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An Ecology of Ancient Ink
Knowledges The Archaeology of Tattooing
Fear, Love, and Technoscience Edited by Lars Krutak &
in Guatemalan Forest Aaron Deter-Wolf
February 2020 392pp 24 color illus.,
Conservation
157 b&w illus., 7 maps, 2 tables
Micha Rahder 9780295742830 £26.99/$35.00 NIP
Experimental Futures
May 2020 320pp 28 illus.
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The first book dedicated to the archaeological
9781478006916 £21.99/$27.95 PB
study of tattooing. Examines tattooed human
9781478006107 £90.00/$104.95 HB
remains, tattoo tools, and ancient art. Connects
ancient body art traditions to modern culture
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Rahder explores how ways of knowing the forest
of Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve shape through Indigenous communities and the work of
conservation practice and local livelihoods. contemporary tattoo artists.
Art Effects Avian Reservoirs
Image, Agency, and Ritual in Virus Hunters and
Amazonia Birdwatchers in Chinese
Carlos Fausto Sentinel Posts
Translated by David Rodgers Frédéric Keck
August 2020 450pp 45 photos, 11 Experimental Futures
illus., 5 maps, 7 tables February 2020 264pp 14 illus.
9781496220448 £66.00/$80.00 HB 9781478006985 £20.99/$26.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS 9781478006138 £86.00/$99.95 HB
In Art Effects Brazilian anthropologist Carlos DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fausto explores the agency of indigenous artifacts Frédéric Keck traces how the anticipation of bird
and images in order to offer a new understanding flu pandemics has changed relations between
of the pragmatics and ontology of ritual contexts. birds and humans in Hong Kong, Singapore, and
Taiwan, showing that humans’ reliance on birds is
key to mitigating future pandemics.
Beyond Exception Border Thinking
New Interpretations of the Latinx Youth Decolonizing
Arabian Peninsula Citizenship
Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Andrea Dyrness &
Renard & Neha Vora Enrique Sepúlveda III
August 2020 168pp 1 b&w halftone March 2020 280pp
9781501750304 £15.99/$19.95 PB 9781517906306 £20.99/$27.00 PB
9781501750298 £99.00/$115.00 HB 9781517906290 £93.00/$108.00 HB
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The authors explore how the exceptionalizing Border Thinking offers critical insights into how
discourses that permeate Arabian Peninsula young people in the Latinx diaspora experience
studies spring from colonialist discourses still belonging, make sense of racism, and long for
operative in anthropology and sociology. change.
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Cataloguing Culture Dark Finance
Legacies of Colonialism in Illiquidity and Authoritarianism
Museum Documentation at the Margins of Europe
Hannah Turner Fabio Mattioli
May 2020 256pp 23 photos, 13 tables June 2020 240pp
9780774863926 £60.00/$89.95 HB 9781503612938 £20.99/$26.00 PB
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In examining how the STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
technologies of museum bureaucracy – the Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic
ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – accounts of financial expansion and its political
operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing impacts in Eastern Europe.
Culture shines a light on access to and the return
of Indigenous cultural heritage.
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Disturbed Forests, Ethnicity
Fragmented Memories Commodity, Corporation, and
Jarai and Other Lives in the the Customary
Cambodian Highlands Edited by George Paul Meiu,
Jonathan Padwe Jean Comaroff
Foreword by K. & John L. Comaroff
Framing the Global
Sivaramakrishnan
July 2020 296pp
Culture, Place, and Nature
9780253047946 £31.00/$38.00 PB
April 2020 272pp 21 b&w illus., 10 maps, 2 tables
9780253047922 £69.00/$80.00 HB
9780295746906 £22.99/$30.00 PB
9780295746920 £79.00/$95.00 HB
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Does the turn to the incorporation and
commodification of ethnicity herald a new
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The story of violence and dispossession in the
highlands from the perspective of the land itself. historical moment in the politics of identity?
Ethnopornography Faces of Tradition in
Sexuality, Colonialism, and Chinese Performing Arts
Archival Knowledge Edited by Levi S. Gibbs
Edited by Pete Sigal, Encounters: Explorations in Folklore
and Ethnomusicology
Zeb Tortorici & March 2020 192pp
Neil L. Whitehead 9780253045836 £23.99/$30.00 PB
January 2020 280pp 25 illus. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
9781478003847 £20.99/$26.95 PB Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
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examines the key role of the individual in the
development of traditional Chinese performing
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This volume's contributors explore the links
arts such as music and dance.
among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial
rule through an examination of
ethnopornography.
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Far from the Caliph’s Folk Literati, Contested
Gaze Tradition, and Heritage
Being Ahmadi Muslim in the in Contemporary China
Holy City of Qadian Incense Is Kept Burning
Nicholas H. A. Evans Ziying You
May 2020 256pp 7 b&w halftones March 2020 256pp
9781501715693 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9780253046369 £24.99/$32.00 PB
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How do you prove that you’re Muslim? In Far
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In this important ethnography Ziying You explores
from the Caliph’s Gaze, Nicholas Evans explores the role of the "folk literati" in negotiating,
how a need to respond to this question shapes defining, and maintaining local cultural heritage.
the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern Indian.
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Former Guerrillas in Graveyard of Clerics
Mozambique Everyday Activism in Saudi
Nikkie Wiegink Arabia
The Ethnography of Political Violence Pascal Menoret
April 2020 280pp 3 illus. Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern
9780812252057 £45.00 /$55.00 HB and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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In Former Guerrillas in 9781503612464 £18.99/$24.00 PB
Mozambique, Nikkie Wiegink describes the 9780804799805 £69.00/$80.00 HB
trajectories of former RENAMO combatants in STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Maringue, a rural district in central Mozambique. The inside story of political protest in Saudi
Arabia—on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the
face of increasing state repression.
Healing from Genocide Impermanence
in Rwanda An Anthropologist of Thailand
The 1994 Genocide Against the and Asia
Tutsi Charles F. Keyes
February 2020 312pp 103 b&w illus., 2
Susan Viguers & Lily Yeh
maps
May 2020 144pp full color pictures
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SILKWORM BOOKS
Charles “Biff” Keyes carried out research, taught,
and forged links between scholars and institutions
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The work immerses readers in the stories of two
Rwandans who as small children experienced the in the United States, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos.
1994 Genocide. His new memoir illustrates the significance of the
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ Buddhist emphasis on impermanence (anicca)
and demonstrates how this principle has shaped
his own life.
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Intermarriage from International
Central Europe to Intervention and the
Central Asia Problem of Legitimacy
Mixed Families in the Age of Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-
Extremes Herzegovina
Edited by Adrienne Edgar & Andrew Gilbert
Benjamin Frommer August 2020 264pp 7 b&w halftones
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies 9781501750267 £43.00/$49.95 HB
June 2020 372pp 4 tables, 2 charts, 2 graphs, CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
9781496202116 £65.00/$75.00 HB Gilbert argues for an ethnographic analysis of
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS international intervention as a series of
Examines the practice and experience of encounters, focusing on the relations of
interethnic marriage in a range of countries and difference and inequality.
eras. Excludes ANZ
Invisibility by Design Love in the Drug War
Women and Labor in Japan’s Selling Sex and Finding Jesus
Digital Economy on the Mexico-US Border
Gabriella Lukács Sarah Luna
January 2020 248pp 23 illus. April 2020 280pp
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9781478005810 £86.00/$99.95 HB 9781477320495 £77.00/$90.00 HB
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Gabriella Lukács traces how young Japanese Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent
women’s unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution
“girly” photographers, online traders, and cell zone in the border city of Reynosa. Luna
phone novelists was central to the development scrutinizes la zona, the people who work to
of Japan’s digital economy in the 1990s and survive there, and Reynosa itself, adding nuance
2000s. and new understanding to the current US-Mexico
border crisis.
Maya Bonesetters Migranthood
Manual Healers in a Changing Youth in a New Era of
Guatemala Deportation
Written & Illustrated by Lauren Heidbrink
Servando G. Hinojosa April 2020 232pp
February 2020 256pp 9781503612075 £19.99/$25.00 PB
9781477320297 £22.99/$29.95 PB 9781503611542 £73.00/$85.00 HB
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Migranthood chronicles deportation from the
perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate
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This is the first book-length study of bonesetting
in Guatemala and situates the manual healing unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and
tradition within the current cultural context—one the United States.
in which a changing medical landscape potentially
threatens bonesetters’ work.
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Mixed Messages Murujuga
Mediating Native Belonging in Rock Art, Heritage, and
Asian Russia Landscape Iconoclasm
Kathryn E. Graber Jose Antonio Gonzalez
August 2020 276pp 18 b&w halftones, Zarandona, Foreword by
2 maps
9781501750519 £23.99/$29.95 PB
Michel Lorblanchet
January 2020 344pp 66 illus.
9781501750502 £99.00/$115.00 HB
9780812251562 £74.00/$89.95 HB
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Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia,
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José Antonio González Zarandona provides a full
Mixed Messages engages debates about the role
postcolonial analysis of Murujuga as well as a
of minority media in society, alternative visions of
geographic and archaeological overview of the
modernity, and the impact of media on everyday
site, its ethnohistory, and its considerable
language use.
significance to Indigenous groups.
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On an Empty Stomach On Not Dying
Two Hundred Years of Hunger Secular Immortality in the Age
Relief of Technoscience
Tom Scott-Smith Abou Farman
April 2020 294pp 13 b&w halftones April 2020 336pp
9781501748653 £27.99/$35.00 HB 9781517908102 £23.99/$30.00 PB
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On an Empty Stomach UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
examines the practical techniques humanitarians Interrogates the social implications of
have used to manage and measure starvation, technoscientific immortalism and raises
from Victorian “scientific” soup kitchens to space- important political questions. Whose life will be
age, high-protein foods. extended? Will these technologies be available to
Excludes ANZ all, or will they reproduce racial and geopolitical
hierarchies?
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Overthrowing the Parenting Empires
Queen Class, Whiteness, and the
Telling Stories of Welfare in Moral Economy of Privilege in
America Latin America
Tom Mould Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
August 2020 376pp 18 graphs April 2020 304pp 13 illus.
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9780253048028 £108.00/$125.00 HB 9781478007746 £90.00/$104.95 HB
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In 1976, Ronald Reagan hit the campaign trail Focuses on the parenting practices of Latin
with an extraordinary account of a woman American urban elites to analyze how everyday
committing massive welfare fraud. Overthrowing experiences of whiteness, privilege, and
the Queen examines these legends of fraud and inequality reinforce national and hemispheric
abuse. idioms of anti-corruption and austerity.
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Pluriversal Politics Policing the Frontier
The Real and the Possible An Ethnography of Two Worlds
Arturo Escobar in Niger
Latin America in Translation Mirco Göpfert
May 2020 232pp 3 illus. Police/Worlds: Studies in Security,
9781478008460 £20.99/$25.95 PB Crime, and Governance
9781478007937 £86.00/$99.95 HB March 2020 192pp 1 map
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS 9781501747229 £19.99/$24.95 PB
Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and 9781501747212 £99.00/$115.00 HB
practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro- CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to Mirco Göpfert explores what it means to be a
defend their territories from large-scale gendarme investigating cases, writing reports,
extraction, Escobar shows how the key to and settling disputes in rural Niger.
addressing planetary crises is the creation of the Excludes ANZ
pluriverse.
Predictable Pleasures Psychobilly
Food and the Pursuit of Subcultural Survival
Balance in Rural Yucatán Kimberly Kattari
Lauren A. Wynne May 2020 262pp
At Table 9781439918609 £24.99/$32.95 PB
May 2020 300pp 9 photos, 9781439918593 £82.00/$99.50 HB
9781496201317 £41.00/$50.00 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The outsider musical genre
known as psychobilly, which began in 1980s
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In Predictable Pleasures, Lauren A. Wynne
examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatán Britain, fuses punk, heavy metal, new wave, and
and how residents practice care, as exercised shock rock with carnivalesque elements. This title
through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve is Kimberly Kattari’s fascinating, decade-long
desired bodily and social status, and maintain study of this little-known anti-mainstream genre.
valued cultural forms. Excludes Asia Pacific
Re-enchanting Red Gold
Modernity The Managed Extinction of the
Ritual Economy and Society in Giant Bluefin Tuna
Wenzhou, China Jennifer E. Telesca
April 2020 304pp 16 b&w photos
Mayfair Yang
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May 2020 384pp 44 illus.
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In Red Gold, Jennifer E. Telesca offers
unparalleled access to ICCAT to show that the
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Drawing on twenty-five years of ethnographic
fieldwork, Mayfair Yang examines the resurgence institution has faithfully executed the task
of religious and ritual life after decades of assigned it by international law: to fish as hard as
enforced secularization in the coastal area of possible to grow national economies.
Wenzhou, China. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Relations Remains of Socialism
An Anthropological Account Memory and the Futures of the
Marilyn Strathern Past in Postsocialist Hungary
April 2020 280pp 1 illus. Maya Nadkarni
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Marilyn Strathern provides a
critical account of anthropology’s key concept of
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Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of
relation and its usage and significance in the the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She
English-speaking world, showing how its evolving introduces the concept of “remains”—both
use over the last three centuries reflects changing physical objects and cultural remainders—to
thinking about knowledge-making and kin- analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave
making. behind after the end of state socialism.
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Revolution and Rising from the Ashes
Disenchantment Survival, Sovereignty, and
Arab Marxism and the Binds of Native America
Emancipation Edited by William Willard,
Fadi A. Bardawil Alan G. Marshall
Theory in Forms & J. Diane Pearson
March 2020 288pp 4 illus. June 2020 378pp 4 photos, 2 illus., 8
9781478006756 £20.99/$26.95 PB tables
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Fadi A. Bardawil explores the hopes for and
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Explores continuing Native American political,
disenchantments with Marxism-Leninism in the social, and cultural survival and resilience with a
writings and actions of revolutionary intellectuals focus on the life of Numiipuu (Nez Perce)
within the 1960s Arab New Left. anthropologist Archie M. Phinney.
Scholarship, Money, Shifting Livelihoods
and Prose Gold Mining and Subsistence
Behind the Scenes at an in the Chocó, Colombia
Academic Journal Daniel Tubb, Foreword &
Michael Chibnik Series edited by K.
May 2019 232pp Sivaramakrishnan
9780812252170 £41.00 /$49.95 HB Culture, Place, and Nature
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Providing detailed ethnographic and historical 9780295747538 £22.99/$30.00 PB
descriptions of the operations of a major journal, 9780295747521 £79.00/$95.00 HB
Scholarship, Money, and Prose sheds light on two UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
aspects of successful editing that are common to Through an ethnography of gold, Shifting
academic journals whatever their subject matter. Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction
reshapes a place.
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Signs of the Spirit Sovereignty Suspended
Music and the Experience of Building the So-Called State
Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Rebecca Bryant
Life & Mete Hatay
Tony Perman The Ethnography of Political Violence
June 2020 280pp June 2020 360pp 15 illus.
9780252085178 £22.99/$30.00 PB 9780812252217 £60.00/$69.95 HB
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Sovereignty Suspended is based on more than
two decades of ethnographic and archival
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Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual,
and social roots of ceremonial action and details research in one so-called aporetic state, the
how that action influences the Ndau's collective Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It
approach to their future. traces the process by which a “north” began to
emerge as a tangible, separate, if unrecognized
space after the island’s violent partition in 1974.
Striking Iron Tales from Albarado
The Art of African Blacksmiths Ponzi Logics of Accumulation
Edited by Allen F. Roberts, in Postsocialist Albania
Tom Joyce & Marla C. Berns Smoki Musaraj
December 2019 512pp 456 color illus., August 2020 216pp 12 b&w halftones
67 b&w illus., 2 maps, 20 charts 9781501750342 £20.99/$25.95 PB
9780990762669 £62.00/$75.00 HB 9781501750335 £99.00/$115.00 HB
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Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary Tales from Albarado revisits times of excitement
scholarship with vivid illustrations to offer the and loss in early 1990s Albania, in which about a
most comprehensive treatment to date of the dozen pyramid firms collapsed and caused the
blacksmith’s art in sub-Saharan Africa. country to fall into anarchy and a near civil war.
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Textures of the Ordinary The Anthropological
Doing Anthropology after Turn
Wittgenstein French Political Thought After
Veena Das 1968
Thinking from Elsewhere
Jacob Collins
May 2020 432pp
Intellectual History of the Modern Age
9780823287697 £26.99/$35.00 PB
April 2020 304pp
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9780812252163 £54.00 /$65.00 HB
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Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked
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In The Anthropological Turn, Jacob Collins traces
not only by catastrophic events but also by the the development of what he calls a tradition of
soft knife of economic deprivation and the “political anthropology” in France over the course
repetitive corrosions and routine violence within of the 1970s.
everyday life itself.
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The Frontier Effect The Government of
State Formation and Violence Beans
in Colombia Regulating Life in the Age of
Teo Ballvé Monocrops
Cornell Series on Land: New
Kregg Hetherington
Perspectives on Territory,
May 2020 304pp 1 illus.
Development, and Environment
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March 2020 228pp 13 b&w halftones,
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3 b&w line drawings, 3 maps
9781501747540 £21.99/$27.95 PB
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The Government of Beans is about the rough
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edges of environmental regulation, where
tenuous state power and blunt governmental
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Argues that Urabá has been a persistent site of
state-building projects. instruments encounter ecological destruction and
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The Man in the Dog The Movement for
Park Reproductive Justice
Coming Up Close to Empowering Women of Color
Homelessness through Social Activism
Cathy A. Small, With Jason Patricia Zavella
Kordosky & Ross Moore Social Transformations in American
April 2020 200pp 1 b&w line drawing Anthropology
9781501748783 £17.99/$22.95 HB May 2020 320pp 22 hts, (2 b+w, 20 color)
9781479812707 £24.99/$32.00 PB
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Spurred by a personal relationship with a
homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy
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Draws on ethnographic research to explore
A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means
collaborations among women of color engaged in
and what it takes to be homeless.
activism on behalf of reproductive justice.
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To Be an Entrepreneur Trading Life
Social Enterprise and Organ Trafficking, Illicit
Disruptive Development in Networks, and Exploitation
Bangladesh Seán Columb
Julia Qermezi Huang July 2020 216pp
May 2020 324pp 12 b&w halftones, 3 9781503612556 £21.99/$28.00 PB
b&w line drawings 9781503608078 £77.00/$90.00 HB
9781501749551 £22.99/$28.95 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
9781501748271 £99.00/$115.00 HB Seán Columb illuminates the voices and
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS perspectives of organ sellers and brokers to
Focuses on Bangladesh’s iAgent social-enterprise demonstrate how crime and immigration controls
model, the set of economic processes that produce circumstances where the business of
animate the delivery of this model, and the selling organs has become a feature of economic
implications for women’s empowerment. survival.
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Soil Practitioners and Life Indigeneity and the Unruly
Politics Logics of Intervention
Kristina M. Lyons Tess Lea
April 2020 248pp 42 illus., incl. 8 in Anthropology of Policy
color June 2020 232pp
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9781478007692 £86.00/$99.95 HB 9781503612655 £73.00/$85.00 HB
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Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil Can there be good social policy? This book
relations in which she follows state soil scientists describes what happens to Indigenous policy
and peasant farmers in Colombia’s Putumayo when it targets the supposedly ‘wild people’ of
region, showing how their relationship with soil is regional and remote Australia.
key to caring for the forest and growing non-illicit
crops in the face of violence.
Writing Anthropology A Possible
Essays on Craft and Anthropology
Commitment Methods for Uneasy Times
Edited by Anand Pandian
Carole McGranahan October 2019 168pp 10 illus.
May 2020 328pp 12 illus. 9781478003755 £18.99/$23.95 PB
9781478008125 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781478003113 £77.00/$89.95 HB
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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS A Possible Anthropology is an ethnography of
In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists at work: canonical figures like
anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as Bronislaw Malinowski and Claude Lévi-Strauss,
both craft and commitment, offering insights into ethnographic storytellers like Zora Neale Hurston
the myriad roles of anthropological writing. and Ursula K. Le Guin, contemporary scholars like
Jane Guyer and Michael Jackson, and artists and
indigenous activists inspired by the field.
Chinese Folklore Franz Boas
Studies Today The Emergence of the
Discourse and Practice Anthropologist
Edited by Lijun Zhang & Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Critical Studies in the History of
Ziying You
Anthropology
Foreword by Chao Gejin December 2019 464pp 21 photos
November 2019 208pp 9781496215543 £27.99/$34.95 HB
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9780253044099 £65.00/$75.00 HB
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Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable
story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contributors to this volume focuses on topics that
and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and
have long been the dominant areas of folklore
early twentieth centuries.
studies in China, including myth, folk song, and
cultural heritage.
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10The Value of Aesthetics Affective Justice
Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global The International Criminal
Economies of Culture Court and the Pan-Africanist
Alanna Cant Pushback
September 2019 232pp 8-page color Kamari Maxine Clarke
insert, 1 b&w map December 2019 368pp 7 illus.
9781477318812 £24.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478006701 £23.99 / $28.95 PB
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court
The Value of Aesthetics is an ethnographic study of the eco- (ICC) has been met with resistance by various African states
nomic and cultural impact of aesthetics, focusing on an in- and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of
ternationally renowned workshop where Oaxacan colonial violence and control. Kamari Maxine Clarke explores
woodcarvings, or alebrijes, are highly profitable. Cant also the African Union's pushback against the ICC in order to the-
shows how aesthetic practices produce and redefine social orize affect's role in shaping forms of justice in the contem-
and political relationships. porary period.
Back to America Blood Work
Identity, Political Culture, and Life and Laboratories in Penang
the Tea Party Movement Janet Carsten
William H. Westermeyer The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Anthropology of Contemporary North August 2019 256pp 23 illus.
America 9781478004813 £20.99 / $25.95 PB
November 2019 246pp 9781478004202 £88.00 / $99.95 HB
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9781496208439 £60.00 / $70.00 HB Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in
Back to America is one of the few ethnographies of local ac- Penang, Malaysia, showing how those meanings provide a
tivist groups within the Tea Party Movement. Westermeyer gateway to understanding the social, political, and cultural
explains the significance of grassroots groups in individual as dynamics of modern life.
well as collective political identity formation and how both
contribute to the success of the wider movement.
Roger Sandall's Films The Universal Enemy
and Contemporary Jihad, Empire, and the
Anthropology Challenge of Solidarity
Explorations in the Aesthetic, Darryl Li
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern
the Existential, and the Possible and Islamic Societies and Cultures
Lorraine Mortimer December 2019 336pp
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS This book argues that transnational jihadists are engaged in
In this book Lorraine Mortimer reunites film and anthropol- their own form of universalism: these fighters struggle to re-
ogy through the works of Roger Sandall, a New Zealand-born alize an Islamist vision directed at all of humanity. Developed
filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part from more than a decade of research with former fighters, Li
of the vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film cul- explores the relationship between jihad and American em-
ture in New York in the 1960s. pire to shed critical light on both.
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