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If Books Fail, Try Beauty: An Ethnography of Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa

First Edition

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$24.99

Brooke Schwartz Bocast

9780190852146
Paperback
20 June 2023

The first book-length ethnography of African university students

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The Body Unburdened: Violence, Emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey

First Edition

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$19.99

Esra Sarioglu

9780197667644
Paperback
29 November 2022

Offers a compelling explanation for the surge of hostility against women in the global era

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The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown

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$29.99

Sharon J. Yoon

9780197517901
Paperback
02 November 2020

This accessible and engaging ethnography investigates how the rise of transnationalism has impacted the social and economic lives of South Koreans searching for wealth and stability in China

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Global Nomads: An Ethnography of Migration, Islam, and Politics in West Africa

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$29.99

Susanna Fioratta

9780197510216
Paperback
13 May 2020

This absorbing ethnography investigates how mobility abroad shapes belonging at home and shows that political and economic motivations to migrate are important--but they are only part of the story

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Indebted: An Ethnography of Despair and Resilience in Greece's Second City

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$29.99

Kathryn A. Kozaitis

9780190090142
Paperback
24 January 2020

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

The first and only full-length ethnography of an urban middle-class in Greece, and the global-local articulations of the financial crisis and societal transformations

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Burning at Europe's Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant Experience in Morocco

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$29.99

Isabella Alexander-Nathani

9780190074647
Paperback
20 January 2020

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

Exposes the world's largest migrant and refugee crises at Europe's southernmost borders in North Africa

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Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, 10th Anniversary Edition

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$29.99

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz

9780190076474
Paperback
29 November 2019

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

The Tenth Anniversary Edition of this brief, engaging ethnography on undocumented Mexican workers in America engages contemporary debates on immigration policy

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Marriage After Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico

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$29.99

Nora Haenn

9780190056018
Paperback
01 November 2019

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

This compelling ethnographic study shows how migration transformed gender roles in an indigenous Mexican community and how its women shaped globalization without ever leaving home

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Low Wage in High Tech: An Ethnography of Service Workers in Global India

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$29.99

Kiran Mirchandani, Sanjukta Mukherjee, and Shruti Tambe

9780190868864
Paperback
06 March 2019

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

An ethnography of low-wage service workers on the margins of the "new India" and its multinational technology firms

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Care for Sale: An Ethnography of Latin American Domestic and Sex Workers in London

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$34.99

Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza

9780190840655
Paperback
01 November 2018

An intimate ethnography of migrant care work in London

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Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy

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$34.99

Minh T. N. Nguyen

9780190692605
Paperback
14 September 2018

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

Winner of the 2019 Society for the Anthropology of Work annual book prize An ethnography exploring how migrant laborers in Vietnam remake their lives within the global waste economy

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Field Notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology

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$34.99

Luis A. Vivanco

9780190642198
Spiral Bound
20 December 2016

A field journal for cultural anthropology and fieldwork courses, integrating learning, guidance, and exercises into one book

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Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries

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$34.99

Sylvia J. Martin

9780190464462
Paperback
20 September 2016

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

Examines how media professionals handle the uncertainties and risks of media production in a globalizing world

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Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed-Status Families

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$34.99

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz

9780190276010
Paperback
03 June 2016

The only ethnography to examine family-based legalization from the perspective of families who undertake it

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The Native World-System: An Ethnography of Bolivian Aymara Traders in the Global Economy

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$34.99

Nico Tassi

9780190255220
Paperback
15 March 2016

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

A nuanced ethnography of the Bolivian Aymara trading system--one of the most up-and-coming forms of indigenous entrepreneurship on the American continent

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City of Flowers: An Ethnography of Social and Economic Change in Costa Rica's Central Valley

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$34.99

Susan E. Mannon

9780190464431
Paperback
01 March 2016

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

An engaging, timely ethnographic study that explores how individuals and households give meaning and shape to social and economic change in Costa Rica

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Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa

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$34.99

Joanna Davidson

9780199358687
Paperback
14 August 2015

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

An ethnography of identity, environment, and development in rural West Africa

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Race in the 21st Century: Ethnographic Approaches

Second Edition

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$69.99

John Hartigan, Jr.

9780199374373
Paperback
28 July 2014

Takes an explicitly ethnographic approach to the study of race, while also guiding students through ongoing debates about genetics and race

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Discovering Qualitative Methods: Ethnography, Interviews, Documents, and Images

Third Edition

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$99.99

Carol A. B. Warren and Tracy Xavia Karner

9780199349623
Paperback
28 May 2014

A rigorous but student-friendly and affordable introduction to qualitative research methods

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Amazon Town: A Study of Human Life in the Tropics

Anniversary Edition

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$54.99

Charles Wagley, Conrad Kottak, and Richard Pace

9780199335251
Paperback
13 November 2013

The classic ethnography of the Amazon, now updated and revised for today's students

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