Published June, 2016
By Erin Manning
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning develops the concept of the minor gesture to rethink common assumptions about human agency, the ways we experience the everyday world, and the possibilities for new political praxis.

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Published May, 2016
By Professor of Ethnic Studies Charles Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs, Charles L. Briggs and Charles Briggs
Publisher: Duke University Press
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This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities.

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Published May, 2016
By Professor of Ethnic Studies Charles Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs, Charles L. Briggs and Charles Briggs
Publisher: Duke University Press
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This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities.

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Published May, 2016
By Harris Solomon
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs.

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Published May, 2016
By Harris Solomon
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs.

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Published April, 2016
By Emilia Sanabria
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In "Plastic Bodies" Emilia Sanabria examines how women's use of sex hormones in Bahia, Brazil for menstrual suppression shapes social relations, having become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity.

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Published April, 2016
By Neel Ahuja
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In "Bioinsecurities" Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization."

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Published April, 2016
By Emilia Sanabria
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In "Plastic Bodies" Emilia Sanabria examines how women's use of sex hormones in Bahia, Brazil for menstrual suppression shapes social relations, having become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity.

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Published April, 2016
By Neel Ahuja
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In "Bioinsecurities" Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization."

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Published March, 2016
By Megan Crowley-Matoka
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In "Domesticating Organ Transplant" Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico, where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity, national pride, and the role of women in creating the Mexican state.

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