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  • Under a Watchful Eye

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    klotband, 2012, Engelska, ISBN 9780520273597

    What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one's involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina,

  • Destination Anthropocene

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    klotband, 2019, Engelska, ISBN 9780520298927

    Destination Anthropocene documents the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean

  • The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers

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    klotband, 2018, Engelska, ISBN 9780520299412

    Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single

  • All in Your Head

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    klotband, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9780520285217

    Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious

  • The Heart of the Pearl Shell

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    klotband, 2022, Engelska, ISBN 9780520367159

    For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange

  • The Moving City

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    klotband, 2021, Engelska, ISBN 9780520383951

    The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social

  • Zainab’s Traffic

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    klotband, 2024, Engelska, ISBN 9780520379824

    What is the value—religious, political, economic, or altogether social—of getting on a bus in Tehran to embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to

  • The Pandemic Perhaps

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    klotband, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9780520284081

    In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal

  • The Para-State

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    klotband, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9780520288515

    Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State, Aldo Civico draws

  • Savage Frontier

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    klotband, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9780520283510

    This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism to explain how security is understood, experienced, and constructed