Publications
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After Ethnos
(2018)
For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the ...
Empire's Garden
(2011-07-13)
In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a ...
Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition
(2024)
Sora Y. Han offers a poetic and radical work of legal theory and criticism that works at the confluence of Korean and Black anticolonial thought and freedom struggles to articulate new visions of freedom.
The Kidney and the Cane
(2025)
Alex M. Nading argues that the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of non-traditional causes among those living near and working in Nicaragua’s sugarcane plantations is not a result of climate change, it is climate change.
Affective Trajectories
(2020)
Affective Trajectories explores affective and emotional experiences as manifestations of religion in the rapidly shifting conditions of postcolonial African urban spaces and the diaspora. The editors define the term ...
Architecture and Development
(2022)
Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa.
Emancipation's Daughters
(2021)
Riché Richardson examines how five iconic black women—Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé—defy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the ...
Work Requirements
(2022)
Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed ...
Sex Scene
(2014)
Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media—film and ...
Disordering the Establishment
(2020)
In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the ...
The Culture of Japanese Fascism
(2009)
This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political structures and events. Contributors from history, literature, ...
Food, Farms & Solidarity
(2013)
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than ...
In Search of the Amazon
(2013-01-01)
Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became ...
Governing Gaza
(2007-01-01)
Marred by political tumult and violent conflict since the early twentieth century, Gaza has been subject to a multiplicity of rulers. Still not part of a sovereign state, it would seem too exceptional to be a revealing ...
Contemporary African Screen Worlds
(2025)
Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic ...
My Voice Is My Weapon
(2013-05-01)
David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from ...
Made in Asia/America
(2024)
The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.
Unearthing Gender
(2012)
This book is a compelling ethnographic analysis of folksongs sung primarily by lower-caste women in north India, in the fields, at weddings, during travels, and in other settings. Smita Tewari Jassal uses these songs to ...
Decentralizing Knowledges
(2025)
Decentralizing Knowledges argues that epistemic decentralizing—the diverse infrastructures and nonhegemonic practices of knowledge production—should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices ...
Poverty and Wealth in East Africa
(2022)
Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years.
Ethnography as Commentary
(2008)
The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her ...
Digital Sound Studies
(2018-10-01)
The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. ...
An Intimate Rebuke
(2018-11-01)
Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women — the Mothers — make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or ...
The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening
(2025)
Drawing on various archives in Latin America, Alejandro L. Madrid examines how listening for sound in the archive can provide opportunities to build more inclusive spaces for intellectual exchange and political mobilization.
Artery
(2025)
Austin Zeiderman unearths how the fraught past and future of Colombia’s Magdalena River articulate the mirrored hierarchies of race and environment to explore global entanglements of race, nature, and capital.
All in the Family
(2012-06-04)
Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is ...
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America
(2011-09-15)
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United ...
Living and Dying in São Paulo
(2025)
Jeffrey Lesser focuses on São Paulo’s Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials.
Buy It Now
(2012)
Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional ...
Paris in the Dark
(2020)
In Paris in the Dark Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on a wealth of ...
The Play in the System
(2020)
What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher ...
Downwardly Global
(2017)
In 'Downwardly Global' Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto. Despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they ...
Monumental Matters
(2011-09-07)
Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, ...
Europe (in theory)
(2007-01-01)
Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and ...
The Deliverance of Others
(2008)
The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue ...
Conflicted Antiquities
(2007-01-01)
Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic ...
Thinking like a Climate
(2020)
In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, ...
Crip Spacetime
(2024)
Margaret Price examines the experiences of disabled academics to show how attempts at providing individual accommodations actually impede rather than enhancing access.
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity
(2021)
From Bangladesh and Hong Kong to Iran and South Africa, film industries around the world are rapidly growing at a time when new digital technologies are fundamentally changing how films are made and viewed. Larger film ...
Encoding Race, Encoding Class
(2016)
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive ...