Harvard University Press (3)
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How the Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York
2024 || Paperback || Jacob A. Riis || Harvard University Press
A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid living conditions of 'the other half', who might well have inhabited another country.
Never in Anger / 1st edition
Portrait of an Eskimo Family
1971 || Paperback || Jean L. Briggs || Harvard University Press
In the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-month field study of the Utku, a small group of Inuit First Nations people who live at the mouth of the Back River, northwest of Hudson Bay. Living with a family as their "adopted" daughter-sharing their iglu during the winter and pitching her tent next to theirs in the summer-Briggs observed the emotional patterns of the Utku in the context of their daily life....
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Expulsions
Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
2024 || Hardcover || Saskia Sassen || Harvard University Press
Income inequality, displaced and imprisoned populations, destruction of land and water: today’s dislocations cannot be understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, Saskia Sassen argues. They are more accurately understood as expulsions—from professional livelihood, from living space, from the very biosphere that makes life possible.