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  • Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives

    Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota

    de Jon D. Holtzman ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

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  • Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?

    Changes in Egyptian Society from 1850 to the Present

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Somalis in Minnesota

    de Ahmed I. Yusuf ...
    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, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Limits of Whiteness

    Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

    de Neda Maghbouleh ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $21.39 USD

  • South Sudan

    A Slow Liberation

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.19 USD

  • The Power of Creative Reasoning

    The Ideas and Vision of John Garang

    de Lual A. Deng ...
    Seventy-two percent of South Sudans population is under thirty years of age. It is this generation that must create a new South Sudanese identity that is inclusive of all its nationalities. In The Power of Creative Reasoning, author Lual A. Deng shows how the ideas and concepts touted by Dr. John Garang could facilitate the advancement of the ideals of freedom, liberty, and human dignity.The Power ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

    de Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bazaar Politics

    Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town

    de Noah Coburn ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD

  • Impossible Citizens

    Dubai's Indian Diaspora

    de Neha Vora ...
    Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Making Refuge

    Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

    de Catherine Besteman ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan

    de Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili ...
    Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and ... Leer más

    $43.49 USD

  • Ethiopia in Transit

    Millennial Quest for Stability and Continuity

    Edición de Pietro Toggia, Abebe Zegeye ...
    The writings in this edition explore historical and contemporary issues in Ethiopia as the country underwent change and celebrated its new millennium. However, despite the recognizance of socio-economic and political changes, Ethiopia still faces enduring problems and challenges to its stability and continuity. The political past haunts the country while it is facing the future with optimism and ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD