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"This work looks into the Colombian government's efforts to demobilize rebel FARC fighters and transform them into the entrepreneurial subjects and consumer citizens. Anthropologist Alexander Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged in Colombia."--Supplied by publisher.

Argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.

Exploring the changing relationship between culture and the market, this book addresses the question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? It offers an account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation - while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new markets of consumption.

In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. This book illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent - or innocent enough.

In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.