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Book SynopsisRoll With It is a firsthand account of the contradictory lives of New Orleans brass-band musicians. They are celebrated as cultural icons within the music scene; outside it, they are treated as faceless black males—subject to poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence.Trade Review“Roll With It, which includes striking black-and-white illustrations by New Orleans artist Willie Birch, is at once celebratory and saddening: a book of personal stories and a highly researched academic work.” -- Geraldine Wyckoff * Offbeat *"Sakakeeny’s approach to the tensions between continuity in change in Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans, searches past academic theories, tapping many interviews and his own experiences with musicians. . . . Roll With It deserves a wide readership in the post-Katrina boom." -- Jason Berry * New Orleans Magazine *“In addition to chronicling groups including the Rebirth Brass Brand, Sakakeeny provides a revealing look at the daily lives of musicians. . . . Detailed profiles of individual musicians make for a captivating narrative, and the book is beautifully illustrated with artwork by New Orleans native Willie Birch.” -- Scott Barretta * Clarion-Ledger *“Fascinating. . . . The musicians' personal stories are interwoven with historical information, academic reflection, and personal experience, combining to form a highly original work that creates a vivid portrait both of this musical format and the noble but beleaguered city of New Orleans.” -- Florence Wetzel * All About Jazz *“As Sakakeeny makes clear, the story of the city’s brass bands is far more complex than music alone. Beyond its entertainment value, music serves as the ‘site where competing social, political, and economic vectors intersect.’ In many ways, these vectors serve as a microcosm for the problems within the city at large.” * Kirkus Reviews *“Fascinating. . . . The musicians' personal stories are interwoven with historical information, academic reflection, and personal experience, combining to form a highly original work that creates a vivid portrait both of this musical format and the noble but beleaguered city of New Orleans.” -- Florence Wetzel * All About Jazz *“A notable work in that it’s the first critical project to chronicle New Orleans’ bombastic contemporary brass-band scene, the generation of musicians that grew up with century-old hymns in one ear and hip-hop in the other; also, and importantly, it’s a keen, social-justice-minded examination of the turbulent mix of race, economics, culture and tradition in which brass band culture is located.” -- Alison Fensterstock * Times-Picayune *“Roll With It adds a contemporary perspective to studies of New Orleans culture and music. What emerges from Sakakeeny’s book is a portrait of a city that, with all its challenges, still manages to support a vibrant musical culture.” -- John Paul Meyers * Jazz Perspectives *“Sakakeeny offers detailed accounts of parades and the inner workings of the bands. The book offers a full picture of their lives and how the city’s cultural economy works on the factory end. Sakakeeny observes the way the city celebrates its culture and especially its musicians, but the book also exposes the way many of them survive on the same earnings as low-rung service industry workers. It’s an engaging look street-level look at the bands that so often are used to represent and symbolize the city.” -- Will Coviello * Gambit *“Roll with It is an edifying, enjoyable, enlightening read and refreshing musical study. It conveys and embodies a vivaciousness, both the author’s and that of the musical people portrayed throughout the book, a movement through time and place that refuses to slow down or be diverted or silenced." -- Ron Emoff * American Anthropologist *"Roll With It is informative on many levels, detailing song structures, jazz history, neighborhood developments, and weaving information together through anecdote and research. It also poses a bigger question: If our city has economically benefitted from selling culture as a post-Katrina resource, are musicians getting what they deserve? Roll With It explores the answer.” -- Samuel Nelson * Where Y'at? *“This is a volume in which rich ethnographic detail fails to obscure the broader framework of academic theory and personal concern for both the musicians and the music. Roll With It belongs on the reading lists of all those teaching ethnomusicology or ethnography in the modern world, those whose teaching engages with popular music, race, performance, tourism and economy, and those who are concerned about the relationship between their research (or the academic world in general) and the sociopolitical (and economic and racial) realities of the worlds in which we all live.” -- Gregory Booth * Journal of Popular Music Studies *"[T]hose interested in a holistic consideration of musical products and cultural processes will find Sakakeeny’s study to be highly engaging and viscerally affecting as it exposes the oppositional forces inherent in a highly venerated—but highly volatile—performance tradition." -- David Kammerer * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsList of Artwork vii Prologue. Crossing the Threshold ix Introduction. Forward Motion 1 1. Onward and Upward 13 2. Constraints 69 3. Progressions 109 4. Voices 143 Conclusion. Engagements 179 Afterword. Image and Music in the Art of Willie Burch / Willie Burch and Matt Sakakeeny 187 Acknowledgments 195 Appendix. List of Interviews and Public Events 199 Notes 201 Bibliography 213 Index 227

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Book SynopsisThis history of the international, national, and local conflicts surrounding the extraction of resources from the Amazon during the Second World War shows how those conflicts shaped contemporary ideas about the rainforest.Trade Review"In equal measure environmental, economic, and diplomatic history, Seth Garfield's In Search of the Amazon is much more than the sum of its parts. With clear prose and sharp analysis, Garfield's wonderful new book is a model for how to write the social history of nature, placing the great, wondrous Amazon at the heart of America's transnational twentieth century."—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"In this path-breaking study, Seth Garfield explores one of the most significant U.S. interventions in Amazonia. During World War II, the United States was desperate for rubber after losing access to Asian markets. In alliance with Brazil, the U.S. government embarked on an aggressive initiative to jump-start the Amazon rubber trade. Garfield masterfully recasts U.S.-Amazonian relations, revealing the wartime roots of the ideological and bureaucratic structures that have shaped modern Amazonia."—Susanna B. Hecht, author of The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha"Seth Garfield's extraordinary book reflects an enormous amount of research, knowledge, and thought about the Amazon. Besides recounting a fascinating chapter of World War II, Garfield places the history of the Amazon within a grid of political, social, and economic concerns that transcend the region's borders but are ultimately modulated by its particular circumstances of settlement and exploitation. He demonstrates the importance of wartime events in shaping subsequent disputes over the fate of the rain forest."—Barbara Weinstein, author of The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850–1920"The book is engagingly written and packed full of information and excellent illustrations. . . . It will appeal especially strongly to those interested in U.S. involvement in Latin America before the Cold War. By placing U.S. intervention in Amazonian and Brazilian histories, Garfield recounts another chapter in the making of this enigmatic region that is the wartime roots of the ideological and administrative structures that have shaped the place today." -- Mark Harris * American Historical Review *"[Garfield] succeeds best as a straightforward storyteller in the best tradition of talented historians." -- Angus Wright * Environmental History *"Garfield is to be commended for shedding so much light on the cultural and eonomic history of the Amazon in the twentieth century. This book is a must have for all those interested in development policy in the Amazon." -- Nigel Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *“I highly recommend this book for its systematic and nuanced treatment of a region in flux. Garfield traces important precursors of contemporary inter-regional migration, land conflict, environmental change, and regional development policies. Amazon specialists will enjoy the meticulous archival work, and geographers will appreciate the focus on environmental history and political ecology. Those with general Latin American interests will learn about an important but often overlooked chapter in regional change.” -- Brian J. Godfrey * Journal of Latin American Geography *“This thoughtful, well-rounded book is, then, an invaluable addition to the English language historiography of the Amazon that remedies a gap in the extant literature. It also foregrounds an aspect of the war effort far from the battlefields that made an important, if largely unacknowledged, contribution to Allied victory for which participating Brazilian rubbers tappers could retrospectively be proud.” -- Philip Chrimes * International Affairs *“Garfield makes an important contribution to Brazilian historiography…. [He] combines thorough research in US and Brazilian government documents and contemporary publications with discerning use of labor and criminal court cases and oral histories with rubber migrants.” -- Thomas D. Rogers * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Although this may seem like well-traveled historiographical territory, Garfield finds new information to tap and synthesize. Whereas most books on the Amazon focus on a single topic … the strength and novelty of Garfield’s work is his focus on the convergence of all of these elements and more. Garfield’s social and environmental approach means that he does not focus solely on the thoughts and actions of policy makers. Instead, he puts labor and nature at the center of the narrative to show how the Amazon was built from below. Garfield’s book successfully merges global, national, and local history.” -- Myrna Santiago * Labor *"In Search of the Amazon is an important addition to the Amazonia bookshelf.... [R]eaders will enjoy the exotic settings, dramatic story, and larger historical interpretations." -- Michael L. Conniff * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Reappearing Amazon 1 1. Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo 9 2. "The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply": U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon 49 3. Rubber's "Soldiers": Reinventing the Amazonian Worker 86 4. The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love 127 5. War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images 170 Epilogue. From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas 213 Notes 229 Bibliography 303 Index 333

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Book SynopsisThis history of the international, national, and local conflicts surrounding the extraction of resources from the Amazon during the Second World War shows how those conflicts shaped contemporary ideas about the rainforest.Trade Review"In equal measure environmental, economic, and diplomatic history, Seth Garfield's In Search of the Amazon is much more than the sum of its parts. With clear prose and sharp analysis, Garfield's wonderful new book is a model for how to write the social history of nature, placing the great, wondrous Amazon at the heart of America's transnational twentieth century."—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"In this path-breaking study, Seth Garfield explores one of the most significant U.S. interventions in Amazonia. During World War II, the United States was desperate for rubber after losing access to Asian markets. In alliance with Brazil, the U.S. government embarked on an aggressive initiative to jump-start the Amazon rubber trade. Garfield masterfully recasts U.S.-Amazonian relations, revealing the wartime roots of the ideological and bureaucratic structures that have shaped modern Amazonia."—Susanna B. Hecht, author of The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha"Seth Garfield's extraordinary book reflects an enormous amount of research, knowledge, and thought about the Amazon. Besides recounting a fascinating chapter of World War II, Garfield places the history of the Amazon within a grid of political, social, and economic concerns that transcend the region's borders but are ultimately modulated by its particular circumstances of settlement and exploitation. He demonstrates the importance of wartime events in shaping subsequent disputes over the fate of the rain forest."—Barbara Weinstein, author of The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850–1920"The book is engagingly written and packed full of information and excellent illustrations. . . . It will appeal especially strongly to those interested in U.S. involvement in Latin America before the Cold War. By placing U.S. intervention in Amazonian and Brazilian histories, Garfield recounts another chapter in the making of this enigmatic region that is the wartime roots of the ideological and administrative structures that have shaped the place today." -- Mark Harris * American Historical Review *"[Garfield] succeeds best as a straightforward storyteller in the best tradition of talented historians." -- Angus Wright * Environmental History *"Garfield is to be commended for shedding so much light on the cultural and eonomic history of the Amazon in the twentieth century. This book is a must have for all those interested in development policy in the Amazon." -- Nigel Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *“I highly recommend this book for its systematic and nuanced treatment of a region in flux. Garfield traces important precursors of contemporary inter-regional migration, land conflict, environmental change, and regional development policies. Amazon specialists will enjoy the meticulous archival work, and geographers will appreciate the focus on environmental history and political ecology. Those with general Latin American interests will learn about an important but often overlooked chapter in regional change.” -- Brian J. Godfrey * Journal of Latin American Geography *“This thoughtful, well-rounded book is, then, an invaluable addition to the English language historiography of the Amazon that remedies a gap in the extant literature. It also foregrounds an aspect of the war effort far from the battlefields that made an important, if largely unacknowledged, contribution to Allied victory for which participating Brazilian rubbers tappers could retrospectively be proud.” -- Philip Chrimes * International Affairs *“Garfield makes an important contribution to Brazilian historiography…. [He] combines thorough research in US and Brazilian government documents and contemporary publications with discerning use of labor and criminal court cases and oral histories with rubber migrants.” -- Thomas D. Rogers * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Although this may seem like well-traveled historiographical territory, Garfield finds new information to tap and synthesize. Whereas most books on the Amazon focus on a single topic … the strength and novelty of Garfield’s work is his focus on the convergence of all of these elements and more. Garfield’s social and environmental approach means that he does not focus solely on the thoughts and actions of policy makers. Instead, he puts labor and nature at the center of the narrative to show how the Amazon was built from below. Garfield’s book successfully merges global, national, and local history.” -- Myrna Santiago * Labor *"In Search of the Amazon is an important addition to the Amazonia bookshelf.... [R]eaders will enjoy the exotic settings, dramatic story, and larger historical interpretations." -- Michael L. Conniff * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Reappearing Amazon 1 1. Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo 9 2. "The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply": U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon 49 3. Rubber's "Soldiers": Reinventing the Amazonian Worker 86 4. The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love 127 5. War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images 170 Epilogue. From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas 213 Notes 229 Bibliography 303 Index 333

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Book SynopsisIn Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar documents a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's antidemocratic policies, tracing the internal dynamics of such disruptions to consider how motivation and execution incite political change.Trade Review“[A] detailed examination of diverse political and social movements that between 2000 and 2005 challenged the neoliberal status quo, and in the course of a bitter electoral conflict brought the Indigenous leader Evo Morales to power. The author delves deeply into the history of Peru…. Highly recommended.” -- O. Pi-Sunyer * Choice *“[T]his book—as political memoir and social analysis—offers an intriguing inside view of the kinds of issues that drove debate among a few members of the intellectual vanguard during Bolivia’s most recent cycle of popular unrest.” -- Brooke Larson * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Rhythms of the Pachakuti is a well-researched, well-argued and productive text for scholars interested in understanding social movements. It gives rich accounts of the Bolivian uprisings it studies, making it a useful text for scholars of the region, and provides scholars with useful tools for thinking about the practices of these uprisings as meaning-making practices." -- Lauren E. Deal * Social Anthropology *"[T]his book has tremendous value for graduate students and general readers interested in following the contemporary Latin American left. The book, published originally in Spanish in 2008, also represents an excellent resource for those interested in solid Marxist theory and sociological analysis. For this reason, it will be an excellent addition to graduate courses in Latin American Revolutions and social change." -- Waskar T. Ari-Chachakí * American Historical Review *"Historians will long rely on this to better understand not only Bolivia’s early twenty-first century revolts, but also the post-statist ideas fueling recent anti-capitalist movements from Madrid to New York City." -- Thomas C. Field Jr. * Canadian Journal of History *"One of the most valuable aspects of this analytically sophisticated book, which could be assigned to graduate students and upper-level undergraduates, is that it defies encapsulating Bolivia’s popular uprisings under one single variable. In contrast to similar works that focus only on the ethnic dimensions, the book captures how multiple forces—indigenous people, migrants, peasants, and workers— together overthrew the Bolivian political system. This more complex picture better positions the reader to understand the challenges of post-insurrection Bolivia." -- Carmen Soliz * History: Reviews of New Books *"In presenting authentic grassroots forces of emancipation, Gutiérrez Aguilar has given us a rich and representative volume, with some important and challenging ideas. . . . This book serves as a critical foundation for the larger questions of social transformation and radical discourse." -- Yuliana Kenfield * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"The work is an outstanding contribution to the political anthropology of Latin America. . . . It offers a decolonizing entrée into Bolivian political thought and practice that counters the often paternalistic and detached style of Northern writers." -- Bret Gustafson * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Of the many studies of Bolivia’s popular uprisings of 2000–2005, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar’s participatory-observer account stands out. In addition to furnishing an innovative framework for understanding the 'rhythms' of social struggle during those years, the book grapples with some of the tensions and dilemmas common to diverse emancipatory struggles." -- Kevin A. Young * Ethnohistory *“Gutiérrez-Aguilar provides a unique and valuable perspective on Bolivian politics.” -- Hans Buechler * American Ethnologist *"The depth of access and the richness of the sources make this book . . . a document that is close to being a primary source while it is also written with chronological and analytical distance." -- Carmen Martínez Novo * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsForeword: Beyond the Old Order of Things ix Preface xix Acknowledgments xlvii Part I. Community Uprisings and Grassroots Democratization 1 1. The Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life: The Massive Public Defiance of State Order 3 2. Aymara Roadblocks in La Paz: Community as a Mobilizing Force 28 3. The Disputed Territories of the Chapare: The Coca Growers' Struggles from 2000 to 2003 73 Part II. From Governmental Collapse to Pachakuti's Suspension, 2003-2005 97 4. Insurgent Politics: The Rebellious Year of 2003 99 5. Compromises and "Catastrophic Balance": The Confusing Year of 2004 129 6. The Growing Tension between Emancipation, Autonomy, Self-Governance, and State Reconstitution in 2005 152 Conclusion: Final Reflections 175 Appendix 1: Methodological Approach 191 Appendix 2: Positions of the Social Voices and Tables 195 Notes 223 References 265 Index 275

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Book SynopsisForms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby take on that project, analyzing what they call 'clinical labor,' and asking what such an analysis might indicate about the organization of the bioeconomy and the broader organization of labor and value today. At the same time, they reflect on the challenges that clinical labor might pose to some of the founding assumptions of classical, Marxist, and post-Fordist theories of labor.Cooper and Waldby examine the rapidly expanding transnational labor markets surrounding assisted reproduction and experimental drug trials. As they discuss, the pharmaceutical industry demands ever greater numbers of trial subjects to meet its innovation imperatives. The assisted reproductive market grows as more and more households look to third-party providers for fertility services and sectors of tTrade Review“In the literature on contributors to medical knowledge, attention is most often focused on basic and applied researchers, funders, and regulators. In Clinical Labor, Cooper and Waldby focus on an essential, overlooked, and perhaps exploited population, that of research subjects. The authors are at their strongest in applying a Marxist theoretical perspective to class in medical research and the need to conceptualize participation in clinical trials as labor. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.” -- M. D. Lagerwey * Choice *"Poised to be not only a classic analysis of the bioeconomy, but the strongest exemplar of a style of analysis of which we urgently need more." -- Aaron Panofsky * Social Forces *"Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby's Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy offers a highly original, gendered analysis of expansive and emergent labor forms "hidden in plain sight" in the rapidly proliferating bioeconomy.... Clinical Labor provides a forceful instance of Marxist–feminist theory, focusing on the next stage of capital accumulation, worker consciousness, and potential opposition." -- Rayna Rapp * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"In scholarship on the contemporary role and practices of the biosciences in the production of knowledge, value, and life itself,Clinical Labor stands out as an important contribution that helps make sense of new incorporations of bodies, stratifications, and relation.... Clinical Labor is sweeping and comprehensive, fluidly showing how legal concepts and economic practices interweave with biomedical production and bioethics." -- Janet K. Shim * American Journal of Sociology *"Overall, Clinical Labor is a compelling and thought-provoking book. It provides an excellent overview of political bioeconomy and brings up a broad range of intriguing questions for readers interested in biomedical economies or Marxist thought." -- Heather Edelblute * ISIS *"Cooper and Waldby expertly offer a comprehensive and substantial argument for why a reconceptualization of human subject experimentation as clinical labor is necessary by outlining inadequacies and challenges within existing regulation. This book is a provocative read suitable for scholars in multiple fields of the social sciences." -- Por Heong Hong * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *

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Book SynopsisA new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history.Trade Review "Shines a valuable light on the crucial but understudied question of human relationships with non-human beings." -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *“Eben Kirksey's wonderful new volume is an inspiring introduction to a kind of multispecies ethnography where artists, anthropologists, and others collaborate to create objects and experiences of great thoughtfulness and beauty. … This is a volume that I will be returning to, recommending, and assigning for years to come.” -- Carla Nappi * New Books in Science and Technology Studies *“[A]n instant academic hit. Bringing together the voices of many exciting and innovative artists and scholars, the book advocates a radical decentering of anthropocentrism; one surpassing in scope and complexity the reorientations already operated by animal studies over twenty years.” * Antennae *“Through insouciant writing and art making, multispecies ethnographers push, poke, glean, and poach ideas to confront received wisdoms. What ‘microbiopolitical entanglements’ are possible, they ask, given ‘that 90% of the genetic material in "us" is "not us"' and instead belongs to individual and community biomes? ‘Genre-bending’ topics range from the Rural Alchemy Workshop making soap from human and she-ass milk to harvesting delectable mushrooms in the ‘blasted landscapes’ of thoughtlessly plundered environments and the glories of common weeds to the serpentine symmetries of brittle stars. Patricia Piccinini’s multispecies sculptures interleave the essays in ways that some will find provocative and others distressingly—yet appropriately—unsettling. … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- A. F. Roberts * Choice *"The volume in general is a fascinating read, and although the contributions have grown out of an art exhibit that evolved as it traveled from San Francisco to New Orleans and later to New York City, the book works well on its own and can already be regarded as a core work" -- Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"What's more revolutionary than contemplating the rights and interconnectedness of plants, animals, fungi, even microbes — and then aspiring to a more expansive post-humanist society? This collection's contributors include such radical thinkers as Karen Barad and Donna Haraway. Reading it, my heart enlarges and my mind breaks free of its ruts." -- Lydia Peelle * The Week *"The Multispecies Salon develops a conversation around the possibilities for multispecies thinking and, as the text argues, we can harness these multispecies relationships to inform epistemological projects that work through nature/culture/social crisis. The nuanced arguments in each article forge exciting pathways toward a modest hope that, however encouraging, would seem to require greater political organizing to generate social change. However, the anthology’s willingness to push, poach, and creatively practice its critical politics surrounding disaster landscapes, pathogens, and ethics makes the multispecies methodology so resonant for our tumultuous environmental, political, and social times that often lack hope." -- Samantha Ashton Hogg * Canadian Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Eben Kirksey, Craig Schuetze, and Stefan Helmreich 1 Part I. Blasted Landscapes 1. Hope in Blasted Landscapes / Eben Kirksey, Nicholas Shapiro, and Maria Brodine 29 R. A. W. Assmilk Soap / Karin Bolender 64 3. Blasted Landscapes (And the Gentle Arts of Mushroom Picking) / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, for the Matsutake Worlds Research Group 87 Part II. Edible Companions Interlude. Microbiopolitics / Heather Paxson 115 Recipe 1. Plumpinon / Lindsay Kelley 122 Recipe 2. Human Cheese / Miriam Sumin 135 Recipe 3. Multispecies Communities / Eben Kirksey 145 Recipe 4. Bitter Medicine is Stronger / Linda Noel, Christine Hamilton, Anna Rodriguez, Angela James, Nathan Rich, David S. Edmunds, and Kim TallBear 154 4. Life Cycle of a Common Weed / Caitlin Berrigan 164 Part III. Life and Biotechnology 5. Life in the Age of Biotechnology / Eben Kirksey, Brandon Costelleo-Kuehn, and Dorion Sagan 185 6. Invertebrate Visions: Diffractions of the Brittlestar / Karen Barad 221 7. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 242 Acknowledgments 263 Bibliography 271 Contributors 289 Index 295

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Book SynopsisConsiders how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of transformistas and beauty pageant contestants.Trade Review“In this book Ochoa gathers several different and distinctive scales of analysis, from international fashion circuits and the role of mass media to the body, the smallest unit of analysis. At the same time, public discourses about beauty and femininity are examined in an interrelated way, along with problems of race, modernity, and discourses about the nation. One of the most attractive aspects of this book is its inscription of all these problems in the long process of modernity’s production, with the purpose of searching beyond interpersonal relationships. As an anthropologist, Ochoa constructs a clearheaded ethnography of mass media, beauty, and femininity that includes a careful description of the physical space of the streets and city of Caracas overall.” -- Mirta Zaida Lobato * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[A] complex ethnological study of the phenomenon of la belleza venezolana (Venezuelan beauty). . . . This work does an admirable job in its efforts to provide both the context of the performance of femininity and beauty in Venezuela and more specifics on the experience of male-bodied, feminine people in the nation.” -- Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"This ethnographically and theoretically rich book is relevant to gender studies, queer studies, performance studies, urban studies, and Latin American studies and is a model of applied, committed, and interested research." -- Colleen Ballerino Cohen * American Anthropologist *"Queen for a Day is groundbreaking in its consideration of transgender and hegemonic bodies within the same analytic framework, and it offers new ways of understanding performativity, spectacle, gender and power. It has clear implications on many fields due to Ochoa’s thorough engagement with scholarship on coloniality, modernity, race, beauty, performativity, spectacle, gender, corporeality, materiality, transgender studies, and queer diasporic studies." -- Carson Morris * The Latin Americanist *“Queen for a Day dazzlingly sashays from the tulle and satin dresses of the Miss Venezuela beauty contest to the very specific sites in Caracas where sex and desire transform, reimagine, and reorder the city. . . . All the different strands that Ochoa offers for a study of femininity and gender in Venezuela that is not simply a study of 'gendered behavior' can be seen as unrelated to each other, but one of the most important underpinnings of Ochoa’s book is that it is rightly founded upon a faith in connection, in communication, across social classes spread throughout the country of Venezuela.” -- José Quiroga * TSQ *"Queen for a Day makes important contributions to our understanding of how colonial legacies at the local, national, and international levels—along with contemporary mass media and other technologies—shape cultural politics and the possibilities for change in our post-modern, global world." -- Susan Besse * EIAL *"Announcing her work as a queer diasporic ethnography, Ochoa situates herself as field worker and scholar within a well-fleshed-out theoretical frame that still manages to be intensely introspective and intimate. In one breath she lets us into her history and family; with the next she invites the reader to consider the perverse modernity that requires and makes possible malleable bodies, and that requires the violence we do to our bodies that also makes possible their survival." -- Adriana Estill * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsIndex 279 Acknowledgments vii Introducing ... the Queen 1 Part I. On the (Trans)National 19 1. Belleza Venezolana: Media, Race, Modernity, and Nation in the Twentieth-Century Venezuelan Beauty Contest 21 2. La Moda Nace en Paris y Muere en Caracas: Fashion, Beauty, and Consumption on the (Trans)National 59 Part II. On the Runway, on the Street 95 3. La Reina de la Noche: Performance, Sexual Subjectivity, and the Form of the Beauty Pageant in Venezuela 97 4. Pasarelas y Perolones: Transformista Mediations on Avenida Libertador in Caracas 127 Part III. On the Body 153 5. Sacar el Cuerpo: Transformista and Miss Embodiment 155 6. Spectacular Femininities 201 Epilogue. Democracy and Melodrama: Frivolity, Fracaso, and Political Violence in Venezuela 233 Notes 247 References 269

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research in the foothills of the Argentine Andes, Gastón R. Gordillo reveals the spatial, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. For the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.Trade Review"[I]t is the signal merit of Gordillo’s book to remind us of the value of the loose, but productive and fertile, horizontal connections and communities that make up the network of nodes and constellations that we too easily dismiss as 'mere' rubble." -- Jon Beasley-Murray * Posthegemony blog *“Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction is theoretically dense and richly illustrated with diagrams and photographs. The ethnographic detail is often engrossing, while the overall argument challenges heritage and regional specialists to engage in more penetrating analysis of how historic forces of destruction shape the world and add to the rubble that piles up along the way.” -- Diane Barthel-Bouchier * Journal of Latin American Geography *“Rubble is remarkable because Gordillo does not shy away from complex theorizing while also providing us with rich ethnographic storytelling. The result is a book that is as engaging as it is innovative, and which should capture the interest of a diverse audience. … dealing with the social production of space, racialized and ethnicized relations in Latin and South America, human-environment relationships, and affect theory. If the purpose of a book is to change the way one sees the world, Rubble succeeds.” -- Roberto E. Barr * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Both the idea of rethinking ruins and going deep into the Chaco region are original and a welcome foray into events and people that have been side-lined by official histories. ...Rubble gives us layers of history, of rubble, overlapping stories of indigenous identity and conquering violence.” -- Marcela López Levy * Latin America Bureau blog *“Rubble makes a series of generative interventions into the vast literature on memory and heritage studies in Latin America. Particularly rewarding for historians, anthropologists, and geographers interested in critical perspectives on modernity.” -- Mónica Salas Landa * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Constellations 1 Part One. Ghosts of Indians 1. A Haunted Frontier 31 2. On the Edge of the Void 53 Part Two. Lost Cities The Destruction of Space 77 3. Land of Curses and Miracles 85 4. The Ruins of Ruins 111 Part Three. Residues of a Dream World Treks across Fields of Rubble 125 5. Ships Stranded in the Forest 131 6. Bringing a Destroyed Place Back to Life 153 7. Railroads to Nowhere 169 Part Four. The Debris of Violence Bright Objects 185 8. Topographies of Oblivion 191 9. Piles of Bones 209 10. The Return of the Indians 229 Conclusion: We Aren't Afraid of Ruins 253 Notes 271 References 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisOmens of Adversity is a profound critique of postcolonial temporality. David Scott argues that the palpable sense of the present as time stalled, without hope for emancipatory futures, has had far-reaching effects on how we think about justice and the nature of political action.Trade Review"The strength of Omens of Adversity lies in its ability to productively and persuasively move across interpretive practices, weaving together a diverse array of sources.... The work has deep implications for thinking about imaginations of the future" -- Stephen McIssac * TOPIA *"Scholars struggling with similar questions and concepts will find here food for thought." -- Mark Thurner * American Historical Review *“Omens of Adversity is a grim, sobering, and tragic book that should be required for all graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in postcolonial theory, Caribbean history, cultural anthropology, and others dealing with the “end of history” or political transition theory. Scholars with those interests should consider it a must read. It is not only a cautionary tale to constantly take stock of the past lest we live in a recurring catastrophic present but also one of the most intellectually gratifying and adventurous books of recent years.” -- Suzanne Simon * American Ethnologist *“This conceptually very dense book is surely pioneering in the way that it redefines temporality and political action and gives a language and method to study past and/or failed revolutionary actions.” -- Charlotte Loris-Rodinoff * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Omens of Adversity will be of interest to students and scholars of Caribbean and postcolonial studies, political theory, Marxism and Revolution, Trauma and Memory Studies." -- Shalini Puri * New West Indian Guide *"Omens of Adversity is a thought-provoking and thoroughly inspiring book. Particularly illuminating is the notion of the contemporary neoliberal predicament as a stagnant, stranded present, devoid of promises of a better future." -- Carl Rommel * Social Anthropology *"In many ways, Omens of Adversity is a continuation and deepening of a line of thought that social and cultural theorist David Scott has been developing for years. . . . Scott’s larger project is marked by a progressively more strident analysis, a darkening view of what he sees as our increasingly strangulated set of political possibilities. As such, Omens demands serious engagement by social and political theorists." -- Robert Nichols * Political Theory *“Omens of Adversity brings to the fore the political work that silences perform in post-revolutionary societies and provides conceptually potent models for anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and others interested in probing such questions further.” -- Maarit Forde * PoLAR *Table of ContentsPrologue. Aftermaths 1 Part I. Tragedy, Time 1. Revolution's Tragic Ends: Temporal Dimensions of Political Action 33 2. Stranded in the Present: The Ruins of Time 67 Part II. Memory, Justice 3. Generations of Memory: The Work of Mourning 99 4. Evading Truths: The Rhetoric of Transitional Justice 127 Epilogue. The Temporality of Forgiving 165 Acknowledgments 173 Notes 177 Index 215

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Book SynopsisArt is expanding into urban development and the design and tourism industries. Art practices based on objects are displaced by practices based on contexts. Aesthetic distinctions dissolve as artworks are inserted into the media, urban spaces, digital networks, and social forums. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"Néstor García Canclini’s Art beyond Itself is an addition to the literature that believes that art and artistic movements may be understood 'only in connection with social processes' (p. xi). It examines how artistic projects become part of other logics (e.g., the market, the media, politics, social movements) and how art is modified in the process." -- Nigel Rapport * American Anthropologist *"Garcia Canclini’s insightful study crosses disciplinary divides and hence will appeal to scholars in the social sciences and humanities from a wide range of academic backgrounds. Anthropologists, sociologists, art historians and cultural critics, particularly those focused on Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, have much to gain from reading this book. Literary critics, historians, philosophers and economists whose interests rest in contemporary aesthetics and the art market will also find value in this study." -- Resha Cardone * The Latin Americanist *"Art Beyond Itself...probes art’s struggles to redefine itself in a globalized world in which previously discrete categories of aesthetic and social experience are ever more blurred. With this book García Canclini, one of Latin America’s foremost intellectuals, both expands his already considerable presence for English-speaking audiences and provides a powerful new analytical approach to contemporary art." -- Robin Adèle Greeley * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface. Art beyond Itself xi Acknowledgments xxv 1. Aesthetics and Social Sciences: Converging Doubts 1 3. Reappropriating Objects: Art, Marketing, or Culture? 59 4. Putting a Value on Art: Between the Market and Politics 83 5. Unsure Localizations 101 6. The Death of Public Space: Survival Tactics 129 7. How Society Makes Art 151 Epilogue 175 Works Cited 187 Index 197

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Book SynopsisHaving spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. Life Interrupted is a riveting account of life in and after trafficking and a forceful call for meaningful immigration and labor reform.Trade Review“Steering clear of lurid depictions of sexual slavery, Brennan has written a serious yet readable account of trafficking in the United States.” -- Karunesh Tuli * Foreword Reviews *“Life Interrupted is a must-read for those seeking to understand why immigration policies, US and otherwise, can prolong human misery. Bluntly confronting the risks and dangers all immigrants face when they must leave their homes in search of better lives, this admirable book is a major contribution to productive ways to rethink global immigration.” -- Lee Maril * Times Higher Education *"The very real people portrayed in Life Interrupted do shine brightly; their stories make it personal for us, the readers. We're reminded that these individuals are certainly not forgotten in the eyes of God, as much as we might long to stay unaware of them." -- D.L. Mayfield * Books & Culture *“[A] concise yet comprehensive account of trafficking in the US. . . . Bluntly confronting the risks and dangers all immigrants face when they must leave their homes in search of better lives, this admirable book is a major contribution to productive ways to rethink global immigration. Whether it is Mexican agricultural workers risking their lives by crossing a desert to find work, or Egyptians and Pakistanis crossing the Mediterranean in fragile boats, their lives dependent on rescue at sea by the Italian navy, suffering is omnipresent. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- W. T. Howard * Choice *"Whereas the term 'trafficking' is often assumed to mean sex trafficking, Brennan is concerned with the larger picture of trafficking into forced labor of all kinds—e.g., domestic, construction, agriculture or other low-wage jobs. She writes not of headline-making dramatic rescues but of the day-to-day lives of the formerly trafficked, those trying to rebuild their lives in the U.S. and make it their home. . . . A tough-to-read exposé of trafficking and its effects and an urgent call for changes in federal immigration policy and ineffectual labor laws." * Kirkus Reviews *“This book should appeal to anyone who wants to learn more about the devastating and long-lasting impact of human trafficking at both the global and individual/familial level from those who lived it, as well as the effectiveness of current immigration policies. . . . It is particularly valuable to those who (like me) work in service-providing professions that may encounter this vulnerable, yet resilient, population. I recommend it highly.” -- Stacie Dubay * Monthly Labor Review *“One of the most important sections of Brennan's book includes suggestions for action and ways to become involved in improving the lives of trafficked persons. . . . She demonstrates that a commitment to each individual is what it takes to help trafficked persons transcend poverty. These important findings are the result of studying real people who have left extreme situations, and assessing which factors made the difference between moving ahead or struggling forever.” -- Melissa Ditmore * Women's Review of Books *“[B]ringing rich ethnographic detail and compelling stories from survivors of trafficking, case workers, advocates, and others. She eschews any grand theoretical gestures in favor of rigorous but readable prose and has crafted a book that is at once a major academic contribution for specialists and also a text that should be required reading for public health workers, policymakers, NGO administrators, and undergraduate or graduate students interested in the practical applications of anthropology.” -- Gregory Mitchell * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Life Interrupted is an important book. Intensely researched and accessibly written, this ethnographically rich work is recommended for anyone concerned about human trafficking. Brennan masterfully connects the plight of victims of forced labor to larger questions about U.S. labor practices and immigration policies.” -- Amy Farrell * American Journal of Sociology *"Life interrupted will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how the dark side of globalization plays out in the United States.... It is a very readable, powerful, and important book that deserves widespread attention." -- Steve Striffler * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Life Interrupted is a highly engaging book that will be of great interest to anyone interested in forced labor and human trafficking." -- Sverre Molland * International Migration Review *"Denise Brennan’s in situ empirical study of a well-defined, accurately counted, richly engaged subset of the principals in the human trafficking drama is a welcome addition to a growing body of knowledge that uses rigorous research to study a population that has been wrongly identified as 'unresearchable.'" -- Anthony Marcus * American Anthropologist *“Human trafficking and immigration scholars will find this well-researched book a useful addition to their libraries. Those interested in the effects of policy on efforts to assist trafficked persons and exploited workers, in post-trafficking experiences, or in post-trafficking service provision will find the book particularly valuable. This rich, compelling account of individuals rebuilding their lives after exploitation is affecting and succeeds in revealing a continuum of labor exploitation along which many workers in the U.S. fall.” -- Sandra C. Arch * Work and Occupations *“Life Interrupted will be of particular interest to those seeking an ethnographic perspective on the nuances and complexities of being officially classified as a victim of trafficking in the United States. ... Denise Brennan stages a powerful ethnographic critique of the idea that the anti-trafficking rubric and legal regime actually protect victims of trafficking.” -- Svati P. Shah * New Labor Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Starting Over 1 Part I. The Assault on Workers 35 1. Dangerous Labor: Migrant Workers and Sex Workers 37 2. Chains of Fear: The Subjectivity of Coercion 75 Part II. Life after Forced Labor 113 3. Imagining the Possible: Creating Home 115 4. Living the Possible: Settling into Home 145 5. Laboring after Forced Labor 163 Closing Comments 185 Appendix. Ideas and Resources for Action 193 Notes 199 References 243 Index 273

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Book SynopsisLooking at what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in early colonial Spanish America, Joanne Rappaport finds fluid identification processes rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses.Trade Review"Corrects simplistic ideas about the timelessness of racial categorization, even including previous efforts to historicize the alleged 'hardening' of race designations in the eighteenth century." -- Nicole Von Germeten * Journal of American History *“Rappaport’s revisionist study is deeply engaged with current scholarship and is especially interested in targeting much of the literature on New Spain, where a lion’s share of work on casta has focused. … Some may hesitate to accept the book’s most ambitious claims based on its admittedly small but expertly reconstructed set of vignettes. This well-crafted book, however, raises a host of critical conceptual and methodological matters that merit the attention of all scholars of identity and difference in early Spanish America.” -- Andrew B. Fisher * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Rappaport’s revisionist study is deeply engaged with current scholarship and is especially interested in targeting much of the literature on New Spain, where a lion’s share of work on casta has focused. … Some may hesitate to accept the book’s most ambitious claims based on its admittedly small but expertly reconstructed set of vignettes. This well-crafted book, however, raises a host of critical conceptual and methodological matters that merit the attention of all scholars of identity and difference in early Spanish America.” -- Andrew B. Fisher * Hispanic American Historical Review *"The Disappearing Mestizo is a pathbreaking study of race mixture in the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Unlike most historians of race in the Spanish colonial world, Joanne Rappaport eschews any characterization of mixed-race populations as discrete social groups. Instead, she explores the practices by which individuals of mixed Spanish, indigenous, and African descent (or an admixture of these) were named as mestizo or mulatto by others or by themselves." -- Paul K. Eiss * American Anthropologist *"Rappaport introduces her readers to a lively cast of ethnographically constructed characters who effectively force our thinking beyond racial categories of difference and toward a deeper understanding of the cultural milieu that dictated why people did or did not use so-called caste designations when describing themselves and others." -- Andrew J. Rosa * Journal of Anthropological Research *"The author of this excellent book makes a provocative and important contribution to the literature on the operation and even existence of 'race' in colonial Latin America.... Rappaport delves deeper than others into the fluid, situational practices of identification and deconstructs more thoroughly than others the 'system' of castas." -- Peter Wade * The Historian *"Rappaport’s engaging vignettes, which animate individual lives while probing their broader meaning, and her conversational style, which guides readers through her interpretive method, will make The Disappearing Mestizo appealing to students and scholars alike." -- Yanna Yannakakis * EIAL *"Rappaport exemplifies a detailed ethnography, attention to nuance, and an excellent grasp of both the scholarship on the subject and the difficult theoretical underpinnings to the study of such slippery concepts as race.... [N]ot only does this book make crucial contributions to the history of categorization in colonial Latin America but it also provides new avenues and insights for the exploration of racialization and labeling elsewhere. This is an accomplished and significant work that will resonate greatly." -- Cristian Berco * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Author's Note on Transcriptions, Translations, Archives, and Spanish Naming Practices xiii Introduction 1 1. Mischievous Lovers, Hidden Moors, and Cross-Dressers: Defining Race in the Colonial Era 2. Mestizo Networks: Did "Mestizo" Constitute a Group? 3. Hiding in Plain Sight: Gendering Mestizos 4. Good Blood and Spanish Habits: The Making of a Mestizo Cacique 5. "Asi lo Paresçe por su Aspeto": Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Santafé 6. The Problem of Caste Conclusion Appendix: Cast of Characters Notes Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLooking at what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in early colonial Spanish America, Joanne Rappaport finds fluid identification processes rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses.Trade Review"Corrects simplistic ideas about the timelessness of racial categorization, even including previous efforts to historicize the alleged 'hardening' of race designations in the eighteenth century." -- Nicole Von Germeten * Journal of American History *“Rappaport’s revisionist study is deeply engaged with current scholarship and is especially interested in targeting much of the literature on New Spain, where a lion’s share of work on casta has focused. … Some may hesitate to accept the book’s most ambitious claims based on its admittedly small but expertly reconstructed set of vignettes. This well-crafted book, however, raises a host of critical conceptual and methodological matters that merit the attention of all scholars of identity and difference in early Spanish America.” -- Andrew B. Fisher * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Rappaport’s revisionist study is deeply engaged with current scholarship and is especially interested in targeting much of the literature on New Spain, where a lion’s share of work on casta has focused. … Some may hesitate to accept the book’s most ambitious claims based on its admittedly small but expertly reconstructed set of vignettes. This well-crafted book, however, raises a host of critical conceptual and methodological matters that merit the attention of all scholars of identity and difference in early Spanish America.” -- Andrew B. Fisher * Hispanic American Historical Review *"The Disappearing Mestizo is a pathbreaking study of race mixture in the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Unlike most historians of race in the Spanish colonial world, Joanne Rappaport eschews any characterization of mixed-race populations as discrete social groups. Instead, she explores the practices by which individuals of mixed Spanish, indigenous, and African descent (or an admixture of these) were named as mestizo or mulatto by others or by themselves." -- Paul K. Eiss * American Anthropologist *"Rappaport introduces her readers to a lively cast of ethnographically constructed characters who effectively force our thinking beyond racial categories of difference and toward a deeper understanding of the cultural milieu that dictated why people did or did not use so-called caste designations when describing themselves and others." -- Andrew J. Rosa * Journal of Anthropological Research *"The author of this excellent book makes a provocative and important contribution to the literature on the operation and even existence of 'race' in colonial Latin America.... Rappaport delves deeper than others into the fluid, situational practices of identification and deconstructs more thoroughly than others the 'system' of castas." -- Peter Wade * The Historian *"Rappaport’s engaging vignettes, which animate individual lives while probing their broader meaning, and her conversational style, which guides readers through her interpretive method, will make The Disappearing Mestizo appealing to students and scholars alike." -- Yanna Yannakakis * EIAL *"Rappaport exemplifies a detailed ethnography, attention to nuance, and an excellent grasp of both the scholarship on the subject and the difficult theoretical underpinnings to the study of such slippery concepts as race.... [N]ot only does this book make crucial contributions to the history of categorization in colonial Latin America but it also provides new avenues and insights for the exploration of racialization and labeling elsewhere. This is an accomplished and significant work that will resonate greatly." -- Cristian Berco * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Author's Note on Transcriptions, Translations, Archives, and Spanish Naming Practices xiii Introduction 1 1. Mischievous Lovers, Hidden Moors, and Cross-Dressers: Defining Race in the Colonial Era 2. Mestizo Networks: Did "Mestizo" Constitute a Group? 3. Hiding in Plain Sight: Gendering Mestizos 4. Good Blood and Spanish Habits: The Making of a Mestizo Cacique 5. "Asi lo Paresçe por su Aspeto": Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Santafé 6. The Problem of Caste Conclusion Appendix: Cast of Characters Notes Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCombining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawake, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, this book examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism.Trade Review“In her brilliant study of Kahnawà:ke, a Mohawk reserve outside Montréal, anthropologist Simpson rejects this dominant image of indigenous nationhood on the brink and ‘starts with a grounded refusal, not a precipice.’ The author problematizes long-standing assumptions to position the actions of the Kahnawà:ke nation as that of refusal, a valid alternative to political recognition. Through in-depth ethnographic research, Simpson identifies what is important to the community, as evidenced by her discussion of important intellectual Louis Hall, whose analysis of Mohawk nationhood has deeply influenced Haudenosaunee people, yet has been largely ignored by scholars. . . . Such incisive analysis promises that this study will be influential and widely read. . . . Essential. All levels/libraries.” -- K. L. Ackley * Choice *“Simpson accomplishes what she set out to do in this text, namely to offer a critical evaluation of settler colonialism as experienced by Kahnawà:ke Mohawk. Her book is beautifully written: her prose is elegant, and she interweaves ethnographic research with political history and theory to build her argument. … Simpson enhances our understanding of how a community of people struggle to understand, and why they must continually fight for, their political independence after centuries of settler colonialism.” -- Ruth Burgett Jolie * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *“[A]n essential read for any study of settler colonialism, native/indigenous/first-nation studies, or the study of sovereignty, and also stands on its own as an important narrative of North America’s ongoing colonial history.” -- Ian Kalman * Comparative Studies in Society and History *“Mohawk Interruptus deftly interrogates how settler colonialism and anthropological practice in the United States and Canada have circumscribed Iroquoian (Haudenosaunee) identities—and Mohawk identities, in particular—in ways that ignore contested interpretations of indigeneity and serve to erase indigenous nationhood. … A major takeaway from Simpson’s account is that anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and those of us in Native American studies need to theorize and examine how people experience and feel membership, citizenship, and nationhood while not replicating colonial projects of erasure in our scholarly research and writing." -- Lisa K. Neuman * American Ethnologist *“[A] tour de force exploration of contemporary Kahnawa:ke political life. . . . In its examination and sustained critique of the settler colonialism and the politics of nationhood, recognition, and refusal, and its vision of more productive and inclusive understandings of Kahnawa:ke citizenship, Mohawk Interruptus joins some of the most provocative and cutting-edge work taking place in Native/indigenous studies today. We would be wise to heed its challenge to develop similarly rigorous and critical studies of indigenous self-determination throughout the hemisphere, in whatever forms they might take.” -- Kirby Brown * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Mohawk Interruptus, was recently voted 'Best First Book Published in 2014' by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and after reading it I can understand why.... The complexities of Indigenous life in Mohawk Interruptus are given neither the security of romanticization nor the comfort of the scholarly pulpit." -- Brendan Hokowhitu * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Rather than merely a book of and for anthropology, then, Mohawk Interruptus calls upon its reader to rethink action and collectivity through a different modality than the current political registers presume. Refusal, both as a political theoretical concept and as a quotidian shared practice, may allow a continued, powerful, and even potentially joyful relationship to state power." -- Kennan Ferguson * Theory & Event *"[Simpson] offers a highly nuanced and theoretically sophisticated ethnographical study illustrating the kinds of critical research questions insider researchers can ask that lead to new understandings and challenge the orthodoxy. Simpson has made a significant contribution as an insider researcher, an Indigenous studies scholar, an anthropologist, that highlights the exciting new era of Indigenous research we have entered." -- Robert Alexander Innes * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"I expect Mohawk Interruptus will assert its place in the Haudenosaunee canon, which will compel subsequent scholars to take a closer look at how Indigenous communities in general struggle to maintain their political integrity under the pressure of a variety of colonially created borders and the laws that enforce them over the sovereign rights of others." -- David Martínez * Wicazo Sa Review *"This marvelous book is a searing exposition of a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk subjectivity hardened in opposition to social 'facts' taken for granted by millions in settler societies. . . . Readers will appreciate Simpson’s passionately argued and provocative thesis, in-depth and intimate ethnographic descriptions, incisive prose, and iconoclastic engagements with anthropological history and political theory." -- Nicholas Copeland * North American Dialogue *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Indigenous Interruptions: Mohawk Nationhood, Citizenship, and the State 1 2. A Brief History of Land, Meaning, and Membership in Iroquoia and Kahnawà:ka 37 3. Constructing Kahnawà:ka as an "Out-of-the-Way" Place: Ely S. Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan, and the Writing of the Iroquois Confederacy 67 4. Ethnographic Refusal: Anthropological Need 95 5. Borders, Cigarettes, and Sovereignty 115 6. The Gender of the Flint: Mohawk Nationhood and Citizenship in the Face of Empire 147 Conclusion. Interruptus 177 Appendix. A Note on Materials and Methodology 195 Notes 201 References 229 Index 251

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, this title explores how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research. It involves relations between European men and indigenous or African women, gender is a key factor in Latin American genomics and the analyses in this book.Trade Review“[T]he virtues of the book are many: it opens the geographical scope of studies of genomic research and productively engages with contemporary reconfigurations of race and nation. Last, but not least, it demonstrates the enormous value of collaborative transnational research for science and technology studies.” -- Edna Suárez-Díaz * Journal of Latin American Geography *"Mestizo Genomics makes an important contribution to the study of biology and the human sciences in Latin America.... This book will be useful to any scholar interested in science, race, and nation in Latin America as well as those considering how to formulate large-scale interdisciplinary projects." -- Sarah Walsh * The Latin Americanist *"...this collection is vibrant and exciting, throwing up (without closing down) a finessed repertoire of compelling debates that tantalize with irresistible conceptual nuggets primed for future inquiry.... This kind of heuristic analysis looks set to enhance and extend discussions of mestizaje in the twenty-first century, in the academy and beyond." -- Victoria Carroll * History *"All in all, the clarity of the project, the skill of the researchers, and the fine editing of the book as a whole allow for a study of great breadth and significance.... Mestizo Genomics will be of great interest to science studies scholars interested in racial science, biology, and genomics. Latin Americanists will find a compelling description of the historic and recent developments in scientific theories of diversity, unity, and homogenous identity in the area, and Latin America’s variety and specific taxonomies should be instructive to scholars of U.S. and European genomics." -- Julia Rodriguez * ISIS *"This book... clearly contributes to current international debates on race, genomics and biomedicine. This work is not only of interest to biological anthropologists and historians of science, but also to a wider audience that should include evolutionary biologists and social scientists.” -- Ana Barahona * Metascience *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Genomics, Race Mixture, and Nation in Latin America / Peter Wade, Carlos López Beltrán, Eduardo Restrepo, and Ricardo Ventura Santos Part I. History and Context 1. From Degeneration to Meeting Point: Historical Views on Race, Mixture, and the Biological Diversity of the Brazilian Population / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Michael Kent, and Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto 2. Nation and Difference in the Genetic Imagination of Colombia / Eduardo Restrepo, Ernesto Schwartz-Marín, and Roosbelinda Cádenas 3. Negotiating the Mexican Mestizo: On the Possibility of a National Genomics / Carlos López Beltrán, Vivette García Deister, and Mariana Rios Sandoval Part II. Laboratory Case Studies 4. "The Charrua Are Alive": The Genetic Resurrection of an Extinct Indigenous Population in Southern Brazil / Michael Kent and Ricardo Ventura Santos 5. The Travels of Humans, Categories, and Other Genetic Products: A Case Study of the Practice of Population Genetics in Colombia / María Fernanda Olarte Sierra and Adriana Díaz del Castillo H. 6. Laboratory Life of the Mexican Mestizo / Vivette García Deister 7. Social Categories and Laboratory Practices in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico: A Comparative Overview / Peter Wade, Vivette García Deister, Michael Kent, and María Fernanda Olarte Sierra Conclusion: Race, Multiculturalism, and Genomics in Latin America / Peter Wade Appendix; Methods and Contexts References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, this title helps you explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.Trade Review“[T]he virtues of the book are many: it opens the geographical scope of studies of genomic research and productively engages with contemporary reconfigurations of race and nation. Last, but not least, it demonstrates the enormous value of collaborative transnational research for science and technology studies.” -- Edna Suárez-Díaz * Journal of Latin American Geography *"Mestizo Genomics makes an important contribution to the study of biology and the human sciences in Latin America.... This book will be useful to any scholar interested in science, race, and nation in Latin America as well as those considering how to formulate large-scale interdisciplinary projects." -- Sarah Walsh * The Latin Americanist *"...this collection is vibrant and exciting, throwing up (without closing down) a finessed repertoire of compelling debates that tantalize with irresistible conceptual nuggets primed for future inquiry.... This kind of heuristic analysis looks set to enhance and extend discussions of mestizaje in the twenty-first century, in the academy and beyond." -- Victoria Carroll * History *"All in all, the clarity of the project, the skill of the researchers, and the fine editing of the book as a whole allow for a study of great breadth and significance.... Mestizo Genomics will be of great interest to science studies scholars interested in racial science, biology, and genomics. Latin Americanists will find a compelling description of the historic and recent developments in scientific theories of diversity, unity, and homogenous identity in the area, and Latin America’s variety and specific taxonomies should be instructive to scholars of U.S. and European genomics." -- Julia Rodriguez * ISIS *"This book... clearly contributes to current international debates on race, genomics and biomedicine. This work is not only of interest to biological anthropologists and historians of science, but also to a wider audience that should include evolutionary biologists and social scientists.” -- Ana Barahona * Metascience *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Genomics, Race Mixture, and Nation in Latin America / Peter Wade, Carlos López Beltrán, Eduardo Restrepo, and Ricardo Ventura Santos Part I. History and Context 1. From Degeneration to Meeting Point: Historical Views on Race, Mixture, and the Biological Diversity of the Brazilian Population / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Michael Kent, and Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto 2. Nation and Difference in the Genetic Imagination of Colombia / Eduardo Restrepo, Ernesto Schwartz-Marín, and Roosbelinda Cádenas 3. Negotiating the Mexican Mestizo: On the Possibility of a National Genomics / Carlos López Beltrán, Vivette García Deister, and Mariana Rios Sandoval Part II. Laboratory Case Studies 4. "The Charrua Are Alive": The Genetic Resurrection of an Extinct Indigenous Population in Southern Brazil / Michael Kent and Ricardo Ventura Santos 5. The Travels of Humans, Categories, and Other Genetic Products: A Case Study of the Practice of Population Genetics in Colombia / María Fernanda Olarte Sierra and Adriana Díaz del Castillo H. 6. Laboratory Life of the Mexican Mestizo / Vivette García Deister 7. Social Categories and Laboratory Practices in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico: A Comparative Overview / Peter Wade, Vivette García Deister, Michael Kent, and María Fernanda Olarte Sierra Conclusion: Race, Multiculturalism, and Genomics in Latin America / Peter Wade Appendix; Methods and Contexts References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFocused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, this book illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities.Trade Review"Immersing herself in Havana’s gay culture, Stout, an American anthropologist, gives readers a street-level view of the turbulent changes under way in Cuba, as Cuban society gradually transitions from conformist socialism to a more market-oriented individualism." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“As an ethnography, After Love gives a richly evidenced account of how Latin America’s neoliberalization changes the very possibilities for economic and intimate relationships. Focusing on queer identities, Stout’s work is a welcome addition to the scholarship on neoliberalism in the region as it is able to illustrate the complex interplay through which neoliberal subjects constitute themselves through the resistance, re-imagining and embracing new forms of economic transfers through ‘love’ relationships.” -- M. Gabriela Torres * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"In After Love, Noelle Stout provides a refreshing take on a widely-studied topic: sex tourism and hustling in contemporary Cuba. Focusing on a handful of case studies of mostly young habaneros trying to get by in a hostile economy and rapidly changing social and political environment, this is ethnography at its best: powerful portrayals of daily life presented in an engaging and elegant style." -- Carrie Hamilton * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Stout's attention to experiences of abandonment, betrayal, and disillusionment adds to the growing scholarship on Cuban sexual identities under neoliberalism and raises important question about populations in Cuba's economies of desire who have reached the outer limits of affective exchanges." -- Karina Lissette Cespedes * GLQ *“After Love is a very good book, well written, sympathetic, and insightful. It wears its sophisticated theory lightly, making it both accessible and rewarding to read as much as for the picture of contemporary Cuba it paints as for the more general insights it provides into how people negotiate the contradictions life throws at them.” -- Mark Graham * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This book is a timely and important contribution to contemporary anthropological accounts of queer sexual politics in Cuba. Beyond anthropologists specializing in Cuba or the Caribbean, this book is of interest to Cuban historians, professors and students of gender studies, scholars working on the intersection of neoliberalism and desire, and those utilizing affect theory. Stout’s debut is an extremely useful contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on contemporary Cuban sexual culture." -- Lisa M. Corrigan * QED *"After Love is a must-read for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and queer politics in the Caribbean and is also a good read for those seeking to understand the broader socioeconomic contradictions of Cuba’s postsocialist transition. The engaging and crisp prose, rich with thick description and methodological intuitions, makes it an excellent text for assigning in undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Mrinalini Tankha * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Can't Be Bought or Sold? Love and Intimacy in the Aftermath of Crisis 1. Tolerated, Not Accepted: The Historical Context of Queer Critiques 2. A Normal Fag with a Job: The Complicated Desires of Urban Gays 3. Tell Me You Love Me: Urban Gay Men Negotiate Commodified Sex 4. Smarter Than You Think: Sex, Desire, and Labor Among Hustlers 5. Get Off the Bus: Sex Tourism, Patronage, and Queer Commodities Conclusion. Love in Crisis: The Politics of Intimacy and Solidarity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFocused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, this book illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities.Trade Review"Immersing herself in Havana’s gay culture, Stout, an American anthropologist, gives readers a street-level view of the turbulent changes under way in Cuba, as Cuban society gradually transitions from conformist socialism to a more market-oriented individualism." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“As an ethnography, After Love gives a richly evidenced account of how Latin America’s neoliberalization changes the very possibilities for economic and intimate relationships. Focusing on queer identities, Stout’s work is a welcome addition to the scholarship on neoliberalism in the region as it is able to illustrate the complex interplay through which neoliberal subjects constitute themselves through the resistance, re-imagining and embracing new forms of economic transfers through ‘love’ relationships.” -- M. Gabriela Torres * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"In After Love, Noelle Stout provides a refreshing take on a widely-studied topic: sex tourism and hustling in contemporary Cuba. Focusing on a handful of case studies of mostly young habaneros trying to get by in a hostile economy and rapidly changing social and political environment, this is ethnography at its best: powerful portrayals of daily life presented in an engaging and elegant style." -- Carrie Hamilton * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Stout's attention to experiences of abandonment, betrayal, and disillusionment adds to the growing scholarship on Cuban sexual identities under neoliberalism and raises important question about populations in Cuba's economies of desire who have reached the outer limits of affective exchanges." -- Karina Lissette Cespedes * GLQ *“After Love is a very good book, well written, sympathetic, and insightful. It wears its sophisticated theory lightly, making it both accessible and rewarding to read as much as for the picture of contemporary Cuba it paints as for the more general insights it provides into how people negotiate the contradictions life throws at them.” -- Mark Graham * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This book is a timely and important contribution to contemporary anthropological accounts of queer sexual politics in Cuba. Beyond anthropologists specializing in Cuba or the Caribbean, this book is of interest to Cuban historians, professors and students of gender studies, scholars working on the intersection of neoliberalism and desire, and those utilizing affect theory. Stout’s debut is an extremely useful contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on contemporary Cuban sexual culture." -- Lisa M. Corrigan * QED *"After Love is a must-read for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and queer politics in the Caribbean and is also a good read for those seeking to understand the broader socioeconomic contradictions of Cuba’s postsocialist transition. The engaging and crisp prose, rich with thick description and methodological intuitions, makes it an excellent text for assigning in undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Mrinalini Tankha * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Can't Be Bought or Sold? Love and Intimacy in the Aftermath of Crisis 1. Tolerated, Not Accepted: The Historical Context of Queer Critiques 2. A Normal Fag with a Job: The Complicated Desires of Urban Gays 3. Tell Me You Love Me: Urban Gay Men Negotiate Commodified Sex 4. Smarter Than You Think: Sex, Desire, and Labor Among Hustlers 5. Get Off the Bus: Sex Tourism, Patronage, and Queer Commodities Conclusion. Love in Crisis: The Politics of Intimacy and Solidarity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Street Corner Secrets is a nuanced ethnographic exploration of lives of poor migrant women who are part of the urban informal economy in the Indian metropolis of Mumbai…. [T]his book is a significant contribution to making sense of the place of sex work in the lives of poor migrant women in urban India." -- Anjua Agrawal * American Anthropologist *"Based on critical ethnography, archival research, and discourse analysis, Svati Shah makes an important intervention in the ongoing feminist debates on sex work... Shah provides in this book... a much needed focus on the political economy of sexual commerce." -- Manisha Desai * Gender & Society *"Overall, this book’s ethnography makes a vibrant contribution to urban anthropology. Crafting an understanding of sexual labour that reflects the intricacies of rural-urban migration, the book sheds light on the management of knowledge around sex work, from secrecy to the rehabilitation of 'rescued' prostitutes, and shows how spaces occupied by women sex workers have multiple uses and meanings in Mumbai’s contested urban landscape." -- Atreyee Sen * Pacific Affairs *"Svati P. Shah’s new book Street Corner Secrets makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around sex work in India.... Multi-sited urban ethnography alongside meticulous participant observation, provides a fascinating insight into Shah’s participants." -- Rohit Dasgupta * Royal Society for Asian Affairs *"Street Corner Secrets offers a window into the narrow field of livelihood options that poor, migrant women navigate in urban India and, importantly, provides a much-needed model for ending the analytic exceptionalism of sex work." -- Lauren Wilks * Sociology *"Within activist circles, global feminist discourse, and academic conversations surrounding gender and agency, sex work has often been framed as an exceptional space of disempowerment, trafficking, and exploitation. Svati P. Shah’s beautifully engaged ethnography, Street Corner Secrets, challenges this narrative by attending to the material landscape of rural labor migration to Mumbai....This text will appeal to scholars in anthropology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, labor studies, urban studies, human rights, and South Asia studies, as well as upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses invested in similar disciplines." -- Maura Finkelstein * GLQ *"Street Corner Secrets is a compelling exploration of the intersections between space, society, and sex work. It is a thorough and fascinating text for readers who are interested in topics that range from the political economies of space, to the precariousness of informal labor, to debates over sexual commerce. . . . [The] clear, accessible style is appropriate for newcomers and seasoned scholars alike. Svati Shah’s reflexive ethnography is engaged, feminist anthropology at its best." -- Cara Snyder * Society & Space *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Day Wage Labor and Migration: Making Ends Meet 41 2. Sex, Work, and Silence from the Construction of Workers' Naka 77 3. Sex Work and the Street 113 4. Red-Light Districts, Rescue, and Real Estate 147 Conclusion. Agency, Livelihoods, and Spaces 189 Notes 207 Bibliography 231 Index 247

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Book SynopsisIn this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson gives us a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation and "development" as they reverberate across markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions.Trade Review“Peterson’s account, which at times personifies this complex history through dialogue and vivid scene setting, does not offer solutions per se but may be instructive in understanding challenges in other countries that rely on informal markets, as well as how global market forces can have a ripple effect.” -- Jessica Bylander * Health Affairs *"The account Speculative Markets provides is itself is densely layered, mimicking the story it tells. The tone and approach shifts and turns as Peterson guides us through Idumota’s crowded marketplace and through global capital." -- Anne Pollock * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Speculative Markets tells a remarkable story of market creation, destruction, and rebuilding. It is a clear-sighted, hard-hitting book, but not a despairing one (it ends, in fact, on a distinctively optimistic note). It is also a book that demonstrates the contribution that ethnographic research can make to our understanding of the lives of pharmaceuticals…” -- Javier Lezaun * Somatosphere *“[A] highly-detailed, carefully analyzed and enlightening piece of work, illuminating much of the complexities of African drug markets (and of markets and industries beyond Africa), with insights that will appeal to a broad audience.” -- Emilie Cloatre * Somatosphere *“Kristin Peterson’s work finds root here and adds fresh perspective to well-worn conversation of drug markets and their machinations. … This is an important contribution, and it comes during a vital moment in global health. As diverse fields of research and industry continue to work toward equity of health for all, and attention is increasingly oriented forward, it is my hope that Peterson’s attention to historical detail can be a tool for thinking about how to proceed.” -- Ryan Whitacre * Global Public Health *“Kristin Peterson’s new ethnography looks carefully at the Nigerian pharmaceutical market, paying special attention to the ways that the drug trade links West Africa within a larger global economy. … The book avoids the usual discourse of corporate greed, instead focusing on the ‘structural logics of pharmaceutical capital through which corporate practices can be understood.’ It is a timely and fascinating study.” -- Carla Nappi * New Books in Sociology *“Peterson suggests that an anthropology of global health might tell us about the transition from state-based production of health to a global one. It elucidates how global economic processes effecting pharmaceuticals have local outcomes, how processes relying on global connections are at work in the making of health. Most importantly she shows how market systems are delivering health care and the effects of these less planned economies on quality and access to pharmaceuticals simultaneously generating uncertainty and capital for those who trade in them.” -- Andrew McDowell * Biosocieties *"Speculative Markets is a boldly compelling example of ethnography that is at once thoroughly grounded in extensive fieldwork in one place..., but also situated in a rich and impressive historical narrative and a remarkably comprehensive account of relevant large-scale political-economic forces.... Peterson’s outstanding book will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, equally worth reading if one is an Africa specialist or a student of the history of medicine, public health, or global political economy." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"A captivating, beautifully written description of the dynamics of Nigeria’s drug industry." -- Olubukola S. Adesina * African Studies Quarterly *"Peterson uses ethnographic encounters deftly, weaving vignettes of her informants into more dense accounts of the processes at once local, national, regional, and global that affect their lives." -- Neil Carrier * American Anthropologist *"Speculative Markets is an extraordinary first book. There are of course many wonderful ethnographies of contemporary West Africa, but none that draws a clear connection among legislation, markets, and behavior. . . . [F]or scholars interested in contemporary economic anthropology, development theory, and global health, this book is a must-read." -- Kristin Peterson * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Chemical Multitudes: Fake Drugs and Pharmaceutical Regulation in Nigeria 1 1. Idumota: Pharmacists, Traders, and the New Free Market 25 2. Risky Populations: Drug Industry Divestment and Militarized Austerity 53 3. Regulation as a Problem of Discernment: Open Markets in the Making 80 4. Derivative Life: Nominalization and the Logic of the Hustle 103 5. Chemical Arbitrage: A Social Life of Bioequivalence 126 6. Marketing Indefinite Monopolies: Intellectual Property, Debt, and Drug Geopolitics 155 Conclusion. Old Specters, New Dreams 177 Notes 185 Bibliography 209 Index 233

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Despite the depressing story that it has to tell, Land’s End is a real pleasure to read, a tour de force without a trace of bombast, a model of ethnographic writing for new generations of students and agrarian researchers to follow.” -- Ben White * Development and Change *“Every so often we have the privilege of reading a book that, like Tania Li’s Land’s End, radically realigns our thinking on pressing problems. Li combines a nuanced analysis of long-term ethnographic data and a straightforward, yet sophisticated, theoretical framework to prod us to reexamine an issue that is hardly unique to Indonesia: how have landless rural people been left behind in the march toward capitalist agricultural production and market expansion?" -- Sarah Lyon * Anthropological Quarterly *“This text adds deep and valuable ethnographic insight to existing narratives of the emergence of capitalist relations in indigenous societies. It rightfully challenges structuralist accounts of primitive accumulation using detailed ethnographic data. As such, it should be read, and likely will be, beyond the borders of development studies and anthropology." -- Christopher Webb * Canadian Journal of Development Studies *"Land’s End is book of delicate power, almost a laboratory account of how capital seizes hold and transforms the latticework of social relations through an almost banal process of ‘erosion’, where the bearers of capital, unrecognized, participate in the re-invention of their own ‘subject’ position. … Aided by artful ethnography, Land’s End crafts a strange yet deeply familiar world. Many sedimentary views are felled along the way, gently but firmly. Notions of indigeneity, frontier, custom, moral economy, primitive accumulation, transition, development, and citizenship, all come in for scrutiny and are left rattled.” -- Vinay Gidwani * Antipode *"The combination of the ethnographic longevity of her work with the theoretical sophistication of her analysis results in a provocative account of growing inequality and dynamic capitalist relations. The case studies and stories Li relates bring these elements to life, but the implications stretch far beyond the Lauje highlands." -- Susan M. Darlington * American Ethnologist *"Land’s End is a very fine book indeed. Tania Murray Li has written one of those studies—all too few in number—which, while empirically focused, builds an argument that will resonate with scholars working across widely differing contexts." -- Jonathan Rigg * Pacific Affairs *"Land’s End operates at a compelling theoretical interspace very much needed in contemporary accounts of globalization. . . . In short, it’s really good anthropology." -- Shane Greene * American Anthropologist *“Land’s End is a thorough and compelling piece of ethnographic scholarship. Written in very accessible narrative style, but appropriately grounded in social theory, it is a great read for social scientists, graduate and undergraduate students, rural development practitioners, and inquisitive nonacademics.” -- Ramzi Tubbeh * Rural Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Positions 2. Work and Care 3. Enclosure 4. Capitalist Relations 5. Politics, Revisited Conclusion Appendix: Dramatis Personae Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Street Corner Secrets is a nuanced ethnographic exploration of lives of poor migrant women who are part of the urban informal economy in the Indian metropolis of Mumbai…. [T]his book is a significant contribution to making sense of the place of sex work in the lives of poor migrant women in urban India." -- Anjua Agrawal * American Anthropologist *"Based on critical ethnography, archival research, and discourse analysis, Svati Shah makes an important intervention in the ongoing feminist debates on sex work... Shah provides in this book... a much needed focus on the political economy of sexual commerce." -- Manisha Desai * Gender & Society *"Overall, this book’s ethnography makes a vibrant contribution to urban anthropology. Crafting an understanding of sexual labour that reflects the intricacies of rural-urban migration, the book sheds light on the management of knowledge around sex work, from secrecy to the rehabilitation of 'rescued' prostitutes, and shows how spaces occupied by women sex workers have multiple uses and meanings in Mumbai’s contested urban landscape." -- Atreyee Sen * Pacific Affairs *"Svati P. Shah’s new book Street Corner Secrets makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around sex work in India.... Multi-sited urban ethnography alongside meticulous participant observation, provides a fascinating insight into Shah’s participants." -- Rohit Dasgupta * Royal Society for Asian Affairs *"Street Corner Secrets offers a window into the narrow field of livelihood options that poor, migrant women navigate in urban India and, importantly, provides a much-needed model for ending the analytic exceptionalism of sex work." -- Lauren Wilks * Sociology *"Within activist circles, global feminist discourse, and academic conversations surrounding gender and agency, sex work has often been framed as an exceptional space of disempowerment, trafficking, and exploitation. Svati P. Shah’s beautifully engaged ethnography, Street Corner Secrets, challenges this narrative by attending to the material landscape of rural labor migration to Mumbai....This text will appeal to scholars in anthropology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, labor studies, urban studies, human rights, and South Asia studies, as well as upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses invested in similar disciplines." -- Maura Finkelstein * GLQ *"Street Corner Secrets is a compelling exploration of the intersections between space, society, and sex work. It is a thorough and fascinating text for readers who are interested in topics that range from the political economies of space, to the precariousness of informal labor, to debates over sexual commerce. . . . [The] clear, accessible style is appropriate for newcomers and seasoned scholars alike. Svati Shah’s reflexive ethnography is engaged, feminist anthropology at its best." -- Cara Snyder * Society & Space *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Day Wage Labor and Migration: Making Ends Meet 41 2. Sex, Work, and Silence from the Construction of Workers' Naka 77 3. Sex Work and the Street 113 4. Red-Light Districts, Rescue, and Real Estate 147 Conclusion. Agency, Livelihoods, and Spaces 189 Notes 207 Bibliography 231 Index 247

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Book SynopsisIn this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson gives us a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation and "development" as they reverberate across markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions.Trade Review“Peterson’s account, which at times personifies this complex history through dialogue and vivid scene setting, does not offer solutions per se but may be instructive in understanding challenges in other countries that rely on informal markets, as well as how global market forces can have a ripple effect.” -- Jessica Bylander * Health Affairs *"The account Speculative Markets provides is itself is densely layered, mimicking the story it tells. The tone and approach shifts and turns as Peterson guides us through Idumota’s crowded marketplace and through global capital." -- Anne Pollock * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Speculative Markets tells a remarkable story of market creation, destruction, and rebuilding. It is a clear-sighted, hard-hitting book, but not a despairing one (it ends, in fact, on a distinctively optimistic note). It is also a book that demonstrates the contribution that ethnographic research can make to our understanding of the lives of pharmaceuticals…” -- Javier Lezaun * Somatosphere *“[A] highly-detailed, carefully analyzed and enlightening piece of work, illuminating much of the complexities of African drug markets (and of markets and industries beyond Africa), with insights that will appeal to a broad audience.” -- Emilie Cloatre * Somatosphere *“Kristin Peterson’s work finds root here and adds fresh perspective to well-worn conversation of drug markets and their machinations. … This is an important contribution, and it comes during a vital moment in global health. As diverse fields of research and industry continue to work toward equity of health for all, and attention is increasingly oriented forward, it is my hope that Peterson’s attention to historical detail can be a tool for thinking about how to proceed.” -- Ryan Whitacre * Global Public Health *“Kristin Peterson’s new ethnography looks carefully at the Nigerian pharmaceutical market, paying special attention to the ways that the drug trade links West Africa within a larger global economy. … The book avoids the usual discourse of corporate greed, instead focusing on the ‘structural logics of pharmaceutical capital through which corporate practices can be understood.’ It is a timely and fascinating study.” -- Carla Nappi * New Books in Sociology *“Peterson suggests that an anthropology of global health might tell us about the transition from state-based production of health to a global one. It elucidates how global economic processes effecting pharmaceuticals have local outcomes, how processes relying on global connections are at work in the making of health. Most importantly she shows how market systems are delivering health care and the effects of these less planned economies on quality and access to pharmaceuticals simultaneously generating uncertainty and capital for those who trade in them.” -- Andrew McDowell * Biosocieties *"Speculative Markets is a boldly compelling example of ethnography that is at once thoroughly grounded in extensive fieldwork in one place..., but also situated in a rich and impressive historical narrative and a remarkably comprehensive account of relevant large-scale political-economic forces.... Peterson’s outstanding book will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, equally worth reading if one is an Africa specialist or a student of the history of medicine, public health, or global political economy." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"A captivating, beautifully written description of the dynamics of Nigeria’s drug industry." -- Olubukola S. Adesina * African Studies Quarterly *"Peterson uses ethnographic encounters deftly, weaving vignettes of her informants into more dense accounts of the processes at once local, national, regional, and global that affect their lives." -- Neil Carrier * American Anthropologist *"Speculative Markets is an extraordinary first book. There are of course many wonderful ethnographies of contemporary West Africa, but none that draws a clear connection among legislation, markets, and behavior. . . . [F]or scholars interested in contemporary economic anthropology, development theory, and global health, this book is a must-read." -- Kristin Peterson * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Chemical Multitudes: Fake Drugs and Pharmaceutical Regulation in Nigeria 1 1. Idumota: Pharmacists, Traders, and the New Free Market 25 2. Risky Populations: Drug Industry Divestment and Militarized Austerity 53 3. Regulation as a Problem of Discernment: Open Markets in the Making 80 4. Derivative Life: Nominalization and the Logic of the Hustle 103 5. Chemical Arbitrage: A Social Life of Bioequivalence 126 6. Marketing Indefinite Monopolies: Intellectual Property, Debt, and Drug Geopolitics 155 Conclusion. Old Specters, New Dreams 177 Notes 185 Bibliography 209 Index 233

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This excellent book makes a significant contribution to religion and kinship, gender, sexuality, and South Asian studies…. Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *“This is a beautifully written and theoretically engaged ethnography about a community whose past has been fraught and whose future lies in the balance. It would be appropriate reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses and makes an important contribution to the anthropology of gender, sexuality, kinship, religion, and modernity in India.” -- Cecilia Van Hollen * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"We must dwell with, as Given to the Goddess gracefully does, the everyday experiences of devotion, exchange, and one’s social relationship to another—human, nonhuman, or even goddess—that make us, quite simply, kin." -- Durba Mitra * GLQ *"Ramberg’s work exemplifies an extraordinary synthesis of animated empiricism and theoretical rigor. It is heartening to mark the arrival of this very important work that signals a critical departure in several ways." -- Priyadarshini Vijaisri * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Gods, Gifts, Trouble 1 Part I. Gods 1. Yellamma and Her Sisters: Kinship among Goddesses and Others 39 2. Yellamma, Her Wives, and the Question of Religion 71 Part II. Gifts 3. Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma 113 4. The Giving of Daughters: Sexual Economy, Sexual Agency, and the "Traffic" in Women 142 Part III. Trouble 5. Kinship Trouble 181 6. Troubling Kinship 213 Notes 223 Glossary 247 Bibliography 251 Index 270

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Book SynopsisWho and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relationsbetween andTrade Review“This excellent book makes a significant contribution to religion and kinship, gender, sexuality, and South Asian studies…. Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *“This is a beautifully written and theoretically engaged ethnography about a community whose past has been fraught and whose future lies in the balance. It would be appropriate reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses and makes an important contribution to the anthropology of gender, sexuality, kinship, religion, and modernity in India.” -- Cecilia Van Hollen * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"We must dwell with, as Given to the Goddess gracefully does, the everyday experiences of devotion, exchange, and one’s social relationship to another—human, nonhuman, or even goddess—that make us, quite simply, kin." -- Durba Mitra * GLQ *"Ramberg’s work exemplifies an extraordinary synthesis of animated empiricism and theoretical rigor. It is heartening to mark the arrival of this very important work that signals a critical departure in several ways." -- Priyadarshini Vijaisri * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Gods, Gifts, Trouble 1 Part I. Gods 1. Yellamma and Her Sisters: Kinship among Goddesses and Others 39 2. Yellamma, Her Wives, and the Question of Religion 71 Part II. Gifts 3. Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma 113 4. The Giving of Daughters: Sexual Economy, Sexual Agency, and the "Traffic" in Women 142 Part III. Trouble 5. Kinship Trouble 181 6. Troubling Kinship 213 Notes 223 Glossary 247 Bibliography 251 Index 270

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Book SynopsisIn Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district and a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.Trade Review“What can a street teach us? In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson helps us go beyond the superficial spatial cues of this seemingly typical urban African street. He investigates the people and their interactions, in the past and present, and how these cumulatively create a sense of place. It’s an anthropological framework for examining Accra from the ground up: not its concrete structures, but its migrations – of Ga, Osu, Afro-Brazilian, Danish and Lebanese, and today’s traffic of Ghanaians and expats – and the social, economic and political forces that make the Osu neighborhood.” -- Victoria Okoye * The Guardian *“[A] work inspired by more than a decade of research by Professor Ato Quayson into the cultural shifts and influences that inform the bustling, vibrant commercial corridor known as Oxford Street in Accra’s Osu district….Quayson traces oral histories, shares pieces of colonial correspondence and recounts conversations with urban denizens on their salsa and gymming hobbies. Even the pithy tro tro and billboard slogans aren’t missed in his analysis, which invites the reader to engage with the ongoing discourse on Accra’s urban street life.” -- Victoria Okoye * UrbanAfrica.net *“Oxford Street is an erudite and extraordinary book. After reading it, I was amazed by how much a street can teach and inspire. I would recommend this book to geographers, anthropologists, and to anyone who is interested in African culture and transnationalism. Easy to read and compelling in many parts, the book is an excellent companion for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and it makes for an interesting read for any transnational scholar.” -- Zhuyun Amy Zang * Society & Space *“Oxford Street, Accra is a magnificent book for all ‘students’ interested in a nuanced cultural and economic analysis of global urban studies. … By reading this book I realized that Quayson is many things together: he is a historian and an ethnographer, a structuralist and a post-structuralist, a political economist and a culturalist, a phenomenologist and a distant observer. Maybe it is because he has so many perspectives that this book can be deemed as important; maybe these are some of Quayson’s own expressive fragments.” -- George Mavrommatis * Postcolonial Studies *“Oxford Street is an important book that will provide a critical point of reference for anyone writing about urban Africa, joining AbdouMaliq Simone’s For the City Yet to Come (Duke University Press, 2004) as a seminal text in critical urban studies.” -- Jennifer Anne Hart * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“In this ambitious theoretical and empirical project, noted postcolonial literary scholar Ato Quayson takes Accra’s most prominent commercial district as an entry point into developing a nuanced and diverse historical portrait of the contemporary city. This single-city monograph from Africa is a rare and much-needed addition to the growing body of research on African urbanism. As urban studies increasingly takes its cues from the continent, Oxford Street is an indispensable asset to current debates on history, method, life and policy in the African city.” -- James Christopher Mizes * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Quayson has superseded his goal of forestalling a superficial reading of Oxford Street as a mere outpost of globalization by giving readers a deep understanding of the whole of Accra, its history, and its spatial practices." -- Adedamola Osinulu * Journal of African History *"Quayson provides a framework for thinking about Accra’s particularities, its infrastructures and historical layerings that order creative ways of life. What is it about Accra that speaks to various people, that creates intimacy and makes people feel that Accra is theirs? The city has a feeling of closeness: small personal spaces rapidly open into broader senses of past and feelings of futurity. Quayson stands still, paying attention." -- Jesse Weaver Shipley * PMLA *"Quayson is a compelling writer, and the chapters effortlessly oscillate between local and global, past, present and future, which makes for a richly detailed story. This book is a must-read for people interested in African history, urban studies, transnationalism and the city of Accra." -- Geertrui Vannoppen * Africa *"[T]he book is significant contribution to post-colonial spatial and urban theory, contemporary examples of local communities interacting with global trends, and complex historical perspectives that push our understanding beyond colonialism as the only frame on modern-day Accra. Moreover, it provides all ethnographers with a fine and well-written example of how to narrate daily life and balance description with the historical and theoretical material." -- David Alexander Brown * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction. Urban Theory and Performative Streetscapes 1 Part I. Horizontal Archaeologies 1. Ga Akutso Formation and the Question of Hybridity: The Afro-Brazilians (Tabon) of Accra 37 2. The Spatial Fix: Colonial Administration, Disaster Management, and Land-Use Distribution in Early Twentieth-Century Accra 64 3. Osu borla no, sardine chensii soo: Danes, Euro-Africans, and the Transculturation of Osu 98 Part II. Morphologies of Everyday Life 4. "The Beautyful Ones": Tro-tro Slogans, Cell Phone Advertising, and the Hallelujah Chorus 129 5. "Este loco, loco": Transnationalism and the Shaping of Accra's Salsa Scene 159 6. Pumping Irony: Gymming, the Kobolo, and the Cultural Economy of Free Time 183 7. The Lettered City: Literary Representations of Accra 213 Conclusion. On Urban Free Time: Vladimir, Estragon, and Rem Koolhaas 239 Appendix. Tro-tro Inscriptions 251 Notes 255 References 279 Index 293

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Republic Unsettled is thick, sophisticated thinking, which should unsettle the comfortable certainties of French and American secularism and monoculturalism. . . . Anthropologists like Fernando comprehend the situation most fully, and we owe it to our fellow citizens and our own societies to get the message out as widely and loudly as possible." -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *"The Republic Unsettled is invaluable not only for anthropologists and ethnographers but also for scholars wanting to deepen their understanding of how contemporary secularism functions as a theory of politics and society, including through its contradictions, tensions, inconsistencies, anxieties, and instabilities." -- Roshan A. Jahangeer * ReOrient *“By taking the debate away from the well-worn lines of whether or not ‘Muslims’ can be or are ‘integrated’ (in other words, whether or not Muslims are an unsettling presence or not in the republic), and by instead underlining how the republic itself is inherently ‘unsettled’, this book will no doubt rile many French secular republicans and become a key point of reference in future studies of the French Republic, laı¨cite´, and ‘non-normative’ identities.” -- Natalya Vince * French Studies *“The Republic Unsettled is a crucial and stimulating read for any scholar thinking about secularism and secularity, difference politics, contemporary France and Europe, and/or Western liberalism(s) and liberal (in)tolerance. The book (and especially its vivid, emotional, and purposeful introduction) can easily find resonance across a variety of social science, religion, and history disciplines.” -- Carol Ferrara * Journal of Church and State *“That her book ends with a legitimate comparison between William Connolly's notions of critical responsiveness and agonistic respect and the way in which her Muslim French interlocutors think shows that the history of colonization, immigration and the creation of diasporas does not have to lead to a conflict of civilizations or economically reductive globalization but can produce rich and complex hybrids or mouvements aberrants that can genuinely contribute to human progress. What The Republic Unsettled manages to convey is that those who seem marginal to the present could be central to a better future, and that is indeed a very remarkable achievement.” -- Nardina Kaur * Radical Philosophy *“The Republic Unsettled is a dense, but extremely well written book that exposes and 'unsettles,' as the title indicates, secular republicanism by laying bare its numerous inconsistences and paradoxes. … In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, which has issued in an uncritically and self-gratulatory reinvigoration of secular republicanism in France, accompanied by a dramatic increase in anti-Muslim violence, Mayanthi Fernando’s book is more timely and urgent than ever.” -- Jeanette S. Jouili * Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World *"Because Fernando makes a lucid argument based on extended ethnography and sophisticated reading in political theory, The Republic Unsettled will surely be read widely by all those engaged in thinking about the politics of diversity in Europe." -- John R. Bowen * American Ethnologist *"I offer the highest praise for The Republic Unsettled: it is a beautifully written book that readers will be eager to continue discussing long after they finish it." -- Jennifer Fredette * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Field Notes I: "Vive la Republique Plurielle" 29 1. "The Republic Is Mine" 33 2. Indifference, or the Right to Citizenship 69 Field Notes II: Friday Prayers 101 3. "A Memorial to the Future" 105 4. Reconfiguring Freedom 145 Field Notes III: A Tale of Two Manifestos 181 5. Of Mimicry and Woman 185 6. Asymmetries of Tolerance 221 Epilogue 261 Notes 267 References 285 Index 305

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Book SynopsisIn Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmented medical science landscape is shaped and sustained by transnational flows of expertise and resources. NGOs, universities, pharmaceutical companies and other nonstate actors now play a significant role in medical research and treatment. But as the contributors to this volume argue, these groups have not supplanted the primacy of the nation-state in Africa. Although not necessarily stable or responsive, national governments remain crucial in medical care, both as employers of health care professionals and as sources of regulation, access, and – albeit sometimes counterintuitively - trust for their people. “The state” has morphed into the “para-state&rdquoTrade Review“Para-States and Medical Science is an exceptional and engaging book that will be of interest to anthropologists, Africanists and historians as well as those interested in science and technology, post-colonial and development studies.” -- Mary-Anne Decatur * Anthropology Book Forum *"Individual chapters focus specifically on processes of medical research, not health care delivery, but in so doing provide an often overlooked perspective on the types of medical work undertaken in Africa.... Summing up: Recommended." -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *"I highly recommend this volume for anyone interested in the social relations of biomedicine, and particularly biomedical research, in Africa. As an interdisciplinary anthropologist who works on this topic, I found the book’s provocation to pay attention to the persistence of the African state extremely useful—suddenly, I am seeing the state in places in my work that I had formerly overlooked. I also appreciated this volume’s empirical documentation of the numerous ways in which, despite persistent inequalities, African actors—states, institutions, and individuals—shape global health partnerships and the knowledge they produce." -- Johanna Crane * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Para-States and Medical Science is an impressive volume and a welcome addition to work on critical global health in Africa. The collection provides a much needed re-reading of contemporary biopolitical regimes in Africa, which neither fit old models of biopower nor conform to neoliberal forms found elsewhere. ... this work makes an original and innovative contribution to scholarship on the shifting relations between state, public, private and corporate interests in health care in Africa, and makes inroads for anthropologists, historians and STS scholars to move beyond standard narratives of 'development' and 'neoliberalism' in African contexts." -- Michelle Pentecost * New Genetics and Society *"The volume should become mandatory reading for scholars and students interested in the new configurations and possibilities that emerge on the African continent in the context of medical globalization, and which demonstrate (once more) that rigid distinctions between the global, national and local, public and private, state and non-state have become untenable, if not useless." -- Hansjörg Dilger * Africa *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Life Science in Its African Para-State / P. Wenzel Geissler 1 Part I: Rupture, Continuity 1. Treating to Prevent HIV: Population Trials and Experimental Societies / Vinh-Kim Nguyen 47 2. Trialing Drugs, Creating Publics: Medical Research, Leprosy Control, and the Construction of a Public Health Sphere in Post-1945 Nigeria / John Manton 78 Part II: Pasts, Futures 3. Lessons in Medical Nihilism: Virus Hunters, Neoliberalism, and the AIDs Crisis in Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal 103 4. What Future Remains? Remembering an African Place of Science / P. Wenzel Geissler 142 Part III: State Remains 6. International Health and the Proliferation of "Partnerships": (Un)Intended Boost for State Institutions in Tanzania? / Rene Gerrets 179 6. Working and Surviving: Government Employees on ART in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte 207 Part IV: Affective Wholes 7. Molecular and Municipal Politics: Research and Regulation in Dakar / Branwyn Poleykett 237 8. The Work of the Virus: Cutting and Creating Relations in an ART Project / Lotte Meinert 257 Part V: Struggling Nation 9. The Blue Warriors: Ecology, Participation, and Public Health in Malaria Control Experiments / Ulrike Beisel 281 10. The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa's Smallest State / Ann H. Kelly 303 11. Adventures of African Nevirapine: The Political Biography of a Magic Bullet / Didier Fassin 333 Contributors 355 Index 357

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Book SynopsisIn Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district and a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.Trade Review“What can a street teach us? In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson helps us go beyond the superficial spatial cues of this seemingly typical urban African street. He investigates the people and their interactions, in the past and present, and how these cumulatively create a sense of place. It’s an anthropological framework for examining Accra from the ground up: not its concrete structures, but its migrations – of Ga, Osu, Afro-Brazilian, Danish and Lebanese, and today’s traffic of Ghanaians and expats – and the social, economic and political forces that make the Osu neighborhood.” -- Victoria Okoye * The Guardian *“[A] work inspired by more than a decade of research by Professor Ato Quayson into the cultural shifts and influences that inform the bustling, vibrant commercial corridor known as Oxford Street in Accra’s Osu district….Quayson traces oral histories, shares pieces of colonial correspondence and recounts conversations with urban denizens on their salsa and gymming hobbies. Even the pithy tro tro and billboard slogans aren’t missed in his analysis, which invites the reader to engage with the ongoing discourse on Accra’s urban street life.” -- Victoria Okoye * UrbanAfrica.net *“Oxford Street is an erudite and extraordinary book. After reading it, I was amazed by how much a street can teach and inspire. I would recommend this book to geographers, anthropologists, and to anyone who is interested in African culture and transnationalism. Easy to read and compelling in many parts, the book is an excellent companion for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and it makes for an interesting read for any transnational scholar.” -- Zhuyun Amy Zang * Society & Space *“Oxford Street, Accra is a magnificent book for all ‘students’ interested in a nuanced cultural and economic analysis of global urban studies. … By reading this book I realized that Quayson is many things together: he is a historian and an ethnographer, a structuralist and a post-structuralist, a political economist and a culturalist, a phenomenologist and a distant observer. Maybe it is because he has so many perspectives that this book can be deemed as important; maybe these are some of Quayson’s own expressive fragments.” -- George Mavrommatis * Postcolonial Studies *“Oxford Street is an important book that will provide a critical point of reference for anyone writing about urban Africa, joining AbdouMaliq Simone’s For the City Yet to Come (Duke University Press, 2004) as a seminal text in critical urban studies.” -- Jennifer Anne Hart * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“In this ambitious theoretical and empirical project, noted postcolonial literary scholar Ato Quayson takes Accra’s most prominent commercial district as an entry point into developing a nuanced and diverse historical portrait of the contemporary city. This single-city monograph from Africa is a rare and much-needed addition to the growing body of research on African urbanism. As urban studies increasingly takes its cues from the continent, Oxford Street is an indispensable asset to current debates on history, method, life and policy in the African city.” -- James Christopher Mizes * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Quayson has superseded his goal of forestalling a superficial reading of Oxford Street as a mere outpost of globalization by giving readers a deep understanding of the whole of Accra, its history, and its spatial practices." -- Adedamola Osinulu * Journal of African History *"Quayson provides a framework for thinking about Accra’s particularities, its infrastructures and historical layerings that order creative ways of life. What is it about Accra that speaks to various people, that creates intimacy and makes people feel that Accra is theirs? The city has a feeling of closeness: small personal spaces rapidly open into broader senses of past and feelings of futurity. Quayson stands still, paying attention." -- Jesse Weaver Shipley * PMLA *"Quayson is a compelling writer, and the chapters effortlessly oscillate between local and global, past, present and future, which makes for a richly detailed story. This book is a must-read for people interested in African history, urban studies, transnationalism and the city of Accra." -- Geertrui Vannoppen * Africa *"[T]he book is significant contribution to post-colonial spatial and urban theory, contemporary examples of local communities interacting with global trends, and complex historical perspectives that push our understanding beyond colonialism as the only frame on modern-day Accra. Moreover, it provides all ethnographers with a fine and well-written example of how to narrate daily life and balance description with the historical and theoretical material." -- David Alexander Brown * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction. Urban Theory and Performative Streetscapes 1 Part I. Horizontal Archaeologies 1. Ga Akutso Formation and the Question of Hybridity: The Afro-Brazilians (Tabon) of Accra 37 2. The Spatial Fix: Colonial Administration, Disaster Management, and Land-Use Distribution in Early Twentieth-Century Accra 64 3. Osu borla no, sardine chensii soo: Danes, Euro-Africans, and the Transculturation of Osu 98 Part II. Morphologies of Everyday Life 4. "The Beautyful Ones": Tro-tro Slogans, Cell Phone Advertising, and the Hallelujah Chorus 129 5. "Este loco, loco": Transnationalism and the Shaping of Accra's Salsa Scene 159 6. Pumping Irony: Gymming, the Kobolo, and the Cultural Economy of Free Time 183 7. The Lettered City: Literary Representations of Accra 213 Conclusion. On Urban Free Time: Vladimir, Estragon, and Rem Koolhaas 239 Appendix. Tro-tro Inscriptions 251 Notes 255 References 279 Index 293

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Para-States and Medical Science is an exceptional and engaging book that will be of interest to anthropologists, Africanists and historians as well as those interested in science and technology, post-colonial and development studies.” -- Mary-Anne Decatur * Anthropology Book Forum *"Individual chapters focus specifically on processes of medical research, not health care delivery, but in so doing provide an often overlooked perspective on the types of medical work undertaken in Africa.... Summing up: Recommended." -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *"I highly recommend this volume for anyone interested in the social relations of biomedicine, and particularly biomedical research, in Africa. As an interdisciplinary anthropologist who works on this topic, I found the book’s provocation to pay attention to the persistence of the African state extremely useful—suddenly, I am seeing the state in places in my work that I had formerly overlooked. I also appreciated this volume’s empirical documentation of the numerous ways in which, despite persistent inequalities, African actors—states, institutions, and individuals—shape global health partnerships and the knowledge they produce." -- Johanna Crane * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Para-States and Medical Science is an impressive volume and a welcome addition to work on critical global health in Africa. The collection provides a much needed re-reading of contemporary biopolitical regimes in Africa, which neither fit old models of biopower nor conform to neoliberal forms found elsewhere. ... this work makes an original and innovative contribution to scholarship on the shifting relations between state, public, private and corporate interests in health care in Africa, and makes inroads for anthropologists, historians and STS scholars to move beyond standard narratives of 'development' and 'neoliberalism' in African contexts." -- Michelle Pentecost * New Genetics and Society *"The volume should become mandatory reading for scholars and students interested in the new configurations and possibilities that emerge on the African continent in the context of medical globalization, and which demonstrate (once more) that rigid distinctions between the global, national and local, public and private, state and non-state have become untenable, if not useless." -- Hansjörg Dilger * Africa *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Life Science in Its African Para-State / P. Wenzel Geissler 1 Part I: Rupture, Continuity 1. Treating to Prevent HIV: Population Trials and Experimental Societies / Vinh-Kim Nguyen 47 2. Trialing Drugs, Creating Publics: Medical Research, Leprosy Control, and the Construction of a Public Health Sphere in Post-1945 Nigeria / John Manton 78 Part II: Pasts, Futures 3. Lessons in Medical Nihilism: Virus Hunters, Neoliberalism, and the AIDs Crisis in Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal 103 4. What Future Remains? Remembering an African Place of Science / P. Wenzel Geissler 142 Part III: State Remains 6. International Health and the Proliferation of "Partnerships": (Un)Intended Boost for State Institutions in Tanzania? / Rene Gerrets 179 6. Working and Surviving: Government Employees on ART in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte 207 Part IV: Affective Wholes 7. Molecular and Municipal Politics: Research and Regulation in Dakar / Branwyn Poleykett 237 8. The Work of the Virus: Cutting and Creating Relations in an ART Project / Lotte Meinert 257 Part V: Struggling Nation 9. The Blue Warriors: Ecology, Participation, and Public Health in Malaria Control Experiments / Ulrike Beisel 281 10. The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa's Smallest State / Ann H. Kelly 303 11. Adventures of African Nevirapine: The Political Biography of a Magic Bullet / Didier Fassin 333 Contributors 355 Index 357

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Book SynopsisA rich ethnographic account describing the processes by which climate change comes to matter collectively and individually, and how vernacular explanations of climate change reflect diverse ways of knowing and caring about the world.Trade Review“How Climate Change Comes to Matter is dense, intelligent, and thoroughly researched…. She presents an interesting conversation about climate change, rather than engaging in many of the typical debates one could read anywhere. Her unique perspective informs the content of the book and makes for an interesting read.” -- Jonathan Bond * Vancouver Weekly *“... readers can reflect on the experimental methods used for public engagement and questions of media, politics, and scientific expertise that operate on shifting theoretical, empirical, and moral perspectives to help consider definitions of what climate change means. Recommended. Graduate students/faculty.” -- R. A. Delgado Jr. * Choice *"This book is a marvel. It brings climate change research directly back into the folds of the anthropological tradition; and brings the anthropological tradition to the beating centers of climate change discourse. If you have never before had an interest in climate change, you will be spellbound by this ethnography. If you do have an interest in climate change, this book is essential." -- Elizabeth Marino * Anthropos *"...a key work examining the wide variety of 'discourse coalitions' involved in climate communication. It is a magisterial treatment of the deep roots of contention in this momentous and unfolding story." -- Noel Salmond * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Inuit Gift 39 2. Reporting on Climate Change 81 3. Blessing the Facts 121 4. Negotiating Risk, Expertise, and Near-Advocacy 162 5. What Gets Measured Gets Managed 201 Epilogue. Rethinking Public Engagement and Collaboration 243 Appendix. A Decade of Climate Change 253 Notes 263 References 283 Index 303

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Book SynopsisA rich ethnographic account describing the processes by which climate change comes to matter collectively and individually, and how vernacular explanations of climate change reflect diverse ways of knowing and caring about the world.Trade Review“How Climate Change Comes to Matter is dense, intelligent, and thoroughly researched…. She presents an interesting conversation about climate change, rather than engaging in many of the typical debates one could read anywhere. Her unique perspective informs the content of the book and makes for an interesting read.” -- Jonathan Bond * Vancouver Weekly *“... readers can reflect on the experimental methods used for public engagement and questions of media, politics, and scientific expertise that operate on shifting theoretical, empirical, and moral perspectives to help consider definitions of what climate change means. Recommended. Graduate students/faculty.” -- R. A. Delgado Jr. * Choice *"This book is a marvel. It brings climate change research directly back into the folds of the anthropological tradition; and brings the anthropological tradition to the beating centers of climate change discourse. If you have never before had an interest in climate change, you will be spellbound by this ethnography. If you do have an interest in climate change, this book is essential." -- Elizabeth Marino * Anthropos *"...a key work examining the wide variety of 'discourse coalitions' involved in climate communication. It is a magisterial treatment of the deep roots of contention in this momentous and unfolding story." -- Noel Salmond * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Inuit Gift 39 2. Reporting on Climate Change 81 3. Blessing the Facts 121 4. Negotiating Risk, Expertise, and Near-Advocacy 162 5. What Gets Measured Gets Managed 201 Epilogue. Rethinking Public Engagement and Collaboration 243 Appendix. A Decade of Climate Change 253 Notes 263 References 283 Index 303

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Book SynopsisSteeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism.Trade Review"Entrepreneurial Selves is an important addition to a Caribbean studies perspective on neoliberalism and affect." -- Sarah E. Vaughn * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Carla Freeman’s book makes a unique contribution to current debates on the issue of neoliberalism in its linking of economic with social and cultural impacts. It also makes a substantial contribution to the literature on Caribbean society by revealing the paradigm shift in the socio-economic and cultural landscape of Caribbean societies today. … With its fascinating and compelling case studies, its scope – linking economy with culture, and historic contexts – and story-telling style, it is an easy and enjoyable read. This book should be read not only by development scholars, practitioners and activists and policy makers, but especially by those interested in learning more about Caribbean society today.” -- Peggy Antrobus * Gender and Development *"Entrepreneurial Selves provides a historically nuanced, theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of the emergence of neoliberalism and the rise of the entrepreneurial middle class in Barbados over the past ten to fifteen years. Freeman’s anthropological approach to the study of entrepreneurship is refreshing and innovative (including her self-reflexive ruminations), and vividly demonstrates the importance of moving beyond the familiar economic frameworks into the realm of identity practices and the construction of entrepreneurial subjects along the lines of gender, class and race." -- Emiel Martens * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Entrepreneurial Selves is Carla Freeman’s rich and theoretically sophisticated account of ‘middle-class entrepreneurs’ in Barbados.... Although this is a very Caribbean story, Entrepreneurial Selves will appeal to wide audiences because of the diverse applicability of its findings: that the successful reproduction of neoliberal capitalism requires it be made culturally ‘local’ in every context where it takes root, and that through ethnography we can examine these processes in the subtle detail they deserve." -- Rebecca Prentice * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Freeman’s book provides an ethnographically thick and theoretically elaborated contribution, not only to Caribbean anthropology but also, more broadly, to our understanding of the profound affective dimension of work and life at stake in the expansion of entrepreneurship across every sphere of everyday life." -- Guillaume Dumont * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Entrepreneurial Selves: An Introduction 1 1. Barbadian Neoliberalism and the Rise of a New Middle-Class Entrepreneurialism 17 2. Entrepreneurial Affects: "Partnership" Marriage and the New Intimacy 57 3. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality 97 4. Neoliberal Work and Life 131 5. The Therapeutic Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism 169 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 235 Index 251

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Book SynopsisThe anthropologist Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations.Trade Review“Anthropologist Masco takes a cultural-anthropological lens to the study of a “counterterror state,” which he argues the US has become since the horrors of 9/11. ... His remarkable treatise powerfully, sometimes cynically, demonstrates how the terrorist events of September 11 were deployed in the service of a “conceptual project” that ‘mobilizes affects (fear, terror, anger) via imaginary processes (worry, precarity, threat) to constitute an unlimited space and time horizon for military state action.’ … Essential. Graduate and undergraduate collections in cultural anthropology, cultural studies, political violence, and terrorism studies.” -- T. Niazi * Choice *“The Theater of Operations is a joy to read. Masco’s writing style is eloquent and effortless. ... [A]nthropologists of security, violence, war and peace should look to Masco’s concept work and reflect on their own ethnographic experiences. At a cost of just under US$8 trillion, the War on Terror has succeeded in displacing governance from many genuine sources of violence and suffering. Anthropology has a role to play in attending to this and to the replacement of one defective social contract with another one based on emotion and violence.” -- Mark Maguire * Social Anthropology *“Masco’s contribution to the emergent field of security studies and the anthropology of the military is undeniable. Students and practitioners across a broad scope of policy planning would benefit from reading a credible account of the evolution of the complex network of security structures to which Americans submit daily, and perhaps rarely pause to question. In fact, the book could provide the basis for a critical study of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. The most compelling point of the book—and, perhaps, its most disheartening—is that our national security ethos is not necessarily predicated upon real, existential threats, but imagined dangers which are only as finite as the limits of our imagination.” -- Morwari Zafar * Anthropological Quarterly *“The Theater of Operations is an important, well-argued book … [that] comes at a time when it is highly relevant and needed. As real threats multiply and the idea of ultimate security becomes obsolete, the country may have to prioritise its goals so that its own values and world security will not be undermined. It may be hard for the United States to do so, but, at least, Masco’s work reminds us how complex and multifaceted the relations between security, democracy and empire are.” -- Michail Zontos * LSE Review of Books *“Fascinating and terrifying. …” -- Caitlin Zaloom * Public Books *"Masco’s robust and historically rigorous comparison yields a deep understanding of the evolution of U.S. hegemony in the long postwar era and into the twenty-first century." -- Jeehyun Lim * American Studies *"This book would work well as a monograph for graduate seminars in historical social science, the anthropology of the United States, expertise, subjectivity and affect, or the state. Written in highly sophisticated engagement with a wide range of theory, its writing nonetheless has a clarity, crispness, and vividness that would allow it to be used with advanced undergraduates to introduce them to what is sure to be one of this decade’s most important works in our field and in interdisciplinary study of the United States." -- Catherine Lutz * American Anthropologist *"The Theater of Operations is an engaging and lively read, evocative and often poetic." -- Laura A. McNamara * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The "New" Normal 1 1. "Survival Is Your Business": Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America 45 2. Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis 77 3. Sensitive but Unclassified: Secrecy and the Counterterror State 113 4. Biosecurity Noir: WMDs in a World without Borders 145 5. Living Counterterror 193 Acknowledgments 211 Notes 213 References 233 Index 261

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Book SynopsisDuring the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.Trade Review“The stories are compelling, and the analytical chapters do a good job connecting contemporary developments with the existing anthropology of HIV/AIDS…. Recommended.” -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *“Second Chances is recommended reading for anyone interested in the experiences of people with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. This is also a good book for anyone who is thinking about health systems. One of Whyte’s points that I found particularly important is that people do not simply access treatment, but achieve it.” -- Anita Chary * Global Health Hub *“This is a unique study because it focuses on individuals and how disease and health care affects them. It provides a glimpse at a culture that is rarely covered, as well. Academic libraries supporting social sciences and health sciences programs will want to add this fascinating look at HIV/AIDS from a singular perspective to their collections." -- Barbara Bibel * Library Journal *“Readers familiar with the work of Susan Reynolds Whyte and her colleagues will not be disappointed in this compelling book. In the end, the lesson of Second Chances is that reliance on ‘contingent sociality’ means that not everyone who needs ARTs can get them. The chance for a second chance, therefore, is inherently fragile and unequal. Reynolds Whyte and colleagues offer no solutions, but the moving stories of survival and striving for both a living and a life remind us of the work that remains” -- Janet W. McGrath * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Second Chances is an excellent source of health narratives about negotiating HIV status in Uganda. Second Chances will naturally interest anthropologists of East Africa, HIV and biosociality." -- Jason Johnson Peretz * Somatosphere *"Second Chances offers a rigorous and vivid look at the first generation of Ugandans with AIDS to have relatively wide access to antiretroviral therapy . . . . The book is a compelling chronicle of the terms of this 'life sentence'." -- Tyler Zoanni * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPolygraphy vii Introduction. The First Generation 1 Case I. Robinah and Joyce: The Connecting Sisters 25 1. Connections 34 Case II. Saddam: Treatment Programs 47 2. Clientship 56 Case III. Suzan: The Necessity of Travel 71 3. Mobility 80 Case IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy: Family Matters 95 4. Families 104 Case V. Alice: Keeping a Good Man 119 5. Partners 128 Case VI. Jackie: Children without Grandparents 143 6. Children 152 Case VII. John: Working Contingencies 167 7. Work 176 Case VIII. Hassan: Soft Food and Town Life 191 8. Food 200 Case IX. Jolly: Appearances and Numbers 215 9. Bodies 223 Case X. Rachel: Buckets of Medicine 237 10. Medicine 245 Case XI. Dominic: A Multitude of Adversities 259 11. Life 268 Acknowledgments 285 Bibliography 287 Contributors 299 Index 301

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Book SynopsisSteeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism.Trade Review"Entrepreneurial Selves is an important addition to a Caribbean studies perspective on neoliberalism and affect." -- Sarah E. Vaughn * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Carla Freeman’s book makes a unique contribution to current debates on the issue of neoliberalism in its linking of economic with social and cultural impacts. It also makes a substantial contribution to the literature on Caribbean society by revealing the paradigm shift in the socio-economic and cultural landscape of Caribbean societies today. … With its fascinating and compelling case studies, its scope – linking economy with culture, and historic contexts – and story-telling style, it is an easy and enjoyable read. This book should be read not only by development scholars, practitioners and activists and policy makers, but especially by those interested in learning more about Caribbean society today.” -- Peggy Antrobus * Gender and Development *"Entrepreneurial Selves provides a historically nuanced, theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of the emergence of neoliberalism and the rise of the entrepreneurial middle class in Barbados over the past ten to fifteen years. Freeman’s anthropological approach to the study of entrepreneurship is refreshing and innovative (including her self-reflexive ruminations), and vividly demonstrates the importance of moving beyond the familiar economic frameworks into the realm of identity practices and the construction of entrepreneurial subjects along the lines of gender, class and race." -- Emiel Martens * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Entrepreneurial Selves is Carla Freeman’s rich and theoretically sophisticated account of ‘middle-class entrepreneurs’ in Barbados.... Although this is a very Caribbean story, Entrepreneurial Selves will appeal to wide audiences because of the diverse applicability of its findings: that the successful reproduction of neoliberal capitalism requires it be made culturally ‘local’ in every context where it takes root, and that through ethnography we can examine these processes in the subtle detail they deserve." -- Rebecca Prentice * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Freeman’s book provides an ethnographically thick and theoretically elaborated contribution, not only to Caribbean anthropology but also, more broadly, to our understanding of the profound affective dimension of work and life at stake in the expansion of entrepreneurship across every sphere of everyday life." -- Guillaume Dumont * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Entrepreneurial Selves: An Introduction 1 1. Barbadian Neoliberalism and the Rise of a New Middle-Class Entrepreneurialism 17 2. Entrepreneurial Affects: "Partnership" Marriage and the New Intimacy 57 3. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality 97 4. Neoliberal Work and Life 131 5. The Therapeutic Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism 169 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 235 Index 251

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Book SynopsisThe anthropologist Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations.Trade Review“Anthropologist Masco takes a cultural-anthropological lens to the study of a “counterterror state,” which he argues the US has become since the horrors of 9/11. ... His remarkable treatise powerfully, sometimes cynically, demonstrates how the terrorist events of September 11 were deployed in the service of a “conceptual project” that ‘mobilizes affects (fear, terror, anger) via imaginary processes (worry, precarity, threat) to constitute an unlimited space and time horizon for military state action.’ … Essential. Graduate and undergraduate collections in cultural anthropology, cultural studies, political violence, and terrorism studies.” -- T. Niazi * Choice *“The Theater of Operations is a joy to read. Masco’s writing style is eloquent and effortless. ... [A]nthropologists of security, violence, war and peace should look to Masco’s concept work and reflect on their own ethnographic experiences. At a cost of just under US$8 trillion, the War on Terror has succeeded in displacing governance from many genuine sources of violence and suffering. Anthropology has a role to play in attending to this and to the replacement of one defective social contract with another one based on emotion and violence.” -- Mark Maguire * Social Anthropology *“Masco’s contribution to the emergent field of security studies and the anthropology of the military is undeniable. Students and practitioners across a broad scope of policy planning would benefit from reading a credible account of the evolution of the complex network of security structures to which Americans submit daily, and perhaps rarely pause to question. In fact, the book could provide the basis for a critical study of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. The most compelling point of the book—and, perhaps, its most disheartening—is that our national security ethos is not necessarily predicated upon real, existential threats, but imagined dangers which are only as finite as the limits of our imagination.” -- Morwari Zafar * Anthropological Quarterly *“The Theater of Operations is an important, well-argued book … [that] comes at a time when it is highly relevant and needed. As real threats multiply and the idea of ultimate security becomes obsolete, the country may have to prioritise its goals so that its own values and world security will not be undermined. It may be hard for the United States to do so, but, at least, Masco’s work reminds us how complex and multifaceted the relations between security, democracy and empire are.” -- Michail Zontos * LSE Review of Books *“Fascinating and terrifying. …” -- Caitlin Zaloom * Public Books *"Masco’s robust and historically rigorous comparison yields a deep understanding of the evolution of U.S. hegemony in the long postwar era and into the twenty-first century." -- Jeehyun Lim * American Studies *"This book would work well as a monograph for graduate seminars in historical social science, the anthropology of the United States, expertise, subjectivity and affect, or the state. Written in highly sophisticated engagement with a wide range of theory, its writing nonetheless has a clarity, crispness, and vividness that would allow it to be used with advanced undergraduates to introduce them to what is sure to be one of this decade’s most important works in our field and in interdisciplinary study of the United States." -- Catherine Lutz * American Anthropologist *"The Theater of Operations is an engaging and lively read, evocative and often poetic." -- Laura A. McNamara * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The "New" Normal 1 1. "Survival Is Your Business": Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America 45 2. Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis 77 3. Sensitive but Unclassified: Secrecy and the Counterterror State 113 4. Biosecurity Noir: WMDs in a World without Borders 145 5. Living Counterterror 193 Acknowledgments 211 Notes 213 References 233 Index 261

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Book SynopsisDuring the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.Trade Review“The stories are compelling, and the analytical chapters do a good job connecting contemporary developments with the existing anthropology of HIV/AIDS…. Recommended.” -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *“Second Chances is recommended reading for anyone interested in the experiences of people with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. This is also a good book for anyone who is thinking about health systems. One of Whyte’s points that I found particularly important is that people do not simply access treatment, but achieve it.” -- Anita Chary * Global Health Hub *“This is a unique study because it focuses on individuals and how disease and health care affects them. It provides a glimpse at a culture that is rarely covered, as well. Academic libraries supporting social sciences and health sciences programs will want to add this fascinating look at HIV/AIDS from a singular perspective to their collections." -- Barbara Bibel * Library Journal *“Readers familiar with the work of Susan Reynolds Whyte and her colleagues will not be disappointed in this compelling book. In the end, the lesson of Second Chances is that reliance on ‘contingent sociality’ means that not everyone who needs ARTs can get them. The chance for a second chance, therefore, is inherently fragile and unequal. Reynolds Whyte and colleagues offer no solutions, but the moving stories of survival and striving for both a living and a life remind us of the work that remains” -- Janet W. McGrath * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Second Chances is an excellent source of health narratives about negotiating HIV status in Uganda. Second Chances will naturally interest anthropologists of East Africa, HIV and biosociality." -- Jason Johnson Peretz * Somatosphere *"Second Chances offers a rigorous and vivid look at the first generation of Ugandans with AIDS to have relatively wide access to antiretroviral therapy . . . . The book is a compelling chronicle of the terms of this 'life sentence'." -- Tyler Zoanni * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPolygraphy vii Introduction. The First Generation 1 Case I. Robinah and Joyce: The Connecting Sisters 25 1. Connections 34 Case II. Saddam: Treatment Programs 47 2. Clientship 56 Case III. Suzan: The Necessity of Travel 71 3. Mobility 80 Case IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy: Family Matters 95 4. Families 104 Case V. Alice: Keeping a Good Man 119 5. Partners 128 Case VI. Jackie: Children without Grandparents 143 6. Children 152 Case VII. John: Working Contingencies 167 7. Work 176 Case VIII. Hassan: Soft Food and Town Life 191 8. Food 200 Case IX. Jolly: Appearances and Numbers 215 9. Bodies 223 Case X. Rachel: Buckets of Medicine 237 10. Medicine 245 Case XI. Dominic: A Multitude of Adversities 259 11. Life 268 Acknowledgments 285 Bibliography 287 Contributors 299 Index 301

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Book SynopsisFabiana Li examines the politics surrounding the rapid growth of mining in the Peruvian Andes, arguing that anti-mining protests are not only about mining's negative environmental impacts, but about the legitimization of contested forms of knowledge. Trade Review"This is a timely ethnography of contemporary mining conflict... She offers an attractive understanding of “conflict.” No theory of resistance along the lines of already assumed, immutable material interests (such as mass protests or road blockades) can capture the nuances with which Li meticulously “unearths conflict.”... It is a must-read for veterans and newcomers to research in the anthropology of mining." -- Anita Carrasco * American Ethnologist *"This book does a lot and it does it well. It will be helpful not only in providing a rich foundation for studies of mining conflict in Peru, but also for students and scholars really looking for a way to illuminate the complexities of the common reality of community/government/corporate conflict over resource extraction in the name of 'development' throughout Latin America and beyond." -- Kristina Baines * Anthropology Book Forum *"[Li's] analysis is based on an extensive and exhaustive ethnographic research and informed by an analytical framework that is well suited for deconstructing, exploring, and unveiling. Unearthing Conflict is in this regard an obliged resource for those interested in understanding not only mining conflicts and activism or the complexities of human agency but also the broader interactions between humans and nature(s), especially in these critical times." -- Cristina Espinosa Ch. * American Anthropologist *"Fabiana Li’s innovative ethnography breaks new ground in conceptualizing the political ecology of mining controversies....The book makes a significant contribution to the field of political ecology by rethinking the ways in which landscapes take on political significance. It is highly recommended reading for students and scholars interested in environmental politics, corporate social responsibility, and social movements." -- Teresa A. Velásquez * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Li’s extensive fieldwork in Peru adds authenticity and authority to each of her compelling case studies. The book is accessible to upper-division undergraduate courses as well as graduate seminars on modern Latin America. Anyone interested in conflicts over extractive resources, Andean mining communities, and social anthropology in Peru should add Unearthing Conflict to their reading lists." -- Stephen Cote * Environmental History *"Based on extensive local research, Li offers both a rich inside story of the different actors and interactions in Cajamarca and a valuable contribution to theory building." -- Barbara Hogenboom * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Unearthing Conflict is an excellent ethnographic treatment of mining corporations, their local and state supporters, and the activists who contest them. By complicating standard narratives of community opposition to mining with the perspective of contestations about equivalences, the book would enrich senior undergraduate and graduate courses about Latin America, resource extraction, expert knowledge, and human and non-human actors." -- Daniel Tubb * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. A Mining Country 1 Part I. Mining Past and Present 1. Toxic Legacies, Nascent Activism 35 2. Mega-Mining and Emergent Conflicts 71 Part II. Water and Life 3. The Hydrology of a Sacred Mountain 107 4. Inrrigation and Contested Equivalences 143 Part III. Activism and Expertise 5. Stepping outside the Document 185 Conclusion. Expanding Frontiers of Extraction 215 Notes 235 References 243 Index 257

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Book SynopsisFabiana Li examines the politics surrounding the rapid growth of mining in the Peruvian Andes, arguing that anti-mining protests are not only about mining's negative environmental impacts, but about the legitimization of contested forms of knowledge. Trade Review"This is a timely ethnography of contemporary mining conflict... She offers an attractive understanding of “conflict.” No theory of resistance along the lines of already assumed, immutable material interests (such as mass protests or road blockades) can capture the nuances with which Li meticulously “unearths conflict.”... It is a must-read for veterans and newcomers to research in the anthropology of mining." -- Anita Carrasco * American Ethnologist *"This book does a lot and it does it well. It will be helpful not only in providing a rich foundation for studies of mining conflict in Peru, but also for students and scholars really looking for a way to illuminate the complexities of the common reality of community/government/corporate conflict over resource extraction in the name of 'development' throughout Latin America and beyond." -- Kristina Baines * Anthropology Book Forum *"[Li's] analysis is based on an extensive and exhaustive ethnographic research and informed by an analytical framework that is well suited for deconstructing, exploring, and unveiling. Unearthing Conflict is in this regard an obliged resource for those interested in understanding not only mining conflicts and activism or the complexities of human agency but also the broader interactions between humans and nature(s), especially in these critical times." -- Cristina Espinosa Ch. * American Anthropologist *"Fabiana Li’s innovative ethnography breaks new ground in conceptualizing the political ecology of mining controversies....The book makes a significant contribution to the field of political ecology by rethinking the ways in which landscapes take on political significance. It is highly recommended reading for students and scholars interested in environmental politics, corporate social responsibility, and social movements." -- Teresa A. Velásquez * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Li’s extensive fieldwork in Peru adds authenticity and authority to each of her compelling case studies. The book is accessible to upper-division undergraduate courses as well as graduate seminars on modern Latin America. Anyone interested in conflicts over extractive resources, Andean mining communities, and social anthropology in Peru should add Unearthing Conflict to their reading lists." -- Stephen Cote * Environmental History *"Based on extensive local research, Li offers both a rich inside story of the different actors and interactions in Cajamarca and a valuable contribution to theory building." -- Barbara Hogenboom * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Unearthing Conflict is an excellent ethnographic treatment of mining corporations, their local and state supporters, and the activists who contest them. By complicating standard narratives of community opposition to mining with the perspective of contestations about equivalences, the book would enrich senior undergraduate and graduate courses about Latin America, resource extraction, expert knowledge, and human and non-human actors." -- Daniel Tubb * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. A Mining Country 1 Part I. Mining Past and Present 1. Toxic Legacies, Nascent Activism 35 2. Mega-Mining and Emergent Conflicts 71 Part II. Water and Life 3. The Hydrology of a Sacred Mountain 107 4. Inrrigation and Contested Equivalences 143 Part III. Activism and Expertise 5. Stepping outside the Document 185 Conclusion. Expanding Frontiers of Extraction 215 Notes 235 References 243 Index 257

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Book SynopsisWhen Rains Became Floods is the stunning autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military during the Peruvian Civil War. After escaping the war, he became a Franciscan priest.Trade Review"If [Lurgio] Gavilán Sánchez’s autobiography had not been written with such austerity and modesty, the atrocities to which he was witness and perhaps complicit, would not be believable. . . . On every page, this book betrays a sensitive spirit, who did not lose his reason even in those moments of extreme political exaltation. Nor did he stop questioning what he was doing and lose himself to a destructive passion. In him, there is always a sense of a personal rejection of the suffering of others, of the murderers, the reprisals, the executions and tortures, and, in moments, an overpowering sadness that threatens to destroy him. . . . It is a miracle that Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez survived this perilous adventure. But perhaps it is even more remarkable that, after all of the horror he lived for so many years, he has managed to emerge pure of heart, without the dark cloud of bitterness, and has been able to give such persuasive and lucid testimony of a period that even today awakes great passions in Peru." -- Mario Vargas Llosa * El Pais (Madrid) *"[A]n astonishing autobiography, told with style and sensitivity, that illuminates much about late twentieth-century Peru....Lurgio Gavilán has been a guerrilla, a soldier, and a priest, and he is now an anthropologist. In addition, he became an extraordinary writer. His story should and will reach a broad audience." -- Charles F. Walker * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Written in unembellished language, this autobiography penned by a former Peruvian child soldier shows both the stark savagery and the gentle compassion of life among horrific circumstances and the decision to leave and pursue a life of peace and knowledge." * World Literature Today *"Gavilán’s book chronicles the author’s extraordinary life as a child guerrilla, soldier, Franciscan monk, and fi nally, a doctoral student of anthropology at Mexico’s Iberoamericana University. His story is gripping, brutal, and, at times, redeeming. More than a simple memoir, the book has become part of Peru’s national struggle to reconcile with its violent past." -- Caroline Yezer * NACLA Report on the Americas *"[A] story told with candor, nuance, and a sense of tragedy. . . . His story provides a perspective on the motivations and lives of child soldiers that is rare." -- David M. Rosen * American Anthropologist *"[T]exts such as this one make an important contribution to ongoing discussions about the legacy of violence in Peru. Of course, the relevance of Gavilán's experiences extends beyond Peru, and this English translation of the Spanish original makes his remarkable story more accessible to students and a wider public." -- Fabiana Li * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"[T]he book is of great relevance for those interested in political violence and cultural memory in Peru, and the experience of child soldiers and young militants anywhere. It is accessible to those who do not have previous knowledge of the context, such as students, and indeed could be recommended as a first read for those who would like to learn about it...." -- Alexandra Hibbett * Journal of Latin American Studies *"[T]his is an important book not only for those readers, the general and the academic reader alike, interested in the Shining Path or the modern history of Peru, but also for those interested in the history of world communism." -- Jana S. Pisani * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsForeword. Surviving the Flood: The Multiple Lives of Lurgio Gavilán / Carlos Iván Degregori ix Introduction / Orin Starn xiii 1. In the Ranks of the Shining Path 1 2. At the Military Base 41 3. Time in the Franciscan Convent 67 4. I Return to the Countryside of Ayacucho 87 Glossary 99 Acknowledgments 103 Translator's Note and Acknowledgments 105 Notes 107 Index 121

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Book SynopsisA. Aneesh uses India's call centers as sites to study the consequences of successful global integration. Call center work requires neutralizing racial, ethnic, and national identities, which causes a disintegration of self where the performance of one's neutralized identity serves the system of global markets.Trade Review"This insightful look at the underbelly of globalisation reveals a workplace that is sustained by the painful "differentiations" that have been imposed on its workers.... Where his critique of globalisation succeeds best is in creating a convincing framework that exposes the "disintegration of the self from its place of socialization and meaning" brought about by the mechanisms of globalisation, in which both global workers and consumers become entities targeted for profit." -- Lalita Murty * Times Higher Education *“Aneesh’s book is a delight to read. He writes with the ease and knowledge of a uniquely-positioned repeat ethnographer due to his long personal and intellectual investment in the region. His methodology includes not only interviews with workers and managers, but also his own experience as an employee at a call centre in Gurgaon. His empathy for and connection with the participants in his study allows readers to experience their aspirations and challenges too” -- Kiran Mirchandani * South Asia *"...this book is an excellent contribution to a growing and significant body of literature on globalizing processes and the Indian call center industry." -- J.K.T. Basi * American Journal of Sociology *"I got more than I bargained for as I found geography, law, marketing and biology also thrown into the discussion and Aneesh was providing me with a tour de force as a Renaissance man." -- Peter K.W. Tan * Asian Journal of Social Science *"Neutral Accent is a tightly argued and well-researched account of a dense and unruly phenomenon, and should be essential reading for scholars of globalization, work, virtuality, and identity." -- Mathangi Krishnamurthy * Anthropological Quarterly *"In Neutral Accent, Aneesh has produced a well-written, clear, and concise manuscript that unravels how communication actually works in so-called centers of cross-cultural interaction. He provides several important and creative contributions to our knowledge about globalization, inequality, identity construction, and work, and does so by locating the multiple disconnections that are reproduced when people of different groups virtually meet." -- Victoria Reyes * Contemporary Sociology *"Powerful . . . Neutral Accent admirably succeeds in A. Aneesh's stated objective to use the experiences of communication workers in India to broaden the analytical reach and critique the underlying assumptions of cultural studies, transnational feminism, and communication studies." -- Radha S. Hegde * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue: One World, Diverse Itineraries 1 1. Glimpsing an Urban Future: Divergent Tracks of Gurgaon 13 2. Inside a Call Center: Otherworldly Passages 35 3. Neutral Accent 53 4. System Identities: Divergent Itineraries and Uses of Personality 77 5. Nightly Clashes: Diurnal Body, Nocturnal Labor, Neutral Markets 101 Epilogue: The Logic of Indifference 127 References 137 Index 151

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Book SynopsisAnthropologist Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements and marketing. Focusing on Asian American ad firms, she describes the day-to-day process of creating ads and argues that advertising has framed Asian Americans as "model consumers," thereby legitimizing their presence in American popular culture.Trade Review"The combination of Shankar’s critical lens and outsider perspective commingle to produce an originative piece of work. Advertising Diversity offers even the most seasoned consumption and marketing scholars a compelling (but all too rare) look inside the world of Asian-American advertising, where culture and consumption converge to create 'model consumers.'” -- Kevin D. Thomas * Consumption Markets & Culture *"In the cultural hermeneutic tradition of great storytelling, Shalini Shankar has produced an empirically rich and theoretically sound ethnography. In it she tells a brilliant analytic story about race, Asian America, and the assumed 'post-racial' world of advertising.... Advertising Diversity is an ideal book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, and business." -- Stanley Thangaraj * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Shankar has accomplished plenty with this work and can be justly applauded for bringing to bear the detailed processes by which Asian American—images, sounds, languages, bodies, and lives—inhabit our mediascape. Advertising Diversity vividly demonstrates the role of ad agencies in constructing a place for Asian Americans to take at the colorful table of multicultural consumerism." -- Christine R. Yano * Business History Review *"This book will be of great interest to anthropologists as well as scholars and students from a wide variety of fields that engage with popular culture as well as the study of ethnicity and race, and it could be successfully used in a number of advanced undergraduate courses on related topics. Overall, Shankar does a masterful job at demonstrating the nuances of media production in a multicultural society and her latest contribution to the field should be widely read." -- Susan Dewey * Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *"Advertising Diversity is a valuable addition to this area of study.... [T]he book makes a powerful case for the way in which corporate uses of apparently progressive ideas like 'diversity' and 'multiculturalism' are in fact deeply retrogressive, normalizing various types and groups of people into a convenient, colourblind and postracial monoculture." -- Nicky Falkof * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"[T]his book is a valuable and innovative contribution to the burgeoning field of media ethnography and particularly useful to those interested in conducting fieldwork in media industries. It is here, in the backrooms and boardrooms of corporate America, where Shankar’s work shines as she illuminates the internal dynamics of racial naturalization and its circulation.... This is an important and innovative book for scholars interested in Asian American studies, communication, media studies, media industries, cultural studies, and visual culture." -- Vincent N. Pham * Anthropological Quarterly *"Shalini Shankar’s new book Advertising Diversity ... makes an ... important contribution by improving our understanding of the subtle techniques through which difference is depoliticized and reproduced through racial and ethnic representation." -- Cindy Isenhour * American Anthropologist *"Offers some fascinating insights into advertising industry practices and relationships." -- Stephanie O'Donohoe * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction. The Pitch 1 1. Account Planning 37 2. Creative 89 3. Account Services 147 4. Production and Media 191 Conclusion. Audience Testing 250 Acknowledgments 269 Appendix 1. Transcription Key 271 Appendix 2. Asian American Populations in the United States 272 Notes 275 Glossary 287 References 289 Index 307

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Book SynopsisIn Nature in Translation Shiho Satsuka studies Japanese tour guides who lead Japanese tourists on trips through the Canadian Rockies. By presenting nature in ways attuned to Japanese culture, these guides translate nature, a process that makes visible the cultural construction of nature and subjectivities.Trade Review"Nature in Translation is an excellent ethnographic monograph that is both theoretically innovative and eminently readable.... Her work is pioneering in bringing both the Japanese studies and STS into one volume.... Nature in Translation is an excellent read for scholars and students who are interested in contemporary Japan as well as science studies of nature. Satsuka’s discussion of translation should provide fertile theoretical ground for upcoming studies on STS, and it has also opened up exciting new ways to study contemporary Japan." -- Satsuki Takahashi * Journal of Anthropological Research *"I... recommend this book to serious scholars of the cross-cultural dimensions of tourism. It is not a light read but it is an insightful read for tourism scholars with an interest in nature, translation and cross-cultural interactions." -- Tom Hinch * Tourism Geographies *"...an extraordinary achievement; a work at once ethnographically sensitive and theoretically innovative—not to mention operating as a marvelous travel guide to the travels of other guides. I hope this beautiful ethnography will be read widely by those who are interested in postcolonial science studies, in ecology, Japan studies, in the ontological turn(s) in STS and anthropology, and, of course, in multispecies anthropology." -- Moe Nakazora * Science as Culture *"Nature in Translation will interest many who wish to know more about how perceptions of nature and environment, as well as the explanatory framework, vary in different cultures and intellectual traditions, between Japan and Canada in particular. It will also benefit those in tourism studies in that it directs our attention to more complicated touristic encounters than a simple and straightforward encounter between hosts and guests." -- Okpyo Moon * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration vii Acknowledgments ix Prologue. A Journey to Magnificent Nature . . . or Why Nature Needs to Be Understood in Translation 1 Introduction 9 1. Narratives of Freedom 39 2. Populist Cosmopolitanism 67 3. The Co-Modification of Self 95 4. Gender in Nature Neverland 122 5. The Interpretation of Nature 147 6. The Allure of Ecology 183 Epilogue. Found in Translation 213 Notes 223 Reference List 241 Index 255

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Book SynopsisAnthropologist Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements and marketing. Focusing on Asian American ad firms, she describes the day-to-day process of creating ads and argues that advertising has framed Asian Americans as "model consumers," thereby legitimizing their presence in American popular culture.Trade Review"The combination of Shankar’s critical lens and outsider perspective commingle to produce an originative piece of work. Advertising Diversity offers even the most seasoned consumption and marketing scholars a compelling (but all too rare) look inside the world of Asian-American advertising, where culture and consumption converge to create 'model consumers.'” -- Kevin D. Thomas * Consumption Markets & Culture *"In the cultural hermeneutic tradition of great storytelling, Shalini Shankar has produced an empirically rich and theoretically sound ethnography. In it she tells a brilliant analytic story about race, Asian America, and the assumed 'post-racial' world of advertising.... Advertising Diversity is an ideal book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, and business." -- Stanley Thangaraj * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Shankar has accomplished plenty with this work and can be justly applauded for bringing to bear the detailed processes by which Asian American—images, sounds, languages, bodies, and lives—inhabit our mediascape. Advertising Diversity vividly demonstrates the role of ad agencies in constructing a place for Asian Americans to take at the colorful table of multicultural consumerism." -- Christine R. Yano * Business History Review *"This book will be of great interest to anthropologists as well as scholars and students from a wide variety of fields that engage with popular culture as well as the study of ethnicity and race, and it could be successfully used in a number of advanced undergraduate courses on related topics. Overall, Shankar does a masterful job at demonstrating the nuances of media production in a multicultural society and her latest contribution to the field should be widely read." -- Susan Dewey * Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *"Advertising Diversity is a valuable addition to this area of study.... [T]he book makes a powerful case for the way in which corporate uses of apparently progressive ideas like 'diversity' and 'multiculturalism' are in fact deeply retrogressive, normalizing various types and groups of people into a convenient, colourblind and postracial monoculture." -- Nicky Falkof * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"[T]his book is a valuable and innovative contribution to the burgeoning field of media ethnography and particularly useful to those interested in conducting fieldwork in media industries. It is here, in the backrooms and boardrooms of corporate America, where Shankar’s work shines as she illuminates the internal dynamics of racial naturalization and its circulation.... This is an important and innovative book for scholars interested in Asian American studies, communication, media studies, media industries, cultural studies, and visual culture." -- Vincent N. Pham * Anthropological Quarterly *"Shalini Shankar’s new book Advertising Diversity ... makes an ... important contribution by improving our understanding of the subtle techniques through which difference is depoliticized and reproduced through racial and ethnic representation." -- Cindy Isenhour * American Anthropologist *"Offers some fascinating insights into advertising industry practices and relationships." -- Stephanie O'Donohoe * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction. The Pitch 1 1. Account Planning 37 2. Creative 89 3. Account Services 147 4. Production and Media 191 Conclusion. Audience Testing 250 Acknowledgments 269 Appendix 1. Transcription Key 271 Appendix 2. Asian American Populations in the United States 272 Notes 275 Glossary 287 References 289 Index 307

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