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Just a Dog

Just a Dog
Understanding Animal Cruelty and Ourselves
Arluke, Arnold

232 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2006
paper 1-59213-472-6
EAN 978-1-59213-472-4
cloth 1-59213-471-8
EAN 978-1-59213-471-7
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Women Living Change
Bourque, Susan C. and Donna Robinson Divine

288 pp • Spring 1985
cloth 0-87722-369-6
EAN 978-0-87722-369-6

Human Universals

Human Universals
Brown, Donald E.

220 pp • Spring 1991
cloth 0-87722-841-8
EAN 978-0-87722-841-7

Paradise Remade

Paradise Remade
The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i
Buck, Elizabeth

288 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1992
paper 1-56639-200-4
EAN 978-1-56639-200-6
cloth 0-87722-978-3
EAN 978-0-87722-978-0

Maya In Exile

Maya In Exile
Guatemalans in Florida
Burns, Allan F., introduction by Jerónimo Camposeco

256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1993
paper 1-56639-036-2
EAN 978-1-56639-036-1
cloth 1-56639-035-4
EAN 978-1-56639-035-4

Children in the Field

Children in the Field
Anthropological Experiences
edited by Cassell, Joan

288 pp • Fall 1987
paper 1-56639-206-3
EAN 978-1-56639-206-8
cloth 0-87722-477-3
EAN 978-0-87722-477-8

Expected Miracles

Expected Miracles
Surgeons at Work
Cassell, Joan

259 pp • Spring 1991
paper 0-87722-838-8
EAN 978-0-87722-838-7
cloth 0-87722-804-3
EAN 978-0-87722-804-2

Pushing for Midwives

Pushing for Midwives
Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement
Craven, Christa

224 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2010
paper 1-4399-0220-8
EAN 978-1-4399-0220-2
cloth 1-4399-0219-4
EAN 978-1-4399-0219-6
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Sponsored Identities

Sponsored Identities
Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico
Dávila, Arlene M.

301 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1997
paper 1-56639-549-6
EAN 978-1-56639-549-6
cloth 1-56639-548-8
EAN 978-1-56639-548-9
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Ordinary Poverty

Ordinary Poverty
A Little Food and Cold Storage
DiFazio, William

232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 1-59213-458-0
EAN 978-1-59213-458-8
cloth 1-59213-014-3
EAN 978-1-59213-014-6
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Consumed in the City

Consumed in the City
Observing Tuberculosis at Century’s End
Draus, Paul

304 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2004
paper 1-59213-249-9
EAN 978-1-59213-249-2
cloth 1-59213-248-0
EAN 978-1-59213-248-5
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Making Time

Making Time
Ethnographies of High-Technology Organizations
edited by Dubinskas, Frank A.

238 pp • Spring 1988
cloth 0-87722-535-4
EAN 978-0-87722-535-5

Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy

Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy
Scholarship, Empire, and the South Pacific
edited by Foerstel, Lenora and Angela Gilliam

309 pp • Fall 1991
paper 1-56639-261-6
EAN 978-1-56639-261-7
cloth 0-87722-886-8
EAN 978-0-87722-886-8

Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia
 
Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia
Frederiksen, Martin Demant

214 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2013
cloth 1-4399-0918-0
EAN 978-1-4399-0918-8

Lucia

Lucia
Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman
Gay, Robert

240 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005
paper 1-59213-339-8
EAN 978-1-59213-339-0
cloth 1-59213-338-X
EAN 978-1-59213-338-3
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Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia

Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia
Immigrants in a Divided City
Goode, Judith and Jo Anne Schneider

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1994
paper 1-56639-141-5
EAN 978-1-56639-141-2
cloth 1-56639-140-7
EAN 978-1-56639-140-5
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Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea

Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea
A Puerto Rican Journey through Labor and Refuge
Griffith, David and Manuel Valdés Pizzini

280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2001
paper 1-56639-911-4
EAN 978-1-56639-911-1
cloth 1-56639-910-6
EAN 978-1-56639-910-4
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Food and Evolution

Food and Evolution
Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits
edited by Harris, Marvin and Eric B. Ross

640 pp • Spring 1987
paper 0-87722-668-7
EAN 978-0-87722-668-0
cloth 0-87722-435-8
EAN 978-0-87722-435-8

Hip Hop Underground

The Hip Hop Underground
The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification
Harrison, Anthony Kwame

226 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2009
paper 1-4399-0061-2
EAN 978-1-4399-0061-1
cloth 1-4399-0060-4
EAN 978-1-4399-0060-4
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Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English

Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English
Hebblethwaite, Benjamin

396 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 1-4399-0602-5
EAN 978-1-4399-0602-6
cloth 1-4399-0601-7
EAN 978-1-4399-0601-9
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Bachata

Bachata
A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music
Hernandez, Deborah Pacini

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 1-56639-300-0
EAN 978-1-56639-300-3
cloth 1-56639-299-3
EAN 978-1-56639-299-0

Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China

Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China
Fostering Talent

Hoffman, Lisa M.

216 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2010
paper 1-4399-0035-3
EAN 978-1-4399-0035-2
cloth 1-4399-0034-5
EAN 978-1-4399-0034-5
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Spirits, Blood, and Drums

Spirits, Blood, and Drums
The Orisha Religion in Trinidad
Houk, James T.

256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1995
paper 1-56639-350-7
EAN 978-1-56639-350-8
cloth 1-56639-349-3
EAN 978-1-56639-349-2
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Telling Young Lives
 
Telling Young Lives
Portraits of Global Youth

edited by Jeffrey, Craig, and Jane Dyson

232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2008
paper 1-59213-931-0
EAN 978-1-59213-931-6
cloth 1-59213-930-2
EAN 978-1-59213-930-9
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Sonic Spaces of the Karoo
 
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo
The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community

Jorritsma, Marie

224 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011
cloth 1-4399-0237-2
EAN 978-1-4399-0237-0

Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home
 
Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home
Women, Cultural Identity, and Community

Kelley, Carol E.

190 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2013
paper 1-4399-0946-6
EAN 978-1-4399-0946-1
cloth 1-4399-0945-8
EAN 978-1-4399-0945-4

Music, Talent, and Performance

Music, Talent, and Performance
A Conservatory Cultural System
Kingsbury, Henry

228 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1987
paper 1-56639-891-6
EAN 978-1-56639-891-6
cloth 0-87722-516-8
EAN 978-0-87722-516-4
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Storytelling in Daily Life

Storytelling in Daily Life
Performing Narrative
Langellier, Kristin M. and Eric E. Peterson

288 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2003
paper 1-59213-213-8
EAN 978-1-59213-213-3
cloth 1-59213-212-X
EAN 978-1-59213-212-6
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Hope Is Cut

Hope Is Cut
Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia

Mains, Daniel

208 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 1-4399-0480-4
EAN 978-1-4399-0480-0
cloth 1-4399-0479-0
EAN 978-1-4399-0479-4
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Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean

Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean
edited by Manuel, Peter

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2009
paper 1-59213-735-0
EAN 978-1-59213-735-0
cloth 1-59213-734-2
EAN 978-1-59213-734-3
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My Mother's Hip

My Mother's Hip
Lessons from the World of Eldercare
Margolies, Luisa, foreword by Walter M. Bortz II, M.D.

360 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2003
paper 1-59213-238-3
EAN 978-1-59213-238-6
cloth 1-59213-237-5
EAN 978-1-59213-237-9
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Urban Dangers

Urban Dangers
Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers
Merry, Sally Engle

278 pp • Spring 1981
paper 0-87722-425-0
EAN 978-0-87722-425-9
cloth 0-87722-219-3
EAN 978-0-87722-219-4

Crossing the Neoliberal Line

Crossing the Neoliberal Line
Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis
Mitchell, Katharyne

296 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2004
paper 1-59213-084-4
EAN 978-1-59213-084-9
cloth 1-59213-083-6
EAN 978-1-59213-083-2
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Social Inequality in Oaxaca

Social Inequality in Oaxaca
A History of Resistance and Change
Murphy, Arthur D. and Alex Stepick, foreword by Henry A. Selby

300 pp • Fall 1991
paper 0-87722-869-8
EAN 978-0-87722-869-1
cloth 0-87722-868-X
EAN 978-0-87722-868-4
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Ecomusicology

Ecomusicology
Rock, Folk, and the Environment
Pedelty, Mark

242 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 1-4399-0712-9
EAN 978-1-4399-0712-2
cloth 1-4399-0711-0
EAN 978-1-4399-0711-5

Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala

Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala
Pellicer, Sergio Navarrete

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005
paper 1-59213-292-8
EAN 978-1-59213-292-8
cloth 1-59213-291-X
EAN 978-1-59213-291-1
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Science that Colonizes

Science that Colonizes
A Critique of Fertility Studies in Africa
Riedmann, Agnes

192 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1993
cloth 1-56639-042-7
EAN 978-1-56639-042-2

Cattle, Capitalism, and Class

Cattle, Capitalism, and Class
Ilparakuyo Maasai Transformations
Rigby, Peter

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992
paper 1-56639-204-7
EAN 978-1-56639-204-4
cloth 0-87722-954-6
EAN 978-0-87722-954-4

Islam in Urban America

Islam in Urban America
Sunni Muslims in Chicago
Schmidt, Garbi

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2003
paper 1-59213-224-3
EAN 978-1-59213-224-9
cloth 1-59213-223-5
EAN 978-1-59213-223-2
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Diet and Domestic Life in Society

Diet and Domestic Life in Society
edited by Sharman, Anne, Janet Theophano, Karen Curtis and Ellen Messer

288 pp • Fall 1990
cloth 0-87722-751-9
EAN 978-0-87722-751-9

Governing How We Care
 
Governing How We Care
Contesting Community and Defining Difference in U.S. Public Health Programs

Shaw, Susan J.

214 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 1-4399-0683-1
EAN 978-1-4399-0683-5
cloth 1-4399-0682-3
EAN 978-1-4399-0682-8
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Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk

Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk
An Ethnography of a Drug Abuse Treatment Facility
Skoll, Geoffrey R.

224 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1992
cloth 0-87722-917-1
EAN 978-0-87722-917-9

Masters of the Sabar

Masters of the Sabar
Wolof Griot Percussionaists of Senegal
Tang, Patricia

Includes CD
224 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 1-59213-420-3
EAN 978-1-59213-420-5
cloth 1-59213-419-X
EAN 978-1-59213-419-9

Pinoy Capital
 
Pinoy Capital
The Filipino Nation in Daly City

Vergara, Jr., Benito M.

232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2008
paper 1-59213-665-6
EAN 978-1-59213-665-0
cloth 1-59213-664-8
EAN 978-1-59213-664-3
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Street Addicts in the Political Economy

Street Addicts in the Political Economy
Waterston, Alisse

304 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1992
paper 1-56639-574-7
EAN 978-1-56639-574-8
cloth 0-87722-992-9
EAN 978-0-87722-992-6

Producing Power

Producing Power
Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace
Yelvington, Kevin A.

304 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 1-56639-286-1
EAN 978-1-56639-286-0
cloth 1-56639-285-3
EAN 978-1-56639-285-3
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