Anthropology

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The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

By Emily H. C. Chua
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: China Understandings Today

Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil’s Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Altruistically Inclined?

The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity

By Alexander J. Field
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An exploration of the role of altruism in the discipline of economics

Marx Went Away--But Karl Stayed Behind

By Caroline Humphrey
Subjects: Anthropology, History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Updates a classic work on rural society in Siberia

Nation Work

Asian Elites and National Identities

Edited by Timothy Brook & André Schmid
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Anthropology

Questions assumptions about nationalism by examining the particular origins of the nation in Asia

Our Sisters' Promised Land

Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence

By Ayala Emmett
Subjects: Gender Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations

A groundbreaking study of the role of women as political actors—and peacemakers—in the Middle East

A Telescope on Society

Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond

Edited by James S. House, F. Thomas Juster, Robert L. Kahn, and Howard Schuman
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology

Maps the development of social science in the twentieth century through the instrument of survey research

Slaves to Fashion

Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

By Robert Ross
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Class Studies

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth

Women of the Andes

Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns

By Susan C. Bourque & Kay Barbara Warren
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Science

Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences

Human Rights

Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Brings together essays that examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics

Rethinking Sustainability

Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

Edited by Jonathan Mark Harris
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development

Preference Pollution

How Markets Create the Desires We Dislike

By David George
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the failure of markets to shape desirable preferences

Fragments of Development

Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity

By Suzanne Bergeron
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology

Offers an account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy

Democratic Designs

International Intervention and Electoral Practices in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

By Kimberley Coles
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations

Examines the world of humanitarian aid workers and the processes of democratization that they put into effect in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Natures Past

The Environment and Human History

By Paolo Squatriti
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Political Science, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series

A global examination of how human communities have interacted with different kinds of natural environments through their cultural, social and economic activities

The Future of Class in History

What's Left of the Social?

By Geoff Eley & Keith Nield
Subjects: History, Historical Methods and Theory, American Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Political History, Class Studies

In the struggle between "social" and "cultural" thinking, the refusal to choose sides can be a radical and vital move

Cage of Freedom

Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia

By Andrew C. Willford
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Political Science, Religion

An ethnographic look at rituals across class and status among Malyasian Tamils

Free Trade and Freedom

Neoliberalism, Place, and Nation in the Caribbean

By Karla Slocum
Subjects: Anthropology, Political Science

Considers the relationship between market liberalization, social movements, and everyday forms and narratives of work

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

1st Edition

By Robert E. Lane
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, African American Studies, Anthropology, Law, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

At the Risk of Being Heard

Identity, Indigenous Rights, and Postcolonial States

Edited by Bartholomew Crispin Dean & Jerome Meyer Levi
Subjects: Anthropology, Native American Studies, Law, Political Science, International Relations

An analysis of indigenous rights and the challenges confronting indigenous peoples in the twenty-first century

Global Prescriptions

The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy

Edited by Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth
Subjects: Law, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology

Essays on the emerging new orthodoxy in international law that advocates the "rule of law" and "civil society" across the globe

Pain, Death, and the Law

Edited by Austin Sarat
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Anthropology, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts

Blueprints for a House Divided

The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts

By Robert McBeth Hayden
Subjects: Anthropology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Law, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Argues that international diplomatic activities to resolve the Yugoslav conflicts have been misconceived

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