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Staging strife lessons from performing ethnography with Polish Roma women / by Kazubowski-Houston, Magdalena, 1971-

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Kurdistan on the global stage : kinship, land, and community in Iraq / by King, Diane E., 1966-

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Staging migrations toward an American West : from Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones / by Effinger-Crichlow, Marta

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Street scenes staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / by Romeyn, Esther

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Acting in the night Macbeth and the places of the Civil War / by Nemerov, Alexander

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history United States.…”
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La rue attractive : Parcours et pratiques identitaires des jeunes de la rue / by Parazelli, Michel

Subjects: “…FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Life Stages Teenagers. bisacsh…”
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When sugar ruled economy and society in northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876-1916 / by Juarez-Dappe, Patricia Isabel, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : setting the stage -- Foundations for growth -- The sugar industry and Tucumán's economy -- Sugarcane planters : patterns of production -- Sugar labor: field and factory workers -- Sugar and the province -- Conclusion : the world that sugar created.…”
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Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power : Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters / by Jasperse, Jitske

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : material culture and performance of power -- Staging the bride and her treasure -- Small items making big impressions : coins and seals -- Devotion and dynasty on parchment -- Trappings vested with power -- Epilogue : materializing power and its afterlife.…”
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Edwin Rogers Embree the Julius Rosenwald Fund, foundation philanthropy, and American race relations / by Perkins, Alfred, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Frontier outposts, singular village, prestigious university -- Learning philanthropy : from apprentice to master craftsman -- Someone to keep Julius Rosenwald straight -- Southern initiatives, asset collapse, transformation -- Character to cope with disagreement -- Toward "full democracy" -- On the national stage -- Celebrations, proclamations, tributes.…”
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On the make the hustle of urban nightlife / by Grazian, David

Table of Contents: “…Friday night in Philadelphia : the art of the hustle -- Dynamic imagineering : the staging of urban nightlife -- Spin control : public relations and reality marketing -- Winning bar : nightlife as a sporting ritual -- In the company of men : the girl hunt and the myth of the pickup -- Hustling the hustlers : challenging the girl hunt -- Where the action is : storytelling and the imagination of risk -- Smoke and mirrors : the experience of urban nightlife.…”
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People's livelihood in contemporary China : changes, challenges and prospects /

Table of Contents: “…List of tables -- List of figures -- Introduction: the changing Chinese society / Li Peilin -- Social construction : theory and practices -- The people's livelihood in China / Li Peilin and Li Wei -- China in the mass consumption stage / Tian Feng -- Urban and rural residents' social security / Zhang Liping -- Evolution process and the trend of income differential / Chen Guangjin -- Children of the reform and opening up / Tian Feng -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.…”
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Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater artistic developments in the Muslim world /

Table of Contents: “…Ritual as strategic action: the social logic of musical silence in Canadian Islam / Michael Frishkopf -- Pious entertainment: Hizbullah's Islamic cultural sphere /Joseph Alagha -- Of morals, missions, and the market: new religiosity and "art with a mission" in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Part 3. Staging the body and the world stage. Islamic modernity and the re-enchanting power of symbols in Islamic fantasy serials in Turkey / Ahu Yiğit -- From "evil-inciting" dance to chaste "rhythmic movements": a genealogy of modern Islamic dance-theatre in Iran / Zeinab stellar -- Suficized musics of Syria at the intersection of heritage and the War on Terror; or "a Rumi with a view" / Jonathan H. …”
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How gay men prepare for death : the dying business / by Robinson, Peter

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India since 1980 by Ganguly, Sumit

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Journey of song public life and morality in Cameroon / by Ignatowski, Clare A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Maïtené's modern life : song as negotiation of public morality -- "Better than family, better than girls" : the Tupuri Gurna Society -- Defying the modern : play of identities in Gurna dance exhortation ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e]) -- "Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse -- "Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] gurna) -- "I become your boy" : power, legitimacy and magic in song composition -- Staging conflict through insult : competing systems of justice -- Multipartyism and nostalgia for the unified past : discourses of democracy in Gurna politics -- Conclusion.…”
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Modern girls on the go gender, mobility, and labor in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley -- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. …”
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No one is illegal fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border / by Akers Chacón, Justin

Table of Contents: “…Mexico : caught in the web of U.S. empire / Justin Akers Chacón -- Introduction -- 12. Conquest sets the stage -- 13. Neoliberalism consumes the "Mexican miracle" -- 14. …”
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Postcards from Stanland : journeys in Central Asia / by Mould, David H. (David Harley), 1949-

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