Social and cultural anthropology Books

Book SynopsisIn Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores how Cuban raperos (black-identified rappers) in Havana craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship in the face of continuing racism and marginalization during an era in which the Cuban economy, society, and nationhood have been under constant flux.Trade Review"If you're not familiar with Cuban hip hop,Negro Soy Yo is an excellent starting point to get the wheels turning in your head, to start thinking about the music and all of the different places it is coming from, what it’s discussing and why. Perry has given us an excellent text to get people from outside of the island to consider how the music communicates things about society that we don’t get elsewhere." * Scratched Vinyl *"Negro Soy Yo makes a distinguished contribution to the study of raced citizenship and the performance of blackness through the self-fashioning of Cuban hip-hop." -- Melisa Riviére * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"A necessary guide for understanding the present and future of racialized social stratification [in Cuba]. . . . Perry’s most important contribution lies in how he unites the genealogy of Cuban hip-hop with that of the contemporary Cuban anti-racist movement and points sharply toward the political urgency of continued antiracist critiques in the present and future." -- Maya Berry * Latin American Music Review *"Negro Soy Yo provides an insightful and grassroots account of the Cuban hip hop movement’s discursive and affirmative evolution in an emerging neoliberal moment." -- Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Perry effectively cuts between lyrics, house parties, run-ins with the police, music festivals, conversations, and theoretical reflections in a multilayered 'raced ethnography' that glistens with his desire to describe an enormous range of details about life in neoliberal Cuba. . . . He contributes wonderfully to Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as African diaspora studies, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and ethnomusicology." -- Daniel Castro Pantoja & Jacob Rekedal * Latin American Research Review *“Perry’s study is an insightful and nuanced analysis of the Cuban hip-hop movement and an original take on the issue of race and youth culture in transitional post-Soviet Cuban society.” -- Daliany Jerónimo Kersh * International Journal of Cuban Studies *"For those not familiar with Afro-Cuban life, the book is an excellent introduction to such, as it intersects the fields of Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, and Ethnomusicology. . . . The beauty of Perry’s text is that it is an excellent book for those not on the island who do not know how the music communicates things about Afro-Cuban society. To date readers cannot get this aspect of Cuban hip hop anywhere else." -- Reginald A. Bess * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Raced Neoliberalism: Groundings for Hip Hop 29 2. Hip Hop Cubano: An Emergent Site of Black Life 57 3. New Revolutionary Horizons 91 4. Critical Self-Fashionings and Their Gendering 135 5. Racial Challenges and the State 171 6. Whither Hip Hop Cubano? 199 Postscript 235 Notes 239 References 255 Index 273

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Book SynopsisKeywords in Sound defines the field of sound studies and provides a comprehensive conceptual apparatus for why studying sound matters. Each essay includes the keyword's intellectual history, a discussion of its role in cultural, social and political discourses, and suggestions for possible future research.Trade Review"The apparent strategy of the editors is to form a basic, redefined lexicon and this is nicely accomplished. ... Eventually this interesting and thorough experiment reflects the subtle innate heterogeneity of sound, drawing one of the many possible cultural galaxies around it." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"This is an important contribution to the emergent field of sound studies. It will help in both defining the field more fully and in refining its key terms more elaborately." * European Journal of Communication *"For anyone wanting a substantial, if not comprehensive, introduction to the field, Keywords in Sound is the place to start." -- Philip Vandermeer * Notes *Table of ContentsIntroduction / David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny 1 1. Acoustemology / Steven Feld 12 2. Acoustics / Benjamin Steege 22 3. Body / Deborah Kapchan 33 4. Deafness / Mara Mills 45 5. Echo / Mark M. Smith 55 6. Hearing / Jonathan Sterne 65 7. Image / John Mowitt 78 8. Language / David Samuels and Thomas Porcello 87 9. Listening / Tom Rice 99 10. Music / Matt Sakakeeny 112 11. Noise / David Novak 125 12. Phonography / Patrick Feaster 139 13. Radio / Daniel Fisher 151 14. Religion / Charles Hirschkind 165 15. Resonance / Veit Erlmann 175 16. Silence / Ana María Ochoa Gautier 183 17. Space / Andrew J. Eisenberg 193 18. Synthesis / Tara Rodgers 208 19. Transduction / Stefan Helmreich 222 20. Voice / Amanda Weidman 232 Contributors 247 Index 253

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Book SynopsisIn this ethnography Liisa H. Malkki reverses the study of humanitarian aid, focusing on aid workers rather than aid's recipients. She shows how aid serves the needs of its recipients and providers.Trade Review"The Need to Help situates aid work firmly in the social realities of the sending countries, rather than in the context of the abstract cosmopolitan values that academic accounts usually emphasise. For many of the Finnish workers Malkki studies, aid work is also linked to different notions about what is good and what is bad about Finland and about being Finnish. Complementing her focus on professionals who work in crisis settings across the world, Malkki looks at the needs that are associated with some of the more mundane ways in which people connect to the humanitarian enterprise, such as the knitting of bunnies and teddies for imagined children-in-need far away." -- Monika Krause * Times Higher Education *"This book would be a valuable text in undergraduate and graduate courses on development and humanitarianism. Malkki’s skilled ability to link together so many different intellectual inspirations makes this book very useful to examine as a model for theoretical conceptualization and for her methodology." -- Jeremy Rich * African Studies Quarterly *"[A]n original and highly significant analysis of 'Aidland,' essential reading for anyone interested in the growing literature on the people who work in the development industry and humanitarian organizations." -- R. L. Stirrat * Journal of Anthropological Research *"...this book provides finely textured material with which to debate the salience of the various rationales that people give for helping others." -- Erica Caple James * American Ethnologist *"This beautifully written book artfully navigates the purchase of domestic arts on international humanitarianism. . . . It is a book crafted with finesse, weaving in subtle threads of Western political thought on humanism, animism, cosmopolitanism with the empathetic understanding of an ethnographer engaged in painful and complex fieldwork." -- Ritu Mathur * Society & Space *"Perhaps one of the more captivating and accessible texts on humanitarianism. The text would be a useful tool for students seeking a deeper knowledge about the drivers of humanitarianism, as well as connections between the ‘local’ and ‘global.’ Yet, it has sufficient theoretical depth for researchers to find value when reflecting on broader questions about the power of humanitarianism." -- Simon Dickinson * Progress in Development Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Need, Imagination, and the Care of the Self 1 1. Professionals Abroad: Occupational Solidarity and International Desire as Humanitarian Motives 23 2. Impossible Situations: Affective Impasses and Their Afterlives in Humanitarian and Ethnographic Fieldwork 53 3. Figurations of the Human: Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace 77 4. Bear Humanity: Children, Animals, and Other Power Objects of the Humanitarian Imagination 105 5. Homemade Humanitarianism: Knitting and Loneliness 133 6. A Zealous Humanism and Its Limits: Sacrifice and the Hazards of Neutrality 165 Conclusion. The Power of the Mere: Humanitarianism as Domestic Art and Imaginative Politics 199 Notes 209 References 235 Index 267

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Book SynopsisMarcia C. Inhorn's ethnography of international travelers seeking in vitro fertilization treatment in the global IVF hub of Dubai shows that infertile couples, or "reprotravelers," leave their countries because IVF treatment is not safe, affordable, legal or effective. Inhorn opens a window into the painful, frustrating, and expensive world of infertility.Trade Review"Cosmopolitan Conceptions offers a fresh and much needed perspective on global infertility.... This book is a crucial read for those interested in the politics of reproduction, parenthood, kinship, globalization, the use of technologies, modernization, and the Middle East.... Inhorn has created a provocative account of infertile couples’ quests for a child, which not only contributes to scholarly discussions, but also to public debates about infertility and treatment and the global movement of knowledge and technologies." -- Cortney Hughes Rinker * Middle East Journal *"This book truly does take the reader into the 'womb' of a cosmopolitan IVF clinic and the reprotravelers who are its clientele. It is a must read for students of anthropology, medicine, women’s history, whether or not they are involved in research on human reproduction. This is a must read for NGOs, ministries of health, medical practitioners, and others who are deeply committed, particularly in noncosmopolitan states, to working for the improvement of women’s maternal and reproductive health. I highly recommend this enlightening, ethnographically rich and deeply compassionate book." -- Naomi M. McPherson * Anthropology Book Forum *"This outstanding and readable book is equally valuable for interdisciplinary scholars, global reproductive justice advocates, and infertility caregivers." -- Laury Oaks * American Anthropologist *"What strikes me most, as an anthropologist also engaged in the uphill struggle of tracing varied global reproductive travel routes, is Inhorn’s uncanny ability to truly engage with her informants. She embodies the cultural cosmopolitanism of which she writes. Her empathic nature and ability to speak with couples from all over the world reveals her skills of engaging with people—the heart of the anthropological endeavor." -- Amy Speier * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This well-written and powerful book can and should be read by a wide audience." -- Susie Kilshaw * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Inhorn has a sure grasp on global infertility issues and uses her rich empirical data to argue for better, and fairer, provision of ARTs across the world.... The great strength of Cosmopolitan Conceptions is Inhorn’s ability to give voice to her informants." -- Katharine Dow * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Prologue. Rahnia's Reproductive Journey xi Introduction. IVF Sojourns 1 1. Hubs: Medical Cosmopolitanism in the Emirates 35 Hubs: Reprotravel Stories 77 2. Absences: Resource Shortages and Waiting Lists 105 Absences: Reprotravel Stories 138 3. Restrictions: Religious Bans and Law Evasion 159 Restricitions: Reprotravel Stories 197 4. Discomforts: Medical Harm and the Search for High-Quality IVF 221 Discomforts: Reprotravel Stories 255 Conclusion. Cosmopolitan Conceptions 287 Acknowledgments 305 Glossory of Medical Terms 311 Notes 321 References 351 Index 371

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Book SynopsisNancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism.Trade Review"Hunt demonstrates how her use of interdisciplinary methods—archival, oral historical, literary, and ethnographic—and unconventional materials provides provocative insights into the colonial history of the Congo." -- Elisha P. Renne * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"The book’s synthetic range, historical detail, and conceptual density...make it highly appropriate for graduate work, and essential in equatorial African studies....an exemplary venture in medical anthropology and a truly rich set of resources for those of us engaging such questions in our own thought and research." -- David Eaton * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This is a book that is brimming with tensions: historiographical, epistemological, sensorial, emotional. It is alive with them, both in the material that Nancy Rose Hunt uncovers and in her manner of relaying her subject to the reader." -- Richard C. Keller and Emer Lucey * Somatosphere *"A Nervous State is an extraordinary book. Its empirical richness is obvious—the number and variety of different sources that Hunt has drawn upon, and the attention that she has paid to all these sources. Diaries and colonial archives, Lomongo language pamphlets and school essays, photographs, epic poems and dances—all of them receive the same, patient, highly sympathetic, but also questioning, persistent, and often quietly skeptical, scrutiny. Versions of events are presented, and new vistas open up, yet this is also a judicious book where the conclusions never push beyond what the evidence will support." -- Joe Trapido * Somatosphere *"Nancy Rose Hunt’s latest book beats, breathes, quivers and unsettles. Her writing brims with the curiosity and rigour that evidently fuels her meticulous tracing of neglected archival materials. Also palpable are the insight and sensitivity that enable her to encapsulate both the changing machinations of a biopolitical state, and the ‘therapeutic insurgencies’ of ordinary Congolese. However, it is Hunt’s attention to sensation and to perception, what one might call her scholarly synaesthesia—her ability to read the archives with an attentive ear, to read ‘dynamics of combat through acoustics of hushed silence and sadistic laughter,' for example—that renders her work so compelling for an anthropologist of Equateur and of the senses." -- Lys Alcayna-Stevens * Somatosphere *"The interpretation in this splendid work is a decisive contribution to understanding the jumble of desires, interests, discourses and images in the colonial and post-colonial history of this country, as well as the psychic life of its history." -- Roberto Beneduce * Journal of Asian and African Studies *"A Nervous State provides a complex history of Colonial Congo; it is a huge contribution to African Studies and anthropology." -- Charles Tshimanga * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"A Nervous State is certainly one of the most elegant books I have seen over the last years and an impressive attempt at entangling, and at discussing entangled, narratives. . . . This book is certainly 'a must' for everyone engaging with the history of communities under colonial rule, especially for Central Africa, but also beyond." -- Alexander Keese * Social History *"The interpretation in this splendid work is a decisive contribution to understanding the jumble of desires, interests, discourses and images in the colonial and post-colonial history of this country, as well as the psychic life of its history." -- Roberto Beneduce * Journal of Asian and African Studies *"Hunt provides a bricolage of archives, memories, and traces that is more than the sum of its parts. In so doing, she demonstrates in this deeply researched and assiduously analyzed work that the history of colonial Congo is much more than the haunted legacy of its violent inception." -- Matthew M. Heaton * American Historical Review *"In contrast to much popular work on the Congo, this book rejects using catastrophe and crisis as the main narratives to order Congolese history. Without denying the violence of Leopold II’s regime and the Belgian colonial state, this study provides a much-needed sense of the diverse narratives of healing, anxiety, and opportunity that emerged in the decades following the end of the brutal reign of concessionary companies in the northwestern province of Equateur. . . . A Nervous State will take its place among the best works on African social and cultural history for years to come." -- Jeremy Rich * Journal of Social History *“Nancy Rose Hunt’s A Nervous State represents a pioneering work in African history, which will surely become a staple in advancing new frontiers for other narratives in the continent’s history.” -- Ben Weiss * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Registers of Violence 27 2. Maria N'koi 61 3. Emergency Time 95 4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks 135 5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic 167 6. Motion 207 Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings 237 Notes 255 Bibliography 309 Index 343

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Book SynopsisExploring the practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid, Anne-Maria Makhulu how these squatters engaged in an important form of resistance that helped to end apartheid.Trade Review"Making Freedom, an exciting and provocative book about Cape Town’s informal settlements during and after apartheid, engages precisely with the spaces between those foregrounded by official categories." -- Maxim Bolt * Anthropological Quarterly *"In so many ways, Making Freedom is a tour de force. Not only does it open up new ways to make sense of unauthorized squatting in struggling cities, it also challenges mainstream urban studies to look beyond negative stereotypes of so-called 'illegal' squatting. Makhulu weaves her analysis through all sorts of debates—informal work, selfbuilt housing, the “right to the city,” and many more. For this reason and more, Making Freedom is a book worth reading and engaging with." -- Martin J. Murray * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"A thoughtful, sobering and provocative read for anyone interested in the recent history of South Africa’s urban development on a highly political landscape.... Reading Making Freedom is an intersectional literary experience in its careful consideration of not only economics and politics but gender, race and culture." -- Lené Le Roux * Southeastern Geographer *"Makhulu’s recounts and comments with insight on the stories told by some squatters, mostly in respect of Crossroads.... There is much in this book that is of interest." -- Richard Tomlinson * American Historical Review *"Making Freedom is a strongly argued and well executed book. It is a great addition to the literature offering a stimulating and insightful analysis of Cape Town’s informal settlements, exploring the problems and contradictions at play, while posing important questions regarding freedom in post-apartheid South Africa." -- Matthew Graham * Social History *"Makhulu’s book is a major contribution to apartheid and post-apartheid housing studies. The book’s major strength comes from learning from the squatters themselves about how they made freedom and home in urban South Africa. . . . The book is a great contribution to the historiography of South African anthropology and history, among other disciplines, and it reminds us that making freedom and making home is what all societies struggle for irrespective of gender, class, race, religion and generation." -- Joyce M. Chadya * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue xi Introduction 1 1. Migrations 27 2. Counterinsurgency 63 3. Transitions 95 4. "Reckoning" 129 Conclusion. Making Freedom 153 Notes 169 References 199 Index 221

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Book SynopsisIn Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water.Trade Review"Pipe Politics, Contested Waters is a vividly detailed ethnography of Mumbai captured in its policy, institutions, infrastructure, and everyday sociopolitical practices associated with the capture, delivery, and distribution of water. . . . The subject of water is multidisciplinary in approach and is best viewed through the holistic lens of anthropology. This work is a rare addition to the literature." -- Namika Raby * American Anthropologist *"Björkman shows how a slum gets produced through the regulation of its water infrastructure and how this production is central to the city’s redevelopment schemes....Mumbai has long been portrayed and understood as a city of extreme wealth and poverty, epitomized in the visual of a luxury high-rise surrounded by a moat of slums. The politics of water as illustrated in this book cracks open this image by showing just how connected they are." -- Rashmi Sadana * American Ethnologist *“Björkman engages comprehensively with this gulf and covers a vast terrain, unfolding an intriguing plot of urban infrastructure politics. . . . The book is a brilliant piece of work.” -- Srinivas Chokkakula * Journal of South Asian Studies *"This is a very impressive book, one that makes a significant contribution to the literatures on urban infrastructures, water politics and urbanization in the global South. Immersing the reader in the politics of water infrastructures is very effective in showing how the ‘big’ politics of global-city making ultimately and inevitably become bound up in context-specific politics." -- Ross Beveridge * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"[Pipe Politics, Contested Waters] overflows with novel insights on the significance of knowledge infrastructures within material networks; the workings of local politics; and the unforeseen consequences of economic reforms. It deserves to be widely read by infrastructure scholars, political anthropologists, and students of Indian political economy alike." -- Elizabeth Chatterjee * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Björkman’s account is remarkably innovative. . . . This book makes a pioneering contribution to the emerging fields of assemblage urbanism, infrastructure studies, and post-colonial urban theory." -- Tanya Matthan * Contemporary South Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Embedded Infrastructures 1 1. We Got Stuck in Between: Unmapping the Distribution Network 21 2. The Slum and Building Industry: Marketizing Urban Development 62 3. You Can't Stop Development: Hydraulic Shambles 82 4. It Was Like That from the Beginning: Becoming a Slum 98 5. No Hydraulics Are Possible: Brokering Water Knowledge 128 6. Good Doesn't Mean You're Honest: Corruption 165 7. If Water Comes It's Because of Politics: Power, Authority, and Hydraulic Spectacle 198 Conclusion: Pipe Politics 227 Appendix: Department of Hydraulic Engineering 235 Notes 237 References 267 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women?Trade Review"The Mission District is very much a part of this narrative. Knight understands that individual women’s stories do not exist in a vacuum within the city; they speak volumes about the gentrification to the area unhinted-at in the book’s title, the new people moving in, the private 'Google buses' that shuttle tech workers to their well-paid jobs. ... This is a sobering, poignant ethnography that affords dignity to women whose lives are stripped of it by a system that has let them down." -- Lisa McKenzie * Times Higher Education *"Addicted.pregnant.poor is a poignant read. Knight describes a range of conflicting emotions elicited throughout the course of her research. She depicts the ambivalent feelings of the array of professionals included in the study; her book evokes similar responses in the reader. Throughout the book, Knight poses reflexive questions for which there are no clear answers. While we see the perspective of pregnant addicts, as well as of those whose life’s work is to aid or manage them, the reader is left confounded regarding viable solutions.Yet, with this thorough treatment of the issues faced by addicted pregnant women and their service providers, there is now more contextualized information for professionals and policy-makers to work with. This book is a valuable resource for all stakeholders and should be a staple for everyone involved in work with pregnant addicts." -- Kalynn Amundson * Journal of Children and Poverty *"Addicted.pregnant.poor is the sort of ethnography you start reading and don’t put down again until it’s finished. ... an honest and often harrowing account of women who have quite literally fallen through the cracks." -- Kirsten Bell * Somatosphere *"Knight’s capacity for storytelling is a significant strength of this book. Through a combination of ethno-photography and strategic integration of strikingly vivid verbatim field notes, she adds colorful context to her analysis. The field notes really allow the women’s voices to be heard in a way that enables the reader to vicariously experience the pain of child loss, eviction from the daily rent hotel rooms, public benefit denial, arrests, and the literal highs and lows of cyclical drug use. ... This book clearly highlights the discrepancies between intent and impact so that social workers, as well as other professionals, can reflect on where they have been going wrong and identify new approaches for intervention with women at risk for addiction, poverty, and the lack of good health care when pregnant." -- Janaé E. Bonsu * Affilia *"Knight has succeeded in focusing an ethnographic lens on a rarely studied group of people: drug-using women who are pregnant and living in daily rent hotels. . . .The author makes excellent use of powerful photos of life in the hotels, wisely not including pictures of the women themselves. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries." -- I. Glasser * Choice *"This evocative text is a masterful synthesis of sincerity and sophistication, intensely self-reflexive, making for an exemplary text for graduate seminars in qualitative, ethnographic methodology." -- Nancy Campbell * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Overall, this book is a wonderful contribution to the anthropology of addiction and of homelessness, with a specific focus on gender that is unique and far-reaching. Knight succeeds in humanizing a population that is continually judged, disregarded, and rendered as a failure." -- Parsa Bastani * Association for Feminist Anthropology *"Reading addicted.pregnant.poor is stressful, not because the reader can expect the drama of a clear resolution to the women’s troubles, but precisely because she cannot. Knight’s attention to multifaceted truths, to conflict, and to incongruous realities shines in her outright refusal to engage in simplification and reduction." -- Andrea Grimes * Women's Review of Books *"addicted.pregnant.poor. is a potent and sensitive account of the struggles of these women's pregnancy, poverty and addiction, vividly captured with compelling field note extracts and photographs taken by the author, and will be of interest to the fields of medicine, psychology, anthropology, social work, social policy and sociology." -- Naomi Rudoe * Women's Studies International Forum *"With its horrifying portrayal of gender, addiction, and reproduction, addicted.pregnant.poor could easily have crossed the border into ethnoporn. Instead, Kelly Ray Knight critiques ineffectual policies to address these issues against the gentrifying Mission District in San Francisco. Knight, a former public health outreach worker who spent four years conducting research there, offers a cogent and detailed discussion of just how ridiculously difficult it is to be pregnant, to be poor, and to be addicted." -- Dana-Ain Davis * American Ethnologist *"[T]he book eloquently illustrates the sobering reality for poor women living in daily-rent hotels who face societal pressure, stigma, and legal policies that keep them in a state of uncertainty and varying degrees of stability. Knight’s straightforward writing and carefully thorough documentation capture the complexities, triumphs, and limitations that women encounter." -- Erika Derkas * Journal of Anthropological Research *"This is high-quality, feminist research, and it can be held up as an example of exceptional qualitative social science research methods. All at once this book is breathtaking, gritty, difficult to read, yet also hopeful." -- Sheila Katz * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Consumption and Insecurity 33 2. Addicted Pregnancy and Time 68 3. Neurocratic Futures in the Disability Economy 102 4. Street Psychiatrics and New Configurations of Madness 125 5. Stratified Reproduction and the Kin of Last Resort 151 6. Victim-Perpetrators 178 Conclusion 206 Appendix 240 Notes 247 Bibliography 279 Index 297

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Book SynopsisIn this primer on the history of money, Bill Maurer explores the implications of how technology is changing how we use money and argues that understanding and considering how we would like to pay gives us insight into determining how we would like to live.Trade Review"In the end, How Would You Like to Pay? is of interest less for what it says about the future (the author makes no predictions -- which, given the Isis debacle, seems prudent) than for how it encourages the reader to pay attention to nuances of the present. It’s a primer of the anthropological imagination -- and a reminder that money is too important a matter to leave to the economists." -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *"This little book is the exact size it needed to be to explore the array of new payment methods, currencies and other money technology innovations that have erupted over the past decade, alongside with more accessible and cheaper smartphone, tablet and other communications and computing technologies.... Entering electronic money contracts without understanding the problems and solutions they represent is risky both for the isolated farmer in Kenya and for a Silicon Valley executive, so both would benefit from this book." -- Anna Faktorovich * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *"As an anthropologist, Bill Maurer has spent the past two decades researching the cultural and social dynamics of money. In his latest book, he manages to condense his life’s research into one gripping, bite-sized read that is accessible to a diverse range of readers from the artist and software programmer to the financial regulator or economist." -- Scott Burns * The Independent Review *"Maurer’s latest book is a . . . highly accessible introduction to the complex topic of payment systems. Written in an engagingly informal style accompanied by eye-catching photographs, it is an excellent teaching resource that will surely become a standard feature of reading lists in undergraduate courses in economic anthropology and the anthropology of finance and money." -- John Cox * Anthropological Forum *"Maurer’s volume is beautifully produced and pocket-sized, with lots of sharp illustrations in full colour and generous spacing.... Maurer’s book is for anyone interested in the future of money. That is a lot of people. It aims to surprise readers by approaching money in ways that are at once counter-intuitive and familiar." -- Keith Hart * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Bill Maurer’s short, pocket-sized, succinct, lively, and sharply clear book on a vast and varied topic—the history and practice of monetary payments, worldwide—works like a skillfully cut gemstone. Keep turning, keep noticing new facets of the complexly brilliant entity that is money, as perceived and crafted for accessible view by an expert in reaching a wide and varied audience." -- Jane I. Guyer * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Who This Book Is For 1 1. Disruptions in Money 17 2. What Is Money? 37 3. Two Scenarios: A Day in the Money Life 51 4. The Evolution of Money 63 5. Use Cases for Money 79 6. What's in Your Wallet? 95 7. What Can You Do with a Mobile Phone? 107 8. Airtime 119 9. Monetary Repertoires 129 For Further Reading 145 Index 153

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Book SynopsisWith an adventurous writing style, Anand Pandian explores the transformative potential of cinema, following Tamil films from the spark of artistic impulse through their production, marketing, and reception to show how cinema recasts the ordinary experience of everyday life.Trade Review"[A] delightful combination of thought and description is a unique ethnographic account that is both autobiographical and participant-observational. ... In this book, we are made privy to this enigmatic and elusive interface between the creator and the nothingness that confronts him/her in the act of creation." -- C.S. Venkiteswaran * Frontline *"Decoding the phantasmagoria on-screen while navigating the labyrinthine networks of India’s Tamil cinema calls for inspired writing. Thankfully, the cicerone who takes us through these oneiric protean worlds can reconcile the recondite with the banal, the sublime with the quotidian, and the real with the mythological… The taut prose, the espial documentation, and cogitations make Reel World a work of superfluous quality.” -- Kumuthan Maderya * PopMatters *"Reel World is probably unlike any book on cinema production you have read. It takes seriously the felt reality of the myriad of writers, directors, producers, assistants, art directors, painters, ADR artists, lyricists—name the craftsperson—that collectively bring to the screen 800 or so films annually out of 'Kollywood.' . . . The book sifts expertly and enigmatically across all three levels: daily life, cinematic life and life in the universal. Reel World is actually Pandian’s anthropological paean to creation." -- Ritesh Mehta * MovieMaker *"Pandian delivers an adventurous and boldly written pursuit of how ideas become the sights, sounds, stories, emotions, and realities that flicker onscreen in a movie.” -- Bret McCabe * Johns Hopkins Magazine *"In this book, which follows the various paths through which Tamil films are made, another kind of dream emerges—one that allows us to re-envision the anthropological (by which I mean the human) project as one concerned with learning to open oneself to the wild world beyond what we think we can control.” -- Eduardo Kohn * Somatosphere *"Pandian interweaves the insights of an exceptional variety of thinkers, from medieval Indian poets, European philosophers, and anthropologists to South Asianists, film scholars, and critics.... [O]ne of the book’s delights remains the frolic across time, genre, discipline, field, and emotions that these many references gather and synthesize." -- Sara Dickey * American Ethnologist *"Pandian’s writing simulates the formal properties of cinema, conjuring the sounds and sights of films many of us may never see, but feel as though we have seen through his writing, while intimating that much of our apprehension of the world is already irrevocably cinematic.” -- Stephanie Spray * Somatosphere *"[A]n engaging text that introduces the reader to the film industry of a distinct cultural landscape in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu." -- Aparna Sharma * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsForeword / Walter Murch ix Note to the Reader, also a Listener and Seer xvii 1. Reel World 1 2. Dreams 21 3. Hope 37 4. Space 53 5. Art 69 6. Love 85 7. Desire 99 8. Light 107 9. Color 121 10. Time 135 11. Imagination 151 12. Pleasure 167 13. Sound 181 14. Voice 199 15. Rhythm 205 16. Speed 219 17. Wonder 237 18. Fate 251 19. An Anthropology of Creation 267 Acknowledgments 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 313 Index 329

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Book SynopsisNancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism.Trade Review"Hunt demonstrates how her use of interdisciplinary methods—archival, oral historical, literary, and ethnographic—and unconventional materials provides provocative insights into the colonial history of the Congo." -- Elisha P. Renne * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"The book’s synthetic range, historical detail, and conceptual density...make it highly appropriate for graduate work, and essential in equatorial African studies....an exemplary venture in medical anthropology and a truly rich set of resources for those of us engaging such questions in our own thought and research." -- David Eaton * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This is a book that is brimming with tensions: historiographical, epistemological, sensorial, emotional. It is alive with them, both in the material that Nancy Rose Hunt uncovers and in her manner of relaying her subject to the reader." -- Richard C. Keller and Emer Lucey * Somatosphere *"A Nervous State is an extraordinary book. Its empirical richness is obvious—the number and variety of different sources that Hunt has drawn upon, and the attention that she has paid to all these sources. Diaries and colonial archives, Lomongo language pamphlets and school essays, photographs, epic poems and dances—all of them receive the same, patient, highly sympathetic, but also questioning, persistent, and often quietly skeptical, scrutiny. Versions of events are presented, and new vistas open up, yet this is also a judicious book where the conclusions never push beyond what the evidence will support." -- Joe Trapido * Somatosphere *"Nancy Rose Hunt’s latest book beats, breathes, quivers and unsettles. Her writing brims with the curiosity and rigour that evidently fuels her meticulous tracing of neglected archival materials. Also palpable are the insight and sensitivity that enable her to encapsulate both the changing machinations of a biopolitical state, and the ‘therapeutic insurgencies’ of ordinary Congolese. However, it is Hunt’s attention to sensation and to perception, what one might call her scholarly synaesthesia—her ability to read the archives with an attentive ear, to read ‘dynamics of combat through acoustics of hushed silence and sadistic laughter,' for example—that renders her work so compelling for an anthropologist of Equateur and of the senses." -- Lys Alcayna-Stevens * Somatosphere *"The interpretation in this splendid work is a decisive contribution to understanding the jumble of desires, interests, discourses and images in the colonial and post-colonial history of this country, as well as the psychic life of its history." -- Roberto Beneduce * Journal of Asian and African Studies *"A Nervous State provides a complex history of Colonial Congo; it is a huge contribution to African Studies and anthropology." -- Charles Tshimanga * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"A Nervous State is certainly one of the most elegant books I have seen over the last years and an impressive attempt at entangling, and at discussing entangled, narratives. . . . This book is certainly 'a must' for everyone engaging with the history of communities under colonial rule, especially for Central Africa, but also beyond." -- Alexander Keese * Social History *"The interpretation in this splendid work is a decisive contribution to understanding the jumble of desires, interests, discourses and images in the colonial and post-colonial history of this country, as well as the psychic life of its history." -- Roberto Beneduce * Journal of Asian and African Studies *"Hunt provides a bricolage of archives, memories, and traces that is more than the sum of its parts. In so doing, she demonstrates in this deeply researched and assiduously analyzed work that the history of colonial Congo is much more than the haunted legacy of its violent inception." -- Matthew M. Heaton * American Historical Review *"In contrast to much popular work on the Congo, this book rejects using catastrophe and crisis as the main narratives to order Congolese history. Without denying the violence of Leopold II’s regime and the Belgian colonial state, this study provides a much-needed sense of the diverse narratives of healing, anxiety, and opportunity that emerged in the decades following the end of the brutal reign of concessionary companies in the northwestern province of Equateur. . . . A Nervous State will take its place among the best works on African social and cultural history for years to come." -- Jeremy Rich * Journal of Social History *“Nancy Rose Hunt’s A Nervous State represents a pioneering work in African history, which will surely become a staple in advancing new frontiers for other narratives in the continent’s history.” -- Ben Weiss * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Registers of Violence 27 2. Maria N'koi 61 3. Emergency Time 95 4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks 135 5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic 167 6. Motion 207 Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings 237 Notes 255 Bibliography 309 Index 343

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Book SynopsisExploring the practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid, Anne-Maria Makhulu how these squatters engaged in an important form of resistance that helped to end apartheid.Trade Review"Making Freedom, an exciting and provocative book about Cape Town’s informal settlements during and after apartheid, engages precisely with the spaces between those foregrounded by official categories." -- Maxim Bolt * Anthropological Quarterly *"In so many ways, Making Freedom is a tour de force. Not only does it open up new ways to make sense of unauthorized squatting in struggling cities, it also challenges mainstream urban studies to look beyond negative stereotypes of so-called 'illegal' squatting. Makhulu weaves her analysis through all sorts of debates—informal work, selfbuilt housing, the “right to the city,” and many more. For this reason and more, Making Freedom is a book worth reading and engaging with." -- Martin J. Murray * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"A thoughtful, sobering and provocative read for anyone interested in the recent history of South Africa’s urban development on a highly political landscape.... Reading Making Freedom is an intersectional literary experience in its careful consideration of not only economics and politics but gender, race and culture." -- Lené Le Roux * Southeastern Geographer *"Makhulu’s recounts and comments with insight on the stories told by some squatters, mostly in respect of Crossroads.... There is much in this book that is of interest." -- Richard Tomlinson * American Historical Review *"Making Freedom is a strongly argued and well executed book. It is a great addition to the literature offering a stimulating and insightful analysis of Cape Town’s informal settlements, exploring the problems and contradictions at play, while posing important questions regarding freedom in post-apartheid South Africa." -- Matthew Graham * Social History *"Makhulu’s book is a major contribution to apartheid and post-apartheid housing studies. The book’s major strength comes from learning from the squatters themselves about how they made freedom and home in urban South Africa. . . . The book is a great contribution to the historiography of South African anthropology and history, among other disciplines, and it reminds us that making freedom and making home is what all societies struggle for irrespective of gender, class, race, religion and generation." -- Joyce M. Chadya * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue xi Introduction 1 1. Migrations 27 2. Counterinsurgency 63 3. Transitions 95 4. "Reckoning" 129 Conclusion. Making Freedom 153 Notes 169 References 199 Index 221

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Book SynopsisIn Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water.Trade Review"Pipe Politics, Contested Waters is a vividly detailed ethnography of Mumbai captured in its policy, institutions, infrastructure, and everyday sociopolitical practices associated with the capture, delivery, and distribution of water. . . . The subject of water is multidisciplinary in approach and is best viewed through the holistic lens of anthropology. This work is a rare addition to the literature." -- Namika Raby * American Anthropologist *"Björkman shows how a slum gets produced through the regulation of its water infrastructure and how this production is central to the city’s redevelopment schemes....Mumbai has long been portrayed and understood as a city of extreme wealth and poverty, epitomized in the visual of a luxury high-rise surrounded by a moat of slums. The politics of water as illustrated in this book cracks open this image by showing just how connected they are." -- Rashmi Sadana * American Ethnologist *“Björkman engages comprehensively with this gulf and covers a vast terrain, unfolding an intriguing plot of urban infrastructure politics. . . . The book is a brilliant piece of work.” -- Srinivas Chokkakula * Journal of South Asian Studies *"This is a very impressive book, one that makes a significant contribution to the literatures on urban infrastructures, water politics and urbanization in the global South. Immersing the reader in the politics of water infrastructures is very effective in showing how the ‘big’ politics of global-city making ultimately and inevitably become bound up in context-specific politics." -- Ross Beveridge * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"[Pipe Politics, Contested Waters] overflows with novel insights on the significance of knowledge infrastructures within material networks; the workings of local politics; and the unforeseen consequences of economic reforms. It deserves to be widely read by infrastructure scholars, political anthropologists, and students of Indian political economy alike." -- Elizabeth Chatterjee * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Björkman’s account is remarkably innovative. . . . This book makes a pioneering contribution to the emerging fields of assemblage urbanism, infrastructure studies, and post-colonial urban theory." -- Tanya Matthan * Contemporary South Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Embedded Infrastructures 1 1. We Got Stuck in Between: Unmapping the Distribution Network 21 2. The Slum and Building Industry: Marketizing Urban Development 62 3. You Can't Stop Development: Hydraulic Shambles 82 4. It Was Like That from the Beginning: Becoming a Slum 98 5. No Hydraulics Are Possible: Brokering Water Knowledge 128 6. Good Doesn't Mean You're Honest: Corruption 165 7. If Water Comes It's Because of Politics: Power, Authority, and Hydraulic Spectacle 198 Conclusion: Pipe Politics 227 Appendix: Department of Hydraulic Engineering 235 Notes 237 References 267 Index 277

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Book SynopsisZoë H. Wool explores how the most severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rehabilitating at Walter Reed Medical Center—whether recovering from losing a limb or sustaining a traumatic brain injury—struggle to build some kind of ordinary life in a situation that is anything but ordinary.Trade Review"For anyone looking for an intimate depiction of military trauma or scholars looking for a strong example of how the rising generation of anthropologists are writing about violence, After War is a must read." -- Christopher Webb * Somatosphere *"After War demands that we reckon with the ways violence lives on in even the most civilian and intimate of spaces. ... After War focuses narrowly on veterans, but in asking how we make the world inhabitable after world-altering violence, it points to the limits of medicalized understandings of trauma. If only some ways of being 'count' as posttraumatic, we miss the ways in which posttraumatic movement is a sensible reaction to violence." -- Emma Shaw Crane * Public Books *"...provocative and instructive. . . . Wool’s writing is relentless, and she has an evocative way of explicating contradiction such that vivid and unexpected intimacies snap into place. . . . In After War, Wool succeeds in significantly reworking notions of suffering as they are rendered in ethnographic accounts." -- Lauren Cubellis * Savage Minds *"Zoë Wool’s After War offers an ethnographically rich, theoretically nuanced, and compulsively readable analysis of the experiences of injured soldiers at one of the nation’s most iconic medical centers.... After War is an important addition to current anthropological studies of the body, health, disability, mental illness, conflict, and trauma, and would be an excellent addition for courses at the graduate or undergraduate level. It will also be of interest to scholars of contemporary military history, American Studies, and Disability Studies." -- Elizabeth Lewis * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"What sets this book apart are the detailed and interesting stories of wounded soldiers and their families attempting to return to the ordinary." -- R. I. Hooper * Choice *"After War is indispensable to the anthropological literature on the United States military and the country’s post-9/11 wars. . . . [A] compelling model for any scholar thinking about the politics and poetics of ethnographic representation of people whose bodies and identities are overdetermined in one way or another." -- Anna Zogas * Medicine Anthropology Theory *"This is an ethnography enriched by the kind of experiential detail only available from immersion. Wool captures the serendipitous moments—the arguments and indiscretions, the rants, confusion, frustration, and ever-present boredom—that are lost with quicker methodologies.... After War is not...an antiwar ethnography but a necessarily limited truth of war narrative that I highly recommend." -- Steven Gardiner * American Anthropologist *"[U]nlike earlier ethnographic studies, which focus on the 'symbolic, social, and institutional politics' of war injury, After War offers a uniquely intimate look at soldiers' embodied experiences and ordinary lives (4). For this reason alone, the book is a must-read for any serious scholar of disabled vets. . . . After War is an important contribution to the growing literature on the embodied legacies of war injury." -- John Matthew Kinder * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Zoë Wool’s ethnography of severely injured American soldiers recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital is, in a word, amazing." -- Pamela Moss * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. The Extra/ordinary Atmosphere of Walter Reed 25 2. A Present History of Fragments 63 3. The Economy of Patriotism 97 4. On Movement 131 5. Intimate Attachments and the Securing of Life 157 Conclusion 189 Notes 195 References 217 Index 233

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Book SynopsisIn Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson presents a complex reading of mathematics and the contested and myriad ways it is used by the Guatemalan state to marginalize indigenous populations as well as its use by indigenous peoples to critique systemic inequalities.Trade Review"...I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in Guatemala, postgenocidal reconstruction, environmental justice movements, or the social embeddedness of economic rationality." -- Rebecca Nelson * Anthropology Book Forum *"In the end, it is a meditation on both Guatemala and numbers that Nelson offers, and . . . for me her book succeeds on both counts." -- Douglas V. Porpora * American Ethnologist *"Diane Nelson has a special talent for capturing Guatemala’s complicated contradictions in artful and compelling ways.... Who Counts? is full of clever observations and insightful analysis. It is that rare academic book that is thoughtful and provocative while also delightful to read." -- Edward F. Fischer * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Without sacrificing intellectual rigor, the book is written in a conversational tone, making it an enjoyable read.... Scholars who study truth commissions and reparations, as well as those who investigate lived experiences of imperialism and neoliberalism, will find the book especially useful. In general, the book is highly recommended for readers interested in how numbers and counting systems organize social life and shape our understanding of the world." -- Brandi Townsend * The Latin Americanist *"A must-read for scholars of genocide, human rights, and Indigenous organizing throughout the Americas. . . . In this third book of what Nelson calls a genocide trilogy (263), she masterfully crafts an expansive analysis of Maya lifeways in precarious postwar Guatemala. Readers familiar with her previous work will recognize Nelson’s almost dizzying ability to weave together seemingly disconnected and discrete quotidian experiences with divergent theories to render a cogent, layered analysis that is intensified with each page of her book. . . . An ethnography that will resonate throughout the Americas." -- Brigittine M. French * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsPreface xi -1. Chapter Minus One 1 Part I. When You Count You Begin with 1, 2, 3 0. Bookkeeping 7 1. Before and After-Math 37 Part II. Bonesetting 2. The Algebra of Genocide 63 3. Reunion of Broken Parts 93 Part III. Mayan Pyramids 4. 100% Omnilife 121 5. Mayan Pyramid (Scheme) 157 Part IV. Yes to Life = NO to Mining 6. A Life's Worth 189 7. Beyond Adequacy 227 Notes 265 References 281 Index 297

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Book SynopsisIn Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores how Cuban raperos (black-identified rappers) in Havana craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship in the face of continuing racism and marginalization during an era in which the Cuban economy, society, and nationhood have been under constant flux.Trade Review"If you're not familiar with Cuban hip hop,Negro Soy Yo is an excellent starting point to get the wheels turning in your head, to start thinking about the music and all of the different places it is coming from, what it’s discussing and why. Perry has given us an excellent text to get people from outside of the island to consider how the music communicates things about society that we don’t get elsewhere." * Scratched Vinyl *"Negro Soy Yo makes a distinguished contribution to the study of raced citizenship and the performance of blackness through the self-fashioning of Cuban hip-hop." -- Melisa Riviére * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"A necessary guide for understanding the present and future of racialized social stratification [in Cuba]. . . . Perry’s most important contribution lies in how he unites the genealogy of Cuban hip-hop with that of the contemporary Cuban anti-racist movement and points sharply toward the political urgency of continued antiracist critiques in the present and future." -- Maya Berry * Latin American Music Review *"Negro Soy Yo provides an insightful and grassroots account of the Cuban hip hop movement’s discursive and affirmative evolution in an emerging neoliberal moment." -- Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Perry effectively cuts between lyrics, house parties, run-ins with the police, music festivals, conversations, and theoretical reflections in a multilayered 'raced ethnography' that glistens with his desire to describe an enormous range of details about life in neoliberal Cuba. . . . He contributes wonderfully to Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as African diaspora studies, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and ethnomusicology." -- Daniel Castro Pantoja & Jacob Rekedal * Latin American Research Review *“Perry’s study is an insightful and nuanced analysis of the Cuban hip-hop movement and an original take on the issue of race and youth culture in transitional post-Soviet Cuban society.” -- Daliany Jerónimo Kersh * International Journal of Cuban Studies *"For those not familiar with Afro-Cuban life, the book is an excellent introduction to such, as it intersects the fields of Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, and Ethnomusicology. . . . The beauty of Perry’s text is that it is an excellent book for those not on the island who do not know how the music communicates things about Afro-Cuban society. To date readers cannot get this aspect of Cuban hip hop anywhere else." -- Reginald A. Bess * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Raced Neoliberalism: Groundings for Hip Hop 29 2. Hip Hop Cubano: An Emergent Site of Black Life 57 3. New Revolutionary Horizons 91 4. Critical Self-Fashionings and Their Gendering 135 5. Racial Challenges and the State 171 6. Whither Hip Hop Cubano? 199 Postscript 235 Notes 239 References 255 Index 273

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Book SynopsisIn this primer on the history of money, Bill Maurer explores the implications of how technology is changing how we use money and argues that understanding and considering how we would like to pay gives us insight into determining how we would like to live.Trade Review"In the end, How Would You Like to Pay? is of interest less for what it says about the future (the author makes no predictions -- which, given the Isis debacle, seems prudent) than for how it encourages the reader to pay attention to nuances of the present. It’s a primer of the anthropological imagination -- and a reminder that money is too important a matter to leave to the economists." -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *"This little book is the exact size it needed to be to explore the array of new payment methods, currencies and other money technology innovations that have erupted over the past decade, alongside with more accessible and cheaper smartphone, tablet and other communications and computing technologies.... Entering electronic money contracts without understanding the problems and solutions they represent is risky both for the isolated farmer in Kenya and for a Silicon Valley executive, so both would benefit from this book." -- Anna Faktorovich * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *"As an anthropologist, Bill Maurer has spent the past two decades researching the cultural and social dynamics of money. In his latest book, he manages to condense his life’s research into one gripping, bite-sized read that is accessible to a diverse range of readers from the artist and software programmer to the financial regulator or economist." -- Scott Burns * The Independent Review *"Maurer’s latest book is a . . . highly accessible introduction to the complex topic of payment systems. Written in an engagingly informal style accompanied by eye-catching photographs, it is an excellent teaching resource that will surely become a standard feature of reading lists in undergraduate courses in economic anthropology and the anthropology of finance and money." -- John Cox * Anthropological Forum *"Maurer’s volume is beautifully produced and pocket-sized, with lots of sharp illustrations in full colour and generous spacing.... Maurer’s book is for anyone interested in the future of money. That is a lot of people. It aims to surprise readers by approaching money in ways that are at once counter-intuitive and familiar." -- Keith Hart * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Bill Maurer’s short, pocket-sized, succinct, lively, and sharply clear book on a vast and varied topic—the history and practice of monetary payments, worldwide—works like a skillfully cut gemstone. Keep turning, keep noticing new facets of the complexly brilliant entity that is money, as perceived and crafted for accessible view by an expert in reaching a wide and varied audience." -- Jane I. Guyer * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Who This Book Is For 1 1. Disruptions in Money 17 2. What Is Money? 37 3. Two Scenarios: A Day in the Money Life 51 4. The Evolution of Money 63 5. Use Cases for Money 79 6. What's in Your Wallet? 95 7. What Can You Do with a Mobile Phone? 107 8. Airtime 119 9. Monetary Repertoires 129 For Further Reading 145 Index 153

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Book SynopsisWith an adventurous writing style, Anand Pandian explores the transformative potential of cinema, following Tamil films from the spark of artistic impulse through their production, marketing, and reception to show how cinema recasts the ordinary experience of everyday life.Trade Review"[A] delightful combination of thought and description is a unique ethnographic account that is both autobiographical and participant-observational. ... In this book, we are made privy to this enigmatic and elusive interface between the creator and the nothingness that confronts him/her in the act of creation." -- C.S. Venkiteswaran * Frontline *"Decoding the phantasmagoria on-screen while navigating the labyrinthine networks of India’s Tamil cinema calls for inspired writing. Thankfully, the cicerone who takes us through these oneiric protean worlds can reconcile the recondite with the banal, the sublime with the quotidian, and the real with the mythological… The taut prose, the espial documentation, and cogitations make Reel World a work of superfluous quality.” -- Kumuthan Maderya * PopMatters *"Reel World is probably unlike any book on cinema production you have read. It takes seriously the felt reality of the myriad of writers, directors, producers, assistants, art directors, painters, ADR artists, lyricists—name the craftsperson—that collectively bring to the screen 800 or so films annually out of 'Kollywood.' . . . The book sifts expertly and enigmatically across all three levels: daily life, cinematic life and life in the universal. Reel World is actually Pandian’s anthropological paean to creation." -- Ritesh Mehta * MovieMaker *"Pandian delivers an adventurous and boldly written pursuit of how ideas become the sights, sounds, stories, emotions, and realities that flicker onscreen in a movie.” -- Bret McCabe * Johns Hopkins Magazine *"In this book, which follows the various paths through which Tamil films are made, another kind of dream emerges—one that allows us to re-envision the anthropological (by which I mean the human) project as one concerned with learning to open oneself to the wild world beyond what we think we can control.” -- Eduardo Kohn * Somatosphere *"Pandian interweaves the insights of an exceptional variety of thinkers, from medieval Indian poets, European philosophers, and anthropologists to South Asianists, film scholars, and critics.... [O]ne of the book’s delights remains the frolic across time, genre, discipline, field, and emotions that these many references gather and synthesize." -- Sara Dickey * American Ethnologist *"Pandian’s writing simulates the formal properties of cinema, conjuring the sounds and sights of films many of us may never see, but feel as though we have seen through his writing, while intimating that much of our apprehension of the world is already irrevocably cinematic.” -- Stephanie Spray * Somatosphere *"[A]n engaging text that introduces the reader to the film industry of a distinct cultural landscape in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu." -- Aparna Sharma * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsForeword / Walter Murch ix Note to the Reader, also a Listener and Seer xvii 1. Reel World 1 2. Dreams 21 3. Hope 37 4. Space 53 5. Art 69 6. Love 85 7. Desire 99 8. Light 107 9. Color 121 10. Time 135 11. Imagination 151 12. Pleasure 167 13. Sound 181 14. Voice 199 15. Rhythm 205 16. Speed 219 17. Wonder 237 18. Fate 251 19. An Anthropology of Creation 267 Acknowledgments 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 313 Index 329

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Book SynopsisZoë H. Wool explores how the most severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rehabilitating at Walter Reed Medical Center—whether recovering from losing a limb or sustaining a traumatic brain injury—struggle to build some kind of ordinary life in a situation that is anything but ordinary.Trade Review"For anyone looking for an intimate depiction of military trauma or scholars looking for a strong example of how the rising generation of anthropologists are writing about violence, After War is a must read." -- Christopher Webb * Somatosphere *"After War demands that we reckon with the ways violence lives on in even the most civilian and intimate of spaces. ... After War focuses narrowly on veterans, but in asking how we make the world inhabitable after world-altering violence, it points to the limits of medicalized understandings of trauma. If only some ways of being 'count' as posttraumatic, we miss the ways in which posttraumatic movement is a sensible reaction to violence." -- Emma Shaw Crane * Public Books *"...provocative and instructive. . . . Wool’s writing is relentless, and she has an evocative way of explicating contradiction such that vivid and unexpected intimacies snap into place. . . . In After War, Wool succeeds in significantly reworking notions of suffering as they are rendered in ethnographic accounts." -- Lauren Cubellis * Savage Minds *"Zoë Wool’s After War offers an ethnographically rich, theoretically nuanced, and compulsively readable analysis of the experiences of injured soldiers at one of the nation’s most iconic medical centers.... After War is an important addition to current anthropological studies of the body, health, disability, mental illness, conflict, and trauma, and would be an excellent addition for courses at the graduate or undergraduate level. It will also be of interest to scholars of contemporary military history, American Studies, and Disability Studies." -- Elizabeth Lewis * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"What sets this book apart are the detailed and interesting stories of wounded soldiers and their families attempting to return to the ordinary." -- R. I. Hooper * Choice *"After War is indispensable to the anthropological literature on the United States military and the country’s post-9/11 wars. . . . [A] compelling model for any scholar thinking about the politics and poetics of ethnographic representation of people whose bodies and identities are overdetermined in one way or another." -- Anna Zogas * Medicine Anthropology Theory *"This is an ethnography enriched by the kind of experiential detail only available from immersion. Wool captures the serendipitous moments—the arguments and indiscretions, the rants, confusion, frustration, and ever-present boredom—that are lost with quicker methodologies.... After War is not...an antiwar ethnography but a necessarily limited truth of war narrative that I highly recommend." -- Steven Gardiner * American Anthropologist *"[U]nlike earlier ethnographic studies, which focus on the 'symbolic, social, and institutional politics' of war injury, After War offers a uniquely intimate look at soldiers' embodied experiences and ordinary lives (4). For this reason alone, the book is a must-read for any serious scholar of disabled vets. . . . After War is an important contribution to the growing literature on the embodied legacies of war injury." -- John Matthew Kinder * Disability Studies Quarterly *"Zoë Wool’s ethnography of severely injured American soldiers recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital is, in a word, amazing." -- Pamela Moss * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. The Extra/ordinary Atmosphere of Walter Reed 25 2. A Present History of Fragments 63 3. The Economy of Patriotism 97 4. On Movement 131 5. Intimate Attachments and the Securing of Life 157 Conclusion 189 Notes 195 References 217 Index 233

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Book SynopsisIn Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson presents a complex reading of mathematics and the contested and myriad ways it is used by the Guatemalan state to marginalize indigenous populations as well as its use by indigenous peoples to critique systemic inequalities.Trade Review"...I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in Guatemala, postgenocidal reconstruction, environmental justice movements, or the social embeddedness of economic rationality." -- Rebecca Nelson * Anthropology Book Forum *"In the end, it is a meditation on both Guatemala and numbers that Nelson offers, and . . . for me her book succeeds on both counts." -- Douglas V. Porpora * American Ethnologist *"Diane Nelson has a special talent for capturing Guatemala’s complicated contradictions in artful and compelling ways.... Who Counts? is full of clever observations and insightful analysis. It is that rare academic book that is thoughtful and provocative while also delightful to read." -- Edward F. Fischer * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Without sacrificing intellectual rigor, the book is written in a conversational tone, making it an enjoyable read.... Scholars who study truth commissions and reparations, as well as those who investigate lived experiences of imperialism and neoliberalism, will find the book especially useful. In general, the book is highly recommended for readers interested in how numbers and counting systems organize social life and shape our understanding of the world." -- Brandi Townsend * The Latin Americanist *"A must-read for scholars of genocide, human rights, and Indigenous organizing throughout the Americas. . . . In this third book of what Nelson calls a genocide trilogy (263), she masterfully crafts an expansive analysis of Maya lifeways in precarious postwar Guatemala. Readers familiar with her previous work will recognize Nelson’s almost dizzying ability to weave together seemingly disconnected and discrete quotidian experiences with divergent theories to render a cogent, layered analysis that is intensified with each page of her book. . . . An ethnography that will resonate throughout the Americas." -- Brigittine M. French * Ethnohistory *Table of ContentsPreface xi -1. Chapter Minus One 1 Part I. When You Count You Begin with 1, 2, 3 0. Bookkeeping 7 1. Before and After-Math 37 Part II. Bonesetting 2. The Algebra of Genocide 63 3. Reunion of Broken Parts 93 Part III. Mayan Pyramids 4. 100% Omnilife 121 5. Mayan Pyramid (Scheme) 157 Part IV. Yes to Life = NO to Mining 6. A Life's Worth 189 7. Beyond Adequacy 227 Notes 265 References 281 Index 297

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Book SynopsisIn Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of the extreme social conflict and environmental degradation brought on by commercial gold mining.Trade Review"In sum, this book is a valuable addition to the specialist literature on mining and social change in Melanesia, but also written in a clear style that will be of great use in the classroom. I recommend Jacka’s accessible, straightforward ethnography to all readers." -- Alex Golub * Anthropology Book Forum *"[Alchemy in the Rain Forest] is an important contribution to environmental anthropology and political ecology. Jacka ultimately argues that the mine’s promises of development are as illusive as the alchemists’ quest for gold. What is unique about the book is not that ultimate assessment, but its exploration of the ways in which people who bear the greatest social and environmental harms of large-scale mining understand and navigate those changes." -- Jessica M. Smith * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Jacka provides a multifaceted examination of gold mining in Papua New Guinea and its social and cultural impacts during the second half of the twentieth century. While highlighting the important conflicts and tensions, the author firmly resists the temptation to embark on a morality tale of evil multinationals dispossessing people of their land and culture. On the contrary, he offers nuanced analysis based on both field-work interviews and historical archives." -- José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez * Ambix *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of a Resource Frontier 21 1. Resource Frontiers in the Montane Tropics 25 2. Colonialism, Mining, and Missionization 49 Part II. Indigenous Philosophies of Nature, Culture, and Place 77 3. Land: Yu 81 4. People: Wandakali 105 5. Spirits: Yama 129 Part III. Social-Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157 6. Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses 157 7. Social Dislocations: Work, Antiwork, and Highway Life 199 Conclusion: Development, Resilience, and the End of the Land 229 Notes 241 References 249 Index 269

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Book SynopsisIn Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action.Trade Review"This is a study of religious dynamism, as people update earlier symbolic behavior to seek fulfillment in ever-changing circumstances. Attention to west-central African dance histories and evocative descriptions of the author’s participation in performance events enrich the study, with a chapter on 'dancing disorder' during the dictatorial days of Mobutu Sese Seko among the book’s strongest contributions to humanistic Africanist literature. . . . Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries." -- A. F. Roberts * Choice *"Gesture and Power is an extraordinary work. . . . [It] provides serious and fertile historical and ethnographic material and offers a solid methodological format and an insightful perspective on African embodied politics and religious practices in both the past and the present." -- Annalisa Butticci * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"[Covington-Ward's] attention to the microdynamics of gesture brings the study of rite and ritual into the domain of the evetyday and highlights the profundity of common acts as makers of religious and political meaning. In doing so, she raises questions about position and positionality that are pertinent beyond the powerful dynamics of religion and politics in Congo." -- Emma Wild-Wood * Church History *"A tremendous amount of labor went into this study and the end product is a compelling, engaging, intelligent, and enjoyable text, a fine scholarly contribution to the literature on religion in Central Africa. Small wonder thus that the book is adorned with glowing endorsements on the back cover by such distinguished anthropologists of African religion as Paul Stoller and Bennetta Jules-Rosette." -- Terry Rey * Religion *"A fine blend of Congo’s colonial history, an impressive page of Cultural anthropology, an introduction to African body/performance studies, and a crisp work on sociology of religion. . . . One of the finest works on ethnography given its style of description, rich theoretical background, and methodology." -- Adfer Rashid Shah * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Gesture and Power 1 I. Performative Encounters, Political Bodies 1. Neither Native nor Stranger: Places, Encounters, Phophecies 37 II. Spirits, Bodies, and Performance in Belgian Congo 2. "A War between Soldiers and Prophets": Embodied Resistance in Colonial Belgian Congo, 1921 71 3. Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: Kingunza after Kimbangu 107 III. Civil Religion and Performed Politics in Postcolonial Congo 4. Dancing with the Invisible: Everyday Performances under Mobutu Sese Seko 137 5. Dancing Disorder in Mobutu's Zaire: Animation Politique and Gendered Nationalisms 165 IV. Re-creating the Past, Performing the Future 6. Bundu dia Kongo and Embodied Revolutions: Performing Kongo Pride, Transforming Modern Society 187 Conclusion: Privileging Gesture and Bodies in Studies of Religion and Power 227 Glossary 233 Notes 235 References 253 Index 275

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Book SynopsisIn Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine.Trade Review"Besteman eschews social science jargon to tell her story with great insight and empathy. Her book should be required reading for policymakers currently debating what to do with refugees from Syria." -- Nichola van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *"Given Besteman’s unique perspective on the Somali Bantu community in Lewiston and her impressive scholarship on refugees, Africa and racism, it would be difficult to imagine any scholar having as rich and multi-faceted a frame of reference on the issue of refugees in Maine. ... Besteman’s writing offers an in-depth and timely analysis of the Somali Bantu experience in Lewiston, now in its second decade." -- Dave Canarie * Portland Press Herald *"Tensions between newcomers and established communities are as old as the US itself, and Making Refuge is a rich account of what is gained and what is lost in becoming American. Think of this book as your ringside seat to the birth of a new shared meaning of 'life the way it should be.'" -- Faith Nibbs * Times Higher Education *"[S]cholarly yet accessible. . . . The book neither loses itself in despair nor politicizes what she treats as the wholly human drama that it is." -- Jim Breithaupt * Bookslut *"It is a devastating read, full of complex geopolitical realities, crushing social revelations regarding race and poverty in America, the seemingly insurmountable problems the Somali Bantu in particular face, and a general public prone to nasty blog comments and xenophobia." -- D. L. Mayfield * Books & Culture *"The book is highly accessible, engaging, ethnographically rich, and written with real sensitivity, qualities that will resonate well with students. The book will also be useful to policy makers, NGOs, and refugee service providers." -- Stephanie R. Bjork * American Anthropologist *"In a time marked by continuous talk about refugee crisis and a rise in anti-immigrant sentiments, Making Refuge forms an important contribution to a more nuanced understanding of displacement. Given the little ethnographically driven research there has been into the plight of Somali minority groups, the book also forms a significant historical document about a community in the making." -- Annika Lems * Society & Space *"Making Refuge is a superbly written, well-organized book with beautiful stories and photographs and sound but subtle theories that will make it a great book for undergraduates and graduate students and a must-read for anyone interested in refugees, human rights, the aftermaths of war and migration, race and ethnicity, and engaged anthropology." -- Jennifer Erickson * American Ethnologist *"Making Refuge is particularly relevant in a time when refugee resettlement is widely discussed, as it points to the flaws and contradictions of a system that expects refugees to be docile and thankful recipients of charity to gain resettlement but at the same time requires for them to become self-sufficient shortly after arriving in the country. Besteman offers many useful lessons to policy makers and those who provide services to refugees as well as students of immigrant incorporation." -- Cristina Ramos * African Studies Quarterly *"Besteman goes beyond simply portraying the lives of Somali Bantus in Lewiston, Maine and instead shows how the ethnic group ‘Bantu’ was created, along with the construction and dispute of the Bantu identity, both by those described as Bantus and those doing the labeling. . . . The richness of the data makes the community really come alive in the pages of the book." -- Bernadette Ludwig * Migration Studies *"Making Refuge deserves wide readership, both for its distinctive ethnographic foundations and salient conclusions. This timely work speaks to current controversies over refugees and resettlement with rich, data-driven analysis that shatters dominant narratives of integration and belonging." -- Emily Frazier * African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review *"Besteman’s book is the fruit of years of engagement with the people about whom she is writing, across two continents, allowing for a rich and intimate account which is a pleasure to read, seamlessly mixing the stories of particular individuals and families, more general analysis, and conceptual insight. A great strength of the account is its multidimensionality: close attention is paid to policy-making and bureaucratic processes, but also to the lived experiences and agency of refugees, and how they navigate these systems." -- Anna Lindley * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Powerful, persuasive, and illuminating, at once deeply intimate and broadly relevant. Making Refuge will interest students of all levels, professional anthropologists, members of the media, and an educated non-academic readership.” -- Daniel M. Goldstein * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Terms and Abbreviations ix Timeline of Events xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Refugees 1. Becoming Refugees 35 2. The Humanitarian Condition 57 3. Becoming Somali Bantus 77 Part II. Lewiston Introduction 103 4. We Have Responded Valiantly 115 5. Strangers in Our Midst 139 6. Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands 169 Part III. Refuge Introduction 205 7. Making Refuge 215 8. These Are Our Kids 243 Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be 277 Notes 291 References 313 Index 327

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Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of the Cancha mega-market in Cochabama, Bolivia, Daniel M. Goldstein examines what it means for the market's poorest vendors to maintain personal safety and economic stability by navigating systems of informality and illegality and how this dynamic is representative of the neoliberal modern city. Trade Review"... a cogent and compelling critique of how the move toward neoliberal economic policies has affected the lives of formal (those with fixed stalls) and informal (street) vendors." -- Arthur D. Murphy * American Ethnologist *"Weaving the background histories and theoretical discussions throughout the more narrative storytelling presentation, results in a thoughtful ethnography that contributes much to the field of anthropology as well as to the body of literature focused on markets in Latin America." -- Alana Nicole DeLoge * Bolivian Studies Journal *"By being transparent about his methodology and research experiences, he successfully breaks down conventions associated with academic writing. The result is a highly readable and engaging ethnography that showcases the daily struggles of men and women in the Cancha. . . . This book will be of value to Latin American specialists from multiple disciplines, including history, anthropology, and political science, as well as students seeking an inside look at the promises and pitfalls of ethnographic research in informal spaces." -- Nicole L. Pacino * Canadian Journal of History *"Goldstein’s narrative writing style, joined with short chapters and excellent accompanying photographs, make this book accessible to students at all levels. -- Kathleen Schroeder * Journal of Latin American Geography *"The book is a great read for scholars interested in Latin American cities, in issues of the street, in the informal economy, but also for scholars conducting original ethnographic work in diverse urban settings." -- Veronica Crossa * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Goldstein’s book is a must read for all students of informality and politics in cities of the South." -- Claire Benit-Gbaffou * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"A strong example of engaged anthropology. . . . This is a lovely ethnography that illuminates important elements of 'informality,' markets, and neoliberalism." -- Miriam Shakow * Journal of Anthropological Research *“An excellent study and a wonderful read. . . . Goldstein not only covers most of the important detail of a Latin American informal-sector market but does so in a way that allows one to feel the essence of its dynamism, creativity, and truth.” -- Peter M. Ward * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsPrologue ix Acknowledgements xiii 1. The Fire 1 2. Writing, Reality, Truth 10 3. Don Rafo 15 4. The Informal Economy 18 5. Nacho 25 6. The Bolivian Experiment 33 7. Meet the Press 42 8. The Colonial City: Cochabamba, 1574–1900 46 9. Conflicts of Interest 54 10. Decolonizing Ethnographic Research 58 11. A Visit to the Cancha 64 12. The Informal State 74 13. The Modern City: Cochabamba, 1900–1953 80 14. Market Space, Market Time 87 15. Carnaval in the Cancha 95 16. Security and Chaos 102 17. The Informal City: Cochabamba, 1953–2014 108 18. Convenios 117 19. Political Geography 122 20. Fieldwork in a Flash 131 21. Women's Work 139 22. Sovereignty and Security 148 23. Resisting Privatization 154 24. Don Silvio 161 25. Character 167 26. Exploitability 175 27. Market Men 182 28. Webs of Illegality 190 29. Men in Black 194 30. At Home in the Market 200 31. Owners of the Sidewalk 207 32. The Seminar 214 33. March of the Ambulantes 222 34. Complications 230 35. The Archive and the System 235 36. Goodbyes 240 37. Insecurity and Informality 246 Epilogue 252 Notes 257 References 293 Index 313

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Book SynopsisLesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Trade Review"Gill weaves together the historical development of the city’s power struggles and the devastation and suffering of the city, and boldly looks into the future. She presents a hauntingly honest assessment of past struggles and future opportunities. An invaluable addition to understanding Colombia and its social, political, and class struggles, as well as those of the region and the larger world. . . . Essential. All public and academic levels/libraries." -- A. E. Leykam * Choice *"Gill’s book will be a fundamental text for anyone interested in violence, politics, and the state in contemporary Latin America and for those seeking a model for doing and writing historical anthropology at its very finest." -- Daniel M. Goldstein * American Ethnologist *"Lesley Gill never loses sight of her focus on class as her principal analytical category. This is the book’s greatest contribution....She stresses the agency and resistance of trade unionists, activists, and city councilors despite relentless and violent political persecution." -- María Clemencia Ramírez * American Anthropologist *"Through ethnographic research and oral histories, Gill offers a nuanced portrait of right-wing paramilitary occupation of the city, highlighting divergent experiences and contradictory memories.... As an urban history spanning nearly a hundred years, A Century of Violence in a Red City thus illustrates how urban space is produced and configured through struggles over resources and power." -- Emma Shaw Crane * NACLA Report on the Americas *"Gill has made an incredibly complicated story accessible, interesting, and useful to anyone interested in understanding how the violent suppression of class and labour remains central to contemporary projects of rule. The story is as well told as it is tragic." -- Teo Ballvé * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Gill’s book contributes importantly to a literature in both English and Spanish, in the United States and in Colombia, that queries the complex nature of the relationships between the legitimate state and the parastate, between the army and the paramilitaries, all in the context of a neoliberal economy in which illicit drug production and trafficking play a central role. She skillfully elaborates a great deal about what is going on all over Colombia through the lens of one particular city." -- Les Field * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A Century of Violence in a Red City achieves its historically informed anthropology through Gill’s long-time engagement with the city’s activists and her deep knowledge of Latin American history. . . . Gill’s book helps us understand contemporary Colombia and is essential reading for anyone seeking to comprehend popular struggle in Latin America and its relation to broader patterns of capital accumulation." -- Johanna Pérez Gómez * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Black Gold, Militant Labor 29 2. Cold War Crucible 61 3. Terror and Impunity 95 4. Unraveling 123 5. Fragmented Sovereignty 152 6. Narrowing Political Options and Human Rights 183 7. The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency 216 Conclusion 237 Notes 249 References 263 Index 275

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Book SynopsisIn Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action.Trade Review"This is a study of religious dynamism, as people update earlier symbolic behavior to seek fulfillment in ever-changing circumstances. Attention to west-central African dance histories and evocative descriptions of the author’s participation in performance events enrich the study, with a chapter on 'dancing disorder' during the dictatorial days of Mobutu Sese Seko among the book’s strongest contributions to humanistic Africanist literature. . . . Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries." -- A. F. Roberts * Choice *"Gesture and Power is an extraordinary work. . . . [It] provides serious and fertile historical and ethnographic material and offers a solid methodological format and an insightful perspective on African embodied politics and religious practices in both the past and the present." -- Annalisa Butticci * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"[Covington-Ward's] attention to the microdynamics of gesture brings the study of rite and ritual into the domain of the evetyday and highlights the profundity of common acts as makers of religious and political meaning. In doing so, she raises questions about position and positionality that are pertinent beyond the powerful dynamics of religion and politics in Congo." -- Emma Wild-Wood * Church History *"A tremendous amount of labor went into this study and the end product is a compelling, engaging, intelligent, and enjoyable text, a fine scholarly contribution to the literature on religion in Central Africa. Small wonder thus that the book is adorned with glowing endorsements on the back cover by such distinguished anthropologists of African religion as Paul Stoller and Bennetta Jules-Rosette." -- Terry Rey * Religion *"A fine blend of Congo’s colonial history, an impressive page of Cultural anthropology, an introduction to African body/performance studies, and a crisp work on sociology of religion. . . . One of the finest works on ethnography given its style of description, rich theoretical background, and methodology." -- Adfer Rashid Shah * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Gesture and Power 1 I. Performative Encounters, Political Bodies 1. Neither Native nor Stranger: Places, Encounters, Phophecies 37 II. Spirits, Bodies, and Performance in Belgian Congo 2. "A War between Soldiers and Prophets": Embodied Resistance in Colonial Belgian Congo, 1921 71 3. Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: Kingunza after Kimbangu 107 III. Civil Religion and Performed Politics in Postcolonial Congo 4. Dancing with the Invisible: Everyday Performances under Mobutu Sese Seko 137 5. Dancing Disorder in Mobutu's Zaire: Animation Politique and Gendered Nationalisms 165 IV. Re-creating the Past, Performing the Future 6. Bundu dia Kongo and Embodied Revolutions: Performing Kongo Pride, Transforming Modern Society 187 Conclusion: Privileging Gesture and Bodies in Studies of Religion and Power 227 Glossary 233 Notes 235 References 253 Index 275

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Book SynopsisIn Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine.Trade Review"Besteman eschews social science jargon to tell her story with great insight and empathy. Her book should be required reading for policymakers currently debating what to do with refugees from Syria." -- Nichola van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *"Given Besteman’s unique perspective on the Somali Bantu community in Lewiston and her impressive scholarship on refugees, Africa and racism, it would be difficult to imagine any scholar having as rich and multi-faceted a frame of reference on the issue of refugees in Maine. ... Besteman’s writing offers an in-depth and timely analysis of the Somali Bantu experience in Lewiston, now in its second decade." -- Dave Canarie * Portland Press Herald *"Tensions between newcomers and established communities are as old as the US itself, and Making Refuge is a rich account of what is gained and what is lost in becoming American. Think of this book as your ringside seat to the birth of a new shared meaning of 'life the way it should be.'" -- Faith Nibbs * Times Higher Education *"[S]cholarly yet accessible. . . . The book neither loses itself in despair nor politicizes what she treats as the wholly human drama that it is." -- Jim Breithaupt * Bookslut *"It is a devastating read, full of complex geopolitical realities, crushing social revelations regarding race and poverty in America, the seemingly insurmountable problems the Somali Bantu in particular face, and a general public prone to nasty blog comments and xenophobia." -- D. L. Mayfield * Books & Culture *"The book is highly accessible, engaging, ethnographically rich, and written with real sensitivity, qualities that will resonate well with students. The book will also be useful to policy makers, NGOs, and refugee service providers." -- Stephanie R. Bjork * American Anthropologist *"In a time marked by continuous talk about refugee crisis and a rise in anti-immigrant sentiments, Making Refuge forms an important contribution to a more nuanced understanding of displacement. Given the little ethnographically driven research there has been into the plight of Somali minority groups, the book also forms a significant historical document about a community in the making." -- Annika Lems * Society & Space *"Making Refuge is a superbly written, well-organized book with beautiful stories and photographs and sound but subtle theories that will make it a great book for undergraduates and graduate students and a must-read for anyone interested in refugees, human rights, the aftermaths of war and migration, race and ethnicity, and engaged anthropology." -- Jennifer Erickson * American Ethnologist *"Making Refuge is particularly relevant in a time when refugee resettlement is widely discussed, as it points to the flaws and contradictions of a system that expects refugees to be docile and thankful recipients of charity to gain resettlement but at the same time requires for them to become self-sufficient shortly after arriving in the country. Besteman offers many useful lessons to policy makers and those who provide services to refugees as well as students of immigrant incorporation." -- Cristina Ramos * African Studies Quarterly *"Besteman goes beyond simply portraying the lives of Somali Bantus in Lewiston, Maine and instead shows how the ethnic group ‘Bantu’ was created, along with the construction and dispute of the Bantu identity, both by those described as Bantus and those doing the labeling. . . . The richness of the data makes the community really come alive in the pages of the book." -- Bernadette Ludwig * Migration Studies *"Making Refuge deserves wide readership, both for its distinctive ethnographic foundations and salient conclusions. This timely work speaks to current controversies over refugees and resettlement with rich, data-driven analysis that shatters dominant narratives of integration and belonging." -- Emily Frazier * African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review *"Besteman’s book is the fruit of years of engagement with the people about whom she is writing, across two continents, allowing for a rich and intimate account which is a pleasure to read, seamlessly mixing the stories of particular individuals and families, more general analysis, and conceptual insight. A great strength of the account is its multidimensionality: close attention is paid to policy-making and bureaucratic processes, but also to the lived experiences and agency of refugees, and how they navigate these systems." -- Anna Lindley * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Powerful, persuasive, and illuminating, at once deeply intimate and broadly relevant. Making Refuge will interest students of all levels, professional anthropologists, members of the media, and an educated non-academic readership.” -- Daniel M. Goldstein * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Terms and Abbreviations ix Timeline of Events xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Refugees 1. Becoming Refugees 35 2. The Humanitarian Condition 57 3. Becoming Somali Bantus 77 Part II. Lewiston Introduction 103 4. We Have Responded Valiantly 115 5. Strangers in Our Midst 139 6. Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands 169 Part III. Refuge Introduction 205 7. Making Refuge 215 8. These Are Our Kids 243 Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be 277 Notes 291 References 313 Index 327

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Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of the Cancha mega-market in Cochabama, Bolivia, Daniel M. Goldstein examines what it means for the market's poorest vendors to maintain personal safety and economic stability by navigating systems of informality and illegality and how this dynamic is representative of the neoliberal modern city. Trade Review"... a cogent and compelling critique of how the move toward neoliberal economic policies has affected the lives of formal (those with fixed stalls) and informal (street) vendors." -- Arthur D. Murphy * American Ethnologist *"Weaving the background histories and theoretical discussions throughout the more narrative storytelling presentation, results in a thoughtful ethnography that contributes much to the field of anthropology as well as to the body of literature focused on markets in Latin America." -- Alana Nicole DeLoge * Bolivian Studies Journal *"By being transparent about his methodology and research experiences, he successfully breaks down conventions associated with academic writing. The result is a highly readable and engaging ethnography that showcases the daily struggles of men and women in the Cancha. . . . This book will be of value to Latin American specialists from multiple disciplines, including history, anthropology, and political science, as well as students seeking an inside look at the promises and pitfalls of ethnographic research in informal spaces." -- Nicole L. Pacino * Canadian Journal of History *"Goldstein’s narrative writing style, joined with short chapters and excellent accompanying photographs, make this book accessible to students at all levels. -- Kathleen Schroeder * Journal of Latin American Geography *"The book is a great read for scholars interested in Latin American cities, in issues of the street, in the informal economy, but also for scholars conducting original ethnographic work in diverse urban settings." -- Veronica Crossa * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Goldstein’s book is a must read for all students of informality and politics in cities of the South." -- Claire Benit-Gbaffou * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"A strong example of engaged anthropology. . . . This is a lovely ethnography that illuminates important elements of 'informality,' markets, and neoliberalism." -- Miriam Shakow * Journal of Anthropological Research *“An excellent study and a wonderful read. . . . Goldstein not only covers most of the important detail of a Latin American informal-sector market but does so in a way that allows one to feel the essence of its dynamism, creativity, and truth.” -- Peter M. Ward * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsPrologue ix Acknowledgements xiii 1. The Fire 1 2. Writing, Reality, Truth 10 3. Don Rafo 15 4. The Informal Economy 18 5. Nacho 25 6. The Bolivian Experiment 33 7. Meet the Press 42 8. The Colonial City: Cochabamba, 1574–1900 46 9. Conflicts of Interest 54 10. Decolonizing Ethnographic Research 58 11. A Visit to the Cancha 64 12. The Informal State 74 13. The Modern City: Cochabamba, 1900–1953 80 14. Market Space, Market Time 87 15. Carnaval in the Cancha 95 16. Security and Chaos 102 17. The Informal City: Cochabamba, 1953–2014 108 18. Convenios 117 19. Political Geography 122 20. Fieldwork in a Flash 131 21. Women's Work 139 22. Sovereignty and Security 148 23. Resisting Privatization 154 24. Don Silvio 161 25. Character 167 26. Exploitability 175 27. Market Men 182 28. Webs of Illegality 190 29. Men in Black 194 30. At Home in the Market 200 31. Owners of the Sidewalk 207 32. The Seminar 214 33. March of the Ambulantes 222 34. Complications 230 35. The Archive and the System 235 36. Goodbyes 240 37. Insecurity and Informality 246 Epilogue 252 Notes 257 References 293 Index 313

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Book SynopsisIn Domesticating Organ Transplant Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico, where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity, national pride, and the role of women in creating the Mexican state.Trade Review"Crowley-Matoka’s semiotic-inspired approach successfully offers new insights into a growing body of anthropological work on organ transplantation." -- Parsa Bastani * Somatosphere *"Crowley-Matoka’s ethnographic evidence is compelling, and her sensitive examination of what are very often matters of life and death makes clear how intimate experiences reveal a good deal about life in contemporary Mexico and the politics of transplantation more generally." -- Lauren A. Wynne * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"If it is the duty of ethnography to complicate our understanding of the world, then Crowley-Matoka has more than fulfilled her responsibility.... The book’s great strength is the depth of interview material, often acquired under very difficult circumstances, and the modesty that the author brings to her own role as reporter." -- Donald Joralemon * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Domesticating Organ Transplant is an engaging and compelling ethnography that makes important contributions to the anthropology of transplant and medical anthropology." -- Cristina T. Bejarano * Anthropological Quarterly *"A remarkably well-written work of anthropology, enriched throughout with well-balanced, reflexive, and theoretically challenging insights.” -- Marie Le Clainche-Piel * Medicine Anthropology Theory *"Based on extensive fieldwork with patients, Crowley-Matoka offers a fascinating insight into how notions about motherhood, miracles and mestizos shape the ways in which lives are transformed by transplantation, and how the social and familial consequences reverberate for many years thereafter." -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *"A beautifully written and theoretically perceptive exploration of both the biological and existential realms, Crowley-Matoka’s study deserves a wide readership. It makes a significant contribution to scholarly literature on medical anthropology, bioethics, and moral politics in Mexico.... The book is a must-read for anyone interested in medical anthropology in Latin America." -- Steven J. Bachelor * The Latin Americanist *"A compelling ethnographic account of the cultural and biopolitical nature of kidney donation and transplantation in Mexico. . . . Given its ethnographic richness and depth of analysis, this book will appeal to multiple audiences, especially those interested in anthropological studies of health and biomedical practices in Latin America and the growing literature on organ transplant and its corporeal and cultural implications. This book is a robust, yet refined addition, to both these areas of inquiry." -- Shana Harris * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Giving Kidneys (Or Not) 1. Living Organ Donation, Bioavailability, and Ethical Domesticity 33 2. Cadaveric Organ Donation, Biounavailability, and Slippery States 65 Part II. Getting Kidneys (Or Not) 3. Being Worthy of Transplant, Embodying Transplant's Worth 109 4. The Unsung Story of Posttransplant Life 147 Part III. Framing Transplantation 5. Gifts, Commodities, and Analytic Icons in the Anthropological Lives of Organs 187 6. Scientists, Saints, and Monsters in Transplant Medicine 225 Coda 261 Notes 267 References 285 Index 307

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Book SynopsisIn Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages.Trade Review"[W]ith a breathtaking focus on the new, the emergent, the hybrid and the innovative (213), the book’s artworks, and the writing itself, bristle with energy.... This is a refreshingly sensitive and nuanced account that is a must-read not only for those interested in the specificities of emerging Indigenous artistic traditions in the Northern Territory and elsewhere, but also for those interested in the ongoing political, cultural and economic processes of so-called ‘settler’ societies across Australia and beyond." -- Peter Kilroy * LSE Review of Books *"Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation, by Jennifer Loureide Biddle, is a welcome addition to the literature on Indigenous Australian art, and more broadly to anthropologies of art, Indigenous Australia, and global Indigenous arts and aesthetics. I heartily recommend it to anyone in those fields, and would happily teach with it in anthropology, art history, art/artworlds, and museum studies." -- Sabra G. Thorner * Anthropological Quarterly *"Jennifer Loureide Biddle has dared to deal with a daunting, dazzling array of 'remote' art in its multiple forms and complex contexts. The result is a profound, far from dispassionate book which does justice to an extraordinary canon of art." -- Noelene Cole * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Remote Avant-Garde brilliantly revitalizes the literature on Aboriginal art by attending to fascinating experimental art practices and a fresh aesthetics emerging in remote Aboriginal communities. . . . [It] should be read not only by scholars interested in Aboriginal art but also anyone wanting to understand creative forms of political agency in colonial and postcolonial contexts." -- Rosita Henry * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Imperative to Experiment 1 1. Humanitarian Imperialism 21 Part I. Biliteracies 2. Tangentyere Artists 41 3. June Walkutjukurr Richards 77 4. Rhonda Unurupa Dick 91 Part II. Hapticities 5. Tjanpi Desert Weavers 109 6. Warnayaka Art: Yurlpa 139 7. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists 159 Part III. Happenings 8. Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route 181 9. The Warburton Arts Project 197 Epilogue: (Not) a "Lifestyle Choice" 217 Notes 221 Further Resources 233 References 235 Index 257

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Book SynopsisIn The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman tells the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and eco-tourism to create a theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are created, interpreted, and reconfigured. Trade Review"The Chicken and the Quetzal is exemplary of semiotic ethnography, a thriving genre in linguistic anthropology that details much more than the linguistic aspect of social life.... Its theoretical contribution to linguistic anthropology is significant, and it offers an invitation to dialogue with other ways of doing anthropology and social science.... I encourage you to read the book, to respond, and so to generate the value that the semiotic process produces, coined in the currency of social relationality." -- Christopher Ball * Anthropological Quarterly *"Kockelman is at his best when he deals with concrete examples, such as the cultural meaning embedded in language structures. It is these brilliant and illuminating insights that anthropological and historical specialists in Guatemala and elsewhere will find so thought-provoking." -- Michael D. Kirkpatrick * History: Reviews of New Books * "In The Chicken and the Quetzal, Kockelman proves that he is one of anthropology’s last great system-builders. His analytical framework can be applied to any ethnographic object, regardless of time or place. Moreover, its multiple elements are of a piece.... [P]ondering the lessons of The Chicken and the Quetzal is a worthwhile endeavour for any anthropologist, from the beginning student to the seasoned professor." -- Michael Cepek * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This volume is a brilliant in-depth analysis that repays rereading not only for its empirical observations, but also for its theoretical connections to classic works by Marx, Veblen, Pierce and others. Whilst Kockelman explores the construction of values deep in the Guatemalan Cloud Forest, with a little imagination his work can be translated to address research in developed world urban contexts where value creation has become a key focus of applied tourism research." -- Adrian R. Bailey * Tourism Management *"Paul Kockelman’s new book is an exhilarating read: the theoretical scope is ambitious, pulling together Peircian semiotics, neo-Marxist political economy, and Foucauldian critical studies, and the particular case study of a Maya Q’eqchi’ community’s interactions with foreign conservationists is compelling." -- Edward F. Fischer * Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *"Rather like the fanciful flight of the title’s resplendent quetzal, Kockelman soars into abstraction, dives through delightful tours of linguistic untangling, then cruises close to the ground, providing detailed ethnography of Maya women caring for their chickens and fending off chicken hawks. . . . This slim book is a big project,with a lot packed in. . . . It succeeds because of Kockelman’s careful attention and close reasoning sustained at every step in untangling the ensembles of value in objects and social relations." -- Abigail E. Adams * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Enclosure and Disclosure 1 1. NGOs, Ecotourists, and Endangered Avifauna: Immaterial Labor, Incommensurate Values, and Intersubjective Intentions 13 2. A Mayan Ontology of Poultry: Selfhood, Affect, and Animals 49 3. From Reciprocation to Replacement: Grading Use Value, Labor Power, and Personhood 87 4. From Measurement to Meaning: Standardizing and Certifying Homes and Their Inhabitance 125 Conclusion. Paths, Portability, and Parasites 157 Notes 171 References 177 Index 189

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Book SynopsisIn Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes a new paradigm for economic development in Mexico and Cuba that is predicated on the development of trust among the state, society, and each nation's resident Chinese diaspora communities, lest they get left behind in the twenty-first century economy. Trade Review"Hearn renders a book that is well researched, refined, important, and timely. Most impressive of all, Diaspora and Trust is accessible without lacking complexity or sophistication. It will appeal to academics and nonacademics equally." -- Dalia Antonia Muller * New West Indian Guide *"An important book. . . . Diaspora and Trust deserves thoughtful consideration from scholars of Asia's transpacific communities as well as those who study immigration, anthropology, and history." -- Grace Pena Delgado * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"A unique blending of macrolevel economic analysis and microlevel ethnographic work, Adrian Hearn moves fluidly between different scales of analysis, steeping readers in a discussion of international trade agreements and shifting national economic policies, while inviting them into the ramshackle building of a Chinese association in Havana’s barrio chino, or a Tijuana taxi cab where local actors humanize statistics and acronyms. . . . Well researched, refined, important, and timely. Most impressive of all, Diaspora and Trust is accessible without lacking complexity or sophistication. It will appeal to academics and nonacademics equally." -- Dalia Antonia Muller * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Cuba, China, and the Long March to the Market 29 2. Mexico, China, and the Politics of Trust 65 3. Havana's Chinatown and the Quest for Synergy 99 4. Trust and Treachery in Mexico's Chinese Diaspora 163 Conclusion. China and the Future of History 209 Notes 223 References 227 Index 255

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Book SynopsisIn White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life—the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia—to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege.Trade Review"White Innocence explains why white Dutch people seem unable to grasp the racism of Zwarte Piet: Assured of their own social progressivism, they can a priori think and therefore do no wrong. . . . Wekker concludes her work with a plea for 'another "embarrassment of riches,"' for acknowledging the racism staring us in the face. In the United States, we might start by recognizing that there is, and always has been, no more audacious identity politics than white identity politics, as Trump and his white-supremacist ilk gleefully demonstrate. At least the illusion of innocence has been stripped away. Or perhaps not?" -- Nick Barr Clingan * The Nation *"White Innocence exposes how Dutch racism is infused with classism, sexism, and homophobia in discussions of everyday racism that includes [Wekker's] own personal exoticization as a child and criminalization as an adult, TV talk shows and films, experiences of mixed-race families, white gay liberation that constitutes Dutch homonationalism . . . and the 'siloing' of gender and race/ethnicity in politics and academics that makes intersectional policy and scholarship impossible. In doing so, Wekker reveals the very real personal consequences for people of color when their very existence is in service of white people." -- Melissa F. Weiner * Journal of Anthropological Research *"White Innocence provides a welcome and thought-provoking impetus to think more acutely about the long-term impacts of imperialism, as well as about the interrelations between colonies and metropole." -- Bart Luttikhuis * History: Reviews of New Books *"White Innocence makes a significant contribution to the field of critical whiteness studies by examining the role of race, especially whiteness, and the legacy of colonialism in the present-day Netherlands." -- Shannon Sullivan * philoSOPHIA *"White Innocence is an enticing invitation to confront the contradictions of Dutch discourse on race, colonialism and violence. . . . Wekker’s work is of vital relevance for those willing to unlearn the legacy of colonialism." -- Lucía Berro Pizzarossa * European Journal of Women's Studies *"This book has been a long time coming. . . . An exemplary work of critical scholarship." -- Paul Mepschen * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "Suppose She Brings a Big Negro Home": Case Studies of Everyday Racism 30 2. The House That Race Built 50 3. The Coded Language of Hottentot Nymphae and the Discursive Presence of Race, 1917 81 4. Of Homo Nostalgia and (Post)Coloniality: Or, Where Did All the Critical White Gay Men Go? 108 5. "For Even Though I Am Black as Soot, My Intentions Are Good": The Case of Black Pete 139 Coda. "But What about the Captain?" 168 Notes 175 References 193 Index 215

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Book SynopsisLesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Trade Review"Gill weaves together the historical development of the city’s power struggles and the devastation and suffering of the city, and boldly looks into the future. She presents a hauntingly honest assessment of past struggles and future opportunities. An invaluable addition to understanding Colombia and its social, political, and class struggles, as well as those of the region and the larger world. . . . Essential. All public and academic levels/libraries." -- A. E. Leykam * Choice *"Gill’s book will be a fundamental text for anyone interested in violence, politics, and the state in contemporary Latin America and for those seeking a model for doing and writing historical anthropology at its very finest." -- Daniel M. Goldstein * American Ethnologist *"Lesley Gill never loses sight of her focus on class as her principal analytical category. This is the book’s greatest contribution....She stresses the agency and resistance of trade unionists, activists, and city councilors despite relentless and violent political persecution." -- María Clemencia Ramírez * American Anthropologist *"Through ethnographic research and oral histories, Gill offers a nuanced portrait of right-wing paramilitary occupation of the city, highlighting divergent experiences and contradictory memories.... As an urban history spanning nearly a hundred years, A Century of Violence in a Red City thus illustrates how urban space is produced and configured through struggles over resources and power." -- Emma Shaw Crane * NACLA Report on the Americas *"Gill has made an incredibly complicated story accessible, interesting, and useful to anyone interested in understanding how the violent suppression of class and labour remains central to contemporary projects of rule. The story is as well told as it is tragic." -- Teo Ballvé * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Gill’s book contributes importantly to a literature in both English and Spanish, in the United States and in Colombia, that queries the complex nature of the relationships between the legitimate state and the parastate, between the army and the paramilitaries, all in the context of a neoliberal economy in which illicit drug production and trafficking play a central role. She skillfully elaborates a great deal about what is going on all over Colombia through the lens of one particular city." -- Les Field * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A Century of Violence in a Red City achieves its historically informed anthropology through Gill’s long-time engagement with the city’s activists and her deep knowledge of Latin American history. . . . Gill’s book helps us understand contemporary Colombia and is essential reading for anyone seeking to comprehend popular struggle in Latin America and its relation to broader patterns of capital accumulation." -- Johanna Pérez Gómez * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Black Gold, Militant Labor 29 2. Cold War Crucible 61 3. Terror and Impunity 95 4. Unraveling 123 5. Fragmented Sovereignty 152 6. Narrowing Political Options and Human Rights 183 7. The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency 216 Conclusion 237 Notes 249 References 263 Index 275

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Book SynopsisIn Domesticating Organ Transplant Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico, where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity, national pride, and the role of women in creating the Mexican state.Trade Review"Crowley-Matoka’s semiotic-inspired approach successfully offers new insights into a growing body of anthropological work on organ transplantation." -- Parsa Bastani * Somatosphere *"Crowley-Matoka’s ethnographic evidence is compelling, and her sensitive examination of what are very often matters of life and death makes clear how intimate experiences reveal a good deal about life in contemporary Mexico and the politics of transplantation more generally." -- Lauren A. Wynne * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"If it is the duty of ethnography to complicate our understanding of the world, then Crowley-Matoka has more than fulfilled her responsibility.... The book’s great strength is the depth of interview material, often acquired under very difficult circumstances, and the modesty that the author brings to her own role as reporter." -- Donald Joralemon * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Domesticating Organ Transplant is an engaging and compelling ethnography that makes important contributions to the anthropology of transplant and medical anthropology." -- Cristina T. Bejarano * Anthropological Quarterly *"A remarkably well-written work of anthropology, enriched throughout with well-balanced, reflexive, and theoretically challenging insights.” -- Marie Le Clainche-Piel * Medicine Anthropology Theory *"Based on extensive fieldwork with patients, Crowley-Matoka offers a fascinating insight into how notions about motherhood, miracles and mestizos shape the ways in which lives are transformed by transplantation, and how the social and familial consequences reverberate for many years thereafter." -- Gavin O'Toole * Latin American Review of Books *"A beautifully written and theoretically perceptive exploration of both the biological and existential realms, Crowley-Matoka’s study deserves a wide readership. It makes a significant contribution to scholarly literature on medical anthropology, bioethics, and moral politics in Mexico.... The book is a must-read for anyone interested in medical anthropology in Latin America." -- Steven J. Bachelor * The Latin Americanist *"A compelling ethnographic account of the cultural and biopolitical nature of kidney donation and transplantation in Mexico. . . . Given its ethnographic richness and depth of analysis, this book will appeal to multiple audiences, especially those interested in anthropological studies of health and biomedical practices in Latin America and the growing literature on organ transplant and its corporeal and cultural implications. This book is a robust, yet refined addition, to both these areas of inquiry." -- Shana Harris * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Giving Kidneys (Or Not) 1. Living Organ Donation, Bioavailability, and Ethical Domesticity 33 2. Cadaveric Organ Donation, Biounavailability, and Slippery States 65 Part II. Getting Kidneys (Or Not) 3. Being Worthy of Transplant, Embodying Transplant's Worth 109 4. The Unsung Story of Posttransplant Life 147 Part III. Framing Transplantation 5. Gifts, Commodities, and Analytic Icons in the Anthropological Lives of Organs 187 6. Scientists, Saints, and Monsters in Transplant Medicine 225 Coda 261 Notes 267 References 285 Index 307

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Book SynopsisIn The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman tells the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and eco-tourism to create a theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are created, interpreted, and reconfigured. Trade Review"The Chicken and the Quetzal is exemplary of semiotic ethnography, a thriving genre in linguistic anthropology that details much more than the linguistic aspect of social life.... Its theoretical contribution to linguistic anthropology is significant, and it offers an invitation to dialogue with other ways of doing anthropology and social science.... I encourage you to read the book, to respond, and so to generate the value that the semiotic process produces, coined in the currency of social relationality." -- Christopher Ball * Anthropological Quarterly *"Kockelman is at his best when he deals with concrete examples, such as the cultural meaning embedded in language structures. It is these brilliant and illuminating insights that anthropological and historical specialists in Guatemala and elsewhere will find so thought-provoking." -- Michael D. Kirkpatrick * History: Reviews of New Books * "In The Chicken and the Quetzal, Kockelman proves that he is one of anthropology’s last great system-builders. His analytical framework can be applied to any ethnographic object, regardless of time or place. Moreover, its multiple elements are of a piece.... [P]ondering the lessons of The Chicken and the Quetzal is a worthwhile endeavour for any anthropologist, from the beginning student to the seasoned professor." -- Michael Cepek * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This volume is a brilliant in-depth analysis that repays rereading not only for its empirical observations, but also for its theoretical connections to classic works by Marx, Veblen, Pierce and others. Whilst Kockelman explores the construction of values deep in the Guatemalan Cloud Forest, with a little imagination his work can be translated to address research in developed world urban contexts where value creation has become a key focus of applied tourism research." -- Adrian R. Bailey * Tourism Management *"Paul Kockelman’s new book is an exhilarating read: the theoretical scope is ambitious, pulling together Peircian semiotics, neo-Marxist political economy, and Foucauldian critical studies, and the particular case study of a Maya Q’eqchi’ community’s interactions with foreign conservationists is compelling." -- Edward F. Fischer * Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *"Rather like the fanciful flight of the title’s resplendent quetzal, Kockelman soars into abstraction, dives through delightful tours of linguistic untangling, then cruises close to the ground, providing detailed ethnography of Maya women caring for their chickens and fending off chicken hawks. . . . This slim book is a big project,with a lot packed in. . . . It succeeds because of Kockelman’s careful attention and close reasoning sustained at every step in untangling the ensembles of value in objects and social relations." -- Abigail E. Adams * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Enclosure and Disclosure 1 1. NGOs, Ecotourists, and Endangered Avifauna: Immaterial Labor, Incommensurate Values, and Intersubjective Intentions 13 2. A Mayan Ontology of Poultry: Selfhood, Affect, and Animals 49 3. From Reciprocation to Replacement: Grading Use Value, Labor Power, and Personhood 87 4. From Measurement to Meaning: Standardizing and Certifying Homes and Their Inhabitance 125 Conclusion. Paths, Portability, and Parasites 157 Notes 171 References 177 Index 189

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Book SynopsisIn Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes a new paradigm for economic development in Mexico and Cuba that is predicated on the development of trust among the state, society, and each nation's resident Chinese diaspora communities, lest they get left behind in the twenty-first century economy. Trade Review"Hearn renders a book that is well researched, refined, important, and timely. Most impressive of all, Diaspora and Trust is accessible without lacking complexity or sophistication. It will appeal to academics and nonacademics equally." -- Dalia Antonia Muller * New West Indian Guide *"An important book. . . . Diaspora and Trust deserves thoughtful consideration from scholars of Asia's transpacific communities as well as those who study immigration, anthropology, and history." -- Grace Pena Delgado * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"A unique blending of macrolevel economic analysis and microlevel ethnographic work, Adrian Hearn moves fluidly between different scales of analysis, steeping readers in a discussion of international trade agreements and shifting national economic policies, while inviting them into the ramshackle building of a Chinese association in Havana’s barrio chino, or a Tijuana taxi cab where local actors humanize statistics and acronyms. . . . Well researched, refined, important, and timely. Most impressive of all, Diaspora and Trust is accessible without lacking complexity or sophistication. It will appeal to academics and nonacademics equally." -- Dalia Antonia Muller * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Cuba, China, and the Long March to the Market 29 2. Mexico, China, and the Politics of Trust 65 3. Havana's Chinatown and the Quest for Synergy 99 4. Trust and Treachery in Mexico's Chinese Diaspora 163 Conclusion. China and the Future of History 209 Notes 223 References 227 Index 255

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Book SynopsisIn Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Trade Review"Metabolic Living is an important contribution to contemporary medical anthropology, especially in regards to the study of disease chronicity and to contemporary South Asian studies. In addition, Solomon provides a welcome challenge to the existing universalizing public health discourse on 'globesity.' Even while describing the seeming inevitability of metabolic disease in Mumbai, he uncovers the complex elements of social life that contribute to and circulate around it, and the suffering that stems from it. The focus on metabolism and absorption opens up new ways of viewing intersections between bodies and their environments, as well as new ways of thinking about urban vitality in 21st century India." -- Andrea S. Wiley * Anthropological Quarterly *"The book offers a novel way to talk about metabolic illnesses in urban space, often directly or indirectly talking back to medical and public health discourses on food, bodies, and urban and urbanizing spaces.... The poetic humanity of metabolic precariousness in India is visible in every page of this rich ethnographic narrative, making it a valuable contribution to literatures in medical anthropology, science studies, area studies, food studies, and public health policy." -- Nayantara Sheoran Appleton * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“A wonderfully evocative ethnography, Solomon’s book makes one reflect on the very nature of metabolic syndrome.... Through this book, Solomon ... challeng[es] medical experts to consider a multi-layered approach to solving the issues of obesity and diabetes that plague contemporary India." -- Gauri Anilkumar Pitale * FoodAnthropology *"Pointing out that food is never just food—that it incorporates joyous and toxic social lives and historical traces—the book effectively shifts the conversation about metabolism away from junk food or obese bodies and towards absorptive and thoroughly social processes. Metabolic Living provides health-care professionals valuable insight into how people are living with metabolic illness." -- Emily Yates-Doerr * The Lancet *"In the sophistication of its crafting, Metabolic Living achieves its tricky aspiration to understand metabolism both as a tool for ethnographic observation and as a site of anthropological analysis. Indeed, it is this blurring of instrument and object, the ethnographer and the ethnographic, that gives Metabolic Living its persuasive force." -- Dwaipayan Banerjee * American Anthropologist *"This study is an excellent observation of current anxieties over prosperity diseases in urban India, locating the connections between food, bodies, and environments. While Solomon’s ethnographical accounts revolve around different sets of frameworks and narrations of common people, patients, nutritionists and experts, he cautiously avoided stigmatic fears and pain and presented metabolic suffering throughout within a cultural context." -- Santhosh Abraham * South Asia Research *"Solomon takes us through domestic kitchens and social service centers, slaughterhouses and food processing plants, streets and street-side food stalls, and waiting rooms and hospitals to provide nuanced and insightful descriptions of life in Mumbai." -- GauriI Pathak * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Metabolic Living is the first ethnographic monograph on the diabetes epidemic in South Asia, and this alone marks it as an important contribution to the study of health and illness in the subcontinent. It also provides an evocative and complex picture of being a person with a metabolic illness in Mumbai." -- Lesley Jo Weaver * Journal of Asian Studies *"Metabolic Living is a rich, ambitious book whose theoretical and ethnographic model builds bridges across chapters with disparate topics and actors. . . . For readers curious about how to research and write the complexities of embodiment – and are open to experimenting with how to get there – Metabolic Living is a productive and exhilarating read." -- Stephanie Maroney * Senses and Society *"Solomon’s book is compelling, palpable in fact, in its stories about the invisible and ineluctable ways that medicines or contaminants enter foods and bodies. The ethnography brings the reader into environments that are dangerous and mundane, pleasurable, and unalterable. Metabolic Living brings into focus the ways that people navigate these dynamic alchemies." -- Jessica Hardin * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1Interlude. Birthday Cakes 27 1. The Thin-Fat Indian 31Interlude. Mango Madness 65 2. The Taste No Chef Can Give 69Interlude. The Ration Card 99 3. Readying the Home 105Interlude. Stamps 141 4. Lines of Therapy 145Interlude. Waiting Room Walls 187 5. Gut Attachments 193 Conclusion. Metabolic Mumbai 225 Notes 235 Bibliography 253 Index 271

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-researched, provocative study, written for specialists rather than general readers, will be of considerable interest to students of ethnography, public history, and museum studies. Highly recommended." -- C. J. Weeks * Choice *"Geoffrey M. White has written a book that goes far beyond the events and commemoration of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the opening salvo that determined the US entry into World War II. White’s book addresses some of the most vital questions of remembering the past with a prose that is engaging, accessible, always pregnant with possibilities for new insights and with wide-ranging applications." -- Gretchen Engle Schafft * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"Geoffrey M. White’s study of memorial practices at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, makes a significant and unique contribution to the study of commemorating the past." -- John Bodnar * Journal of American History *"This is a book with many stories to tell. . . . White’s writing is masterful; demonstrating a rare gift for rendering complex themes and complicating received categories in flowing, accessible prose. There’s a surfeit of riches here difficult to do justice to, with nearly every page holding some nugget worthy of quotation or comment. Students of history and memory, museology, World War II, film and race, tourism and other themes too numerous to list will find exploring this book time well spent." -- Andrew J. Connelly * Pacific Affairs *"Memorializing Pearl Harbor is a welcome contribution to the field of historical reconciliation, which is broadening its horizons beyond the confines of the West. . . . It is a thoughtful ethnography that illuminates the shifts in meaning, purpose, institutional conditions, and civic engagement as framed by the overarching understanding that the memorial we see today is a result of long-term negotiations, intense emotional dialogues, and conflicting memories surrounding the events of 7 December 1945 in a complex historical setting." -- Akiko Hashimoto * Monumenta Nipponica *"A model study in the field of public history." -- James I. Matray * Pacific Historical Review *"Memorializing Pearl Harbor is unparalleled in its contribution to the study of collective memory of World War II in the Pacific." -- Kate C. Lemay * Reviews in American History *"An ambitious melding of ethnographic and historiographical writing and an important contribution to current discussions of memory and representation of the past." -- Matthew Penney * The Public Historian *"A well-written and well-researched book that examines the changing meanings and representations of the Pearl Harbor Memorial. White’s study underscores multiple, yet often conflicting, remembrances of the Pearl Harbor attack and the challenges that educators face. . . . The volume is thought provoking, and anyone who is interested in war and memory, the Pearl Harbor attack, peace education, historical reconciliation, and public history will probably find the book insightful and enlightening." -- Takashi Yoshida * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Memorializing History 1 1. Survivor Voices 35 2. Cultures of Commemoration 77 3. Memorial Film: Envisioning Race and Nation 129 4. Theming America at War 161 5. Making a New Museum 201 6. Pedagogy, Patriotism, and Paranoia 245 Conclusion. History's Future 265 Appendix 1. Pearl Harbor Bombing Statistics (December 7, 1941) 285 Appendix 2. Chronology of Hawaiian Political History, Postcontact 287 Appendix 3. Chronology of Internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Residents 289 Appendix 4. Very Brief Filmography of Pearl Harbor Official and Feature Films 291 Notes 293 References 307 Index 319

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Book SynopsisIn Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Trade Review"Metabolic Living is an important contribution to contemporary medical anthropology, especially in regards to the study of disease chronicity and to contemporary South Asian studies. In addition, Solomon provides a welcome challenge to the existing universalizing public health discourse on 'globesity.' Even while describing the seeming inevitability of metabolic disease in Mumbai, he uncovers the complex elements of social life that contribute to and circulate around it, and the suffering that stems from it. The focus on metabolism and absorption opens up new ways of viewing intersections between bodies and their environments, as well as new ways of thinking about urban vitality in 21st century India." -- Andrea S. Wiley * Anthropological Quarterly *"The book offers a novel way to talk about metabolic illnesses in urban space, often directly or indirectly talking back to medical and public health discourses on food, bodies, and urban and urbanizing spaces.... The poetic humanity of metabolic precariousness in India is visible in every page of this rich ethnographic narrative, making it a valuable contribution to literatures in medical anthropology, science studies, area studies, food studies, and public health policy." -- Nayantara Sheoran Appleton * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“A wonderfully evocative ethnography, Solomon’s book makes one reflect on the very nature of metabolic syndrome.... Through this book, Solomon ... challeng[es] medical experts to consider a multi-layered approach to solving the issues of obesity and diabetes that plague contemporary India." -- Gauri Anilkumar Pitale * FoodAnthropology *"Pointing out that food is never just food—that it incorporates joyous and toxic social lives and historical traces—the book effectively shifts the conversation about metabolism away from junk food or obese bodies and towards absorptive and thoroughly social processes. Metabolic Living provides health-care professionals valuable insight into how people are living with metabolic illness." -- Emily Yates-Doerr * The Lancet *"In the sophistication of its crafting, Metabolic Living achieves its tricky aspiration to understand metabolism both as a tool for ethnographic observation and as a site of anthropological analysis. Indeed, it is this blurring of instrument and object, the ethnographer and the ethnographic, that gives Metabolic Living its persuasive force." -- Dwaipayan Banerjee * American Anthropologist *"This study is an excellent observation of current anxieties over prosperity diseases in urban India, locating the connections between food, bodies, and environments. While Solomon’s ethnographical accounts revolve around different sets of frameworks and narrations of common people, patients, nutritionists and experts, he cautiously avoided stigmatic fears and pain and presented metabolic suffering throughout within a cultural context." -- Santhosh Abraham * South Asia Research *"Solomon takes us through domestic kitchens and social service centers, slaughterhouses and food processing plants, streets and street-side food stalls, and waiting rooms and hospitals to provide nuanced and insightful descriptions of life in Mumbai." -- GauriI Pathak * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Metabolic Living is the first ethnographic monograph on the diabetes epidemic in South Asia, and this alone marks it as an important contribution to the study of health and illness in the subcontinent. It also provides an evocative and complex picture of being a person with a metabolic illness in Mumbai." -- Lesley Jo Weaver * Journal of Asian Studies *"Metabolic Living is a rich, ambitious book whose theoretical and ethnographic model builds bridges across chapters with disparate topics and actors. . . . For readers curious about how to research and write the complexities of embodiment – and are open to experimenting with how to get there – Metabolic Living is a productive and exhilarating read." -- Stephanie Maroney * Senses and Society *"Solomon’s book is compelling, palpable in fact, in its stories about the invisible and ineluctable ways that medicines or contaminants enter foods and bodies. The ethnography brings the reader into environments that are dangerous and mundane, pleasurable, and unalterable. Metabolic Living brings into focus the ways that people navigate these dynamic alchemies." -- Jessica Hardin * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1Interlude. Birthday Cakes 27 1. The Thin-Fat Indian 31Interlude. Mango Madness 65 2. The Taste No Chef Can Give 69Interlude. The Ration Card 99 3. Readying the Home 105Interlude. Stamps 141 4. Lines of Therapy 145Interlude. Waiting Room Walls 187 5. Gut Attachments 193 Conclusion. Metabolic Mumbai 225 Notes 235 Bibliography 253 Index 271

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-researched, provocative study, written for specialists rather than general readers, will be of considerable interest to students of ethnography, public history, and museum studies. Highly recommended." -- C. J. Weeks * Choice *"Geoffrey M. White has written a book that goes far beyond the events and commemoration of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the opening salvo that determined the US entry into World War II. White’s book addresses some of the most vital questions of remembering the past with a prose that is engaging, accessible, always pregnant with possibilities for new insights and with wide-ranging applications." -- Gretchen Engle Schafft * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"Geoffrey M. White’s study of memorial practices at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, makes a significant and unique contribution to the study of commemorating the past." -- John Bodnar * Journal of American History *"This is a book with many stories to tell. . . . White’s writing is masterful; demonstrating a rare gift for rendering complex themes and complicating received categories in flowing, accessible prose. There’s a surfeit of riches here difficult to do justice to, with nearly every page holding some nugget worthy of quotation or comment. Students of history and memory, museology, World War II, film and race, tourism and other themes too numerous to list will find exploring this book time well spent." -- Andrew J. Connelly * Pacific Affairs *"Memorializing Pearl Harbor is a welcome contribution to the field of historical reconciliation, which is broadening its horizons beyond the confines of the West. . . . It is a thoughtful ethnography that illuminates the shifts in meaning, purpose, institutional conditions, and civic engagement as framed by the overarching understanding that the memorial we see today is a result of long-term negotiations, intense emotional dialogues, and conflicting memories surrounding the events of 7 December 1945 in a complex historical setting." -- Akiko Hashimoto * Monumenta Nipponica *"A model study in the field of public history." -- James I. Matray * Pacific Historical Review *"Memorializing Pearl Harbor is unparalleled in its contribution to the study of collective memory of World War II in the Pacific." -- Kate C. Lemay * Reviews in American History *"An ambitious melding of ethnographic and historiographical writing and an important contribution to current discussions of memory and representation of the past." -- Matthew Penney * The Public Historian *"A well-written and well-researched book that examines the changing meanings and representations of the Pearl Harbor Memorial. White’s study underscores multiple, yet often conflicting, remembrances of the Pearl Harbor attack and the challenges that educators face. . . . The volume is thought provoking, and anyone who is interested in war and memory, the Pearl Harbor attack, peace education, historical reconciliation, and public history will probably find the book insightful and enlightening." -- Takashi Yoshida * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Memorializing History 1 1. Survivor Voices 35 2. Cultures of Commemoration 77 3. Memorial Film: Envisioning Race and Nation 129 4. Theming America at War 161 5. Making a New Museum 201 6. Pedagogy, Patriotism, and Paranoia 245 Conclusion. History's Future 265 Appendix 1. Pearl Harbor Bombing Statistics (December 7, 1941) 285 Appendix 2. Chronology of Hawaiian Political History, Postcontact 287 Appendix 3. Chronology of Internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Residents 289 Appendix 4. Very Brief Filmography of Pearl Harbor Official and Feature Films 291 Notes 293 References 307 Index 319

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Book SynopsisIn The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender examines the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast to show how the mutually constituting relationships between residents and their environment informs the political process.Trade Review"Readers from geography, sociology, resource management, sustainability, Latin American studies, peasant studies, political science, and related fields will find value in this work." -- Joseph L. Scarpaci * AAG Review of Books *"Oslender masterfully ties different threads together to form a compelling argument about the importance of place and space in charting social movement. . . . I cannot help but think of the immense value of this approach for understanding the present U.S. political situation. . . . In a cultural moment that seems increasingly punctuated with high-visibility social movements—I am thinking of Standing Rock and of the Women’s March, for example—Oslender offers a new, more nuanced way to situate our understandings of resistance and movement." -- Kourtney Kinsel * AmeriQuests *"Ulrich Oslender has produced a significant contribution to the literature on place, space, and social movements. This manuscript convincingly argues for a critical and multi-scalar examination of human and non-human entanglements through his concept of aquatic space." -- Maurice Rafael Magaña * Anthropological Forum *"With this carefully researched, well-written examination of issues facing Colombia's Pacific lowlands in the twenty-first century, Ulrich Oslender offers two important contributions: first, the elaboration of an innovative, theoretical template inspired by the region's unique geography as a lens to analyze developments that have and are occuring there; and second, a history of the region that reviews its development from colonial times to present." -- Jane M. Rausch * Journal of Global South Studies *"Oslender’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of social movements, and particularly of Afro-Colombian social mobilization. He shows that traditional accounts of social movements pay attention to their scripts, their documents, and their struggles." -- Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas * Left History *"We can learn from how Oslender adds a critical place perspective to theories of social movements. He indeed demonstrates that concepts of space and place are central to thinking about how people mobilize as political collectives." -- Allison Koch * Environment and Society *"Oslender’s beautifully crafted book is also the product of many years of research—and it likewise benefits from a depth of expertise. . . . Oslender is trained as a geographer, but the book is deeply ethnographic and will be of interest to anthropologists of water, space, place, and social movements. In beautiful prose, he recounts the way the tides configure everyday life among this fishing community, where both travel and livelihoods pulse with their rhythms, while arguing that peasant activism emerges from these specific contexts." -- Colin Hoag * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments xi Prologue. Black Communities in Colombia and the Constitution of 1991 1 Introduction. The Geographies of Social Movements 7 1. Toward a Critical Place Perspective on Social Movements 25 Interlude. Meeting Don Agapito: Reflections on Fieldwork 36 2. Mapping Meandering Poetics and an Aquatic Sense of Place: Oral Tradition as Hidden Transcript of Resistance 46 3. Historical Geographies of Resistance and Convivencia in the Pacific Lowlands 92 4. Mobilizing the Aquatic Space: The Forming of Community Councils 135 5. Ideals, Practices, and Leadership of the Community Councils 159 Epilogue 205 Notes 221 Glossary 251 References 255 Index 277

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Book SynopsisDavid H. Price uses information from CIA, FBI, and military records to map the connections between academia and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the U.S. military and outline the major influence the American security state has had on the field of anthropology.Trade Review"Others have written on the entanglement of the social sciences with the military-intelligence complex, but none as energetically, from as many angles, or with as sensitive an eye for connections and overarching themes. ... Just as [Price] insists that HTS matters less than the underlying trends it represents, he cares less about the dramas of individual anthropologists in Cold War Anthropology and more about the subtle, systemic changes throughout the field—changes that threatened to make the discipline itself a security-state collaborator, sucking in individual researchers without their full knowledge." -- Peter C. Baker * The Nation *"In the course of twelve years Price has written three books which have helped redefine anthropology’s understanding of itself. And now, with Cold War Anthropology, Price brings his massive, precedent-make (and -busting) history of anthropology and American power to a close. It’s a defining moment in the history of anthropology, and deserves wide attention. . . . We have much to learn from our discipline’s recent past, and thanks to David Price we have the opportunity to see our field as it really was, warts and all. The stories in this book, and the issues that it raises, need to be discussed by the discipline as a whole." -- Alex Golub * Somatosphere *"Readers will benefit from Price’s careful attention to the impact of funding streams on scholarly decision-making, his dedication to amassing hard-to-locate source material, and his cogent moral compass." -- Margaret Flood * History of Anthropology Newsletter *"Cold War Anthropology restarts a conversation that should have never stopped. Anthropologists unaware of their discipline’s history will nodoubt find its lists of CIA and military projects eye-opening. Veterans of campaigns to rid the discipline of ties to the military and intelligence agencies will appreciate its recounting of battles lost and won within the AAA. Historians of science, too, have much to learn from the book’s methodology, especially its use of FOIA applications and tracings of blown CIA fronts." -- Audra Wolfe * Anthropological Quarterly *"Cold War Anthropology forces the reader to confront in blunt detail the ways in which ethnographic work exists in tandem with political-economic forces, especially the agendas of funding bodies and special interests. It is a book I encourage anthropologists everywhere to read, but, more importantly, to discuss its implications with colleagues and students." -- Joseph Anderson * LSE Review of Books *"With regard to US anthropology, perhaps no other scholar has done more to unsettle the by now defunct representation of the anthropologist as hero than David H. Price." -- Sindre Bangstad * Anthropology of This Century *"Price names names in abundance, carefully weighing researchers' awareness, or not, of hidden agendas; few records exist about unfunded research disfavored by state agencies. Illuminating shadows and obscured influences, Price brings realpolitik into anthropology’s history. . . . Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries." -- A. B. Kehoe * Choice *"Price’s work has been marked by extensive use of governmental archives, including many sources declassified through the Freedom of Information Act. Simply bringing this information to light should be reckoned as a major achievement....Price has written, if not a fully sufficient book (who has?), then a profoundly necessary one that challenges what American anthropology has been and what it remains." -- Robert Oppenheim * Journal of American History *"Cold War Anthropology is an exceptionally valuable book, based on impressive scholarship. It deserves the thoughtful attention of anthropologists interested in where their discipline has been and where it may be headed." -- Robert A. Rubinstein * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Historians of anthropology will welcome this volume, but it is relevant for every anthropologist working today. . . . We have much to learn from our discipline’s recent past, and thanks to David Price we have the opportunity to see our field as it really was, warts and all. The stories in this book, and the issues that it raises, need to be discussed by the discipline as a whole." -- Alex Golub * Savage Minds *"Price critically analyzes the rapid growth of American anthropology during the Cold War ... [and] masterfully contextualizes these tranformative years in anthropology." -- Roberto J. González * Anthropos *"The publication of David Price’s Cold War Anthropology concludes a trilogy of volumes that, taken together, constitute one of the most important and unprecedented contributions to the intellectual and political history of American anthropology." -- Mark Goodale * American Anthropologist *"Price has gone to extensive lengths using the FOIA to secure previously secret documents that complement his comprehensive survey of open source material and the secondary literature. No stone is left unturned, no shallow defense of complicity left unchallenged." -- John Krige * Diplomatic History *"This is a work of superb and relevant scholarship that deserves to be read and heeded by every undergraduate student let alone scholars across the anthropological discipline. It is a moral call to examine the nature and value of knowledge and of conducting independent research rather than following the pathways opened up by the imperial state." -- Inderjeet Parmar * Social History *"David Price is convincing; his arguments are nuanced and reveal the breadth and degree of US anthropology’s involvement in CIA and Pentagon efforts." -- Julie McBrien * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xxv Abbreviations xxix Part I. Cold War Political-Economic Disciplinary Formations 1. Political Economy and History of American Cold War Intelligence 3 2. World War II's Long Shadow 31 3. Rebooting Professional Anthropology in the Postwar World 54 4. After the Shooting War: Centers, Committees, Seminars, and Other Cold War Projects 81 5. Anthropologists and State: Aid, Debt, and Other Cold War Weapons of the Strong 109 Intermezzo 137 Part II. Anthropologists' Articulations with the National Security State 6. Cold War Anthropologists at the CIA: Careers Confirmed and Suspected 143 7. How CIA Funding Fronts Shaped Anthropological Research 165 8. Unwitting CIA Anthropologist Collaborators: MK-Ultra, Human Ecology, and Buying a Piece of Anthropology 195 9. Cold War Fieldwork within the Intelligence Universe 221 10. Cold War Anthropological Counterinsurgency Dreams 248 11. The AAA Confronts Military and Intelligence Uses of Disciplinary Knowledge 276 12. Anthropologically Informed Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia 301 13. Anthropologists for Radical Political Action and Revolution within the AAA 323 14. Untangling Open Secrets, Hidden Histories, Outrage Denied, and Recurrent Dual Use Themes 349 Notes 371 Bibliography 397 Index 433

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Book SynopsisIn Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the lives of Indian IT coders temporarily working in Berlin, showing how their cognitive labor reimagines race and class and how their acceptance and resistance to their work offers new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies.Trade Review“What stands out in her well-crafted and thoroughly researched ethnography is how various notions of Indianness ... permeate the transnational/Germany workplace and how it is interpreted, negotiated, and occasionally also appropriated. Drawing on a vast array of representations of Indian IT professionals in German media and elsewhere, Amrute’s analysis ... provides insight on a changing world.” -- Michiel Baas * Economic and Political Weekly *"A riveting ethnography of the personal and professional lives of short-term Indian IT workers in Berlin, Germany. . . . This book has a wide potential audience, and is essential reading for scholars interested in transnational migration and labour, neoliberal knowledge economies, as well as contemporary South Asia and its diasporas." -- Anar Parikh * Social Anthropology *"The expressiveness of Amrute’s prose allows what are admittedly complex ideas to become engaging and accessible. This, combined with the strength of her description and the evident timeliness of her subject matter, make Encoding Race, Encoding Class a remarkably flexible text for teaching. It is an ethnography that will work as well in an undergraduate class as a graduate seminar, since it has the clarity and rigor for both." -- Alisha Wilkinson & Meg Stalcup * Savage Minds *"A fascinating study that is both informative and narratively compelling. Situated in the era of digital globalization, this complex ethnographic project makes a major contribution to European anthropology and pushes forward the insights of critical race theory, international migration studies, and the sociocultural dimensions of science and technology." -- Uli Linke * Anthropos *"Extremely timely. . . . The book’s theoretical grounding is convincing and compels the reader to grapple with the contradictions in the Indian IT worker’s world. . . . Amrute expertly weaves race into her analyses." -- Chitra Akkoor * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Cognitive Work, Cognitive Bodies 1 Part I. Encoding Race 1. Imagining the Indian IT Body 29 2. The Postracial Office 54 3. Proprietary Freedoms in an IT Office 86 Part II. Encoding Class 4. The Stroke of Midnight and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: A History of the Computer in India 111 5. Computers Are Very Stupid Cooks: Reinventing Leisure as a Politics of Pleasure 137 6. The Traveling Diaper Bag: Gifts and Jokes as Materializing Immaterial Labor 164 A Speculative Conclusion: Secrets and Lives 185 Notes 203 Bibliography 231 Index 253

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Book SynopsisMy Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology in which she uses everyday items to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning.Trade Review"Chin composes a sprawling paean to the joy of stuff and the impossibility of our ever eschewing it. In My Life With Things, she is winningly alert to the ambivalence around our acts of consumption, both the awful guilt and the immeasurable pleasure nonetheless." -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *"My Life with Things is a refreshing and honest book, which gives a rich insight into the experience of engaging with auto-ethnography. It should certainly appeal to the more adventurous, less conventional academic from across the social sciences and not just anthropology, the author’s home discipline.... At the end of the day, researchers interested in anthropology, auto-ethnography and/or consumption looking for an insider account complete with warts and all, should find this an invaluable companion." -- Christina Goulding * Consumption Markets & Culture *"With herself as both subject and object of study, Chin . . . weaves a highly personal, idiosyncratic, and explanatory narrative. Ever the provocateur, she brings her own consumer diaries over the span of several years into conversation with the likes of Karl Marx, not only at a theoretical level but also as biographical touchstones. The narratives, structured around the themes of inheritance, survival, and love, detail the author’s close relationship with the everyday items that surround her. The results can be exhilarating, giving readers self-reflexive pause on the consumptive world and how they got there." -- C. R. Yano * Choice *"My Life with Things is a strange yet fascinating look at our cultural preoccupation with owning and communing with physical objects. Chin uses her anthropological background to present an autoethnography, combining research, theory, and personal writing to criticize (and commiserate with) our love of objects." -- Jess Kibler * Bitch *"Elizabeth Chin’s My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries, is a fantastic book. I can’t imagine anyone reading it and not wanting to become an anthropologist. It is also one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time, with actual laugh-out-loud moments." -- Ben Highmore * New Formations *"Part academic study and part personal essay, My Life with Things offers both casual and scholarly readers an entryway into conversation about the place of material possessions in our lives.... [A] nuanced reflection on both the fact that we are inescapably tied to our possessions and the ways they connect us to our loved ones and neighbors around the world." -- Lee Hull Moses * Christian Century *“My Life with Things is thought-provoking in the best sense of the term. It poses new questions, approaches old ones in fresh ways, and tugs at the complex heart of people’s relationship to the things they have and the things they want.” -- Carrie M. Lane * American Ethnologist *"In the end this book, as Chin tells us, is a focus on moments, rife with the complexities and contradictions of everyday life. Just as in other life moments and journeys, it is full of fodder for contemplation and discussion as well as catalysts for new perspectives. I can imagine it as a resource for teachers as well as students, and I envision many imaginative and lively discussions based on objects described in this book as well as the particular objects animating others’ lives and relationships." -- Patricia L. Sunderland * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 3 2. The Entries 37 My Life with Things 37 Learn to Love Stuff 38 Banky 40 A Digression on the Topic of the Transitional Object 42 Cebebrate! 56 My Purple Shoes 58 Newspapers 61 Rose Nails 63 The Window Shade 67 Napkins 69 My White Man's Tooth 72 Should I Be Straighter 76 Cyberfucked 79 Knobs 80 Glasses 82 Curing Rug Lust 85 Window Shopping Online 89 Catalogs 92 Other People's Labor 95 Making Roots/Making Routes 98 My Closet(s) 101 Joining the MRE 108 Fun Shopping 114 Preschool Birthday Parties 114 Xena Warrior Consumer Princess 118 I Love Your Nail Polish 120 Little Benches 123 The Kiss 126 Are There Malls in Haiti? 127 Baby Number Two Turned Me into Economic Man 129 Pictures of the Rice Grain 132 Panting in Ikea 136 Capitalism Makes Me Sick 139 My Grandmother's Rings 147 Anorectic Energy 157 Mi-Mi's Piano 162 Dream-Filled Prescriptions 169 The Turquoise Arrowhead 170 Turning The Tables 173 Minnie Mouse Earring Holder 176 Make Yourself a Beloved Person 181 3. Writing as Practice and Process 187 4. This Never Happened 203 Notes 221 Bibliography 227 Index 235

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Book SynopsisIn The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender examines the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast to show how the mutually constituting relationships between residents and their environment informs the political process.Trade Review"Readers from geography, sociology, resource management, sustainability, Latin American studies, peasant studies, political science, and related fields will find value in this work." -- Joseph L. Scarpaci * AAG Review of Books *"Oslender masterfully ties different threads together to form a compelling argument about the importance of place and space in charting social movement. . . . I cannot help but think of the immense value of this approach for understanding the present U.S. political situation. . . . In a cultural moment that seems increasingly punctuated with high-visibility social movements—I am thinking of Standing Rock and of the Women’s March, for example—Oslender offers a new, more nuanced way to situate our understandings of resistance and movement." -- Kourtney Kinsel * AmeriQuests *"Ulrich Oslender has produced a significant contribution to the literature on place, space, and social movements. This manuscript convincingly argues for a critical and multi-scalar examination of human and non-human entanglements through his concept of aquatic space." -- Maurice Rafael Magaña * Anthropological Forum *"With this carefully researched, well-written examination of issues facing Colombia's Pacific lowlands in the twenty-first century, Ulrich Oslender offers two important contributions: first, the elaboration of an innovative, theoretical template inspired by the region's unique geography as a lens to analyze developments that have and are occuring there; and second, a history of the region that reviews its development from colonial times to present." -- Jane M. Rausch * Journal of Global South Studies *"Oslender’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of social movements, and particularly of Afro-Colombian social mobilization. He shows that traditional accounts of social movements pay attention to their scripts, their documents, and their struggles." -- Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas * Left History *"We can learn from how Oslender adds a critical place perspective to theories of social movements. He indeed demonstrates that concepts of space and place are central to thinking about how people mobilize as political collectives." -- Allison Koch * Environment and Society *"Oslender’s beautifully crafted book is also the product of many years of research—and it likewise benefits from a depth of expertise. . . . Oslender is trained as a geographer, but the book is deeply ethnographic and will be of interest to anthropologists of water, space, place, and social movements. In beautiful prose, he recounts the way the tides configure everyday life among this fishing community, where both travel and livelihoods pulse with their rhythms, while arguing that peasant activism emerges from these specific contexts." -- Colin Hoag * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments xi Prologue. Black Communities in Colombia and the Constitution of 1991 1 Introduction. The Geographies of Social Movements 7 1. Toward a Critical Place Perspective on Social Movements 25 Interlude. Meeting Don Agapito: Reflections on Fieldwork 36 2. Mapping Meandering Poetics and an Aquatic Sense of Place: Oral Tradition as Hidden Transcript of Resistance 46 3. Historical Geographies of Resistance and Convivencia in the Pacific Lowlands 92 4. Mobilizing the Aquatic Space: The Forming of Community Councils 135 5. Ideals, Practices, and Leadership of the Community Councils 159 Epilogue 205 Notes 221 Glossary 251 References 255 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the lives of Indian IT coders temporarily working in Berlin, showing how their cognitive labor reimagines race and class and how their acceptance and resistance to their work offers new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies.Trade Review“What stands out in her well-crafted and thoroughly researched ethnography is how various notions of Indianness ... permeate the transnational/Germany workplace and how it is interpreted, negotiated, and occasionally also appropriated. Drawing on a vast array of representations of Indian IT professionals in German media and elsewhere, Amrute’s analysis ... provides insight on a changing world.” -- Michiel Baas * Economic and Political Weekly *"A riveting ethnography of the personal and professional lives of short-term Indian IT workers in Berlin, Germany. . . . This book has a wide potential audience, and is essential reading for scholars interested in transnational migration and labour, neoliberal knowledge economies, as well as contemporary South Asia and its diasporas." -- Anar Parikh * Social Anthropology *"The expressiveness of Amrute’s prose allows what are admittedly complex ideas to become engaging and accessible. This, combined with the strength of her description and the evident timeliness of her subject matter, make Encoding Race, Encoding Class a remarkably flexible text for teaching. It is an ethnography that will work as well in an undergraduate class as a graduate seminar, since it has the clarity and rigor for both." -- Alisha Wilkinson & Meg Stalcup * Savage Minds *"A fascinating study that is both informative and narratively compelling. Situated in the era of digital globalization, this complex ethnographic project makes a major contribution to European anthropology and pushes forward the insights of critical race theory, international migration studies, and the sociocultural dimensions of science and technology." -- Uli Linke * Anthropos *"Extremely timely. . . . The book’s theoretical grounding is convincing and compels the reader to grapple with the contradictions in the Indian IT worker’s world. . . . Amrute expertly weaves race into her analyses." -- Chitra Akkoor * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Cognitive Work, Cognitive Bodies 1 Part I. Encoding Race 1. Imagining the Indian IT Body 29 2. The Postracial Office 54 3. Proprietary Freedoms in an IT Office 86 Part II. Encoding Class 4. The Stroke of Midnight and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: A History of the Computer in India 111 5. Computers Are Very Stupid Cooks: Reinventing Leisure as a Politics of Pleasure 137 6. The Traveling Diaper Bag: Gifts and Jokes as Materializing Immaterial Labor 164 A Speculative Conclusion: Secrets and Lives 185 Notes 203 Bibliography 231 Index 253

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Book SynopsisIn Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for creating "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs as they breed, raise, butcher, market, sell, and prepare their pasture-raised hogs for consumption.Trade Review"Because each example of food-centered action is fraught with contradictions, ambiguities and paradoxes, Weiss’s descriptions are appropriately rich and multidimensional to portray those complexities. . . . Brad Weiss invites us to hear the voices of the people involved from all directions." -- Paul Durrenberger * Bronislaw Magazine *"While Real Pigs would be scintillating for anyone interested in the recent rise of the local-food movement, for anthropologists who study food, especially in the United States, it should be required reading. It provides a welcome model for how to integrate the production, circulation, and consumption of food into a single analysis. The book is accessibly written and would be appropriate for advanced undergraduate courses on the anthropology of food or economic anthropology and graduate courses on the same topics, as well as those on the anthropology of the United States. It would work well in courses on ethnographic research methods, too, because it provides a laudable example of research across multiple fields as well as an innovative way to highlight research participants’ views." -- Jillian R. Cavanaugh * American Anthropologist *"Real Pigs will be of interest to practitioners who are developing new markets, with its biographical stories of the people who are building the connections and its portrait of how taste is constructed in place. Making pigs local, according to Weiss, involves animal husbandry, marketing strategies, and social networking. Yet he is sensitive to the cosmopolitan values that inform 'locality.' The book will be of interest also to those who are exploring how markets are built and sustained over time, and how complex relationships support often precarious niche markets and foodways." -- Sarah J. Martin * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *"Weiss’s ethnography is genuinely readable and, without intending to insult the ethnographer as to the intricacy of his craftsmanship, Real Pigs makes an ideal text through which to engage with undergraduates. Written in plain English, introducing holistic ethnography, participant-observation and ethnographic interviews, the theory is neither overwhelming nor underwhelming in measure." -- Adele Millard * Anthropological Forum *"While much has been written about food systems and small-scale agriculture, Real Pigs is a striking portrait of contemporary debates about food systems from the perspectives of those mostly deeply engaged in one particular system." -- Ashley Stinnett * American Ethnologist *"Ethnography can show how the things people think of as natural are shaped by history, politics, and culture. This is probably most difficult when the ethnographer is working in their own society and when their readers are most likely going to be the natives themselves. The fact that Weiss mostly succeeds in this challenge is one of the most remarkable aspects of this book. . . . Essential reading for food studies scholars, as well as for anthropologists interested in some of the more interesting recent theoretical debates noted above." -- David Beriss * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Pigs on the Ground 21 Profile: Eliza MacLean Profile: John O'Sullivan 2. Pigs in a Local Place 59 Profile: Sarah Blacklin Profile: Jennifer Curtis 3. Heritage, Hybrids, Breeds, and Brands 107 Profile: Will Cramer Profile: Ross Flynn 4. Pigs in Parts 155 Profile: Kevin Callaghan 5. A Taste for Fat 187 Profile: Vimala Rajendran Profile: Sam Suchoff 6. Farm to Fork, Snout to Tail 219 Conclusion. Authentic Connections 243 Notes 255 References 265 Index 277

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