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  • The Ethnography of Tourism

    Edward Bruner and Beyond

    by Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Margaret Byrne Swain, Julia Harrison, Mary Mostafanezhad, David Picard, Kathleen M. Adams, Edward M. Bruner0, Nelson Graburn1, Walter E. Little2, Sally Ann Ness3, Valerio Simoni4, Dr. Michael A. Di Giovine5 ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    **Winner of the 2020 Edward M. Bruner Book Award from the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group**"Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many." - Prize CommitteeWhat does it mean to study tourism ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Mayas in the Marketplace

    Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity

    by Walter E. Little ...
    2005 — Best Book Award – New England Council of Latin American StudiesSelling handicrafts to tourists has brought the Maya peoples of Guatemala into the world market. Vendors from rural communities now offer their wares to more than 500,000 international tourists annually in the marketplaces of larger cities such as Antigua, Guatemala City, Panajachel, and Chichicastenango. Like businesspeople ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Norms and Illegality

    Intimate Ethnographies and Politics

    by Cristiana Panella, Isabella Clough Marinaro, Andrew Walsh, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Lorelei C. Mendoza, B. Lynne Milgram, Florence E. Babb, Michael Herzfeld, Walter E. Little, Gordon Mathews1, Alan Smart2 ...
    Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics explores liminal and illegal practices in relation to political control and cultural normativity. The contributors draw on years of ethnographic experiences in Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Italy, Madagascar, Mali, Philippines, and Thailand to study the contradictions of what is legal and illegal. They explore the production of illegal ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Textile Economies

    Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational

    Edited by Patricia A. McAnany, Walter E. Little ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textiles are a material element of society that fosters the study of continuities and disjunctions in the economic and social realities of ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

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  • We Are the Face of Oaxaca

    Testimony and Social Movements

    by Lynn Stephen ...
    A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    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

  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Patterns of Commoning

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    What accounts for the persistence and spread of "commoning," the irrepressible desire of people to collaborate and share to meet everyday needs? How are the more successful projects governed? And why are so many people embracing the commons as a powerful strategy for building a fair, humane and Earth-respecting social order? In more than fifty original essays, Patterns of Commoning addresses these ... Read more

    $7.00 USD

  • Black Women against the Land Grab

    The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil

    by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry ...
    In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is these very women who determine how urban policies are established. Focusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador’s city center, Black Women against the Land Grab ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Creative Destruction

    How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    "Argued neatly . . . cultural products that [we] think of as indigenous owe their existence to the cultural exchange brought about by trade." — Wall Street JournalA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Plaza

    The Politics of Public Space and Culture

    by Setha M. Low ...
    Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001Leeds Prize, Society of Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, 2001Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale—almost every aspect of Latin ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Deeply Rooted in the Present

    Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos

    by Mary Lorena Kenny ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage readers to make connections between the case study at hand, their own heritage, and heritage ... Read more

    $26.99 USD