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Rob Borofsky

Yanomami

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Rob Borofsky

Why Did They Kill?

Alexander Laban Hinton

Why Did They Kill?

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Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his...

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Alexander Laban Hinton

Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong

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Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong

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When I Wear My Alligator Boots

Shaylih Muehlmann

When I Wear My Alligator Boots

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When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the «war on drugs»: despite the violence and suffering brought on by drug cartels, for the rural poor in Mexico’s north, narcotrafficking offers one of the few paths to upward mobility and is a powerful source of cultural meanings and local prestige. In the borderlands,...

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Shaylih Muehlmann

When Bodies Remember

Didier Fassin

When Bodies Remember

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Didier Fassin

Unimagined Community

Robert Thornton

Unimagined Community

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Robert Thornton

Twice Dead

Margaret M. Lock

Twice Dead

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Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as «brain dead» are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocative examination, Margaret Lock traces the discourse...

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Margaret M. Lock

Total Confinement

Lorna A. Rhodes

Total Confinement

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Lorna A. Rhodes

To Repair the World

Paul Farmer

To Repair the World

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Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer’s vision in a single, accessible volume. A must-read for graduates,...

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Paul Farmer

Threshold

Ieva Jusionyte

Threshold

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"Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to hospitals across country lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants who jump over the wall,...

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Ieva Jusionyte

They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fie...

Sarah Bronwen Horton

They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields

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They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California’s Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. Through captivating accounts of the daily lives of a core group of farmworkers over nearly a decade, Sarah Bronwen Horton documents in startling detail how a tightly interwoven web of public policies...

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Sarah Bronwen Horton

The Spirit Ambulance

Scott Stonington

The Spirit Ambulance

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The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents how Thai families attempt to pay back a “debt of life” to their elders through...

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Scott Stonington

The Myth of International Protectio...

Claudia Seymour

The Myth of International Protection

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In this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo—young people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution. Seymour, a former child protection adviser and human rights investigator for the United Nations, chronicles her personal journey, which begins with the will to do...

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Claudia Seymour

The Land of Open Graves

Jason De Leon

The Land of Open Graves

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In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of US immigration policy.  The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States.<BR...

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Jason De Leon

Scratching Out a Living

Angela Stuesse

Scratching Out a Living

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How has Latino immigration transformed the South? In what ways is the presence of these newcomers complicating efforts to organize for workplace justice? Scratching Out a Living takes readers deep into Mississippi’s chicken processing plants and communities, where large numbers of Latin American migrants were recruited in the mid-1990s to labor alongside an established African American workforce in some of the most dangerous and lowest-paid jobs in the country. As...

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Angela Stuesse

Righteous Dopefiend

Philippe Bourgois

Righteous Dopefiend

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This powerful work of gonzo journalism, predating the widespread acknowledgement of the opioid epidemic as such, immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers in the San Francisco drug scene, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, larceny, panhandling, recycling, and day...

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Philippe Bourgois

Reimagining Global Health

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Reimagining Global Health

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Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the...

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Prisoners of Freedom

Harri Englund

Prisoners of Freedom

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Harri Englund

Pathologies of Power

Paul Farmer

Pathologies of Power

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Paul Farmer

Partner to the Poor

Paul Farmer

Partner to the Poor

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For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to «make human rights substantial,» Farmer has treated patients—and worked to address the root causes of their disease—in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere in the developing world. In 1987, with several colleagues, he founded Partners In Health to provide...

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Paul Farmer

My Name Is Jody Williams

Jody Williams

My Name Is Jody Williams

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As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, «Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist.» From her modest beginnings to becoming the tenth woman—and third American woman—to receive the...

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Jody Williams

Making Global MBAs

Andrew Orta

Making Global MBAs

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A generation of aspiring business managers has been taught to see a world of difference as a world of opportunity. In Making Global MBAs, Andrew Orta examines the culture of contemporary business education, and the ways MBA programs participate in the production of global capitalism through the education of the business subjects who will be managing it.   Based on extensive field research in several leading US business schools, this...

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Andrew Orta

Living with Difference

David W. Montgomery

Living with Difference

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Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges and necessities of accommodating difference, however difficult and uncomfortable such accommodation may be. Drawing on fourteen years of theoretical insights and unique pedagogy, CEDAR—Communities Engaging with...

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David W. Montgomery

Lives in Transit

Wendy A. Vogt

Lives in Transit

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Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new...

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Wendy A. Vogt

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