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Methodology ................................................................................ 1 Information Studies/Medical Anthropology ................................ 2 Series: Culture and Society after Socialism ............................ 3–4 Africa ........................................................................................... 5 North America .......................................................................... 6–8 Asia/Pacific ............................................................................ 9–12 Anthropology of Work ............................................................... 13 Human Rights ............................................................................ 14 Anthropology of Religion .......................................................... 15 Anthropology of Food & Consumption ..................................... 16 Order Form ...................................................... inside back cover

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METHODOLOGY An Intellectual History

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Andr é Bu rg u iè re

the use of personal narrative in the social sciences and history

Translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd Foreword by Timothy Tackett

mary jo maines, jennifer l. pierce, and barbara laslett

Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition James D. Faubion and George E. Marcus, editors “This is an extended, provocative reflection on the nature of anthropological fieldwork under the crowded, mobile, cyber-speed, science-dominated, neoliberal conditions of twenty-first-century modernity. At once pedagogical and epistemological, it reconfigures new researchers’ bafflement before the weighty traditions of the Malinowskian hermeneutic as, instead, a creative adaptation. These authors present something vitally new while managing to remain respectful of approaches to field research that must now be radically reordered or recontextualized. Representing the liveliness and fecundity of ‘Rice anthropology’ during at least the past two decades, they venture beyond critique to show what kinds of originality the new contexts of research may now be expected to demand.”—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7511-5 248 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

Telling Stories The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett “Telling Stories is an invaluable guide to making sense of personal narratives across two key disciplines: social science and history. This clear, thoughtful, and comprehensive guide to key issues and their interpretation—questions on agency, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, the complexity of narrative genres—is essential reading as we work to comprehend this key source in the production of knowledge.”—Faye Ginsburg, New York University 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7392-0 200 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill, editors “This terrific book demonstrates that quantitative misrepresentation is not an idiosyncratic problem but one that is widespread and often detrimental. The authors make sense of the numbers that are thrown around so liberally by interested parties and which so often influence or even determine, important and costly public policies.”—John Mueller, The Ohio State University 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7618-1 288 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

Standards and Their Stories How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, editors “This is an important, well-written, and extraordinarily provocative examination of a part of the world usually hidden from any sort of public view. The authors show how much of what we take for granted is the result of negotiation, compromise, and occasionally coercion. They do so by inventing a suite of new and innovative research methods. As a result, this book is likely to become not only ‘the standard’ for studies of this sort but also the starting point for new ways of investigating sociotechnical processes.”—Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7461-3 264 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

The Annales School An Intellectual History André Burguière translated by Jane Marie Todd

with a foreword by Timothy Tackett

“The ‘Annales’ constitute one of the most important intellectual movements of the twentieth century in the sprawling domain of what the French call the social sciences. Cosmopolitan and cultivated, André Burguière has written an elegant and thoughtful study of the ‘school’ of which he has been a pillar for many decades.” —Steven L. Kaplan, Cornell University 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4665-8 328 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

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information studies | medical anthropology Magnetic Appeal MRI and the Myth of Transparency Kelly A. Joyce “Magnetic Appeal gives depth and breadth to our understanding of the practices and political economy of MRI. The book offers a rich ethnography of MRI laboratory and clinical work. I regard it as a definitive work in the STS study of biomedical imaging technologies.”—Lisa Cartwright, UC San Diego Making Virtual Worlds Linden Lab and Second Life Thomas M. Malaby “Malaby explores the ways patterned contingency elicits desires not just to ‘play it again,’ but to be creative both with strategies of play and strategies of constructing ground rules—above all, the unexpected social games that develop in and around games designed for libertarian, meritocratic, efficiency-calculating, or individual-centered players.”—Michael M. J. Fischer, MIT 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4746-4 176 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96)

My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture Susan D. Blum “Blum brings great care and compassion to her discussion of plagiarism. She generously draws on student interview segments throughout My Word! to illuminate today’s campus climate. Blum locates acts of cheating within the wider sociocultural context rather than regarding them simply as failures of personal morality.” —Cathy Small, Northern Arizona University 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4763-1 240 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96)

Glut Mastering Information through the Ages Alex Wright “A readable romp through the history of information processing which argues that advances in information technology have always sparked conflict between written and oral traditions.” — New Scientist 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7509-2 296 pages | $18.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.16)

MAGNETICAPPEAL MRI AND THE MYTH OF TRANSPARENCY

K ELLY JOYCE

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2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7456-9 208 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

Biomedical Ambiguity Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean Ian Whitmarsh “Whitmarsh’s ethnographic insight into the process by which race, genes, and environmental factors are negotiated in small nations at the behest of large corporations and scientific research teams is important to understanding how such ideas, practices, and drugs are being marketed worldwide.”—Rayna Rapp, New York University 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7441-5 240 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

Changing the Course of AIDS Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis David Dickinson with a foreword by Charles Deutsch

“Much has been written about the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease has left a devastating human toll. David Dickinson provides a poignant and moving account about people who are doing something to combat the spread of the HIV virus in their communities. Woven with intricate stories and quotes, this book is a must-read for any person working in the field of HIV and AIDS. ” —Jennifer J. Furin, Harvard Medical School ILR Press | 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4831-7 272 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96) The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

The Caregiver A Life with Alzheimer’s Aaron Alterra

with a foreword by Arthur Kleinman

“This is one of the few examples of the lived experience of Alzheimer’s disease from the perspective of a loving, reflective, and articulate husband. Alterra paints a beautiful and honest picture of how Alzheimer’s disease changed one family’s world.”—Patricia G. Archbold, American Academy of Nursing ILR Press | 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7434-7 232 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96) The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

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Needed by Nobody Homelessness and Humanness in PostSocialist Russia Tova Höjdestrand “This is a wonderful book that has much to contribute to discussions in urban anthropology and sociology, Russian studies, homelessness, alcoholism, and psychology. I have enormous respect for the fieldwork that Höjdestrand conducted for this admirable ethnography.”—Dale Pesmen, author of Russia and Soul The Captive and the Gift Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus Bruce Grant “Grant investigates the many cultural effects that Russia’s unsolicited gift of empire has produced in both Russia and the Caucasus over the last two centuries. Combining fieldwork with historical research and literary analysis, Grant moves beyond Russocentric perspectives through which the Caucasus is conventionally understood. This is a remarkable work of cultural history and a model of interdisciplinary scholarship.”—Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College

2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7541-2 216 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

The Old Faith and the Russian Land A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals Douglas Rogers “This beautifully written and highly original historical ethnography moves with extraordinary acumen across disciplines and prompts us to rethink ethics, moral personhood, and historical experience in rural Russia. Rogers’s sensitive analysis of the twists and turns of Russian history offers a critique of many theories of transition and breaks new ground in offering fresh perspectives and theoretical tools that are guaranteed to stimulate debate.”—Catherine Wanner, The Pennsylvania State University 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7520-7 360 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7593-1 248 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

The Patriotism of Despair Nation, War, and Loss in Russia Serguei Alex. Oushakine “This revolutionary book reveals the cultural and psychological, rather than merely political, reasons for the post-Soviet rejection of Western liberal ideologies and even the mass popularity of aggressively nationalist, racist, pro-Soviet and neotraditionalist discourses and narratives. Oushakine’s work encompasses the meticulous analysis of various social groups located in Altai, the Siberian region on the border with China and Kazakhstan, and interviews with neocommunists, leftists, nationalists, and Chechnya veterans and their mothers.”—Mark Lipovetsky, University of Colorado–Boulder 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7557-3 312 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

Communities of the Converted Ukrainians and Global Evangelism Catherine Wanner •Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe Book Prize •Winner of the Best Book Prize in the fields of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature, and culture (American Association of Ukrainian Studies) •Winner of the Heldt Prize for the best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/ Eurasian Studies (Association for Women in Slavic Studies) •A Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title

“This is a fascinating example of research that combines history, anthropology, and the sociology of religion to discuss the experience of communities extending across different political cultures and religious and national traditions.”—Serhii Plokhy, University of Alberta

2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7402-6 320 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

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Culture and Society after Socialism How Russia Really Works The Informal Practices That Shaped PostSoviet Politics and Business Alena V. Ledeneva “This is an excellent account of informal practices that characterize and shape the political and business spheres of activity in contemporary Russia. . . . An important addition to our understanding of contemporary Russian affairs.” —Russian Review Overkill Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture Eliot Borenstein Winner, the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic / Eastern European / Eurasian Women’s Studies (Association for Women in Slavic Studies)

“Borenstein is a careful reader of popular culture as ‘symptom,’ as a visible manifestation of social dis-ease. This book is smart and funny, written in exactly the right tone for its content.” —Slavic & Eastern European Journal 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7403-3 288 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

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Defending the Border Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia Mathijs Pelkmans Cowinner of the 2007 Douglass book prize (Society for the Anthropology of Europe)

“Pelkmans deftly theorizes borders throughout by attending to recent anthropological thinking on cultural objects and display, religious identities and conversions, and market transformations. Near the border, he suggests, culture, identity, religion, and economy refract in curious and analytically significant ways.” —Slavic Review 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7330-2 256 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)

Empire of Nations Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union Francine Hirsch •Cowinner of the Council First Book Award

2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7352-4 288 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)

European Studies

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

•Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize (American Historical Association)

Contested Tongues Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine Laada Bilaniuk Winner of the AATSEEL award for Best Book in Slavic Linguistics

“Hirsch demonstrates through prodigious research how ethnographers from the former tsarist regime collaborated with the Leninists to shape the new state.”—The Moscow Times

“Well grounded in the history of language policies and practices in the country, this book makes clear to the readers what is at stake in the differentiation or rapprochement of two related Slavic languages.”—Russian Review

2005 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-8908-2 392 pages | $28.95 paperback (catalog price: $23.16)

2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7279-4 248 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

Also of Interest— Turizm The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker, editors “We still lack a clear understanding of what motivates the Eastern European tourist, what they are escaping, and what experiences they seek. This excellent, necessary book begins to fill those gaps. Gorsuch and Koenker have assembled fourteen essays of consistently high quality.”—Times Literary Supplement 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7328-9 328 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

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The Greengrocer and His TV The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring Paulina Bren “Bren has succeeded in overcoming the impossible: this is a serious but entertaining and readable study of a Kafkaesque rule by dullness, by boredom, the life under gray skies, reflected on the television screen.”—István Rév, Central European University 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7642-6 264 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

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Africa

with a foreword by Andreas Eshete

“Darfur has involved clashes of identity, rivalry over resources, the role of the postcolonial state in creating and managing crisis, and the phenomenon of geography as the mother of history. This volume explores these particularly complex crises of governance in an interdisciplinary and comprehensive manner designed to elicit both understanding and critical analysis.” —Ali A. Mazrui, SUNY Binghamton 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7594-8 524 pages | $39.95 paperback (catalog price: $31.96) The Prince Claus Fund Library

The Order of Genocide Race, Power, and War in Rwanda Scott Straus •Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers) •A Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title

“Drawing on more than 200 interviews that he conducted with convicted Rwandan killers, and on many other sources, Straus builds a dynamic process model seeking to explain why and how ordinary people could be mobilized to murder their neighbors.”—African Studies Review 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7492-7 296 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7512-2 304 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

Darfur A 21st Century Genocide, Third Edition Gérard Prunier “The emergency in Darfur in western Sudan is far from over, as Gérard Prunier points out in this comprehensive and authoritative book. Prunier concisely covers the history, the conflicts, and the players. . . . His book is essential for anyone wanting to learn about this complex conflict.”—Library Journal 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7503-0 280 pages | $17.95 paperback (catalog price: $14.36) Crises in World Politics

Killing Neighbors Webs of Violence in Rwanda Lee Ann Fujii “Killing Neighbors incorporates a sophisticated approach to historical factors and gives voice to people ‘in the hills’ as well as to political leaders. It makes a much-needed contribution both to the field of Rwandan studies and of genocide studies, substituting data for ideology and local voices for political tracts.”—David Newbury, Smith College 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4705-1 224 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)

From Servants to Workers South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State Shireen Ally “This beautifully written exploration of domestic workers in a postapartheid democratic South Africa deftly brings to the fore the limits of state discourses of rights for these workers despite their being the beneficiaries of one of the best domestic worker legislations in the world.” —Raka Ray, UC Berkeley

Taming the Disorderly City The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid Martin J. Murray “This compelling, lively, and very engaging book is both an impassioned portrait of Johannesburg and a tough intellectual and political critique of often confusing and ambivalent urban dynamics. It will help a whole generation of urbanists get to grips with this emergent urbanism and its profound political and personal challenges.”—Jennifer Robinson, The Open University

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2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7437-8 280 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

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Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan A Critical Reader Salah M. Hassan and Carina E. Ray, editors

Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers Women’s Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone Chris Coulter “A groundbreaking study of female ex-combatants in Sierra Leone. Through one of the most sensitive ethnographies of conflict available, Coulter explores young women’s predicaments and strategies for living in a violent conflict, their renegotiation of gendered lives in postwar families and communities, and their responses to contradictions generated by international processes of disarmament and reintegration.” —Rosalind Shaw, Tufts University

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North america Transnational Tortillas Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States Carolina Bank Muñoz Cowinner of the George Terry Book Award (Academy of Management)

Clandestine Crossings Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border David Spener “Clandestine Crossings is a magnificent contribution to the understanding of surreptitious migrant border crossings at the southwestern border. David Spener puts faces and voices to social statistics and shows how migration and coyotes have developed together as Mexican workers struggle to find work in el norte in the context of increasingly restrictive border policies.”—Nestor P. Rodriguez, The University of Texas at Austin 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7589-4 320 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

Citizenship across Borders The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker Winner

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Global Division of the Society of Social Problems Outstanding

“In this welcome contribution, Smith and Bakker provide uniquely rich material based on extensive fieldwork in Mexico and the United States. Through innovative analyses across multiple scales, they offer numerous theoretical and methodological advances surrounding the study of transnational political engagement.” —Steven Vertovec, University of Oxford 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7390-6 264 pages | $21.00 paperback (catalog price: $16.80)

Border Games Policing the U.S.–Mexico Divide, Second Edition Peter Andreas “Border Games provides rich food for thought on pressing questions. Whatever the ultimate answers, this book enlivens the ongoing debates about the current U.S. ‘missions impossible’: its wars against illegal immigrants, drugs, and, most recently, global terrorism.”—Latin American Politics and Society 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7540-5 200 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96) Cornell Studies in Political Economy

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“Bank Muñoz’s rich ethnographic fieldwork in two tortilla factories, one in Mexico and the other in the United States, has produced an extremely well crafted, highly accessible book on the role of state policy, race, gender, and immigration status in labor control.”—Héctor L. Delgado, University of La Verne ILR Press | 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7422-4 216 pages | $18.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.16)

Nations of Emigrants Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States Susan Bibler Coutin “Coutin weaves flawlessly theory and sharp ethnographic observations while at the same time putting a human face to the conundrums of immigration law. The result is theoretically innovative, methodologically sophisticated, and a truly engaging account.”—Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7396-8 288 pages | $21.00 paperback (catalog price: $16.80)

Communities without Borders Images and Voices from the World of Migration David Bacon with forewords by Carlos Muñoz Jr. and

Douglas Harper

“This is a beautiful and powerful, but disturbing book. David Bacon has poignantly captured through prose and image the stark beauty, fierce determination, and pride of U.S./Mexico/ Guatemala transnational communities and the ravages of exploitation wrought upon them.” —Anthropology of Work Review ILR Press | 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7307-4 248 pages | $29.95 paperback (catalog price: $23.96)

Working for Justice The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, and Victor Narro, editors Comprising eleven case studies based on original field research on organizing campaigns among L.A. day laborers, garment workers, car wash workers, security officers, janitors, taxi drivers, hotel workers, this book makes the case for a distinctive and effective “L.A. Model” of union and worker center organizing. ILR Press | 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7580-1 312 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

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2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7510-8 256 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

Differences That Matter Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada Dan Zuberi “Differences that Matter helps us understand the enormous difference social policies can make in the lives of the working poor. Zuberi’s powerful cross-national study will be a lasting contribution to our understanding of the lives of the working class.”—Michèle Lamont, Harvard University ILR Press | 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7312-8 256 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

The Truce Lessons from an L.A. Gang War Karen Umemoto “The Truce is a sophisticated and timely contribution to the growing literature on urban street gangs. Umemoto has produced a well-written, empirically rich analysis of intra-racial gang conflict that works on multiple levels. Students of criminology, urban studies and race-ethnic relations will be well advised to include this important new work on the book shelves.” —David C. Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7305-0 248 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4690-0 320 pages | $27.95 cloth (catalog price: $22.36)

Habits of the Heartland Small-Town Life in Modern America Lyn C. Macgregor “Macgregor shows how communities are made in a rural place and, through three cultural groups—Alternatives, Main Streeters, and Regulars—gives important insight into the production of community as well as community identities and individual and collective agency. This is a real contribution to the fields of community studies, rural studies, and cultural studies.” —Cornelia Flora, Iowa State University 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7643-3 272 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

Corporate Wasteland The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization Steven High and David W. Lewis “More than simply the best book on deindustrialization, this is a transnational road trip through the rust belt with everyone from Woody Guthrie to John Steinbeck along for the ride. The transcendent photographs of rotting industrial hulks and the elegiac words of the workers sear with the intensity of the once red-hot blast furnaces, now grown cold. This book is not a lament—it is an interrogation of the entire landscape.” —Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University ILR Press | 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7401-9 192 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

Also see page 15— New York Amish Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State Karen M. Johnson-Weiner and To Live upon Hope Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast Rachel Wheeler

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Stretched Thin Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt “This is a wonderfully thoughtful and illuminating book. For more than a decade, the authors peered into the workings of the Oregon welfare system after the implementation of the draconian reform of 1996. The result is a closely observant picture of just what went on. We learn about the real human costs to mothers and children of the much-heralded shift to ‘work first’ and ‘personal responsibility.’ We also learn about the pressures on the staff of the local agencies as they tried to adapt a neoliberal policy designed in Washington.”—Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center

Defiant Dads Fathers’ Rights Activists in America Jocelyn Elise Crowley “Crowley has written an important, theoretically rich book that empirically examines the fathers’ rights movement and engages a wide range of scholarship, including family law and policy, feminism, social movements, and ideology and public policy. In examining the movement, she finds important positive aspects, such as its emphasis on responsible fatherhood, but she also notes the pervasive antifeminist and neoconservative-influenced antistatism of the movement. Highly recommended.”—Choice

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Mi Voz, Mi Vida Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Christina Gómez, editors “Mi Voz, Mi Vida recounts the opening chapters in the life stories of a Latino generation that will reshape American history in the twentyfirst century. Here you will find true tales of strivers who often cross a wide cultural divide in search of ultimate success.”—Héctor Tobar, author of Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish Speaking United States 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7386-9 280 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

Balancing Two Worlds Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny, editors introduction by Russell C. Leong, afterword by Vernon Takeshita

“As wonderfully diverse and complex as life itself, these narratives crafted by Asian American college students and their guides unfold in the reading, and reveal identity and community, like memory and history, to be situated and fragmentary formations.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7384-5 288 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

Affirmative Action for the Future James P. Sterba “James P. Sterba has thoroughly canvassed the subject of affirmative action, and his arguments in this book are very clear and compelling. Affirmative Action for the Future will be read eagerly by anyone interested in affirmative action and social justice, whether their primary focus is on philosophy, law, political science, race theory, or feminism.”—Anita M. Superson, University of Kentucky, author of The Moral Skeptic 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7591-7 144 pages | $17.95 paperback (catalog price: $14.36)

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Streetwise for Book Smarts Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx Celina Su “Su takes a novel approach to studying community organizing. She focuses on the different kinds of cultural toolkits various groups employ and show why they matter for the struggle to achieve more just and equitable education for low-income communities of color. ”—Mark R. Warren, Harvard University 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7558-0 264 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity Jorge J. E. Gracia, editor “This terrific volume pulls off the difficult feat of advancing our understanding of a set of long overdue topics (race and identity in both Black and Latino contexts) while also providing a snapshot of cutting-edge work on race and identity more generally.”—Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7359-3 304 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)

A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism Christopher Douglas “Douglas argues for the formation of a literary tradition that is based on a group of authors’ engagement with social science theories of race and culture.”—Daphne Lamothe, Smith College

2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4769-3 384 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) Back in Print

The Varieties of Ethnic Experience Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans Micaela di Leonardo “Novel and insightful . . . . This study is an important reassessment of the ethnic experience in America.”—American Anthropologist 1984 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-9278-5 262 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36) The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

The Magic City Unemployment in a Working-Class Community Gregory Pappas “An excellent book that interweaves structure and individual lives with national, local, and family factors.”—Contemporary Sociology 1989 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-9548-9 232 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36) The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

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Privatizing China Socialism from Afar Li Zhang and Aihwa Ong, editors “Privatizing China is an important book that deserves a close reading by all scholars interested in postsocialist societies and/or twentyfirst-century socialisms. Contributors explore China’s headlong plunge into the privatization of housing, urban land, labor, consumption practices, health care, and new media. This is anthropology at its very best.” —James L. Watson, Harvard University 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7378-4 296 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

In Search of Paradise Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis Li Zhang “In Search of Paradise is an engaging collection of ethnographies of the very different ways in which individuals, families, and social strata are affected by the experience of homeownership. Li Zhang explains how, in the process, they become citizens of a different political order, building responsibilities and elaborating desires.”—Luigi Tomba, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7562-7 272 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)

Capitalism without Democracy The Private Sector in Contemporary China Kellee S. Tsai “This exciting new book challenges the conventional wisdom about the role that entrepreneurs play in a reforming authoritarian state. Burrowing deeply into the informal practices of Chinese capitalists, Tsai questions mechanical, agent-less theories of democratization and reminds us that a term like ‘middle class’ obscures as much as it explains. With this book, Tsai takes her place at the forefront of those who study the relationship between marketization and democracy.”—Kevin J. O’Brien, coauthor of Rightful Resistance in Rural China

2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7323-4 280 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

Organizing at the Margins The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States Jennifer Jihye Chun “In this age of neoliberal capitalism, the rise of labor activism among the most vulnerable workers in the service sector is a very interesting phenomenon. The U.S. and South Korea may appear to be an unlikely pair for a comparative analysis of how labor activists effect change, but this book demonstrates how their respective tactics converge. In both countries, some of the weakest and most marginalized members of the labor force have been successful in organizing unions and obtaining just treatment from their employers and the state.”—Hagen Koo, University of Hawai’i, Manoa ILR Press | 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4711-2 248 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00) New in Paperback

The Making of Minjung Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea Namhee Lee “The Making of Minjung puts the South Korean struggles for democracy and social justice on the world historical stage. An answer to the postcolonial predicament, a movement, and a transformative public sphere, minjung emerges as a remarkable historical constellation.” —Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois 2009 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7573-3 368 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

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Maid to Order in Hong Kong Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition Nicole Constable “This ethnography is an indisputable contribution to both Asian studies and anthropology and a pioneering work in the field of transnational migration studies. I strongly recommend this lively and readable study of the complex lives of domestic workers in Hong Kong as a textbook for use in a variety of classes.” —American Ethnologist

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War and Shadows The Haunting of Vietnam Mai Lan Gustafsson “War and Shadows is a fascinating book packed with vibrant stories and lucid exploration of their significance. Mai Lan Gustafsson’s account of spirit possession in Vietnam is both nuanced and sympathetic.”—Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7501-6 224 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

Tearing Apart the Land Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand Duncan McCargo Winner of the Bernard Schwartz Book Award (Asia Society)

“Built on months of potentially dangerous fieldwork, this book will set the benchmark against which all future studies of the south will be measured. McCargo’s intelligent and informed analysis unravels a remarkably complex social, political, religious, and cultural environment to provide an account that does not diminish this complexity but which provides a series of prisms—Islam, politics, security and militants—that allow us to better understand it.” —Kevin Hewison, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7499-6 264 pages | $21.00 paperback (catalog price: $18.00)

Textures of Struggle The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand Piya Pangsapa “Through insightful ethnography, Pangsapa takes us into the lives of some bold, militant, and politically effective women workers and helps explain their successes and setbacks in the context of the political economy of Thailand and the Global South as a whole.”—Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics

The Golden Triangle Inside Southeast Asia’s Drug Trade Ko-lin Chin “In this extraordinary look into the secret world of opium production deep in the mountains of northern Burma, Chin interviews drug lords whose exploits became folklores, mingles with opium growers whose meager existence saw few options, and talks to soldiers who sustained a self-proclaimed regime forsaken by the outside world on a monthly salary of two dollars plus a bag of rice. His book will remain a sourcebook on opium production and drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle for years to come and a fine example for field researchers aspiring to undertake ‘dangerous’ topics.”—Sheldon X. Zhang, San Diego State University 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7521-4 296 pages | $22.50 paperback (catalog price: $18.00)

Taking Southeast Asia to Market Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso, editors “Southeast Asia has reconfigured itself, its politics, and its economies in highly complex, often unpredictable ways under this round of neoliberal globalization. Taking Southeast Asia to Market does a superior job of showing how globalization is mediated by local institutions and actors.”—Susanna Hecht, UCLA 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7433-0 304 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

Mien Relations Mountain People and State Control in Thailand Hjorleifur Jonsson “Mien history and society come to life in this provocative and beautifully written ethnography. Jonsson’s striking analysis of how households and communities have re-formed within varied regional political economies cuts through the simplifications of earlier ethnographies as it also forms a cogent commentary on all ethnographic practice.”—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz 2005 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7284-8 240 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)

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Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia Eva-Lotta E. Hedman, editor This volume examines internal displacement in the context of militarized conflict and violence in East Timor, Aceh, and Papua, and in other parts of Outer Island Indonesia during the transition from authoritarian rule, and it explores official and humanitarian discourses on displacement and their significance for the politics of representation.

Dependent Communities Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor Caroline Hughes This comparative analysis critiques international policies that focus on rebuilding state institutions to accommodate the global market and explores the dilemmas faced by politicians in Cambodia and East Timor who struggle to satisfy both foreign benefactors and constituents at home.

2008 | ISBN: 978-0-87727-745-3 304 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)

Possessed by the Spirits Mediumship in Contemporary Vietnamese Communities Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien, editors The essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic “Renovation” period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and interactions.

2009 | ISBN: 978-0-87727-748-4 276 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)

State of Authority State in Society in Indonesia Gerry Van Klinken and Joshua Barker, editors Through case studies conducted across the country, this volume allows for a new theorization of the state in Indonesia that more adequately addresses the complexity of political life in this vast archipelago nation, demonstrating that the Indonesian state is not monolithic, but is constituted from the ground up by a host of local negotiations and symbolic practices.

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The Ambiguous Allure of the West Traces of the Colonial in Thailand Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson, editors foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty

At the Edge of the Forest Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood, editors Inspired by David Chandler’s groundbreaking work on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, examining the “forest” and cultured space, and the fraught “edge” where they meet. 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-87727-746-0 252 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)

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Muslims and Matriarchs Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism Jeffrey Hadler “Hadler draws upon several caches of unused sources, including handwritten essays by young educated Minangkabau, to provide greater historical depth to our understanding of the relationship between culture, region, and nation in modern Indonesia.”—Barbara Watson Andaya, University of Hawai’i, Manoa 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4697-9 232 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)

Assembling Women The Feminization of Global Manufacturing Teri L. Caraway “The meticulous and innovative investigation of the genderings of four different industries in contemporary Indonesia uncovers when and how and by whom women’s labor is made ‘cheap.’”—Cynthia Enloe, author of The Curious Feminist ILR Press | 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7365-4 224 pages | $18.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.16)

Fighting for Foreigners Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy Apichai W. Shipper “Shipper paves the way toward an understanding of Japan as developing a multiethnic democracy through ‘associative activism.’ This is a pathbreaking work in conceptualizing a Japan in which increasing numbers of foreigners, legal and illegal, will be working and staying in the foreseeable future.”—Harumi Befu, Stanford University

Juki Girls, Good Girls Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka’s Global Garment Industry Caitrin Lynch “With rich and vivid ethnographic detail, Caitrin Lynch documents the intersections of the gendered status of workers and citizens, showing a whole nation pondering the question of whether using women’s labor for economic development is compatible with expecting women to socially reproduce the values of the nation—a whole nation asking what kind of citizens women should be.”—Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin–Madison ILR Press | 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7362-3 296 pages | $21.00 paperback (catalog price: $16.80)

Breaking the Ashes The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka Michele Ruth Gamburd “This volume explores holistically a topic that, in theory, shouldn’t exist—moonshine, its uses, meanings, and outcomes in a Buddhist village. And it does so in great descriptive detail, making real people and events come alive with humanistic sensitivity and even some salient cross-cultural comparisons. Breaking the Ashes is both outstanding ethnography and a novel and significant contribution to alcohol studies.”—Dwight Heath, Brown University 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7432-3 280 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

State of Suffering Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji Susanna Trnka “An unflinching portrayal of politically engendered suffering, this vital book should open eyes across the Pacific and around the world to the real consequences of Fiji’s ethnic division and the Fiji coups. This is an insightful and courageous ethnography.”—John Kelly, University of Chicago 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7498-9 224 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

The Origins of Banana-fibre Cloth in the Ryukyus, Japan Katrien Hendrickx In this book, Hendrickx searches for the origins of bashôfu (banana-fibre cloth) in the Ryukyus and studies yarn-making methods and weaving techniques.

Icons of the Desert Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya Roger Benjamin, editor “The exciting and harrowing story of the Western Desert art movement unfolds here with its cultural complexity intact—indeed, it is finely narrated through the paintings on view. This catalog is definitive, if only for the reason that curator Roger Benjamin enlisted essays from specialists, especially that of anthropologist Fred Myers.”—New York Observer

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Counter Culture The American Coffee Shop Waitress Candacy A. Taylor “Older coffee shop waitresses are everywhere once you start looking but are often invisible and taken for granted. Counter Culture is an informed, entertaining, thought-provoking, and moving homage to a group of workers and to their occupation. Taylor’s photographs and interviews reveal how funny and perceptive career waitresses really are.”—Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University ILR Press | 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7440-8 156 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

Workplace Flexibility Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider,

John R. Kimberly

“This book provides a powerful and iconoclastic close read of the careers of spectacularly wealthy businessmen that stands both conventional and scholarly wisdom as to how fortunes are made, kept, and justified on its head. It is meticulously detailed and tightly focused on situation, context and action.”—John Van Maanen, MIT ILR Press | 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7566-5 272 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

From Hire to Liar The Role of Deception in the Workplace David Shulman “Lies, white lies, misinformation, prevarications, falsehoods, cover-ups, smoke screens, euphemisms, dissimulations—in compelling detail, Shulman demonstrates that these are not just deplorable outcomes created by dishonest people. Rather, deception in some form is an essential feature of social life and organizational functioning.”—Bruce G. Carruthers, Northwestern University ILR Press | 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7331-9 224 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

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Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays authored by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management. Collectively, they examine existing business practices and public policy regarding flexibility in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan, underscoring the need to realign the structure of work in time and place with the needs of the changing workforce. ILR Press | 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7585-6 424 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

The Good Temp Vicki Smith and Esther B. Neuwirth “The Good Temp is an authoritative study of the interactions among temporary help agencies, temp workers, and their employers. These contractual relationships are also social processes in which all parties sustain the image of the ‘good temp.’ The authors offer fascinating historical and ethnographic material on the role of the temp industry in creating and promoting this new category.”—Sanford M. Jacoby, UCLA ILR Press | 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4580-4 248 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)

Headhunters Matchmaking in the Labor Market William Finlay and James E. Coverdill “The strengths of this book are its rich detail and the authors’ insightful interpretations of the complex interactions among and between the actors in the job matching process. . . . It is a valuable contribution to our growing understanding of the modern labor market and currently the most compelling and comprehensive study of contingent-fee recruiters.”—ILR Review ILR Press | 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7379-1 224 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City Biju Mathew “Mathew describes the grim economics of driving the ubiquitous yellow cabs—a job where most of the money goes to the cab company owners and where even minor problems, such as a few tickets or a short illness, can spell disaster for drivers.”—Financial Times ILR Press | 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7439-2 272 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

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From Predators to Icons Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot

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human rights Humanitarianism in Question Politics, Power, Ethics Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss, editors “This excellent collection of essays by leading scholars raises fundamental questions about the nature of humanitarian aid and its current dilemmas. Lucid, thoughtful, and provocative, this is essential reading for understanding the humanitarian project and its shifting relationship to politics.”—Sally Engle Merry, NYU To Plead Our Own Cause Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd, editors “To Plead Our Own Cause gives voice to some of the most voiceless people on the planet. The breadth of these gut-wrenching stories from all over the globe is impressive and informative. This is a valuable and unique contribution to the literature on contemporary slavery, a mustread for anyone with an interest in slavery, globalization, ethnicity, human rights, or criminal behavior.”—David Kyle, UC Davis 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7438-5 272 pages | $18.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.16)

Keepers of the Flame Understanding Amnesty International Stephen Hopgood “Hopgood spent a year in Amnesty’s International London headquarters, the International Secretariat, interviewing staff and researching the inevitable bureaucratic and philosophical challenges facing the well-known humanitarian organization. This is an interesting, ambitious, and lucid critique of the International Secretariat.”—Choice 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7251-0 272 pages | $21.00 paperback (catalog price: $16.80)

Circles of Exclusion The Politics of Health Care in Israel Dani Filc, M.D. foreword by Quentin Young, M.D.

“Circles of Exclusion does more than characterize the changing nature of the Israeli health care system and the impact of these changes. Filc also presents a measured but powerful critique of the choices and actions of the Israeli leadership in recent decades. He documents how ideology, law, and politics have pushed both Jewish Israeli citizens and other groups—nonJewish citizens, migrant workers and refugees, and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories— further from the hope of enjoying what he calls ‘the right to health.’”—Sarah S. Willen, Harvard Medical School ILR Press | 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4795-2 208 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00) The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

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A Shameful Business The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace James A. Gross “If you’re not convinced already that the rights of America’s workers have been thoroughly trumped by corporate property rights—and that we are paying an unacceptably high price as a result—you will be after reading this powerful and deeply unsettling book.”—Sheldon Friedman, AFL-CIO Voice@Work Campaign ILR Press | 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7644-0 264 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

Unexpected Power Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists Shareen Hertel “This is the first subaltern study of the global human and labor rights movement. Ideas mooted in the North often meet with resistance from the alleged beneficiaries in the South. With pointed case studies from Bangladesh and Mexico, Hertel illustrates the importance of listening to these often-muffled voices from the Third World about how to fight child labor, gender discrimination, and other vital matters concerning economic and more generally human rights.”—Kaushik Basu, Cornell University ILR Press | 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7324-1 176 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96) New in Paperback

Mixed Signals U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America Kathryn Sikkink “Sikkink demonstrates convincingly that the human rights transnational advocacy network played a crucial role in changing the foreign policy of the world’s most powerful state and the human rights practices of states throughout the Americas.”—Latin American Politics and Society 2007 (2004) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7419-4 288 pages | $21.00 paperback (catalog price: $16.80) A Century Foundation Book

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anthropology of religion New York Amish Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State Karen M. Johnson-Weiner “Traversing between the history of the Anabaptists and anthropological work among present-day Amish communities, this book makes a notable contribution by bringing Amish history into the larger religious narrative of New York. Throughout, she allows the reader to appreciate the variation and complexity of these communities in a respectful way.” —Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University

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The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat Andreas Schweizer

Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East Ussama Makdisi “Makdisi takes his fine-grained interpretive cues from Muslim and Christian actors who themselves were critical and creative in thinking about different notions of faith at a time when coexistence was not proclaimed but, in reflective practice, actively pursued.”—Ann L. Stoler, New School University 2009 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7575-7 280 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

War on Sacred Grounds Ron E. Hassner “War on Sacred Grounds is among the most important contributions to the study of sacred places and the politics of those spaces in many years. Hassner’s perspective is original, daring, bold, and vitally important for scholars who seek to understand the enormous powers held in sacred places.”—Richard D. Hecht, UC Santa Barbara 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4806-5 248 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)

To Live upon Hope Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast Rachel Wheeler “This informed ethnographic report on Native American religion, a sophisticated comparative study of Congregationalist and Moravian missionary practices, is a thoughtful reflection on the failures of the Revolution to reach Indian communities and a rich source of intensely poignant biographical narratives.”—Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4631-3 336 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)

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“The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves in the darkness surrounding us.”—from the foreword by Erik Hornung 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4875-1 240 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00) New in Paperback

The Occult Mind Magic in Theory and Practice Christopher I. Lehrich “This is an intriguing hermeneutical analysis of magical consciousness that provides insight into the logic and internal meaning of occult traditions and texts, while illuminating the thought of seminal scholars of religion. Highly recommended.”—Choice 2009 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7535-1 272 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)

The Lotus and the Lion Buddhism and the British Empire J. Jeffrey Franklin “Franklin collects wide-ranging references to, studies of, and polemics about Buddhism, from poems and tracts to novels and religious scholarship. Drawing on postcolonial theory, especially theories of hybridity, the author argues that the 19th-century imperial encounter with Buddhism reshaped Britain as much as it did its colonies. Highly recommended.”—Choice 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4730-3 288 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)

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Islam in the World Today A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society Werner Ende and Udo Steinbach, editors “Islam in the World Today is the most comprehensive work available on contemporary Islam and all phenomena connected with the organization of Islamic societies today. This new Englishlanguage edition will prove tremendously useful as a textbook and reference book.”—Frank Griffel, Yale University

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Anthropology of Food anthropology food & Consumption consumption Prosperity for All Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization Matthew Hilton “Hilton’s fine book traces the history of the consumer movement, focusing on how its agenda has changed and how, in the process, it has neglected two critical issues, overconsumption by some groups and underconsumption by others. Highly recommended.”—Choice New in Paperback

Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World Marcy Norton “Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures shows how the exchange between alien civilizations prefigured a revolution in taste that was both genuinely global and largely independent of the power dynamics of colonialism. . . . Norton creatively uses a wide range of sources, from Mayan artwork to early modern medical manuals to Inquisition records, to show how two frequently consumed substances were integrated into European consciousness and diet.”—Times Literary Supplement 2010 (2008) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7632-7 352 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

The Ambivalent Consumer Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan, editors

“An exploration of this dialectic between the globalization of consumption along largely American-led lines and the local debates and practices that have questioned, resisted, modified, rejected, and assimilated those patterns, this book raises important theoretical questions, including, as the editors point out, whether all ‘consumer revolutions’ are necessarily alike.” —Journal of Japanese Studies 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7302-9 328 pages | $29.95 paperback (catalog price: $23.96)

Appetite for Change How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry, Second Updated Edition Warren J. Belasco “A challenging and sparkling book. . . . In Belasco’s analysis, the ideology of an alternative cuisine was the most radical thrust of the entire counterculture and the one carrying the most realistic and urgently necessary blueprint for social change.”—Food and Foodways 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7329-6 336 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

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Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng, editors The sixty international case studies contained in these three volumes address a variety of topics about the state of the world’s food systems: drought and soil conservation; land allocation and cooperative marketing efforts; and food safety measures and advertising policies. These volumes serve as valuable teaching tools, calling upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of food policy. In documenting past successes and failures, these case studies provide a valuable foundation for future research and efforts to create truly successful and sustainable food policy. Volume i: Policies for Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7554-2 272 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

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Seeds for the Future The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment Jennifer A. Thomson “Thomson is candid about the risks and the legal and trade issues of GM crops, but she argues that these are minor concerns when compared with the benefits that they have brought to the developing world. Her scholarly, important work, written in simple language, is well documented with references to scientific literature and practical examples.”—Library Journal 2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7368-5 208 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96) A Comstock Book

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