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The Elementary Forms of Corruption
(2025)
Seeks to better understand the nature of corruption through a case study of a rural Brazilian community’s response to the country’s political fraud. The Elementary Forms of Corruption is an ethnographic history of rural ...
Becoming Somebody Else
(2025)
A study of homelessness and addiction exploring the void of drug-induced blackout and its impact on identity and time. What does it mean to exist outside the normative temporality of life, of housed living, and, ultimately, ...
Everyday Sustainability
(2017)
Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist AnthropologyWinner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner of the ...
Making Things Happen
(2022)
Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and ...
The International Monetary Fund and Latin America
(2012)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a critical role in the global economy since the postwar era. But, claims Claudia Kedar, behind the strictly economic aspects of the IMF’s intervention, there are influential ...
Multi Agent Systems
(2020)
Research on multi-agent systems is enlarging our future technical capabilities as humans and as an intelligent society. During recent years many effective applications have been implemented and are part of our daily life. ...
Engine of modernity
(2020)
Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a ...
Ghirza A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period
(1984)
This volume reports one of the most important sites in the Tripolitanian hinterland. It contains detailed studies of the many buildings of the settlement (including a pagan temple) and its cemeteries. Particular attention ...
Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
(2024)
The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class ...
The Social, Cultural and Environmental Costs of Hyper-Connectivity
(2021)
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.↵This book seeks broader critical engagement with the design, development and adoption processes ...