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  • Killing Your Neighbors

    Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond

    by Jon Holtzman ...
    Neighboring communities who once lived together in peace have committed some of the most disturbing genocidal violence in recent decades: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia; the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda; or Sunni-versus-Shia violence in today’s Iraq. As these instances illustrate, lethal violence does not always come at the hands of outsiders or foreigners—it can come just as easily ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Uncertain Tastes

    Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya

    by Jon Holtzman ...
    This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives

    Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota

    This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology.It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • Practical Ethics

    by Peter Singer ...
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  • Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?

    Changes in Egyptian Society from 1850 to the Present

    by Galal Amin ...
    Based on both academic research and the author's own personal experiences and impressions, this delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s. Egypt's crisis of culture and other woes are often attributed to the 'open door policy' (Infitah) initiated ... Read more

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  • A Decent Life

    Morality for the Rest of Us

    by Todd May ...
    "In lively prose, May . . . breaks down complex philosophical concepts and uses a range of everyday examples to illustrate how morality can be practical." — Publishers WeeklyIn a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair—and it's also easy to judge ourselves for not doing more. Even if we gave away everything we own and devoted ourselves to good works, it wouldn't solve all the ... Read more

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  • Somalis in Minnesota

    Series series The People of Minnesota
    The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying jobs in the city of Marshall, Minnesota. Soon the war, news, traveled that not only was employment available but the people in this northern state, so different in climate from their African homeland, ... Read more

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  • In Defense of Animals

    The Second Wave

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
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  • The Limits of Whiteness

    Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

    When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American ... Read more

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  • Justice for Animals

    Our Collective Responsibility

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  • South Sudan

    A Slow Liberation

    by Edward Thomas ...
    In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the country today. Writing from the perspective of South Sudan's most mutinous hinterland, Jonglei ... Read more

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