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View ArticleVital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners + Life Politics (Kristina Lyons)
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Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to...
View ArticlePolitical Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair...
In 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on...
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View ArticleCorporations and Citizenship (Greg Urban, ed.)
President Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed, "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work...
View ArticleThe Social Lives of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence...
Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face—including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation—are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these...
View ArticleA History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground...
“This is a landmark synthesis providing a much-needed corrective of the history and significance of platform mounds in eastern North America that shows them to be enduring and vital features of native...
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