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Series
California series in public anthropology volume 16
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of illegal trade around the world-from blood diamonds and arms to pharmaceuticals, exotica, and staples like food and oil. Global Outlaws peels away the layers...
Author
Series
California series in public anthropology volume 21
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (392 p.)
Language
English
Description
"This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction 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 on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning black-and-white...
Author
Series
California series in public anthropology volume 23
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (680 p.)
Language
English
Description
"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,...
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Series
California series in public anthropology volume 27
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (264 p.)
Language
English
Description
"This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. Based on five years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes' material is visceral and...
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Series
California series in public anthropology volume 25
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (286 p.)
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Series
California series in public anthropology volume 26
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (508 p.)
Language
English
Description
"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,...
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Series
California series in public anthropology volume 36
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Anthropologist 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 death that take place daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross from Mexico into the United States. Drawing on the four major fields of anthropology, De León uses an innovative combination of ethnography,...
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Series
California series in public anthropology volume 35
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"What is the meaning of human suffering for society? How has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to act with care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal the moral state of our humanity and our social condition? In this trenchant work, Arthur Kleinman--a renowned figure in medical anthropology--and Iain Wilkinson, an award-winning sociologist, team up to...
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Series
California series in public anthropology volume 39
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"This book follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.S. immigration policies and state removals affect families. Deportation--an emergent global order of social injustice--reaches far beyond the individual deportee, as family members with diverse U.S. immigration statuses, including U.S. citizens, also return after deportation or migrate for the first time....
Author
Series
California series in public anthropology volume 38
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
"What does globalization look like in the rural South? Scratching Out a Living takes readers deep into Mississippi's chicken processing communities and workplaces, where large numbers of Latin American migrants began arriving 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. Based on six years of collaboration with a local workers' center, activist anthropologist...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Language
English
Description
'They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields' takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields in California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers die at work each summer. Laden with captivating detail of farmworkers' daily work and home lives, this work uses ethnography to show how U.S. immigration and labor policies have made migrant farmworkers 'exceptional workers.'
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
416 pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire. Drawing on...
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