Few histories are as harrowing to document as exterminatory violence visited upon an entire social group, and the reduction of survivors to utter abjection – especially if the victims are one of humanity’s ancestral cultures. Gordon accomplishes this task as regards Namibias Bushman population withanalytical rigour, singular depth of scholarship, and deep-felt compassion. This extensively updated version of two path-breaking predecessors (1992 and 2000) introduces much new material...

A child of former residential school parents Leanne Trudeau leaves the Reserve to complete secondary school and college graduating with degrees in journalism and business administration. Attending Reserve social activities on weekends she becomes romantically involved with a police officer training reserve community police recruits. An unplanned pregnancy leads to marrying the officer then moving for their son to obtain a private school education.Turning unreasonably jealous and un...

The Place (by Robert J. Gordon) is a mystery/romance novel set in communities from the Arctic Circle to Northeastern Ontario North Shore of Lake Huron First Nation Reserves and some neighbouring communities.When a First Nation woman is murdered youth crisis worker April Kenewabi and newspaper reporter Jason Langman set out to prove the killing was the work of a serial killer targeting native women on Reserves and cities from the Arctic Circle to the shores of the Great Lakes. In th...

In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. Exposing the role that anthropologists played, this book analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created. Understanding these practices and the ways in which South Africa’s experiences in Namibia influenced later policy at home is al...

The discovery of a planned international terrorist attack from within Canada’s sparsely populated Northern Ontario region sends shockwaves through Canada’s Security Intelligence agency CSIS. Research by an investigative reporter of another reporter friend's killing supposedly by the underworld results in the discovery of terror suspects in the region. The situation leads to independent investigations by both CSIS and Israel’s Mossad after the Israeli intelligence agency inadvertently becom...

TRAUMA SUCCESS THEN LOVEA child of former residential school parents Leanne Trudeau leaves the Reserve to complete secondary school and college graduating with degrees in journalism and business administration. Attending Reserve social activities on weekends Leanne becomes romantically involved with a police officer training reserve community police recruits. After an unplanned pregnancy she agrees to marry policeman Bruce Ross and move to the city so their new son can receive off-...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Enigma of Max Gluckman examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth century. South African–born Max Gluckman was the founder of what became known as the Manchester School of social anthropology, a key figure in the anthropology of anticolonialism and conflict theory in southern Africa, and one of the most prolific structuralist and Marxist anthropologists of his generation. From his positio...

Disaster Legacy follows the struggles and challenges of the journey leading Sean McChesney-Dalton from Ireland to North American the 19th century. The adventurer survives seafaring pirate attacks, the murder of his father and attempted killing of his /mother together with dysfunctional family turmoil before narrowly escaping a hanging for alleged terrorism before escaping to America.He carves out a career at York Factory after arriving in Canada aboard the merchant ship Disaster ev...

How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic anal...

Published in Sociologia n.1/2018 - Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali dell'Istituto Luigi Sturzo, diretta da Andrea Bixio | «Le invenzioni della Terza Rivoluzione Industriale (…) sebbene rivoluzionarie all›interno della loro sfera di influenza - intrattenimento, comunicazione e information technology - non hanno avuto gli stessi effetti sugli standard di vita che hanno avuto l’elettricità, il motore a combustione interna, l’acqua corrente e potabile nelle case, il miglior...

Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation—in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and post–Cold War climates—from the standpoints of...

Untold story of the World Cup career of Roberto Baggio one of the most famous names in football.The attacking maestro was a one-of-a-kind genius for the seven Italian clubs he played for across 20 remarkable years. But it was on the world stage, while playing for Italy, that the Baggio legend was born.The first English-language book to examine Baggio’s Italy career across his three World Cups, this riveting tome:? Covers each match in which Baggio p...