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The New Death

Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century

University of New Mexico Press

The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's rapidly changing death practices and attitudes.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades

University of New Mexico Press

The essays in this collection do not offer simple solutions to histories of colonialism, patriarchy, and misogyny through which gender binaries and racial hierarches have been imposed and reproduced, but rather provide a crucial opportunity for reflection on and continued reimagination of the contours of Latinidad.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Designs and Anthropologies

Frictions and Affinities

Edited by Keith M. Murphy and Eitan Y. Wilf; Afterword by Arturo Escobar
University of New Mexico Press

The chapters in this captivating volume demonstrate the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life within the study of anthropology.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship

University of New Mexico Press

Driven by the overwhelming political urgency of the moment, the contributors to this volume seek to frame Trumpism's origins and political effects.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Archaeologies of Empire

Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories

University of New Mexico Press

This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Walling In and Walling Out

Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us?

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world--in contexts ranging from historic neighborhoods to contemporary national borders.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Psychology of Women under Patriarchy

University of New Mexico Press

These feminist scholars bridge preexisting divides between bio-psychological, sociological, and cultural perspectives to explain the ways that women's desires, goals, and identities interact with culturally situated systems in order to develop more complex theories about the psychological underpinnings of patriarchy and to inform more socially progressive policies to improve the lives of women and men globally.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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How Nature Works

Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet

University of New Mexico Press

The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Governing Gifts

Faith, Charity, and the Security State

University of New Mexico Press

Ultimately the book aims to expand the parameters of what has typically been a US-centric discussion of faith-based interventions as it explores the concepts of faith, charity, security, and governance within a global perspective.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors utilize insights gained from studies on cancer to extend structural vulnerability beyond its original conceptualization to encompass spatiality, temporality, and biosocial shifts in both individual and institutional arrangements.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Puebloan Societies

Homology and Heterogeneity in Time and Space

University of New Mexico Press

Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected here.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences

University of New Mexico Press

Arguing that geospatial analysis holds great promise for much anthropological inquiry, the contributors have designed this volume to show how the powerful tools of GIScience can be used to benefit a variety of research programs.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Seduced and Betrayed

Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has been an unsuccessful approach to development.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Fat Planet

Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital

University of New Mexico Press

Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Costly and Cute

Helpless Infants and Human Evolution

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this volume propose that the "helpless infant" has played a role in human evolution equal in importance to those of "man the hunter" and "woman the gatherer."

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Why Forage?

Hunters and Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century

University of New Mexico Press

Why Forage? shows that hunting and gathering continues to be a viable and vibrant way of life even in the twenty-first century.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation

University of New Mexico Press

The contributors to this volume--who draw from a variety of disciplines--show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Childhood

Origins, Evolution, and Implications

University of New Mexico Press

This collection is the first to specifically address our current understanding of the evolution of human childhood, which in turn significantly affects our interpretations of the evolution of family formation, social organization, cultural transmission, cognition, ontogeny, and the physical and socioemotional needs of children.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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