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  • The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography

    by Luke Eric Lassiter ...
    Collaboration between ethnographers and subjects has long been a product of the close, intimate relationships that define ethnographic research. But increasingly, collaboration is no longer viewed as merely a consequence of fieldwork; instead collaboration now preconditions and shapes research design as well as its dissemination. As a result, ethnographic subjects are shifting from being ... Read more

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  • I'm Afraid of That Water

    A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis

    Edited by Luke Eric Lassiter, Brian A. Hoey, Elizabeth Campbell ...
    Weatherford Award Winner, NonfictionOn January 9, 2014, residents across Charleston, West Virginia, awoke to an unusual licorice smell in the air and a similar taste in the public drinking water. That evening residents were informed the tap water in tens of thousands of homes, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of schools and hospitals—the water made available to as many as 300,000 citizens in a ... Read more

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  • Explorations in Cultural Anthropology

    A Reader

    Edited by Colleen E. Boyd, Luke Eric Lassiter ...
    Explorations in Cultural Anthropology is a collection of readings chosen to demonstrate the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective to real-world problems on local, regional, and global scales. It introduces undergraduates to the exciting, perplexing, and troubling issues that socio-cultural anthropologists confront in their work in academia and beyond. Students now ... Read more

    $54.29 USD

  • The New Invitation to Anthropology

    by Eric I. Karchmer, Dana E. Powell, Luke Eric Lassiter ...
    Born within and against the violence of European colonial conquest, anthropology has aspired to understand the diversity of human experience in ethical and transformative ways. The New Invitation to Anthropology is a fresh and accessible text that takes students to the heart of the discipline and reveals the ongoing relevance of anthropology today.The New Invitation to Anthropology, Fifth Edition ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Re-imagining Contested Communities

    Connecting Rotherham through Research

    by Maria O'Beirne, Abigail Hackett, Tanya Evans, Luke Eric Lassiter, William Gould, Robert Rutherfoord, Steve Pool, Paul Ward ...
    Series series Connected Communities
    This is a book that challenges contemporary images of ‘place’. Too often we are told about ‘deprived neighbourhoods’ but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this unique book the process of re-imagining comes to the fore in a fresh and contemporary look at one UK town, Rotherham.Using history, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Doing Ethnography Today

    Theories, Methods, Exercises

    by Elizabeth Campbell, Luke Eric Lassiter ...
    Doing Ethnography Today explores the methodologies and theories behind contemporary, collaborative ethnography and provides an opportunity to cultivate experience with included exercises.• Presents ethnography as creative and artful rather than analytical or technical• Emphasises the collaborative nature of ethnography• Structured exercises cultivate practical experience• Includes a discussion on ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Social Memory and History

    Anthropological Perspectives

    by Robert R. Archibald, Adina Cimet, Jacob Climo, Marilyn Cohen, Carole L. Crumley, Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, Luke Eric Lassiter, Cheryl Natzmer, Georgina Neophytou, Larry Nesper ...
    In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists, sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and constructs the present. A substantial introduction by the editors outlines the key issues in the understanding of social memory: its nature and process, its personal and political implications, the crisis in memory, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past

    by Eviatar Zerubavel ...
    The pioneering sociologist and author of The Seven Day Circle continues his analysis of time with this fascinating look at history as social construct.Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?As ... Read more

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  • The People, Place, and Space Reader

    Edited by Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, Susan Saegert ...
    The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Unthinking Eurocentrism

    Multiculturalism and the Media

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Keywords for Radicals

    The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle

    by Joy James, Silvia Federici ...
    "An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End TimesKeywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Folklore: The Basics

    by Simon J. Bronner ...
    Series series The Basics
    Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear framework for approaching the study of folklore, it introduces the reader to methodologies for ... Read more

    $31.99 USD