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Contributors also look at the other side of the equation: rejection and grief.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125331333393,"sku":"CIN0231096879G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50654814732561,"sku":"GOR006538886","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0231096879.jpg?v=1750738594"},{"product_id":"drugs-labor-and-colonial-expansion-book-the-university-of-arizona-pres-9780816523511","title":"DRUGS, LABOR and COLONIAL EXPANSION","description":"The emergence of European powers on the world scene after the fifteenth century brought with it more than the subjugation of colonized peoples; it also brought an increase in the market for drugs, which until then had seen little distribution beyond their lands of origin. Growth in trade required goods for which there was demand, and drugs filled that role neatly. This book explores how Europeans introduced and used drugs in colonial contexts for the exploitation and placation of indigenous labor. Combining history and anthropology, it examines the role of drugs in trade and labor during the age of western colonial expansion. From considering the introduction of alcohol in the West African slave trade to the use of coca as a labor enhancer in the Andes, these original contributions examine both the encouragement of drug use by colonial powers and the extent to which local peoples' previous experience with psychoactive substances shaped their use of drugs introduced by Europeans. The authors show that drugs possessed characteristics that made them a particularly effective means for propagating trade or increasing the extent and intensity of labor. In the early stages of European expansion, drugs were introduced to draw people, quite literally, into relations of dependency with European trade partners. Over time, the drugs used to intensify the amount and duration of labor shifted from alcohol, opium, and marijuana which were used to overcome the drudgery and discomfort of physical labor to caffeine-based stimulants, which provided a more alert workforce. Valuable not only for its ethnographic detail but also for its broader insight into the nature of capitalist expansion, this collection reveals the surprising consistency of drug use in the colonial process. Drugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion is a book rich with cross-cultural insights that ranges widely across disciplines to provide a new and needed look at the colonial experience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50131113017617,"sku":"GOR013865583","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816523517.jpg?v=1750914306"},{"product_id":"illicit-monogamy-book-william-jankowiak-9780231150217","title":"Illicit Monogamy","description":"Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. In contrast to mainstream America’s idealization of the nuclear family and romantic love, its residents esteem notions of harmonious familial love, a spiritual bond that unites all family members. In their view, polygyny is not only righteous and sanctified—it is also conducive to communal life and social stability.  Based on many years of in-depth ethnographic research in Angel Park, this book explores daily life in a polygamous community. William R. Jankowiak considers the plural family from the points of view of husbands, wives, and children, giving a balanced account of its complications and conflicts. He finds that people in polygynous marriages, especially cowives, experience an ongoing struggle to balance the longing for romantic intimacy with the obligation to support the larger family. They feel tension between deeply held religious convictions and the desire for emotional exclusivity, which can threaten the stability and harmony of the polygamous family. Men and women often form exclusive romantic pairs within plural marriages, which are tolerated if not openly acknowledged, showing the limits of the community’s beliefs. Jankowiak also challenges stereotypes of polygamous families as bastions of patriarchal power, showing the weight that interpersonal and social expectations place on men.  Offering an unparalleled look at the complexity of a polygamous religious community, Illicit Monogamy also helps us reconsider relationships, love, and family dynamics across cultures and settings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347042472209,"sku":"CIN0231150210VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0231150210.jpg?v=1750973568"},{"product_id":"romantic-passion-book-william-jankowiak-9780231096867","title":"Romantic Passion","description":"What is this thing called love? And what about the \"base\" instincts of lust and sex? The latter have a well-travelled path of study among observers of non-western cultures. Anthropologists, for instance, have long been eager voyeurs of the \"sexual lives\" and \"kinship structures\" of \"other\" (primitive) cultures since the profession began more than a century ago. But love, that loftiest of romantic emotions, upon which so many of our highest (western) ideals are grounded, is generally ignored when we peek into the lives of others. Why bother to explore something that, whether we choose to admit it or not, we probably believe isn't there? This text shakes the Eurocentric foundations of ideas about love in the far-flung corners of the world, showing that we've been looking for love in all the wrong places. How does love manifest itself among polygamous groups? Where does the love element come in with arranged marriages? Is there a difference between infatuation and romantic love? The contributors find expressions of love almost everywhere they look, from the Inuit woman who went hunting and sealing with her husband because she could not bear to be apart from him for even an hour, to a Moroccan youth who reportedly said to his lover \"If I do not see you for just half a day I go crazy\" It looks beyond each society's central institutions in their search for expressions of love. They find, for instance, that arranged marriages and polygamy do not necessarily indicate a lack of romantic passion, but rather that people in such cultures may expect to look elsewhere for love. As they investigate the presence of love around the globe, contributors also look at the other side of the equation: rejection and grief. A collection on a topic that has already seen a surge of media interest in such magazines as \"Time\" and \"Newsweek\", this text should capture the attention of the social science community, and should be a useful reading for anyone interested in the romance of other cultures.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51488763019537,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51488763150609,"sku":"GOR010760107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52951490330897,"sku":"GOR014664550","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0231096860.jpg?v=1751133710"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-william-jankowiak.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}