The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken - casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with n...(展开全部)

The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken - casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with n...(展开全部)

This book is an ethnographic account of Islam in Uzbekistan and the processes of reasoning through which individuals develop an understanding of what it means to be a Muslim. It describes state efforts to define and control religious expression, the ruthless suppression of anything considered 'deviant', and the atmosphere of fear this generates amongst ordinary Muslims. The boo...(展开全部)

This book is an ethnographic account of Islam in Uzbekistan and the processes of reasoning through which individuals develop an understanding of what it means to be a Muslim. It describes state efforts to define and control religious expression, the ruthless suppression of anything considered 'deviant', and the atmosphere of fear this generates amongst ordinary Muslims. The boo...(展开全部)

Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was domina...(展开全部)

Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was domina...(展开全部)

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-...(展开全部)