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Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825565
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity...
On the Doorstep of Europe
Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512825213
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Greece has shouldered a heavy burden struggling with internal political and financial insecurity as well as hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum...
Friendship
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512824124
Pub Date: May 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant...
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean...
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823745
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These...
Jungle Passports
Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224788
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers,"...
Fighting for Dignity
Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9780812224900
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied...
The Kingdom and the Republic
Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812224917
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years...
War Is Coming
Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9780812224887
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era...
Marriage Without Borders
Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224740
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Paperback
180 Pages
In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigré ("a migrant's wife") may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naïve...

Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825565
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
On the Doorstep of Europe
Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512825213
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Friendship
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512824124
Pub Date: May 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823745
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Jungle Passports
Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224788
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Fighting for Dignity
Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9780812224900
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
The Kingdom and the Republic
Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812224917
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
War Is Coming
Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9780812224887
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Marriage Without Borders
Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224740
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Paperback
180 Pages