Anthropology New Books & Selected Backlist | 2012
ContentsCultural Anthropology 1
Religion & Culture 9
Global Anthropology 13
Asia 14
Forthcoming in 2012 16
Archaeology & Biological Anthropology 17
UC Publishing Services 18
Books for the Classroom 19
Text Adoption Information 19
Journals 20
Author Index 21
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Cover art is from The Paper Road by Erik Mueggler. See facing page. Art at left is from Coffee Life in Japan by Merry White. See page 15.
Anthropology 2012
Cover art is from The Paper Road by Erik Mueggler. See facing page. Art at left is from Coffee Life in Japan by Merry White. See page 15.
Anthropology 2012 The Paper RoadArchive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet
Erik Mueggler
This book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-cen-tury botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical speci-mens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. An eloquent, even haunting narrative of the relationships between colonial explorers/scientists and their native col-laborators that makes vivid the theme of colonial intimacy. Charlotte Furth, University of Southern California.
Erik Mueggler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
Available November 2011 346 pp. 45 b/w photos (W)$70.00 cloth (48.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26902-6$29.95 paper (20.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26903-3ebook forthcoming
Also by Erik Mueggler:
The Age of Wild Ghosts
Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China
2001 375 pp. 15 line illus. 3 maps 3 tables (W)$60.00 cloth (41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-22623-4$28.95 paper (19.95) ISBN 978-0-520-22631-9
Deep ChinaThe Moral Life of the PersonWhat Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell Us about China Today
Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua
Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, the authors delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice.
An indispensable antidote to the copious body of politically and economically oriented literature that dominates current writing about the Chinese super-power.Margaret Lock, author of Twice Dead
Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University; Yunxiang Yan is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Jing Jun is a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing); Sing Lee is a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong; Everett Zhang is a Professor at Princeton University; Pan Tianshu is a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai); Wu Fei and Guo Jinhua are Professors at Peking University (Beijing).
Available September 2011 316 pp. (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26944-6$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26945-3ebook forthcoming
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Humanitarian ReasonA Moral History of the Present
Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war. He traces and analyzes recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices what he terms humanitarian reasonand shows in vivid examples how humanitarianism is confronted by inequality and violence.
A rigourous, principled, and compelling account of the emergence of humanitarianism.Michael Lambek, editor of Illness and IronyHumanitarianism emerges both as a form of reason and as a key force in the contemporary arts of government.Claudio Lomnitz, author of Death and the Idea of Mexico
Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Available October 2011 352 pp. 6 tables (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27116-6$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27117-3ebook forthcoming
Blue JeansThe Art of the Ordinary
Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Based on intensive field work in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an every-day itemblue jeansto learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of the normative.
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College, London. He is the author of many books, including The Comfort of Things, Stuff, and Tales from Facebook. Sophie Woodward is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and the author of Why Women Wear What They Wear.
Available 2012 168 pp. 2 tables (W)$60.00 cloth (41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27218-7$24.95 paper (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27219-4ebook forthcoming
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Blue Jeans undeniably
provokes. It succeeds at
bringing the ordinary into
plain view.
Robert J. Foster, author of
Coca-Globalization
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Between One and One AnotherMichael Jackson
Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in exis-tential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples lives and that of turning inward to ones self. Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted upon and taking action, Jackson shows how the histori-cal complexities and particularities found in human interac-tions reveal the dilemmas, conflicts, cares, and concerns that shape all of our lives.
Michael Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School.
Available 2012 269 pp. (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27233-0$26.95 paper (18.95-) ISBN 978-0-520-27235-4ebook forthcoming
The Nature of RaceHow Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
Ann Morning
What do Americans think race means? What determines ones raceappearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks. Drawing from in-depth interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergradu-ates, Morning explores different conceptions of racefinding for example, that while many sociologists now assume that race is a social invention or construct, anthropologists and biologists are far from such a consensus.
Ann Morning is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at New York University.
2011 328 pp. 9 b/w photos 6 tables (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27030-5$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27031-2 ebook forthcoming
Cultural Anthropology
A lively, fascinating
exploration of the
interplay between
being part of the lives
of others and being
apart from them.
Robert Desjarlais, author of
Counterplay
Trade of the TricksInside the Magicians Craft
Graham M. Jones
From risqu cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, Trade of the Tricks offers an unprecedented look in-side the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, Graham M. Jones gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their astonishing deceptions.
A witty, learned, engaging trip through the world of French magic, Trade of the Tricks builds intriguing ideas on the deep knowledge that comes from prolonged, intensive observa-tion. Howard Becker, author of Art Worlds
Graham M. Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Available September 2011 312 pp. 15 b/w photos (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27046-6$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27047-3ebook forthcoming
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CounterplayAn Anthropologist at the Chessboard
Robert Desjarlais
The subject of chess boasts more books than any other game, but this one is special, crafted for the general reader as well as the aficionado. . . . Like the game itself, Counterplay is an enjoyable mental exercise.ForewordExplores the inner world of a chess player and examines how we attempt to make meaning from the game and the forms of life that surround it.Jonathan Rowson, PhD, Grandmaster and British Chess Champion (2004-2006)
Robert Desjarlais is Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College.
2011 266 pp. 2 b/w photos 7 line illus. (W)$24.95 cloth (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26739-8ebook forthcoming
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Engineering HappinessA New Approach for Building a Joyful Life
Rakesh Sarin and Manel Baucells
Rakesh Sarin and Manel Baucells have been conducting groundbreaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrat-ing their own research with the latest thinking in the behav-ioral and social sciencesincluding management science, psychology, and economicsthey offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. What Sarin and Baucells have found is that well-being is not the capricious outcome of destiny or fortune, like winning the lottery, but that it can be influenced by our decisionsin fact, that the essence of happiness itself is choice. In this practical book they tell how we can master the six essen-tial laws of happiness, avoid traps we face every day, and lay the groundwork for building a happier life over time.
Rakesh Sarin is the Paine Professor of Management at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. Manel Baucells is Professor of Business and Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Available 2012 245 pp. 6 line illus. 3 tables (W)$60.00 cloth (41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26820-3 (S 2012)$25.95 paper (17.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26821-0ebook forthcoming
Sex CellsThe Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Rene Almeling
Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical prac-tice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn to donation for financial reasons, Almeling finds that clinics encourage sperm donors to think of the payments as remuneration for an easy job. Women receive more money but are urged to regard egg donation in feminine terms, as the ultimate gift from one woman to another.
Rene Almeling is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University.
Available September 2011 244 pp. 4 line illus. 5 tables (W)$60.00 cloth (41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27095-4$24.95 paper (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27096-1ebook forthcoming
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A compelling analysis
of contemporary markets
for eggs and sperm.
Viviana A. Zelizer, author of
Economic Lives
"This book contains
wisdom from many
sources: findings in the
social sciences, systematic
ways of organizing useful
concepts, memorable
anecdotes, insights from
different cultures and,
most of all, good common
sense. Bravo!"
Robin Hogarth, author of
Educating Intuition
The Cultural ReturnSusan Hegeman
This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuriesyears that saw the emergence of new fields and subfields (cultural studies, the new cultural history, literary new historicism, as well as ethnic and minori-ty studies) and came to be called the cultural turn. Since the 1990s, however, the idea of culture has fallen out of scholarly favor. Susan Hegeman engages with a diversity of disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, sociology, philoso-phy, psychology, and political science, to historicize the rise and fall of the cultural turn and to propose ways that culture may still be a vital concept in the global present.
Susan Hegeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida and is the author of Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture.
FlashPoints, 7Available 2012 204 pp. (W)$45.00 paper (30.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26898-2ebook forthcoming
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The Practice of Everyday LifeMichel de Certeau
Translated by Steven F. Rendall
Marks a turning point in studies of culture away from the producer (writer, scientist, city planner) and the product (book, discourse, city street) to the consumer (reader, pedes-trian).Journal of Modern HistoryLittered with insights and perceptions, any one of which could make the career of an American academic.Thomas Fleming, Chronicles of CultureThe late Michel de Certeau was Directeur dtudes at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Visiting Professor of French and Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego.
Available December 2011 256 pp. (W)$22.95 paper (15.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27145-6
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Darkness before DaybreakAfrican Migrants Living on the Margins in
Southern Italy Today
Hans Lucht
Illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around the world, this riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work.Darkness before Daybreak reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants who, like countless others, are often in the news but are rarely understood.
Hans Lucht is a Danish journalist, writer, and anthropologist at the University of Copenhagen.
Available December 2011 358 pp. 1 map (W)$60.00 cloth (41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27071-8$24.95 paper (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27073-2ebook forthcoming
Casualties of CareImmigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
Miriam Ticktin
This book explores the unintended consequences of compas-sion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration prac-tices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens.
Miriam Ticktin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research.
Available August 2011 312 pp. 10 b/w photos 3 tables (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26904-0$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26905-7ebook forthcoming
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An original,
comprehensive,
and skilled study that
provides a real sense
of the quality and
meaning of existence in
Ghana and in Naples.
Peter Schneider, coauthor of
Reversible Destiny
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Dude, Youre a FagMasculinity and Sexuality in High School
C. J. Pascoe
The exemplary fieldwork vignettes and case studies are abundant, rich, vivid, and experientially resonant.General Anthropology Bulletin
C.J. Pascoe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado College.
Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award, ASAOutstanding Book Award, American Education Research Association
Available November 2011 240 pp. (W)$22.95 paper (15.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27148-7ebook $18.00 ISBN 978-0-520-94104-5
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The Chumash World at European ContactPower, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Lynn H. Gamble
A significant contribution, both descriptively and method-ologically, that will be of interest to a wide variety of anthro-pologists, sociologists, historians, and other researchers in California and around the world.American Anthropologist
Lynn H. Gamble is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
2008 376 pp. 24 b/w photos 30 line illus. 17 tables (W)$55.00 cloth (37.95) ISBN 978-0-520-25441-1$29.95 paper (20.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27124-1ebook $24.00 ISBN 978-0-520-94268-4
New paperback edition
Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary EditionA Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
Theodora Kroeber
A book that all Americans should read.New York Times
One of the most moving, tragic and ultimately triumphant human stories I have ever read.Los Angeles Times
A real source book of central California ethnology and a detailed record of this example of acculturation which is in most respects without equal in todays anthropological litera-ture.American Anthropologist
Available October 2011 312 pp. 32 b/w photos 5 line illus. 1 map (W)$19.95 paper (13.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27147-0
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California Indian LanguagesVictor Golla
This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we know about Californias indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documenta-tion of these languages.
A landmark achievement, required reading for any lin-guist, archaeologist, ethnographer, or historian interested in aboriginal California.Robert L. Bettinger, University of California, Davis
Victor Golla, a leading expert on the native languages of California, is Profes-sor of Anthropology at Humboldt State University. Available September 2011 400 pp. 84 photos 39 maps 80 tables (W)$90.00 cloth (62.00) ISBN 978-0-520-26667-4
Our Bodies Belong to GodOrgan Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt
Sherine Hamdy
Why has Egypt, a pioneer of organ transplantation, been re-luctant to pass a national organ transplant law for more than three decades? This book analyzes the national debate over organ transplantation in Egypt as it has unfolded during a time of major social and political transformationincluding mounting dissent against a brutal regime, the privatization of health care, advances in science, the growing gap between rich and poor, and the Islamic revival. Sherine Hamdy recasts bioethics as a necessarily political project as she traces the moral positions of patients in need of new tissues and organs, doctors uncertain about whether transplantation is a good medical or religious practice, and Islamic scholars.
Sherine Hamdy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.
Available 2012 314 pp. 20 b/w photos (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27175-3$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27176-0ebook forthcoming
Religion & Culture
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The Powerful EphemeralEveryday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place
Carla Bellamy
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines, known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. In this accessible ethnography, Carla Bel-lamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India.
Pushes back against inherited wisdom in South Asian scholarship about religion, personhood, the body, health, and violence.Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, author of In Ammas Healing Room
Carla Bellamy is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religion at Baruch College.
South Asia Across the DisciplinesAvailable August 2011 312 pp. 10 b/w photos 2 maps (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26280-5$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26281-2ebook forthcoming
Art is from Our Bodies Belong to God
Discipline and DebateThe Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
Michael Lempert
The Dalai Lama has represented Buddhism as a religion of non-violence, compassion, and world peace, but this does not reflect how monks learn their vocation. This book shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this tradition is changing as modernist reformerslike the Dalai Lamaadopt liberal and democratic ideals, such as natural rights and individual autonomy.
Michael Lempert is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
Available 2012 267 pp. 2 line drawings 3 charts 3 tables 1 map (W)$60.00 cloth (41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26946-0$24.95 paper (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26947-7ebook forthcoming
Making Chastity SexyThe Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns
Christine J. Gardner
Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers a savvy campaign that uses sex to sell abstinence. Drawing from interviews with evangelical leaders and teenag-ers, she examines the strategy to shift from a negative just say no approach to a positive one: just say yes to great sex within marriage.
A terrific book that moves beyond tired survey research-based studies to give us a rich and engaging in-depth analy-sis. Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
Christine J. Gardner is Associate Professor of Communication at Wheaton College.
2011 264 pp. 1 table (W)$60.00 cloth (41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26727-5$24.95 paper (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26728-2ebook forthcoming
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A vivid picture and a
painstaking analysis
of traditional and post-
traditional monastic
education among Tibet-
ans living in India.
Guy Newland, author of Introduction to Emptiness
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Moral AmbitionMobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches
Omri Elisha
In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evan-gelical Christians. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the grassroots of the Christian Right promote faith-based causes intended to improve the state of social welfare.
Takes us into the social world of evangelical megachurches, allowing us to grasp the experience at the heart of evangelical faith. T.M. Luhrmann, Stanford University
Omri Elisha is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York.
The Anthropology of Christianity, 122011 276 pp. (W)$60.00 cloth (41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26750-3$24.95 paper (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26751-0ebook forthcoming
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Spirits of ProtestantismMedicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
Pamela E. Klassen
Spirits of Protestantism reveals how liberal Protestants went from being early-twentieth-century medical missionaries seeking to convert others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of missionary arrogance who experimented with non-western healing modes such as Yoga and Reiki. Drawing on archival and ethnographic sources, Pamela E. Klassen shows how and why the very notion of healing within North America has been infused with a Protestant supernatural liberalism.
An insightful meditation on the relationship between liberal Protestantism and the project of modernity.Matthew Engelke, author of A Problem of Presence
Pamela E. Klassen is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
The Anthropology of Christianity, 132011 348 pp. 15 b/w photos (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-24428-3$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27099-2ebook forthcoming
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A Huston Smith ReaderHuston Smith
Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffery Paine
For more than sixty years, Huston Smith has not only written and taught about the worlds religions, he has lived them. This Reader presents a rich selection of Smiths writings, covering six decades of inquiry and exploration, and ranging from scholarship to memoir. Over his long academic career, Smiths tireless enthusiasm for religious ideas has offered readers both in and outside the academy a fresh understand-ing of what religion is and what makes it meaningful.
The books power, beauty, and courage will take the reader into the heart of the worlds religions.Joan Halifax, Founding Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
Huston Smith is regarded as one of the most prominent authorities on religions of the world. Jeffery Paine is the author of Father India, Re-enchant-ment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West.
Available 2012 305 pp. 2 tables (W)$29.95 cloth (20.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27022-0ebook forthcoming
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Huston Smith has
shaped my thinking and
my lifelong quest, and
guided me to where I
am today. I intend to
carry this book with me
wherever I go.
Deepak Chopra
Also by Huston Smith:
The Way Things AreConversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life
Edited and with a Preface by Phil Cousineau
2003 338 pp. (W)$39.95 cloth (27.95) ISBN 978-0-520-23816-9$24.95 paper (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-24489-4
A Seat at the TableHuston Smith In Conversation with Native Americans on Religious FreedomEdited and with a Preface by Phil CousineauWith Assistance from Gary Rhine2005 253 pp. 17 b/w photos (W)$45.00 cloth (30.95) ISBN 978-0-520-24439-9$21.95 paper (14.95) ISBN 978-0-520-25169-4
BlighWilliam Bligh in the South Seas
Anne Salmond
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explor-ers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh perspec-tive the triumphs and disasters of William Blighs life in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as players.
A genuinely cross-cultural history that remains thought-provoking to this day.Nicholas Thomas, author of Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages
Anne Salmond is Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Available October 2011 528 pp. 16 color illus. 50 b/w photos 4 maps (O: AU, NZ)$39.95 cloth (27.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27056-5
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Aphrodites IslandThe European Discovery of Tahiti
Anne Salmond
A spellbinding, richly descriptive, and deeply thought-pro-voking account of late 18th-century Tahitian life and cultural conflict.Library Journal, starred review
2010 544 pp. 12 color illus. 50 b/w photos 3 maps (O: AU, NZ)$29.95 cloth (20.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26114-3$19.95 paper (13.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27132-6
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Deep HistoryThe Architecture of Past and Present
Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail
Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past, brings science into his-tory to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time.
Andrew Shryock is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Daniel Lord Smail is Professor of History at Harvard University. An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
Available November 2011 336 pp. 10 b/w photos 17 line illus. 2 maps (W)$29.95 cloth (20.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27028-2
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Beyond the BorderlandsMigration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking trans-formations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S.
This detailed study shows how Mexicans are making a place for themselves in one Pennsylvania town and reshaping the community in complex and unexpected ways.Nancy Foner, author of In a New Land
Debra Lattanzi Shutika is a folklorist and Associate Professor of English at George Mason University.
2011 312 pp. 6 b/w photos 4 line illus. 2 maps (W)$65.00 cloth (44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26958-3$26.95 paper (18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26959-0ebook forthcoming
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The Coming FamineThe Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It
Julian Cribb
Makes clear just how intertwined global warming is with food security.Chronicle of Higher Education
Julian Cribb is an award-winning journalist and science writer and the author of The White Death.
2010 264 pp. 8 line illus. 3 maps 13 tables (O: AU, NZ)$24.95 cloth (16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26071-9$17.95 paper (12.50) ISBN 978-0-520-27123-4ebook $14.00 ISBN 978-0-520-4716-0
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2000 Years of Mayan LiteratureDennis Tedlock
Imaginatively written, superbly illustrated, beautifully pro-duced. . . . A must-buy.Current World Archaeology
Dennis Tedlock is Distinguished Professor and Endowed McNulty Chair of English and Research Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo.
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Author IndexAlmeling, 5
Bellamy, 9
Bourgois, 19
Cribb, 14
de Certeau, 6
Desjarlais, 4
Elisha, 11
Farmer, 19
Fassin, 2
Gamble, 8
Gardner, 10
Hamdy, 9
Hansson, 18
Harcourt, 16
Hardacre, 18
Hegeman, 6
Hintz, 18
Ishay, 19
Jackson, 3
Jones, 4
Klassen, 11
Kleinman et al., 1
Kohler/Varien, 16
Kroeber, 8
Lattanzi Shutika, 14
Lempert, 10
Lesure, 17
Lie, 18
Loyalka, 16
Lucht, 7
Marks, 19
Marlowe, 19
Meltzer, 19
Miller/
Woodward, 2
Morning, 3
Mueggler, 1
Mullaney, 16
Nichols, 18
Nordstrom, 19
Pascoe, 8
Salmond, 13
Sarin/Baucells, 5
Smith, 12
Smith/Cousineau, 12
Stoler, 19
Tedlock, 14
Thomas-Vilakati, 18
Ticktin, 7
White, 15
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