Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
By: Haidy Geismar
3.74
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Among the challenges museums face when displaying digital objects are widely held assumptions about…
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1. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
By: E.E. Evans-Pritchard
3.85
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
An abridged version of the 1937 an-thropological study of the Azande of the southern Sudan, the the… read more
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"Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea."-E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
2. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
By: Kimberly Kay Hoang
4.36
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and … read more
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"But while women were able to capitalize on Vietnam's rapid development, it is important to situate their mobility as constrained within structures of patriarchy."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"In fact, this is not a book about sex or sexual relations; rather, men's and women's participation in HCMC's sex industry involves much more than the purchase of sex."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"The multiple niche markets in Vietnam's global sex industry offer insight into some of the larger macroeconomic shifts that reframe our understanding of the coproduction of gender and global capital."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"Within their distinct niche markets, sex workers employ competing technologies of embodiment that in turn reveal how desire reflects and constructs different national formations in the global imagina…"-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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4. Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
By: Stuart Hall , None
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordin… read more
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5. Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
By: None
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopte… read more
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6. Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village
By: David Crawford
3.31
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a vill… read more
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7. Someone To Talk To
By: Mario Luis Small
4.15
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant-a person to vent to o… read more
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8. Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
By: Haidy Geismar
3.74
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Among the challenges museums face when displaying digital objects are widely held assumptions about… read more
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