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My Father'S Wars - Migration, Memory, And The Violence Of A Century

by Alisse (Cuny John Jay, Usa) Waterston

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 â€œMy father was born into war,â€ begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterstonâ€™s intimate ethnography, a story that is also twentieth-century social history. This book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity.
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Real Women Run - Running As Feminist Embodiment

by Sandra Faulkner

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 Real Women Run is an innovative feminist ethnography that consists of a series of linked essays and presentations about women who run at the intersections of queer, feminist, and running identities. Faulkner uses feminist grounded theory, poetic inquiry, and qualitative content analysis to examine womenâ€™s embodied stories of running: how they run, how running fits into the context of their lives and relationships, how they enact or challenge cultural scripts of womenâ€™s activities and normative running bodies, and what running means for their lives and identities. During a two-and-a-half-year ethnography with women who run, Faulkner engaged in an intersectional qualitative content analysis of websites and blogs targeted to women runners, a grounded theory poetic analysis of 41 interviews with women who run, and participant observation at road races. Real Women Run speaks to the call for a more physical feminism. This ethnography sees womenâ€™s physical and mental strength developed through running as a way to embrace the contradictions between a deconstructed focus on the mind/body split and the focus on individualsâ€™ actual material bodies and their everyday interactions with their bodies and through their bodies with the world around them.
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Schooled On Fat - What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, And Obesity

by Nicole Taylor

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 Winner of the Reader Views Literary Award, Societal Issues and the Reviewers Choice Best Non-fiction Book of the Year, Specialty Awards, Schooled on Fat explores how body image, social status, fat stigma and teasing, food consumption behaviors, and exercise practices intersect in the daily lives of adolescent girls and boys. Based on nine months of fieldwork at a high school located near Tucson, Arizona, the book draws on social, linguistic, and theoretical contexts to illustrate how teens navigate the fraught realities of body image within a high school culture that reinforced widespread beliefs about body size as a matter of personal responsibility while offering limited opportunity to exercise and an abundance of fattening junk foods. Taylor also traces policy efforts to illustrate where we are as a nation in addressing childhood obesity and offers practical strategies schools and parents can use to promote teen wellness. This book is ideal for courses on the body, fat studies, gender studies, language and culture, school culture and policy, public ethnography, deviance, and youth culture.
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Schooled On Fat - What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, And Obesity

by Nicole Taylor

58,29€ + 10% CARD

 Winner of the Reader Views Literary Award, Societal Issues and the Reviewers Choice Best Non-fiction Book of the Year, Specialty Awards, Schooled on Fat explores how body image, social status, fat stigma and teasing, food consumption behaviors, and exercise practices intersect in the daily lives of adolescent girls and boys. Based on nine months of fieldwork at a high school located near Tucson, Arizona, the book draws on social, linguistic, and theoretical contexts to illustrate how teens navigate the fraught realities of body image within a high school culture that reinforced widespread beliefs about body size as a matter of personal responsibility while offering limited opportunity to exercise and an abundance of fattening junk foods. Taylor also traces policy efforts to illustrate where we are as a nation in addressing childhood obesity and offers practical strategies schools and parents can use to promote teen wellness. This book is ideal for courses on the body, fat studies, gender studies, language and culture, school culture and policy, public ethnography, deviance, and youth culture.
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In Solidarity - Friendship, Family, And Activism Beyond Gay And Straight

by Lisa Tillmann

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 'In Solidarity' shows what being an ally (in this case to LGBTQ persons and communities) requires, means, and does. Through prose, poetry, performance text, and film, the work takes readers inside relationships across sexual orientation and serves as an exemplar of activist scholarship.
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Off The Grid - Re-Assembling Domestic Life

by Jonathan Taggart e Phillip Vannini

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 Off-grid isn’t a state of mind. It isn’t about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the electricity and the natural gas grid. To live off-grid, therefore, means having to radically re-invent domestic life as we know it, and this is what this book is about: individuals and families who have chosen to live in that dramatically innovative, but also quite old, way of life. This ethnography explores the day-to-day lives of people in each of Canada’s provinces and territories living off the grid. Vannini and Taggart demonstrate how a variety of people, all with different environmental constraints, live away from contemporary civilization. The authors also raise important questions about our social future and whether off-grid living creates an environmentally and culturally sustainable lifestyle practice. These homes are experimental labs for our collective future, an intimate look into unusual contemporary domestic lives, and a call to the rest of us leading ordinary lives to examine what we take for granted. This book is ideal for courses on the environment and sustainability as well as introduction to sociology and introduction to cultural anthropology courses.
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In Solidarity - Friendship, Family, And Activism Beyond Gay And Straight

by Lisa Tillmann

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 'In Solidarity' shows what being an ally (in this case to LGBTQ persons and communities) requires, means, and does. Through prose, poetry, performance text, and film, the work takes readers inside relationships across sexual orientation and serves as an exemplar of activist scholarship.
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In Solidarity - Friendship, Family, And Activism Beyond Gay And Straight

by Lisa Tillmann

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 'In Solidarity' shows what being an ally (in this case to LGBTQ persons and communities) requires, means, and does. Through prose, poetry, performance text, and film, the work takes readers inside relationships across sexual orientation and serves as an exemplar of activist scholarship.
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Beads, Bodies, And Trash - Public Sex, Global Labor, And The Disposability Of Mardi Gras

by David Redmon

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 Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash will increase students’ capacity to think critically about and question everyday objects that circulate around the globe: where do objects come from, how do they emerge, where do they end up, what are their properties, what assemblages do they form, and what are the consequences (both beneficial and harmful) of those properties on the environment and human bodies? This book also asks students to confront how the beads can contradictorily be implicated in fun, sexist, unequal, and toxic relationships of production, consumption, and disposal. With a companion documentary, Mardi Gras Made in China, this book introduces students to recording technologies as possible research tools.
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Beads, Bodies, And Trash - Public Sex, Global Labor, And The Disposability Of Mardi Gras

by David Redmon

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 Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash will increase studentsâ€™ capacity to think critically about and question everyday objects that circulate around the globe: where do objects come from, how do they emerge, where do they end up, what are their properties, what assemblages do they form, and what are the consequences (both beneficial and harmful) of those properties on the environment and human bodies? This book also asks students to confront how the beads can contradictorily be implicated in fun, sexist, unequal, and toxic relationships of production, consumption, and disposal. With a companion documentary, Mardi Gras Made in China, this book introduces students to recording technologies as possible research tools.
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Digital Drama - Teaching And Learning Art And Media In Tanzania

by Paula Uimonen

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 The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania, through innovative forms of ethnographic representation. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories and video documentaries, art performances and productions. It paints a vivid portrayal of everyday life in East Africaâ€™s only institute for practical art training, while tracing the rich cultural history of a state that has mixed tribalism, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and cosmopolitanism in astonishingly creative ways. While following the anthropological tradition of thick description, Digital Drama employs a more artistic and accessible style of writing. Dramatic, ethnographic details are interspersed with theoretical reflections and postulations to explain and make sense of the unfolding narratives. The accompanying website visualizes and sensualizes the stories narrated in the book, unfolding a dramatic world of African dance, music, theater, and digital culture.
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Water In A Dry Land - Place-Learning Through Art And Story

by Margaret Somerville

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 This ethnography follows a river-road into the deeper meanings of water and water places in the Australian experience. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin.
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Concrete And Dust: Mapping The Sexual Terrains Of Los Angeles - Mapping The Sexual Terrains Of Los Angeles

by Amber Lynn (University Of Waterloo, Canada) Zimmerman e Jeanine Marie (California State University, Northridge, Usa) Minge

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 Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness.
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Concrete And Dust: Mapping The Sexual Terrains Of Los Angeles

by Amber Lynn Zimmerman e Jeanine Marie Minge

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 Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness.
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Water In A Dry Land - Place-Learning Through Art And Story

by Margaret (Monash University, Institute Of Regional Studies, Australia) Somerville

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 This ethnography follows a river-road into the deeper meanings of water and water places in the Australian experience. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin.
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Water In A Dry Land - Place-Learning Through Art And Story

by Margaret (Monash University, Institute Of Regional Studies, Australia) Somerville

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 This ethnography follows a river-road into the deeper meanings of water and water places in the Australian experience. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin.
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Concrete And Dust: Mapping The Sexual Terrains Of Los Angeles - Mapping The Sexual Terrains Of Los Angeles

by Amber Lynn (University Of Waterloo, Canada) Zimmerman e Jeanine Marie (California State University, Northridge, Usa) Minge

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 Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness.
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Ferry Tales - Mobility, Place, And Time On Canada''S West Coast

by Phillip Vannini

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 It is the first and only book in the mobilities field to examine ferry transportation, and a rare example of a mobile ethnography.
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Ferry Tales - Mobility, Place, And Time On Canada''S West Coast

by Phillip Vannini

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 It is the first and only book in the mobilities field to examine ferry transportation, and a rare example of a mobile ethnography.
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Ferry Tales - Mobility, Place, And Time On Canada'S West Coast

by Phillip (Royal Roads University, Canada) Vannini

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 It is the first and only book in the mobilities field to examine ferry transportation, and a rare example of a mobile ethnography.
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Ferry Tales - Mobility, Place, And Time On Canada'S West Coast

by Phillip (Royal Roads University, Canada) Vannini

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 It is the first and only book in the mobilities field to examine ferry transportation, and a rare example of a mobile ethnography.
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Real Women Run - Running As Feminist Embodiment

by Sandra (Bowling Green State University, Usa) Faulkner

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Real Women Run - Running As Feminist Embodiment

by Sandra (Bowling Green State University, Usa) Faulkner

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Schooled On Fat - What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, And Obesity

by Nicole (Texas State University, Usa) Taylor

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