Jornalero : Being a Day Laborer in the USA [1 ed.] 9780520959965, 9780520277854

The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. Typically

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Jornalero : Being a Day Laborer in the USA [1 ed.]
9780520959965, 9780520277854

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a

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Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin

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The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gate

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From Thanksgiving to fast food to the Passover seder, Food in the USA brings together the essential readings on these to

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The Paradox of a Global USA describes the vexed relationship between the United States and globalization. On the one han

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A teenaged slave-turned-apprentice in nineteenth-century Jamaica recorded his experiences in the British apprenticeship

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For millennia, philosophers have debated about the existence of things - not only the existence of things like God, demo

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In their efforts to achieve freedom, ex-slaves mounted a dual struggle to elude the personal domination of the old order

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From Watergate to Whitewater, US politicians have had their fair share of high-profile debacles that have destroyed care

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