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Kids in Cages
Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention
This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective of child migrant detention by bringing together voices from the legal realm, the academic world, and the on-the-ground experiences of activists and practitioners. The chapters explore the harms of detention while also looking at survival in and resistance to this violent institution.
Caracoleando Among Worlds
Reconstructing Maya Worldviews in Chiapas
Hopis and the Counterculture
Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field
Plants for Desperate Times
The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods
Plants for Desperate Times is an introduction to the foods that have saved millions of lives during lethal food shortages. While not a field guide, it addresses questions about what famine foods are and why they are important.
Cookstove Chronicles
Social Life of a Women’s Technology in India
Landscapes of Movement and Predation
Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology
Landscapes of Movement and Predation is a global study of times and places, in the colonial and precolonial eras, where people were subject to brutality, displacement, and loss of life, liberty, livelihood, and possessions. The book provides a startling new perspective on an aspect of the past that is often overlooked: the role of violence in shaping where, how, and with whom people lived.