The Land Is Dying

The Land Is DyingBased on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Central to such debates is a discussion of touch in the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In mundane practices and in ritual

Explores the ideological significance of landscapes

A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America

Offers a pragmatically oriented reconstruction of the central issues of time

Into the Archives represents the exciting directions for scholarship enabled by this rapid growth of new LGBTQ archives

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she also demonstrates how a breakdown of balanced subject-subject relations in his texts gives rise to defensive polarities of gender and of domination and submission

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