Lives in Transit

Wendy A Vogt

• Hardcover | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 42
• Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid sh... Lees meer

When Bodies Remember

Didier Fassin

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• In this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis--the failure of the ANC govern... Lees meer

I Did It to Save My Life

Catherine Bolten

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• Utilizing narratives of seven different people-soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician- I Did it To Save My Life provides ... Lees meer

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Seth M Holmes

• Hardcover | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 27
• An intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and indigenous people in our contemporary food system. An anthropologi... Lees meer

Pathologies of Power

Paul Farmer

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Pa... Lees meer

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Seth M Holmes

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 27
• An intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and indigenous people in our contemporary food system. An anthropologi... Lees meer

Deported to Death

Jeremy Slack

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 45
• What happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not thousands of mile... Lees meer

Blind Spot

Salmaan Keshavjee

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. What started as an untested and unproven... Lees meer

Threshold

Ieva Jusionyte

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 41
• "Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation th... Lees meer

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Seth M Holmes

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• With a new preface and a new epilogue co-written with Jorge Ramirez-Lo pez, this updated edition of Fr esh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate e... Lees meer

The Spectacular Favela

Erika Mary Robb Larkins

• Hardcover | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 32
• In Rio de Janeiro's favelas, traffickers assert power through conspicuous displays of wealth and force, brandishing high-powered guns, gold jewelry, a... Lees meer

Textures of Terror

Victoria Sanford

• Hardcover | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration. Part memoir and p... Lees meer

Nuclear Ghost

Ryo Morimoto

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• "There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma." This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fuk... Lees meer

To Repair the World

Paul Farmer

• Hardcover | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and ... Lees meer

Reimagining Global Health

• Hardcover | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 26
• Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an o... Lees meer

The Spirit Ambulance

Scott Stonington

• Hardcover | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 49
• The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in... Lees meer

The Land of Open Graves

Jason de Leon

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 36
• In this gripping and provocative "ethnography of death," National Book Award winner and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León sheds light on one of ... Lees meer

The Land of Open Graves

Jason de Leon

• Hardcover | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 36
• In this gripping and provocative "ethnography of death," National Book Award winner and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León sheds light on one of ... Lees meer

Annihilating Difference

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology | nr. 3
• Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their int... Lees meer

Prisoners of Freedom

Harri Englund

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Rea... Lees meer

Righteous Dopefiend

Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• This powerful work of gonzo journalism, predating the widespread acknowledgement of the opioid epidemic as such, immerses the reader in the world of h... Lees meer

Laughter Out of Place

Donna M Goldstein

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of p... Lees meer

Counting the Dead

Winifred Tate

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights i... Lees meer

Unimagined Community

Robert Thornton

• Paperback | Engels | California Public Anthropology
• This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thorn... Lees meer