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The Work of Repair

The Work of Repair

Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa

Thomas Cousins

The Work of Repair is an ethnographic examination of the intimate relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of postapartheid South Africa, in the wake of the HIV crisis and the contentious politics of nutrition. It explores how capacity is augmented as the wounds of history are embodied and modulated.

ISBN: 9781531503543

In Quest of a Shared Planet

In Quest of a Shared Planet

Negotiating Climate from the Global South

Naveeda Khan

An eye-opening firsthand account of the negotiating rooms responsible for the direction of the most urgent issue of our time

ISBN: 9781531502782

Against the Carceral Archive

Against the Carceral Archive

The Art of Black Liberatory Practice

Damien Sojoyner

Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “carceral archival project,” offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison...

ISBN: 9781531503772

Terror Trials

Life and Law in Delhi's Courts

Mayur R. Suresh

In an ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, the author shows how those charged with terror engage with legal technicalities. The book shows how the ordinary procedures that lie at the heart of the trial are the mode through which human expressiveness and vulnerability emerge in the face of the law.

ISBN: 9781531501778

Imagistic Care

Growing Old in a Precarious World

Edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Lone Grøn

Afterword by Robert Desjarlais

Contributor(s): Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Grøn, Maria Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle Sofie Wentzer and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume...

ISBN: 9780823299638

Prescriptions for Virtuosity

Prescriptions for Virtuosity

The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine

Eric I. Karchmer

Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.

ISBN: 9780823299836

Spirit Power

Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

Heonik Kwon and Jun Hwan Park

Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth...

ISBN: 9780823299911

The Politics of the Near

The Politics of the Near

On the Edges of Protest in South Africa

Jérôme Tournadre

Translated by Andrew Brown

The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography...

ISBN: 9780823299959

Between Heaven and Russia

Between Heaven and Russia

Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Appalachia, this book examines conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and political alignment with Russian conservative politics by contemporary rural American citizens.

ISBN: 9780823299508

Machines for Making Gods

Machines for Making Gods

Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End

Jon Bialecki

An engrossing account of the way religion and the technological imagination come together in the world’s largest religious transhumanist organization.

ISBN: 9780823299362

Orphaned Landscapes

Orphaned Landscapes

Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

Patricia Spyer

This book examines the proliferation of monumental Christian street art in a Muslim/Christian conflict to show how ephemeral phenomena are inherent to sociopolitical change.

ISBN: 9780823298693

Living in Death

Living in Death

Genocide and Its Functionaries

Richard Rechtman

Translated by Lindsay Turner

Living in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.

ISBN: 9780823297863

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

Edited by Ina Merdjanova

Contributor(s): Kristin Aune, Milica Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena Kupari, Ina Merdjanova, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir and Detelina Tocheva

This volume engages women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to Orthodox Christianity in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. It critically engages the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox forms of institutional and social life in relation to gender by using feminist epistemologies and drawing on original ethnographic research.

ISBN: 9780823298617

Living with Concepts

Living with Concepts

Anthropology in the Grip of Reality

Edited by Andrew Brandel and Marco Motta

Contributor(s): Jocelyn Benoist, Andrew Brandel, Michael Cordey, Veena Das, Rasmus Dyring, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Marco Motta, Michael Puett, Lotte Buch Segal and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

An interdisciplinary collaboration that explores what it means to live with concepts, rather than think of them as mere tools for analysis.

ISBN: 9780823294275

Mixing Medicines

Mixing Medicines

Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia

Tatiana Chudakova

Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine’s attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows.

ISBN: 9780823294305

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India

Vaibhav Saria

This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia’s third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires. The book shows how hijras trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.

ISBN: 9780823294718

The National Frame

The National Frame

Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany

Banu Karaca

The National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship, continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts.

ISBN: 9780823290215

Channeling Moroccanness

Channeling Moroccanness

Language and the Media of Sociality

Becky L. Schulthies

This book explores how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez.

ISBN: 9780823289721

Seeing Like a Child

Seeing Like a Child

Inheriting the Korean War

Clara Han

Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist AnthropologyFinalist, 2022 Victor Turner PrizeAn utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography...

ISBN: 9780823289462

Preaching with Their Lives

Preaching with Their Lives

Dominicans on Mission in the United States after 1850

Edited by Margaret M. McGuinness and Jeffrey M. Burns

Contributor(s): Arlene Bachanov, Elizabeth Michael Boyle O.P., James T. Carroll, Heath Carter, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Diane Kennedy O.P., Margaret M. McGuinness, Donna Maria Moses O.P., Cecilia Murray O.P., Christopher J. Renz O.P., Ellen Skerrett, Cynthia Taylor and Janet Welsh O.P.

This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting...

ISBN: 9780823289646

Textures of the Ordinary

Textures of the Ordinary

Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

Veena Das

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

ISBN: 9780823287697

Mutant Neoliberalism

Mutant Neoliberalism

Market Rule and Political Rupture

Edited by William Callison and Zachary Manfredi

Contributor(s): Étienne Balibar, Sören Brandes, Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Julia Elyachar, Michel Feher, Megan C. Moodie, Christopher Newfield, Dieter Plehwe, Lisa Rofel, Leslie Salzinger and Quinn Slobodian

This interdisciplinary collection, featuring some of today’s most prominent political theorists, sociologists, philosophers, and historians, challenges narratives of neoliberalism’s demise. The book queries whether contemporary political ruptures—including the rise of far-right forces—will challenge, support, or extend the reach of market rule around the globe.

ISBN: 9780823285709

The Doctor and Mrs. A.

The Doctor and Mrs. A.

Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis

Sarah Pinto

In the 1940’s, the young Punjabi “Mrs. A.” reflected on sexuality, gender, and struggle in a dream analysis with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand, drawing on Hindu myth to conceive a better, socialist future. An unconventional history of gender and sexuality in late colonialism, this book reminds us that the West does not have a monopoly on feminism, psychiatry, or ethical paradigms.

ISBN: 9780823286669

Morality at the Margins

Morality at the Margins

Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya

Sarah Hillewaert

What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows how Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality.

ISBN: 9780823286508

The Philosophers' Gift

The Philosophers' Gift

Reexamining Reciprocity

Marcel Hénaff

Translated by Jean-Louis Morhange

For philosophers, the gift fascinates because it demands disinterested generosity. Yet anthropology offers another view. Reciprocity, rather than disinterestedness, Hénaff shows, is central to ceremonial giving, alliance, and the social bond. From actual gift practices, Hénaff develops an original and profound theory of symbolism, the social, and the relationship between self and other.

ISBN: 9780823286461