15 best-selling anthropology books like The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning) by Andrea Muehlebach

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The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)

By: Andrea Muehlebach

4.11

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in  …

If you liked the anthropology plot in The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning) by Andrea Muehlebach , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

By: Michael Wells , Jason De León

4.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León s… read more

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  • anthropology
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2. Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category

By: David Valentine

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as… read more

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  • anthropology
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3. Sophie’s World

By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller

3.96

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more

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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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4. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States

By: Seth Holmes

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of … read more

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  • anthropology
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5. Cruel Optimism

By: Lauren Berlant

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flour… read more

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6. The Thief's Journal

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

3.00

Format: 144 pages,

The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying… read more

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7. The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism

By: None

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in… read more

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8. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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9. Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination

By: None

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Dreams that Matterexplores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mitt… read more

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10. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

By: Nancy Scheper-Hughes

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence … read more

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11. Europe and the People Without History

By: Eric R. Wolf

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical t… read more

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12. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

By: James C. Scott

4.20

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more

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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

13. Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas

By: Stefan Helmreich

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually ou… read more

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14. The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)

By: Andrea Muehlebach

4.11

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in  … read more

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  • italy
  • anthropology
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15. Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico

By: Elyse Ona Singer

4.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized t… read more

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  • anthropology
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16. Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families

By: Heide Castañeda

4.63

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in Ame… read more

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  • anthropology
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17. Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization

By: Khiara M. Bridges

4.34

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, e… read more

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  • anthropology
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18. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

By: Michael Taussig

3.95

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plant… read more

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  • anthropology
"Instead of man being the aim of production, production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production, instead of tools and the productive mechanism in general liberating man from the slavery of …"

-Michael Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

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19. Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

By: Cheryl Mattingly

4.02

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of m… read more

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  • anthropology
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20. The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

By: Susan Lepselter

4.21

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and c… read more

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  • anthropology
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21. Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey

By: Salih Can Açıksöz

4.00

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turk… read more

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22. How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey

By: Caterina Scaramelli

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological chang… read more

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23. Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries

By: Helena Hansen

4.11

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? In Addicted to Chr… read more

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24. Yearnings in the Meantime: 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex

By: Stef Jansen

4.27

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Shortly after the book's protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like ma… read more

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25. Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)

By: Dana E. Powell

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock P… read more

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  • anthropology

6 must-read politics books like Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant

Transform Your Habits

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Sara Ahmed

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

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Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant

3.54

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