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HIGHLIGHTS ILLEGAL ENCOUNTERS

The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People

ALSO OF INTEREST

Edited By DEBORAH A. BOEHM and SUSAN J. TERRIO

“A powerful and heart-wrenching collection of essays that elucidate the myriad ways young people’s lives are shaped, and often devastated, by the immigration laws and enforcement practices of the United States.”

—Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced $30.00 • 256 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-6107-1

KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN IMMIGRANT AMERICA

How Teens and Parents Navigate Race

SUMIE OKAZAKI and NANCY ABELMANN

“Okazaki and Abelmann rigorously capture portraits of how Korean American immigrant parents and their children make family work...

Powerfully turns the Model Minority Stereotype on its head!”

—Gilberto Q. Conchas, UC Irvine $32.00 • 272 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-3668-0

FORTHCOMING

EMERGING EVANGELICALS

Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity JAMES S. BIELO

“This book is full of thick description and rich detail.

Bielo has a knack for capturing the essence of the people he interacted wth in his 3 year ethnographic journey through Emerging Evangelicalism.”

—Review of Religious Research $27.00 • 256 pages Paper • 978-0-8147-8955-1

SPACES OF SECURITY

Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance and Control Edited by SETHA LOW and MARK MAGUIRE

“Shows brilliantly how the concern with security both excludes and includes, exacerbating existing racial, gendered, and economic inequalities.”

—Sally Engle Merry, New York University $32.00 • 280 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-7006-6 Forthcoming January 2019

WORDS UPON THE WORD

An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study JAMES S. BIELO

ARK ENCOUNTER

The Making of a Creationist Theme Park JAMES S. BIELO

“A story of many fascinating encounters between fundamentalism, creationism, biblical consumerism, and religious entertainment.”

—Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University and author of The Book of Revelation: A Biography $28.00 • 240 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4279-7

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“The book advances scholarly understanding of an important practice that shapes the community, piety, and politics of many Americans each week.”

—Choice $25.00 • 208 pages Paper •978-0-8147-9122-6

MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE INEQUALITIES OF AGING

UNEQUAL COVERAGE

ELANA D. BUCH

Edited by JESSICA M. MULLIGAN and HEIDE CASTAÑEDA

Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care “Brilliant, illuminating, and wrenching...offers an intimate account of how the fate of older adults and the working poor who care for them are bound together.” —Sarah Lamb, author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes $30.00 • 288 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-0717-8 In the Anthropologies of American Medicine series

Winner, 2017 Margaret Mead Award presented by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology

THE VIOLENCE OF CARE

Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention

The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States

“Must-reading for anyone interested in understanding the Affordable Care Act and how it has impacted the population and health care providers.” — —Choice $30 .00 • 336 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4873-7 In the Anthropologies of American Medicine series

TRANSNATIONAL REPRODUCTION

Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India DAISY DEOMAMPO

“Accessibly written, it could be taught in undergraduate courses or modules on SAMEENA MULLA transnational surrogacy or “Tightly woven, compelling in its assisted reproduction and ethnography, and so carefully social/economic inequality thought and cumulative in at lower and upper levels. its analytic structure that for The book promises to be an important resource for me reading it felt like one scholars of global markets in reproductive services.” extended epiphany.”

—Medical Anthropology Quarterly —Book Book Forum, Julie Livingston $30.00 • 288 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-2838-8 $26.00 • 288 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-6721-9 In the Anthropologies of American Medicine series In the New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law series Instructor’s Guide Available One of NPR’s Best Books of 2017

BOTOX NATION

Changing the Face of America DANA BERKOWITZ

“A significant contribution to understanding the ways in which the aging body is commodified in contemporary societies and how promissory discourse may shape views and actions and have inequitable outcomes.” —American Journal of Sociology $27.00 • 256 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-2526-4 In the Intersections series

FERTILITY HOLIDAYS

IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness AMY SPEIER

“This compelling ethnographic account of Eastern European fertility entrepreneurship provides feminist insight into the marketization of reproductive bodies, showing how multilayered and multisited medical travel has become.” — Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus $28.00 • 192 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4910-9 Instructor’s Guide Available

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RACE AND IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA MOTHERHOOD ACROSS BORDERS

Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York GABRIELLE OLIVEIRA

“A vivid and engaging ethnography about how mothers, grandmothers, caregivers, and children fare when they are divided by, but also connected despite, the U.S.-Mexico border.”

—Deborah A. Boehm, author of Returned $30.00 • 272 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-6646-5

JAPANESE AMERICAN ETHNICITY

In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations TAKEYUKI TSUDA

“[Provides] an insightful analysis of how modern Japanese Americans have created new identities and communities in the American cultural landscape.”

—K. Scott Wong, author of Americans First $30.00 • 352 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-1079-6

DESI HOOP DREAMS

Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity STANLEY I. THANGARAJ

“Based on over four years of research among the South Asian Basketball leagues in Atlanta, Desi Hoop Dreams is an insightful exploration into the processes of identity formation for young South Asian men growing up in suburban America.”

—Anthropological Quarterly $27.00 • 288 Pages • Paper • 978-0-8147-6093-2 Instructor’s Guide Available

MULTIRACIAL PARENTS

Mixed Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race MIRI SONG

“How second-generation multiracials conceptualize and negotiate the meaning of race, racism, and the identity formation of their children.”

—France Winddance Twine, author of A White Side of Black Britain $27.00 • 192 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-2590-5 SAVE 20% OFF SELECT TITLES USING THE CODE ANTHRO18

EMPIRE IN THE AIR

Airline Travel and the African Diaspora CHANDRA D. BHIMULL

“A radical attempt to consider the place of empire, colonialism, and race, in a history from which they have been systematically effaced.”— Paul Eiss, effaced.”

Carnegie Mellon University $45.00 • 224 pages • Cloth • 9781-4798-4347-3 In the Social Transformations in American Anthropology series

HISTORICALLY BLACK

Imagining Community in a Black Historic District MIEKA BRAND POLANCO

“There are so few current works on small black-identified communities that Polanco’s book is welcome reading for those of us who study such locales. The work is timely and should garner greater attention in anthropology.”

—American Anthropologist $23.00 • 208 pages • Paper • 978-0-8147-6348-3

INTIMATE MIGRATIONS

Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans DEBORAH A. BOEHM

“Boehm crafts an enthralling piece of feminist, anthropological writing that weaves the human side of immigration into her scholarship.” —Journal of Youth and Adolescence $25.00 • 188 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-8555-8

MOBILE SELVES

Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S ULLA D. BERG

“Models the sophisticated ways scholars can integrate analyses of old and new media into their discussions of migration.”

— Kathleen M. Blee, author of Inside Organized Racism $28.00 • 336 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7570-2 In the Social Transformations in American Anthropology series

ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION MUSLIM COOL

Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States SU’AD ABDUL KHABEER

“Brilliantly spotlights how Black Muslim youth construct and perform identities that embody indigenous forms of Black cultural production.”

—Marc Lamont Hill, author of Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life $30.00 • 288 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9450-5

“JESUS SAVED AN EXCON” Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration

EDWARD OROZCO FLORES

“Contributes to the growing debate on criminal justice reform by showing how exprisoners—now ‘returning citizens’—are giving back to American communities.”

—Richard L. Wood, author of A Shared Future $30.00 • 224 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-6454-6 In the Religion and Social Transformation series

Winner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological Association Finalist, 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions

RELIGION IN THE KITCHEN

Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions ELIZABETH PÉREZ

“A stunning achievement, both for its methodological sophistication and its timely focus . . . Situating her analysis within multiple academic venues, including anthropology, history, and the arts, Pérez engages a methodological turn that is of inestimable value to scholars of religion.”

—Journal of the American Academy of Religion $29.00 • 320 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-3955-1 In the North American Religions series

THE SOUL OF JUDAISM

Jews of African Descent in America BRUCE D. HAYNES

TELEVISED REDEMPTION

Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment

CAROLYN MOXLEY ROUSE , JOHN L. JACKSON, JR. AND MARLA F. FREDERICK

“Could not be more timely or important. The authors are three outstanding scholars who have put their heads together to write a definitive book about the neglected yet crucial intersection of representation and religion by and for African Americans.”

—Faye Ginsburg, David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology, New York University $28.00 • 256 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-1817-4

ETHNIC CHURCH MEETS MEGACHURCH

Indian American Christianity in Motion

“This book is a revelation.

PREMA A. KURIEN By exploring blackness in “Thoroughly researched, Judaism, Bruce Haynes opens tackling a huge topic with up important questions about impressive scholarship. And it racism, antisemitism, and the poses an unsettling question: immense variety of Jewish Is a one-size-fits-all, take-it-orexperience, both religious leave-it version of Christianity and racial. ” the wave of the future? —Robert Wuthnow, Princeton —Howard Winant, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University University of California, Santa Barbara $35.00 • 304 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-2637-7 $39.00 • 272 pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-1123-6 In the Religion, Race, and Ethnicity series

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GREAT FOR COURSES ANTHROPOLOGY AND LAW

A Critical Introduction MARK GOODALE Foreword by SALLY ENGLE MERRY

“Simultaneously an introduction to the field and a sophisticated exploration of recent developments in legal anthropology that is sure to spark interest among experts in the area.” —Elizabeth Elizabeth Mertz, American Bar Foundation $35.00 • 320 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-9551-9

PARANORMAL AMERICA (SECOND EDITION)

Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture CHRISTOPHER D. BADER, JOSEPH O. BAKER and F. CARSON MENCKEN

“This is an engaging and eyeopening book that offers an abundance of new insights, dispelling some popular stereotypes and reaffirming others.” —Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University $28.00 • 304 Pages • Paper •978-1-4798-1528-9 Instructor’s Guide Available

ASIAN AMERICAN SPORTING CULTURES Edited by STANLEY I. THANGARAJ , CONSTANCIO ARNALDO and CHRISTINA B. CHIN, CHIN,Foreword by J. JACK HALBERSTAM Afterword by LISA LOWE

“A wonderful read for and about sports’s observers, participants, scholars, and fans.”

—Erica Rand, author of Red Nails, Black Skates $28.00 • 304 pages • paper • 978-1-4798-8469-8

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SHARING OUR WORLDS (THIRD EDITION)

An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology JOY HENDRY

“This is a highly engaging and vividly rendered introduction to social and cultural anthropology for new students and general readers alike.”— William W. Kelly, Yale University $35.00 • 350 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-8368-4 Instructor’s Guide Available

CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICA (THIRD EDITION)

A Multidisciplinary Reader Edited by MIN ZHOU and ANTHONY C. OCAMPO

“A great resource for those looking for a lively introduction to the field.”

—Nazli Kibria, Boston University $35.00 • 688 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2622-3

GENDER & SEXUALITY THE TRANS GENERATION

How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution ANN TRAVERS

“Compassionate and pragmatic, this is the book about trans kids that every parent, teacher, coach, caregiver, and policymaker needs to read!

— Heath Fogg Davis, author of Beyond Trans $25.00 • 288 Pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-8579-4

WOMEN OF THE STREET

How the Criminal JusticeSocial Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution SUSAN DEWEY and TONIA ST. GERMAIN

“The most comprehensive and in-depth study of street prostitution on the market... the authors provide a fascinating ethnographic window into this world. ” —Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University $30.00 • 288 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4194-3

ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY

Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power Edited by JULIE SZE

“Draws on environmental justice and the environmental humanities to offer a new way of thinking about sustainability that is both more flexible and more rigorous than previous conceptions.” — Laura Pulido, author of Environmentalism and Economic Justice $30.00 • 304 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-7034-9

WATER

Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity JEREMY J. SCHMIDT

“An impressive and incisive look into the minds of those who control a substance that is essential to all forms of life.”

— —American Historical Review $35.00 • 320 pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-4642-9

ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

A Reader

Edited by CHRISTOPHER SCHLOTTMANN , DALE JAMIESON , COLIN JEROLMACK and ANNE RADEMACHER with MARIA DAMON

“This book serves as an excellent introduction to the enduring questions and most important emerging ideas in the field today.”

—Kimberly Smith, Carleton College $35.00 • 416 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-9491-8 Instructor’s Guide Available

THE ENVIRONMENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY (SECOND EDITION)

A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living Edited by NORA HAENN, RICHARD WILK and ALLISON HARNISH

“Reads like a ‘Greatest Hits’ of environmental anthropology in recent years.” —Rebecca Hardin, University of Michigan $35.00 • 592 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-7676-1 Instructor’s Guide Available

TOXIC TOWN IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks PETER C. LITTLE

“This carefully crafted ethnographic account affirms the deep and adverse footprint of market-based industrial production on contemporary human lives and communities.”

—Merrill Singer, University of Connecticut at Storrs School $26.00 • 264 pages • Paper • 978-0-8147-7092-4

CATCH AND RELEASE

The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab LISA JEAN MOORE

“An incisive indictment of modern humanity’s arrogance and ignorance and at the same time a celebration of a species, the horseshoe crabs, who despite their intelligence and power have refused to do to us what we have done to them.” —G.A. Bradshaw, author of Carnivore Minds $28.00 • 224 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4847-8

KEYWORDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Edited by JONI ADAMSON , WILLIAM A. GLEASON and DAVID N. PELLOW

“This gem of a book will prove indispensable in environmental studies. The editors have assembled brilliant thinkers who provide pithy yet ambitious reflections on key terms fundamental to environmental inquiry. This is a unique and essential resource.”

—Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor $27.00 • 240 pages • Paper • 978-0-8147-2791-1 In the Keywords series

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