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Intimate LaborsCultures, Techno-logies, and the Politics of CareEdited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar ParreñasAround the world, home health aides, call center opera-tors, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and house cleaners all make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and illuminates the juncture where money and intimacy meet.

“In this exciting new volume, Bo-ris and Parreñas bring together a collection of cutting-edge re-search on the many surprising ways we daily—mix, split, stir—money with intimate life.”

—Arlie Hochschild, author of The Managed Heart

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The Struggle for the WorldLiberation Move-ments for the 21st CenturyCharles Lindholm and José Pedro ZúqueteWhat do Mexico’s Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in com-mon? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all proudly proclaim their mis-sion to defend their distinctive identities against modernity’s homogenizing processes. This controversial book establishes fundamental similarities be-tween anti-globalization “au-rora” movements that aim to destroy the modern world and bring a radiant new dawn to humankind.

“The Struggle for the World is the first to look beyond the specific political designations of differ-ent antiglobalist tendencies to emphasize the common redemptive, identitarian, and populist character they share.”

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Global Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4Race, Class, and Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-7Political and legal anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-9Medical and Psychological anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Theory and Methods . . . . . .11

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The Tourism EncounterFashioning Latin American Nations and HistoriesFlorence E. Babb

“Mark Twain once wrote that travel is fatal to prejudice and narrow-mindedness. Yet as florence Babb shows effec-tively in this panoramic journey and anthropological analysis of post-revolutionary latin america, travel cannot escape history. as she uncovers, travel is always packed with the poli-tics of social relations, past and present. and that’s just the way it should be, as this book so ably demonstrates.”

—Matthew Gutmann, Brown University

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Faith in SchoolsReligion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East AfricaAmy Stambach248 pp., 20109780804768511 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804768504 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

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On the Edge of the GlobalModern Anxieties in a Pacific Island NationNiko BesnierThis book explores the malaise present in the postcolonial Global South, focused specifi-cally within one society “on the edge of the global,” the is-land kingdom of Tonga. Niko Besnier’s ethnography analyz-es the ways in which segments of this small-scale society hold on to different understandings of what modernity is, how it should be made relevant to lo-cal contexts, and how it should mesh with practices and sym-bols of tradition.

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Ethnic EntrepreneursIdentity and Development Politics in Latin AmericaMonica C. DeHart

“once the very idea of the Ethnic Entrepreneur would have been an oxymoron. now, in latin america, ethnic subjects are widely regarded as essential agents of development. In exploring the shifts that have made this transformation pos-sible, Monica DeHart provides an enlightening account of the ways in which ethnic identity, market forces, and develop-ment strategy are reshaping each other in neoliberal times.”

—Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago

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Quest for HarmonyThe Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family LifeChuan-kang Shih352 pp., 1 table, 20 figures, 2 maps, 20099780804761994 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

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GridlockLabor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in DubaiPardis Mahdavi272 pp., 20119780804772204 Cloth $27.95 $22.36 sale

Taking Local ControlImmigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and StatesEdited by Monica W. VarsanyiPublished in association with the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego320 pp., 13 tables, 5 figures, 3 maps, 20109780804770279 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804770262 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Diasporic HomecomingsEthnic Return Migration in Comparative PerspectiveEdited by Takeyuki Tsuda368 pp., 2 tables, 2 figures, 1 map, 20099780804762762 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804762748 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Palestinian Village HistoriesGeographies of the DisplacedRochelle DavisPalestinian Village Histories reveals how history is written, recorded, and contested, as well as the roles that Palestin-ian conceptions of their past play in contemporary life. Moving beyond the grand nar-ratives of 20th century politi-cal struggles, this book ana-lyzes individual and collective historical accounts of every-day life in pre-1948 Palestin-ian villages as composed today from the perspectives of these long-term refugees.

“Davis has written a nuanced and highly readable account of how Palestinians write their own histories and in the process craft strategies for the future. Draw-ing on research in half a dozen countries, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Palestinians.”

—Rhoda Kanaaneh, author of Surrounded: Palestinian

Soldiers in the Israeli Military

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures312 pp., 5 illustrations, 5 maps, 20109780804773133 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale9780804773126 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale

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Race, Class, and Gender

Ethnic EuropeMobility, Identity, and Conflict in a Globalized WorldEdited by Roland HsuEthnic Europe examines the in-creasingly complex ethnic chal-lenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such is-sues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the du-rability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diaspo-ras, separatist movements, and threats of terrorism.

“This book is a timely and incisive contribution to our understand-ing of migration flows into eu-rope in today’s globalized world. It is an excellent guide and tool in analyzing a subject of major importance for the road ahead for european integration.”

—Jan Eliasson, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs

of Sweden and President of the United Nations General Assembly


State of White SupremacyRacism, Governance, and the United StatesEdited by Moon-Kie Jung, João H. Costa Vargas, and Eduardo Bonilla-SilvaUncovering the false promise of liberalism for people of color in the United States, State of White Supremacy reveals patterns of racism and inequality in gov-ernment policy and action that generate and support continued racial hierarchy and privilege in society.

“a savvy blockbuster of a book, with prominent activists and scholars telling it like it really is: The U.s. state is systemically racist and imperialistic, with ten-tacles reaching into an array of societal arenas and operations, including military institutions, immigration agencies, schools, the prison-industrial complex, the supreme Court, the welfare system, and the terrorism misla-beled ‘hate crimes.’”

—Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University, and author of

Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression


What Can You Say?America’s National Conversation on RaceJohn Hartigan Jr.Race remains a political and po-larizing issue, and the sprawling, unwieldy, and often maddening means we have developed to discuss and evaluate what counts as “racial” can be frustrating. In What Can You Say? John Har-tigan Jr. examines a watershed year of news stories, taking these events as a way to understand American culture and challenge our existing notions of what is racial—or not.

“Indeed, this book should be recommended reading not just for interested students of race-relations, but for anybody living in an unavoidably multi-racial world with seemingly post-racial aspirations. and that’s all of us.”

—John L. Jackson Jr., author of Racial Paranoia: The

Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness

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In the Time of OilPiety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani TownMandana E. LimbertBefore the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospi-tal. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a mod-ern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation following the discovery of oil, and how they now grapple with the prospect of this resource’s future depletion.

“limbert skillfully shows how everyday understandings of an affluent present—what may be a dream time—rely on diverging conceptions of the past. Beautifully written and co-gently argued, In the Time of Oil presents an insightful analysis of the impact of oil on the form and content of social relations.”

—Beth Baron, CUNY Graduate Center

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Ghosts of RevolutionRekindled Memories of Imprisonment in IranShahla TalebiIn this haunting account, Shah-la Talebi remembers her years as a political prisoner in Iran. Talebi, along with her husband, was imprisoned for nearly a de-cade and tortured, first under the Shah and later by the Islam-ic Republic. Writing about her own suffering and survival and sharing the stories of her fellow inmates, she details the painful reality of prison life and offers an intimate look at a critical period of social and political transformation in Iran.

“Ghosts of Revolution is the forbidden and forgotten social history of Iran…Judiciously poetic, pulling no punches, but above all showing an abiding love for the people of a home-land that is now blessed to have her as its storyteller, Talebi reassures the world that the right and the beautiful are still triumphant.”

—Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

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Reinventing the RepublicGender, Migration, and Citizenship in FranceCatherine RaissiguierReinventing the Republic chronicles the struggle of the sans-papiers to become rights-bearing citizens, and links different social movements to reveal the many ways in which concepts of citizenship and na-tionality intersect with debates over gender, sexuality, and immigration. Drawing on in-depth interviews and a variety of texts, this disquieting book provides new insights into how exclusion and discrimi-nation operate and influence each other in the world today.

“What a smart, engaging book. Raissiguier makes visible the women activists inside the vibrant sans papiers immigrant rights movement. she shows us why social movements can-not be understood without a feminist curiosity, and reveals the gendered racialized fis-sures in contemporary french political culture.”

—Cynthia Enloe, author of The Curious Feminist


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Working the Night ShiftWomen in India’s Call Center IndustryReena PatelWorking the Night Shift is the first in-depth study of the trans-national call center industry that is written from the point of view of women workers. It uncovers how call center employment affects their lives, mainly as it relates to the anxiety that In-dian families and Indian society have towards women going out at night, earning a good salary, and being exposed to western culture. This timely account il-lustrates the ironic and, at times, unsettling experiences of wom-en who enter the spaces and places made accessible through call center work.

“In clear and accessible prose, she interweaves insightful analysis with the real life stories of these key players of economic global-ization. Working the Night Shift should become indispensable reading; it is a book for everyone, for right now.”

—Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University

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TimepassYouth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in IndiaCraig JeffreyTimepass offers a captivating ethnography of the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to pervasive un-deremployment. It highlights the importance of waiting as a social experience and basis for political mobilization, the micro-politics of class power in north India, and the socio-economic strategies of lower middle classes.

“In this gracefully written book, Craig Jeffrey draws on fine eth-nography to explore the little understood world of Indian youth, for long largely neglect-ed by scholars, illuminating what it means to be a young man with aspirations and lim-ited opportunities in today’s India. a tour de force.”

—John Harriss, Simon Fraser University


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Political and Legal Anthropology

Tort, Custom, and KarmaGlobalization and Legal Consciousness in ThailandDavid M. Engel and Jaruwan S. Engel

“This is a brilliant and artful ac-count of the dwindling of law in contemporary Thai life. It presents a formidable challenge to the widespread expectation that globalization will be ac-companied by enlarged reliance on increasingly similar law.”

—Marc Galanter, London School of Economics and

Political Science

The Cultural Lives of Law208 pp., 1 table, 3 figures, 14 illustrations, 20109780804763820 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale9780804763813 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Judging MohammedJuvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of JusticeSusan J. Terrio368 pp., 20099780804759601 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804759595 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale

Remaking CitizenshipLatina Immigrants and New American PoliticsKathleen M. Coll

“This is a compelling study of a Bay area grassroots organiza-tion comprised of Mexican and Central american immigrant women who have been remarkably creative and effec-tive in bettering their difficult conditions. These vivid portraits are placed in the context of an analysis of the harsh structural factors that have shaped immi-grant communities in California over the past two decades.”

—Renato Rosaldo, New York University

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Envisioning AmericaNew Chinese Americans and the Politics of BelongingTritia ToyotaAsian America256 pp., 12 tables, 20099780804762427 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale9780804762410 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Constructing China’s JerusalemChristians, Power, and Place in Contem-porary WenzhouNanlai CaoDrawing on extensive ethno-graphic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contem-porary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, com-mercialized economy.

“Cao gives us the best picture I have seen of the complex pat-tern of relationships among the different components of contemporary urban Christian-ity in China today.”

—Daniel H. Bays, Calvin College

Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, a series sponsored by the East-West Center232 pp., 1 table, 15 illustrations, 3 maps, 20109780804773607 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale9780804770804 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Customizing IndigeneityPaths to a Visionary Politics in PeruShane Greene264 pp., 20099780804761192 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804761185 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale

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Political and Legal Anthropology

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Fallen ElitesThe Military Other in Post-Unification GermanyAndrew Bickford

“Fallen Elites makes a brilliant contribution to our thinking about militarism and the military's impact on social life. It has relevance well beyond the former east Germany and is a truly fascinating book.”

—Lesley Gill, Vanderbilt University


Coca’s GoneOf Might and Right in the Huallaga Post-BoomRichard Kernaghan320 pp., 20099780804759588 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804759571 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

ShorelinesSpace and Rights in South IndiaAjantha Subramanian320 pp., 2 tables, 7 illustrations, 1 map, 20099780804761468 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

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Localizing Trans-itional JusticeInterventions and Priorities after Mass ViolenceEdited by Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf, with Pierre Hazan

“full of innovative ideas and trenchant critiques, Localizing Transitional Justice offers smart recommendations for how we should approach and conceive of transitional justice today. This is a powerful new contribution to the study of human rights.”

—Mike McGovern, Yale University


Stones of HopeHow African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global PovertyEdited by Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perelman 288 pp., 20109780804769204 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804769198 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale

Surrendering to UtopiaAn Anthropology of Human RightsMark Goodale

“This provocative book makes an unprecedented contribution in both human rights and an-thropological studies. Goodale’s overview, which synthesizes a large body of literature and identifies the big issues in the field, will help others to re-envi-sion a human rights system that is sensitive to difference.”

—Patricia D. Mathews-Salazar, H-Net


Judging War, Judging HistoryBehind Truth and ReconciliationPierre Hazan Translated by Sarah Meyer de Stadelhofen240 pp., 20109780804769563 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale9780804769556 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

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Medical and Psychological Anthropology

Passage to ManhoodYouth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest ChinaShao-hua LiuPassage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan prov-ince of southwestern China. Through a nuanced analysis of the Nuosu population, this fascinating ethnography seeks to answer why the Nuosu has a disproportionately large number of opiate users and HIV positive individuals rela-tive to others in Sichuan.

“Passage to Manhood offers a compelling account of a mar-ginalized Chinese community’s experience of heroin addiction and the aIDs pandemic, told through the riveting personal stories of those most affected.”

—Ann Maxwell Hill, Dickinson College

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University272 pp., 1 table, 3 figures, 3 illustrations, 2 maps, 20109780804770255 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804770248 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Being and Well-BeingHealth and the Working Bodies of Silicon ValleyJ.A. English-LueckAs the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly ask-ing people to take responsibility for managing their own health. The integration of workplace productivity with personal health has created national pat-terns of discrimination against those not in the productive mainstream, including the un-employed, retired, and chroni-cally ill. But new ideas about work and health can clarify core American values, highlight emerging global trends, and provide a vital assessment of the evolution of our shared pursuit of well-being.

“a remarkable book. It raises important questions regarding the changing nature of work, of healthcare, of personal agency, of social networks, of cultural pluralism and of social justice.”

—Lisa Faithorn, Ph.D., cultural anthropologist and

organizational development practitioner, researcher for NASA


Toward an Anthropology of the WillEdited by Keith M. Murphy and C. Jason Throop

“The will and willing are ex-tremely complex phenomena that have only begun to be explored. This work challenges implicit assumptions, revealing that, far from being free, the will is constrained by culture, morality, and conflicting goals.”

—Roger Ivar Lohmann, Trent University

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Caught in PlayHow Entertainment Works on YouPeter G. Stromberg232 pp., 20099780804761116 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale9780804761109 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Culture and Panic DisorderEdited by Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good296 pp., 23 tables, 9 figures, 2009 9780804761093 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale9780804761086 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale

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Theory and Methods

The Price of TruthGift, Money, and PhilosophyMarcel Hénaff Translated by Jean-Louis Morhange

“among the numerous stud-ies of the ‘gift’—ceremonial gift-giving as distinct from exchange and from charity—Marcel Hénaff’s wide-ranging book is the best. Its empirical richness is disciplined by a rigorous conceptual frame-work. This is one of the most important philosophical works of our time.””

—Dr. Hans Joas, University of Erfurt, Germany, and

Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Cultural Memory in the Present488 pp., 20109780804760829 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale9780804760812 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale

Clio/AnthroposExploring the Boundaries between History and AnthropologyEdited by Andrew Willford and Eric Tagliacozzo312 pp., 5 tables, 9 illustrations, 2 maps, 20099780804760201 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Interdisciplinary ConversationsChallenging Habits of ThoughtMyra H. StroberInterest in doing, funding, and studying interdisciplinary work has built to crescendo in recent years. But despite this grow-ing enthusiasm, our collective understanding of the dynam-ics, rewards, and challenges of faculty conversations across disciplines remains murky. Through six case studies of interdisciplinary seminars for faculty, Interdisciplinary Con-versations investigates pivotal interdisciplinary conversations and analyzes the factors that make them work.

“Myra strober boldly challenges widely held assumptions about the value of interdisciplinary interactions and offers fresh and novel insights. If academic and administrative leaders follow her recommendations, they will greatly improve the chances of fostering successful interdisciplinary conversations.”

—Steven Brint, University of California, Riverside,

editor of The Future of the City of Intellect

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Emotions in the FieldThe Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork ExperienceEdited by James Davies and Dimitrina SpencerEmotions in the Field explores the idea that emotion is not antithetical to thought or rea-son, but is instead an untapped source of insight that can complement more traditional methods of anthropological research. It shows how certain reactions and experiences con-sistently evoked in fieldwork, when treated with the intel-lectual rigor empirical work demands, can be translated into meaningful data.

“a powerful affirmation of the humanity of the field encoun-ter in all its ambivalence, and a timely call for social scientists to harness the rich potential of a people-centered research enterprise.”

—João Biehl, Princeton University

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