Anthropology RAI - 2020

ANTHROPOLOGY RAI 2020

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An Ecology of Knowledges

Ancient Ink

The Archaeology of Tattooing Edited by Lars Krutak & Aaron Deter-Wolf

Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation Micha Rahder

February 2020 392pp 24 color illus., 157 b&w illus., 7 maps, 2 tables 9780295742830 £26.99/$35.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Experimental Futures May 2020 320pp 28 illus.

9781478006916 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006107 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

The first book dedicated to the archaeological study of tattooing. Examines tattooed human remains, tattoo tools, and ancient art. Connects ancient body art traditions to modern culture through Indigenous communities and the work of contemporary tattoo artists.

Rahder explores how ways of knowing the forest of Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve shape conservation practice and local livelihoods.

Art Effects

Avian Reservoirs

Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia Carlos Fausto Translated by David Rodgers

Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts Frédéric Keck

August 2020 450pp 45 photos, 11 illus., 5 maps, 7 tables 9781496220448 £66.00/$80.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Experimental Futures February 2020 264pp 14 illus.

9781478006985 £20.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006138 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

In Art Effects Brazilian anthropologist Carlos 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 Arabian Peninsula Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard & Neha Vora

Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness & Enrique Sepúlveda III

August 2020 168pp 1 b&w halftone 9781501750304 £15.99/$19.95 PB 9781501750298 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

March 2020 280pp 9781517906306 £20.99/$27.00 PB 9781517906290 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make sense of racism, and long for change.

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The authors explore how the exceptionalizing discourses that permeate Arabian Peninsula studies spring from colonialist discourses still operative in anthropology and sociology.

Excludes ANZ

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Cataloguing Culture

Dark Finance

Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation Hannah Turner

Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe Fabio Mattioli

May 2020 256pp 23 photos, 13 tables 9780774863926 £60.00/$89.95 HB UBC PRESS

June 2020 240pp 9781503612938 £20.99/$26.00 PB 9781503611658 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy – the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.

Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ

Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe.

Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories

Ethnicity

Commodity, Corporation, and the Customary Edited by George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff

Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands Jonathan Padwe Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Framing the Global July 2020 296pp 9780253047946 £31.00/$38.00 PB 9780253047922 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Culture, Place, and Nature April 2020 272pp 21 b&w illus., 10 maps, 2 tables 9780295746906 £22.99/$30.00 PB 9780295746920 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Does the turn to the incorporation and commodification of ethnicity herald a new historical moment in the politics of identity?

The story of violence and dispossession in the highlands from the perspective of the land itself.

Ethnopornography

Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts

Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge Edited by Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici & Neil L. Whitehead

January 2020 280pp 25 illus.

9781478003847 £20.99/$26.95 PB 9781478003151 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography.

Edited by Levi S. Gibbs

Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology March 2020 192pp 9780253045836 £23.99/$30.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examines the key role of the individual in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts such as music and dance.

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Far from the Caliph’s Gaze

Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China

Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian Nicholas H. A. Evans

Incense Is Kept Burning Ziying You

May 2020 256pp 7 b&w halftones 9781501715693 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781501715686 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

March 2020 256pp 9780253046369 £24.99/$32.00 PB 9780253046352 £65.00/$75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

How do you prove that you’re Muslim? In Far 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 Mozambique

Graveyard of Clerics

Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia Pascal Menoret

Nikkie Wiegink

The Ethnography of Political Violence April 2020 280pp 3 illus.

9780812252057 £45.00 /$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures June 2020 248pp 9781503612464 £18.99/$24.00 PB 9780804799805 £69.00/$80.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In Former Guerrillas in Mozambique, Nikkie Wiegink describes the trajectories of former RENAMO combatants in 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 in Rwanda

Impermanence

An Anthropologist of Thailand and Asia Charles F. Keyes

The 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi Susan Viguers & Lily Yeh

February 2020 312pp 103 b&w illus., 2 maps 9786162151385 £18.99/$24.95 PB SILKWORM BOOKS

May 2020 144pp full color pictures 9781613321348 £33.00/$40.00 PB 9781613321355 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW VILLAGE PRESS

Charles “Biff” Keyes carried out research, taught, and forged links between scholars and institutions in the United States, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos.

His new memoir illustrates the significance of the Buddhist emphasis on impermanence (anicca) and demonstrates how this principle has shaped his own life.

The work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide.

Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

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Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia

International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy

Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes Edited by Adrienne Edgar & Benjamin Frommer

Encounters in Postwar BosniaHerzegovina Andrew Gilbert

August 2020 264pp 7 b&w halftones 9781501750267 £43.00/$49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Borderlands and Transcultural Studies June 2020 372pp 4 tables, 2 charts, 2 graphs, 9781496202116 £65.00/$75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Gilbert argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality.

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Examines the practice and experience of interethnic marriage in a range of countries and eras.

Invisibility by Design

Love in the Drug War

Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy Gabriella Lukács

Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border Sarah Luna

January 2020 248pp 23 illus.

9781478006480 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478005810 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

April 2020 280pp 9781477320501 £22.99/$29.95 PB 9781477320495 £77.00/$90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Gabriella Lukács traces how young Japanese women’s unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, “girly” photographers, online traders, and cell phone novelists was central to the development of Japan’s digital economy in the 1990s and 2000s.

Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the border city of Reynosa. Luna scrutinizes la zona, the people who work to survive there, and Reynosa itself, adding nuance and new understanding to the current US-Mexico border crisis.

Maya Bonesetters

Migranthood

Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala Written & Illustrated by Servando G. Hinojosa

Youth in a New Era of Deportation Lauren Heidbrink

April 2020 232pp 9781503612075 £19.99/$25.00 PB 9781503611542 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

February 2020 256pp 9781477320297 £22.99/$29.95 PB 9781477320280 £77.00/$90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Migranthood chronicles deportation from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the United States.

This is the first book-length study of bonesetting in Guatemala and situates the manual healing tradition within the current cultural context—one in which a changing medical landscape potentially threatens bonesetters’ work.

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Mixed Messages

Murujuga

Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia Kathryn E. Graber

Rock Art, Heritage, and Landscape Iconoclasm Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Foreword by Michel Lorblanchet

August 2020 276pp 18 b&w halftones, 2 maps 9781501750519 £23.99/$29.95 PB 9781501750502 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

January 2020 344pp 66 illus.

9780812251562 £74.00/$89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, Mixed Messages engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use.

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José Antonio González Zarandona provides a full postcolonial analysis of Murujuga as well as a geographic and archaeological overview of the site, its ethnohistory, and its considerable significance to Indigenous groups.

On Not Dying

On an Empty Stomach

Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief Tom Scott-Smith

Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman

April 2020 294pp 13 b&w halftones 9781501748653 £27.99/$35.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

April 2020 336pp 9781517908102 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9781517908096 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian “scientific” soup kitchens to spaceage, high-protein foods.

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Interrogates the social implications of technoscientific immortalism and raises important political questions. Whose life will be extended? Will these technologies be available to all, or will they reproduce racial and geopolitical hierarchies?

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Overthrowing the Queen

Parenting Empires

Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

Telling Stories of Welfare in America Tom Mould

April 2020 304pp 13 illus.

9781478008217 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781478007746 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

August 2020 376pp 18 graphs 9780253048035 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780253048028 £108.00/$125.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of whiteness, privilege, and inequality reinforce national and hemispheric idioms of anti-corruption and austerity.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan hit the campaign trail with an extraordinary account of a woman committing massive welfare fraud. Overthrowing the Queen examines these legends of fraud and abuse.

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Pluriversal Politics

Policing the Frontier

The Real and the Possible Arturo Escobar

An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger Mirco Göpfert

Latin America in Translation May 2020 232pp 3 illus.

9781478008460 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478007937 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance March 2020 192pp 1 map 9781501747229 £19.99/$24.95 PB 9781501747212 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afrodescendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse.

Mirco Göpfert explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, writing reports, and settling disputes in rural Niger.

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Predictable Pleasures

Psychobilly

Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán Lauren A. Wynne

Subcultural Survival Kimberly Kattari

May 2020 262pp 9781439918609 £24.99/$32.95 PB 9781439918593 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

At Table May 2020 300pp 9 photos, 9781496201317 £41.00/$50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

The outsider musical genre known as psychobilly, which began in 1980s Britain, fuses punk, heavy metal, new wave, and shock rock with carnivalesque elements. This title is Kimberly Kattari’s fascinating, decade-long study of this little-known anti-mainstream genre.

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In Predictable Pleasures, Lauren A. Wynne examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatán and how residents practice care, as exercised through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve desired bodily and social status, and maintain valued cultural forms.

Re-enchanting Modernity

Red Gold

The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca

Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China Mayfair Yang

April 2020 304pp 16 b&w photos 9781517908515 £19.99/$24.95 PB 9781517908508 £86.00/$100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

May 2020 384pp 44 illus.

9781478008279 £23.99/$29.95 PB 9781478007753 £95.00/$109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

In Red Gold, Jennifer E. Telesca offers unparalleled access to ICCAT to show that the institution has faithfully executed the task assigned it by international law: to fish as hard as possible to grow national economies.

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Drawing on twenty-five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Mayfair Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou, China.

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Relations

Remains of Socialism

An Anthropological Account Marilyn Strathern

Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary Maya Nadkarni

April 2020 280pp 1 illus.

9781478008354 £20.99/$26.95 PB 9781478007845 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

July 2020 256pp 13 b&w halftones 9781501750182 £22.99/$28.95 PB 9781501750175 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of anthropology’s key concept of relation and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world, showing how its evolving use over the last three centuries reflects changing thinking about knowledge-making and kinmaking.

Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of “remains”—both physical objects and cultural remainders—to analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism.

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Revolution and Disenchantment

Rising from the Ashes

Survival, Sovereignty, and Native America Edited by William Willard, Alan G. Marshall & J. Diane Pearson

Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation Fadi A. Bardawil

Theory in Forms March 2020 288pp 4 illus.

9781478006756 £20.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006169 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

June 2020 378pp 4 photos, 2 illus., 8 tables 9781496219008 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Fadi A. Bardawil explores the hopes for and disenchantments with Marxism-Leninism in the writings and actions of revolutionary intellectuals within the 1960s Arab New Left.

Explores continuing Native American political, social, and cultural survival and resilience with a focus on the life of Numiipuu (Nez Perce) anthropologist Archie M. Phinney.

Scholarship, Money, and Prose

Shifting Livelihoods

Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia Daniel Tubb, Foreword & Series edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal Michael Chibnik

May 2019 232pp 9780812252170 £41.00 /$49.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Culture, Place, and Nature July 2020 264pp 16 b&w illus., 2 maps, 2 charts 9780295747538 £22.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747521 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Providing detailed ethnographic and historical descriptions of the operations of a major journal, Scholarship, Money, and Prose sheds light on two 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 Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life Tony Perman

Building the So-Called State Rebecca Bryant & Mete Hatay

The Ethnography of Political Violence June 2020 360pp 15 illus.

9780812252217 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

June 2020 280pp 9780252085178 £22.99/$30.00 PB 9780252043253 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Sovereignty Suspended is based on more than two decades of ethnographic and archival research in one so-called aporetic state, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It 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.

Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future.

Striking Iron

Tales from Albarado

The Art of African Blacksmiths Edited by Allen F. Roberts, Tom Joyce & Marla C. Berns

Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania Smoki Musaraj

December 2019 512pp 456 color illus., 67 b&w illus., 2 maps, 20 charts 9780990762669 £62.00/$75.00 HB FOWLER MUSEUM AT UCLA

August 2020 216pp 12 b&w halftones 9781501750342 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781501750335 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary scholarship with vivid illustrations to offer the most comprehensive treatment to date of the blacksmith’s art in sub-Saharan Africa.

Tales from Albarado revisits times of excitement and loss in early 1990s Albania, in which about a dozen pyramid firms collapsed and caused the country to fall into anarchy and a near civil war.

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Textures of the Ordinary

The Anthropological Turn

Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein Veena Das

French Political Thought After 1968 Jacob Collins

Thinking from Elsewhere May 2020 432pp 9780823287697 £26.99/$35.00 PB 9780823287895 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Intellectual History of the Modern Age April 2020 304pp 9780812252163 £54.00 /$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself.

In The Anthropological Turn, Jacob Collins traces the development of what he calls a tradition of “political anthropology” in France over the course of the 1970s.

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The Frontier Effect

The Government of Beans

State Formation and Violence in Colombia Teo Ballvé

Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Kregg Hetherington

Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment March 2020 228pp 13 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings, 3 maps 9781501747540 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781501747533 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

May 2020 304pp 1 illus.

9781478006893 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006060 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice.

Argues that Urabá has been a persistent site of state-building projects.

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The Man in the Dog Park

The Movement for Reproductive Justice

Coming Up Close to Homelessness Cathy A. Small, With Jason Kordosky & Ross Moore

Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism Patricia Zavella

Social Transformations in American Anthropology May 2020 320pp 22 hts, (2 b+w, 20 color) 9781479812707 £24.99/$32.00 PB 9781479829200 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

April 2020 200pp 1 b&w line drawing 9781501748783 £17.99/$22.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless.

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Draws on ethnographic research to explore collaborations among women of color engaged in activism on behalf of reproductive justice.

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To Be an Entrepreneur

Trading Life

Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh Julia Qermezi Huang

Organ Trafficking, Illicit Networks, and Exploitation Seán Columb

July 2020 216pp 9781503612556 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608078 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

May 2020 324pp 12 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings 9781501749551 £22.99/$28.95 PB 9781501748271 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Seán Columb illuminates the voices and perspectives of organ sellers and brokers to demonstrate how crime and immigration controls produce circumstances where the business of selling organs has become a feature of economic survival.

Focuses on Bangladesh’s iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women’s empowerment.

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Vital Decomposition

Wild Policy

Soil Practitioners and Life Politics Kristina M. Lyons

Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention Tess Lea

April 2020 248pp 42 illus., incl. 8 in color 9781478008163 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478007692 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations in which she follows state soil scientists and peasant farmers in Colombia’s Putumayo region, showing how their relationship with soil is key to caring for the forest and growing non-illicit crops in the face of violence.

Anthropology of Policy June 2020 232pp 9781503612662 £20.99/$25.00 PB 9781503612655 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Can there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly ‘wild people’ of regional and remote Australia.

Writing Anthropology

A Possible Anthropology

Essays on Craft and Commitment Edited by Carole McGranahan

May 2020 328pp 12 illus.

9781478008125 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006848 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Methods for Uneasy Times Anand Pandian

October 2019 168pp 10 illus.

9781478003755 £18.99/$23.95 PB 9781478003113 £77.00/$89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment, offering insights into the myriad roles of anthropological writing.

A Possible Anthropology is an ethnography of anthropologists at work: canonical figures like Bronislaw Malinowski and Claude Lévi-Strauss, ethnographic storytellers like Zora Neale Hurston and Ursula K. Le Guin, contemporary scholars like Jane Guyer and Michael Jackson, and artists and indigenous activists inspired by the field.

Chinese Folklore Studies Today

Discourse and Practice Edited by Lijun Zhang & Ziying You Foreword by Chao Gejin

November 2019 208pp 9780253044105 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780253044099 £65.00/$75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Franz Boas

The Emergence of the Anthropologist Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology December 2019 464pp 21 photos 9781496215543 £27.99/$34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars 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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The Value of Aesthetics

Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture Alanna Cant

September 2019 232pp 8-page color insert, 1 b&w map 9781477318812 £24.99 / $29.95 PB 9781477318805 £77.00 / $90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS The Value of Aesthetics is an ethnographic study of the economic and cultural impact of aesthetics, focusing on an internationally renowned workshop where Oaxacan woodcarvings, or alebrijes, are highly profitable. Cant also shows how aesthetic practices produce and redefine social and political relationships.

Back to America

Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement William H. Westermeyer

Anthropology of Contemporary North America November 2019 246pp 9781496217592 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496208439 £60.00 / $70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Back to America is one of the few ethnographies of local activist groups within the Tea Party Movement. Westermeyer explains the significance of grassroots groups in individual as well as collective political identity formation and how both contribute to the success of the wider movement.

Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology

Explorations in the Aesthetic, the Existential, and the Possible Lorraine Mortimer

October 2019 352pp 9780253043979 £33.00 / $39.00 PB 9780253043948 £86.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS In this book Lorraine Mortimer reunites film and anthropology through the works of Roger Sandall, a New Zealand-born filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part of the vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film culture in New York in the 1960s.

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Affective Justice

The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback Kamari Maxine Clarke

December 2019 368pp 7 illus.

9781478006701 £23.99 / $28.95 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been met with resistance by various African states and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of colonial violence and control. Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the ICC in order to theorize affect's role in shaping forms of justice in the contemporary period.

Blood Work

Life and Laboratories in Penang Janet Carsten

The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures August 2019 256pp 23 illus.

9781478004813 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478004202 £88.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia, showing how those meanings provide a gateway to understanding the social, political, and cultural dynamics of modern life.

The Universal Enemy

Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity Darryl Li

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures December 2019 336pp 9781503610873 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780804792370 £77.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS This book argues that transnational jihadists are engaged in their own form of universalism: these fighters struggle to realize an Islamist vision directed at all of humanity. Developed from more than a decade of research with former fighters, Li explores the relationship between jihad and American empire to shed critical light on both.

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