Social and cultural anthropology Books

Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explores the historicisation of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. It describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years.Trade Review"Nicholas Thomas can always be depended upon for lucid arguments that range over an impressive array of materials and engage current debates within and across the fields of anthropology, history, and cultural studies."—Robert J. Foster, University of Rochester"Thomas makes a statement of major importance on the deep political and intellectual complexities involved in visually and verbally constructing histories and cultures. . . . Sophisticated, original, and compelling."—Don Brenneis, University of California at Santa Cruz“These essays exemplify the very diversity of approaches to historical and contemporary Oceania that Thomas advocates. They are full of the level-headed insights that one has come to expect of Thomas, insights that are grounded in historical scholarship and that hone the cutting edge of current anthropology.” -- Margaret Rodman * American Ethnologist *

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Book SynopsisUnlike studies of 19th-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, this book shows the sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America. It also revises the terms of debate on 19th-century literature, history, and gender studies.Trade Review"A landmark book in the effort to reconsider the structures of domesticity in nineteenth-century America. Home Fronts is dazzling."—Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University"Romero’s striking command of all the recently resurrected nineteenth-century texts will make this book essential to people who work in this field."—Paul Lauter, Trinity College

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This study delves into the various land use policies of northern China, Mongolia and southern Siberia and examines how these have had varying impacts on the people and ecosystem of this vast region. . . .A tremendous international research effort.”—William K. Volkert, Ecologist and Director of the International Lake Baikal (Siberia) ProjectTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Cultures of Inner Asia 2. Changing Pastoral Societies and the Environment in the 20th Century 3. Rural Institutions 4. Kinship, Networks, and Residence 5. Settlement and Urbanism 6. Spatial Mobility and Inner Asian Pastoralism 7. A Family and Its Networks 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMost would agree that American culture in the 1980s differed dramatically from that of the 1960s. Yet the 1970s is still thought of as a cultural wasteland. This text debunks this notion by examining a wide range of political and cultural phenomena.Trade Review“Miller’s commentary on the role of spies, lies, and audiotape in the Watergate era brilliantly resonates with the analysis of various references, at all levels of the culture, to new technologies of surveillance and new modes of recording history.”—John Brenkman, author of Culture and Domination“Miller shows why and how we need to think comprehensively about the seventies—now. Interdisciplinary wit and a bold intelligence bring together poetry, painting, politics, and popular culture in a broad survey that is provocative, engaging, and timely for our posthistorical age.”—W. J. T. Mitchell, author of The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon““Stephen Paul Miller is the most radical poet-critic I know. In this dazzling volume, he establishes principles of inclusivity that trap and illuminate contemporary poetry, art, and politics. . . . His research will remain a monument to cultural pluralism and a grand polemic against the politics of deletion as a cover-up.”—David Shapiro, author of Lateness: A Book of PoemsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments ONE- Rippling Estemes TWO- Mystery Tain: Micro-Periodizing Seventies Films from Patton to Apocalypse Now THREE- The HIstorian's Bow FOUR- Literature in a Convex Mirror FIVE- Crossing Seventies Art SIX- Politics in the Watergate Era Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender.Trade ReviewReview by Peter Burger appeared in the TLS, August 20, 1999. Completely hostile to the Marxist analysis of globalization and to the belief in all the essays that globalization has had only negative consequences ... "The conference at Duke University was an international gathering of people with monotonously identical views. Their approach is shaped by a particular mixture of neo-Marxism and so-called literary theory, which began as an intellectual fashion in France and has become a dreary orthodoxy in American academe. There was not a single dissenting voice."Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface / Fredric Jameson xi I. Globalization and Philosophy Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity / Enrique Dussel 3 Globalization, Civilization Processes, and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures / Walter D. Mignlo 32 Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue / Fredric Jameson 54 II. Alternative Localities Global Fragments: A Second Latinamericanism / Alberto Moreiras 81 Toward a Regional Imaginary in Africa / Manthia Diawara 103 Negotiating African Culture: Toward a Decolonization of the Fetish / Ioan Davies 125 The End of Free States: On Transnationalism of Culture / Subramani 146 Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity in China / Liu Kang 164 III. Culture and the Nation Globalization and Culture: Navigating the Void / Geeta Kapur 191 Nations and Literatures in the Age of Globalization / Paik Nak-chung 218 Media in a Capitalist Culture / Barbara Trent 230 "Globalization," Culture, and the University / Masao Miyoshi 247 IV. Consumerism and Ideology Dollarization, Fragmentation, and God / Sherif Hetata 273 Social Movements and Global Capitalism / Leslie Sklair 291 "Environmental Justice" (Local and Global) / Joan Martinez-Alier 312 What's Green and Makes the Environment Go Round? / David Harvey 327 Free Trade and Free Market: Pretense and Practice / Noam Chomsky 356 In Place of a Conclusion / Masao Miyoshi 371 Index 385 Contributors 391

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Book SynopsisTango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation's sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerises dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. This title examines the poetics of the tango while describing author's own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances.Trade Review“Julie Taylor has written a wonderful, brilliant book about the poetics of the tango in Argentina. . . . While its theoretical perspective is very sophisticated, it is also very clearly (though poetically), directly, and succinctly presented in a sparse, elegant, suggestive prose.”—Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas at Austin“This is a highly unusual work, an allegory of violence and civil war through reflections on the tango by an unusually honest writer with an intimate knowledge, as insider and outsider, of Argentinian history and culture.”—Michael Taussig, Columbia University

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Book SynopsisTango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation's sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerises dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. This title examines the poetics of the tango while describing author's own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances.Trade Review“Julie Taylor has written a wonderful, brilliant book about the poetics of the tango in Argentina. . . . While its theoretical perspective is very sophisticated, it is also very clearly (though poetically), directly, and succinctly presented in a sparse, elegant, suggestive prose.”—Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas at Austin“This is a highly unusual work, an allegory of violence and civil war through reflections on the tango by an unusually honest writer with an intimate knowledge, as insider and outsider, of Argentinian history and culture.”—Michael Taussig, Columbia University

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, the author critiques the national ideology of ethnic homogeneity. He shows how Gueguence tells a story about the passing of time, the absurdity of authority, and the contradictions of coping with inheritances of the past.Trade Review“The Grimace of Macho Ratón will make a stimulating addition to anthropological interpretations of nationalism and ethnicity, as well as to the broader Latin Americanist literature on the relationship between intellectual production and cultural policy in the modern era.”—Joanne Rappaport, Georgetown University“Field’s study of small-town and rural artisans meets an evident need in the literature on Nicaragua. This innovative, stimulating, and important book is a prime example of the ‘new ethnography’: theoretically sophisticated, critical of the anthropological enterprise yet empirically rich and grounded.”—Charles R. Hale, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction: Regarding Macho Raton I. A Class Project: El Gueguence, Masay-Carazo, and Nicaraguan National Identity 2. Nobody as to give me permission for this, Lord Governor Tastuanes, or, Why the Artisans Did Not Become a Revolutionary Class 1979-1990 3. Breaking the Silence: Suche-Malinche, Artisan Women, and Nicaraguan Feminism 4. The Time of the Blue Thread: Knowledge and Truth about Ethnicity in Western Nicaragua 5. Whither the Grimace? Reimagining Nation, State, and Culture Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBordering all but two of South America’s other nations and by far Latin America’s largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and culturally from Spanish America. Its indigenous peoples share the country with descendants of Portuguese conquerors and the Africans they imported to work as slaves, along with more recent immigrants from southern Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Capturing the scope of this country’s rich diversity and distinction as no other book has done—with more than a hundred entries from a wealth of perspectives—The Brazil Reader offers a fascinating guide to Brazilian life, culture, and history. Complementing traditional views with fresh ones, The Brazil Reader’s historical selections range from early colonization to the present day, with sections on imperial and republican Brazil, the days of slavery, the Vargas years, and the more recent return to democracy. They incTrade Review“A stellar collection of texts on Brazilian history and contemporary life. No ordinary reader, this volume goes below the surface to introduce an American audience to Brazil’s complexities and diversity.” - Foreign Affairs“Duke University Press has just brought out . . . the closest thing to a voyage around ‘the great green elbow’ that one of its novelists called his rich and varied country. The book shimmers with every type of essay, historiography, and literary tidbit.” - Rain City Review“Whether ingested in short sips or long draughts, The Brazil Reader has an accumulative weight, breadth, and durability. . . . [I]t’s a book that offers an intelligent and up-to-date survey of a vital and vibrant country. It’s hard to imagine how we were able to get along without it.” - Bondo Wyszpolski, Brazzil“The Brazil Reader is simply indispensable. . . .” - Julio César Pino, Hispanic American Historical Review“The Reader cannot fail to impress. . . . The specialist, the activist, the artist and the anonymous all find a space in The Brazil Reader, creating what the editors describe as a ‘balance of voices.’ In summary, for the well-heeled scholar or the curious undergraduate The Brazil Reader will present possibilities, challenges and thought-provoking reading.” - Jane-Marie Collins, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies“What gives The Brazil Reader its special cachet is freshness, sensitivity, and empathy in its diversity of perspectives on twentieth-century Brazil, from the top down, from the bottom up, and from somewhere in the middle.”—Stanley J. Stein, Princeton University“A worthy successor to the pioneering Peru Reader, this volume provides a comprehensive guide to Brazil’s history and culture from the Portuguese colonial past to the postmodern present. Defty crossing disciplines and integrating elite and popular realms, The Brazil Reader is certain to please both the serious student and the general reader.”—Gil Joseph, Yale University“The Reader cannot fail to impress. . . . The specialist, the activist, the artist and the anonymous all find a space in The Brazil Reader, creating what the editors describe as a ‘balance of voices.’ In summary, for the well-heeled scholar or the curious undergraduate The Brazil Reader will present possibilities, challenges and thought-provoking reading.” -- Jane-Marie Collins * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *“A stellar collection of texts on Brazilian history and contemporary life. No ordinary reader, this volume goes below the surface to introduce an American audience to Brazil’s complexities and diversity.” * Foreign Affairs *“Duke University Press has just brought out . . . the closest thing to a voyage around ‘the great green elbow’ that one of its novelists called his rich and varied country. The book shimmers with every type of essay, historiography, and literary tidbit.” * Rain City Review *“Whether ingested in short sips or long draughts, The Brazil Reader has an accumulative weight, breadth, and durability. . . . [I]t’s a book that offers an intelligent and up-to-date survey of a vital and vibrant country. It’s hard to imagine how we were able to get along without it.” -- Bondo Wyszpolski * Brazzil *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi A Note on Style xiii Introduction 1 I. Origins, Conquest, and Colonial Rule The Origin of Fire / Cayapo Legend 16 Noble Savages / John Hemming 20 A Description of the Tupinamba / Anonymous 25 The First Wave / Warren Dean 33 Letter to Governor Tome de Sousa / Manoel da Nobrega 37 From the River of Jenero / Francisco Suares 41 The Sins of Maranhao / Antonio Vieira 43 Minas Uprising of 1720 / Anonymous 45 Smuggling in the Diamond District / George Gardner 52 Decree Elevating Brazil to a Kingdom / Joao VI 56 II. Imperial and Republican Brazil Declaration of Brazilian Independence, 1822 / Pedro I 63 The Baron of Parnaiba / George Gardner 65 Uprising in Maranhao, 1839-1840 / Domingos Jose Goncalves de Magalhaes 69 A Paraiba Plantation, 1850-1860 / Stanley J. Stein 76 The Paraguayan War Victory Parade / Peter M. Beattie 87 A Vanishing Way of Life / Gilberto Freyre 91 A Mirror of Progress / Dain Borges 93 Drought and the Image of the Northeast / Gerald M. Greenfield 100 Dom Pedro the Magnanimous / Mary Wilhelmine Williams 104 Solemn Inaugural Session of December 24, 1900 / Congress of Engineering and Industry 107 Intellectuals at Play / Olavo Bilac Colllection 109 City of Mist / Manoel Sousa Pinto 110 The Civilist Campaign / J. R. Lobao 113 Gaucho Leaders, 1923 / Photograph 115 Factory Rules, 1924 / Abramo Eberle Metalworks Management 116 III. Slavery and Its Aftermath The War against Palmares / Anonymous 125 Slave Life at Morro Velho Mine / Sir Richard Francis Burton 131 Scenes from the Slave Trade / Logbook Entries; Joao Dunshee de Abrantes 135 Cruelty to Slaves / Thomas Ewbank 138 Slavery and Society / Joaquim Nabuco 143 Abolition Decree, 1888 / Princess Isabel and Rodrigo Augusto da Silva 145 Laws Regulating Beggars in Minas Gerais, 1900 / Liegislature of Minas Gerais 146 IV. The Vargas Era The Social Question / Platform of the Liberal Alliance, 1930 156 Manifesto, May 1930 / Luis Carlos Prestes 158 Heroes of the Revolution / Composite Postcard Photograph 160 The "Gold for Sao Paulo" Building, 1932 / Cristina Mehrtens 162 Where They Talk about Rosa Luxemburg / Patricia Galvao 166 Two Versions of Factory Life / Photographers Unknown 172 Seized Correspondence from Communists, 1935-1945 / Dossier 20, Police Archives 176 The Paulista Synagogue / Gustavo Barroso 182 Why the Estado Novo? / Oliveira Vianna 184 New Year's Address, 1938 / Getulio Vargas 186 Rural Life / Photographers Unknown 190 A New Survey of Brazilian Life / Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics 195 General George C. Marshall's Mission to Brazil / Katherine Tupper Marshall 197 Comments on the Estado Novo / Bailey W. Diffie 200 Educational Reform after Twenty Years / Anisio S. Teixeira 204 Ordinary People: Five Lives Affected by Vargas-Era Reforms / Apolonio de Carvalho, Geraldo Valdelirios Novais, Frederico Heller, Maurilio Thomas Ferreira, Joana de Masi Zero 206 Vargas's Suicide Letter, 1954 / Getulio Vargas 222 V. Seeking Democracy and Equity Rehearsal for the Coup / Araken Tavora 231 The Military Regime / Antonio Pedro Tota 235 Excerpts from the 1967 Brazilian Constitution 238 Tropicalism and Brazilian Popular Music under Military Rule / Christopher Dunn 241 Literature under the Dictatorship / Elizabeth Ginway 248 Pele Speaks / Edson Arantes Nascimento da Silva 254 The Maximum Norm of the Exercise of Liberty / Grupo da Educacao Moral e Civica 258 Families of Fishermen Confront the Sharks / Paulo Lima 260 The Reality of the Brazilian Countryside / Landless Movement (MST) 264 The "Greatest Administrative Scandal" / Seth Garfield 268 Life on an Occupied Ship / Marcal Joao Scarante 274 A Letter from Brazil / Juliano Spyer 277 Inaugural Address / Fernando Henrique Cardoso 280 Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Theory and Practice / Ted G. Goertzel 289 Is Brazil Hopelessly Corrupt? / Roberto DaMatta 295 VI. Women's Lives Aunt Zeze's Tears / Emilia Moncorva Bandeira de Mello 302 Tarsila and the 1920s / Carol Damian and Cristina Mehrtens 308 The Integral Woman / Provincia de Guanabara 317 The Children Always Had Milk / Maria Puerta Ferreira 319 Women of the Forest / Yolanda and Robert F. Murphy 323 My Life / Maria das Dores Gomes Batista 327 A Healer's Story / Maria Geralda Ferreira 331 Sonia, a Middle-Class Woman / Alison Raphael 334 Family Life in Recife / Fanny Mitchell 337 Xuxa and the Televisual Imaginary / Amelia Simpson 343 Dreams of Uneducated Women / Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy 348 VII. Race and Ethnic Relations A Letter from Brazil, 1918 / Jose Clarana 354 Growing Up Black in Minas Gerais / Carolina Maria de Jesus 359 Exotic Peoples / Indian Protection Agency 365 Brazil: Study in Black, Brown, and Beige / Leslie B. Rout Jr. 367 Immigrant Ethnicity in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser 374 The Myth of Racial Democracy / Abdias do Nascimento 379 The National Day against Racism / Revista MNU 382 The Church Tries to Combat Prejudice / Bernardete Toneto 384 What Color Are You? / Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics 386 Mixed Blood / Jefferson M. Fish 391 VIII. Realities The Animal Game / Clayton S. Cooper 398 How Brazil Works / Robert M. Levine 402 Iansa Is Not Santa Barbara / Ile Axe Opo Afonja 408 Upward Mobility Is Possible / Alcides Nazario Guerreiro Bruto 411 Crab and Yoghurt / Tobias Hecht 415 Voices from the Pavement / Claudia Milito and Helio R. S. Silva 420 Pixote's Fate / Robert M. Levine 423 A Letter to President Cardoso / Caius Brandao 430 The History of the Huni Kui People / Sia Kaxinawa 432 Urban Indians / Juliano Spyer 436 Mayor Orders Billboard Shacks Destroyed / Juliana Raposo 441 Cultural Imperialism at Its Most Fashionable / Roger M. Allen 447 The Gay and Lesbian Movement in Brazil / James N. Green 454 Liberation Theology's Rise and Fall / Robin Nagle 462 IX. Saudades Bananas Is My Business / Helena Solberg 471 The Invention of Tradition on Brazilian Radio / Bryan McCann 474 Bahia Music Story / Bill Hinchberger 483 O Axe de Zumbi / Paulo Lima and Bernadete Toneto 487 At Carnival / Pedro Ribeiro 490 Two Poets Sing the New World / Jessica Callaway 491 Two Essays on Sports / Janet Lever and Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Methy 497 Suggestions for Further Reading 505 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 511 Index 519

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Book SynopsisPresents a comprehensive collection of writings, including essays from the 1980s and 1990s that present an argument about the AIDS epidemic. The author addresses a range of issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries.Trade Review“Looking backward and ahead, How to Have Theory in an Epidemic is nothing short of a handbook of the meanings of AIDS: as human experience, as political reality, as public service action, and, not least of all, as moral engagement with one of the great challenges to meaning-making and unmaking in everyday life.”—Dr. Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University“Paula Treichler’s essays are certainly among the most significant written on the subject of AIDS. They are, in fact, a model of what the field of cultural studies at its best can contribute to our thinking about urgent social and political issues. This is an essential book, one that will strongly affect the way people approach the subject of AIDS in the future.”—Douglas Crimp, author of AIDS: Demo Graphics“How to Have Theory in an Epidemic is a history of histories. . . . Treichler’s accomplishment is without question extremely important and useful. The book and voluminous endnotes cache a vast amount of information and documentation, while the bibliography is a boon to anyone doing serious interdisciplinary work on AIDS. [This] is a major work that scholars and students are likely to consult for many years to come.” -- Patrice Clark Koelsch * Women's Review of Books *“How to Have Theory in an Epidemic is one of the most thorough explorations of AIDS and its representations to be published in the last few years.” -- Christopher Voigt * A&U Magazine *“[How to Have Theory in an Epidemic’s] significance lies in the cultural lessons that we can learn from this epidemic and increased sensititivity to cultural issues that are ‘far more pervasive and central than we are accustomed to believing.’. . . To the extent that this author demonstrates that medicine is a legitimate and practical topic in cultural studies, the influence of this work will be long-standing.” -- Lisa K. Waldner * JAMA *“An important new contribution to this young field. . . . Even though it is not a work of historical scholarship, How to Have Theory in an Epidemic provides much of the insight into events that we might otherwise look for in cultural histories of the HIV epidemic published years from now. The author’s scholarship spans the media, from high art to comic strips. . . . This book is an important addition to the growing literature analyzing illness—and the HIV epidemic—from social and cultural perspectives, and it will be appreciated by many.” -- Allen L. Gifford * New England Journal of Medicine *“This book is a welcome addition to any syllabus related to medicine; science; the sociology of knowledge; the media; social movements; and gender, race, class, and ethnicity. While each chapter is coherent and could stand alone, readers best experience the magnitude and power through reading the entire contents. Indeed, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and literary and media critics, as well as epidemiologists and clinicians are fortunate to have such a blessing as Treichler’s extensive research and interpretation of AIDS/HIV.” -- Lisa Jean Moore * American Journal of Sociology *"How to Have Theory in an Epidemic makes available in one volume many of [Treichler’s] important essays from the last fifteen years and is invaluable for understanding the collision of discourse. . . . [It] provide[s] crucial insights into what happens when medical discourses on AIDS come into contact with other institutional discourses and other local meanings. . . . Challenging and necessary." -- Cris Mayo * GLQ *"Treichler’s study covers an enormous amount of material. . . . How to Have Theory in an Epidemic makes it plain that the ‘cultural evolution’ of AIDS has not yet managed to move beyond a depressingly familiar terrain of racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and colonialism." -- Sheila McManus * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix A Note on the Text xiii Prologue 1 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification 11 The Burdens of History: Gender and Representation in AIDS Discourse, 1981–1988 42 AIDS and HIV Infection in the Third World: A First World Chronicle 99 Seduced and Terrorized: AIDS in the Media 127 AIDS, HIV, and the Cultural Construction of Reality 149 AIDS Narratives on Television: Whose Story? 176 AIDS, Africa, and Cultural Theory 205 Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, Identity, and Inscriptions of Gender 235 How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: The Evolution of AIDS, Treatment, and Activism 278 Epilogue 315 Notes 331 Bibliography 387 Index 453

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Book SynopsisRejecting the "colonial encounter" paradigm pervasive in current studies, this title weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire.Trade Review“ ‘Birth’ is more than the begetting of children and Nancy Rose Hunt’s ‘colonial lexicon’ is much more than a history of medicalized childbearing in the formerly Belgian Congo in colonial and post-colonial times. . . . With erudition and wit Hunt challenges conventional models—be they feminist, obstetric, colonial, missionary, or health-bureaucratic—about what it means to medicalize childbearing.”—Barbara Duden, Universität Hannover“A highly original study. This book links medical work with maternity work in the context of arguments about gender relations and about feminist perspectives on writing history.”—Gillian Feeley-Harnik, author of A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in MadagascarTable of ContentsIllustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Crocodiles and Wealth 2 Doctors and Airplanes 3 Dining and Surgery 4 Nurses and Bicycles 5 Babies and Forceps 6 Colonial Maternities 7 Debris Departures Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? This book offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema represents embodied experience in a postcolonial, transnational world.Trade Review“The promise of Laura Marks’s The Skin of Film is the promise of thinking and living between critical discourses, experiences and cultures: the willingness to explore an embodied response capable of meeting the ‘hybrid microcultures’ of global modernity; the power to transform the memory of images, things, and the senses into ‘sensuous geographies’ of touch, smell and rhythm that inhabit and drift into a world increasingly divided between the policed frontier and the ‘placeless’ metropolis; and finally, the capacity to dwell in the critical interstice that allows thought to articulate itself on the edge of the unthought. - Tollof Nelson, CiNéMAS“[A] fascinating exploration of the ways that diasporic filmmakers have excavated, rediscovered, and reignited cultural memories through appeals to multisensorial forms of recollection that challenge the Western cinematic reliance on visual imagery . . . . [H]ighly informative and will introduce the reader to many intercultural works that have previously gone unnoticed. Marks’s clear exuberance for her work and passion for the films she discusses also shine through. Highly recommended.” - Avi Santo, The Velvet Light Trap"[A]n important document and substantial treatment of many sometimes ephemeral works of intercultural cinema. . . . Marks draws on a rich and somewhat dazzling array of theoretical sources and disciplinary fields. . . . The Skin of the Film also offers a very rich and extensive archive of intercultural cinematic productions of the eighties and nineties. . . . She manages to cover a vast range of work in an elegant, often moving writing style with curatorial detail. . . . [A]n extremely stimulating and original book. It signals a promising and very welcome move in film theory. . . . It has much to contribute to the emerging literature on affect in political and cultural studies. . . . Like the sound of dripping water or an itch that you don’t feel until you scratch, once your attention is drawn to The Skin of the Film, it becomes impossible to ignore it." - Tamara Vukov, Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies"[A] rich and rewarding read. . . . The Skin of the Film is quite unique. Offering important contributions to the redefinition of aesthetic scholarship, the author simultaneously conducts close readings of filmic works which are not well known, and presents nuanced readings of their significance, within an original theoretical framework." - Melanie Swalwell, Film-Philosophy“A marvelous interweaving of theory and historiography. This is a book that can interest film theorists, film historians, students of performance art, and scholars of postcoloniality and interculturalism. Marks explains—with rich detail—a whole range of recent cultural productions in film and video and makes those works come to life. The Skin of the Film suggests important ways to extend film theory.”—Dana Polan, University of Southern California“Marks’s nuanced reading of a large number of films and videos is based on her deep engagement with the politics of place and displacement that drives the films. This book is a delightful read.”—Hamid Naficy, Rice University“This is a terrific book! Not only does it have a significant argument to make, but it also works with a variety of little-known film/video examples in such a way as to give the reader both a vivid sense of them and a desire to go out and get hold of them.”—Vivian Sobchack, University of California at Los Angeles“[A] fascinating exploration of the ways that diasporic filmmakers have excavated, rediscovered, and reignited cultural memories through appeals to multisensorial forms of recollection that challenge the Western cinematic reliance on visual imagery . . . . [H]ighly informative and will introduce the reader to many intercultural works that have previously gone unnoticed. Marks’s clear exuberance for her work and passion for the films she discusses also shine through. Highly recommended.” -- Avi Santo * The Velvet Light Trap *“The promise of Laura Marks’s The Skin of Film is the promise of thinking and living between critical discourses, experiences and cultures: the willingness to explore an embodied response capable of meeting the ‘hybrid microcultures’ of global modernity; the power to transform the memory of images, things, and the senses into ‘sensuous geographies’ of touch, smell and rhythm that inhabit and drift into a world increasingly divided between the policed frontier and the ‘placeless’ metropolis; and finally, the capacity to dwell in the critical interstice that allows thought to articulate itself on the edge of the unthought. -- Tollof Nelson * CiNéMAS *"[A] rich and rewarding read. . . . The Skin of the Film is quite unique. Offering important contributions to the redefinition of aesthetic scholarship, the author simultaneously conducts close readings of filmic works which are not well known, and presents nuanced readings of their significance, within an original theoretical framework." -- Melanie Swalwell * Film-Philosophy *"[A]n important document and substantial treatment of many sometimes ephemeral works of intercultural cinema. . . . Marks draws on a rich and somewhat dazzling array of theoretical sources and disciplinary fields. . . . The Skin of the Film also offers a very rich and extensive archive of intercultural cinematic productions of the eighties and nineties. . . . She manages to cover a vast range of work in an elegant, often moving writing style with curatorial detail. . . . [A]n extremely stimulating and original book. It signals a promising and very welcome move in film theory. . . . It has much to contribute to the emerging literature on affect in political and cultural studies. . . . Like the sound of dripping water or an itch that you don’t feel until you scratch, once your attention is drawn to The Skin of the Film, it becomes impossible to ignore it." -- Tamara Vukov * Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Memory of Images 2. The Memory of Things 3. The Memory of Touch 4. The Memory of the Senses Conclusion: The Portable Sensorium Notes Bibliography Filmography/Videography Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Featuring stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, this title reveals how concerns about strange objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire.Trade Review“ ‘Birth’ is more than the begetting of children and Nancy Rose Hunt’s ‘colonial lexicon’ is much more than a history of medicalized childbearing in the formerly Belgian Congo in colonial and post-colonial times. . . . With erudition and wit Hunt challenges conventional models—be they feminist, obstetric, colonial, missionary, or health-bureaucratic—about what it means to medicalize childbearing.”—Barbara Duden, Universität Hannover“A highly original study. This book links medical work with maternity work in the context of arguments about gender relations and about feminist perspectives on writing history.”—Gillian Feeley-Harnik, author of A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in MadagascarTable of ContentsIllustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Crocodiles and Wealth 2 Doctors and Airplanes 3 Dining and Surgery 4 Nurses and Bicycles 5 Babies and Forceps 6 Colonial Maternities 7 Debris Departures Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCentring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism.Trade Review“Placing working people—their values, interests, and struggles—at the center of history, Findlay elucidates the intersections of the public and the private, of moralizing discourses, class relations, and political visions and provides new perspectives on the political meanings of divorce, prostitution, and respectability in Puerto Rico. An imaginative, pathbreaking book.”—Catherine Le Grand, McGill University“The dynamics of racism, class prejudice, and sexism work differently and only reveal how they gear in with each other at specific historical moments. Findlay has addressed these issues with confidence and éclat; the result is both careful and passionate.”—Sidney W. Mintz, author of Caribbean Transformations and Sweetness and Power“[A] welcome addition to the emerging field of gender studies in Latin American societies and to the recent studies challenging the presentation of these societies as racial democracies. . . . Findlay has produced a challenging work on the moral values and struggles of working women and men.” -- Aline Helg * American Historical Review *“[P]athbreaking . . . . Its publication is the cause of celebration not only for historians of Puerto Rico in search of empirical knowledge. . . but for those who might be seeking useful comparative perspectives and innovative theoretical tools to apply to their own work. . . . Here is a book that will change the way Puerto Ricans think about themselves and the way that historians perceive their objects of study.” -- Teresita Martínez Vergne * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Findlay proceeds by undertaking a penetrating look at Puerto Rican campaigns to reform marriage, anti-prostitution crusades, and working-class attempts to forge an alternative to the Liberal consensus of the time. . . . What may be most interesting about Imposing Decency is Suárez Findlay’s willingness to go beyond the dual proposition of resistance and accommodation. . . . The time frame of Imposing Decency is also significant. By straddling the last years of Spanish colonial rule and the first two decades of U.S. hegemony, Findlay opens a window into a social and cultural clash whose ramifications extended throughout twentieth-century Puerto Rico and reshaped the Puerto Rican domestic sphere in new and dramatic ways.” -- José O. Díaz * Latin American Research Review *"[A] vivid example of the best historical scholarship on gender and culture in early twentieth-century U.S. overseas imperialism. . . . [R]aise[s] important theoretical questions about the relationship between culture and power that historians must continue to examine. . . . Findlay tells a fascinating story whose insights into agency and resistance, and into the inseparability of gender, class, and race, offer vital lessons for all historians. Her careful readings of the politics of everyday life effectively convey the power that women had to control their own lives under colonial regimes and make Imposing Decency the culmination of a line of scholarly inquiry in women’s history." -- Christopher Capozzola * Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *"Findlay cogently argues that the legacy of racializing practices and sexual norms in the formation of the colonial state persisted in complex, sometimes subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle ways, despite emergent ideological and political shifts in early twentieth-century Puerto Rico." -- Arlene Torres * New West Indian Guide *

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artefacts that represent it. Examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent 20th-century, this book will be useful to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies.Trade Review“Containing a series of penetrating analyses of landmark cultural works from the entire course of the twentieth century, Chinese Modern represents the most comprehensive account of modern Chinese literature that has ever been published in English. Tang also illuminates—like no one has before—the various ways in which the looming imperative of modernity has left its image on the imagination of modern China.”—Theodore Huters, University of California at Los Angeles“Read Chinese Modern for a journey through China's ‘long twentieth century.’ Xiaobing Tang as guide shows how imaginative sympathy for one's subject nourishes critical acuity.”—Norma Field, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I 11 Part II 163 Afterword 341 Glossary 349 Selected Bibliography 357 Index 369

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Book SynopsisMonsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. This title asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity - that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912).Trade Review“Gerald Figal’s powerful study persuades us that superstition, monsters, and the fantastic are at the very heart of Japanese modernity—an argument conveyed in splendid fashion. This is an exciting, fresh, and aptly provocative work.”—James Fujii, University of California at Irvine“Through the transmutation of ghosts, Figal brings out one of the central problematics of modern nation-states: what to do about pasts that are simultaneously evidence of backwardness and integral to the make-up of the nation. All scholars interested in Japan, historically and culturally, should read Civilization and Monsters.”—Stefan Tanaka, University of California, San Diego

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Book SynopsisPresents an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. This title examines the dynamics of contact with the Dutch and Europeans, Suharto's postcolonial regime, and with the competing religions of Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism in the context of the conversion of pagan Aruese.Trade Review“The Memory of Trade is one of the most compelling works—ethnographic or otherwise—that I have read in Indonesian studies.”—John Pemberton, author ofOn the Subject of “Java”“With profound insight, empathy, and theoretical sophistication, Patricia Spyer traces out the complex intertwinings among identity, global commerce, local ritual, and national politics. This book is a masterful demonstration of how much of modernity's paradoxes, romance, and uncanny displacements best come into sight when viewed from the perspective of the supposed margins.”—Webb Keane, author of Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian SocietyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Preface ix A Note on Language, Translation and Orthography xxiii 1 Introduction: Runaway Topographies 1 2 The Legless Paradise 41 3 The Great Ship 66 4 Mothers of Pearl 107 5 Prow and Stern 161 6 The Cassowary's Play 198 7 The Women's Share 254 8 Epilogue: Sweet Memories from Aru 288 Notes 293 Works Cited 329

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Book SynopsisSince Tsarist times, Roma in Russia (known to others as Gypsies) have been portrayed as rebels, isolated from society and excluded from mainstream history. This title examines how Roma themselves have negotiated such dualities, in both everyday interactions and in stage performances.Trade Review“The highlight of Lemon’s book is her discussion of the archival record of a Lovari Rom’s trial and the interpretation of it by his descendants, to whom she read the material. . . . [S]he is imaginative and insightful in her analysis of Pushkin. . . . [A] valuable contribution. . . .” - Judith Okely, Times Literary Supplement“Lemon has produced an innovative and path-breaking analysis of some of the representational challenges facing Muscovite Roma. . . . It is not possible in a short review to do justice to the range of interests and concerns Lemon covers.” - Michael Stewart, Slavic Review"[A]n insightful, engaging monograph on the Russian Romani experience. . . . [I]nformative, illuminating, and a major contribution to the study of Romani culture. . . . Lemon presents a sensitive, informed portrait of the Romani Theatre and Romani communities in today’s Russia. Between Two Fires is a powerful, exquisitely researched monograph that contributed significantly to the study of Romani society, Russia, performance, ethnicity, and culture." - Margaret H. Beissinger, Slavic and East European Journal"This is a ground-breaking work that engages with race and performance in the post-Soviet space. . . . Lemon's theoretical sophistication and political awareness, besides the obvious focus on performance, make this work appealing to performance/theatre studies readers." - Ioana Szeman, Theatre Research International“Between Two Fires addresses an important series of topics for anthropology in general and for the study of the Soviet Union and for postsocialist Russia in particular. Lemon weds current theoretical concerns to an understudied but significant community.”—Martha Lampland, author of The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary“This is an extraordinarily insightful account of the performance of being ‘Gypsy’ in Russia. Theoretically sophisticated, it illuminates Russian as well as Romani culture, and delves into issues of naming, mobility, transgression, and authenticity. This book is a must for anyone interested in advances in anthropology as well as contemporary Russian culture.”—Caroline Humphrey, coauthor of The End of Nomadism? Society, State, and the Environment in Inner Asia“Lemon has produced an innovative and path-breaking analysis of some of the representational challenges facing Muscovite Roma. . . . It is not possible in a short review to do justice to the range of interests and concerns Lemon covers.” -- Michael Stewart * Slavic Review *“The highlight of Lemon’s book is her discussion of the archival record of a Lovari Rom’s trial and the interpretation of it by his descendants, to whom she read the material. . . . [S]he is imaginative and insightful in her analysis of Pushkin. . . . [A] valuable contribution. . . .” -- Judith Okely * TLS *"[A]n insightful, engaging monograph on the Russian Romani experience. . . . [I]nformative, illuminating, and a major contribution to the study of Romani culture. . . . Lemon presents a sensitive, informed portrait of the Romani Theatre and Romani communities in today’s Russia. Between Two Fires is a powerful, exquisitely researched monograph that contributed significantly to the study of Romani society, Russia, performance, ethnicity, and culture." -- Margaret H. Beissinger * Slavic and East European Journal *"This is a ground-breaking work that engages with race and performance in the post-Soviet space. . . . Lemon's theoretical sophistication and political awareness, besides the obvious focus on performance, make this work appealing to performance/theatre studies readers." -- Ioana Szeman * Theatre Research International *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Orthography and Transcripts Introduction 1. Pushkin, The Gypsies, and Russian Imperialist Nostalgia 2. Roma, Race, and Post-Soviet Markets 3. “What is Your Nation?” Performing Romani Distinctions 4. The Gypsy Stage, Socialism, and Authenticity 5. The Hidden Nail: Memory, Loyalty, and Models of Revelation 6. “Roma” and “Gazhje”: Shifting Terms 7. Conclusion: At Home in Russia Appendix A. Roma and Other Tsygane in the Commonwealth of Independent States Appendix B. Dialect Differences Appendix C. Vlax-Lovari Romani Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSince Tsarist times, Roma in Russia (known to others as Gypsies) have been portrayed as rebels, isolated from society and excluded from mainstream history. This book examines how Roma themselves have negotiated such dualities, in both everyday interactions and in stage performances.Trade Review“The highlight of Lemon’s book is her discussion of the archival record of a Lovari Rom’s trial and the interpretation of it by his descendants, to whom she read the material. . . . [S]he is imaginative and insightful in her analysis of Pushkin. . . . [A] valuable contribution. . . .” - Judith Okely, Times Literary Supplement“Lemon has produced an innovative and path-breaking analysis of some of the representational challenges facing Muscovite Roma. . . . It is not possible in a short review to do justice to the range of interests and concerns Lemon covers.” - Michael Stewart, Slavic Review"[A]n insightful, engaging monograph on the Russian Romani experience. . . . [I]nformative, illuminating, and a major contribution to the study of Romani culture. . . . Lemon presents a sensitive, informed portrait of the Romani Theatre and Romani communities in today’s Russia. Between Two Fires is a powerful, exquisitely researched monograph that contributed significantly to the study of Romani society, Russia, performance, ethnicity, and culture." - Margaret H. Beissinger, Slavic and East European Journal"This is a ground-breaking work that engages with race and performance in the post-Soviet space. . . . Lemon's theoretical sophistication and political awareness, besides the obvious focus on performance, make this work appealing to performance/theatre studies readers." - Ioana Szeman, Theatre Research International“Between Two Fires addresses an important series of topics for anthropology in general and for the study of the Soviet Union and for postsocialist Russia in particular. Lemon weds current theoretical concerns to an understudied but significant community.”—Martha Lampland, author of The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary“This is an extraordinarily insightful account of the performance of being ‘Gypsy’ in Russia. Theoretically sophisticated, it illuminates Russian as well as Romani culture, and delves into issues of naming, mobility, transgression, and authenticity. This book is a must for anyone interested in advances in anthropology as well as contemporary Russian culture.”—Caroline Humphrey, coauthor of The End of Nomadism? Society, State, and the Environment in Inner Asia“Lemon has produced an innovative and path-breaking analysis of some of the representational challenges facing Muscovite Roma. . . . It is not possible in a short review to do justice to the range of interests and concerns Lemon covers.” -- Michael Stewart * Slavic Review *“The highlight of Lemon’s book is her discussion of the archival record of a Lovari Rom’s trial and the interpretation of it by his descendants, to whom she read the material. . . . [S]he is imaginative and insightful in her analysis of Pushkin. . . . [A] valuable contribution. . . .” -- Judith Okely * TLS *"[A]n insightful, engaging monograph on the Russian Romani experience. . . . [I]nformative, illuminating, and a major contribution to the study of Romani culture. . . . Lemon presents a sensitive, informed portrait of the Romani Theatre and Romani communities in today’s Russia. Between Two Fires is a powerful, exquisitely researched monograph that contributed significantly to the study of Romani society, Russia, performance, ethnicity, and culture." -- Margaret H. Beissinger * Slavic and East European Journal *"This is a ground-breaking work that engages with race and performance in the post-Soviet space. . . . Lemon's theoretical sophistication and political awareness, besides the obvious focus on performance, make this work appealing to performance/theatre studies readers." -- Ioana Szeman * Theatre Research International *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Orthography and Transcripts Introduction 1. Pushkin, The Gypsies, and Russian Imperialist Nostalgia 2. Roma, Race, and Post-Soviet Markets 3. “What is Your Nation?” Performing Romani Distinctions 4. The Gypsy Stage, Socialism, and Authenticity 5. The Hidden Nail: Memory, Loyalty, and Models of Revelation 6. “Roma” and “Gazhje”: Shifting Terms 7. Conclusion: At Home in Russia Appendix A. Roma and Other Tsygane in the Commonwealth of Independent States Appendix B. Dialect Differences Appendix C. Vlax-Lovari Romani Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA theoretical account of how spirit mediums mediate the Thai experience of capitalist modernity.Trade Review“Traveling from spirit mediumship to the ethnography of the finance capital market, In the Place of Origins combines theoretical bravura with brilliant narrative skill. As it comments on ethnographic self-fashioning in Thailand, it also examines the mediumship of disciplinary ethnography, and the alterity it so anxiously seeks to expell. This is a text of dazzling instructive simplicity.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University“With this astutely conceived and exquisitely written account of the complexities of mediumship in Thai modernity, Rosalind Morris has taken ethnographic practice to a whole new level of theoretical as well as descriptive sophistication. It is a dazzling accomplishment.”—Rey Chow, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Transcription x Introduction 1 1 Writing, Exchange, Translation: A Poetics of the Modern 13 2 Ruin, or, What the New City Remembers 55 3 First, Forgetting 80 4 The Appearance of Order 107 5 The Secret of the Dish 150 6 Transmissions, or, the Appearance of Culture 181 7 Representations: Locality and the Spirit of Democracy 240 8 Outside, Eyeless, and on Fire: The Apotheosis of Representation 287 9 After All Else: The End of Mediumship? 332 Bibliography 351 Index 371

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Book SynopsisExplores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, this book focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a trans-national fight for Khalistan.Trade Review“Historical anthropology at its best, The Nation's Tortured Body explores the history and politics of the Sikhs in a complex, and contested, transnational context. Axel’s book evocatively charts the ways in which the crossing and marking of boundaries have shaped the foundational identities of a diasporic community, providing a graphic illustration of the multiple meanings of the idea of ‘homeland’ in our contemporary postcolonial world.”—Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia University“This groundbreaking study of the Sikh diasporic world is also a brilliant ethnography of violence and loss. Tacking deftly between the politics of images and the imagination, Axel shows how the iconic social categories produced in the colonial encounter shape the struggle over the politics of place, person and body in contemporary India. This book will surely change the ways in which we see how colonialism, diaspora and the politics of separatism inform the formation of modern subjects with mobile loyalties.”—Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago“Provocative and informative . . . . The arguments and the material covered constitute a helpful corpus for reference and thoughtful discussion. The layout of the volume is excellent, and the numerous maps, pictures, and posters illustrating various points enhance its value. . . . Recommended as an informed and provocative reexamination of dynamics within the Sikh diaspora . . . .” -- N. Gerald Barrier * Journal of Asian Studies *"A provocative reading of Sikh historical figures and events. . . . It provides valuable examples of transnational flows and the working of the social imaginary. Those interested in diaspora studies, gender studies, postcolonial theory, transnationalism, historical anthropology, and the anthropology of violence will want to take note." -- Verne A. Dusenbery * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Promise and Threat 1 1: The Maharaja's Glorious Body 39 2: The Restricted Zone 79 3: The Tortured Body 121 4: Glassy Junction 158 5: The Homeland 197 Conclusion 224 Notes 237 Bibliography 263 Index 291

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Book SynopsisBori are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is also the practice of taming these forces in the context of possession ceremonies. This book offers an account of how this phenomenon intervenes in human lives, providing meaning for Mawri peasants confronted with cultural contradictions and socio-economic marginalisation.Trade Review“Masquelier locates cultural production at precise moments of colonial and postcolonial relations. The result is both an intimate, densely textured portrait of bori spirits and an exciting demonstration of how people attempt to formulate and appropriate the forces that have undermined their community.”— Michael Lambek, author of Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession“With its rich primary data about bori, its creativity and freshness, Prayer Has Spoiled Everything will be of enormous interest to Africanists and to religion scholars of many types.”—Karen McCarthy Brown, author of Mama Lola: A Voodou Priestess in BrooklynTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Terms Introduction 1. Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi 2. Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit/Human Interactions 3. Socializing the Spirit 4. The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice 5. Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Babou Spirits and the Making of Value 6. Taking Hold of the Kasuwa; The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market 7. The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption 8. Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Bori Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEmploying literary, historical, and anthropological techniques, this title attempts to generate a new understanding of issues that permeate discussions of Africa by disrupting the centrality of postcolonial texts and focusing instead on the cultural and intellectual production of colonial Africans.Trade Review“A thoroughly original work. Subject to Colonialism establishes Desai as a new authority in the study of African letters and thought across the twentieth century.” —David William Cohen, author of The Combing of History“Gaurav Desai has adopted in this study an original and productive approach to postcolonial literature by situating the discursive practices generated by the colonial encounter in a more comprehensive perspective than is usually offered in studies of this kind.”—F. Abiola Irele, Ohio State University“With its unassuming honesty, clarity of style, and fine balance of argument and information—virtues not often displayed in ‘postcolonial’ writing—this book is bound to find the readers it deserves beyond the narrow circle of the experts and the converted.”—Johannes Fabian, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Dangerous Supplements 1. “Race,” Rationality, and the Pedagogical Imperative 2. Dangerous Liaisons? Frustrated Radicals, Master Professionals 3. Colonial Self-Fashioning and the Production of History Coda Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSuitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the general educated reader, this book showcases the work of a generation of scholars - from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies.Trade Review“Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc have collected a diverse array of intriguing insights into popular culture—not with disdain or postmodern mumble, but with real interest and even respect. Hop on Pop looks at pop culture as the water we swim in, as a muscular change agent, as the mirror held up to human nature.”—Brenda Laurel, author of Utopian Entrepreneur"A lively travelogue of the ‘lively arts,’ Hop on Pop cheerfully transcends political, personal, and professional boundaries to offer a sprawling rainbow map of popular culture and exposes those old boundaries for the sneetch-like spooks they truly are."—Scott McCloud, cartoonist and author of Understanding ComicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix I. Introduction 1 The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies / Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc 3 Defining Popular Culture / Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc 26 II. Self 43 Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You'd Be Home / Elayne Rapping 47 Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult Baseball Card Collecting and the Nostalgia for a Presexual Past / John Bloom 66 Virgins for Jesus: The Gender Politics of Therapeutic Christian Fundamentalist Media / Heather Hendershot 88 "Do We Look Like Ferengi Capitalists to You?" Star Trek's Klingons as Emergent Virtual American Ethnics / Peter A. Chvany 105 The Empress's New Clothing? Public Intellectualism and Popular Culture / Jane Shattuc 122 "My Beautiful Wickedness": The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy / Alexander Doty 138 III. Maker 159 "Ceci N'est Pas une Jeune Fille": Videocams, Representation, and "Othering" in the Worlds of Teenage Girls / Gerry Bloustien 162 "No Matter How Small": The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss / Henry Jenkins 187 An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS, Babylon 5, and the Net / Alan Wexelblat 209 "I'm a Loser Baby": Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity / Stephen Duncombe 227 IV. Performance 251 "Anyone Can Do It": Forging a Participatory Culture in Karaoke Bars / Robert Drew 254 Watching Wrestling / Writing Performance / Sharon Mazer 270 Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity," and the Discourse of Camp / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 287 "They Dig Her Message": Opera, Television, and the Black Diva / Dianne Brooks 300 How to Become a Camp Icon in Five Easy Lessons: Fetishism --- and Tallulah Bankhead's Phallus / Edward O'Neill 316 V. Taste 339 "It Will Get a Terrific Laugh": On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of Holocaust Humor / Louis Kaplan 343 The Sound of Disaffection / Tony Grajeda 357 Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon / Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio 376 "Racial Cross-Dressing" in the Jazz Age: Cultural Therapy and Its Discontents in Cabaret Nightlife / Nicholas M. Evans 388 The Invisible Burlesque Body of La Guardia's New York / Anna McCarthy 415 Quarantined! A Case Study of Boston's Combat Zone / Eric Schaefer and Eithne Johnson 430 VI. Change 455 On Thrifting / Matthew Tinkcom, Joy Van Fuqua, and Amy Villarejo 459 Shopping Sense: Fanny Fern and Jennie June on Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century / Elana Crane 472 Navigating Myst-y Landscapes: Killer Applications and Hybrid Criticism / Greg M. Smith 487 The Rules of the Game: Evil Dead II . . . Meet Thy Doom / Angela Ndalianis 503 Seeing in Black and White: Gender and Racial Visibility from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett / Tara McPherson 517 VII. Home 535 "The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know": Skinheads, Pakis, and Morrissey / Nabeel Zuberi 539 Finding One's Way Home: I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity / Maria Koundoura 556 As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other / Aniko Bodroghkozy 566 Wheels of Fortune: Nation, Culture, and the Tour de France / Catherine Palmer 589 Narrativizing Cyper-Travel: CD-ROM Travel Games and the Art of Historical Recovery / Ellen Strain 605 Hotting, Twocking, and Indigenous Shipping: A Vehicular Theory of Knowledge in Cultural Studies / John Hartley 622 VIII. Emotion 647 "Ain't I de One Everybody Come to See?!" Popular Memories of Uncle Tom's Cabin / Robyn R. Warhol 650 Stress Management Ideology and the Other Spaces of Women's Power / Kathleen Green 670 "Have You Seen This Child?" From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abime / Eric Freedman 689 Introducing Horror / Charles E. Weigl 700 About the Contributors 721 Name Index 733

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Book SynopsisColonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalise, pathologise, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. This book reveals how each group, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space.Trade Review“Disrupting Savagism offers a theoretically nuanced reading of the struggles over representation that have been waged by marginalized inhabitants of the United States-Mexican border zone. With its remarkable breadth of examples, the book carefully unfolds the thoroughgoing legacy of racial violence in the colonized Southwest.”—Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, author of Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse“The ‘savage’ speaks, gains voice, and articulates resistance to the forces of oppression in Aldama’s Disrupting Savagism. It is relentless in its rigor and perspicacious in its investigation as it dismantles the social discourses that ascribe Native Americans and mixed bloods ‘savage.’ Aldama’s efforts allow the Mestizo and Native American to take hold of the apparatus of representation and affirm self-identity. Disrupting Savagism is an important work, long needed to fill the gap in our collective understanding, a work that will have broad and long-lasting impact. I can think of no other work that addresses this material so capably and so thoroughly. An intelligent and powerful work.”—Alfred Arteaga, author of Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities"Disrupting Savagism provides a fresh analysis of the ways in which the subaltern speaks and in so doing attempts to unravel the binding structures of nation and empire." -- Ernesto Chávez * American Studies *"[Aldama] manages to directly engage the reader, and refocus the discussion on the intersection between the articulation of body and strategies of resistance." -- Claudia Aburto Guzman * MELUS *"Thorough and nuanced. . . . Ambitious in its theoretical rigor and historical scope, Disrupting Savagism will make a lasting contribution to Chicana/o studies, American Indian studies, and the postcolonial studies of the Americas." -- Monica Brown * Aztlán *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Part I: Mapping Subalternity in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands 1. The Chiana/o and the Native American “Other” Talk Back: Theories of the Speaking Subject in a (Post?) Colonial Context 2. When the Mexicans Talk, Who Listens? The Crisis of Ethnography in Situating Early Voices from the U.S./Mexico Borderlands Part II: Narrative Disruptions: Decolonization, Dangerous Bodies, and the Politics of Space 3. Counting Coup: Narrative Acts of (Re)Claiming Identity in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 4. Toward a Hermeneutics of Decolonization: Reading Radical Subjectivities in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua 5. A Border Coda: Dangerous Bodies, Liminality, and the Reclamation of Space in Star Maps by Miguel Arteta Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHas kinship become more structureless, commodified, and flexible in the global era? Do such representations overlook the diffuse, enduring ties that kinship has long signified? What has been the effect of contemporary bio-politics on kinship practices and theories? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review“This important collection of inter-disciplinary essays on the new kinship shows diverse ways that relative values, shifting solidarities, and partial connections of truth and affect today create the ties that bind.”—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley“This is one of the few books which crosses disciplinary terrains with clear and brilliant consequences. It not only brings anthropology into every sphere, but shows that fundamental thinking on life and kinship under conditions of globalization compel us to accept and work with a radical remapping of knowledge. This text considers these issues with prismatic illumination and is unprecedented in its success.”—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley"The challenge of recoding our kinship studies and our kinship behaviour remains, but the essays in Relative Values provide a broad template that makes meeting the challenge possible—and necessary. Scholars in a multitude of fields will be grateful for this finely executed collection." -- Judith S. Modell, * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies / Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon Part I. Substantial-Codings: From Blood to Hypertext 1. Substantivism, Antisubstantivism, and Anti-antisubstantivism / Janet Carsten 2. The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American Beaver / Gillian Feeley-Harnik 3. Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology / Mary Bouquet 4. Kinship in Hypertext: Transubstantiating Fatherhood and Information Flow in Artificial Life / Stefan Helmreich Part II. Kinship Negotiations: What’s Biology Not/Got to Do with It 5. Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/Class Politics of Blood Transfusion / Kath Weston 6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic / Charis Thompson 7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption / Signe Howell 8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China / Yunxiang Yan 9. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The Case of Grandparenting / Martine Segalen Part III. Nature, Culture, and the Properties of Kinship 10. The Economies in Kinship and the Paternity of Culture: Origin Stories in Kinship Theory / Susan McKinnon 11. Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies / Sarah Franklin Part IV. ‘R’ Genes Us? The Uses of Gene/alogies 12. Blood/Kinship, Governmentality, and Cultures of Order in Colonial Africa / Melbourne Tapper 13. “We’re Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are”: Science and Relatedness / Jonathan Marks 14. Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Heredity Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet / Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath, and Karen-Sue Taussig Part V. Ambivalence and Violence at the Heart of Kinship 15. Ambivalence in Kinship since the 1940s / Michael G. Peletz 16. Cutting the Ties that Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal Kinship / Carol Delaney 17. To Forget Their Tongue, Their Name, and Their Whole Relation: Captivity, Extra-Tribal Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act / Pauline Turner Strong Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study what the state looks like to those seeing it from the vantage points of rural schools, police departments, small villages, and the inside of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Focusing on the micropolitics of everyday state-making, the contributors examine the mythologies, paradoxes, and inconsistencies of the state through ethnographies of diverse postcolonial practices. They show how the authority of the state is constantly challenged from the local as well as the global and how growing demands to confer rights and recognition to ever more citizens, organizations, and institutionTrade Review“This outstanding volume contains an excellent introductory discussion of current trends of thinking and research on the state. The first-rate articles by a mix of well- and less-known scholars are sophisticated, nuanced, and accessible.”—George Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin“With its wealth of empirical description coming from all parts of the postcolonial world, this book is an immensely valuable contribution to the new ethnography of the state. Hansen and Stepputat have put together a richly varied but carefully organized and theoretically productive set of studies.”—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: States of Imagination / Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat I. State and Governance “Demonic Societies”: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty / Mitchell Dean Governing Population: The Integrated Child Development Services Program in India / Akhil Gupta The Battlefield and the Prize: ANC’s Bid to Reform the South African State / Steffen Jensen Imagining the State as a Space: Territoriality and the Formation of the State in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe II. State and Justice The South African Truth and Reconcilliation Commission: A Technique of Nation-State Formation / Lars Buur Reconstructing National Identity and Renegotiating Memory: The Work of the TRC / Aletta J. Norval Rethinking Citizenship: Reforming the Law in Postwar Guatemala / Rachel Sieder Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai / Thomas Blom Hansen III. State and Community Before History and Prior to Politics: Time, Space, and Territory in the Modern Peruvian Nation-State / David Nugent Urbanizing the Countryside: Armed Conflict, State Formation, and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Guatemala / Finn Stepputat In the Name of the State? Schools and Teachers in an Andean Province / Fiona Wilson The Captive State: Corruption, Intelligence Agencies, and Ethnicity in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik Public Secrets, Conscious Amnesia, and the Celebration of Autonomy for Ladakh / Martijn van Beek Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCollection of anthropological essays studying radical social transformation - including violence - and its effects on the everyday lives of people in a variety of world regions.Trade Review“Ethnography in Unstable Places is a profound exercise in ethnographic reflexivity. It seeks to consider new possibilities, new challenges, new horizons—at once conceptual, political, ethical—for an old anthropological method by taking it precisely where it was not designed to go: into everyday worlds radically transformed by hitherto unimaginedsocial conditions, unimaginable political circumstances, altered states, economies, subjectivities. Expansive in their scope, provocative in their theoretical implications, even poetic in their treatment of human lives, the essays in this volume show ‘where past has gone, where the future will come from’;the past and future, that is, of both anthropology and the worlds with which it concerns itself.”—John Comaroff, University of Chicago“Beyond being topical, this groundbreaking collection represents precisely the kind of inquiry that contemporary anthropology should be dedicating itself to—one brave enough to abide, ethnographically and theoretically, in the interstices of knowledge-based and experiential models, in the gaps between individual and collective agency, in realms of historical and cultural contingency.”—Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Altered States, Altered Lives / Carol J. Greenhouse Part One: Law against Culture Ghettos in the Holocaust: The Improvisation of Social Order in a Culture of Terror / Carroll McC. Lewin Unsettled Settlers: Internal Pacification and Vagrancy in Namibia / Robert J. Gordon Judges without Courts: The Legal Culture of German Reunification / Howard J. De Nike Part Two: Ethnographies of Agency in the Fissures of the State Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes: Following Gyres in the Worlds of Big Science and European Integration / Stacia E. Zabusky The Composite State: The Poor and the Nation in Manila / Phillip C. Parnell Domestic Matters: Feminism and Activism Among Palestinian Women in Israel / Elizabeth Faier “Best Interests” and the Repatriation of Vietnamese Unaccompanied Minors / James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu Part Three: Resistance and Remembrance Beating the Bounds: Law, Identity, and Territory in the New Europe / Eve Darian-Smith “Honest Bandits” and “Warped People”: Russian Narratives about Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay / Nancy Ries Trance Against the State / Judy Rosenthal Part Four: Conclusion The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Culture / Elizabeth Mertz Toward in Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions / Kay B. Warren Contributors Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisJapanese fitness clubs combine entertainment and exercise, reflecting the Japanese concept of fitness as encompassing a zest for life as well as physical health. This book reveals through an account of these clubs how beauty, bodies, health, and leisure are understood and experienced in Japan.Trade Review“Working Out in Japan is a theoretically sophisticated analysis informed by wide reading and well-grounded in the author’s extensive experience as a fitness instructor.”—Allen Guttmann, coauthor of Japanese Sports: A History”Laura Spielvogel views notions of the body and gender in contemporary Japanese popular culture from an interesting new angle. This highly original work offers an important complement to the Western-dominated literature on the body, sports, and fitness by describing the distinctly Japanese body culture that is a product of both regional traditions and transnational influences.”—Susan Brownell, author of Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic“A thoughtfully researched and well-written book. It provides a comprehensive case study of Tokyo fitness clubs and the contributions of the management, patrons, and staff toward the debates over identity and gender roles as experienced through the female body.” -- Tracy Taylor * Sociology of Sport Journal *"Enjoyable, professional, and well-written. . . . Spielvogel's book . . . manages to be both scholarly and entertaining. . . . It ranges widely and fluently over a range of issues that already exist in a very scattered form in the literature and succeeds in relating them in fresh and interesting ways that should provide new models for anthropologists of Japan to take up and extend even further." -- John Clammer * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Exceptionally well-done. . . . A rare and highly welcome complimentary perspective to our general understanding of the way cultural ideologies are inscribed upon the body. . . . One of the best and most convincing books I have read this summer. . . . This book is a fine ethnographic account, a theoretically sophisticated narrative, and an absolute must-read for anyone with a general interest in sport, consumer culture, the body, or the feminine in late-capitalist Japan." -- Wolfram Manzenreiter * Monumenta Nipponica *"[Spielvogel's] study covers an extraordinary range of topics and examines them with uncharacteristic theoretical breadth. . . . This well-written, thoughtfully argued, accessible study is a welcome addition to the growing body of excellent ethnographies on sport, leisure, and body culture." -- Thomas B. Stevenson * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The History of Aerobics in Japan: The Sexy American Import 33 2. The Discipline of Space 61 3. The Discipline of Bodies 85 4. Cigarettes and Aerobics: Frustrations with Gender Inequities in the Club 115 5. Young, Proportionate, Leggy, and Thin: The Ideal Female Body 142 6. Selfishly Skinny or Selflessly Starving 174 Conclusions 207 Notes 215 Bibliography 227 Index 243

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Book SynopsisTransnational ethnic identity issues studied through an ethnography of Chinese American visits to Chinese villages organized under a program set up by the Chinese governmentTrade Review“Andrea Louie provides an engaging ethnography of the dual investment of mainland Chinese and Chinese American youth in defining what it is to be Chinese in diaspora. Louie’s attention to the role of the Chinese state in fostering ‘geneological tourism’ helps to break new ground in Asian American and diaspora studies.”—Kamala Visweswaran, author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography“Andrea Louie seamlessly guides a discussion of China and Chinese America from the difficult topography of race and nation to the heartfelt search for the understanding of ancestry and home.”—Shawn Wong, author of the novel American Knees“Andrea Louie’s work heralds a new and important phase in the anthropology of transnationalism and globalization. She has produced a very convincing and elegantly nuanced ethnographic exploration of Chinese and Chinese American negotiations of ‘Chineseness.’”—Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the DiasporaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: On Boundary Crossings 1 1 Identities Fixed in Place: Ancestral Villages and Chinese/Chinese American Roots 39 2 Welcome Home!(?): Crafting a Sense of Place in the United States through the In Search of Roots Homeland Tour 69 3 Crafting Chinese American Identities: Roots Narratives in the Context of U.S. Multiculturalism 95 4 The Feng Shui Has Taken a Turn (feng shui lun liu zhuan): Changing Views of the Guangdong Chinese toward Life Abroad Following the Open Policy 127 5 The Descendants of the Dragon Gather: The Youth Festival as Encounter between the Chinese and the Chinese American Other 161 6 Remaking Places and Renegotiating Chineseness 189 Epilogue 205 Notes 211 Bibliography 229 Index 239

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Book SynopsisAn interpretive history of the way competing ideas of reproduction as a biological and sexual process became central to the organization of knowledge about the flow of capital, labor power, human bodies, and babies both within nations and across national bordersTrade Review“Alys Eve Weinbaum offers an array of transformative reassessments of major canonical texts of literature, social theory, and science, marking the heretofore unrecognized centrality of what she calls the ‘race/reproduction bind’ to these texts. Wayward Reproductions is an important book with substantial political as well as scholarly implications.”—Miranda Joseph, author of Against the Romance of Community“I cannot imagine a more ambitious or important project. Wayward Reproductions provides new and exciting readings and interpretations of some of the foundational texts of modern intellectual thought. Alys Eve Weinbaum theorizes reproduction as a concept that weaves race and sex together and in so doing constructs or resists nationalism.”—Gail Bederman, author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917“What is very brilliant about this book is the way it opens readers’ eyes to specific ways of seeing the work of racialization and its distinctive role in ideas of nationalism not only within a number of classic texts but also in the critical traditions built up around them. The object lesson here is a very politically powerful one.”—Sarah Franklin, coeditor of Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Geneaology Unbound: Reproduction and Contestation of the Racial Nation 15 2. Writing Feminist Geneaology: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Reproduction of Racial Nationalism 61 3. Engels’s Originary Ruse: Race and Reproduction in the Story of Capital 106 4. Sexual Selection and the Birth of Psychoanalysis: Darwin, Freud, and the Universalization of Wayward Reproduction 145 5. The Sexual Politics of Black Internationalism: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Reproduction of Racial Globality 187 Coda: Gene/alogies for a New Millennium 227 Notes 247 Works Cited 307 Index 339

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Book SynopsisThis study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching, examining them as a form of political spectacle performed by improverished people who want to gain access to the potential benefits of citizenship in a modern city.Trade Review“The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms.”—Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change“Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, The Spectacular City is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level.”—Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the AmericasTable of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Becoming Visible in Neoliberal Bolivia 1 1. Ethnography, Governmentality, and Urban Life 29 2. Urbanism, Modernity, and Migration to Cochabamba 53 3. Villa Sebastian Pagador and the Politics of Community 90 4. Performing National Culture in the Fiesta de San Miguel 134 5. Spectacular Violence and Citizen Security 179 Conclusion: Theaters of Memory and the Violence of Citizenship 215 Notes 225 References 239 Index 265

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Book SynopsisThis study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching, examining them as a form of political spectacle performed by improverished people who want to gain access to the potential benefits of citizenship in a modern city.Trade Review“The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms.”—Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change“Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, The Spectacular City is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level.”—Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the AmericasTable of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Becoming Visible in Neoliberal Bolivia 1 1. Ethnography, Governmentality, and Urban Life 29 2. Urbanism, Modernity, and Migration to Cochabamba 53 3. Villa Sebastian Pagador and the Politics of Community 90 4. Performing National Culture in the Fiesta de San Miguel 134 5. Spectacular Violence and Citizen Security 179 Conclusion: Theaters of Memory and the Violence of Citizenship 215 Notes 225 References 239 Index 265

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary resources never before published in English.Trade Review"a poignant resource for anyone with an eye on the country, whether traveler, grizzled Costa Rica oldtimer, flash-in-the-pan tourist, historian, or Costa Rican national." The Tico TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I. Birth of an Exception? 9 II. Coffee Nation 55 III. Popular Culture and Social Policy 99 IV. Democratic Enigma 139 V. The Costa Rican Dream 183 VI. Other Cultures and Outer Reaches 229 VII. Working Paradise 275 VIII. Tropical Soundings 319 Suggestions for Further Reading 367 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 373 Index 379

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Book SynopsisA feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in the larger culture.Trade Review“Susan Seizer presents rich and intriguing material about a dramatic performance tradition at the same time that she provides smart, insightful, and sophisticated interpretations linking it to wider discussions. Stigmas of the Tamil Stage deserves to be read, discussed, and used to further debates in many fields of study.”—Paula Richman, editor of Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia“Susan Seizer’s moving and unique perspective on the fate of popular cultural practices in an age and society dominated by the norms and prescriptions of bourgeois modernity makes her work important and insightful not just for scholars of South Asia but for all those who are interested in the general problematic of popular culture, performance traditions, and modernity globally.”—Sumathi Ramaswamy, author of The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic HistoriesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xv Notes on Transliteration xxi Introduction Preface: A Conversation on Culture 1 Birth of This Project 9 Writing about Special Drama 12 Methods 14 Geographic Relations and the Historical Ethnographic Present 16 Why Comedy Is a Good Site for the Study of Culture 19 What Is Special Drama? 21 Making a Living 24 What Is Special about Special Drama? 26 Naming Matters 28 "Hey Drama People!": Stigma at Work 30 "Actors Have No Murai": A Proverbial Lack 32 Part One: The History and Organization of Special Drama 35 Part Two: Comedy 36 Part Three: Lives 38 Part One: The History and Organization of Special Drama 1. Legacies of Discourse: Special Drama and Its History 43 The Legend and Legacy of Sankaradas Swamigal 43 The History of Special Drama 47 Tamil Drama History, Stage One (of Undatable Roots) 49 Tamil Drama History, Stage Two 51 Tamil Drama History, Stage Three 52 Tamil Drama History, Stage Four 53 The Disciplined Life of the Drama Company 55 Life on the Margins of the Companies 60 Tamil Drama History, Stage Five: A New Historical Trajectory 62 The Legacy of the Company Model in Special Drama 64 Discourse of Vulgarity, Legacy of Shame 66 Context: The History of Modernity in Tamilnadu 70 Drama Actors Sangams 71 Why Actors Stand Still: Onstage Movement as the Embodiment of Vulgarity 77 The Stage Today 81 From Urban to Rurban 83 2. Prestige Hierarchies in Two and Three Dimensions: Drama Notices and the Organization of Special Drama 86 Early Drama Notices, 1891-1926 87 The Photograph Enters Notices, 1926-1936 92 English in the Vocabulary of Special Drama Artists: Jansirani and Sivakami 99 Midcentury Notices and Artists, 1942-1964 (M. K. Kamalam) 103 The Current Form of Notices: Roles and Ranks 111 The Photographic Style of Contemporary Notices 117 The Prestige Hierarchies of Artists as Pictured on Drama Notices 122 The Iconicity of the Contemporary Notice: Structured Spaces and Places 131 Drama Sponsorship and the Written Text of the Contemporary Drama Notice 132 The Working Network That Makes Special Drama Work 140 The Ritual Calendar of Drama Sponsorship 142 The Grounds of a Social Economy 144 3. Discipline in Practice: The Actors Sangam 146 Sivakami Winks… 146 …and Jansirani Disapproves 146 Competing Claims: A Matter of Bearing 149 Internalized Historiography: Artists' Discourses 152 Controlling Bodies and the Control of the Body 154 Discipline in Practice 157 Cross-Roles: Marked Men and Funny Women 165 Multiple Strategies 173 4. The Buffoon's Comedy: Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance 177 The Distances Appropriate to Humor 177 The Buffoon's Comedy Scene 180 Modernity and Its States of Desire 185 Layers of Meaning and the Meaning of Layers 198 The Ambivalence of Laughter: A Final Consideration 200 5. The Buffoon-Dance Duet: Social Space and Gendered Place 202 Mise-en-Scene 202 The Five Use-Areas and the Five Story Elements of the Duet 205 Architecture of the Stage: Inside, Outside, Behind, Above, and Beyond 205 Configuring the Stage: The Duet in Performance 207 The Dancer's Entrance 209 The Bumpy Meeting 212 The Meaning of a Bump between Men and Women 214 The Contest between Men and Women 216 Mutual Admiration and "Love Marriage" 223 Analogic Relations Onstage and Off 226 Conclusion 229 Coda 230 6. Atipiti Scene: Laughing at Domestic Violence 232 Atipiti 233 Anthropologists Viewing Laughter 234 The Ritual Frame of the Atipiti Scene 237 The Atipiti Scene 239 Act I: The Wife 239 Act II: The Husband 244 Act III: Their Meeting 250 A Discussion with the Artists 260 Four Theories of Spectatorship 264 Why Does the Audience Laugh? 267 An Audience Account 268 7. The Drama Tongue and the Local Eye 277 A Secret Language 279 Language Matters 281 Situating the Drama Tongue as an Argot 282 Researching the Drama Tongue 285 Terms of the Tongue 287 People of the Drama Tongue 293 What Do We Expect of a Secret Language? 296 Centered in Mobility, or, An Insider Language That Isn't 300 8. The Roadwork of Actresses 301 Offstage with Actresses 302 Narrative One: Regarding the Gender Dimensions of Booking a Drama 305 Work and the Internalization of Gendered Behavior 310 Narrative Two: Regarding Traveling to a Drama in a Private Conveyance 314 Roads and the Externalization of Gendered Behavior 316 Narrative Three: Regarding Traveling to a Drama in a Public Conveyance 319 Narrative Four: Regarding the Spatial Arrangements at a Drama Site 323 Theoretical Grounds 324 Narrative Five: Regarding Traveling Home in the Morning 327 Conclusion 329 9. Kinship Murai and the Stigma on Actors 334 An Excess Born of Lack 334 Kinship, Incest, and the Onstage Locus of Stigma 336 Known and Unknown People 349 Prestigious Patrilines and Activist Actresses 354 N. S. Varatarajan's Family 359 Karur Ambika's Family 354 Many Murai 363 Epilogue 365 Flower Garlands 365 Jansirani and Sivakami, 2001 368 Stigma and Its Sisters 371 Appendix I: Sangam Rules 375 Appendix 2: Tamil Transliteration of Buffoon Selvam's Monologue, 1 April 1992 381 Notes 385 Works Cited 417 Index 433

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Book SynopsisEthnographic studies of the role of sexuality and gender in development discourse and policy.Trade Review“This volume is an interesting read for social scientists, social historians, and health care workers. By bringing such richly documented case studies together, it inspires researchers who study sexuality to reflect upon how exactly sexuality is constituted in their time and place…. [T]his volume is a must.” - Anna C. M. Tijsseling, Archives of Sexual Behavior"This collection adopts a sophisticated ethnographic and historical perspective. . . . [I]t will be invaluable to those with an interest in health policy or development as well as anthropology." - Sophie Day, Times Literary Supplement“[A]n excellent anthropological intervention into development studies that deserves a broad interdisciplinary feminist audience. . . . Indeed, each of the chapters in this anthology is an excellent ethnographic case study exploring the situated dynamics of sex and development programs (Adams and Pigg, 21). Assembled together, and organized around clearly articulated common themes, they make this book a truly important one. The book has remarkable geographic and conceptual scope, and the conversation it stages among sexuality studies, science studies, and critical development work is exceptionally innovative. In short, the collection deserves to have broad and lasting impact on thefield.” - Kate Bedford, Signs“[A] refreshing perspective. . . . The authors, and especially Adams and Pigg in their introduction, skillfully examine the facticity of scientific understandings of the body and sex typical of development projects, uncovering ways in which certain discourses, like science, come to be different and often more powerful than others in practice. . . . Through all of the contributions, we see sex in development as a global process but one that takes on many different guises.” - Robert C. Philen, American Anthropologist“[A] series of rich and detailed ethnographic studies carried out by anthropologists over the past 10 years in Asia, Africa and Europe. . . . [T]his collection makes an important contribution to fledgling debates on sexuality and development in a global context.” - Carolyn H. Williams, Feminist Review“This book charts territory that has so far been little explored in gender and development literature, namely the interrelationships between totalizing, ‘scientifically neutral’ concepts of sex and sexuality and local constructs of sex and gender in developing societies.”— - Sylvia Chant, Progress in Development Studies“The book makes a case for thinking in new directions about sexuality in relation to the ‘scientization’ of development policies. It's an important reference work for scholarship in anthropology, public health, and gender and sexuality studies, and in development studies.” - Frauen Solidarität“This important and timely book makes a case for thinking in new directions about sexuality in relation to the ‘scientization’ of development policies. It will become an important reference work for future scholarship in anthropology, public health, and gender and sexuality studies, and, one would hope, in development studies.”—Rayna Rapp, coeditor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction“[A] refreshing perspective. . . . The authors, and especially Adams and Pigg in their introduction, skillfully examine the facticity of scientific understandings of the body and sex typical of development projects, uncovering ways in which certain discourses, like science, come to be different and often more powerful than others in practice. . . . Through all of the contributions, we see sex in development as a global process but one that takes on many different guises.” -- Robert C. Philen * American Anthropologist *“[A] series of rich and detailed ethnographic studies carried out by anthropologists over the past 10 years in Asia, Africa and Europe. . . . [T]his collection makes an important contribution to fledgling debates on sexuality and development in a global context.” -- Carolyn H. Williams * Feminist Review *“[A]n excellent anthropological intervention into development studies that deserves a broad interdisciplinary feminist audience. . . . Indeed, each of the chapters in this anthology is an excellent ethnographic case study exploring the situated dynamics of sex and development programs (Adams and Pigg, 21). Assembled together, and organized around clearly articulated common themes, they make this book a truly important one. The book has remarkable geographic and conceptual scope, and the conversation it stages among sexuality studies, science studies, and critical development work is exceptionally innovative. In short, the collection deserves to have broad and lasting impact on thefield.” -- Kate Bedford * Signs *“This book charts territory that has so far been little explored in gender and development literature, namely the interrelationships between totalizing, ‘scientifically neutral’ concepts of sex and sexuality and local constructs of sex and gender in developing societies.” -- Sylvia Chant * Progress in Development Studies *“This volume is an interesting read for social scientists, social historians, and health care workers. By bringing such richly documented case studies together, it inspires researchers who study sexuality to reflect upon how exactly sexuality is constituted in their time and place…. [T]his volume is a must.” -- Anna C. M. Tijsseling * Archives of Sexual Behavior *"This collection adopts a sophisticated ethnographic and historical perspective. . . . [I]t will be invaluable to those with an interest in health policy or development as well as anthropology." -- Sophie Day * TLS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Moral Object of Sex /Stacy Leigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams 1 Globalizing the Facts of Life / Stacy Leigh Pigg 39 Part 1: The Production of New Subjectivities 67 Moral Science and the Management of "Sexual Revolution" in Russia / Michele Rivkin-Fish 71 Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban Greece / Heather Paxson 95 From Auntie to Disco: The Bifurcation of Risk and Pleasure in Sex Education in Uganda / Shanti A. Parikh 125 Part 2: The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project 159 Sexuality, the State, and the Runaway Wives of Highlands Papua, Indonesia / Leslie Butt 163 "Ordinary" Sex, Prostitutes, and Middle-Class Wives: Liberalization and National Identity in India / Heather S. Dell 187 Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa, Tibet (China) / Vincanne Adams 207 Part 3: Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity Politics 241 Uses and Pleasures: Sexual Modernity, HIV/AIDS, and Confessional Technologies in a West African Metropolis / Vinh-Kim Nguyen 245 The Kothi Wars: AIDS Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification / Lawrence Cohen 269 References 305 Contributors 333 Index 335

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how popular culture is received and produced within the Middle East.Trade Review“Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg’s volume Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture makes an invaluable contribution to the growing field of Middle Eastern cultural studies. Refusing essentialist understandings of culture, the editors and authors also transcend traditional Marxist paradigms. The volume insightfully illuminates the often marginalized issue of the politics of culture within the contested terrain of Palestine and Israel.”—Ella Shohat, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Cultural Studies, New York University“This empirically rich, theoretically innovative, and unusually wide-ranging volume brings together a set of fascinating and insightful explorations of the popular culture and cultural politics of Palestine/Israel, including music, cinema, television, cyberculture, tourism, comics, and the role of Israel and the Jews in U. S. evangelical Christian eschatology. By demonstrating how culture has been a crucial and often formative domain of contention both within and between Arab and Jewish societies in Palestine over the past century and down to the present day, the contributors open up a great deal of extremely valuable terrain that has been sorely neglected until now.”—Zachary Lockman, author of Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism“This theoretically savvy, eye-opening tour through popular culture in and about Palestine and Israel confirms at once the inherent inseparability of culture/politics and the gripping mutuality of Israel/Palestine.”—Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt"[P]rovocative. . . . [T]he essays in this volume . . . imaginatively deconstruct aspects of popular culture still seeping across the walls erected through this long and intractable conflict." -- Donna Robinson Divine * Digest of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Popular Culture, Transnationality, and Radical History / Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg 1 I. Historical Articulations Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Popular Music, and Early Modernity in Jerusalem / Salim Tamari 27 The Palestinian Press in Mandatory Jaffa: Advertising, Nationalism, and the Public Sphere / Mark LeVine 51 Post-Zionism and Its Popular Cultures / Ilan Pappé 77 II. Cinemas and Cyberspaces Cross/Cast: Passing in Israeli and Palestinian Cinema / Carol Bardenstein 99 Virtual Nation: Palestinian Cyberculture in Lebanese Camps / Laleh Khalili 126 Is There a Palestinian National Cinema?: The National and Transnational in Palestinian Film Production / Livia Alexander 150 III. The Politics of Music Liberating Songs: Palestine Put to Music / Joseph Massad 175 Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Umm Kulthum / Amy Horowitz 202 Against Hybridity: The Case of Enrico Macias/Gaston Chrenassia / Ted Swedenburg 231 IV. Regional and Global Circuits "First Contact" and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process / Rebecca L. Stein 259 Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Evangelicalism's New World Order / Melani McAlister 288 Telling Stories in Palestine: Comix Understanding and Narratives of Palestine-Israel / Mary Layoun 313 Sentimentality and Redemption: The Rhetoric of Egyptian Pop Culture Intifada Solidarity / Elliott Cola 338 Bibliography 365 Contributors 397 Index 401

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Book SynopsisHow grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic researchTrade Review“Jennifer Bickham Mendez provides a nuanced ethnography that does not simply assert the gendered intricacies of local and global political-economic processes but artfully traces their unfolding in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. She reveals the organizational and discursive possibilities presented through the international feminist and human rights movements and also elucidates the constraints and tensions across local political hierarchies of organized labor, state bureaucracies, and a national/regional women’s movement fractured along class lines. Mendez’s analysis of MEC and the wider regional Network provides a powerful lens on the range of tactics, coping mechanisms, and organizational strategies currently being enacted on a stage that is simultaneously local, regional, and global.”—Carla Freeman, author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean“This is a compelling case study of a women’s NGO organizing women workers in a Free Trade Zone in post-Sandinista Nicaragua. Jennifer Bickham Mendez’s account reveals the challenges faced by a feisty NGO trying to survive and maintain its autonomy—from capital, the state, and the good intentions of international donors. It is a testimony to the strengths, but also the fragility, of civil society in today’s struggling democracies.”—Jane S. Jaquette, coeditor of Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe“From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is written on the basis of ethnographic research and the author’s personal involvement over the course of a decade; it is therefore a historical chronicle, an investigation into the operations of a unique women’s organization, and a personal testimony.” -- Patricia Fernández-Kelly * Signs *“A must-read text for anyone interested in contemporary women’s movements, labor organizing, and issues of transnationalism and globalization in Latin America and elsewhere.” -- Lynn Stephen * American Ethnologist *“This well-written, well-organized and accessible book is exemplary in its ability to locate a case study within a larger context and reveal the connections between day-today organizing and the transnational links and multiple global spheres stimulated by globalization.” -- Norma Stoltz Chinchilla * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAbout the Series vi Preface vii Acknowledgments xi 1. "Just Us and Our Worms": The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, "Maria Elena Cuardra" 1 2. Oppositional Politics in Nicaragua and the Formation of MEC 25 3. Gendering Power and Resistance in an Era of Globalizations 59 4. "Autonomous but Organized" : MEC's Search for an Organizational Structure 79 5. "Rompiendo Esqruemas" : MEC's Political Strategies and the Free Trade Zone 133 6. MEC and the Postsocialist State : Democracy, Rights, and Citizenship under Globalization 177 7. Resistance Goes Global : Power and Opposition in an Age of Globalization 205 Notes 227 Abbreviations and Acronyms 239 Bibliography 241 Index 267

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Book SynopsisA case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalizationTrade Review“Markets of Dispossession is a brilliant study of contemporary forms of market ideology and practice. Exploring central questions about value and social resources, debt and dispossession, culture and power, it offers an original and outstanding contribution to the anthropological analysis of the economic.”—Timothy Mitchell, author of Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity“Ethnographically rich and analytically powerful, Markets of Dispossession fundamentally reshapes the debate over the informal economy, microenterprise, and economic development and points to the complex and many-layered world-conjuring work of that which we have come to call neoliberalism. Based on evocative accounts of craftsmen’s workshops in Cairo, Julia Elyachar shows how the market expansion promoted by the World Bank, NGOs, and others poses critical challenges to both everyday lives and contemporary social analysis.”—Bill Maurer, author of Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason“[A] masterful description and sophisticated interpretation of the transformation of the social, cultural, and political economy of urban Egypt since the early 1990s. . . . Elyachar has written a book that is essential reading for anyone concerned with development, Egypt and the Arab World, and the dangers of ideologically motivated interference by foreign social scientists and other experts in local economies and societies.” -- Donald (Abdallah) Cole * American Ethnologist *“Elyachar has produced a work rich in fine ethnographic detail and driven by important theoretical insights into the workings of market, the anthropology of value, the play of power in society, and the social consequences of development strategies. This is a brilliant study on many levels. . . . This work is a tour-de-force of critical analysis and ethnographic exposition. It sets new standards for the study of programmatic economic development, the ethnography of craft and small-scale production, and the cultural consequences and human costs of structural adjustment.” -- Roy Dilley * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix A Note on Transliteration xv 1. Introduction: The Power of Invisible Hands 1 2. A Home for Markets: Two Neighborhoods in Plan and Practice, 1905–1996 37 3. Mappings of Power: Informal Economy and Hybrid States 66 4. Mastery, Power, and Model Workshop Markets 96 5. Value, the Evil Eye, and Economic Subjectivities 137 6. NGO's, Business, and Social Capital 167 7. Empowering Debt 191 Conclusion: The Free Market and the Invisible Spectator 213 Notes 221 Bibliography 245 Index 269

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Book SynopsisThe photographs of Aborgines taken at Coranderrk Station were circulated across the western world and were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic "data" within museum collections. This book reveals how western society came to understand Aboriginal people through these images.Trade Review“Jane Lydon’s meticulous investigation of the role of photography in the cross-cultural engagement that took place at Coranderrk from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century unfolds with a narrative drive. The community at Coranderrk comes alive. We care about the residents, how they have been represented in successive periods, and how their descendants now use the photographs to reclaim the past and construct their own narratives.”—Roslyn Poignant, author of Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle“What makes this study especially rich and important is the way Jane Lydon takes full advantage of photographic theory without imposing it reductively or simplistically. This is particularly impressive because she shows in very nuanced ways that different photographs were produced for different reasons at different times and that these photos embody various ideas about Aboriginality and science.”—David Prochaska, coauthor of Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists“Eye Contact is . . . a welcome entrant into the interdisciplinary arena of material culture study intersecting with photographic history. It clears a path through a landscape of nostalgia littered with the pictorial histories and genres of illustrated then-and-now documentation. . . . [T]his book brings out this body of photographic work to sit within a soundly researched historical context, and provides useful discussions on the ways in which the photographs meanings were constructed for specific purposes.” -- Joanna Sassoon * History of Photography *“Eye Contact is a fine contribution to visual history, colonial studies, and comparative work on visual culture and photography more broadly.” -- Corinne A. Kratz * American Ethnologist *“[A] rich verbal and visual text. . . . By tying colonial-era photography to the institutions within which it took place and historicizing the shifting contexts of composition, production, and distribution for the images themselves, Lydon’s beautifully produced monograph makes a significant contribution to understanding colonial photographic practice.” -- Daniel Fisher * Anthropology and Humanism *“I found Lydon’s book to be a resounding success: it is an enjoyable read; an important, well-timed contribution to the disciplinary fields of history, photography, and anthropology; and an especially welcome addition to scholarship that examines the power of media practices to produce and re-imagine meaning.” -- Sabra Thorner * Visual Anthropology Review *“This is a well written book, intelligently conceived and well argued. It is theoretically sophisticated while remaining accessible.” -- Peggy Brock * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *“With its eye-catching cover, bold title and eighty-eight illustrations, Jane Lydon’s Eye Contact is an impressive scholarly work detailing the role that visual imagery, but particularly photography, played in developments at the Aboriginal mission at Coranderrer in Victoria from its beginnings in the 1870s to its closure in the early 1900s.” -- Anne Maxwell * Australian Historical Studies *"Insightful. . . . The importance of Eye Contact goes beyond the recovery of aspects of untold Australian history, in that any consideration of the function of representation of Aboriginal people is a meditation on the nature of culture in Australia." -- John Mateer * Melbourne Age *"The Coranderrk photographs perform seemingly contradictory roles; they are both 'memorials to a vanishing race' and a vital resource for contemporary indigenous people searching for their descendants in order to keep the past alive." -- Mireille Juchau * TLS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: Colonialism, Photography, Mimesis 1 1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater 33 2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas" 73 3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s–1880s 122 4. Works Like a Clock 176 5. Coranderrk Reappears 214 Epilogue 248 Notes 253 Bibliography 271 Index 295

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Book SynopsisA case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalizationTrade Review“Markets of Dispossession is a brilliant study of contemporary forms of market ideology and practice. Exploring central questions about value and social resources, debt and dispossession, culture and power, it offers an original and outstanding contribution to the anthropological analysis of the economic.”—Timothy Mitchell, author of Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity“Ethnographically rich and analytically powerful, Markets of Dispossession fundamentally reshapes the debate over the informal economy, microenterprise, and economic development and points to the complex and many-layered world-conjuring work of that which we have come to call neoliberalism. Based on evocative accounts of craftsmen’s workshops in Cairo, Julia Elyachar shows how the market expansion promoted by the World Bank, NGOs, and others poses critical challenges to both everyday lives and contemporary social analysis.”—Bill Maurer, author of Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason“[A] masterful description and sophisticated interpretation of the transformation of the social, cultural, and political economy of urban Egypt since the early 1990s. . . . Elyachar has written a book that is essential reading for anyone concerned with development, Egypt and the Arab World, and the dangers of ideologically motivated interference by foreign social scientists and other experts in local economies and societies.” -- Donald (Abdallah) Cole * American Ethnologist *“Elyachar has produced a work rich in fine ethnographic detail and driven by important theoretical insights into the workings of market, the anthropology of value, the play of power in society, and the social consequences of development strategies. This is a brilliant study on many levels. . . . This work is a tour-de-force of critical analysis and ethnographic exposition. It sets new standards for the study of programmatic economic development, the ethnography of craft and small-scale production, and the cultural consequences and human costs of structural adjustment.” -- Roy Dilley * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix A Note on Transliteration xv 1. Introduction: The Power of Invisible Hands 1 2. A Home for Markets: Two Neighborhoods in Plan and Practice, 1905–1996 37 3. Mappings of Power: Informal Economy and Hybrid States 66 4. Mastery, Power, and Model Workshop Markets 96 5. Value, the Evil Eye, and Economic Subjectivities 137 6. NGO's, Business, and Social Capital 167 7. Empowering Debt 191 Conclusion: The Free Market and the Invisible Spectator 213 Notes 221 Bibliography 245 Index 269

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Book SynopsisExplores how participants in the indigenous movement in Cauca, Colombia - including indigenous, non-indigenous, scholars, and shamans - have helped define a new sense of Colombian nationhoodTrade Review“Joanne Rappaport takes engaged anthropology a whole step further in this brilliant experimental ethnography. Through intercultural dialogues involving new generations of Nasa intellectuals and their nonindigenous collaborators in Colombia, we witness creative tactics to decolonize knowledge and produce novel hybrid political culture. Intercultural Utopias offers a rigorous, indigenously inflected analytical approach to issues such as indigenous politics, autonomy, and conflict ‘inside the inside’ of highly fluid arenas of indigenous activism.”—Kay Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala“This book is a major intervention in discussions of interculturalism among scholars and activists committed to indigenous movements. Joanne Rappaport’s theoretical and methodological innovation and politically engaged practice model the transformative power of horizontal conversation between and among intellectuals from distinct linguistic and cultural traditions.”—Florencia E. Mallon, author of Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2001“Intercultural Utopias is extremely useful for thinking comparatively about indigenous movements, particularly the sections on bilingual education, the role of the national left, implementation of customary law, and dealings with transnational religious authorities.” -- Diane Nelson * Journal of Anthropological Research *“In this path-breaking book, Rappaport describes and analyzes the work of ‘intellectuals’ that have during recent decades informed and shaped the indigenous movement in the province of Cauca (Colombia). . . . One of the book’s major insights is its challenge to the idea that Colombia’s indigenous movement is monolithic, with a homogenous set of actors.” -- Esteban Rozo * Comparative Studies in Society and History *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on the Orthography of Nasa Yuwe xvii Abbreviations for Colombian Organizations xix Introduction 1 1. Frontier Nasa / Nasa de Frontera : The Dilemma of the Indigenous Intellectual 23 2. Colaboradores: The Predicament of Pluralism in an Intercultural Movement 55 3. Risking Dialogue: Anthropological Collaborations with Nasa Intellectuals 83 4. Interculturalism and Lo propio: CRIC’s Teachers as Local Intellectuals 115 5. Second Sight: Nasa and Guambiano Theory 152 6. The Battle for the Legacy of Father Ulcué: Spirituality in the Struggle between Region and Locality 185 7. Imagining a Pluralist Nation: Intellectuals and Indigenous Special Jurisdiction 227 Epilogue 262 Glossary 277 Notes 281 Works Cited 299 Index 325

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Book SynopsisTakes on an idea central to American national mythology that the US is 'a nation of immigrants', open-armed and welcoming to foreigners. This work argues that Americans' treatment of immigrants and foreigners has long fluctuated between hospitality and hostility and that this ambivalence is fundamental to the construction of US national identity.Trade Review“By way of valuable new readings of Jefferson, Hamilton, Tocqueville, Crèvecoeur, and others, Ali Behdad has found a new way into established terrain. Neither pro- nor anti-immigration per se, this book traces the cultural workings and productions of immigration politics, an angle explored by few contributors to the immigration literature. A Forgetful Nation should be required reading for all those interested in the long and often hidden history of nation-building in the United States.”—Bonnie Honig, author of Democracy and the Foreigner“This book offers a deeply relevant argument in the wake of 9/11 and counter-terror. Ali Behdad provides psychological depth to immigration discourse with a nuanced examination of ‘forgetting’ as a mode of negation that both denies and acknowledges a past built on the exclusion of otherness.”—Russ Castronovo, author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States“A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States is an extraordinary work of cultural memory and an important contribution to critical historiography. In writing it, Ali Behdad has established a heretofore unrecognized connection between the culture’s mythical representation of itself as an ‘Immigrant Nation’ and the negation of the history of the violence inflicted against immigrants that this self-forgetful representation necessitated.” -- Donald E. Pease * Nations and Nationalism *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Nation and Immigration 1 Imagining America: Forgeful Fathers and the Founding Myths of the Nation 23 Historicizing America: Tocqueville and the Ideology of Exceptionalism 48 Immigrant America: Liberal Discourse of Immigration and the Ritual of Self-Renewal 76 Discourses of Exclusion: Nativism and the Imaginging of a “White Nation” 111 Practices of Exclusion: National Borders and the Disciplining of Aliens 143 Conclusion: Remembering 9/11 169 Notes 117 Bibliography 193 Index 205

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Book SynopsisA classic study of Zapotec women weavers and their reactions to global capitalismTrade Review“After it first appeared, Zapotec Women quickly became a must-read in the fields of gender and Latin American studies, and today it can fairly be regarded as a classic. This thoroughly revised edition is a tour de force. Not content merely to add a few pages at the beginning or end of chapters, Lynn Stephen has rethought several key conceptual frameworks and reconsidered the changes experienced in Teotitlán del Valle over the past twenty years.”— Matthew C. Gutmann, editor of Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America“How wonderful that this second edition of Zapotec Women is available! So well written and blessedly lacking in jargon, it comprehensively explains the evolution of women’s cooperatives in Teotitlán, including their interactions with the Mexican state and NGOs, and the effects of transnational forces like NAFTA and increased migration to the United States.”—Jean Jackson, coeditor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America“In Zapotec Women, Lynn Stephen presents a complex analysis of stereotypically strong women. She situates women’s independence, forged in daily life, in Zapotec tradition that is framed by state-sponsored images of ‘Mexican Indians’ and market transformations that have regional, national, and international dimensions. Stephen’s compelling analysis illuminates class, ethnic, and gender relations that are unexpected and contingent. She renders these social processes beautifully, leaving the reader with an appreciation of individual lives in the context of global transformation.”—Patricia Zavella, coeditor of Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader“This book is a light in the darkness. The author is a brilliant weaver who, with great expertise, intertwines the fine threads of gender, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, and art, rendering a magnificent tapestry. A rigorous anthropology of Zapotec women in a socio-historical context, the work also surprises by contemplating the aesthetic component of the sarapes created by the artisans of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca.”—Eli Bartra, editor of Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean“[M]ore than seventy pages have been added to the new edition [of Zapotec Women], including new narrative, new analysis, new photographs, new tables, and new reference matter. . . . Ultimately, this new book is richer because it too has a history. In fact, Zaptoec Women, is now positioned as an unfolding story, a serial account of the world created by Zapotec women and North American anthropologists that will change, grow, shrink, and expand as long as people are involved in an exchange of political, economic, and cultural goods and ideas. Given the violent summer of 2006 and the unresolved political conflicts in Oaxaca, there is a renewed urgency to read this volume.” -- Patrick McNamara * The Americas *Table of ContentsList of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Ethnicity and Class in the Changing Lives of Zapotec Women 15 2. Kinship, Gender, and Economic Globalization 46 3. Six Women’s Stories:Julia, Cristina, Angela, Alicia, Imelda, and Isabel 63 4. Setting the Scene: The Zapotecs of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca 92 5. Contested Histories: Women, Men, and the Relations of Production in Teotitlan, 1920—1950s 122 6. Weaving as Heritage: Folk Art, Aesthetics, and the Commercialization of Zapotec Textiles 152 7. From Contract to Co-op: Gender, Commercialization, and Neoliberalism in Teotitlan 200 8. Changes in the Civil-Religious Hierarchy and Their Impact on Women 231 9: Fiesta. The Gendered Dynamics of Ritual Participation 250 10. Challenging Political Culture:Women’s Changing Political Participation in Teotitlan 282 After Words: On Speaking and Being Heard 324 Notes 333 Glossary of Spanish and Zapotec Terms 339 Bibliography 343 Index 371

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Book SynopsisProvides a history of daily life on coffee plantations in central Nicaragua between 1870 and 1950 and uses that history to argue that the coffee boom impeded rather than expedited the country's transition to capitalismTrade Review“A skilled researcher and potent polemicist, Dore is at her best when she combines archival digging with colorful interviews to prove beyond doubt that political power and patronage, not market forces or the rule of law, have long determined who holds land in Nicaragua.” - Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs“This book makes an important contribution to a growing literature on the contradictory nature of liberalism in Latin America. . . . The book is provocative, well written, and clearly argued. It will be essential reading for Latin American historians in general and those interested in gender, liberalism, and labor studies in particular.” - Ann Zulawski, American Historical Review“This is a real gem of a monograph. Methodologically, Dore takes the combination of ethnography and archival work to a new level.” - Ben Fallaw, American Ethnologist“Myths of Modernity demonstrates why an understanding of history is important to current policy debates and why a misguided analysis of rural class relations contributed to the eventual electoral defeat of the Sandinistas.”—Carmen Diana Deere, coauthor of Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America“As ideal a combination of fine-grained, historically rich ethnography; astute political economy; and powerful feminist scholarship as one could possibly hope for. A standard to emulate.”—James C. Scott, Yale University“In this uniquely researched study, constructed in dialogue with generations of members of the Diriomo community, written records, scholarly debates, and revolutionary policymakers, Elizabeth Dore shows why debt peonage and land privatization in the Nicaraguan coffee boom failed to generate capitalism. Gender is an important element in her argument and one that economic and social historians can no longer afford to ignore.”—Mary Kay Vaughan, coeditor of The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940“A skilled researcher and potent polemicist, Dore is at her best when she combines archival digging with colorful interviews to prove beyond doubt that political power and patronage, not market forces or the rule of law, have long determined who holds land in Nicaragua.” -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“This book makes an important contribution to a growing literature on the contradictory nature of liberalism in Latin America. . . . The book is provocative, well written, and clearly argued. It will be essential reading for Latin American historians in general and those interested in gender, liberalism, and labor studies in particular.” -- Ann Zulawski * American Historical Review *Table of Contents2. Indians under Colonialism and Postcolonialism 33 3. Patriarchal Power in the Pueblos 53 4. The Private Property Revolution 69 5. Gendered Contradictions of Liberalism: Ethnicity, Property, and Households 97 6. Debt Peonage in Diriomo: Forced Labor Revisited 110 7. Patriarchy and Peonage 149 Conclusion 164 Epilogue: History Matters—The Sandinistas’ Myth of Modernity 172 Notes 181 Glossary 213 Bibliography 217 Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Who Controls the Past Controls the Future 1 1. Theories of Capitalism, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity 17 Index 239

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