Archive for 2006

Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability

Crate, Susan Alexandra. Lanham, MD: Alta Mira Press, 2006.

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1999 IDRF Fellow Susan Alexandra Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha . . .

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Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children

Lynch, Julia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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1997 IDRF Fellow Julia Lynch’s book asks why some countries devote the lion’s share of their social policy resources to the elderly . . .

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Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism

McLaren, Brian. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2006.

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1998 IDRF Fellow Brian McLaren’s book is about the construction of tourist experience in colonial Libya through representations . . .

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Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005

Lu, Duanfang. London: Routledge, 2006.

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1999 IDRF Fellow Duanfang Lu’s book charts the evolution of the contemporary Chinese urban built environment . . .

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Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis

Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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In most countries, educated women have fewer children and have them later than uneducated women. In Uncertain Honor . . .

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Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon

Ignatowski, Clare. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

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During the long dry season, Tupuri men and women in northern Cameroon gather in gurna camps outside their villages . . .

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An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon

Deeb, Lara. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

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Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and . . .

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The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba And the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery

Childs, Matt D. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

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In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest . . .

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