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Acting in the Cinema. In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. ...

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye / New Version. Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself ...

China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, And Diplomacy. Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an...

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday l...

How Technology Has Changed Music. There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of ...

Humanitarian reason : a moral history of the present. In the face of the world s disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for deve...

Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immi...

Movies and Methods: An Anthology. Fifty theoretical essays by distinctively original and influential film critics and filmmakers are grouped in cat...

Movies and Methods: An Anthology [Rev. Ed.].. Fifty theoretical essays by distinctively original and influential film critics and filmmakers are gr...

Nuer Dilemmas: Coping With Money, War, and the State. Through the pioneering efforts of the famed British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the...

On Holiday. Lofgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own w...

Random Violence. "Random Violence" is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about - and why we worry about - new crimes and ...

Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Glo…. In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet...

Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED When Saints, Scholars, ...

Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history - ...

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Completely revised and updated, this new edition of Terror in the Mind of God inc...

The Arab World: Society, Culture and State. This wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab ...

The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State. Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world le...

Wayward Women: Sexuality And Agency in a New Guinea Society. Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes ...

Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a sm...