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Between Rebels and Relief

Negotiating Humanitarian Access in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Myfanwy James
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

How do humanitarian organizations negotiate access to areas controlled by rebel groups?

Brutal Ephemerality

Migrant Temporalities on China's Urban Fringe

By Yang Zhan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, China, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A temporal perspective to understanding urban governance and social marginalization in urban Beijing

Home Team Away

Watching European Football in Urban China

By Yuan Gong
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Sports, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

European football fandom as a cultural process in urban middle-class China

The Post-Global City

Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa

Edited by Katrien Pype, Omolade Adunbi, and Michael M.J. Fischer
Subjects: African Studies, Urban Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources
Series: African Perspectives

Reimagining technological developments in urban Africa

The Subtlety of the Street

The Discourse of Responsibility

By M Peregrine Balmat
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy and Governance, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Applied Linguistics & Linguistics

Mundane words matter

Creative Belonging

The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

By Yanshuo Zhang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: China Understandings Today

An interdisciplinary study on the creative cultures produced by China's ethnic minorities

The Education Alibi

Tracing Education's Entanglements Across Contemporary Africa

Edited by Elizabeth Cooper, Erdmute Alber, and Wandia Njoya
Subjects: African Studies, Education, Teacher Issues, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

Challenges conventional ways of thinking about global education goals and experiences of education in Africa

All in the Family

Childhood and Fictive Kinship in Roman Society

By Gaia Gianni
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, Historical Methods and Theory, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

The development of fictive kinship around young Roman children

The Hopi Indians of Old Oraibi

Change and Continuity

By Mischa Titiev
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom

Bateson's Alphabet

The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, American Studies

Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Learning to Love

Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China

By Sonya E Pritzker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Social Anthropology

Understanding generational trauma through a method of self-care

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

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, Spatial Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology

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

In Search of Tunga

Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town

By André Chappatte
Subjects: African Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

The lives of young male Muslim “adventurers” in a Malian town

Sojiji

Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple

By Joshua A. Irizarry
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An intimate and insightful look into the life of a head Sōtō Zen temple in 21st century Japan

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

Sonorous Worlds

Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

By Yana Stainova
Subjects: Music, Anthropology
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Venezuela’s El Sistema, music is both a means of government control and a form of emancipation for youth musicians

Tribal Pastoralists in Transition

The Baharvand of Luristan, Iran

By Frank Hole & Sekandar Amanolahi-Baharvand
Subjects: Anthropology, History
Series: Anthropological Papers Series

Bad Boys

Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera

By Ann Arnett Ferguson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

By Stephen Millar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state

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