Australianama
The South Asian Odyssey in Australia
ISBN: PB: 9781849049696,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2018
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of variou...
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Sami Peoples of the North
A Social and Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781787380318,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2018
344 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
344 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countr...
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Empire of Enchantment
The Story of Indian Magic
ISBN: HB: 9781849049443,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2018
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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A New Statesman Book of the Year, chosen by William Dalrymple
A vibrant narrative of India's magical traditions and their journey across the world.
India's association with magicians goes back thousands of years. Conjurors a...
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Animism
Respecting the Living World
ISBN: PB: 9781849048408,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2017
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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"Animism" is now an important term for describing ways in which some people understand and engage respectfully with the larger-than-human world. Its central theme is our relationship with our other-than-human neighbours, such a...
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Military Anthropology
Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9781849048125,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2017
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan,...
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Ochre and Rust
Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
ISBN: HB: 9781849048392,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2017
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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"Ochre and Rust" offers a dazzling new perspective on frontier relations between Australia's Aboriginal peoples and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curio...
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Learning from the Curse
Sembene's Xala
ISBN: HB: 9781849046954,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2017
160 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
160 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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"This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital of Senegal). It's also about the collaboration between an artist and an anthro...
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Civilisation of Perpetual Movement
Nomadism in World Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781849043984,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2016
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of 'civilised', sedentary, peoples have again and aga...
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Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance
Cultures of Exclusion
ISBN: PB: 9781849042796,
ISBN: HB: 9781849042789,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2013
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Until the 1930s no woman could perform in public and retain respectability in India. Professional female performers were courtesans and dancing girls who lived beyond the confines of marriage, but were often powerful figures in...
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Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations
Us and Them Beyond Orientalism
ISBN: HB: 9781849040976,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2011
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled in some "clash of civilisations". Adib-Moghaddam traverses various intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the conceptual maze that has hab...
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