Social and cultural anthropology Books

Book SynopsisAn ethnography of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions including Candomblé shows that the lines separating one tradition from another are much less fixed than anthropologists and Afro-Brazilian religious elites have maintained.Trade Review“[T]he volume still stands admirably on its own. . . . [A] fascinating survey of the history of the field. . . . Capone is especially illuminating in her reading of anthropology and its reification of tradition. . . . Capone’s frank reflections on the field are thought provoking and important. . . .” - Anadelia Romo, The Americas“Stefania Capone’s Searching for Africa in Brazil provides an important contribution to the study of Afro-American religions that highlights the intellectual, political, and ritualistic complexities of Candomblé. . . . Capone’s study is indeed a pivotal contribution to the discourse on Afro-Brazilian, Black Atlantic, and African Diasporic studies. Her argument is grounded in solid historical assessments of anthropological treatments of Afro-Brazilian religions, provides extensive footnotes that detail field work experiences of the author and pioneers in the field, and includes a comprehensive bibliography of works on Afro-American religions and Yoruba spirituality.” - Abu J. Toure, Journal of Religion in Africa“Anthropologists and anthropology graduate students will find this volume rich and rewarding. Historians such as myself will take much from the several chapters that trace the evolution of ideas about competing branches of Candomblé beliefs. Capone presents a forceful challenge to long-accepted anthropological methods of studying Candomblé (and, by extension, other religions), pointing out the problematic propensity of students to follow in their advisors’ footsteps by visiting the same sites.” - Walter Hawthorne, History: Reviews of New Books“The originality of this work lies in the disclosure of the incestuous unions between temple and university that together produced a particular version of African tradition. This kind of analysis is not new, but Capone’s study is particularly effective because of its anchoring in the close microstudy of the dramatic changes of ‘tradition’ in Candomblé as those very changes are then reworked as deeply African. . . . It would seem then that this triumph of the tropes of African ‘origins’ and ‘authenticity’ over their rivals in a meta-economy of signs, even for those not of African descent, a semiotic battle richly described in this work, offers pressing new questions for the next generation of research. Stefania Capone’s careful, intelligent study has laid the groundwork to make those sorts of reflections possible.” - Paul Christopher Johnson, Journal of the American Academy of Religion“[A]n excellent monograph about Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, in particular Umbanda and Candomblé.” - Bettina Schmidt, Journal of Religious History“Searching for Africa in Brazil is one of the most descriptively rich and analytically insightful treatments of AfroBrazilian religion to date. Every student and ethnographer of Candomblé will undoubtedly do their research a great service if they read this book.” - Emma Cohen, Critique of Anthropology“Searching for Africa in Brazil is a major piece of scholarship. Through careful historical research and vivid ethnographic detail, Stefania Capone demonstrates that conceptual pairs such as pure/impure, religious/magical, traditional/modernized, and communal/individualistic have long played a major role in highly self-conscious and overtly politicized representations of Afro-Brazilian religion. This is so both in regards to practitioners’ discourses aimed at legitimizing their forms of practice at the expense of their rivals’ and in regards to the changing views of anthropologists who sought a definitional monopoly over what could count as ‘African,’ ‘traditional,’ and so forth.”—Stephan Palmié, author of Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition“The translation of this outstanding work into English is a real service to scholars. Searching for Africa in Brazil is a well researched and carefully argued examination of the ongoing disputations about the origins and transformations in Candomblé. Stefania Capone is particularly insightful regarding the role that outsiders have played in shaping disputes about authenticity, sources, and their relation to African origins.”—Anani Dzidzienyo, co-editor of Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos“Searching for Africa in Brazil is one of the most descriptively rich and analytically insightful treatments of AfroBrazilian religion to date. Every student and ethnographer of Candomblé will undoubtedly do their research a great service if they read this book.” -- Emma Cohen * Critique of Anthropology *“[A]n excellent monograph about Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, in particular Umbanda and Candomblé.” -- Bettina Schmidt * Journal of Religious History *“[T]he volume still stands admirably on its own. . . . [A] fascinating survey of the history of the field. . . . Capone is especially illuminating in her reading of anthropology and its reification of tradition. . . . Capone’s frank reflections on the field are thought provoking and important. . . .” -- Anadelia Romo * The Americas *“Anthropologists and anthropology graduate students will find this volume rich and rewarding. Historians such as myself will take much from the several chapters that trace the evolution of ideas about competing branches of Candomblé beliefs. Capone presents a forceful challenge to long-accepted anthropological methods of studying Candomblé (and, by extension, other religions), pointing out the problematic propensity of students to follow in their advisors’ footsteps by visiting the same sites.” -- Walter Hawthorne * History: Reviews of New Books *“Stefania Capone’s Searching for Africa in Brazil provides an important contribution to the study of Afro-American religions that highlights the intellectual, political, and ritualistic complexities of Candomblé. . . . Capone’s study is indeed a pivotal contribution to the discourse on Afro-Brazilian, Black Atlantic, and African Diasporic studies. Her argument is grounded in solid historical assessments of anthropological treatments of Afro-Brazilian religions, provides extensive footnotes that detail field work experiences of the author and pioneers in the field, and includes a comprehensive bibliography of works on Afro-American religions and Yoruba spirituality.” -- Abu J. Toure * Journal of Religion in Africa *“The originality of this work lies in the disclosure of the incestuous unions between temple and university that together produced a particular version of African tradition. This kind of analysis is not new, but Capone’s study is particularly effective because of its anchoring in the close microstudy of the dramatic changes of ‘tradition’ in Candomblé as those very changes are then reworked as deeply African. . . . It would seem then that this triumph of the tropes of African ‘origins’ and ‘authenticity’ over their rivals in a meta-economy of signs, even for those not of African descent, a semiotic battle richly described in this work, offers pressing new questions for the next generation of research. Stefania Capone’s careful, intelligent study has laid the groundwork to make those sorts of reflections possible.” -- Paul Christopher Johnson * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface to the American Edition ix Acknowledgments xi Some Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation xiii Introduction 1 Part I. The Metamorphoses of Exu 1. The Messenger of the Gods: Exu in Afro-Brazilian Religions 35 2. The Spirits of Darkness: Exu and Pombagira in Umbanda 69 Part II. Ritual Practice 3. The Religious Continuum 95 4. Reorganizing Sacred Space 121 5. Contesting Power 143 Part III. The Construction of Tradition 6. Exu and the Anthropologists 173 7. In Search of Lost Origins 203 8. Which Africa? Which Tradition? 233 Conclusion 255 Glossary 263 Notes 269 Bibliography 297 Index 311

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Book SynopsisA collection exploring how individuals and institutions in contemporary Latin American democracies use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice.Trade Review“Contributors to the volume Violent Democracies in Latin America do an excellent job of opening new paths for exploring this abiding question. . . . This edited volume is remarkably coherent and the chapters fit together nicely. . . . [E]ach chapter makes a unique contribution to the interdisciplinary conceptualization of violent pluralism.” - Kedron Thomas, Anthropological Quarterly“Violent Democracies in Latin America is a welcome addition to cross-disciplinary studies of Latin American politics. . . . Violent Democracies forces the readers to consider each case study in its specificity and the common problems of the region as a whole, which is, I would submit, the only way to address the problem of violence in today’s Latin American states.” - Isabel DiVanna, Canadian Journal of History“Violent Democracies in Latin America presents a nuanced study of the interactions between trade liberalization, neoliberal economic systems,and the political environment of post-authoritarian Latin America that subverts many of the previous ideas on the democratic transition and offers useful insights for scholars into the political economic context of the period. As contributors include an anthropologist, several historians, a political scientist, and a sociologist, the volume will reach a wide audience and contribute to the growing dialogue on contemporary Latin American politics.” - Irene Depetris Chauvin, Hispanic American Historical Review“The case studies are uniformly good—well researched and written on important and interesting topics. . . . Violent Democracies makes an important contribution in focusing our attention on the perpetuation of violence as Latin American countries continue in their democratization process.” - Charles D. Brockett, A Contracorriente“The studies presented here suggest that there is no simple route by which Latin American political democracies could become less violent, because violence has not only been institutionally integral to the way state power is exercised and class privileges are maintained within the region, but has also been exacerbated by its insertion into a neoliberal capitalist internationalsystem.” - John Gledhill, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association“[T]his book presents a new research agenda on the problems of governance, democracy, and security in Latin America. The concept of violent pluralism that it advances requires a precise examination of the existing connections between different forms of violence, as well as a deep understanding of the autonomy that certain forms of violence might have with respect to others.” - Hugo Frühling, Latin American Politics and Society"Arias and Goldstein have compiled an excellent series of cases that collectively argue in support of their main thesis…. Arias and Goldstein offer an alternative, sophisticated understanding of the multiple and tactical uses of violence that keep a disenfranchised citizenry under control." - James H. McDonald, Ethnohistory“Violent Democracies of Latin America superbly captures the on-going tensions between security and insecurity, on the one side, and pressures for social change and participatory democracy, on the other. Contributors provide multiple insights into how these tensions clash, interface, and then meld into a ‘violent pluralism’ of new Latin American democracies.”—Martha Huggins, Charles and Leo Favrot Professor of Human Relations, Tulane University“Violent Democracies in Latin America is a welcome addition to cross-disciplinary studies of Latin American politics. . . . Violent Democracies forces the readers to consider each case study in its specificity and the common problems of the region as a whole, which is, I would submit, the only way to address the problem of violence in today’s Latin American states.” -- Isabel DiVanna * Canadian Journal of History *“Violent Democracies in Latin America presents a nuanced study of the interactions between trade liberalization, neoliberal economic systems,and the political environment of post-authoritarian Latin America that subverts many of the previous ideas on the democratic transition and offers useful insights for scholars into the political economic context of the period. As contributors include an anthropologist, several historians, a political scientist, and a sociologist, the volume will reach a wide audience and contribute to the growing dialogue on contemporary Latin American politics.” -- Irene Depetris Chauvin * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[T]his book presents a new research agenda on the problems of governance, democracy, and security in Latin America. The concept of violent pluralism that it advances requires a precise examination of the existing connections between different forms of violence, as well as a deep understanding of the autonomy that certain forms of violence might have with respect to others.” -- Hugo Frühling * Latin American Politics and Society *“Contributors to the volume Violent Democracies in Latin America do an excellent job of opening new paths for exploring this abiding question. . . . This edited volume is remarkably coherent and the chapters fit together nicely. . . . [E]ach chapter makes a unique contribution to the interdisciplinary conceptualization of violent pluralism.” -- Kedron Thomas * Anthropological Quarterly *“The case studies are uniformly good—well researched and written on important and interesting topics. . . . Violent Democracies makes an important contribution in focusing our attention on the perpetuation of violence as Latin American countries continue in their democratization process.” -- Charles D. Brockett * A Contracorriente *“The studies presented here suggest that there is no simple route by which Latin American political democracies could become less violent, because violence has not only been institutionally integral to the way state power is exercised and class privileges are maintained within the region, but has also been exacerbated by its insertion into a neoliberal capitalist internationalsystem.” -- John Gledhill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Violent Pluralism: Understanding the New Democracies of Latin America / Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein 1 The Political and Economic Origins of Violence and Insecurity in Contemporary Latin America: Past Trajectories and Future Prospects / Diane E. Davis 35 End of Discussion: Violence, Participatory Democracy, and the Limits of Dissent in Colombia / Mary Roldán 63 Maintaining Democracy in Colombia through Political Exclusion, States of Exception, Counterinsurgency, and Dirty War / María Clemencia Ramírez 84 Clandestine Connections: The Political and Relational Makings of Collective Violence / Javier Auyero 108 "Living in a Jungle": State Violence and Perceptions of Democracy in Buenos Aires / Ruth Stanley 133 Organized Violence, Disorganized State / Lilian Bobea 161 Toward Uncivil Society: Causes and Consequences of Violence in Rio de Janeiro / Robert Gay 201 Violence, Democracy, and Human Rights in Latin America / Todd Landman 226 Conclusion: Understanding Violent Pluralism / Enrique Desmond Arias 242 References 265 Contributors 299 Index 301

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography examining the history of Korean adoption to West, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization.Trade Review“Adopted Territory is the best and most thorough treatment of transnational adoption that I have seen. Eleana J. Kim provides sophisticated analyses of Korean overseas adoption to the United States, and South Korean history and state politics, within the contexts of cold war geopolitics and the rise of the American empire, while also attending to issues of nation, race, citizenship, gender, social class, and culture. The breadth, depth, and scope of Kim’s analyses contribute importantly to our understanding of the people and the phenomenon. Her well-contextualized and sensitive discussions of adoptee subjectivities are of particular interest.”—Elaine H. Kim, University of California, Berkeley“This truly remarkable ethnography chronicles the birth and first generation of the global Korean adoptee movement. Adopted Territory brilliantly asserts that the movement is born of a powerful historical conjuncture among: the U.S.’s millennial culture of multiculturalism; South Korea’s aggressive globalization regimes and emergent democratic civil society; and adoptees coming of age. Adopted Territory offers also a sophisticated study of family, kinship, and nation through the challenging lens of adoption which Eleana J. Kim declares a veritable ‘catalyst for social transformation.’ A beautifully crafted multi-sited ethnography, Adopted Territory will no doubt enjoy a vibrant intellectual life.”—Nancy Abelmann, author of The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation“By examining the dynamic history and relations among the concerned state actors, international and domestic adoption agencies, adoptee advocacy groups, and individual adoptees and their self-governance groups, Kim expands existing scholarship within Korean studies on the geopolitics of intimacy . . . and neoliberal and developmentalist modernity. . . . Adopted Territory may be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of Korean studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and anthropology.” -- EuyRyung Jun * Journal of Asian Studies *“Students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, transnational identity and Korean and Asian American Studies will find Dr. Kim’s ethnography particularly informative. . . . Adopted Territory cogently argues the transformative potential of adoptee discourses on the inaccurate representations of adoptees as orphans and children, and the ideal family as a nuclear unit, and on challenging the state in social welfare provision. At the very least, for readers, it will re-shape conceptualizations of Korean identity and belonging.” -- Ann H. Kim * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Adopted Territory is truly a groundbreaking publication. It not only contributes to the new fields of Korean adoption studies, adoption cultural studies and critical adoption studies that have emerged lately, but also to the unfortunately still too territorialized fields of Asian studies and Korean studies, which still need to become transnationalized and not just include diasporic Asians and Koreans on the research agenda, but also embrace such previously discarded, forgotten and ‘non-authentic’ subjects as adoptees living in Western countries.” -- Tobias Hübinette * Pacific Affairs *“Adopted Territory, Eleana Kim’s powerful and innovative book about Korean transnational adoption, brings both intellectual rigor and a fresh approach to the study of adoptive kinship.” -- Barbara Yngvesson * American Ethnologist *“The many strengths of Adopted Territory are solidified by Kim’s lucid and stylishly crafted prose. One is propelled through the book by a beautiful balance of detailed empirical accounts and judicious use of cultural theory. . . . Kim’s work is an altogether new treatment of a number of themes known to transnational adoption scholars, defamiliarizing territory we thought we knew. At the same time, it will familiarize scholars from a number of other fields with the importance of adoptees’ stories and histories to transnational counterpublics.” -- Sara Dorow * Contemporary Sociology *“Adopted Territory is a tour de force, masterfully traversing a complex transnational terrain that is at once overtly public involving multiple vested interests and competing agendas, and intensely personal and emotive.” -- Jessica Walton * Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Notes on Transliteration, Terminology, and Pseudonyms xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction: Understanding Transnational Korean Adoption 1 Part I 1. "Waifs" and "Orphans": The Origins of Korean Adoption 43 2. Adoptee Kinship 83 3. Adoptee Cultural Citizenship 101 4. Public Intimacies and Private Politics 133 Part II 5. Our Adoptee, Our Alien: Adoptees as Specters of Family and Foreignness in Global Korea 171 6. Made in Korea: Adopted Koreans and Native Koreans in the Motherland 211 7. Beyond Good and Evil: The Moral Economies of Children and Their Best Interests in a Global Age 249 Notes 269 Works Cited 291 Index 311

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Book SynopsisPresident Barack Obama's mother, S Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist who specialized in social and economic development in Indonesia. This book reflects Dunham's commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; and her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem-solving.Trade Review“To write a biography without mentioning the subject’s name in the title is unusual, just as irregular, in fact, as publishing a serious work of anthropology, entitled Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, with a portrait of the author splashed on the cover. But then the author of that academic book, the late Stanley Ann Dunham, an expert on the economics of Indonesian crafts, bore a startling resemblance to President Obama—the same long chin, the slight quizzical tilt of the head, the prominent eyebrows. Which is not surprising, since she was his mother. The scholarly book based on her Ph.D. thesis, which contains much excellent firsthand description of life in remote Javanese villages, is of great interest to specialists, and would probably have been picked up by a university press anyway.” - Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books“[T]his book is a fascinating and important scholarly piece of work. It’s a good reminder that Ann not only had a sharp intellect, but was a perfectionist as well, and a hard-working one at that. Her work is extremely well-documented, with hard statistical data making her book extremely detailed and well informed. At the same time, Ann’s book—like her—is deeply empathetic. Full of evocative descriptions of the lives of the villagers she worked with, the book is a testament of her commitment to the development of the lives of rural and marginalized peoples all around the world. Ann was an internationalist with a global outlook, but it was Indonesia and its people that became the love of her life, and her passion also comes through in her book, something all too rare in academic writing.” - Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta Post“[T]he editors and Duke University Press did a wonderful job with this book. It is lovingly put together, and it will become the definitive source for anyone wanting to understand the ethical and intellectual make-up of Dunham, as well as blacksmithing and more generally village crafts in Indonesia. . . . This book—an estimable ethnography in its own right—is of unique interest precisely for . . . for the light it sheds on how Dr. Dunham’s work may have shaped her son and, thereby, his presidency.” - Michael Dove, Anthropological Quarterly“Surviving against the Odds is a work of very fine scholarship grounded in a deep understanding of Indonesia. Reading it, I learned a great deal about economic anthropology, blacksmithing (across a range of dimensions, from the supernatural to metallurgy), local life and labor in the Javanese village of Kajar, and the remarkable welter of development schemes and projects in play during the long period of S. Ann Dunham’s research. Dunham knew the arcane world of development very well and her account of it is fascinating and important.”—Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz, past president of the American Anthropological Association“S. Ann Dunham’s Surviving against the Odds bears witness to her knowledge of and affection for the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia. The book also speaks legions about Dunham’s integrity as a cultural anthropologist. . . . By the mid-1980s Dunham had begun to see the audience for her work as made up of not just academics but Indonesians, aid workers, and foreign analysts whose findings affect the lives of ordinary Indonesians. Rather than go with the academic flow, Dunham stayed true to a research program requiring varied and rigorous methodologies, all in an effort to speak truth to power and policy making.”—Robert W. Hefner, Boston University, president of the Association for Asian Studies, from the afterword“The greetings that the village women exchanged with Mom conveyed an intimacy that made clear they had fully taken each other’s measure. Their connection had been established to a sufficient degree for laughter to be easy. Mom had come to a real understanding with them, it seemed, and not just the women; she was welcomed and trusted by all. This made me proud, I remember, for many of the same reasons my pride swells at the sight of my brother, our president; Mom too moved with such ease through every world, and people opened up at the sight of her smile.”—Maya Soetoro-Ng, daughter of S. Ann Dunham and sister of President Barack Obama, from the foreword“[T]he editors and Duke University Press did a wonderful job with this book. It is lovingly put together, and it will become the definitive source for anyone wanting to understand the ethical and intellectual make-up of Dunham, as well as blacksmithing and more generally village crafts in Indonesia. . . . This book—an estimable ethnography in its own right—is of unique interest precisely for . . . for the light it sheds on how Dr. Dunham’s work may have shaped her son and, thereby, his presidency.” -- Michael Dove * Anthropological Quarterly *“[T]his book is a fascinating and important scholarly piece of work. It’s a good reminder that Ann not only had a sharp intellect, but was a perfectionist as well, and a hard-working one at that. Her work is extremely well-documented, with hard statistical data making her book extremely detailed and well informed. At the same time, Ann’s book—like her—is deeply empathetic. Full of evocative descriptions of the lives of the villagers she worked with, the book is a testament of her commitment to the development of the lives of rural and marginalized peoples all around the world. Ann was an internationalist with a global outlook, but it was Indonesia and its people that became the love of her life, and her passion also comes through in her book, something all too rare in academic writing.” -- Julia Suryakusuma * Jakarta Post *“To write a biography without mentioning the subject’s name in the title is unusual, just as irregular, in fact, as publishing a serious work of anthropology, entitled Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, with a portrait of the author splashed on the cover. But then the author of that academic book, the late Stanley Ann Dunham, an expert on the economics of Indonesian crafts, bore a startling resemblance to President Obama—the same long chin, the slight quizzical tilt of the head, the prominent eyebrows. Which is not surprising, since she was his mother. The scholarly book based on her Ph.D. thesis, which contains much excellent firsthand description of life in remote Javanese villages, is of great interest to specialists, and would probably have been picked up by a university press anyway.” -- Ian Buruma * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsForeword / Maya Soetoro-Ng ix Editors’ Preface / Alice Dewey and Nancy Cooper xi Acknowledgments xxvii Supplementary Materials (a sampling of S. Ann Dunham’sfield notes, a letter, and maps) xxxi Introduction 1 The Socioeconomic Organization of Metalworking Industries 40 Kajar, a Blacksmithing Village in Yogyakarta 82 Relevant Macrodata 155 Government Interventions 196 Conclusions and Development Implications 249 Appendix 283 Notes 287 Glossary of Metalworking Terms 299 Afterword: Ann Dunham, Indonesia, and Anthropology—A Generation On / Robert W. Hefner 317 Bibliography 331 Index 345

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras.Trade Review“[Hendon’s] nuanced analysis is brilliantly crafted, culturally intimate, and immensely provocative. Hendon’s playing field spans a range of objects, features, and monuments that elicit newfound insights into the seeming intangibles of memory in Maya thought and culture. Ultimately, the author delivers the promise and prospect for interpreting community memory, daily life, and the dynamics of intergroup relations via the thoughtful, introspective consideration of objects recovered from cultural landscapes in archaeology. Highly recommended.” - R. G. Mendoza, Choice“I encourage scholars of the Maya and construction of memory to read Hendon’s attractive and well-presented volume. . . . Overall, Houses in a Landscape is likely to fuel scholarly debate and inspire archaeological projects to test its conclusions for many years to come.” - Stephen L. Whittington, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association“A brilliant work, Houses in a Landscape sets a new standard for the social archaeology of the Maya and related cultures. It is theoretically sophisticated, meticulously researched, and beautifully written, and it extends the existing literature on memory and archaeology in significant ways. ”—Robert W. Preucel, author of Archaeological Semiotics“This is an invigorating, original, and intellectually rewarding book, notable for the breadth and critical rigor of Julia A. Hendon’s theoretical discussions, and the originality of her insights to ancient Honduran societies. It will be of interest not only to archaeologists but also to social theorists more broadly.”—Wendy Ashmore, coeditor of Household and Community in the Mesoamerican Past“[Hendon’s] nuanced analysis is brilliantly crafted, culturally intimate, and immensely provocative. Hendon’s playing field spans a range of objects, features, and monuments that elicit newfound insights into the seeming intangibles of memory in Maya thought and culture. Ultimately, the author delivers the promise and prospect for interpreting community memory, daily life, and the dynamics of intergroup relations via the thoughtful, introspective consideration of objects recovered from cultural landscapes in archaeology. Highly recommended.” -- R. G. Mendoza * Choice *“I encourage scholars of the Maya and construction of memory to read Hendon’s attractive and well-presented volume. . . . Overall, Houses in a Landscape is likely to fuel scholarly debate and inspire archaeological projects to test its conclusions for many years to come.” -- Stephen L. Whittington * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Thinking About Memory 1 1. Communities of Practice in Honduras in the Seventh Century through the Eleventh 33 2. The Enchantment and Humility of Objects 63 3. The Semiotic House: Everyday Life and Domestic Space 91 4. Embodied Forms of Knowing 123 5. Relational Identities and Material Domains 149 6. Special Events at Home 181 7. Ballcourts and Houses: Shared Patterns of Monumentality and Domesticity 203 Conclusion: Communities of Memory and Local Histories 227 Notes 239 Bibliography 243 Index 283

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Book SynopsisAn unconventional, evocative work of history and a series of moving reflections on memory, modernity, space, and time, all based on the authors interviews with elderly Indonesian intellectuals.Trade Review“This is but the latest in a series of strong writings by Mrázek on Indonesia; he is certainly accomplished in the field. . . . [A] carefully crafted work. . . .” - Howard Federspiel, Indonesia“Listen . . . as Mrazek certainly did, to the gentle, humorous and often wise and reflective voices of his Indonesian informants. Often recorded sitting on verandahs, against a background of street noise, their memories, but also their views at the end of their long lives, are worth hearing.” - Susan Blackburn, Inside Indonesia“The book succeeds like no other before it in portraying the colony’s intellectual elites as contemporaneous with modern citizens of Europe and around the world. It is a generous book, involving the sharing of inspiring philosophical texts, literature, and memories, and lengthy quotations that do not simply illustrate analytical points, but animate social scenes.” - Matthew Isaac Cohen, Journal of Asian Studies“In juxtaposing Indonesian and European voices from the 1930s to the 1990s, Rudolf Mrázek compels us to reconsider the unsettling because of contemporaneous origins and effects of modernity in the colony and metropole alike. In his highly textured and brilliantly edited interviews with aging urban revolutionaries, he shows how remembering the past entails recalling its traces archived and activated in voices animated by the noise of the street and the neighborhood, the music of salons and cinemas, the stuttering bursts of translations and trains, the routine hum of prison camp and classroom. They thus convey the force of a certain history that remains bound to yet irreducible to narration and analysis.”—Vicente Rafael, author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines“In this original and very exciting work Rudolf Mrázek offers a stimulating way of thinking about historiography and a radical departure from the ways ‘we in the field’ are used to thinking and talking about the history of Indonesia. A rich text, resistant to generalizations, A Certain Age is evocative, moving, personal, disruptive, and subversive. It is a must-read.”—Henk Maier, author of We Are Playing Relatives: A Survey of Malay Writing“Listen . . . as Mrazek certainly did, to the gentle, humorous and often wise and reflective voices of his Indonesian informants. Often recorded sitting on verandahs, against a background of street noise, their memories, but also their views at the end of their long lives, are worth hearing.” -- Susan Blackburn * Inside Indonesia *“The book succeeds like no other before it in portraying the colony’s intellectual elites as contemporaneous with modern citizens of Europe and around the world. It is a generous book, involving the sharing of inspiring philosophical texts, literature, and memories, and lengthy quotations that do not simply illustrate analytical points, but animate social scenes.” -- Matthew Isaac Cohen * Journal of Asian Studies *“This is but the latest in a series of strong writings by Mrázek on Indonesia; he is certainly accomplished in the field. . . . [A] carefully crafted work. . . .” -- Howard Federspiel * Indonesia *Table of ContentsPreface: Promenades ix Technical Note xv 1. Bypasss and Flyovers 1 2. The Walls 25 3. The Fences 73 4. The Classroom 125 5. The Window 187 Postscript. Sometimes Voices 235 Notes 253 Bibliography 293 Index 303

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of the Japanese embrace of dancehall reggae and other elements of Jamaican culture, including Rastafari, roots reggae, and dub music.Trade Review“Babylon East is an important work in a growing portfolio of interdisciplinary music related research and amid the growing attention to music in ex-musical disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology and even geography. It shows the power of music to transcend borders and societies, concepts of local, global and hybrid, and to facilitate the performance of social identity.” - Moshe Morad, Ethnic and Racial Studies“What happens when Jamaican Rasta and the musical and cultural styles affiliated with it, from roots reggae to dancehall, are taken out of the white-black binary and the Euro-Caribbean matrix? This is the question taken up by Marvin D. Sterling in Babylon East. Sterling spent more than ten years investigating Japanese involvement with Jamaican musical traditions, and his book testifies to the limitations of cross-cultural appropriation even in a globalized cultural scene.” - J. Gabriel Boylan, Bookforum“Adroit and ingenious, Babylon East is an essential resource for scholars interested in the internationalization of the Rastafari, in cultural globalization, and in Africana studies.” - Darren J. N. Middleton, Religious Studies Review“Sterling writes in a style that makes his discussions accessible to non-experts.Babylon East makes useful and complex contributions to a number of discourses, including: work on popular music, globalization, gender, and race in contemporary Japan; work on Jamaican reggae and dancehall; and broader considerations of Blackness, race, and culture beyond the Black Atlantic, in Afro-Asia. . . . His work should inspire readers to learn more about performance and identity formation in Japan, the truly global spread of Jamaican culture, and other Afro-Asian articulations, performances, andidentities.” - James E. Roberson, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“[Sterling’s] ethnography is written with an elegant but straightforward fluidity, meaning it is accessible to not only Japanese and cultural studies specialists, but also to undergraduates and other interested readerships. Sterling brings together vivid descriptions and sophisticated thinking about music, language, performance, gendered politics and sexuality in an ‘embodied practice’ that functions effectively to form alternative identities for the Japanese reggae practitioners.” - Carolyn S. Stevens, Journal of Asian Studies“[T]his book provides a wealth of ethnographic data gathered over ten years, situated in three overlapping genres of Jamaican cultural performance. Its skillful inclusion of social theory will help the most casual reader understand Japan’s incorporation of the foreign far beyond the overly simple “take the best and leave the rest.” Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students will find also great value in this text.” - Debra J. Occhi, Pacific Affairs“Marvin D. Sterling sensitively portrays the wide range of Japanese reggae dancehall practitioners, from chart-topping stars such as Miki Dōzan to underground pioneers such as Rankin’ Taxi, as well as Junko Kudo, the unlikely winner of Jamaica’s premier dance-diva contest. Along the way, we get to know the urban musicians who make up the traveling groups known as sound systems, as well as ‘Japanese Rastafari’ in the countryside. By considering Japanese youth who travel to Jamaica on journeys of self-discovery and the Jamaicans who sometimes look ambivalently on the explosion of the reggae scene in Japan, Sterling completes an engaging circle of analysis in this fascinating and insightful book.”—Ian Condry, author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization“The globalization of Jamaican culture has inspired Rastafari devotees and reggae/dancehall fans worldwide to claim hybridized identities, as evidenced in the unexpected emergence of a ‘Jamaican’ subculture in Japan. Babylon East is a rich, energetically written ethnography that lucidly articulates the contradictory ways in which exoticized cultural difference is voraciously consumed in a nation that is decidedly ambivalent about accepting the physical presence of the racialized ‘other.’ Deploying the Rastafari trope of Babylon as the biblical beast of Euro-American imperialism, Marvin D. Sterling judiciously destabilizes East/West binary constructs, authoritatively delineating the complexity of the Japanese performance of Jamaican identity.”—Carolyn Cooper, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica“Babylon East is an important work in a growing portfolio of interdisciplinary music related research and amid the growing attention to music in ex-musical disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology and even geography. It shows the power of music to transcend borders and societies, concepts of local, global and hybrid, and to facilitate the performance of social identity.” -- Moshe Morad * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“[Sterling’s] ethnography is written with an elegant but straightforward fluidity, meaning it is accessible to not only Japanese and cultural studies specialists, but also to undergraduates and other interested readerships. Sterling brings together vivid descriptions and sophisticated thinking about music, language, performance, gendered politics and sexuality in an ‘embodied practice’ that functions effectively to form alternative identities for the Japanese reggae practitioners.” -- Carolyn S. Stevens * Journal of Asian Studies *“[T]his book provides a wealth of ethnographic data gathered over ten years, situated in three overlapping genres of Jamaican cultural performance. Its skillful inclusion of social theory will help the most casual reader understand Japan’s incorporation of the foreign far beyond the overly simple “take the best and leave the rest.” Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students will find also great value in this text.” -- Debra J. Occhi * Pacific Affairs *“Adroit and ingenious, Babylon East is an essential resource for scholars interested in the internationalization of the Rastafari, in cultural globalization, and in Africana studies.” -- Darren J. N. Middleton * Religious Studies Review *“Sterling writes in a style that makes his discussions accessible to non-experts. Babylon East makes useful and complex contributions to a number of discourses, including: work on popular music, globalization, gender, and race in contemporary Japan; work on Jamaican reggae and dancehall; and broader considerations of Blackness, race, and culture beyond the Black Atlantic, in Afro-Asia. . . . His work should inspire readers to learn more about performance and identity formation in Japan, the truly global spread of Jamaican culture, and other Afro-Asian articulations, performances, and identities.” -- James E. Roberson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“What happens when Jamaican Rasta and the musical and cultural styles affiliated with it, from roots reggae to dancehall, are taken out of the white-black binary and the Euro-Caribbean matrix? This is the question taken up by Marvin D. Sterling in Babylon East. Sterling spent more than ten years investigating Japanese involvement with Jamaican musical traditions, and his book testifies to the limitations of cross-cultural appropriation even in a globalized cultural scene.” -- J. Gabriel Boylan * Bookforum *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1. The Politics of Presence: Performing Blackness in Japan 2. Music and Orality: Authenticity in Japanese Sound System Culture 3. Fashion and Dance: Performing Gender in Japan's Reggae Dance Scene 4. Body and Spirit: Rastafarian Consciousness in Rural Japan 5. Text and Image: Bad Jamaicans, Tough Japanese, and the Third World "Search for Self" 6. Jamaican Perspectives on Jamaican Culture in Japan Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of the Japanese embrace of dancehall reggae and other elements of Jamaican culture, including Rastafari, roots reggae, and dub music.Trade Review“Babylon East is an important work in a growing portfolio of interdisciplinary music related research and amid the growing attention to music in ex-musical disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology and even geography. It shows the power of music to transcend borders and societies, concepts of local, global and hybrid, and to facilitate the performance of social identity.” - Moshe Morad, Ethnic and Racial Studies“What happens when Jamaican Rasta and the musical and cultural styles affiliated with it, from roots reggae to dancehall, are taken out of the white-black binary and the Euro-Caribbean matrix? This is the question taken up by Marvin D. Sterling in Babylon East. Sterling spent more than ten years investigating Japanese involvement with Jamaican musical traditions, and his book testifies to the limitations of cross-cultural appropriation even in a globalized cultural scene.” - J. Gabriel Boylan, Bookforum“Adroit and ingenious, Babylon East is an essential resource for scholars interested in the internationalization of the Rastafari, in cultural globalization, and in Africana studies.” - Darren J. N. Middleton, Religious Studies Review“Sterling writes in a style that makes his discussions accessible to non-experts.Babylon East makes useful and complex contributions to a number of discourses, including: work on popular music, globalization, gender, and race in contemporary Japan; work on Jamaican reggae and dancehall; and broader considerations of Blackness, race, and culture beyond the Black Atlantic, in Afro-Asia. . . . His work should inspire readers to learn more about performance and identity formation in Japan, the truly global spread of Jamaican culture, and other Afro-Asian articulations, performances, andidentities.” - James E. Roberson, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“[Sterling’s] ethnography is written with an elegant but straightforward fluidity, meaning it is accessible to not only Japanese and cultural studies specialists, but also to undergraduates and other interested readerships. Sterling brings together vivid descriptions and sophisticated thinking about music, language, performance, gendered politics and sexuality in an ‘embodied practice’ that functions effectively to form alternative identities for the Japanese reggae practitioners.” - Carolyn S. Stevens, Journal of Asian Studies“[T]his book provides a wealth of ethnographic data gathered over ten years, situated in three overlapping genres of Jamaican cultural performance. Its skillful inclusion of social theory will help the most casual reader understand Japan’s incorporation of the foreign far beyond the overly simple “take the best and leave the rest.” Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students will find also great value in this text.” - Debra J. Occhi, Pacific Affairs“Marvin D. Sterling sensitively portrays the wide range of Japanese reggae dancehall practitioners, from chart-topping stars such as Miki Dōzan to underground pioneers such as Rankin’ Taxi, as well as Junko Kudo, the unlikely winner of Jamaica’s premier dance-diva contest. Along the way, we get to know the urban musicians who make up the traveling groups known as sound systems, as well as ‘Japanese Rastafari’ in the countryside. By considering Japanese youth who travel to Jamaica on journeys of self-discovery and the Jamaicans who sometimes look ambivalently on the explosion of the reggae scene in Japan, Sterling completes an engaging circle of analysis in this fascinating and insightful book.”—Ian Condry, author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization“The globalization of Jamaican culture has inspired Rastafari devotees and reggae/dancehall fans worldwide to claim hybridized identities, as evidenced in the unexpected emergence of a ‘Jamaican’ subculture in Japan. Babylon East is a rich, energetically written ethnography that lucidly articulates the contradictory ways in which exoticized cultural difference is voraciously consumed in a nation that is decidedly ambivalent about accepting the physical presence of the racialized ‘other.’ Deploying the Rastafari trope of Babylon as the biblical beast of Euro-American imperialism, Marvin D. Sterling judiciously destabilizes East/West binary constructs, authoritatively delineating the complexity of the Japanese performance of Jamaican identity.”—Carolyn Cooper, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica“Babylon East is an important work in a growing portfolio of interdisciplinary music related research and amid the growing attention to music in ex-musical disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology and even geography. It shows the power of music to transcend borders and societies, concepts of local, global and hybrid, and to facilitate the performance of social identity.” -- Moshe Morad * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“[Sterling’s] ethnography is written with an elegant but straightforward fluidity, meaning it is accessible to not only Japanese and cultural studies specialists, but also to undergraduates and other interested readerships. Sterling brings together vivid descriptions and sophisticated thinking about music, language, performance, gendered politics and sexuality in an ‘embodied practice’ that functions effectively to form alternative identities for the Japanese reggae practitioners.” -- Carolyn S. Stevens * Journal of Asian Studies *“[T]his book provides a wealth of ethnographic data gathered over ten years, situated in three overlapping genres of Jamaican cultural performance. Its skillful inclusion of social theory will help the most casual reader understand Japan’s incorporation of the foreign far beyond the overly simple “take the best and leave the rest.” Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students will find also great value in this text.” -- Debra J. Occhi * Pacific Affairs *“Adroit and ingenious, Babylon East is an essential resource for scholars interested in the internationalization of the Rastafari, in cultural globalization, and in Africana studies.” -- Darren J. N. Middleton * Religious Studies Review *“Sterling writes in a style that makes his discussions accessible to non-experts. Babylon East makes useful and complex contributions to a number of discourses, including: work on popular music, globalization, gender, and race in contemporary Japan; work on Jamaican reggae and dancehall; and broader considerations of Blackness, race, and culture beyond the Black Atlantic, in Afro-Asia. . . . His work should inspire readers to learn more about performance and identity formation in Japan, the truly global spread of Jamaican culture, and other Afro-Asian articulations, performances, and identities.” -- James E. Roberson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“What happens when Jamaican Rasta and the musical and cultural styles affiliated with it, from roots reggae to dancehall, are taken out of the white-black binary and the Euro-Caribbean matrix? This is the question taken up by Marvin D. Sterling in Babylon East. Sterling spent more than ten years investigating Japanese involvement with Jamaican musical traditions, and his book testifies to the limitations of cross-cultural appropriation even in a globalized cultural scene.” -- J. Gabriel Boylan * Bookforum *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1. The Politics of Presence: Performing Blackness in Japan 2. Music and Orality: Authenticity in Japanese Sound System Culture 3. Fashion and Dance: Performing Gender in Japan's Reggae Dance Scene 4. Body and Spirit: Rastafarian Consciousness in Rural Japan 5. Text and Image: Bad Jamaicans, Tough Japanese, and the Third World "Search for Self" 6. Jamaican Perspectives on Jamaican Culture in Japan Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA history of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the 1960s and early 1970s.Trade Review“Andrew Ivaska brings historical depth and nuance to an inherently fascinating subject: cultural politics in early postcolonial Africa. His original, conceptually sophisticated chronicle of the heated cultural debates that took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 1960s demonstrates a masterful grasp of comparative scholarship on popular culture, modernity, and globalization.”—Lynn M. Thomas, author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya“Cultured States is an enormous contribution to scholarship on the cultural politics of postcolonial East Africa. It is filled with rich and wonderful insights into youth, fashion, and the political culture of the 1960s.”—Luise White, author of Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa“Andrew Ivaska has written a highly effective monograph that explores how state ideology, popular cultural practices, historical era, and emergent social structure intersected in postcolonial Tanzania.... Cultured States is a very good monograph full of valuable insights for scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates with an interest in cultural history, politics, anthropology, African studies, globalization, popular culture, and postcolonial studies.” -- Anne S. Lewinson * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Andrew Ivaska’s book may stand as a pioneering work in the historiography of postcolonial Africa. In its finely textured depictions of the distinctive cultural imaginaries fueling official and unofficial visions of nation building and citizenship in postindependence Tanzania, the book offers compelling material for broader studies in comparative nationalisms worldwide. The same can be said of its potential contributions to comparative studies of the cosmopolitan sensibilities and social movements of the global 1960s.” -- Jay Straker * American Historical Review *“Andrew Ivaska’s fascinating book explores the raucous and hotly contested cultural politics of 1960s Dar es Salaam, showing how debates over national culture were simultaneously critical public discussions about changing gender roles, intergenerational tensions and growing material inequalities – all of which were visible in the public spaces of Tanzania’s rapidly expanding capital city…. Cultured States will surely attract a wide readership in African studies, but it merits an audience beyond this as well, in areas including urban studies, the global history of the 1960s and postcolonial studies.” -- Emily Callaci * Social History *“Cultured States is a welcome contribution to the growing field of histories that explore cultural politics in the decades immediately following decolonization… This book should be extremely effective in graduate and upper-level undergraduate classrooms. It is well-organized, explores theoretically complex issues in clear language, and is very entertaining. Ivaska carefully places the study within the larger body of literature on youth culture and gender debates in the global 1960s. He succeeds in showing the richness and complexity in Tanzanian conflicts over socialism, culture, and young people.” -- Jeremy Rich * Canadian Journal of History *“On the whole, Andrew Ivaska’s Cultured States is a well-written book that documents a fascinating historical period and offers significant theoretical insights.” -- Daniel Mains * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Postcolonial Public Culture in Sixties Times 1 1. National Culture and Its Others in a Cosmopolitan Capital 37 2. "The Age of Minis": Secretaries, City Girls, and Masculinity Downtown 86 3. Of Students, 'Nizers, and Comrades: Youth, Internationalism, and the University College, Dar es Salaam 124 4. "Marriage Goes Metric": Negotiating Gender, Generation, and Wealth in a Changing Capital 166 Conclusion 206 Notes 219 Bibliography 253 Index 271

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Book SynopsisAn argument that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they seek to help, based on extensive ethnographic research in eastern India.Trade Review“In the Shadows of the State is a fine and unusual study of indigenous politics, culture, and activism, which will be of interest to students of India as well as of the cultural politics of indigeneity elsewhere in the world. Alpa Shah provides a robust and non-sentimental ethnography of the realities and contradictions of tribal life, and a powerful critique of the practices of the state, NGOs, and the highly vocal middle-class activists who promote preservation of both natural resources and pristine tribal life.”—Thomas Blom Hansen, co-editor of States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State“In the Shadows of the State is an important, original, thoughtful, and beautifully written book. I have no doubt that it will be considered the single most important account we have of state-society relations in Jharkhand. It is also a remarkably erudite and properly critical account of the production and use of ‘indigeneity’ and ‘development’ as social constructions that can contribute to the domination of poor rural Jharkhandis. Its significance ranges far beyond India.”—Stuart Corbridge, co-author of Jharkhand: Environment, Development, Ethnicity“Alpa Shah’s book is an engaged and exceptionally lively account of the intersection between the ‘everyday state’ and the people of one of India’s most marginalized ‘Tribal’ areas. A major contribution to the regional literature, her sometimes counterintuitive, often sobering, but always compelling analysis richly deserves the attention of anyone interested in the politics of indigeneity and its uneasy relationship with class politics and with left-wing activism.”—Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics“Alpa Shah’s In the shadows of the state is both… thought provoking and… highly accessible…. Shah’s work presents a valuable contribution to discussions surrounding the relationship between rural adivasi communities and the deep sources of inequality and misrepresentation which continue to affect their lives…. [A]n important work.” -- Ketan Alder * Contemporary South Asia *“This work is a powerful critique of those who speak in the name of the poor Adivasis in Jharkhand but use them only as a means for advancing their own interests; whether it is the ‘developmental state’ or the indigenous rights activists or political parties. In its meticulous research, the book explores the dangers of ’culture-making’ in the name of the indigenous population. The study provides much insight for those who are interested in questions regarding the nature and functioning of the Indian state, caste system and indigenous rights activism as well for the Left movement in India.” -- M. Muneer * Journal of Contemporary Asia *“In the Shadows of the State is a simple, engaging, and beautifully written book that makes a significant and original contribution to the global literature on the politics and practice of indigeneity, and to the rich body of critical geographical and anthropological research on tribal life and politics in Jharkhand and eastern India. It should be required reading for all scholars and activists committed to resolving the awkward relationship between indigeneity and indigence.” -- Haripriya Rangan * Journal of Asian Studies *“A brilliant ethnography…. Shah has succeeded in bringing a place, its people and their social and political relations to life. It is a pleasure to read, and an example of the possibility of skillful and expressive writing immersed in the texture of everyday life to enhance academic analysis.” -- Colin McFarlane * Environment and Planning D *“Shah uses eight years of field experience among the Munda in the recently independent (2000) state of Jharkhand to demonstrate the limitations of identity politics in the liberation of the rural poor and marginalized in India. . . . Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries.” -- B. Tavakolian * Choice *“Throughout the book aspirations, desires, and frustrations are all expressed by respondents in ways that do not fit the ways tribal communities are viewed by many of their external supporters. This is uncomfortable territory for many scholars and activists, yet the author forces readers to rethink their own positions and the choices we all make in our work. This is an outstanding book of importance for its content and the challenges it sets out to its readers.” -- Duncan McDuie-Ra * Asian Studies Review * "A must-read for those interested in the politics of indigenous rights activism and its intersection with issues of governance and the environment." -- Brian Dudley * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue 1 1. The Dark Side of Indigeneity 9 2. Not Just Ghosts: Democracy as Sacral Polity 36 3. Shadowy Practices: Development as Corruption 66 4. Dangerous Silhouettes: Elephants, Sacrifice, and Alcohol 99 5. Night Escape: Eco-incarceration, Purity, and Sex 130 6. The Terror Within: Revolution against the State? 162 Epilogue: Arcadian Spaces beyond the Shadows of the State 184 Glossary of Terms 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 237 Index 265

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Book SynopsisA history of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the 1960s and early 1970s.Trade Review“Andrew Ivaska brings historical depth and nuance to an inherently fascinating subject: cultural politics in early postcolonial Africa. His original, conceptually sophisticated chronicle of the heated cultural debates that took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 1960s demonstrates a masterful grasp of comparative scholarship on popular culture, modernity, and globalization.”—Lynn M. Thomas, author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya“Cultured States is an enormous contribution to scholarship on the cultural politics of postcolonial East Africa. It is filled with rich and wonderful insights into youth, fashion, and the political culture of the 1960s.”—Luise White, author of Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa“Andrew Ivaska has written a highly effective monograph that explores how state ideology, popular cultural practices, historical era, and emergent social structure intersected in postcolonial Tanzania.... Cultured States is a very good monograph full of valuable insights for scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates with an interest in cultural history, politics, anthropology, African studies, globalization, popular culture, and postcolonial studies.” -- Anne S. Lewinson * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Andrew Ivaska’s book may stand as a pioneering work in the historiography of postcolonial Africa. In its finely textured depictions of the distinctive cultural imaginaries fueling official and unofficial visions of nation building and citizenship in postindependence Tanzania, the book offers compelling material for broader studies in comparative nationalisms worldwide. The same can be said of its potential contributions to comparative studies of the cosmopolitan sensibilities and social movements of the global 1960s.” -- Jay Straker * American Historical Review *“Andrew Ivaska’s fascinating book explores the raucous and hotly contested cultural politics of 1960s Dar es Salaam, showing how debates over national culture were simultaneously critical public discussions about changing gender roles, intergenerational tensions and growing material inequalities – all of which were visible in the public spaces of Tanzania’s rapidly expanding capital city…. Cultured States will surely attract a wide readership in African studies, but it merits an audience beyond this as well, in areas including urban studies, the global history of the 1960s and postcolonial studies.” -- Emily Callaci * Social History *“Cultured States is a welcome contribution to the growing field of histories that explore cultural politics in the decades immediately following decolonization… This book should be extremely effective in graduate and upper-level undergraduate classrooms. It is well-organized, explores theoretically complex issues in clear language, and is very entertaining. Ivaska carefully places the study within the larger body of literature on youth culture and gender debates in the global 1960s. He succeeds in showing the richness and complexity in Tanzanian conflicts over socialism, culture, and young people.” -- Jeremy Rich * Canadian Journal of History *“On the whole, Andrew Ivaska’s Cultured States is a well-written book that documents a fascinating historical period and offers significant theoretical insights.” -- Daniel Mains * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Postcolonial Public Culture in Sixties Times 1 1. National Culture and Its Others in a Cosmopolitan Capital 37 2. "The Age of Minis": Secretaries, City Girls, and Masculinity Downtown 86 3. Of Students, 'Nizers, and Comrades: Youth, Internationalism, and the University College, Dar es Salaam 124 4. "Marriage Goes Metric": Negotiating Gender, Generation, and Wealth in a Changing Capital 166 Conclusion 206 Notes 219 Bibliography 253 Index 271

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Book SynopsisArgues that some histories, including Tibetans armed resistance against the Chinese, are arrested, deliberately left untold until some future moment when changed circumstances favor their telling.Trade Review“McGranahan has patiently interviewed elderly survivors of the Tibetan guerilla resistance to Chinese rule, which lasted from 1956 to 1974. . . . As an anthropologist, McGranahan attends chiefly to the politics of memory and forgetting, the formation of identity, and the construction of gender, leaving the military and political histories of the forgotten war, as she says, a work in progress.” - Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs“The book is an invaluable guide to the complexities of Tibetan resistance to the Chinese and is especially strong in its descriptions of the interactions between Tibetan politics and Tibetan religion (including violence in the defense of nonviolence), the tension between a unified Tibet and strong regional traditions, the difficulties and sadness of refugee relocation, and the long CIA involvement with the Tibetan resistance. . . . Recommended.” - D. W. Haines, Choice“Historians, ethnographers, and students of culture in Tibet particularly, andmore generally in South Asia and China, as well as those in Cold War studies, Memory studies, and further afield should pay attention to this important work: It marks a milestone for how politically sensitive histories that are ‘arrested’ through polemics can be released, and told in a nuanced andresponsible way. Arrested Histories allows for new, unheard voices to enter the archive, while also creating new futures and possibilities for these voices, in its acknowledgement of a truly representative, engaged and relevant history for Tibet.” - Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Journal of Asian Studies“Arrested Histories is a book about the attempt of the Tibetan diaspora to construct its global image and about those who played a crucial role in a history but remain relegated to its edges. The book should be of great interest not only to specialists in Tibetan studies but also to those working in the social sciences, as McGranahan skilfully interweaves ethnographic detail with discussions about memory, history and the construction of historical facts.” - Tsering Shakya, The China Quarterly“The struggle of Tibetans—known to Americans primarily through bumper sticker discourse—is presented here in fine-grained detail. Its complexities, contradictions, and ironies are fully explored. . . . This book would be valuable if it did nothing other than complicate our understanding of Tibet. However, its fruitful use of the ample literature on social memory combined with high-quality ethnography make it a valuable addition to the libraries of those with broader interests in the politics of memory.” - Michael E. Harkin, Political and Legal Anthropology Review“Arrested Histories breathes an air of dedicated scholarship, thoroughness, of meticulous research. There are maps, including one on the ‘Tibetan areas’ of China, almost two scores of illustrations, an excellent bibliography, a note on transliteration and photographs. Above all, it illumines a subject that has sadly been long neglected, if now half forgotten.” - Parshotam Mehra, The Tribune (Chandigarh)“Arrested Histories is dense with insights, as well as new ways of looking at its subjects. It shows incredible range, from person- and innovative family-centered approaches to broad regional analysis, to even broader international relations on the borders between Tibet, India, and China and on the border-like edge of relations between the Tibetan resistance army and the CIA. A book that will be of intense interest to scholars interested in incisive political economic analysis of imperial formations of any era or locale.”—Catherine Lutz, author of Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century“Arrested Histories breathes an air of dedicated scholarship, thoroughness, of meticulous research. There are maps, including one on the ‘Tibetan areas’ of China, almost two scores of illustrations, an excellent bibliography, a note on transliteration and photographs. Above all, it illumines a subject that has sadly been long neglected, if now half forgotten.” -- Parshotam Mehra * The Tribune (Chandigarh) *“Historians, ethnographers, and students of culture in Tibet particularly, and more generally in South Asia and China, as well as those in Cold War studies, Memory studies, and further afield should pay attention to this important work: It marks a milestone for how politically sensitive histories that are ‘arrested’ through polemics can be released, and told in a nuanced and responsible way. Arrested Histories allows for new, unheard voices to enter the archive, while also creating new futures and possibilities for these voices, in its acknowledgement of a truly representative, engaged and relevant history for Tibet.” -- Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa * Journal of Asian Studies *“McGranahan has patiently interviewed elderly survivors of the Tibetan guerilla resistance to Chinese rule, which lasted from 1956 to 1974. . . . As an anthropologist, McGranahan attends chiefly to the politics of memory and forgetting, the formation of identity, and the construction of gender, leaving the military and political histories of the forgotten war, as she says, a work in progress.” -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *“The book is an invaluable guide to the complexities of Tibetan resistance to the Chinese and is especially strong in its descriptions of the interactions between Tibetan politics and Tibetan religion (including violence in the defense of nonviolence), the tension between a unified Tibet and strong regional traditions, the difficulties and sadness of refugee relocation, and the long CIA involvement with the Tibetan resistance. . . . Recommended.” -- D. W. Haines * Choice *“The struggle of Tibetans—known to Americans primarily through bumper sticker discourse—is presented here in fine-grained detail. Its complexities, contradictions, and ironies are fully explored. . . . This book would be valuable if it did nothing other than complicate our understanding of Tibet. However, its fruitful use of the ample literature on social memory combined with high-quality ethnography make it a valuable addition to the libraries of those with broader interests in the politics of memory.” -- Michael E. Harkin * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Note on Transliteration, Names, and Photographs ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Empire and the State of Tibet 37 2. The Pains of Belonging 53 3. 1956: Year of the Fire Monkey 67 4. The Golden Throne 89 5. History and Memory as Social Practice 109 6. War in Exile 127 7. In a Clouded Mirror 143 8. Secrets, the CIA, and the Politics of Truth 163 9. A Nonviolent History of War 185 Conclusion: Truth, Fear, and Lies 201 Epilogue 219 Appendix. Who's Who 231 Notes 235 Bibliography 275 Index 303

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic account of the logics and regimes of value propelling desires for transnational mobility—largely via human smuggling networks—throughout Fuzhou, China.Trade Review“Cosmologies of Credit is a rich ethnography of migration that describes departures rather than arrivals, debts to gods that loom as large as debts to humans, and the lived experience of mobility without movement. Julie Y. Chu provides wonderfully subtle renderings of passionate and painful longings not to be left behind. One of the most astute and beautifully written ethnographies about China, Cosmologies of Credit is a pleasure to read.”—Lisa Rofel, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture“In this vivid account of Fuzhounese villagers’ strenuous efforts to realize their own cosmopolitan mobility as undocumented, smuggled persons, Julie Y. Chu connects architecture, spirit money, the politics of destination, and the cosmology of value. As she convincingly argues, mobility is the modern feature of modernity, and the real is always in motion.”—Tani Barlow, Rice University“. . . [A] remarkably rich, sensitive ethnographic account. . . . Chu convincingly challenges conventional conceptions of place and displacement in the social analysis of migration and diaspora.” -- Jing Shao * Asian Anthropology *“Julie Chu's ambitious ethnography provides a captivating description of contemporary Chinese people's desire for mobility. . . . Cosmologies of Credit is daunting in scope and provides numerous insights for scholars interested in contemporary Chinese migration practice. . . . It is a major contribution to the fields both of migration and of China studies, and demonstrates the continued relevance of anthropological approaches to China's place in a globalized era.” -- Jamie Coates * The China Journal *“The contradiction between the desired modern persona and the classically superstitious practices that are deployed to attain it has been noted by other researchers, but its ethnographic elaboration is one of the most interesting aspects of Chu’s book. Cosmologies of Credit enriches our understanding of the meshing between private and state desires of modernity that are so characteristic of today’s China.” -- Nyíri Pál * The China Quarterly *“This is a fine example of how a modern ethnography can be written in a way that informs about people’s lives without attempting to describe everything in a research site. It is also an example of how to write a transnational ethnography that transcends geographical boundaries. Unlike most anthropological works on China or on Chinese overseas which treat each as rather separate, this work links the study of China with the study of Chinese overseas very well.” -- Tan CheeBeng * Journal of Asian Studies *“The study reveals a great deal about the conditions, motivations, and perceptions of the residents of the village with respect to their identities, opportunities, and how movement (especially economic and transnational) fits into their worlds…an important book for social scientists who study immigration, human smuggling, transnational movement, or nonurban society in contemporary China.” -- Brian J. Nichols * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Notes on Orthography and Names xiii Introduction 1 Part I. Edgy Dispositions 23 1. To Be Emplaced: Fuzhounese Migration and the Geography of Desire 31 2. Stepping Out: Contesting the Moral Career from Peasant to Overseas Chinese 59 Part II. Exits and Entrances 101 3. Snakeheads and Paper Trails: The Making of Exits 107 4. Bad Subjects: Human Smuggling, Legality, and the Problem of Entrance 141 Part III. Debts and Diversions 165 5. For Use in Heaven or Hell: The Circulation of the U.S. Dollar among Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors 171 6. Partings and Returns: Gender, Kinship, and the Mediation of Renqing 217 Conclusion: When Fortune Flows 257 Notes 269 Bibliography 295 Index 321

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Book SynopsisThe story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000.Trade Review“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” - Sarah Fletcher, Montreal Review of Books“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” - Jeremy A. Greene, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” - Betsey Brada, Somatosphere“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” - Peter Redfield, American Anthropologist“The activist, physician, and anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen has written an engaged, rigorous, and compelling account of the years when, in West Africa, AIDS treatment started to become available and persons living with HIV began to organize. With insight and sympathy, he explores how new political forms were thus invented in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, combining therapeutic sovereignty and health democracy, triage of patients and empowerment of communities, confessions and accusations.”—Didier Fassin, author of When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” -- Jeremy A. Greene * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” -- Betsey Brada * Somatosphere *“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” -- Sarah Fletcher * Montreal Review of Books *“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” -- Peter Redfield * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS 1 1. Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV 15 2. Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self 35 3. Soldiers of God: Together and Apart 61 4. Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship 89 5. Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers 111 6. The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty 137 7. Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out 157 Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? 175 Notes 189 References 205 Index 229

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Book SynopsisKathryn Burns shows how the biases and practices of Spanish notaries and their clients in colonial Cuzco shaped official records and, therefore, the archive on which contemporary historians rely.Trade Review“Those who read this small but wise volume will doubtless enhance both their understanding of colonial record making, and also their need to treat the documentary record with caution, always contextualizing the making of the records themselves. The author is to be congratulated for this major contribution to the analysis of colonial notarial sources, a book that will benefit all who work in archives.” - David J. Robinson, Journal of Latin American Geography“Joining her voice to those of scholars such as Ann Laura Stoler and Natalie Zemon Davis, Kathryn Burns calls on historians to treat archives as a fundamental part of research rather than simply mining the documents that lie therein. Her rich case study of colonial Peru interrogates the production of archival documents and thus has wide-ranging methodological implications for historians and archivists interested not only in colonial Latin America but also in legal history, the early modern period, and the power of writing.Her clear and conversational writing style builds a convincing argument through visual and textual examples that show the constructed nature of truth in archival documents.” - Elizabeth Shesko, Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists“Kathryn Burns’s elegantly written and exquisitely illustrated Into the Archive constitutes a remarkable and innovative contribution to our understanding of the making of Spanish colonialism in colonial Cusco.” - Alcira Dueñas, The Americas“This eloquently written book is a must read for scholars and curators, within and without Latin American studies, on the meaning and function of colonial archives and their modern successors. It would be hard to find a more passionate argument for the vitality and profit of notarial collections and sources as subjects of historical inquiry.” - John Charles, Journal of Archival Organization“Burns has given us a truly fascinating analysis of the dynamics involved in the creation of what comes to us as an archives. It is essential reading for any scholar who intends to engage in archival research or in research on the nature of the archives itself. . . . The book is rich in analysis, well researched, and full of possibilities.” - Francis X. Blouin, Jr, American Archivist“‘Believe me, sir, it all depends on us,’ brags a notary in a Francisco de Quevedo novel. ‘So true,’ say historians of early modernity; after all, history comes to us through these men’s quills. But who are they? With an ethnographic eye, Kathryn Burns brings to life the surprisingly unpredictable human business that took place over notarial desks. Burns’ fresh, rich, and ingenious investigation of notaries’ power over letters adds crucially to our understanding of how Andean peoples joined the transatlantic textual community.”—Frank Salomon, author of The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village“Kathryn Burns leads us into the archive through a fine-grained historical ethnography of notarial practice and its social context in colonial Cuzco. Gracefully-written and engaging, yet rigorous in its use of historical materials and its social analysis, Into The Archive’s reading of the colonial notarial office as a space of political and social negotiation and intrigue will transform our appreciation of these repositories and our understanding of the colonial Latin American ‘lettered city.’ No longer transparent, the very production of archival documents becomes a space in which colonial society is revealed.”—Joanne Rappaport, author of The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes“While historians are increasingly attentive to how actions and intentions get filtered through the voices and pens of intermediaries, or standardized by juridical and legal formulas, very few scholars have undertaken a systematic examination of these processes and their implications. Kathryn Burns has done so, and brilliantly. Her book Into the Archive will be of enormous interest to cultural and social historians of colonial Latin America, to students of Latin American history more broadly, and to many scholars outside the field of Latin American studies, particularly those engaged in research on the early modern world, legal history, and the history of archives.”—Barbara Weinstein, New York University“Burns has given us a truly fascinating analysis of the dynamics involved in the creation of what comes to us as an archives. It is essential reading for any scholar who intends to engage in archival research or in research on the nature of the archives itself. . . . The book is rich in analysis, well researched, and full of possibilities.” -- Francis X. Blouin Jr * American Archivist *“Joining her voice to those of scholars such as Ann Laura Stoler and Natalie Zemon Davis, Kathryn Burns calls on historians to treat archives as a fundamental part of research rather than simply mining the documents that lie therein. Her rich case study of colonial Peru interrogates the production of archival documents and thus has wide-ranging methodological implications for historians and archivists interested not only in colonial Latin America but also in legal history, the early modern period, and the power of writing. Her clear and conversational writing style builds a convincing argument through visual and textual examples that show the constructed nature of truth in archival documents.” -- Elizabeth Shesko * Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists *“This eloquently written book is a must read for scholars and curators, within and without Latin American studies, on the meaning and function of colonial archives and their modern successors. It would be hard to find a more passionate argument for the vitality and profit of notarial collections and sources as subjects of historical inquiry.” -- John Charles * Journal of Archival Organization *“Those who read this small but wise volume will doubtless enhance both their understanding of colonial record making, and also their need to treat the documentary record with caution, always contextualizing the making of the records themselves. The author is to be congratulated for this major contribution to the analysis of colonial notarial sources, a book that will benefit all who work in archives.” -- David J. Robinson * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Of Notaries, Templates, and Truth 20 2. Interests 42 3. Custom 68 4. Power in the Archives 95 5. Archives as Chessboards 124 Epilogue 148 Notes 153 Glossary 205 Works Consulted 209 Index 239

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Book SynopsisThe story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000.Trade Review“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” - Sarah Fletcher, Montreal Review of Books“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” - Jeremy A. Greene, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” - Betsey Brada, Somatosphere“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” - Peter Redfield, American Anthropologist“The activist, physician, and anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen has written an engaged, rigorous, and compelling account of the years when, in West Africa, AIDS treatment started to become available and persons living with HIV began to organize. With insight and sympathy, he explores how new political forms were thus invented in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, combining therapeutic sovereignty and health democracy, triage of patients and empowerment of communities, confessions and accusations.”—Didier Fassin, author of When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” -- Jeremy A. Greene * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” -- Betsey Brada * Somatosphere *“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” -- Sarah Fletcher * Montreal Review of Books *“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” -- Peter Redfield * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS 1 1. Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV 15 2. Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self 35 3. Soldiers of God: Together and Apart 61 4. Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship 89 5. Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers 111 6. The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty 137 7. Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out 157 Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? 175 Notes 189 References 205 Index 229

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Book SynopsisThis collection of twenty essays provides an unprecedented overview of Chinese trade through the centuries, highlighting its scope, diversity, complexity, and the commodities that have linked it with Southeast Asia.Trade Review“Collectively, the chapters provide a longue durée view of how Chinese circulations have historically shaped the economic landscape and buoyancy of the Southeast Asia region. By tracking disparate flows of actors, objects, ideas, and practices, the authors show how the kinship-based commercial capitalism originating in China cumulatively created conditions for meeting the challenges of European industrial capitalism and, more recently, contemporary globalization.”—Aihwa Ong, author of Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality and co-editor of Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism“Focused exclusively on Chinese commodity trades in Southeast Asia, Chinese Circulations is a pioneering investigation of an important region.”—Peter C. Perdue, author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia“The authors have used their great professional skills to paint a picture of extensive and precarious trading activity that illuminates the underpinnings of Southeast Asian economic development for the last millennium. It is their success in doing so that recommends this collection to all who wish to understand why the region is what it is today.”—Wang Gungwu, from the foreword“On the whole, this well-written book will be an important reference not only to those who are interested in Sino-Southeast Asian studies, but will also attract readers exploring the historical development of globalization, particularly from the perspective of how commodity, information, capital and human beings have been circulating and intertwining together for many centuries. Moreover, I am confident that this book will have particular value given the increased interest in studying China’s rise at present, on the basis of enormous amounts of exported commodities and millions of emigrants, which has affected and will further affect Southeast Asia and the wider world.” -- Li Minghuan * Asian Anthropology *“This collection of essays offers the most comprehensive and updated examination of the flow of commodities, capital, and people between China and Southeast Asia…. [W]ith unmatched breadth and depth, [it] sheds new light on the dynamic and complex trade relations between China and Southeast Asia.” -- Hongshan Li * The Historian *“This is a substantive volume ... that, in the best revisionist tradition, forces historians, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and others to reevaluate the power, influence, and dominance of local Southeast Asian agencies against the earlier proposals of Chinese and Western predominance of overseas and regional trade after 1600. ... [T]his book should be mandatory reading among scholars and graduate students who specialize in the diverse aspects of Southeast Asian, Chinese, and colonial-era history, and also those who variously study diasporas, servitude, immigration, and economic, maritime, and borderlands topics. As noted above, the book has great importance in its potential to allow scholars and diplomats to draw on the past to envision China’s future relationships within Asia and beyond.” -- Kenneth R. Hall * China Review International *“[T]his book is a relevant and valuable read for scholars and advanced students of not only Chinese and Southeast Asian studies, but also of global, economic, environmental, diaspora and socio-political histories. By combining the usually disparate sub-fields of Southeast Asian studies–the wide range of Asian and European languages alone required to tackle primary sources renders any kind of regional expertise near impossible–and linking them with the twisted strands of Chinese commercial activity, this volume is reminiscent of Silk Road studies in its scope and richness. The multi-dimensional, diverse, yet mutually informed perspectives offered by this book are perhaps its most significant contribution, and this is precisely what an edited volume such as this is supposed to achieve.” -- Karen M. Teoh * Journal of International and Global Studies *“[The] essays . . . form a composite picture of the China trade and its effects on Southeast Asian societies that covers a wide swathe of the past and throws light on present relations. . . . This high-quality collection widens the understanding of Southeast Asia and reminds us of the weakness of the nation-state approach by being willing to transcend (or ignore) state borders, Skinnerian macroregions, or ethnic boundaries. . . .” -- Mary Somers Heidhues * Asian Studies Review *“Once in a while some groundbreaking efforts on regional studies are carried out to cheer the hearts of the specialists and general readers.Chinese Circulations falls into this mould and contributes significantly to the unraveling of the multifaceted maritime and overland trade and exchanges between China and Southeast Asia during the past few centuries.” -- Voon Phin Keong * China Review *“This impressive collection of research papers is a major contribution to recent efforts to break down a dysfunctional barrier between the study of the history of China and that of the history of Southeast Asia….So we have here an excellent big volume that gives much food for thought and that contributes very substantially to our understanding of the multiple circulations of people and commodities that made the early modern world.” -- John E. Wills Jr. * Journal of Economic History *Table of ContentsList of Maps ix Foreword / Wang Gungwu xi Introduction: The Arc of Historical Commercial Relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo 1 Part I. Theoretical/Longue Durée Chinese on the Mining Frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid 21 Cotton, Copper, and Caravans: Trade and the Transformation of Southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch 37 The Social Life of Chinese Labor / Adam McKeown 62 Opium as a Commodity in the Chinese Nanyang Trade / Carl A. Trocki 84 Part II. Precolonial The Lidai Baoan and the Ryukyu Maritime Tributary Trade Network with China and Southeast Asia, the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries / Takeshi Hamashita 107 Cochinchinese Coin Casting and Circulating in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia / Li Tana 131 Import of Prosperity: Luxurious Items Imported from China to Siam during the Thonburi and Early Rattanakosin Periods (1767–1854) / Masuda Erika 149 A Sino-Indonesian Commodity Chain: The Trade in Tortoiseshell in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Heather Sutherland 172 Part III. Early Colonial From Baoshi to Feicui: Qing-Burmese Gem Trade, c. 1644–1800 / Sun Laichen 203 Junks to Java: Chinese Shipping to the Nanyang in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century / Leonard Blussé 221 Chinese Books and Printing in the Early Spanish Philippines / Lucille Chia 259 The End of the "Age of Commerce"?: Javanese Cotton Trade Industry from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries / Kwee Hiu Kian 283 Part IV. High Colonial The Power of Culture and Its Limits: Taiwanese Merchants' Asian Commodity Flows, 1895–1945 / Lin Man-houng 305 Rice Trade and Chinese Rice Millers in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries: The Case of British Malaya / Wu Xiao An 336 Tonle Sap Processed Fish: From Khmer Subsistence Staple to Colonial Export Commodity / Nola Cooke 360 Moses' Rod: The Bible as a Commodity in Southeast Asia and China / Jean DeBernardi 380 Part V. Postcolonial Market Price, Labor Input, and Relation of Production in Sarawak's Edible Brids' Nest Trade / Bien Chiang 407 A Sino-Southeast Asian Circuit: Ethnohistories of the Marine Goods Trade / Eric Tagliacozzo 432 From a Shiji Episode to the Forbidden Jade Tree during the Socialist Regime in Burma / Wen-Chin Chang 455 Conflict Timber along the China-Burma Border: Connecting the Global Timber Consumer with Violent Extraction Sites / Kevin Woods 480 Contributors 507 Index 509

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Book SynopsisThis collection of twenty essays provides an unprecedented overview of Chinese trade through the centuries, highlighting its scope, diversity, complexity, and the commodities that have linked it with Southeast Asia.Trade Review“Collectively, the chapters provide a longue durée view of how Chinese circulations have historically shaped the economic landscape and buoyancy of the Southeast Asia region. By tracking disparate flows of actors, objects, ideas, and practices, the authors show how the kinship-based commercial capitalism originating in China cumulatively created conditions for meeting the challenges of European industrial capitalism and, more recently, contemporary globalization.”—Aihwa Ong, author of Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality and co-editor of Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism“Focused exclusively on Chinese commodity trades in Southeast Asia, Chinese Circulations is a pioneering investigation of an important region.”—Peter C. Perdue, author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia“The authors have used their great professional skills to paint a picture of extensive and precarious trading activity that illuminates the underpinnings of Southeast Asian economic development for the last millennium. It is their success in doing so that recommends this collection to all who wish to understand why the region is what it is today.”—Wang Gungwu, from the foreword“On the whole, this well-written book will be an important reference not only to those who are interested in Sino-Southeast Asian studies, but will also attract readers exploring the historical development of globalization, particularly from the perspective of how commodity, information, capital and human beings have been circulating and intertwining together for many centuries. Moreover, I am confident that this book will have particular value given the increased interest in studying China’s rise at present, on the basis of enormous amounts of exported commodities and millions of emigrants, which has affected and will further affect Southeast Asia and the wider world.” -- Li Minghuan * Asian Anthropology *“This collection of essays offers the most comprehensive and updated examination of the flow of commodities, capital, and people between China and Southeast Asia…. [W]ith unmatched breadth and depth, [it] sheds new light on the dynamic and complex trade relations between China and Southeast Asia.” -- Hongshan Li * The Historian *“This is a substantive volume ... that, in the best revisionist tradition, forces historians, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and others to reevaluate the power, influence, and dominance of local Southeast Asian agencies against the earlier proposals of Chinese and Western predominance of overseas and regional trade after 1600. ... [T]his book should be mandatory reading among scholars and graduate students who specialize in the diverse aspects of Southeast Asian, Chinese, and colonial-era history, and also those who variously study diasporas, servitude, immigration, and economic, maritime, and borderlands topics. As noted above, the book has great importance in its potential to allow scholars and diplomats to draw on the past to envision China’s future relationships within Asia and beyond.” -- Kenneth R. Hall * China Review International *“[T]his book is a relevant and valuable read for scholars and advanced students of not only Chinese and Southeast Asian studies, but also of global, economic, environmental, diaspora and socio-political histories. By combining the usually disparate sub-fields of Southeast Asian studies–the wide range of Asian and European languages alone required to tackle primary sources renders any kind of regional expertise near impossible–and linking them with the twisted strands of Chinese commercial activity, this volume is reminiscent of Silk Road studies in its scope and richness. The multi-dimensional, diverse, yet mutually informed perspectives offered by this book are perhaps its most significant contribution, and this is precisely what an edited volume such as this is supposed to achieve.” -- Karen M. Teoh * Journal of International and Global Studies *“[The] essays . . . form a composite picture of the China trade and its effects on Southeast Asian societies that covers a wide swathe of the past and throws light on present relations. . . . This high-quality collection widens the understanding of Southeast Asia and reminds us of the weakness of the nation-state approach by being willing to transcend (or ignore) state borders, Skinnerian macroregions, or ethnic boundaries. . . .” -- Mary Somers Heidhues * Asian Studies Review *“Once in a while some groundbreaking efforts on regional studies are carried out to cheer the hearts of the specialists and general readers.Chinese Circulations falls into this mould and contributes significantly to the unraveling of the multifaceted maritime and overland trade and exchanges between China and Southeast Asia during the past few centuries.” -- Voon Phin Keong * China Review *“This impressive collection of research papers is a major contribution to recent efforts to break down a dysfunctional barrier between the study of the history of China and that of the history of Southeast Asia….So we have here an excellent big volume that gives much food for thought and that contributes very substantially to our understanding of the multiple circulations of people and commodities that made the early modern world.” -- John E. Wills Jr. * Journal of Economic History *Table of ContentsList of Maps ix Foreword / Wang Gungwu xi Introduction: The Arc of Historical Commercial Relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo 1 Part I. Theoretical/Longue Durée Chinese on the Mining Frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid 21 Cotton, Copper, and Caravans: Trade and the Transformation of Southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch 37 The Social Life of Chinese Labor / Adam McKeown 62 Opium as a Commodity in the Chinese Nanyang Trade / Carl A. Trocki 84 Part II. Precolonial The Lidai Baoan and the Ryukyu Maritime Tributary Trade Network with China and Southeast Asia, the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries / Takeshi Hamashita 107 Cochinchinese Coin Casting and Circulating in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia / Li Tana 131 Import of Prosperity: Luxurious Items Imported from China to Siam during the Thonburi and Early Rattanakosin Periods (1767–1854) / Masuda Erika 149 A Sino-Indonesian Commodity Chain: The Trade in Tortoiseshell in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Heather Sutherland 172 Part III. Early Colonial From Baoshi to Feicui: Qing-Burmese Gem Trade, c. 1644–1800 / Sun Laichen 203 Junks to Java: Chinese Shipping to the Nanyang in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century / Leonard Blussé 221 Chinese Books and Printing in the Early Spanish Philippines / Lucille Chia 259 The End of the "Age of Commerce"?: Javanese Cotton Trade Industry from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries / Kwee Hiu Kian 283 Part IV. High Colonial The Power of Culture and Its Limits: Taiwanese Merchants' Asian Commodity Flows, 1895–1945 / Lin Man-houng 305 Rice Trade and Chinese Rice Millers in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries: The Case of British Malaya / Wu Xiao An 336 Tonle Sap Processed Fish: From Khmer Subsistence Staple to Colonial Export Commodity / Nola Cooke 360 Moses' Rod: The Bible as a Commodity in Southeast Asia and China / Jean DeBernardi 380 Part V. Postcolonial Market Price, Labor Input, and Relation of Production in Sarawak's Edible Brids' Nest Trade / Bien Chiang 407 A Sino-Southeast Asian Circuit: Ethnohistories of the Marine Goods Trade / Eric Tagliacozzo 432 From a Shiji Episode to the Forbidden Jade Tree during the Socialist Regime in Burma / Wen-Chin Chang 455 Conflict Timber along the China-Burma Border: Connecting the Global Timber Consumer with Violent Extraction Sites / Kevin Woods 480 Contributors 507 Index 509

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Book SynopsisCovering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the important links between citizenship, national belonging, and popular music in Brazil.Trade Review“Idelber Avelar’s and Christopher Dunn’s book is not only an invaluable aid in understanding the complex relationship between culture and politics in Brazil. It also helps us to understand how culture and politics act together in forming our common future, and even suggests ways in which we as citizens might have a hand in determining how things turn out.”—Arto Lindsay, musician and artist“This book is quite important for understanding the significance of music in Brazil. It shows that music—as a complex social, cultural, artistic, and even political phenomenon—was part and parcel of the constitution of citizenship. Music has been a crucial constitutive factor in Brazilians’ sense of belonging.”—George Yúdice, author of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era“Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship is a significant contribution to the discussions of the Latin American social movements, cultural politics, and participatory democracy that have been taking place in the academy, policy circles, and among grassroots movements over the last 20 years. The international currency of cultural citizenship discourses, together with the present proliferation of musical expressions from Brazil’s peripheries, make this a timely publication, and its rich case studies will be of interest to scholars in cultural studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and related disciplines.” -- Darien Lamen * The Americas *“[T]hought-provoking. . . .” -- Clive Bell * The Wire *“Since ethnomusicologists have noticed and bemoaned the neglect of music in introductory anthropology courses and texts (which is all that most students will ever see of the subject), this powerful anthology will hopefully encourage anthropologists to take more seriously the place of music in contemporary politics and identity and to integrate that topic—surely one that students would enjoy hearing—into their teaching and writing.” -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *“[A] fascinating book…. the crucial role that Brazilian music plays in the social and political sphere makes this book relevant for a variety of academic disciplines and important beyond any scholarly trend.” -- Kavin Paulraj * Hispanic American Historical Review *"[A]n excellent source for anyone interested in Brazilian popular music in relation to power, identity, race, and the cultural industry.” -- Rogerio Budasz * Music and Letters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Music as Practice of Citizenship in Brazil / Idelber Avelar and Christopher Dunn 1 Dissonant Voices under a Regime of Order-(—)Unity: Popular Music and Work in the Estado Novo / Adalberto Paranhos 28 Orpheonic Chant and the Construction of Childhood in Brazilian Elementary Education / Flávio Oliveira 44 Farewell to MPB / Carlos Sandroni 64 From Mr. Citizen to Defective Android: Tom Zé and Citizenship in Brazil / Christopher Dunn 74 Rude Poetics of the 1980s: The Politics and Aesthetics of Os Titãs / Angélica Madeira 96 "We Live Daily in Two Countries": Audiotopias of Postdictatorship Brazil / Frederick Moehn 109 Soundtracking Landlessness: Music and Rurality in the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurias Sem Terra / Malcolm K. McNee 131 Zhen's Brasil's Japanese Brazilian Groove / Shanna Lorenz 155 Embodying the Favela: Representation, Mediation, and Citizenship in the Music of Bezerra da Silva / Aaron Lorenz 172 Hip-Hop in São Paulo: Identity, Community Formation, and Social Action / Wivian Weller and Marco Aurélio Paz Tella 188 "Conquistando Espaço": Hip-Hop Occupations of São Paulo / Derek Pardue 205 Funk Music Made in Brazil: Media and Moral Panic / João Freire Filho and Micael Herschmann 223 Technobrega, Forró, Lambadão: The Parallel Music of Brazil / Hermano Vianna 240 "Tradition as Adventure": Black Music, New Afro-Descendent Subjects and Pluralization of Modernity in Salvador da Bahia / Osmundo Pinho 250 Modernity, Agency, and Sexuality in the Pagode Baiano / Ari Lima 267 Candeal and Carlinhos Brown: Social and Musical Contexts of an Afro-Brazilian Community / Goli Guerreiro 278 Of Mud Huts and Modernity: The Performance of Civic Progress at Arcoverde's São João Festival / Daniel Sharp 291 Mangue Beat Music and the Coding of Citizenship in Sound / Idelber Avelar 313 Works Cited 331 Contributors 353 Index 357

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Book SynopsisEthnographic research in Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States helps to explain how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced in the context of American empire and its War on Terror.Trade Review“Terrifying Muslims will be of great interest for those interested in a better understanding of the cultural and historical roots of the Pakistani diaspora. It will also appeal to those seeking to explore potential intersections between the fields of critical race studies and anthropology.” - Roberto J. González, Journal of Anthropological Research“Terrifying Muslims is a timely and necessary project, one that makes important interventions into both U.S. ethnic studies and South Asian studies. Junaid Rana persuasively shows that the current War on Terror and the Islamophobia that buttresses it can only be understood through a long historical view that situates current migrations in relation to colonial forms of labor exploitation such as slavery and indentureship.”—Gayatri Gopinath, author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures“Junaid Rana’s Terrifying Muslims is a road map against Islamophobia. Muslim migrants do not travel to erect minarets alone. They come because their homelands are wrecked by transnational capital, they come in search of work and dignity; their presence signals only this, and not some cataclysmic story of the clash of civilizations. Rana rehabilitates the ordinariness of migration in the context of forces that insist on making the migrant extraordinary. Crucial reading for terrible times.”—Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World“This book is an important, innovative, and much-needed intervention into current debates about migration, globalization, the War on Terror, Muslim identities, racialization, and labor. It offers a transnational analysis connecting South Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, as well as an astute framework linking questions of religion, race, class, sovereignty, and gender. In addition, it fills a glaring gap in Asian American and South Asian studies, where there has been little research on the Pakistani diaspora.”—Sunaina Marr Maira, author of Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11“Terrifying Muslims will be of great interest for those interested in a better understanding of the cultural and historical roots of the Pakistani diaspora. It will also appeal to those seeking to explore potential intersections between the fields of critical race studies and anthropology.” -- Roberto J. González * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Terrifying Muslims stands out in a crowded field. This is one of very few books to make consistently the point that the problem of Islamophobia is not new. . . . This book will no doubt prove critically important to anyone interested in race, labor, immigration, or Islamophobia." -- Erik Love * Contemporary Sociology *“Terrifying Muslims is an exemplary study and should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of transnational labor movements and the predicament of Muslims in the early 21st century.” -- Ahmed Afzal * American Anthropologist *“Junaid Rana has written a timely book that historically situates the concept of ‘race’ to illuminate the bind between religion and race in the construction of the racialised ‘Muslim’. . . . Terrifying Muslims is an insightful work as relevant for human rights activists as it is for historians, South Asian specialists, students of migration, policy-makers and popular culture enthusiasts.” -- Mamta Sachan Kumar * South Asia *"Terrifying Muslims makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on race and religion.... In sum, this is an excellent book and would be of interest to scholars across a number of disciplines." -- Beesan Sarrouh * Journal of International Migration and Integration *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Migrants in a Neoliberal World 1 Part I. Racializing Muslims 1. Islam and Racism 25 2. Racial Panic, Islamic Peril, and Terror 50 3. Imperial Targets 74 Part II. Globalizing Labor 4. Labor Diaspora and the Global Racial System 97 5. Migration, Illegality, and the Security State 134 6. The Muslim Body 153 Conclusion. Racial Feelings in the Post-9/11 World 174 Notes 181 References 203 Index 221

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Book SynopsisArgues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties.Trade Review“The Struggle for Maize is an important book about a crucial topic, the debate over the dissemination of genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico, the crop’s biological center of origin. The debate is significant because the more the modern varieties of corn become disseminated, the more biological diversity is lost, as that diversity depends on the traditional corn varieties cultivated by peasants. Elizabeth Fitting gives us an excellent account of the various positions in the GM corn debate and the connections between international processes and local Mexican communities.”—Gerardo Otero, editor of Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America“Through the case of Mexican maize, Elizabeth Fitting brings fresh insights and sharp analysis to bear on two of the most important and controversial issues in contemporary development studies: the politics of food and GM technology. All of those who are interested in the politics of food and food sovereignty, knowledge, and technology in Mexico and beyond, especially in the context of raging debates about persistent food crises and the future of the peasantry, should read this brilliant book.”—Saturnino M. Borras Jr., co-editor of Transnational Agrarian Movements: Confronting Globalization“[A]n important addition to much more than the ethnographic study of agriculture and the Mexican countryside. . . . This outstanding book is part of a new wave of anthropological scholarship. Fitting combines the strengths of rich local ethnographic work without losing sight of the global nature of agricultural change. . . . Fitting’s book should find a large audience that includes anthropologists, development specialists, those interested in the role and place of genetically modified crops and food studies, as well as specialists in Mexican and Latin American studies.” -- Jeffrey H. Cohen * Journal of Anthropological Research *“This is a timely contribution that deserves attention... The clear organization of the text and its lucid prosemake it appropriate for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses such as rural studies, globalization, political ecology, anthropology of food, and social movements, and for those interested in GM foods.” -- Alison Elizabeth Lee * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Elizabeth Fitting’s book is an important and lucid contribution to understanding the latest turn in Mexico’s long debate over its food system, cultural identity, and national economy...No other analysis presents the national debate about transgenic maize and its political and cultural contexts with the acuity of Fitting’s book.” -- Stephen Brush * American Anthropologist *“The Struggle for Maize deals with the resilience of corn as a crop and commodity and as a cultural practice, despite the challenges presented by a globalized economy that has introduced GMO corn varieties into Mexico. Depending on one's point of view, GMO may have accrued some economic benefits here and there in the country (but certainly not in San José Miahuatlán), but the agricultural, social, and environmental harms it has presented, Fitting argues, outweigh those benefits. And her book is successful in showing that, and thus is an important contribution to that ongoing debate.” -- Sterling Evans * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *“[A] timely, well-researched and extremely readable book . . . Fitting has intervened with an incisive critique of conventional agricultural development in Mexico, specifically showing how the discourse of scientific expertise is used to discredit other kinds of knowledge and equally valid concerns about the cultural effects of transgenic crops. The Struggle for Maize—a snapshot of the state of the agriculture/development debate in Mexico and a brilliant gathering together of literature on the topic—stands as both a corrective and a rebuke to such dismissals and exclusions.” -- Alice Brooke Wilson * Human Ecology *“Working across scale and over time, The Struggle for Maize provides a multidimensional perspective on the GM corn debates, which Fitting effectively demonstrates are about much more than crop varieties. . . . The Struggle for Maize succeeds at coalescing a wide array of perspectives and data around the central issue of the role of corn agriculture in Mexico. With Fitting’s engaging and accessible writing style, the pages turn easily even as they deliver dense and stimulating content.“ -- Eric Casler * Rural Sociology *“Fitting has written an insightful book that urges us to ponder the future of farming in and beyond Mexico. Its fresh take on getting to the background history of the food on our plates will be of use to those interested in food safety, food policy and food security, as well as to scholars of labour, peasant studies and the history of Mexico.” -- Gabriela Soto Laveaga * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This ethnography is alive with possibility and is written to make it readable and compelling for undergraduate and graduate classes and for many kinds of students, scholars, and audiences. Fitting is a master at connecting dots, putting pieces together, linking here and there, this and that, and listening to the world in ways that upend the given commonsense about industry and agriculture." -- Peter Benson * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsList of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: The Struggle for Mexican Maize 1 Part I: Debates 33 1. Transgenic Maize and Its Experts 35 2. Corn and the Hybrid Nation 75 Part II: Livelihoods 117 3. Community and Conflict 120 4. Remaking the Countryside 155 5. From Campesinos to Migrant and Maquila Workers? 197 Conclusion 230 Appendix: Producer Interviews, 2001–2002 239 Notes 249 Glossary 265 Bibliography 271 Index 293

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Book SynopsisGeoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón.Trade Review“A careful, incisive examination of the cultural politics and history of hip-hop in Havana—including its contentious relationship to reggaeton’s insurgent populism, blatant commercialism, and avoidance of explicit politics—Buena Vista in the Club gives readers a lucid tour of the complex spatial and ideological ground occupied by rap in Cuba. Foregrounding the interplay between state institutions, local artists, and foreign intellectuals, Geoffrey Baker provides a necessary and nuanced account of the myriad negotiations involved in ‘nationalizing’ hip-hop in a place with such a fraught but close relationship to the United States. This book offers a crucial historiographical contribution to studies of hip-hop’s global resonance and local meanings.”—Wayne Marshall, co-editor of Reggaeton“This masterful portrait of the rap and reggaetón scenes in modern Cuba surpasses existing work in its level of insight, depth, and contemporaneity. Geoffrey Baker offers a thoroughly original street-level ethnography of the local rap scene and illuminates the often contradictory workings of the various bureaucratic institutions involved in popular music. He also develops a significant critique of foreign portrayals of contemporary Cuban music culture and of the local/global dynamics of ‘imitating’ foreign rap (or another genre) as opposed to ‘nationalizing’ it with sprinkles of local musical flavor.”—Peter Manuel, author of Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae“Buena Vista in the Club is an essential addition to the growing scholarship on global hip hop. Baker adds to this scholarship in two significant ways. First, unlike his predecessors, he refuses to isolate the study of rap from reggaetón, preferring instead to analyze the interplay between the two genres. Second, he takes reflexivity to a new level by revealing the ways in which the works of foreign journalists and scholars have shaped the representation of Cuban rap and facilitated its success.” -- Jerome Camal * Labour/Le Travail *“Buena Vista in the Club is an excellent contribution to the fields of Cuban cultural studies, hip hop studies, and world music studies. Baker opens up new areas for further inquiry into the role of the foreign scholar, bodily discourse within popular forms, and close readings of Cuba’s principal hip hop group today, Los Aldeanos.” -- Naomi Pueo Wood * The Latin Americanist *“Buena Vista is Baker’s second book on music in Latin America and is a valuable contribution to Duke University Press’s Refiguring American Music series. This series, edited by Ronald Radano and Josh Kun, questions and confronts the dominant narratives framing the study of American music. In meeting the broad aims of the series, Baker throws a wide net that encompasses hip hop and reggaetón, as well as frameworks of race, politics, economies, globalisation and urban studies. It speaks greatly of Baker that this book maintains a sense of immediacy and detail as these broad strands are woven together. Baker’s contribution will undoubtedly lead to further debate on Cuban hip hop. . . .” -- Colter Harper * Popular Music *“[A] lively, personal examination of Havana’s street music, dance, and politics. . . . In tracing the history of rap and reggaetón, Baker makes a major contribution to the understanding of Cuban popular music and the global commercial success of rap music. Highly recommended.” -- L. Hendricks * Choice *“In Buena Vista in the Club, University of London Music Professor Geoffrey Baker examines the rise and fall of Cuban hip-hop.... This retrospective looks at the evolution of the Cuban hip-hop industry and how it has affected Cuban society, politics, and Havana’s relationship with the New York music industry.” * NACLA Report on the Americas *“The text is both extremely readable, for its accessible language, and academically rigorous, for the bibliographic references…. [T]he book is a thorough study of the politics of style in hip hop and reggaetón in Cuba. Baker demonstrates a deep knowledge of the discourses surrounding the representation of the Cuban rap scene produced by academia and the media.” -- Jeanette Bello Mota * International Journal of Cuban Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. ¡Hip Hop, Revolución!: Nationalizing Rap in Cuba 33 2. The Revolution of the Body: Reggaetón and the Politics of Dancing 108 3. The Havana You Don't Know: Urban Music and the Late Socialist City 178 4. Cuban Hip Hop All Stars: Transnationalism and the Politics of Representation 244 Conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Havana Hip Hop 334 Notes 365 Bibliography 383 Index 401

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Book SynopsisArgues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties.Trade Review“The Struggle for Maize is an important book about a crucial topic, the debate over the dissemination of genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico, the crop’s biological center of origin. The debate is significant because the more the modern varieties of corn become disseminated, the more biological diversity is lost, as that diversity depends on the traditional corn varieties cultivated by peasants. Elizabeth Fitting gives us an excellent account of the various positions in the GM corn debate and the connections between international processes and local Mexican communities.”—Gerardo Otero, editor of Food for the Few: Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America“Through the case of Mexican maize, Elizabeth Fitting brings fresh insights and sharp analysis to bear on two of the most important and controversial issues in contemporary development studies: the politics of food and GM technology. All of those who are interested in the politics of food and food sovereignty, knowledge, and technology in Mexico and beyond, especially in the context of raging debates about persistent food crises and the future of the peasantry, should read this brilliant book.”—Saturnino M. Borras Jr., co-editor of Transnational Agrarian Movements: Confronting Globalization“[A]n important addition to much more than the ethnographic study of agriculture and the Mexican countryside. . . . This outstanding book is part of a new wave of anthropological scholarship. Fitting combines the strengths of rich local ethnographic work without losing sight of the global nature of agricultural change. . . . Fitting’s book should find a large audience that includes anthropologists, development specialists, those interested in the role and place of genetically modified crops and food studies, as well as specialists in Mexican and Latin American studies.” -- Jeffrey H. Cohen * Journal of Anthropological Research *“This is a timely contribution that deserves attention... The clear organization of the text and its lucid prosemake it appropriate for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses such as rural studies, globalization, political ecology, anthropology of food, and social movements, and for those interested in GM foods.” -- Alison Elizabeth Lee * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Elizabeth Fitting’s book is an important and lucid contribution to understanding the latest turn in Mexico’s long debate over its food system, cultural identity, and national economy...No other analysis presents the national debate about transgenic maize and its political and cultural contexts with the acuity of Fitting’s book.” -- Stephen Brush * American Anthropologist *“The Struggle for Maize deals with the resilience of corn as a crop and commodity and as a cultural practice, despite the challenges presented by a globalized economy that has introduced GMO corn varieties into Mexico. Depending on one's point of view, GMO may have accrued some economic benefits here and there in the country (but certainly not in San José Miahuatlán), but the agricultural, social, and environmental harms it has presented, Fitting argues, outweigh those benefits. And her book is successful in showing that, and thus is an important contribution to that ongoing debate.” -- Sterling Evans * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *“[A] timely, well-researched and extremely readable book . . . Fitting has intervened with an incisive critique of conventional agricultural development in Mexico, specifically showing how the discourse of scientific expertise is used to discredit other kinds of knowledge and equally valid concerns about the cultural effects of transgenic crops. The Struggle for Maize—a snapshot of the state of the agriculture/development debate in Mexico and a brilliant gathering together of literature on the topic—stands as both a corrective and a rebuke to such dismissals and exclusions.” -- Alice Brooke Wilson * Human Ecology *“Working across scale and over time, The Struggle for Maize provides a multidimensional perspective on the GM corn debates, which Fitting effectively demonstrates are about much more than crop varieties. . . . The Struggle for Maize succeeds at coalescing a wide array of perspectives and data around the central issue of the role of corn agriculture in Mexico. With Fitting’s engaging and accessible writing style, the pages turn easily even as they deliver dense and stimulating content.“ -- Eric Casler * Rural Sociology *“Fitting has written an insightful book that urges us to ponder the future of farming in and beyond Mexico. Its fresh take on getting to the background history of the food on our plates will be of use to those interested in food safety, food policy and food security, as well as to scholars of labour, peasant studies and the history of Mexico.” -- Gabriela Soto Laveaga * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This ethnography is alive with possibility and is written to make it readable and compelling for undergraduate and graduate classes and for many kinds of students, scholars, and audiences. Fitting is a master at connecting dots, putting pieces together, linking here and there, this and that, and listening to the world in ways that upend the given commonsense about industry and agriculture." -- Peter Benson * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsList of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: The Struggle for Mexican Maize 1 Part I: Debates 33 1. Transgenic Maize and Its Experts 35 2. Corn and the Hybrid Nation 75 Part II: Livelihoods 117 3. Community and Conflict 120 4. Remaking the Countryside 155 5. From Campesinos to Migrant and Maquila Workers? 197 Conclusion 230 Appendix: Producer Interviews, 2001–2002 239 Notes 249 Glossary 265 Bibliography 271 Index 293

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Book SynopsisAnthropologists and historians examine how postwar violence in Guatemala City is reconfiguring urban space, transforming the relationship between city and country, and exacerbating structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination.Trade Review“This book makes a valuable contribution to the emerging anthropological literature on the social and cultural dimensions of neoliberal restructuring. Its vivid chapters both show us what neoliberalism ‘looks like’ in Guatemala and invite us to think about how we might pursue a broader discussion about topics (violence, crime, security, urban space) that cut across regions and demand a global and relational analysis. An impressive collection.”—James Ferguson, author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order“Together these chapters unsettle easy binaries and simplified notions of victimhood. The city and countryside shape each other far more than is often stated. And vulnerable city residents act on urban space to make it theirs again. The editors’ introduction is a forceful theoretical and empirical reframing of the usual representations of the miseries of the poor in the city. They succeed in making the study of Guatemala City a lens into a broader Latin American history.”—Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages“The editors of Securing the City are to be applauded for working to shatter common narratives that pin the blame for Guatemala’s urban violence on ‘delinquents,’ urban gangs, rural lynch mobs, or other such bogeymen. The work also dismantles the imagined boundaries between city and country, and for this it merits praise.” -- Kirsten Weld * ReVista *"[A] unique piece of work that provides an interesting corrective to the majority of literature on Guatemala that focuses on rural, indigenous issues…. These essays are drawn together by, and provide an important contribution to, the ethnographic exploration of space, identity, and the economic opportunity structure (or lack thereof) as shaped by contemporary neoliberal policy, discourse, and practice." -- James H. McDonald * Ethnohistory *“As a whole and as individual chapters, this book delivers what many others promise but never do; that is, to describe, analyse and explain the grassroots and everyday experiences and practices of neoliberalism, violence and security. In some ways, the Guatemalan context is irrelevant as the wider processes that affect many countries of the world today come to the fore. Yet in other ways, this is one of the most interesting books about Guatemala available today; it challenges many preconceived ideas about the country, about its indigenous population, about the nature and causes of violence and insecurity, and about the formation of porous and contested urban space.” -- Cathy McIlwaine * Journal of Latin American Studies *“An important contribution to the growing field of urban studies and in/security and would work well on the curriculum of a class on urban studies...it provides a refreshing addition to the literature on the segregation of social lives in so-called postmodern cities.” -- Regnar Kristensen * Ethnos *“Securing the City addresses both a timely topic (Guatemala's spectacular levels of personal and community insecurity) and a highly under-ethnographed region (in anthropologist-saturated Guatemala!), Guatemala City…. The editors have done us a great service in making more of Spanish anthropologist Manuela Camus's groundbreaking research on urban Maya available in English.” -- Abigail Adam * EIAL *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Securing the City: An Introduction / Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Thomas Offit 1 Part One: Urban History and Social Experience Living Guatemala City, 1930s–2000s / Deborah Levenson 25 Primero de Julio: Urban Experiences of Class Decline and Violence / Manuela Camus 49 Cacique for a Neoliberal Age: A Maya Retail Empire on the Streets of Guatemala City / Thomas Offit 67 Privatization of Public Sphere: The Displacement of Street Vendors in Guatemala City / Rodrigo J. Véliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill 83 Part Two: Guatemala City and Country The Security Guard Industry in Guatemala: Rural Communities and Urban Violence / Avery Dickins de Girón 103 Guatemala's New Violence as Structural Violence: Notes from the Highlands / Peter Benson, Kedron Thomas, and Edward F. Fischer 127 Spaces of Structural Adjustment in Guatemala's Apparel Industry / Kedron Thomas 147 Hands of Love: Christian Outreach and the Spatialization of Ethnicity / Kevin Lewis O'Neill 165 References 193 Contributors 213 Index 215

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Book SynopsisGeoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón.Trade Review“A careful, incisive examination of the cultural politics and history of hip-hop in Havana—including its contentious relationship to reggaeton’s insurgent populism, blatant commercialism, and avoidance of explicit politics—Buena Vista in the Club gives readers a lucid tour of the complex spatial and ideological ground occupied by rap in Cuba. Foregrounding the interplay between state institutions, local artists, and foreign intellectuals, Geoffrey Baker provides a necessary and nuanced account of the myriad negotiations involved in ‘nationalizing’ hip-hop in a place with such a fraught but close relationship to the United States. This book offers a crucial historiographical contribution to studies of hip-hop’s global resonance and local meanings.”—Wayne Marshall, co-editor of Reggaeton“This masterful portrait of the rap and reggaetón scenes in modern Cuba surpasses existing work in its level of insight, depth, and contemporaneity. Geoffrey Baker offers a thoroughly original street-level ethnography of the local rap scene and illuminates the often contradictory workings of the various bureaucratic institutions involved in popular music. He also develops a significant critique of foreign portrayals of contemporary Cuban music culture and of the local/global dynamics of ‘imitating’ foreign rap (or another genre) as opposed to ‘nationalizing’ it with sprinkles of local musical flavor.”—Peter Manuel, author of Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae“Buena Vista in the Club is an essential addition to the growing scholarship on global hip hop. Baker adds to this scholarship in two significant ways. First, unlike his predecessors, he refuses to isolate the study of rap from reggaetón, preferring instead to analyze the interplay between the two genres. Second, he takes reflexivity to a new level by revealing the ways in which the works of foreign journalists and scholars have shaped the representation of Cuban rap and facilitated its success.” -- Jerome Camal * Labour/Le Travail *“Buena Vista in the Club is an excellent contribution to the fields of Cuban cultural studies, hip hop studies, and world music studies. Baker opens up new areas for further inquiry into the role of the foreign scholar, bodily discourse within popular forms, and close readings of Cuba’s principal hip hop group today, Los Aldeanos.” -- Naomi Pueo Wood * The Latin Americanist *“Buena Vista is Baker’s second book on music in Latin America and is a valuable contribution to Duke University Press’s Refiguring American Music series. This series, edited by Ronald Radano and Josh Kun, questions and confronts the dominant narratives framing the study of American music. In meeting the broad aims of the series, Baker throws a wide net that encompasses hip hop and reggaetón, as well as frameworks of race, politics, economies, globalisation and urban studies. It speaks greatly of Baker that this book maintains a sense of immediacy and detail as these broad strands are woven together. Baker’s contribution will undoubtedly lead to further debate on Cuban hip hop. . . .” -- Colter Harper * Popular Music *“[A] lively, personal examination of Havana’s street music, dance, and politics. . . . In tracing the history of rap and reggaetón, Baker makes a major contribution to the understanding of Cuban popular music and the global commercial success of rap music. Highly recommended.” -- L. Hendricks * Choice *“In Buena Vista in the Club, University of London Music Professor Geoffrey Baker examines the rise and fall of Cuban hip-hop.... This retrospective looks at the evolution of the Cuban hip-hop industry and how it has affected Cuban society, politics, and Havana’s relationship with the New York music industry.” * NACLA Report on the Americas *“The text is both extremely readable, for its accessible language, and academically rigorous, for the bibliographic references…. [T]he book is a thorough study of the politics of style in hip hop and reggaetón in Cuba. Baker demonstrates a deep knowledge of the discourses surrounding the representation of the Cuban rap scene produced by academia and the media.” -- Jeanette Bello Mota * International Journal of Cuban Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. ¡Hip Hop, Revolución!: Nationalizing Rap in Cuba 33 2. The Revolution of the Body: Reggaetón and the Politics of Dancing 108 3. The Havana You Don't Know: Urban Music and the Late Socialist City 178 4. Cuban Hip Hop All Stars: Transnationalism and the Politics of Representation 244 Conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Havana Hip Hop 334 Notes 365 Bibliography 383 Index 401

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Book SynopsisAnthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world.Trade Review“Building on Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp’s pathbreaking work, Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent’s Reproduction, Globalization, and the State situates anthropological approaches to globalizing and gendered practices, politics, and policies of reproduction firmly in the twenty-first century. This rich collection of multisited studies contributes to multidisciplinary approaches to global ethnography and will enliven debates in research and teaching alike.”—Gail Kligman, author of The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceauşescu’s Romania“These fascinating and provocative essays represent some of the most exciting scholarship on the anthropology of reproduction.”—Lynn M. Morgan, author of Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos“This welcome, timely collection illuminates the rapidly transforming landscape of reproduction worldwide by bringing together case studies by outstanding ethnographers known for their research on reproduction. Each contributor demonstrates an impressive grip on local circumstances, while also showing how those circumstances are inevitably shaped by state policies or inaction. The editors’ introduction explains the sophisticated theoretical and methodological approaches brought to bear throughout the collection, and Rayna Rapp’s foreword and Didier Fassin’s epilogue sharpen the framework of a book that will set the standard for research on reproduction and globalization for the next decade.”—Faye Ginsburg, co-editor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction“Reproduction, Globalization, and the State is an important contribution to global debates on reproductive health and rights, since it serves as awelcome reminder that reproduction, despite its universality as a central feature of human societies, never takes place in a vacuum.” -- Andrea Lynch * Gender and Development *“The themes presented in this volume are highly topical; the complexities of studying the local and the global, the micro and the macro, are well illustrated; and the theoretical notions the chapters build on are clearly explained. These three qualities, together with a thought-provoking foreword by Rayna Rapp and epilogue by Didier Fassin, make this volume highly recommendable for academics and others interested in the field of reproduction and globalization.” -- Trudie Gerrits * Medische Antropologie *“This book is not only geographically wide ranging but it also encompasses many aspects of human reproduction…. Browner and Sargent have found room in this volume for scholarship on many diverse aspects of individuals’ reproductive journeys. . . . These aspects make it a refreshing, illuminating and diverse read[…]… At a point where concerns over the availability of funding for the social sciences are paramount, this book reminds us of the importance of social science research regarding men and women’s reproductive lives.” -- Samantha Murphy * Sociology of Health & Illness *“This is a diverse and unique collection of ethnographies that illustrates the various complexities of reproduction and reproductive health for women and men. The strength of the volume is the attempt to conceptualize human agency and the exploration of how reproduction in varying communities are influenced by global and state institutions, policies, ideologies, and biotechnology.” -- Dana Chalupa * Gendered Perspectives on International Development *It is refreshing to find a well-written, cohesive edited volume. . . . Professionals and students alike should find this work appealing; it can serve as an introduction to pivotal issues in the field, yet also delves into key theoretical concepts and methodological approaches in health policy, gender studies, public health, and anthropology. The book is theoretically rich without being overly dense, and this winning combination standsa good chance of bringing anthropological theory and methods into the boardrooms of policymakers.” -- Vania Smith-Oka * Studies in Family Planning *Table of ContentsForeword / Rayna Rapp ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches / Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent 1 Part I. Global Technologies, State Policies, and Local Realities/ Introduction to Part I 19 1. Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method / Susan L. Erickson 23 2. Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing the Rural Subjects: Population Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China / Junjie Chen 38 3. Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico / Matthew Gutmann 53 4. Antiviral but Pronatal? ARVS and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township / Lisa Ann Richey 68 5. Birth in the Age of AIDS: Local Responses to Global Policies and Technologies in South India / Cecilia Van Hollen 83 6. Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism, and Islamism / Ellen Gruenbaum 96 Part II. Biotechnology, Biocommerce, and Body Commodification/ Introduction to Part II 111 7. Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India / Aditya Bharadwaj 113 8. Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State / Marcia C. Inhorn 126 9. Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of DNA Paternity Tests in Brazil / Claudia Fonseca 138 Part III. Consequences of Population Movements for Agency, Structure, and Reproductive Processes/ Introduction to Part III 155 10. From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas / Mark B. Padilla 159 11. Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe / Caroline H. Bledsoe and Papa Sow 175 12. Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France / Carolyn F. Sargent 192 13. Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization / Carole H. Browner 204 14. Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance / Linda M. Whiteford and Aimee R. Eden 224 Epilogue. The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations / Didier Fassin 239 References 249 Contributors 277 Index 281

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Book SynopsisGayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history.Trade Review“This book brings together a canonical collection of her writing, but it is more than a reader: she rewrites the genealogy of sexuality studies, giving us a precise intellectual history of sexuality studies that recognises the pivotal role played by academic homosexuals other than the now-feted and individuated Michel Foucault. . . . [I]t is clarifying to read Rubin's analyses, still germane, direct and sharp after all these years. She is alert to nuances in the social field, keen to represent the intersectionality of issues around sex, and judiciously observant of any nexus of inequality.” - Sally R. Munt, Times Higher Education Supplement“Gayle S. Rubin has had an incalculable impact on the study of gender and sexuality over the past 35 years. Rubin’s work changed the very language and vocabulary with which we discuss sexuality and gender. . . . It is fitting that a scholar of Gayle S. Rubin’s stature has finally been rewarded with a comprehensive collection of her most influential essays. While Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader will please seasoned scholars of queer theory and gay and lesbian studies with its first ever assemblage of Rubin’s most significant work, I believe that the collection will most benefit those who are just making their first steps into the study of queer culture.” - Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review“Finally: a collection of Gayle Rubin’s writings. It is long overdue and sorely needed. . . . For decades, her works appeared in scholarly journals and small-press publications. This collection includes a dozen of her already published pieces, some updated with thoughtful afterwords. She truly has something to say, not only about women and lesbian culture, but (from her unique and insightful perspective) about the sexual crisis America now faces.” - David Rosen, The Brooklyn Rail“The definitive collection of Gayle Rubin’s work is now available. . . . Deviations offers up articles that shaped the thinking of the modern feminist and LGBT movements, while contextualizing the gradual institutionalization and canonization of sexuality studies. In providing the opportunity to think through the history of American feminism, including the racialization of feminist debates on sexuality, Deviations provides an impetus for ‘thinking sex’ even more critically.” - Svati P. Shah, Women’s Review of Books“Foundational essays and commentary from America’s preeminent queer feminist intellectual; a must-have for any scholar and every library.”—Esther Newton, author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas“Gayle S. Rubin has been breaking new intellectual ground around gender and sexuality for almost four decades. This collection of essays lets us see in one place the breadth, depth, and profound originality of her thinking. It’s a wonder to behold. As I reread some familiar pieces and encountered some new ones, I was reminded how much I am in her debt.”—John D’Emilio, co-author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America“It is rare to find an intellectual who founded an entire field of sexuality studies, whose theoretical contributions have been so far-reaching, and who continues to make rich, surprising, and singular interventions. These are the essays that riveted generations and claim our attention time and again. Gayle S. Rubin gives us the material life of sexual categories, lucid and careful argumentation, extraordinary and unprecedented archives. This brilliant collection is a gift for anyone who wants to follow the formidable trajectory of the most exacting and influential intellectual of sexuality studies.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley“The essays in Deviations cover a tightly meshed set of concerns in an extraordinarily provocative manner. Whether Gayle S. Rubin writes about antiporn politics, lesbian literary histories, gay male leather communities, S/M cultures, or butch-femme erotics, she always provides deeply engaged and respectful accounts of the kinds of knowledges that are produced in sexual subcultures but are often passed over by mainstream theorists and researchers. This is a fantastic collection, and it will be an immensely popular book.”—Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure“Finally: a collection of Gayle Rubin’s writings. It is long overdue and sorely needed. . . . For decades, her works appeared in scholarly journals and small-press publications. This collection includes a dozen of her already published pieces, some updated with thoughtful afterwords. She truly has something to say, not only about women and lesbian culture, but (from her unique and insightful perspective) about the sexual crisis America now faces.” -- David Rosen * The Brooklyn Rail *“Gayle S. Rubin has had an incalculable impact on the study of gender and sexuality over the past 35 years. Rubin’s work changed the very language and vocabulary with which we discuss sexuality and gender. . . . It is fitting that a scholar of Gayle S. Rubin’s stature has finally been rewarded with a comprehensive collection of her most influential essays. While Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader will please seasoned scholars of queer theory and gay and lesbian studies with its first ever assemblage of Rubin’s most significant work, I believe that the collection will most benefit those who are just making their first steps into the study of queer culture.” -- Chase Dimock * Lambda Literary Review *“The definitive collection of Gayle Rubin’s work is now available. . . . Deviations offers up articles that shaped the thinking of the modern feminist and LGBT movements, while contextualizing the gradual institutionalization and canonization of sexuality studies. In providing the opportunity to think through the history of American feminism, including the racialization of feminist debates on sexuality, Deviations provides an impetus for ‘thinking sex’ even more critically.” -- Svati P. Shah * Women's Review of Books *“This book brings together a canonical collection of her writing, but it is more than a reader: she rewrites the genealogy of sexuality studies, giving us a precise intellectual history of sexuality studies that recognises the pivotal role played by academic homosexuals other than the now-feted and individuated Michel Foucault. . . . [I]t is clarifying to read Rubin's analyses, still germane, direct and sharp after all these years. She is alert to nuances in the social field, keen to represent the intersectionality of issues around sex, and judiciously observant of any nexus of inequality.” -- Sally R. Munt * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Sex, Gender, Politics 1 1. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex (1975) 33 2. The Trouble with Trafficking: Afterthoughts on "The Traffic in Women" 66 3. Introduction to A Woman Appeared to Me 87 4. The Leather Menace: Comments on Politics and S/M 109 5. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality 137 6. Afterword to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" 182 7. Postscript to "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" 190 8. Blood under the Bridge: Reflections on "Thinking Sex" 194 9. The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole 224 10. Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries 241 11. Misguided, Dangerous, and Wrong: An Analysis of Antipornography Politics 254 12. Sexual Traffic: Interview with Gayle Rubin by Judith Butler 276 13. Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in Urban North America 310 14. Geologies of Queer Studies: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again 347 Notes 357 Bibliography 425 Index 469

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Book SynopsisHow small-scale coca growers came together to oppose an eradication campaign by the Colombain governmentTrade Review“Between the Guerrillas and the State is a must-read for those hoping to make sense of the Colombian quagmire. One of that country’s most prominent anthropologists, María Clemencia Ramírez, has a keen ethnographic sensibility and a deep knowledge of the social dynamics of the Colombian Amazon. Her book opens a window onto the complexities of the Colombian conflict in a way that few English-language publications have.”—Joanne Rappaport, author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia“A meticulous account of how coca growing plays out in the labyrinth of southern Colombia, this book, by a seasoned Colombian anthropologist, illuminates the plight of the peasant no less than the double-talk promulgated by the unwinnable War on Drugs.”—Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor, Columbia University“Brimming over with ethnographic and historical insights, this outstanding book speaks to central questions about social movements, violence, democratization, and the implementation of neoliberal policies in extremely poor regions. María Clemencia Ramírez looks at a grassroots social movement brought about by unlikely actors, rural farmers known as cocaleros, who grow and process coca (the main ingredient in cocaine) in order to survive. The cocaleros clamored for attention from a nearly absent state, which dismissed them, demonizing them as criminals. The irony is unmistakable, for the cocaleros’ claims-making deployed rhetorics coming straight out of neoliberal discourses that speak of citizen responsibility, participatory democracy, and self-actualization. Between the Guerrillas and the State is a brilliant study of neocolonialism at work in a very violent part of southern Colombia.”—Jean E. Jackson, co-editor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America“It is refreshing to read accounts of grassroots resistance to the bullying of national governments that regard citizens as obstacles…. This compelling book makes a valuable contribution to the study of social movements while providing a nuanced understanding of what is really at stake when politicians in countries such as Colombia uncritically accept the narratives and agenda mouthed incessantly by their northern paymasters.” * Latin American Review of Books *“Between the Guerrillas and the State is...a rich and much-needed addition to our understanding of contemporary Colombia.” -- Robert Karl * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Between the Guerrillas and the State constitutes an insightful reminder that the 'political world' is rich with local and cultural meanings that are usually ignored in debates about public policy.” -- Ingrid Bolivar * EIAL *“In Between the Guerrillas and the State, Maria Clemencia Ramirez has written an excellent analytical description of the cocalero movement in the Putumayo province in the Colombian Amazon during the 1990s.” -- Carmenza Gallo * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1. History of Colonization, Marginalization, and the State: Guerrillas, Drug Trafficking, and Paramilitarism in the Colombian Amazon 21 2. Coca and the War on Drugs in Putumayo: Illegality, Armed Conflict, and the Politics of Time and Space 54 3. Turning Civic Movements into a Social Movement: Antecedents of the Cocalero Social Movement 86 4. The Cocalero Social Movement: Stigmatization and the Politics of Recognition and Identity 110 5. Negotiations with the Central Government: Clashing Visions over the "Right to Have Rights" 134 6. Competing States or Competing Governments? An Analysis of Local State Formation in a Conflict-Ridden Zone 167 7. From Social to Political Leadership: Gaining Visibility as Civil Society in the Midst of Increased Armed Conflict 183 8. Plan Colombia and the Depoliticization of Citizenship in Putumayo 214 Epilogue 233 Appendixes 239 Notes 254 References 283 Index 297

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography exploring disagreements among Paraguayan peasants, government bureaucrats, and development experts about how state bureaucracy should function, what archival documents are for, and who gets to narrate the past.Trade Review“Guerrilla Auditors is the most exciting book I’ve read on neoliberal reform in the global south. It changes how social scientists will look at documents and study land reform, populism, and peasants. The argument is brilliant and original, and the combination of ethnography and theory is superb. This book shows why ethnography matters.”—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection“Understanding that property and the neoliberal project of transparency rest on ‘paperwork,’ Kregg Hetherington brilliantly deconstructs the politics of creating documents. His astute, closely observed, and entertaining study is radical scholarship at its deepest and most searching. A powerful point of departure for the next generation of critiques of development.”—James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed“Hetherington argues that Paraguayan neoliberalism is premised on an exclusionary distinction between modern citizens and backward peasants, but his analysis could benefit from a deeper consideration of the class divisions that are reshaping Paraguayan society.... [T]he book is a well-written, insightful study of an underresearched Latin American country, and it should be read by social scientists, development practitioners, and area studies specialists.” -- Lesley Gill * American Historical Review *“Guerilla Auditors is a superb deep ethnography of development that excavates how land politics and the technologies of “good governance” collude to produce campesinos as firmly outside of proper democratic society in post-Stroessner Paraguay…. Hetherington’s latest is necessary reading for students and scholars of development, Paraguay and Latin American populism alike.” -- Jennifer Tucker * AmeriQuests *“Guerrilla Auditors is a fine refutation of certain stances in global NGO and academic arguments (what he terms the “new democrats”). . . . Guerrilla Auditors provides us with a rich account of another, important theme: the constitutive cultural power of bureaucratization, such as the highly valued possession of original documents on physical paper, and not copies, in the world of ostensibly non-bureaucrats, peasants within a state society.” -- Josiah Heyman * Anthropological Quarterly *“Kregg Hetherington’s highly original account of the rise of information and transparency in the governance of Paraguay points to a new kind of struggle and one that political scientists wedded to old categories and classes would do well to consider…. This book should become essential reading on modern politics courses, highlighting the new forms of contestation that are shaping Latin America’s globalised future.” -- EC * Latin American Review of Books *“Kregg Hetherington's elegant ethnography makes important interventions into the anthropological scholarship on documents, the political anthropology of the state, and literatures on land reform and neoliberalism in Latin America. He brings together a deeply contextualized examination of land reform in post-Stroessner Paraguay with a theoretically and ethnographically rich study of the emerging politics of transparency among both urban elites and rural campesinos…. Hetherington writes beautifully…. Guerrilla Auditors thus not only makes important contributions to the ethnographic study of power, law, bureaucracy, and politics but offers much for readers interested in an engaged anthropology.” -- Heath Cabot * PoLAR *"Hetherington’s book is a gem, and there are simply too many threads one could pick up and follow to broader and interesting implications." -- Manuel Balan * Latin American Research Review *"Guerilla Auditors is a much-needed contribution to the study of Paraguayan politics. Hetherington has chosen a very important topic in an understudied country. The history of Paraguay’s democratic transition is both opaque and highly politicized, and Hetherington passes through it with skill and nuance, drawing freely from the ethnography of campesino settlements and state archives and the history of land tenure and national politics." -- Warren M. Thompson * Social Forces *"Guerrilla Auditors is a pathbreaking ethnography of peasant struggle in Paraguay. … The book develops new ways of thinking about an older issue in Latin America: the rural peasantry and the struggle for livelihoods, rights, and survival. … This work is a must-read for students of Latin American politics, social movements, and the state." -- Bret Gustafson * The Americas *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Names xiii Introduction 1 1. The Transition to Democracy 25 2. Ill-Gotten Land 66 3. Precarious Lots 97 4. Duplicitous Documents 143 5. Populist Transparency 184 Epilogue 223 Notes 233 Bibliography 263 Index 283

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography exploring disagreements among Paraguayan peasants, government bureaucrats, and development experts about how state bureaucracy should function, what archival documents are for, and who gets to narrate the past.Trade Review“Guerrilla Auditors is the most exciting book I’ve read on neoliberal reform in the global south. It changes how social scientists will look at documents and study land reform, populism, and peasants. The argument is brilliant and original, and the combination of ethnography and theory is superb. This book shows why ethnography matters.”—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection“Understanding that property and the neoliberal project of transparency rest on ‘paperwork,’ Kregg Hetherington brilliantly deconstructs the politics of creating documents. His astute, closely observed, and entertaining study is radical scholarship at its deepest and most searching. A powerful point of departure for the next generation of critiques of development.”—James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed“Hetherington argues that Paraguayan neoliberalism is premised on an exclusionary distinction between modern citizens and backward peasants, but his analysis could benefit from a deeper consideration of the class divisions that are reshaping Paraguayan society.... [T]he book is a well-written, insightful study of an underresearched Latin American country, and it should be read by social scientists, development practitioners, and area studies specialists.” -- Lesley Gill * American Historical Review *“Guerilla Auditors is a superb deep ethnography of development that excavates how land politics and the technologies of “good governance” collude to produce campesinos as firmly outside of proper democratic society in post-Stroessner Paraguay…. Hetherington’s latest is necessary reading for students and scholars of development, Paraguay and Latin American populism alike.” -- Jennifer Tucker * AmeriQuests *“Guerrilla Auditors is a fine refutation of certain stances in global NGO and academic arguments (what he terms the “new democrats”). . . . Guerrilla Auditors provides us with a rich account of another, important theme: the constitutive cultural power of bureaucratization, such as the highly valued possession of original documents on physical paper, and not copies, in the world of ostensibly non-bureaucrats, peasants within a state society.” -- Josiah Heyman * Anthropological Quarterly *“Kregg Hetherington’s highly original account of the rise of information and transparency in the governance of Paraguay points to a new kind of struggle and one that political scientists wedded to old categories and classes would do well to consider…. This book should become essential reading on modern politics courses, highlighting the new forms of contestation that are shaping Latin America’s globalised future.” -- EC * Latin American Review of Books *“Kregg Hetherington's elegant ethnography makes important interventions into the anthropological scholarship on documents, the political anthropology of the state, and literatures on land reform and neoliberalism in Latin America. He brings together a deeply contextualized examination of land reform in post-Stroessner Paraguay with a theoretically and ethnographically rich study of the emerging politics of transparency among both urban elites and rural campesinos…. Hetherington writes beautifully…. Guerrilla Auditors thus not only makes important contributions to the ethnographic study of power, law, bureaucracy, and politics but offers much for readers interested in an engaged anthropology.” -- Heath Cabot * PoLAR *"Hetherington’s book is a gem, and there are simply too many threads one could pick up and follow to broader and interesting implications." -- Manuel Balan * Latin American Research Review *"Guerilla Auditors is a much-needed contribution to the study of Paraguayan politics. Hetherington has chosen a very important topic in an understudied country. The history of Paraguay’s democratic transition is both opaque and highly politicized, and Hetherington passes through it with skill and nuance, drawing freely from the ethnography of campesino settlements and state archives and the history of land tenure and national politics." -- Warren M. Thompson * Social Forces *"Guerrilla Auditors is a pathbreaking ethnography of peasant struggle in Paraguay. … The book develops new ways of thinking about an older issue in Latin America: the rural peasantry and the struggle for livelihoods, rights, and survival. … This work is a must-read for students of Latin American politics, social movements, and the state." -- Bret Gustafson * The Americas *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Names xiii Introduction 1 1. The Transition to Democracy 25 2. Ill-Gotten Land 66 3. Precarious Lots 97 4. Duplicitous Documents 143 5. Populist Transparency 184 Epilogue 223 Notes 233 Bibliography 263 Index 283

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Book SynopsisBased on the analysis of community records in a Peruvian village, The Lettered Mountain tells how Andean peasants thought to be illiterate appropriated the Roman alphabet long ago.Trade Review“The Lettered Mountain is destined to become a classic. Tracing the deep and rich history of writing and text production from the time of the Inka Empire to the present day, Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia have written a work that will transform our understanding of the nature, implications, and the consequences of literacy in communities that have, until now, been assumed to be outside the realm of the ‘lettered.’ It is a fascinating and highly stimulating read.”—Gary Urton, Harvard University“The Lettered Mountain should surprise many readers. Frank Salomon’s and Mercedes Niño-Murcia’s arguments concerning the passage from khipu to alphabetic literacy and the deep roots of alphabetic writing in rural Peru challenge traditional ethnographic portraits of Andean culture as exclusively oral. Their case for refocusing our attention away from schooled literacy and toward forms of legal literacy whose origins go back to the colonial period is backed by insightful ethnography. The Lettered Mountain forces us to see the Andes in a new light, without losing sight of the themes that were important to Andeanists in the past.”—Joanne Rappaport, co-author of Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes“[A]s the first ethnography of local writing and archiving practices, [The Lettered Mountain] does a marvelous job of describing the centrality of literacy to Andean societies of past and present…With Salomon and Niño-Murcia’s important ethnography, ignoring Andean writing is no longer possible.” -- S. Elizabeth Penry * American Historical Review *In The Lettered Mountain, Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia explore the evolution of alphabetic literacy in Andean villages, providing a valuable historical overview of this theme from Inka times to the present…. It is further evidence of the complex interplay between socio-political conditions and epistemology and how “Western” visions of modernity are now under siege the world over.” -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *"The Lettered Mountain provides historians with a rich template for understanding how peasant archives are constructed in the Andes." -- Alan Durston * Journal of American History *“Simply put, The Lettered Mountain is a beautifully written book and a must read for those interested in multiple literacies, historiography, and ethnography, as well as colonial and contemporary Latin America.” -- Judy Kalman * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations xi Tables xv Preface xvii Introduction. Peru and the Ethnography of Writing 1 1. An Andean Community Writes Itself 31 2. From Khipu to Narrative 71 3. A Tale of Two Lettered Cities: Schooling from Ayllu to State 125 4. "Papelito Manda": The Power of Writing 153 5. Power over Writing: Academy and Ayllu 182 6. Writing and the Rehearsal of the Past 221 7. Village and Diaspora as Deterritorialized Library 261 Conclusions 285 Appendix. Examples of Document Genres 297 Notes 301 References 311 Index 351

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Book SynopsisThis ethnography of violence in Jamaica repudiates cultural explanations for violence, arguing that its roots lie in deep racialized and gendered inequalities produced in imperial slave economies.Trade Review“Deborah A. Thomas’s Exceptional Violence is at once methodologically astute, richly researched, and critically engaged. In reframing the historical object of violence in Jamaica, she enables us to see hitherto obscured dimensions of its embodied constitution as social practice and social imaginary, its relation to citizenship and gender, the state and community, racial subjectivities and transnational migrations. It is a fine achievement.”—David Scott, Columbia University“In this supremely engaging book, Deborah A. Thomas puts to rest a number of procrustean, often racist, preconceptions about violence in Jamaica and, by extension, other postcolonies. Arguing persuasively against ‘culturalist’ explanations, she seeks to make sense of the incidence of and the preoccupation with violence in Jamaica by placing that violence in its proper historical context—one that turns out to be highly complex, deeply entangled, and temporally disjunctive. But Thomas does more than this. She opens up a window into the very soul of Jamaica and its diasporas, examining how Jamaicans today envisage and make their futures; how new, embodied forms of subjectivity and citizenship are being practiced and performed; and how we may understand the role of ‘culture’ and representation in these processes. Exceptional Violence is the kind of book from which not only every anthropologist but every intelligent reader will learn something worth knowing. And worth thinking deeply about.”—John Comaroff, University of Chicago and the American Bar Foundation“Exceptional Violence is a complicated study.... In her analysis of the way anthropology deals with violence, slavery, inequity, crime, and so on, Thomas demonstrates broad reading and a highly critical mind.” -- Gert Oostindie * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *“The volume… [is] an academic engagement of the imagination, possibly the last bastion for generating some creative insights into what ails Jamaica generally.” -- Ralph Premdas * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“What is most impressive about this ethnography is Thomas’s ability to consistently link her work to an existing body of scholarship in the various fields on which she draws in developing her analysis. This is a well-researched book that offers a thorough engagement with relevant scholarship. It is a key part of the global conversation on violence and reparations in the African Diaspora.” -- Keisha-Khan Y. Perry * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Exceptional Violence is a theoretically sophisticated examination of contemporary Jamaica, with much to offer students of postcolonialism, anthropology, transnationalism, and the African diaspora.” -- Mark Anderson * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"I recommend this book to all persons from varied and interlocking disciplines of critical theory, critical race theory, politics, economics, history, and philosophy.... Additionally, any person keen on making informed and constructive contributions to discussions about issues that shape within the United States should visit Thomas’s work and learn from her." -- Julian Ledford * Ameriquests *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Moving Bodies 1 1. Dead Bodies, 2004–2005 23 2. Deviant Bodies, 2005/1945 53 3. Spectacular Bodies, 1816/2007 87 4. Public Bodies, 2003 125 5. Resurrected Bodies, 1963/2007 173 CODA Repairing Bodies 221 Notes 239 References 257 Index 289

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Book SynopsisExamining the chronic, widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Akhil Gupta theorizes the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence.Trade Review"This is a landmark study of bureaucratic practices through which the state is actualized in the lives of the poor in India. Akhil Gupta's theoretical sophistication and the ethnographic depth in this book demonstrate how South Asian studies continues to challenge and shape the direction of social theory. This book is a stunning achievement."—Veena Das, author of Life and Words"This long-awaited book is a masterful achievement that offers a close look at the culture of bureaucracy in India and, through this lens, casts new light on structural violence, liberalization, and the paradox of misery in the midst of explosive economic growth. Akhil Gupta's sensitive analysis of the everyday practices of writing, recording, filing, and reporting at every level of the state in India joins a rich literature on the politics of inscription and marks a brilliant new benchmark for political anthropology in India and beyond."—Arjun Appadurai, author of Fear of Small Numbers"Why has the postcolonial state in India seemed so incapable of improving the life chances of the country's poor? In his brilliant book Red Tape, Akhil Gupta argues that the structural violence inherent in the state operates as a form of biopower in which normal bureaucratic procedures depoliticize the killing of the poor. Whether exploring corruption, literacy, or population policy, Gupta provides an utterly original account of the deadly operations of state power associated with the ascendancy of new industrial classes and of neoliberal practice in contemporary India. A tour de force."—Michael Watts, author of Silent Violence“Akhil Gupta’s Red Tape is one of the most insightful, probing and erudite studies that I have read on the Indian bureaucracy and its failures to significantly alter the destinies of millions of India’s poor. . . . Gupta’s findings are complex, multilayered, illuminating and thoughtful; the reader may not agree with all his conclusions, as I did not, but his work is refreshing for not being reductionist and simplistic, and for challenging many accepted assumptions” -- Harsh Mander * Economic and Political Weekly *“[A] novel exploration of the various bureaucratic structures and institutions that make the poor both voiceless and invisible to decision makers and administrators, from Delhi down to the village. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate students through professionals.” -- M. J. Frost * Choice *“Gupta asks why India, with a rapidly growing economy and a government plus NGOs that actively conduct poverty alleviation programs, continues to have vast, extremely poor, and socially marginalized populations. He frames this as a question in the production of structural violence, supported by a impressively clear and thoughtful review of the strengths and weaknesses of that term. . . . Rarely is a perspective of systems inequality, and one of complexity and diversity, so effectively synthesized.” -- Josiah Heyman * Anthropological Quarterly *“This is a lucid, powerfully original and rigorously argued book...The strength of Akhil Gupta’s writing springs from his consistent rejection of the axiomatic as well as the incidental.” -- Tarangini Sriraman * Studies in Indian Politics *“Red Tape is an engaging volume. Gupta raises critical questions about the connections between ‘the state’ and poverty, and is able to provide some answers through ethnographic data. . . . [T]he volume can be strongly recommended to scholars studying the ‘state in India’, and poverty and development more generally.” -- Terah Sportel * Progress in Development Studies *“The greatest strength of this book is that its complex theoretical argument connects an easy-to-read narrative that transports the reader to the rural settings in Uttar Pradesh. Hence, its rich content will appeal to a wider audience mainly because it adds to the literature on the culture and politics of the state. Although it specifically relates to fieldwork in rural India, by using Foucault and Agamben, social theorists who have wider appeal, this book will extend its global readership.” -- Rohit Madan * Gender, Place & Culture *“Akhil Gupta’s masterfully crafted book seeks to contribute to our understanding of the persistence of poverty in India despite high rates of growth and numerous public programmes designed to eradicate this malaise. . . . it makes an important contribution to the study of the quotidian practices that constitute the state, the conceptualization of poverty as structural violence, and the manner in which corruption, state inscriptions, and neoliberal governmentality combine to produce the systematic arbitrariness that perpetuates poverty in the country.” -- Indrajit Roy * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“Red Tape is written with matchless clarity and deliberation, and brims with ethnographic insight. More importantly, it is a profoundly moral book that joins outrage with cold-eyed analysis of abject poverty that kills. . . . Akhil Gupta has produced a tour-de-force: an argument that is ambitious, erudite, bold, and, best of all, generative to think with.” -- Vinay Gidwani * Environment and Planning D *“Red Tape is a brave attempt to answer a harrowing question: ‘Why has a state whose proclaimed motive is to foster development failed to help the large number of people who still live in dire poverty?’ (p. 3). . . Gupta’s account of the relationship between written documents and oral accounts, and also statistics and narrative, makes a significant contribution to existing anthropological analysis of the construction of knowledge in bureaucratic settings.” -- Gemma John * PoLAR *“[A] superb interrogation of bureaucracy and poverty in contemporary India. . . .” -- Benjamin Siegel * Contemporary South Asia *“[M]agesterial. . . . Red Tape beautifully and gut-wrenchingly reveals how and why the government regularly fails to deliver on its promise.” -- Sharmila Rudrappa * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One. Introduction 1. Poverty as Biopolitics 3 2. The State and the Politics of Poverty 41 Part Two. Corruption 3. Corruption, Politics, and the Imagined State 75 4. Narratives of Corruption 111 Part Three. Inscription 5. "Let the Train Run on Paper": Bureaucratic Writing as State Practice 141 6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy 191 Part Four. Governmentality 7. Population and Neoliberal Governmentality 237 Epilogue 279 Notes 295 References Cited 329 Index 355

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance.Trade Review“Unearthing Gender is a welcome addition to literature on South Asian gender and folklore. Jassal writes with compassion and with technical rigor—with an eye for poetry and an appreciation for the power of performance. She is clearly moved by the creativity and artistry of the performers with whom she worked, and she conveys this sentiment well.” -- Ian Woolford * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Erudite and original, this book makes a signal contribution to scholarship on gender, class, caste, sexualities, identities, and labor by bringing attention to the lives and practices of low-caste peasants in the rural North Indian countryside. Engaging and expertly written – Jassal’s prose enacts a most pleasing poetics to this reader’s ear – the genius behind Unearthing Gender lies in its use of women’s folk song genres.” -- Antoinette DeNapoli * Anthropos *“Jassal’s project breaks new ground for ethnomusicologists to take up the challenge of combining research on the labor of music making in the context of rural agrarian political economies. . . . An engaging combination of detailed ethnography and insightful interpretation of song texts and their social significance. . . .” -- Rehanna Kheshgi * Ethnomusicology Review *“Ultimately, this beautifully written and highly readable (and teachable) ethnography offers important insights into gender, caste, and kinship. Its most immediate impact is the richness of the worlds it explores and the possibilities it raises for thinking about the place of expression in the crafting of culture. What comes through most vividly, aside from the poetry of the songs themselves, is the vibrancy and warmth of the lives of those who sing them. Jassal’s portrait of women’s expressive lives is one of deep humanity and, at its core, is about possibilities for action, intimacy, and selfhood.” -- Sarah Pinto * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"A particularly cogent example of how much is to be gained by attending simultaneously to the structural and expressive aspects of culture and to the subtle and complex ways subversion and reinforcement can harmonize and create dissonance in the very same tune." -- Coralynn V. Davis * Asian Ethnology *"Recalling Smita Tiwari Jassal’s own ancestral roots in this rural region, I see this lovingly researched book as embodying one such way of remembering, reframing, and transmitting songs into the future." -- Kirin Narayan * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation xvii Introduction. The Unsung Sing 1 1. The Daily Grind 33 2. Singing Bargains 71 3. Biyah/Biraha: Emotions in a Rite of Passage 115 4. Sita's Trials 155 5. When War is Marriage 189 6. Taking Liberties 219 Conclusion. Taking Liberties 219 Notes 261 Glossary 271 Bibliography 277 Index 289

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Book SynopsisThis twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere.Trade Review“The quirky mind of J. T. Way reveals a Guatemala not even seasoned hands are likely to recognize, one deformed by development in myriad modernist guise, a curse to most of its citizens, the blessing of a venal few.”—W. George Lovell, Queen’s University, Canada"Finally, a history of Guatemala City, a place that most scholars flee from despite its centrality to Guatemala's history. J. T. Way has unearthed a wealth of material from archival, literary, and oral sources. In striking and vibrant detail, he skillfully traces the history of neighborhoods and individuals from the first half of the twentieth century to today and he uses this history to open up a remarkable and original discussion of the play of ethnicity and modernity in the making of a cultural texture and urban political economy that uses the 'Mayan' in the absence of Mayas, or worse, in the presence of their oppression. The Mayan in the Mall brings to life the city's residents in this 'society of vendors' and simultaneously delivers a devastating and brilliant critique of development."—Deborah T. Levenson, coeditor of The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics“This is an excellent book, in part because it is a thoroughly researched consideration of the relationship between poverty, development, the trajectory of politics in Guatemala, and real life. But its excellence is also rooted in the author's success in writing a study infusing observations born of scholarly research with a heartfelt and sharply phrased c ritique that moves beyond a clichéd academic celebration of radical politics. . . . Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.“ -- J. M. Rosenthal * Choice *“The shift away from the highlands indigenous communities that have generally attracted North American scholarly attention opens a novel perspective on the making of what Way calls the ‘manmade ruin’ of Guatemala’s contemporary social and physical landscape.” -- Carlota McAllister * American Historical Review *“Both scholarly and highly personal, J. T. Way’s book is too rich in original insights, skillfully developed examples, and provocative arguments to do it full justice in so short a space. It is enough to state that it should be required reading for anyone interested in Guatemala’s recent history. Also, it is highly recommended to all students of development and modernization in general.” -- Stephen Webre * Hispanic American Historical Review *“…[A] fascinating narrative that complicates both sequence and chronology by weaving the hitherto hidden logic of everyday survival and resistance with the ‘rational’ logic of a demythologized and demystified ‘modernity.’” -- Susan A. Berger * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“The Mayan in the Mall is a complex and admirable work that explores how the violent world inhabited by Guatemala's poor majority came into being…. Way's combination of empathy and hard-bitten realism gives an incomparable view of how people live their lives when choices are few and opportunity is infinitesimal.” -- Cyrus Veeser * Business History Review *“The strength of The Mayan in the Mall resonates from the author's use of personal stories to illustrate broader themes, his attention to metaphor, and his dialectical contemplation…. [T]his book will certainly appeal to scholars of Guatemala as the first English-language history of its capital city in addition to general readers of urban studies.” -- Michael D. Kirkpatrick * Canadian Journal of History *“I suggest that The Mayan in the Mall should be placed at the top of the reading list of all visitors to Guatemala—professionals and, in particular, us 'Maya specialists' and tourists alike.” -- Jessica Joyce Christie * Ethnohistory *“Scholars interested in urban history, gender history, and the history of development will find Way’s book enlightening and at times evocative in its treatment of Guatemala’s turbulent history. They will discover a well-researched work that sketches the interrelationships between urban growth, state formation, and capitalism.” -- Bonar L. Hernandez * The Americas *“The Mayan in the Mall, provides a welcome history of the making of modern Guatemala since the 1920s that innovatively melds historical research with analysis of contemporary cultural trends and ethnography. The author seamlessly narrates Guatemala’s conflicted past and fraught present through the stories of its diverse protagonists, whether using historical records, oral histories, or contemporary interviews and observations. The book deftly shows how larger structures and politics (from regional to national to transnational) impinged on everyday lives as everyday people like butchers, social workers, vendors, and activists also actively shaped the unfolding of history and the particular geography of Guatemala.” -- Rebecca Galemba * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Grand Tikal Futura: "Put1. "Like Sturdy Little Animals": Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s–1944ting the Mayan in the Mall" 1 1. "Like Sturdy Little Animals": Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s–1944 13 2. Chaos and Rationality: The Dialectic of the Guatemalan Ghetto 41 3. Oficios de su Sexo: Gender, the Informal Economy, and Anticommunist Development 67 4. Making the Immoral Metropolis: Infrastructure, Economics, and War 94 5. Executing Capital: Green Revolution, Genocide, and the Transition to Neoliberalism 124 6. A Society of Vendors: Contradictions and Everyday Life in the Guatemalan Market 152 7. Cuatro Gramos Norte: Fragmentation and Concentration in the Wake of Victory 181 Appendix. A Grass-roots List of Transnationals in Guatemala, circa 1978 210 Notes 217 Glossary 277 Bibliography 279 Index 301

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Book SynopsisWest Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto.Trade Review“Here at last is the account I can unreservedly recommend to anyone interested in the courageous people and fragile geography of West Papua. Eben Kirksey makes accessible the unique imagery of West Papuans long subject to racism, corporate exploitation, and a brutal military. Marshaling impeccable scholarship, he transcends conventional political ideology to define a form of conflict resolution relevant to many ‘entangled worlds.’ Bravo!”—Max White, Amnesty International USA"In a page-turning blend of cultural analysis, human rights reportage, and ethnography, Eben Kirksey documents the West Papuan freedom struggle. In the process, he provides keen insight into the movement's dynamics and the desires that have led West Papuans to rise up against seemingly insurmountable odds. Kirksey clarifies the possibilities and predicaments they face, and he makes sense of the multiple times, mundane and messianic, in which many West Papuans seem to live."—Danilyn Rutherford, author of Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua"In this remarkable book, Eben Kirksey attends to West Papuan indigenous thinkers and activists as they craft practical, surprising, and generative freedom projects in the fissures of power exercised by Indonesian occupiers, global financial interests, and foreign governments. Freedom in Entangled Worlds is shaped by explorations of complex messianisms, attention to the pragmatics of unexpected collaborations, and Kirksey's own unassuming and sustained commitment to the worlds and dreams of his West Papuan teachers."—Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz“[O]ne of the delights of Kirksey’s book is his determination to see events from multiple angles and to bring together a wide range of well researched materials to tell the political story of Papua from a resolutely human perspective. We are treated to wonderful descriptions of vibrant political characters and detailed descriptions of infamous encounters.” -- Leslie Butts * American Ethnologist *“This very rich combination of personal reportage, history, interviews, and blow-by-blow narration of conflicts will draw its readers closely into the entanglements it describes.” -- Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) * Journal of Anthropological Research *“[E]xtensively researched…. [I]t will be welcomed by scholars and historians seeking to understand the many entanglements of this part of New Guinea. It raises important questions about the collusions between corporations and governments, and can help us read between the lines of news articles and annual reports.” -- Larry M. Lake * Pacific Affairs *“Readers cannot help ask themselves at what point does the consumer of these resources also take responsibility for their first world lifestyle? Eben Kirksey answers that questioning by finishing the book with a call for an ethical and political transformation through the imaging of open-ended possibilities, a powerful lesson he learnt from imbuing the spirit of the merdeka and so the spirit of the land of West Papua.” -- C. F. Black * Leonardo Reviews *“The struggle in West Papua is as extraordinary as it is complex. But Kirksey is a gifted narrator and patient guide. Combining metaphor, mysticism and allegory with the hard positivist data of the most rigorous investigator, Kirksey delivers a brilliant read wrapped up with enormous insight. He does the struggle for freedom in West Papua a great service.” -- Jason MacLeod * Inside Indonesia *“I would recommend this book to those who are interested in reading about indigenous independence movements, people who are curious about how even remote areas of the world often play an important part in the world system, and to sociologists and anthropologists who are interested in conducting an ethnography that is very informative, scholarly and enjoyable to read.” -- Michael A. Long * Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics *“Freedom in Entangled Worlds would be useful not only to students and researchers interested in West Papua itself, but also to those looking at how social movements arise and are sustained, the nature of current, ongoing independence struggles and, above all, the entangled nature of power in the twenty-first century.” -- Morgan Harrington * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *“Freedom in Entangled Worlds is an impressive and poignant study of the fight for self-determination, the interplay of collaboration and imagination, and what it means to inhabit a world of hope... Freedom in Entangled Worlds is essential reading for anyone interested in the political history of West Papua.” -- Judith Bovensiepen * PoLAR *Table of ContentsPreface: Flying Fish, Flying Tourists, September 1994 ix List of Key Characters xv Introduction 1 Part I: Breakout, 1998–2000 Interlude: The King Has Left the Palace, Java, May 1998 23 1. The Messianic Multiple, July 1998 29 2. From the Rhizome to the Banyan, 1998– 2000 55 Part II: Plateau, 2000–2002 Interlude: Freeport Sweet Potato Distribution Inc. 83 3. Entangled Worlds at War, 2000–2001 90 4. Don't Use Your Data as a Pillow, June 13, 2001 125 5. Innocents Murdered, Innocent Murderers, August 31, 2002 138 Part III. Horizons, 2002–2028 Interlude: Bald Grandfather Willy 175 6. First Voice Honey Center, 2002–2008 182 Epilogue: The Tube, 2006–2028 210 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 283 Index 301

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Book SynopsisLooks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. This book describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound.Trade Review"How to evoke the brilliant insight and empathy of Steven Feld's acoustemological memoir of music and musicians in Accra? To start, imagine E. T. Mensah, Shirley Temple, John Coltrane, and Ludwig van Beethoven riding (quasi-legally) in the back of a vividly motto-festooned Ghanaian trotro truck, cool-running a memory-drenched, complexly overlapping soundscape of highlife evergreens, Afriphonic jazz hollers, hallelujah choruses, ratcheting sewer toads, and honking India-rubber bulb horns. Centered on the voices, stories, and ambitions of a compelling cast of characters—Ghanaian musicians whose diversely linked experiences chart the layered, contradictory flows and deep reefs of globalization—Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is a fundamental and stimulating contribution to the literature on musical cosmopolitanism and the study of contemporary urban culture in Africa.”—Christopher Waterman, Dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture"Steven Feld has written an astonishing book: at once a sweetly told adventure story, biographies of some very important but virtually unknown African musicians, a shrewd look at the world we live in and think we know, and hidden within it all, a sly critique of the history of jazz."—John F. Szwed, Director, Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University“[A] vital statement about the infinitely nuanced nature of cultural exchange between Africa and America, and how our fullest understanding of jazz history might be furthered by enquiries like this.” -- Kevin Le Gendre * Jazzwise *“A successful fusion of anthropology and aesthetics that illuminates the musical and cultural links—and differences—between African and American jazz, this is also a fascinating memoir of one person’s attempt to understand the urban culture of Ghana in an age of globalization.” * Publishers Weekly *“Feld reveals the high degree of cosmopolitanism in jazz-pop related musics and the huge role that race and class play in constraining the players. Deciphering the intertextuality of African American life and music requires an expert like Steven Feld. He has done a masterful job.” -- Philip K. Bock * Journal of Anthropological Research *“In addition to his effective usage of the storytelling mode, Feld provides an exemplary illustration of the seamless integration of multiple roles as a documentary filmmaker, musician, anthropologist, historian, and tour promoter. . . . Feld realizes that not all Ghanaians would view these musicians as cosmopolitans, but that fact seems to actually reinforce his discussion of the discourse on cosmopolitanism and its relationship to race, class, and other structures of power. Indeed, he opens many doors for his readers and tells us stories of why these types of music making are important beyond Ghana. He leads us to a more refined understanding of cosmopolitanism, not to provide a series of answers, but to provoke in each of us more thoughtful questions about our music, our research, and ourselves.” -- Dave Wilson * Ethnomusicology Review *“The chapters in which Feld listens and retells the stories of these mercurial musicians are compelling, and throw up original and profound material. . . . Feld is brilliant at articulating the multiple overlapping narratives and experiences that both obfuscate and animate diasporic dialogues, and in that process his book attains its own world-historical significance.” -- Tony Herrington * The Wire *“This fascinating book opens up jazz from the African perspective. Whether he’s discussing with Nortey the Africanization of his saxophone and his absolute dedication to the music of John Coltrane or explaining Ghanaba’s musical relationship with Max Roach, Feld brings a full picture to the broadening cultural aspects of Africans playing their own type of jazz.” -- Jon Ross * DownBeat *“With rich and diverse examples, Feld demonstrates the pervasiveness of cosmopolitan outlooks among jazz musicians in Accra, whether mobile or immobile, socially powerful or powerless, rich or poor… Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is an important theoretical intervention in ‘cosmopolitanism from below’ and a powerful narrative about jazz as an African diasporic art form from the standpoint of musicians in Accra.” -- Stephen Hager * Notes *“Jazz Cosmopolitanism is a lively and important book, one that uses the vehicles of dialogue and sound to unearth the complex cultural and political dynamics that connect a group of urban Africans to the diaspora and wider world. It is a fun, invigorating, and worthwhile read. . . . Jazz Cosmopolitanism is a book that continues to resonate when finally put down. I highly recommend picking it up.” -- Nate Plageman * Journal of African History *“A thoroughly humane and endearing narrative account of Feld’s attempt in Ghana, encumbered by the title ‘prof,’ recording and photographic equipment, a car, and many of the resources one expects from a citizen of the wealthiest nation on earth,to try and engage with and understand Accra’s musical landscape and especially those aspects of it which relate to jazz. It’s a joy to read. . . .” * African Jazz *“Feld’s brilliant work should have a broad impact and appeal, offering significant contributions and interventions to interdisciplinary discourses on jazz, Ghanaian music, cosmopolitanism, as well as (urban) Africa and its diaspora.” -- Paul Schauert * African Music *“An absolute delight. . . . Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra will not only become one of the most important studies in jazz scholarship; it will also provide a provocative indication of where and how culturally oriented music studies might develop.” -- Ronald Radano * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“A text to listen to... Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is a prime example of substantial academic research presented in an accessible way.... With his combination of academic depth, collaborative approach, and aesthetic sensibility in this book, as in his other work, Steven Feld is a guiding light for us all: musicians, filmmakers, anthropologists in Ghana and further afield.” -- Helena Wulff * Visual Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsOpus xi Four-Bar Intro "The Shape of Jazz to Come" 1 Vamp In, HeadAcoustemology in Accra: On Jazz Cosmopolitanism 11 First Chorus, with TranspositionGuy Warren / Ghanaba: From Afro-Jazz to Handel via Max Roach 51 Second Chorus, Blow FreeNii Noi Nortey: From Pan-Africanism to Afrifones via John Coltrane 87 Third Chorus, Back InsideNii Otoo Annan: From Toads to Polyrhythm via Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali 119 Fourth Chorus, Shout to the GroovePor Por: From Honk Horns to Jazz Funerals via New Orleans 159 Head Again, Vamp OutBeyond Diasporic Intimacy 199 "Dedicated to You" 245 Horn Backgrounds, Riffs Underneath 249 Themes, Players 299

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Book SynopsisWest looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.Trade Review"Coffee is a global and of course a ubiquitous commodity. And here lies its analytical challenge: how to grasp the full complexity of a drug whose path from production to consumption entails a world of enormous semiotic, cultural, institutional, political, economic, and ecological complexity. Paige West takes us deep into the heart of coffee's image world, as a spectacle, as a brand, and as a carrier of forms of certified value. But she also pursues the bean into the highlands of Papua New Guinea, where the crop, paradoxically, has little cultural value, and through the global supply chains of corporate shippers and processors. Here is an ethnography which exposes our morning cappuccino to the bright light of modernity. From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive does for coffee what Sidney Mintz in Sweetness and Power did for sugar: here in short is a meditation on caffeine and power."—Michael Watts, Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley"Paige West writes against two kinds of flatness: the flatness of commodity chain studies and the flatness of ethical consumption's marketing spin. She offers, instead, a richly peopled ethnographic account of coffee's trajectory through time, space, lives, and imaginations, and takes us deep into the contradictory heart of our neoliberal times. Penetrating, provocative, and moving, this is an excellent read."—Tania Murray Li, University of Toronto“Although many anthropologists have traced paths traveled by specific commodities around the world, no study can match the ambition and sweep of Paige West’s book. -- Daniel Reichman * American Anthropologist *“A very powerful account of contemporary Papua New Guinea and global capitalism. It critically examines the fantasy images so known to us through popular media and advertising of commodities and shows how very real consequences these fantasies have. Written in an extremely clear and vivid style, the book makes excellent reading for courses on environmental anthropology, neoliberalism and Papua New Guinea. It critically examines the seemingly well meaning certification schemes, which raise questions among both academics and consumers alike, and this should allow for a wide-based readership. Finally, it simply is a very solid and well written ethnography based on long periods of fieldwork, which gives a thorough account of global coffee markets.” -- Tuomas Tammisto * Oceania *“This well-written ethnography contributes to several bodies of literature including those on coffee production and commodity chain studies, and ethnographic accounts from Papua New Guinea. It would be useful for graduate or undergraduate courses on globalization, as an example in graduate courses on writing ethnography, and for those scholars studying commodity chains and third-party certification systems.” -- Rebecca Mari Meuninck * American Ethnologist *“Readers must be grateful for this ‘rich’ look at the Gimi people and for West’s challenge to analyze the images attached to them and to coffee.” -- Robert W. Thurston * Social Analysis *“This fine study could be useful in anthropology courses, area studies of Pacific culture, and courses on food studies, as well as a satisfying accompaniment to many hot cups of coffee.” -- Larry Lake * Contemporary Pacific *“West provides an excellent ethnography that covers a wide variety of issues regarding coffee production in Papua New Guinea. Her analyses are complex and her research detailed. This work is of great value to increasing our understanding of Papua New Guinea as well as the creation of the imagined primitive in order to sell coffee.” -- Amy E. Harth * Electronic Green Journal *“West balances vivid description with thoughtful analysis throughout, avoiding the temptation to oversimplify the complex and often contradictory ways in which coffee helps shape people’s lives...I found From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive both engaging and thought-provoking.” -- Hilary Howes * Southeast Asian Studies *"A book that has as its main themes criticisms of neoliberal economics and fair trading could have been rather dull. But Paige West brings these themes to life by using her ethnographic skills to meet and talk with the growers, the buyers, the traders in PNG and overseas and the coffee shop owners." -- Bryant Allen * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi 1. The World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea 1 2. Neoliberal Coffee 33 3. Historic Coffee 69 4. Village Coffee 101 5. Relational Coffee 131 6. National Coffee 157 7. International Coffee 201 8. Conclusion 237 Notes 257 Bibliography 279 Index 303

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Book SynopsisSigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.Trade Review“The Flower and the Scorpion is a fascinating history of understandings of Nahua sexuality from the precontact era through the early colonial period. Drawing on a stunning array of Nahuatl- and Spanish-language primary sources, Pete Sigal considers what the Nahua wrote about their beliefs, deities, rituals, and activities relating to sexuality. But The Flower and the Scorpion is not only about the Nahua; it is also about the Spaniards and what they thought about sexuality, their own and that of the Nahua. Sigal shows us how different the perceptions of the Nahua and the Spaniards were, especially as they related to sex, and how different their ideas remained well into the seventeenth century, even as they lived in close proximity to one another.”—Susan Schroeder, editor of The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism“This book emerges from a scholarly utilization of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century primary sources to illuminate not only very complex Nahua thought and practices but also the colonial context that shaped the discourse around themes that defy our modern labels, such as ‘sex’ itself. Pete Sigal employs his training in Nahuatl to analyze terms and texts in their original language, producing his own translations and interpreting meanings, always with an effort to delineate Western frames and biases that might color our understanding.”—Stephanie Wood, author of Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico“The scholarship offered by this study is sound, enlightening, and interesting. This work contributes to our understanding of Nahua perceptions of gender and sexuality according to autochthonous frames, and how they adjusted to the demands of Christianity. The Flower and the Scorpion is clearly written and very enjoyable to read.” -- Rocío Cortés * Hispanic American Historical Review *“This is an important and provocative book, which deserves to be widely read by both Nahua specialists and gender historians. This is challenging territory, but those brave enough to venture there will find ideas which encourage us not only to rethink Nahua ideas of sexuality, but also to challenge the fixed nature of individual and collective identity.” -- Caroline Dodds Pennock * Gender & History *“By exceeding any previous analysis of Nahua rituals’ sexual aspects, Sigal has made a valuable contribution to the history of religion and the history of sexuality.” -- Louise M. Burkhart * American Historical Review *“[A] masterful job…. This is a fascinating and challenging work. Sigal has taken the reader back to pre-Columbian times and attempted to strip away the colonial layers of Spanish discourse and worldview in order to reach the Nahua of before the conquest. His is a compelling argument and will certainly serve as a point of departure for further research.” -- John F. Schwaller * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Preface. The People, the Place, and the Time xv 1. The Bath 1 2. Trash 29 3. Sin 61 4. The Warrior Goddess 103 5. The Phallus and the Broom 139 6. The Homosexual 177 7. Sex 207 8. Mirrors 241 Appendix. The Chalca Woman's Song 255 Abbreviations 263 Notes 265 Bibliography 327 Index 353

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Book SynopsisThis work looks at indigeneity in the central highlands of Ecuador focusing on the activism of the grassroots organization of Inca Atahualpa. Indigenous groups, who were still subject to extensive racism and injustice, began to reconfigure themselves in relationship to the state and to reorganize their strategies to combat the economic and political forces of neoliberalism.Trade Review"Long Live Atahualpa is a welcome addition to the literature on Latin American indigenous movements, which has been largely dominated by political scientists working on a macro scale. There has been a great need for ethnographies such as this one, an in-depth examination of local and regional indigenous organizing. In this sensitive, richly documented ethnography Emma Cervone deftly moves across political, economic, and cultural domains, not privileging one over the other but inquiring into their interconnections."—Joanne Rappaport, author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia"This fascinating ethnography makes original contributions to the study of social movements, identity as lived within a social world of invidious stereotypes, and debates over whether multiculturalism as a national policy is empowering or disempowering for indigenous groups. Emma Cervone engages central issues in anthropology, political science, and ethnic studies. She offers a very effective analysis of the dynamics of political consciousness, the internalization of racism, and indigenous movement organizing at different levels. The result is a striking construction of ethnically inflected class issues in the central Andean region of Ecuador."—Kay B. Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala“[P]rovides a rare glimpse into the micropolitics of indigenous rights realization through a detailed analysis of the complex interplay between the personal and political, between identity and unity, and among local, national and global forces in the promotion of meaningful social change…. [G]raduate students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and law could benefit from the interesting engagement between theories of everyday resistance and empirical evidence from an engaging, dynamic and understudied site of contestation.” -- LaDawn Haglund * Social Forces *“...Long Live Atahualpa is a solid book that will be of interest to scholars who focus on the complex issues of indigenous identity and politics...” -- Erin E. O’Connor * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Long Live Atahualpa is a welcome addition to the literature on indigenous politics, most notably through its detailed ethnographic accounts of daily social and political interethnic relationships in Ecuador.” -- Maria Teresa Armijos * Latin American Politics and Society *“Cervone's beautifully rendered regional historical analysis is interwoven with the testimonio of Tixán's elders to illuminate how the remembered past of Quichua labor exploitation…. Cervone's work is also notable for its expansive analysis of agrarian crisis and transformation that eventually spurred indigenous mobilizations around issues of class and ethnicity." -- Brooke Larson * Latin American Research Review *"Long Live Atahualpa combines an intimate knowledge of intricate local politics with a capacity to think broadly about how the politicization of indigenous identity... affects indigenous mobilization on the national scene.... this book will matter for those interested in indigenous movements and identity politics in Latin America." -- Genevieve Dorais * EIAL *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Redefining Indigenous Politics 1 1. The Time of the Lords 39 2. Tixán Becomes Modern 73 3. Invisible Victories 103 4. When the Hills Turned Red 135 5. Words and Scars 163 6. Celebrating Diversity 199 7. Beyond Recognition 233 Conclusion 267 Appendix 279 Glossary 283 Acronyms 285 Notes 287 References 305 Index 323

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection by scholars of both history and anthropology re-examines the concepts of resistance and the effect of neoliberalism from the 1980s to the present day comparing Brazil and Mexico, two of the largest countries in Latin America.Trade Review“New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico is a fascinating collection. It gives a broad overview of the ‘resistance boom’ of the 1980s, while providing a serious critique from a more contemporary perspective. It puts scholars from different disciplines into conversation, and it introduces English-language readers to the work of Latin American scholars whose work is not as well known as it should be. This collection will be widely read, and it will stimulate debate.”—Jeffrey Lesser, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980“This collection offers extraordinarily rich and historically and ethnographically penetrating analyses of the concept of resistance, developing more nuanced and powerful applications of the concept based on detailed case studies from Mexico and Brazil. The authors are recognized authorities and the each present original work of great interest and value. The essays are outstanding and the introduction by John Gledhill and the concluding discussion by Alan Knight are masterful summaries of the complex issues that emerge in the essays.”—Donald Pollock, University at Buffalo, SUNY“New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico, constitutes a welcome assessment of a major intellectual trend in the contemporary academic world…. the chapter case studies are well suited for introducing undergraduate students to questions of interpretation in history. The volume… should be of interest to specialists regardless of discipline.” -- Alan Shane Dillingham * History: Reviews of New Books *“...the interdisciplinary and international aspects of the project, not to mention the ambitious interinstitutional collaboration sustaining it, add refreshing and innovative qualities to the final product.” -- Clifford Welch * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Overall, New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico is a welcome addition to the growing literature on subaltern agency in Latin America and will provide ample material for discussions of key historiographical and theoretical issues for any graduate seminar which assigns this book." -- Matthew Rothwell * Canadian Journal of History *“The volume offers valuable ethnographic material, as well as provocative theoretical refl ections on the resistance studies genre that surged in the 1980s and on the subsequent critiques. . . . The contributors to this volume explicitly challenge what they consider to be the romanticization of resistance, and in the process they pose important questions for scholars employing the concept." -- Richard Stahler-Sholk * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. A Case for Rethinking Resistance / John Gledhill 1 Part One: Resistance and the Creation of New Worlds 21 1. Rethinking Amerindian Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Portuguese America / John Monteiro 25 2. Rituals of Defiance: Past Resistance, Present Ambiguity / FelipeCastro Gutiérrez 44 3. Indian Resistances to the Rebellion of 1712 in Chiapas / Juan Pedro Viqueira 63 4. The "Commander of All Forests" against the "Jacobins" of Brazil: The Cabanada, 1832–1835 / Marcus J. M. de Carvalho 81 5. A "Great Arch" Descending: Manumission Rates, Subaltern Social Mobility, and the Identities of Enslaved, Freeborn, and Freed Blacks in Southeastern Brazil, 1791–1888 / Robert W. Slenes 100 Part Two: Resisting through Religion and for Religion 119 6. Millenarianism, Hegemony, and Resistance in Brazil / Patricia R. Pessar 123 7. Where Does Resistance Hide in Contemporary Candomblé? / Luis Nicolau Parés 144 8. Catholic Resistances in Revolutionary Mexico during the Religious Conflict / Jean Meyer 165 9. Gender, Resistance, and Mexico's Church-State Conflict / Patience A. Schell 184 Part Three: Rethinking Resistance in a Changing World 205 10. Tracing Resistance: Community and Ethnicity in a Peasant Organization / Margarita Zárate 221 11. Resistance, Factionalism, and Ethnogenesis in Southern Jalisco / Guillermo de la Peña 230 12. The Transhistorical, Juridical-Formal, and Post-Utopian Quilombo / Ilka Boaventura Leite 250 13. From Resistance Avenue to the Plaza of Decisions: New Urban Actors in Salvador, Bahia / Maria Gabriela Hita 269 14. Contestation in the Courts: The Amparo as a Form of Resistance to the Cancellation of Agrarian Reform in Mexico / Helga Baitenmann 289 15. Beyond Resistance: Raising Utopias from the Dead in Mexico City and Oaxaca / Matthew Gutmann 305 Conclusion. Rethinking Histories of Resistance in Brazil and Mexico / Alan Knight 325 Bibliography 355 About the Contributors 389 Index 391

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of post-Soviet Cubas health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.Trade Review"Revolutionary Medicine is fabulous. In this intelligent, insightful, and nuanced book, P. Sean Brotherton takes health care as a window through which to view and understand the 'new Cuba,' which, as he notes, incorporates elements of the prerevolutionary period, the Soviet era, and the post-Soviet era. Both substantively and analytically, this is a book of very high quality."—Susan Eckstein, author of Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro“Revolutionary Medicine is a an engaging and theoretically curious ethnography which masterfully connects global macroeconomic changes to the micropolitics of health in contemporary Cuba, and will speak to a wide range of disciplines and scholars within medical anthropology, public health, political sciences and Latin American studies.” -- Eva Vernooij * Medische Antropologie *“Revolutionary Medicine…represents an important contribution to an emergent anthropological literature on the Cuban State in the post-1990 era…It will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including undergraduates, graduate students and specialists in global health, medical anthropology, political theory and Latin American studies.” -- Jennifer Lambe * Global Public Health *“This is a must-read book for the important questions that it asks, the lens through which Brotherton examines the Cuban experience of the health care system, and the carefully collected and analyzed data. . . . It is theoretically provocative, successfully problematizing conventional models of agency in health behavior and especially in the context of the Cuban health care system.” -- Kathleen Musante Dewalt * American Ethnologist *“In this excellent analysis of the impact of change since 1989, Brotherton provides a rich ethnographic picture of what this has meant in practice for both medical professionals and citizens seeking treatment…. This is a thought-provoking and sensitive study that will be of major interest both to public health professionals as well as scholars.” -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *“The book does a brilliant job of demonstrating the productive relationships between individual bodily practices and macro-level socioeconomic change. Brotherton makes valuable contributions to analytic understandings of medically mediated citizenship, subjectivity, and the limits of individual agency and state authority in a context of ongoing economic crisis. Revolutionary Medicine would be an excellent stand-alone text to read in graduate or undergraduate courses in Latin American studies, medical anthropology, global health, or the medical humanities.” -- Amy Cooper * Somatosphere *“Others have studied the Cuban health system, but no one has delved into the political dynamics of Cuba’s universal health provision in the way that Brotherton has…. [T]his study… is an enormous contribution to our understandings of a tumultuous period of Cuban life and demonstrates the power of ethnographic analysis to those outside anthropology who belatedly discover Brotherton’s excellent analysis.” -- Thomas F. Carter * Anthropological Quarterly *“Brotherton’s book is a comprehensive, engaging, and original account of the health landscape in Cuba from the outset of the ‘Special Period’ of the 1990s...This intriguing book, over a decade in the making, is worthy of the time invested in it--it makes a valuable contribution to the literature on health in Cuba.” -- Elizabeth Kath * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Brotherton’s work has an important place within Cuban studies literature for two reasons. First, his attention to detail is phenomenal . . . The second important reason is that voices of dissent against the Cuban system, or against any system, are imperative for furthering our understanding of how policies and programs can shape the lived experiences of individuals.” -- Robert Huish * Anthropos *“The book is based on more than 10 years of intermittent fieldwork and hundreds of interviews with medical professionals and patients. This wealth of ethnographic material is channeled into a fluent analysis that makes it an exceptional read…. The monograph possesses a literary quality (i.e. it is highly descriptive and showcases wonderfully compelling stories), provides plenty of complementary visual material, and it reads well despite the theoretical depth.” -- Karina Vasilevska * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Prologue xiii Preface. An Ethnography of Contradictions xv Acknowledgments xxv Introduction. Bodies in States of Crisis 1 Part I. Biopolitics in the Special Period 13 1. The Biopolitics of Health 15 2. Expanding Therapeutic Itineraries 35 Part II. Socialist Governmentality, Public Health, and Risk 55 3. Medicalized Subjectivities 57 4. Curing the Social Ills of Society 84 5. Preventive Strategies and Productive Bodies 111 Part III. We Have to Think Like Capitalists but Continue Being Socialists 145 6. Turismo y Salud, S.A.: The Rise of Socialist Entrepreneurs 147 7. My Doctor Keeps the Lights On 169 Conclusion. Bodies Entangled in History 182 Coda 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 219 Index 245

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Book SynopsisProducing Bollywood is an in-depth ethnography of the Bombay-based Hindi film industry, more popularly known as Bollywood. Taking readers inside this hugely popular global industry, Tejaswini Ganti focuses on the social world and professional practices of well-known Hindi filmmakers.Trade Review"Tejaswini Ganti mines her extensive contacts in an industry generally closed-off to outsiders to provide us with in-depth analyses of the sensibilities, compulsions, and desires of important figures in the film industry, as well as the social practices of film production. Producing Bollywood provides unique insights into the forces that shape the production of films in one of the largest film industries in the world. By going beyond the hype surrounding 'Bollywood' and eschewing simplistic dismissals about escapism and the profit-making drive of Bollywood filmmakers, this book enables us to understand the cultural logics that shape the production of Bollywood film. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in multiple sites of film production, Producing Bollywood is truly a trailblazing work."—Purnima Mankekar, author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India"This is the first book on Bollywood to combine a deep knowledge of the dynamics of script, song, stars, and style in this cinematic world with an equally keen sense of the unique nature of the politics, finance, and cultural prejudices of the film industry. It will be an indispensable benchmark for all future studies of Bollywood and of similar cinematic industries worldwide, and it will interest media scholars, anthropologists, sociologists of culture, and the curious general reader."—Arjun Appadurai, New York University“In Producing Bollywood, the first truly comprehensive ethnographic account of the Mumbai-based film industry, Tejaswini Ganti crafts an ode to an India in deep transition, via the multifaceted lenses of a glamorized and iconic subsection of its Hindi-language filmmakers and actors. . . . [A] landmark study.” -- Ritesh Mehta * International Journal of Communication *“Producing Bollywood is a lucidly written and thoroughly researched ethnography of a film industry whose products are deeply interwoven in the ordinary life and politics of hundreds of millions of people.” -- Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria * American Ethnologist *“[O]ffers extraordinary insight into the production processes of the late 1990s…. [T]he thoroughness and comprehensive review of trends in this book must be highly commended.” -- Rodney Jensen * Media International Australia *“The book is rich in anthropological and historical data, theoretically astute, accessible, and great fun to read. It is a must for anyone interested in Bollywood or other film industries, and for scholars interested in the effects of neoliberalism and globalization in India. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.” -- L. M. Proctor * Choice *“Producing Bollywood is a riveting read. It draws carefully thought out connections between cultural formations, changing discourses of legitimacy and nation building. It is to Ganti’s credit that she is able to bring rigorous ethnographic tools to bear upon fieldwork materials put together over a decade and more.... Overall, this is a timely and much needed insight into the intersections of the political economy of production, consumption and legitimization of mass cultural products. It should interest readers and students of Mass Media, Film Studies, Culture Studies, South Asia, Anthropology and Ethnography.” -- Sushmita Banerji * Studies in South Asian Film & Media *“The book may be useful to anyone interested in sociology, anthropology, cinema, media, communication, cultural studies, development studies and other interdisciplinary fields. The book is indispensable for those who still use the terms Hindi cinema and Bollywood interchangeably and find it unproblematic.” -- K. V. Nagesh * Economic and Political Weekly *“Tejaswini Ganti’s Producing Bollywood is perhaps the most comprehensive and in-depth account of the Hindi film industry to date...Despite being 440 pages in length, Ganti’s accessible writing style makes this ethnography a joy to read.” -- Harjant S. Gill * Visual Anthropology Review *“Filled with first-hand accounts of the inner workings of the vast Mumbai-based Bollywood film industry collected through numerous interviews and extraordinarily extensive fieldwork undertaken over the course of more than a decade of research, Producing Bollywood meets a previously unfilled need on the part of those engaged in studying Indian cinema and culture by letting a large part of this varied and diverse industry speak, as it were, for itself.” -- Gabriel Shapiro * Contemporary South Asia *“Ganti’s book is a commendable pioneering initiative. It will be useful for students, researchers, and those interested in South Asian film studies.” -- Sanjukta Dasgupta * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. How the Hindi Film Industry Became "Bollywood" 1 Part 1. The Social Status of Films and Filmmakers 1. From Vice to Virtue: The State and Filmmaking in India 41 2. From Slumdogs to Millionaires: The Gentrification of Hindi Cinema 77 3. Casting Respectability 119 Part 2. The Practices and Processes of Film Production 4. A Day in the Life of a Hindi Film Set 155 5. The Structure, Organization, and Social Relations of the Hindi Film Industry 175 6. Sentiments of Disdain and Practices of Distinction: The Work Culture of the Hindi Film Industry 215 7. Risky Business: Managing Uncertainty in the Hindi Film Industry 243 Part 3. Discourses and Practices of Audience-Making 8. Pleasing Both Aunties and Servants: The Hindi Film Industry and Its Audience Imaginaries 281 9. The Fear of Large Numbers: The Gentrification of Audience Imaginaries 315 Epilogue: My Name Is Bollywood 359 Notes 367 Bibliography 401 Index 419

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