against Paranoid Nationalism & Later Writings

    by Ghassan Hage, Amani Haydar ...
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    by P. Gisbert ...
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  • Melayu

    The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness

    Edited by Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
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    A Very Short Introduction

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  • Policing Sexuality

    Sex, Society, and the State

    by Julian C. H. Lee ...
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  • Writings on an Ethical Life

    by Peter Singer ...
    The essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our timeSince bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern age. His reputation, built largely on isolated incendiary quotations and outrage-of-the-moment news ... Read more

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