Publications
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The Power of the Brush
(2020)
The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women ...
Healing with Poisons
(2021)
At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to ...
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
(2021)
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how ...
Kernels of Resistance
(2024)
The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and won
Right before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala’s legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified ...
Mapping Water in Dominica
(2021)
"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733
Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by ...
The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code
(2011)
After overthrowing the Mongol Yuan dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), proclaimed that he had obtained the Mandate of Heaven (Tianming), enabling establishment of a spiritual orientation ...
The Changing Presentation of the American Indian
(2004)
In this book, which grew out of a landmark NMAI symposium in 1995, Native and non-Native scholars and museum professionals explore issues concerning the representation of Indians and their cultures by museums in North ...
Three Impeachments
(2024)
A probe into corruption in late Imperial China
At the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or ""High Qing"" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under the Qing dynasty were ...
Molecular Feminisms
(2018-11-04)
"“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist ...
Lahore Cinema
(2022)
Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969—the long ...
Misreading the Bengal Delta
(2021)
"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749624
Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change ...
New Lives in Anand
(2022)
Social and cultural anthropology;Social classes;Islam
The Power of the Brush
(2020)
The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women ...
Upland Geopolitics
(2022)
In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan ...
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom
(2013)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842 The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in ...
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom
(2013)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842 The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in ...
Communist Multiculturalism
(2011)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417 The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the ...
Communist Multiculturalism
(2011)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417 The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the ...
The Scholar and the State
(2015)
In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred ...
The Scholar and the State
(2015)
In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred ...
The Changing Presentation of the American Indian
(2004)
In this book, which grew out of a landmark NMAI symposium in 1995, Native and non-Native scholars and museum professionals explore issues concerning the representation of Indians and their cultures by museums in North ...
The Changing Presentation of the American Indian
(2004)
In this book, which grew out of a landmark NMAI symposium in 1995, Native and non-Native scholars and museum professionals explore issues concerning the representation of Indians and their cultures by museums in North ...
Perpetual Happiness
(2011)
The reign of Emperor Yongle, or “Perpetual Happiness,” was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. It began with civil war and a bloody coup, saw the construction of the Forbidden City, the completion ...
Perpetual Happiness
(2011)
The reign of Emperor Yongle, or “Perpetual Happiness,” was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. It began with civil war and a bloody coup, saw the construction of the Forbidden City, the completion ...
Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands
(2011)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295801551 Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging ...
Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands
(2011)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295801551 Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging ...
Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
(2011)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088 China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic ...
Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
(2011)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088 China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic ...
The Xi Jinping Effect
(2024)
The Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People's Republic of China's current ""paramount leader""—arguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (1893–1976)—and multiple areas of political and social ...
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
(2012)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071 Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations ...
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
(2012)
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071 Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations ...
The Dong World and Imperial China’s Southwest Silk Road
(2024)
Brings a borderlands perspective to the history of China
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. These ties ...
The Dong World and Imperial China’s Southwest Silk Road
(2024)
Brings a borderlands perspective to the history of China
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. These ties ...
Fir and Empire
(2020)
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. ...
Symptoms of an Unruly Age
(2018)
Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic ...
Symptoms of an Unruly Age
(2018)
Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic ...
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
(2024)
Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growth
South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's ...
Fir and Empire
(2020)
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. ...
Mapping Water in Dominica
(2021)
"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733
Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by ...
Mapping Water in Dominica
(2021)
"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733
Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by ...