Browse by Subject: Anthropology

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Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution

No other book reveals so much about the anxieties and clandestine plans that have shaped Cubans' lives during the final years of the Fidel Castro era.

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Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

Kimberly Simmons explores the fascinating socio-cultural shifts in Dominicans' racial categories, concluding that Dominicans are slowly embracing blackness and ideas of African ancestry.

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Land Reform in Puerto Rico: Modernizing the Colonial State, 1941–1969

In this intimate and enlightening work, Ismael García-Colón uses ethnography, political and economic theory, and primary and secondary historical sources to paint a compelling and human portrait of the land redistribution program.

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The Anthropology of AIDS: A Global Perspective

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An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City, Revised and Expanded Edition

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Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil

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Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological Perspectives

Without imposing traditionally Western notions of what "time" and "change" mean, the collection looks at how native Amazonians experienced forms of cultural memory and at how their narratives of the past helped construct their sense of the present and, inevitably, their own identity.

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Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration

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Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti

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Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience

Based on twelve months of fieldwork, this study shows how believers experience their religion in its various dimensions.