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  • Encountering Morocco

    Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

    by Kevin Dwyer, David McMurray, Katherine E. Hoffman, Paul A. Silverstein, Emilio Spadola, Jamila Bargach, Charlotte van den Hout, Karen Rignall, Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Postcolonial France

    Race, Islam, and the Future of the Republic

    by Paul Silverstein ...
    France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. This book explores the dynamics and dilemmas of the present moment of crisis and hope in France, through an exploration of recent moral panics.Taking stock of the tensions as they have emerged over the last quarter of a century, Paul Silverstein looks at urban racial violence, female ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Margins

    Historical Anthropology and Its Futures

    by Nicholas B. Dirks, Talal Asad, Irene Silverblatt, Paul A. Silverstein, Brian Keith Axel ...
    Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emerging relations ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    by Jon W. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Nefissa Naguib, Susanne Dahlgren, Cortney L. Hughes, Emilio Spadola, Suad Joseph, Dawn Chatty, Sondra Hale, Kim Shively, Lara Deeb, Christine Hegel-Cantarella, Jessica Winegar, Sebastian Maisel, Charlotte Karagueuzian, Pamela Chrabieh Badine, Seteney Shami ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Mediterranean Redux

    Ethnography, Theory, Politics

    Edited by Naor H Ben-Yehoyada, Paul Silverstein ...
    This book on historical anthropology remaps the Mediterranean by reframing classical themes from early Mediterraneanist anthropology. This edited volume showcases how anthropology can contribute to an understanding of ongoing transnational dynamics and the new wave of scholarship on the Mediterranean.The Mediterranean is back as a locus of international anxiety and academic concern. It has ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Le sacrifice des vaches noires

    Une histoire marocaine

    by Moha Layid ...
    Series Book 44 - MLA Texts and Translations
    An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly destroyed the subsistence farming and herding that support the local way of life. The young newlywed Yidir agrees to help him and eventually ... Read more

    $50.85 CAD

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

    by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex Silverstein ...
    Series series Unleashed
    The industry’s most complete, useful, and up-to-date guide to SQL Server 2014.You’ll find start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s core database server and management capabilities: all the real-world information, tips, guidelines, and examples you’ll need to install, monitor, maintain, and optimize themost complex database environments. The provided examples and sample code provide plenty of hands ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

    by Ray Rankins, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein, Paul Bertucci ...
    Series series Unleashed
    This is the industry’s most comprehensive and useful guide to SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. It presents start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s core database server and management capabilities, plus complete introductions to Integration, Reporting, and Analysis Services, application development, and much more.Four expert SQL Server administrators, developers, and consultants have packed this book ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • The Sacrifice of Black Cows

    A Novel from Morocco

    by Moha Layid ...
    Translated by Paul A. Silverstein ...
    Series Book 44 - MLA Texts and Translations
    An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly destroyed the subsistence farming and herding that support the local way of life. The young newlywed Yidir agrees to help him and eventually ... Read more

    $50.85 CAD

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    Toward a Global Lexicon

    by Itty Abraham ...
    On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously ... Read more

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  • Kabul Carnival

    Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan

    by Julie Billaud ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule was widely publicized in the United States as one of the humanitarian issues justifying intervention. Kabul Carnival explores the contradictions, ambiguities, and unintended effects of the emancipatory projects for Afghan women designed and imposed by external organizations. Building on embodiment and ... Read more

    $94.39 CAD

  • Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa

    Second Edition

    Edited by Joel Beinin, Frédéric Vairel ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD