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Architecture At The End Of The Earth - Photographing The Russian North

de William Craft Brumfield

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 Featuring nearly two hundred full color photographs by William Craft Brumfield, this book documents the architecture of centuries-old wooden and brick churches, cathedrals and homes in the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North.
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En-Gendering India - Woman And Nation In Colonial And Postcolonial Narratives

de Sangeeta Ray

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 Offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. This book examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism.
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Sexuation - Sic 3

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 Describes and analyses contemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference. This title includes essays that elaborate on different aspects of this deadlock of sexual difference.
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Muslim Fashion - Contemporary Style Cultures

de Reina Lewis

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 Reina Lewis analyzes Muslim modest clothing as fashion and shows how young Muslim women (with a focus on Britain, North America, and Turkey) are part of an emergent transnational youth subculture who use fashion to negotiate religion, identity, ethnicity, and mainstream consumer culture.
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Tony Allen - An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat

de Michael E. Veal e Tony Allen

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 Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat.
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Territories Of The Soul - Queered Belonging In The Black Diaspora

de Nadia Ellis

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 Nadia Ellis theorizes the experience of belonging to the African diaspora as living within the space between the land and the soul. She uses a utopian concept of queerness and analyses of African American and Caribbean writers, musicians, and artists to show how diaspora is a mode of feeling and belonging.
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The Need To Help - The Domestic Arts Of International Humanitarianism

de Liisa H. Malkki

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 In this ethnography Liisa H. Malkki reverses the study of humanitarian aid, focusing on aid workers rather than aid's recipients. She shows how aid serves the needs of its recipients and providers.
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Lion Songs - Thomas Mapfumo And The Music That Made Zimbabwe

de Banning Eyre

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 In Lion Songs Banning Eyre tells the story of Zimbabwean singer, composer and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo who, like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, represents his country's anti-colonial struggle and cultural identity. Eyre narrates Mapfumo's life in the context of Zimbabwe's pre- and post-revolutionary history.
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Repeating Zizek

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 Repeating Å½iÅ¾ek's contributors read the influential and controversial Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek as a philosopher. They place his work in the Western philosophical tradition and analyze it using his own theses, concepts, and methods, all while attempting to formalize his thought into a philosophical school.
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Ever Faithful - Race, Loyalty, And The Ends Of Empire In Spanish Cuba

de David Sartorius

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 Challenging assumptions that loyalty to the Spanish empire was the exclusive province of the white Cuban elite, this groundbreaking history brings attention to free and enslaved people of African descent who actively supported colonialism.
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The Privatization Of Hope - Ernst Bloch And The Future Of Utopia, Sic 8

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 The concept of hope was central to the German philosopher Ernst Bloch's work. Here, leading thinkers in utopian studies consider the insights that his work might offer the contemporary moment.
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Henri Bergson

de Vladimir Jankélévitch

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 Vladimir JankÃ©lÃ©vitch's Henri Bergson is a great commentary written on philosopher Henri Bergson. JankÃ©lÃ©vitch's analysis covers all aspects of Bergson's thought, from metaphysics, emotion and temporality, to psychology and biology. This edition also includes supplementary essays on Bergson by JankÃ©lÃ©vitch, Bergson's letters to JankÃ©lÃ©vitch, and an editor's introduction.
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Territories Of The Soul - Queered Belonging In The Black Diaspora

de Nadia Ellis

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 Nadia Ellis theorizes the experience of belonging to the African diaspora as living within the space between the land and the soul. She uses a utopian concept of queerness and analyses of African American and Caribbean writers, musicians, and artists to show how diaspora is a mode of feeling and belonging.
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Cosmopolitan Conceptions - Ivf Sojourns In Global Dubai

de Marcia C. Inhorn

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 Marcia C. Inhorn's ethnography of international travelers seeking in vitro fertilization treatment in the global IVF hub of Dubai shows that infertile couples, or "reprotravelers," leave their countries because IVF treatment is not safe, affordable, legal or effective. Inhorn opens a window into the painful, frustrating, and expensive world of infertility.
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Lunch With A Bigot - The Writer In The World

de Amitava Kumar

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 The twenty-six essays in Lunch With a Bigot are examples of how Amitava Kumar turns his observations of the world into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, thoughts on the craft of writing, and criticism, these essays tell broad stories of immigration, change, and a shift to a more globalized existence.
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Intimate Empire - Collaboration And Colonial Modernity In Korea And Japan

de Nayoung Aimee Kwon

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 Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines the Japanese language literature written by Koreans during late Japanese colonialism. She demonstrates that simply characterizing that literature as collaborationist obscures the complicated relationship these authors had with colonialism, modernity, and identity, as well as the relationship between colonizers and the colonized.
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Uplift Cinema - The Emergence Of African American Film And The Possibility Of Black Modernity

de Allyson Nadia Field

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 Allyson Nadia Field recovers the forgotten body of African American filmmaking from the 1910s which she calls uplift cinema. These films were part of the racial uplift project, which emphasized education, respectability, and self-sufficiency, and weren't only responses to racist representations of African Americans in other films.
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The Invention Of Capitalism - Classical Political Economy And The Secret History Of Primitive Accumulation

de Michael Perelman

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 Examines diaries, letters, and the more practical writings of the classical economists. This book argues that these private and practical writings reveal the real intentions and goals of classical political economy - to separate a rural peasantry from their access to land. It talks about the rise of capitalism to its state of world dominance.
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Body Of Writing - Figuring Desire In Spanish American Literature

de Rene Prieto

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 Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, this title examines narratives that reflect - in differing yet ultimately complementary ways - the imprint of the author's body, thereby disclosing insights about power, aggression, transgression, and eroticism.
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Sexuation - Sic 3

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 Describes and analyses contemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference. This title includes essays that elaborate on different aspects of this deadlock of sexual difference.
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Cogito And The Unconscious - Sic 2

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 Without psychoanalysing philosophy, this title explores the vicissitudes of the cogito and shows that psychoanalyses can render visible a constitutive madness within modern philosophy, the point at which "I think, therefore I am" becomes obsessional neurosis characterised by "If I stop thinking, I will cease to exist."
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Seven Faces - Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism

de Charles A. Perrone

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 Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity. This book charts the course of Brazilian poetry.
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Gaze And Voice As Love Objects - Sic 1

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 The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotises, seduces, disarms. Are gaze and voice part of the relationship we call love ...or hate? If so, what part? How do they function? This book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential antagonism between the sexes, and gaze and voice as love's medium.
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Ever Faithful - Race, Loyalty, And The Ends Of Empire In Spanish Cuba

de David Sartorius

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 Challenging assumptions that loyalty to the Spanish empire was the exclusive province of the white Cuban elite, this groundbreaking history brings attention to free and enslaved people of African descent who actively supported colonialism.
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