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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the author lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gen

En 1992, Gabriel, dix ans, vit au Burundi avec son père français, entrepreneur, sa mère rwandaise et sa petite soeur, Ana, dans un confortable quartie

Showcases the work emerging from the ethnography of media. This title covers topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the une

This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays.

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These corresponde

" Des bruits couraient au sujet de ce bâtiment, où certaines personnes se seraient égarées et n'en seraient jamais ressorties". Un homme se rend aux o

How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egypt

On the Move features three different groups of nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists in three vastly different regions – the Central Sahara in Africa,

Lenny is dik. Op school lijkt het wel of de kinderen niet kijken naar wie hij zelf is, maar alleen naar zijn formaat. Daarom gaat Lenny, als hij het e

Focuses on the 'woman question' in the Middle East, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. This

Draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. This work explore

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rig

Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists,

Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists,

Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental-centric US national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nati

A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics bla

Howell's much-celebrated stories interweave elements of the commonplace with darkness, subterfuge and sheer weirdness, all realised with natural narra

This is a short, entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Afr