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Hardcover:
9780226233888 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 9, 2015, cover price $115.00
Paperback:
9780226233918 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 10, 2015, cover price $35.00
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial authority in this secular republic, Borneman spent much time among different men, observing and becoming part of their everyday lives. Syrian Episodes is the striking result. Recounting his experience of living and lecturing in Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city, John Borneman offers deft, first-person stories of the longings and discontents expressed by Syrian sons and fathers, as well as a prescient analysis of the precarious power held by the regime, its relation to domestic authority, and the conditions of its demise. Combining literary imagination and anthropological insight, the book's discrete narratives converge in an unforgettable portrait of contemporary culture in Aleppo. We read of romantic seductions, rumors of spying, the play of light in rooms, the bargaining of tourists in bazaars, and an attack of wild dogs. With unflinching honesty and frequent humor, Borneman describes his encounters with students and teachers, customers and merchants, and women and families, many of whom are as intrigued with the anthropologist as he is with them. Refusing to patronize those he meets or to minimize his differences with them, Borneman provokes his interlocutors, teasing out unexpected confidences, comic responses, and mutual misunderstandings. He engages the curiosity and desire of encounter and the possibility of ethical conduct that is willing to expose cultural differences. Combining literary imagination and anthropological insight, Syrian Episodes offers an unforgettable portrait of contemporary culture in Aleppo.
Hardcover:
9780691128870 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 26, 2007, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West.
Paperback:
9780691158037 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 28, 2013, cover price $27.95
Product Description: Loss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individuals and groups to seek redress in the form of violence. But are there possible modes of redress to reckon with loss that might lead to a departure from the violence of collective and individual revenge? This book focuses on the redress of political crime in Germany and Lebanon, extending its analysis to questions of accountability and democratization in the United States and elsewhere...read more
Hardcover:
9780253356895 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 4, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Loss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individuals and groups to seek redress in the form of violence.
Paperback:
9780253223517 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 4, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Loss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individuals and groups to seek redress in the form of violence.
Hardcover:
9781571811110 | Berghahn Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $90.00
Paperback:
9781571813893 | 2 edition (Berghahn Books, December 10, 2004), cover price $27.95
Product Description: The Tales of the Serendip take place in a virtual pub that exists only in the minds of the fantasy writers who crafted the Tales of the Serendip. Its a place where, given a few rules and a common backdrop, writers can create small vignettes to explore new story lines, break writers block, or experiment with new characters...read more
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9780595227471 | Writers Club Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The Tales of the Serendip take place in a virtual pub that exists only in the minds of the fantasy writers who crafted the Tales of the Serendip.
Hardcover:
9780517200261 | Park Lane, September 1, 1999, cover price $20.00
Product Description: In this series of essays, the author shifts the focus of anthropology from a study of discrete cultures to one of alternative and sub-versions of large-scale global orders. Borneman employs new descriptive tools to analyze political disorder and its representation, issues which have become central with the end of the Cold War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780791435830 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $56.50 | About this edition: In this series of essays, the author shifts the focus of anthropology from a study of discrete cultures to one of alternative and sub-versions of large-scale global orders.
Paperback:
9780791435847 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In this series of essays, the author shifts the focus of anthropology from a study of discrete cultures to one of alternative and sub-versions of large-scale global orders.
Product Description: As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780691016825 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence.
Paperback:
9780691016818 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 3, 1997, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence.
Hardcover:
9780803212558 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $60.00
Hardcover:
9780517147788 | Random House Value Pub, October 1, 1995, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Features ninety of Audubon's most stunning bird paintings highlighted by nature prose by such classic authors as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry James.
Product Description: Belonging in the two Berlins is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Taking the practices of everyday life in the divided Berlin as his point of departure, Borneman shows how ideas of kin, state, and nation were constructed through processes of mirror-imaging and misrecognition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780521415897 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Belonging in the two Berlins is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War.
Paperback:
9780521427159 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $94.99 | About this edition: Belonging in the two Berlins is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War.
Hardcover:
9780465000838 | Basic Books, February 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Examines the disorientation and dissolution caused by German reunification, describing how democratic reform has become consumer frenzy and offering portraits of individuals that are both exhilarating and tragic
Paperback:
9780465000845 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Examines the disorientation and dissolution caused by German reunification, describing how democratic reform has become consumer frenzy and offering portraits of individuals that are both exhilarating and tragic
Product Description: "These interviews are wonderful. Extremely interesting and informative about gay life in East Germany." âJohn C. Fouts"A fascinating book. As far as I know, it is the first time that working class gays have given us an insight into their lives...read more
Hardcover:
9780253333193 | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $37.50 | also contains Computer Science Illuminated | About this edition: "These interviews are wonderful.
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