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11. Publications & Writing
Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tartars’ Deportation and Return
In the final days of World War II, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population, nearly 200,000 people. Beyond Memory offers the first ethnographic exploration of this event, as well as the 50 year movement for repatriation. Many of the Crimean Tatars hav…
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12. Publications & Writing
Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda
Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to its…
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13. Publications & Writing
Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru’s African musical heritage to Lima’s theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate—and to some extent recreate—Black cultur…
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14. Publications & Writing
Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, 2000 IDRF Fellow Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns…
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15. Publications & Writing
Building States without Society: The Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary
Focusing on the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, Building States without Society highlights the real limits of cross-national rule transfer even when power is uneven between rule-makers and rule-takers. Written by 2000 IDRF Fellow Beate Sissenich. Buy from Amazon.
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16. Publications & Writing
Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border
By drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, 1997 IDRF Fellow Casey Walsh explores the complex relationships among various groups comprising the “social field” of cotton production in the borderlands. In Building the Borderlands, Walsh contributes to a clearer unders…
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17. Publications & Writing
Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
…1998 IDRF Fellow Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played in the creation of the modern Mexican state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Buy from Amazon.
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18. Publications & Writing
Chinese Street Opera in Singapore
Since Singapore declared independence from Malaysia in 1965, Chinese street opera has played a significant role in defining Singaporean identity. 1997 IDRF Fellow Tong Soon Lee reflects on their role in fostering cultural nationalism and entrepreneurship by carefully tracing the…
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19. Publications & Writing
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend wedding…
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20. Publications & Writing
Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future
This book by 1997 IDRF Fellow Yibing Huang offers a fresh and nuanced perspective into contemporary Chinese literature by presenting four authors and cultural bastards–Duo Duo, an underground seer-poet; Wang Shuo, a ‘hooligan’ writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old Red Guard and ne…
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