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Methodology ................................................................................ 1
Information Studies/Medical Anthropology ................................ 2
Series: Culture and Society after Socialism ............................ 3–4
Africa ........................................................................................... 5
North America .......................................................................... 6–8
Asia/Pacific ............................................................................ 9–12
Anthropology of Work ............................................................... 13
Human Rights ............................................................................ 14
Anthropology of Religion .......................................................... 15
Anthropology of Food & Consumption ..................................... 16
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The AnnAles school
An Intellectual History
-
Andr é Bu rg u iè re

the use of personal narrative

in the social sciences and history

Translated from the French by

Jane Marie Todd
Foreword by
Timothy Tackett
mary jo maines, jennifer l. pierce, and barbara laslett

Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be

Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition
James D. Faubion and George E. Marcus, editors
“This is an extended, provocative reflection on the nature of anthropological fieldwork under the
crowded, mobile, cyber-speed, science-dominated, neoliberal conditions of twenty-first-century
modernity. At once pedagogical and epistemological, it reconfigures new researchers’ bafflement
before the weighty traditions of the Malinowskian hermeneutic as, instead, a creative adaptation.
These authors present something vitally new while managing to remain respectful of approaches
to field research that must now be radically reordered or recontextualized. Representing the liveli-
ness and fecundity of ‘Rice anthropology’ during at least the past two decades, they venture beyond
critique to show what kinds of originality the new contexts of research may now be expected to
demand.”—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7511-5
248 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)

Standards and Their Stories

Telling Stories How Quantifying, Classifying, and
The Use of Personal Narratives in Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life
the Social Sciences and History Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, editors
Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and “This is an important, well-written, and extraor-
Barbara Laslett dinarily provocative examination of a part of
“Telling Stories is an invaluable guide to making the world usually hidden from any sort of pub-
sense of personal narratives across two key dis- lic view. The authors show how much of what
ciplines: social science and history. This clear, we take for granted is the result of negotiation,
thoughtful, and comprehensive guide to key compromise, and occasionally coercion. They
issues and their interpretation—questions on do so by inventing a suite of new and innova-
agency, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, the com- tive research methods. As a result, this book
plexity of narrative genres—is essential read- is likely to become not only ‘the standard’ for
ing as we work to comprehend this key source studies of this sort but also the starting point
in the production of knowledge.”—Faye Gins- for new ways of investigating sociotechni-
burg, New York University cal processes.”—Lawrence Busch, Michigan
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7392-0 State University
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Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts The Annales School

The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime An Intellectual History
and Conflict André Burguière
Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill, editors translated by Jane Marie Todd
with a foreword by Timothy Tackett
“This terrific book demonstrates that quantita-
tive misrepresentation is not an idiosyncratic “The ‘Annales’ constitute one of the most im-
problem but one that is widespread and often portant intellectual movements of the twentieth
detrimental. The authors make sense of the century in the sprawling domain of what the
numbers that are thrown around so liberally by French call the social sciences. Cosmopolitan
interested parties and which so often influence and cultivated, André Burguière has written an
or even determine, important and costly pub- elegant and thoughtful study of the ‘school’ of
lic policies.”—John Mueller, The Ohio State which he has been a pillar for many decades.”
University —Steven L. Kaplan, Cornell University
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7618-1 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4665-8
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Making Virtual Worlds
Linden Lab and Second Life
Thomas M. Malaby
“Malaby explores the ways patterned contingen-
cy elicits desires not just to ‘play it again,’ but
to be creative both with strategies of play and
strategies of constructing ground rules—above
all, the unexpected social games that develop
in and around games designed for libertarian,
meritocratic, efficiency-calculating, or individ-
ual-centered players.”—Michael M. J. Fischer,
MIT
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4746-4
176 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96)
My Word!
Plagiarism and College Culture
Susan D. Blum
“Blum brings great care and compassion to her
discussion of plagiarism. She generously draws
on student interview segments throughout My
Word! to illuminate today’s campus climate.
Blum locates acts of cheating within the wid-
er sociocultural context rather than regarding
them simply as failures of personal morality.”
—Cathy Small, Northern Arizona University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4763-1
240 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96)
Glut
Mastering Information through the Ages
Alex Wright
“A readable romp through the history of infor-
mation processing which argues that advances
in information technology have always sparked
conflict between written and oral traditions.”
— New Scientist
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7509-2
296 pages | $18.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.16)
MAGNETICAPPEAL
MRI AND THE MYTH
OF TRANSPARENCY
K ELLY JOYCE
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Magnetic Appeal
MRI and the Myth of Transparency
Kelly A. Joyce
“Magnetic Appeal gives depth and breadth to
our understanding of the practices and political
economy of MRI. The book offers a rich eth-
nography of MRI laboratory and clinical work.
I regard it as a definitive work in the STS study
of biomedical imaging technologies.”—Lisa
Cartwright, UC San Diego
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7456-9
208 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)
Biomedical Ambiguity
Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning
of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
Ian Whitmarsh
“Whitmarsh’s ethnographic insight into the pro-
cess by which race, genes, and environmental
factors are negotiated in small nations at the
behest of large corporations and scientific re-
search teams is important to understanding how
such ideas, practices, and drugs are being mar-
keted worldwide.”—Rayna Rapp, New York
University
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7441-5
240 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)
Changing the Course of AIDS
Peer Education in South Africa and Its
Lessons for the Global Crisis
David Dickinson
with a foreword by Charles Deutsch
“Much has been written about the AIDS pan-
demic in sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease
has left a devastating human toll. David Dick-
inson provides a poignant and moving account
about people who are doing something to com-
bat the spread of the HIV virus in their commu-
nities. Woven with intricate stories and quotes,
this book is a must-read for any person working
in the field of HIV and AIDS. ”
—Jennifer J. Furin, Harvard Medical School
ILR Press | 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4831-7
272 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
The Caregiver
A Life with Alzheimer’s
Aaron Alterra
with a foreword by Arthur Kleinman
“This is one of the few examples of the lived ex-
perience of Alzheimer’s disease from the per-
spective of a loving, reflective, and articulate
husband. Alterra paints a beautiful and honest
picture of how Alzheimer’s disease changed
one family’s world.”—Patricia G. Archbold,
American Academy of Nursing
ILR Press | 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7434-7
232 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Culture and society after socialism
a series edited by Bruce Grant and Nancy Ries
The Captive and the Gift
Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia
and the Caucasus
Bruce Grant
“Grant investigates the many cultural effects
that Russia’s unsolicited gift of empire has
produced in both Russia and the Caucasus over
the last two centuries. Combining fieldwork
with historical research and literary analysis,
Grant moves beyond Russocentric perspectives
through which the Caucasus is conventionally
understood. This is a remarkable work of cul-
tural history and a model of interdisciplinary
scholarship.”—Adeeb Khalid, Carleton Col-
lege
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7541-2
216 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)
The Old Faith and the Russian Land
A Historical Ethnography of Ethics
in the Urals
Douglas Rogers
“This beautifully written and highly original his-
torical ethnography moves with extraordinary
acumen across disciplines and prompts us to re-
think ethics, moral personhood, and historical
experience in rural Russia. Rogers’s sensitive
analysis of the twists and turns of Russian his-
tory offers a critique of many theories of transi-
tion and breaks new ground in offering fresh
perspectives and theoretical tools that are guar-
anteed to stimulate debate.”—Catherine Wan-
ner, The Pennsylvania State University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7520-7
360 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)
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Needed by Nobody
Homelessness and Humanness in Post-
Socialist Russia
Tova Höjdestrand
“This is a wonderful book that has much to con-
tribute to discussions in urban anthropology
and sociology, Russian studies, homelessness,
alcoholism, and psychology. I have enormous
respect for the fieldwork that Höjdestrand con-
ducted for this admirable ethnography.”—Dale
Pesmen, author of Russia and Soul
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7593-1
248 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)
The Patriotism of Despair
Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
Serguei Alex. Oushakine
“This revolutionary book reveals the cultural
and psychological, rather than merely political,
reasons for the post-Soviet rejection of Western
liberal ideologies and even the mass popularity
of aggressively nationalist, racist, pro-Soviet
and neotraditionalist discourses and narratives.
Oushakine’s work encompasses the meticulous
analysis of various social groups located in Al-
tai, the Siberian region on the border with China
and Kazakhstan, and interviews with neocom-
munists, leftists, nationalists, and Chechnya
veterans and their mothers.”—Mark Lipov-
etsky, University of Colorado–Boulder
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7557-3
312 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)
Communities of the Converted
Ukrainians and Global Evangelism
Catherine Wanner
•Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of
Europe Book Prize
•Winner of the Best Book Prize in the fields of
Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature,
and culture (American Association of Ukrainian
Studies)
•Winner of the Heldt Prize for the best book by
a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/
Eurasian Studies (Association for Women in
Slavic Studies)
•A Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title
“This is a fascinating example of research that
combines history, anthropology, and the so-
ciology of religion to discuss the experience
of communities extending across different
political cultures and religious and national
traditions.”—Serhii Plokhy, University of Al-
berta
2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7402-6
320 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)
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Overkill
Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian
Popular Culture
Eliot Borenstein
Winner, the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic
/ Eastern European / Eurasian Women’s Studies
(Association for Women in Slavic Studies)
“Borenstein is a careful reader of popular culture
as ‘symptom,’ as a visible manifestation of so-
cial dis-ease. This book is smart and funny, writ-
ten in exactly the right tone for its content.”
—Slavic & Eastern European Journal
2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7403-3
288 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)
Empire of Nations
Ethnographic Knowledge and
the Making of the Soviet Union
Francine Hirsch
•Cowinner of the Council for European Studies
First Book Award
•Winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
(AAASS)
•Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
(American Historical Association)
“Hirsch demonstrates through prodigious re-
search how ethnographers from the former tsar-
ist regime collaborated with the Leninists to
shape the new state.”—The Moscow Times
2005 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-8908-2
392 pages | $28.95 paperback (catalog price: $23.16)
Also of Interest—
Turizm
The Russian and East European Tourist
under Capitalism and Socialism
Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker, editors
“We still lack a clear understanding of what
motivates the Eastern European tourist, what
they are escaping, and what experiences they
seek. This excellent, necessary book begins to
fill those gaps. Gorsuch and Koenker have as-
sembled fourteen essays of consistently high
quality.”—Times Literary Supplement
2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7328-9
328 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)
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How Russia Really Works
The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-
Soviet Politics and Business
Alena V. Ledeneva
“This is an excellent account of informal practic-
es that characterize and shape the political and
business spheres of activity in contemporary
Russia. . . . An important addition to our under-
standing of contemporary Russian affairs.”
—Russian Review
2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7352-4
288 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)
Defending the Border
Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the
Republic of Georgia
Mathijs Pelkmans
Cowinner of the 2007 Douglass book prize
(Society for the Anthropology of Europe)
“Pelkmans deftly theorizes borders throughout
by attending to recent anthropological think-
ing on cultural objects and display, religious
identities and conversions, and market transfor-
mations. Near the border, he suggests, culture,
identity, religion, and economy refract in curi-
ous and analytically significant ways.”
—Slavic Review
2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7330-2
256 pages | $23.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.16)
Contested Tongues
Language Politics and Cultural
Correction in Ukraine
Laada Bilaniuk
Winner of the AATSEEL award for Best Book in
Slavic Linguistics
“Well grounded in the history of language poli-
cies and practices in the country, this book
makes clear to the readers what is at stake in the
differentiation or rapprochement of two related
Slavic languages.”—Russian Review
2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7279-4
248 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)
The Greengrocer and His TV
The Culture of Communism after the
1968 Prague Spring
Paulina Bren
“Bren has succeeded in overcoming the impos-
sible: this is a serious but entertaining and read-
able study of a Kafkaesque rule by dullness, by
boredom, the life under gray skies, reflected on
the television screen.”—István Rév, Central
European University
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7642-6
264 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)

Darfur and the Crisis of
Governance in Sudan
A Critical Reader
Salah M. Hassan and Carina E. Ray, editors
with a foreword by Andreas Eshete
“Darfur has involved clashes of identity, rival-
ry over resources, the role of the postcolonial
state in creating and managing crisis, and the
phenomenon of geography as the mother of
history. This volume explores these particularly
complex crises of governance in an interdisci-
plinary and comprehensive manner designed to
elicit both understanding and critical analysis.”
—Ali A. Mazrui, SUNY Binghamton
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7594-8
524 pages | $39.95 paperback (catalog price: $31.96)
The Prince Claus Fund Library
The Order of Genocide
Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus
•Winner of the Award for Excellence in Govern-
ment and Political Science (Professional and
Scholarly Publishing Division of the Associa-
tion of American Publishers)
•A Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title
“Drawing on more than 200 interviews that he
conducted with convicted Rwandan killers, and
on many other sources, Straus builds a dynamic
process model seeking to explain why and how
ordinary people could be mobilized to murder
their neighbors.”—African Studies Review
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7492-7
296 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)
From Servants to Workers
South African Domestic Workers and
the Democratic State
Shireen Ally
“This beautifully written exploration of domes-
tic workers in a postapartheid democratic South
Africa deftly brings to the fore the limits of state
discourses of rights for these workers despite
their being the beneficiaries of one of the best
domestic worker legislations in the world.”
—Raka Ray, UC Berkeley
ILR Press | 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7587-0
240 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)
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Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers
Women’s Lives through War and Peace
in Sierra Leone
Chris Coulter
“A groundbreaking study of female ex-combat-
ants in Sierra Leone. Through one of the most
sensitive ethnographies of conflict available,
Coulter explores young women’s predicaments
and strategies for living in a violent conflict,
their renegotiation of gendered lives in postwar
families and communities, and their responses
to contradictions generated by international
processes of disarmament and reintegration.”
—Rosalind Shaw, Tufts University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7512-2
304 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)
Darfur
A 21st Century Genocide, Third Edition
Gérard Prunier
“The emergency in Darfur in western Sudan
is far from over, as Gérard Prunier points out
in this comprehensive and authoritative book.
Prunier concisely covers the history, the con-
flicts, and the players. . . . His book is essential
for anyone wanting to learn about this complex
conflict.”—Library Journal
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7503-0
280 pages | $17.95 paperback (catalog price: $14.36)
Crises in World Politics
Killing Neighbors
Webs of Violence in Rwanda
Lee Ann Fujii
“Killing Neighbors incorporates a sophisticated
approach to historical factors and gives voice to
people ‘in the hills’ as well as to political lead-
ers. It makes a much-needed contribution both
to the field of Rwandan studies and of genocide
studies, substituting data for ideology and local
voices for political tracts.”—David Newbury,
Smith College
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4705-1
224 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)
Taming the Disorderly City
The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg
after Apartheid
Martin J. Murray
“This compelling, lively, and very engaging
book is both an impassioned portrait of Johan-
nesburg and a tough intellectual and political
critique of often confusing and ambivalent ur-
ban dynamics. It will help a whole generation
of urbanists get to grips with this emergent ur-
banism and its profound political and personal
challenges.”—Jennifer Robinson, The Open
University
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7437-8
280 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)
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Clandestine Crossings
Migrants and Coyotes on the
Texas-Mexico Border
David Spener
“Clandestine Crossings is a magnificent con-
tribution to the understanding of surreptitious
migrant border crossings at the southwestern
border. David Spener puts faces and voices to
social statistics and shows how migration and
coyotes have developed together as Mexican
workers struggle to find work in el norte in
the context of increasingly restrictive border
policies.”—Nestor P. Rodriguez, The Univer-
sity of Texas at Austin
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7589-4
320 pages | $24.95 paperback (catalog price: $19.96)
Citizenship across Borders
The Political Transnationalism
of El Migrante
Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker
Winner of the Global Division of the Society
for the Study of Social Problems Outstanding
Book Award
“In this welcome contribution, Smith and Bak-
ker provide uniquely rich material based on
extensive fieldwork in Mexico and the United
States. Through innovative analyses across
multiple scales, they offer numerous theoretical
and methodological advances surrounding the
study of transnational political engagement.”
—Steven Vertovec, University of Oxford
2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7390-6
264 pages | $21.00 paperback (catalog price: $16.80)
Border Games
Policing the U.S.–Mexico Divide,
Second Edition
Peter Andreas
“Border Games provides rich food for thought
on pressing questions. Whatever the ultimate
answers, this book enlivens the ongoing de-
bates about the current U.S. ‘missions impossi-
ble’: its wars against illegal immigrants, drugs,
and, most recently, global terrorism.”—Latin
American Politics and Society
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7540-5
200 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Transnational Tortillas
Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in
Mexico and the United States
Carolina Bank Muñoz
Cowinner of the George Terry Book Award
(Academy of Management)
“Bank Muñoz’s rich ethnographic fieldwork in
two tortilla factories, one in Mexico and the
other in the United States, has produced an ex-
tremely well crafted, highly accessible book on
the role of state policy, race, gender, and im-
migration status in labor control.”—Héctor L.
Delgado, University of La Verne
ILR Press | 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7422-4
216 pages | $18.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.16)
Nations of Emigrants
Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El
Salvador and the United States
Susan Bibler Coutin
“Coutin weaves flawlessly theory and sharp eth-
nographic observations while at the same time
putting a human face to the conundrums of
immigration law. The result is theoretically in-
novative, methodologically sophisticated, and
a truly engaging account.”—Cecilia Menjivar,
Arizona State University
2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7396-8
288 pages | $21.00 paperback (catalog price: $16.80)
Communities without Borders
Images and Voices from the World
of Migration
David Bacon
with forewords by Carlos Muñoz Jr. and
Douglas Harper
“This is a beautiful and powerful, but disturb-
ing book. David Bacon has poignantly cap-
tured through prose and image the stark beauty,
fierce determination, and pride of U.S./Mexico/
Guatemala transnational communities and the
ravages of exploitation wrought upon them.”
—Anthropology of Work Review
ILR Press | 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7307-4
248 pages | $29.95 paperback (catalog price: $23.96)
Working for Justice
The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, and
Victor Narro, editors
Comprising eleven case studies based on origi-
nal field research on organizing campaigns
among L.A. day laborers, garment workers, car
wash workers, security officers, janitors, taxi
drivers, hotel workers, this book makes the case
for a distinctive and effective “L.A. Model” of
union and worker center organizing.
ILR Press | 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7580-1
312 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)

Stretched Thin
Poor Families, Welfare Work, and
Welfare Reform
Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt
“This is a wonderfully thoughtful and illumi-
nating book. For more than a decade, the au-
thors peered into the workings of the Oregon
welfare system after the implementation of
the draconian reform of 1996. The result is a
closely observant picture of just what went on.
We learn about the real human costs to moth-
ers and children of the much-heralded shift to
‘work first’ and ‘personal responsibility.’ We
also learn about the pressures on the staff of the
local agencies as they tried to adapt a neoliber-
al policy designed in Washington.”—Frances
Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7510-8
256 pages | $22.95 paperback (catalog price: $18.36)
Differences That Matter
Social Policy and the Working Poor in the
United States and Canada
Dan Zuberi
“Differences that Matter helps us understand
the enormous difference social policies can
make in the lives of the working poor. Zuberi’s
powerful cross-national study will be a lasting
contribution to our understanding of the lives
of the working class.”—Michèle Lamont, Har-
vard University
ILR Press | 2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7312-8
256 pages | $19.95 paperback (catalog price: $15.96)
The Truce
Lessons from an L.A. Gang War
Karen Umemoto
“The Truce is a sophisticated and timely contri-
bution to the growing literature on urban street
gangs. Umemoto has produced a well-written,
empirically rich analysis of intra-racial gang
conflict that works on multiple levels. Students
of criminology, urban studies and race-ethnic
relations will be well advised to include this
important new work on the book shelves.”
—David C. Brotherton, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice
2006 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7305-0
248 pages | $21.95 paperback (catalog price: $17.56)
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Defiant Dads
Fathers’ Rights Activists in America
Jocelyn Elise Crowley
“Crowley has written an important, theoretically
rich book that empirically examines the fathers’
rights movement and engages a wide range of
scholarship, including family law and policy,
feminism, social movements, and ideology and
public policy. In examining the movement, she
finds important positive aspects, such as its em-
phasis on responsible fatherhood, but she also
notes the pervasive antifeminist and neoconser-
vative-influenced antistatism of the movement.
Highly recommended.”—Choice
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4690-0
320 pages | $27.95 cloth (catalog price: $22.36)
Habits of the Heartland
Small-Town Life in Modern America
Lyn C. Macgregor
“Macgregor shows how communities are made
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Corporate Wasteland
The Landscape and Memory of
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Steven High and David W. Lewis
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the intensity of the once red-hot blast furnaces,
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is an interrogation of the entire landscape.”
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Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
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Rachel Wheeler
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Mi Voz, Mi Vida
Latino College Students Tell Their
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Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and
Christina Gómez, editors
“Mi Voz, Mi Vida recounts the opening chapters
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Balancing Two Worlds
Asian American College Students Tell
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Affirmative Action for the Future
James P. Sterba
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Streetwise for Book Smarts
Grassroots Organizing and Education
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Celina Su
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Race or Ethnicity?
On Black and Latino Identity
Jorge J. E. Gracia, editor
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2007 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7359-3
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A Genealogy of Literary
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Christopher Douglas
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The Varieties of Ethnic Experience
Kinship, Class, and Gender among
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Micaela di Leonardo
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The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
The Magic City
Unemployment in a
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Gregory Pappas
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The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

Privatizing China
Socialism from Afar
Li Zhang and Aihwa Ong, editors
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In Search of Paradise
Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis
Li Zhang
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Capitalism without Democracy
The Private Sector in Contemporary China
Kellee S. Tsai
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Burrowing deeply into the informal practices
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Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition
Nicole Constable
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Organizing at the Margins
The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South
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Jennifer Jihye Chun
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of labor activism among the most vulnerable
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The Making of Minjung
Democracy and the Politics of Representa-
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Namhee Lee
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as a remarkable historical constellation.”
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War and Shadows
The Haunting of Vietnam
Mai Lan Gustafsson
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2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7501-6
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Tearing Apart the Land
Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
Duncan McCargo
Winner of the Bernard Schwartz Book Award
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“Built on months of potentially dangerous field-
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which all future studies of the south will be
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2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7499-6
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Textures of Struggle
The Emergence of Resistance among
Garment Workers in Thailand
Piya Pangsapa
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and politically effective women workers and
helps explain their successes and setbacks in
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The Golden Triangle
Inside Southeast Asia’s Drug Trade
Ko-lin Chin
“In this extraordinary look into the secret world
of opium production deep in the mountains of
northern Burma, Chin interviews drug lords
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2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7521-4
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Taking Southeast Asia to Market
Commodities, Nature, and People in the
Neoliberal Age
Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso, editors
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Mien Relations
Mountain People and State Control in
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Hjorleifur Jonsson
“Mien history and society come to life in this
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holds and communities have re-formed within
varied regional political economies cuts through
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Conflict, Violence, and

Dependent Communities
Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor
Caroline Hughes
This comparative analysis critiques internation-
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State of Authority
State in Society in Indonesia
Gerry Van Klinken and Joshua Barker, editors
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The Ambiguous Allure of the West
Traces of the Colonial in Thailand
Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson, editors
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Eva-Lotta E. Hedman, editor
This volume examines internal displacement in
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Possessed by the Spirits
Mediumship in Contemporary
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Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien, editors
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At the Edge of the Forest
Essays on Cambodia, History, and
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Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood, editors
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Muslims and Matriarchs
Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through
Jihad and Colonialism
Jeffrey Hadler
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Assembling Women
The Feminization of Global Manufacturing
Teri L. Caraway
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Fighting for Foreigners
Immigration and Its Impact on
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Apichai W. Shipper
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The Origins of Banana-fibre Cloth
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Katrien Hendrickx
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Juki Girls, Good Girls
Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka’s
Global Garment Industry
Caitrin Lynch
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showing a whole nation pondering the question
of whether using women’s labor for economic
development is compatible with expecting
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the nation—a whole nation asking what kind
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Breaking the Ashes
The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka
Michele Ruth Gamburd
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State of Suffering
Political Violence and Community
Survival in Fiji
Susanna Trnka
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to the real consequences of Fiji’s ethnic divi-
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2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7498-9
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Icons of the Desert
Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
Roger Benjamin, editor
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narrated through the paintings on view. This
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Counter Culture
The American Coffee Shop Waitress
Candacy A. Taylor
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their occupation. Taylor’s photographs and
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Cobble, Rutgers University
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Workplace Flexibility
Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a
21st-Century Workforce
Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider,
editors
Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen
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The Good Temp
Vicki Smith and Esther B. Neuwirth
“The Good Temp is an authoritative study of
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cesses in which all parties sustain the image of
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UCLA
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From Predators to Icons
Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero
Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot
translated by George Holoch
with a foreword by John R. Kimberly
“This book provides a powerful and iconoclastic
close read of the careers of spectacularly wealthy
businessmen that stands both conventional and
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kept, and justified on its head. It is meticulously
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From Hire to Liar
The Role of Deception in the Workplace
David Shulman
“Lies, white lies, misinformation, prevarica-
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euphemisms, dissimulations—in compelling
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Northwestern University
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Headhunters
Matchmaking in the Labor Market
William Finlay and James E. Coverdill
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Taxi!
Cabs and Capitalism in New York City
Biju Mathew
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owners and where even minor problems, such
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To Plead Our Own Cause
Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves
Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd, editors
“To Plead Our Own Cause gives voice to some
of the most voiceless people on the planet. The
breadth of these gut-wrenching stories from all
over the globe is impressive and informative.
This is a valuable and unique contribution to
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2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7438-5
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Keepers of the Flame
Understanding Amnesty International
Stephen Hopgood
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Circles of Exclusion
The Politics of Health Care in Israel
Dani Filc, M.D.
foreword by Quentin Young, M.D.
“Circles of Exclusion does more than character-
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system and the impact of these changes. Filc
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ideology, law, and politics have pushed both
Jewish Israeli citizens and other groups—non-
Jewish citizens, migrant workers and refugees,
and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories—
further from the hope of enjoying what he calls
‘the right to health.’”—Sarah S. Willen, Har-
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Humanitarianism in Question
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Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss, editors
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A Shameful Business
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James A. Gross
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Unexpected Power
Conflict and Change among
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Shareen Hertel
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Mixed Signals
U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America
Kathryn Sikkink
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Islam in the World
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Werner Ende and Udo
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Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the Failed
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Ussama Makdisi
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War on Sacred Grounds
Ron E. Hassner
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To Live upon Hope
Mohicans and Missionaries in the
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Rachel Wheeler
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New York Amish
Life in the Plain
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Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
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The Sungod’s Journey through
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Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat
Andreas Schweizer
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The Occult Mind
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Christopher I. Lehrich
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The Lotus and the Lion
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J. Jeffrey Franklin
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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures
A History of Tobacco and Chocolate
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Marcy Norton
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The Ambivalent Consumer
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Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan,
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Appetite for Change
How the Counterculture Took On the
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Warren J. Belasco
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Prosperity for All
Consumer Activism in an
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Matthew Hilton
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Case Studies in Food Policy for
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Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng, editors
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Seeds for the Future
The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops
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Jennifer A. Thomson
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