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Table of Contents
Race, Class, and Gender....... 2-5
Political and Legal
Anthropology.............................6-9
Stanford Studies in
Human Rights...............................10
Anthropology of Policy............. 11
Migration and
Transnational
Perspectives............................1213
Medical Anthropology..............14
Religion and Culture.................. 15
Ordering Information...................................9
Exam Copy Policy.........................................14

The Good Life

Aspiration, Dignity, and the

Anthropology of Wellbeing

Money from Nothing

Indebtedness and Aspiration in

South Africa

Edward F. Fischer

Deborah James

What could middle-class German

supermarket shoppers buying eggs
and impoverished coffee farmers in
Guatemala possibly have in common?
Both groups use the market in pursuit
of the good life. But what exactly
is the good life? How do we define
wellbeing beyond material standards
of living? While we all may want to
live the good life, we differ widely on
just what that entails.

Money from Nothing explores

the dynamics surrounding South
Africas national project of financial
inclusiondubbed banking the
unbankedwhich aimed to extend
credit to black South Africans as a
critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement.

In The Good Life, Edward Fischer

examines wellbeing in very different
cultural contexts to uncover shared
notions of the good life and how best
to achieve it. With fascinating on-theground narratives of Germans choices
regarding the purchase of eggs and
cars, and Guatemalans trade in coffee
and cocaine, Fischer presents a richly
layered understanding of how aspiration, opportunity, dignity, and purpose
comprise the good life.
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Through rich and captivating accounts,

Deborah James reveals the varied ways
in which middle- and working-class
South Africans access to credit is
intimately bound up with identity,
status-making, and aspirations of
upward mobility. She draws out the
deeply precarious nature of both the
aspirations and the economic relations
of debt which sustain her subjects,
revealing the shadowy side of indebtedness and its potential to produce
new forms of oppression and disenfranchisement in place of older ones.
Money from Nothing uniquely captures
the lived experience of indebtedness
for those many millions who attempt
to improve their positions (or merely
sustain existing livelihoods) in emerging economies.
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The Right Spouse

A Society of Young Women

Preferential Marriages in
Tamil Nadu

Opportunities of Place, Power, and

Reform in Saudi Arabia

Isabelle Clark-Decs

Amlie Le Renard

The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil preferential close

kin marriages, so-called Dravidian
Kinship. This book offers a description
and an interpretation of preferential
marriages with close kin in South
India, as they used to be arranged and
experienced in the recent past and as
they are increasingly discontinued in
the present.

The cities of Saudi Arabia are among

the most gender segregated in the
world. In recent years the Saudi
government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater
roles for women in society. Implicit in
these calls for reform, however, is an
assumption that the only real society
is male society. Little consideration
has been given to the rapidly evolving
activities within womens spaces. This
book joins young urban women in
their daily livesin the workplace, on
the female university campus, at the
mallto show how these women are
transforming Saudi cities from within
and creating their own urban, professional, consumerist lifestyles.

Isabelle Clark-Decs presents readers

with a focused anthropology of this
waning marriage system: its past,
present, and dwindling future. The
book takes on the main pillars of
Tamil social organization, considers
the ways in which Tamil intermarriage establishes kinship and social
rank, and argues that past scholars
have improperly defined Dravidian
kinship. Within her critique of past
scholarship, Clark-Decs recasts a
powerful and vivid image of preferential marriage in Tamil Nadu and
how those preferences and marital
rules play out in lived reality. What
Clark-Decs discovers in her fieldwork
are endogamous patterns and familial
connections that sometimes result in
flawed relationships, contradictory
statuses, and confused roles.

This splendid ethnography shatters many

of the myths surrounding Saudi women.
Amlie Le Renard brilliantly shows that
women in Saudi Arabia dont need to be
saved from their culture or religion and
have invented creative ways to talk back
to power.
Pascal Menoret,
New York University Abu Dhabi

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Wives, Husbands, and

Lovers

Marriage and Sexuality in Hong

Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China
Edited by Deborah S. Davis and
Sara L. Friedman

What is the state of intimate romantic

relationships and marriage in urban
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan?
Since the 1980s, the character of
intimate life in these urban settings
has changed dramatically. While many
speculate about the 21st century as
Asias century, this book turns to the
more intimate territory of sexuality and marriageand observes the
unprecedented changes in the law and
popular expectations for romantic
bonds and the creation of new families.
Wives, Husbands, and Lovers examines
how sexual relationships and marriage
are perceived and practiced under
new developments within each urban
location, including the establishment
of no fault divorce laws, lower rates of
childbearing within marriage, and the
increased tolerance for non-marital and
non-heterosexual intimate relationships.
The authors also chronicle what happens when states remove themselves
from direct involvement in some
features of marriage but not others.
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Race, Class, and Gender

The Emotional Politics

of Racism

How Feelings Trump Facts in an

Era of Colorblindness
Paula Ioanide

With stop-and-frisk laws, new

immigration policies, and cuts to
social welfare programs, majorities
in the United States have increasingly
supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against
black, Latino, Arab and Muslim
people in the United States. With this
book, Paula Ioanide examines how
emotion has prominently figured into
these contemporary expressions of
racial discrimination and violence.
How U.S. publics dominantly feel
about crime, terrorism, welfare, and
immigration often seems to trump
whatever facts and evidence say about
these politicized matters.
Ioanide uses four case studiesthe
police brutality case of Abner Louima;
torture at Abu Ghraib; the demolition
of New Orleans public housing units
following Hurricane Katrina; and a
proposed municipal ordinance to deny
housing to undocumented immigrants
in Escondido, CAto show how racial
fears are perpetuated, and how they
have played a central role in justifying
the expansion of our military and
prison system.
Stanford Studies in
Comparative Race and Ethnicity

Broken Links, Enduring Ties

American Adoption across Race,

Class, and Nation
Linda J. Seligmann

Family-making in America is in a state

of fluxthe ways people compose their
families is changing, including those
who choose to adopt. Broken Links,
Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational
and interracial adoptions in America.
Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact
of these adoptions over the last twenty
years on the ideologies and cultural
assumptions that Americans hold about
families and how they are constituted.
Seligmann explores whether or not new
kinds of families and communities are
emerging as a result of these adoptions,
providing a compelling narrative on
how adoptive families thrive and
struggle to create lasting ties.
Seligmann observed and interviewed
numerous adoptive parents and children, non-adoptive families, religious
figures, teachers and administrators,
and adoption brokers. The book
uncovers that adoptiononce wholly
stigmatizedis now often embraced
either as a romanticized mission of
rescue or, conversely, as simply one
among multiple ways to make a family.
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Live and Die Like a Man

Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt

Farha Ghannam

Watching the revolution of January

2011, the world saw Egyptians, men
and women, come together to fight for
freedom and social justice. These events
gave renewed urgency to the fraught
topic of gender in the Middle East.
The role of women in public life, the
meaning of manhood, and the future
of gender inequalities are hotly debated
by religious figures, government officials, activists, scholars, and ordinary
citizens throughout Egypt. Live and Die
Like a Man presents a unique twist on
traditional understandings of gender
and gender roles, shifting the attention
to men and exploring how they are
collectively produced as gendered
subjects. It traces how masculinity is
continuously maintained and reaffirmed by both men and women under
changing socio-economic and political
conditions.
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Modern Girls on the Go

Gender, Mobility, and Labor

in Japan
Edited by Alisa Freedman,
Laura Miller, and
Christine R. Yano

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Anxious Wealth

Money and Morality Among

Chinas New Rich
John Osburg

This pioneering investigation introduces

readers to the private livesand the
nightlivesof the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success
and status in the city of Chengdu. Over
the course of more than three years,
anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted,
wealthy Chinese businessmen as they
courted clients, partners, and government officials.

Second Edition

The Ethnic Project

The Latino Threat

Constructing Immigrants, Citizens,

and the Nation
Leo R. Chavez

From volunteers ready to patrol the

U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds
of thousands of men, women, and
children who have marched in support
of immigrant rights, the United States
has witnessed a surge of involvement
in immigration activism. In The
Latino Threat, Leo R. Chavez critically
investigates the media stories about and
recent experiences of immigrants to
show how prejudices and stereotypes
have been used to malign an entire
immigrant populationand to define
what it means to be an American. This
expanded second edition includes new
discussions about anchor babies, the
DREAM Act, and recent anti-immigrant
legislation in Arizona and other states.

Transforming Racial Fiction into

Ethnic Factions
Vilna Bashi Treitler

Race is a known fiction yet the social

stigma of race endures. In the United
States, ethnicity is often positioned as a
counterweight to race, and we celebrate
our various hyphenated-American
identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler
argues that we do so at a high cost:
ethnic thinking simply perpetuates an
underlying racism.

In The Ethnic Project, Bashi Treitler

considers the ethnic history of the
Osburg invites readers to join him as
United States from the arrival of the
he journeys through the new, highly
English in North America through to
gendered entertainment sites for Chithe present day. Tracing the histories
nese businessmen, including karaoke
of immigrant and indigenous groups
clubs, saunas, and massage parlors
Irish, Chinese, Italians, Jews, Native
places specifically designed to cater
Americans, Mexicans, Afro-Caribbeans,
to the desires and enjoyment of elite
and African Americansshe shows how
men. Osburg details the complex code
each negotiates Americas racial hierarof behavior that governs businessmen
chy, aiming to distance themselves from
as they go about banqueting, drinking,
Praise for the first edition:
the bottom and align with the groups
gambling, bribing, exchanging gifts, and
This is a book with rich rewards for the se- already at the top. But in pursuing these
obtaining sexual services.
rious student of the entire phenomenon of ethnic projects these groups implicitly
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Bill Richardson,
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Former Governor of New Mexico
and racism.

Chinese Labor in a Korean

Factory

Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity

on the Shop Floor in Globalizing
China

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Stanford Studies in Comparative

Race and Ethnicity

240 pp., 7 illustrations, 2013

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Jaesok Kim

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Wild Life

The Institution of Nature

Irus Braverman

Wild Life begins with the plight of a

tiny endangered snail, and ends with
the rehabilitation of an entire island.
Interwoven between its pages are
stories about golden lion tamarins
in Brazil, black-footed ferrets in the
American Plains, Sumatran rhinos
in Indonesia, Tasmanian devils in
Australiaand many more creatures,
both human and nonhuman. Drawing
on interviews with more than one
hundred and twenty conservation
biologists, zoologists, zoo professionals, government officials, and wildlife
managers, Braverman explores the
various perspectives on the two
dominant paradigms of conservationin situ (on-site) and ex situ (in
captivity)and the blurring of lines
between them.
Wild Life documents a nuanced
understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation, one
that aspires to the more rather than
to the most wild. It also documents
the emerging understanding that all
forms of wild natureboth in situ and
ex situmay need to be managed in
perpetuity.
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Police Encounters

Digital Militarism

Security and Surveillance in Gaza

under Egyptian Rule

Israels Occupation in the Social

Media Age

Ilana Feldman

Adi Kuntsman and

Rebecca L. Stein

Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result

of a war, a failed effort to maintain
Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty
years of its administration (19481967),
Egyptian policing of Gaza concerned
itself not only with crime and politics,
but also with control of social and
moral order. Through surveillance,
interrogation, and a network of local
informants, the police extended their
reach across the public domain and
into private life, seeing Palestinians
as both security threats and vulnerable subjects who needed protection.
Security practices produced suspicion
and safety simultaneously.
Police Encounters explores the
paradox of Egyptian rule. Drawing
on a rich and detailed archive of daily
police records, the book describes an
extensive security apparatus guided by
intersecting concerns about national
interest, social propriety, and everyday
illegality. In pursuit of security, Egyptian policing established a relatively
safe society, but also one that blocked
independent political activity.
Stanford Studies in Middle
Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures

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Political and Legal Anthropology

Israels occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Violent politics are interwoven with global
networking practices, protocols, and
aesthetics. Israeli soldiers share mobile
uploads in real-time. Official Israeli
military spokesmen announce wars
on Twitter. And civilians encounter
state violence on their newsfeeds and
mobile screens. This book traces the
rise of Israeli digital militarismboth
the reach of social media into Israeli
military theaters and the occupations
impact on everyday Israeli social
media cultureto show how social
media functions as a crucial theater in
which the Israeli military occupation
is supported and sustained.
Digital Militarism is a pioneering book,
showing how information and communication technologies have turned
into wartime arsenals, and the Internet
and social networks into digital battlefields. Just when one thinks that all has
been said about the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict, a totally original perspective
emerges. A must read.
Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University
Stanford Studies in Middle
Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures

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Unexpected Alliances

After the Revolution

Independent Filmmakers, the

State, and the Film Industry in
Postauthoritarian South Korea

Youth, Democracy, and the Politics

of Disappointment in Serbia

Young-a Park

What happens to student activism

once mass protests have disappeared
from view, and youth no longer
embody the political frustrations and
hopes of a nation? After the Revolution
chronicles the lives of student activists
as they confront the possibilities and
disappointments of democracy in the
shadow of the recent revolution in Serbia. Greenbergs narrative highlights
the stories of young student activists
as they seek to define their role and
articulate a new form of legitimate
political activity, post-socialism.

Since 1999, South Korean films have

dominated roughly 40 to 60 percent
of the Korean domestic box-office,
matching or even surpassing Hollywood films in popularity. Why is
this, and how did it come about? In
Unexpected Alliances, Young-a Park
seeks to answer these questions by
exploring the cultural and institutional
roots of the Korean film industrys
phenomenal success in the context
of Koreas political transition in the
late 1990s and early 2000s. The book
investigates the unprecedented interplay between independent filmmakers,
the state, and the mainstream film
industry under the post-authoritarian
administrations of Kim Dae Jung
(19982003) and Roh Moo Hyun
(20032008), and shows how these
alliances were critical in the making of
todays Korean film industry.
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Jessica Greenberg

When student activists in Serbia

helped topple dictator Slobodan
Milosevic on October 5, 2000,
they unexpectedly found that the
post-revolutionary period brought
even greater problems. How do you
actually live and practice democracy
in the wake of war and the shadow
of a recent revolution? This book
chronicles young Serbians attempt to
translate the energy and excitement
generated by wide scale mobilization
into the slow work of building democratic institutions.

The Expanding Spaces

of Law

A Timely Legal Geography

Edited by Irus Braverman,

Nicholas Blomley,
David Delaney, and
Alexandre Kedar

The Expanding Spaces of Law presents

readers with cutting-edge scholarship
in legal geography. An invaluable
resource for those new to this line
of scholarship, the book pushes the
boundaries of legal geography, reinvigorating previous modes of inquiry and
investigating new directions. It guides
scholars interested in the law-spacepower nexus to underexplored empirical sites and to novel theoretical and
disciplinary resources. The Expanding
Spaces of Law asks readers to think
about the temporality and dynamism
of legal spaces.
The Expanding Spaces of Law vividly
illuminates the significant contributions
spatial analysis offers to sociolegal studies and to legal anthropology, making
clear that an adequate analysis of law
and society requires a focus on space
and time.
Sally Engle Merry, New York University

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Political and Legal Anthropology

The Reckoning of Pluralism

Political Belonging and the

Demands of History in Turkey
Kabir Tambar

The Turkish Republic was founded

simultaneously on the ideal of universal
citizenship and on acts of extraordinary
exclusionary violence. Today, nearly
a century later, the claims of minority
communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate.
The Reckoning of Pluralism centers on
the case of Turkeys Alevi community,
a sizeable Muslim minority in a Sunni
majority state. Alevis have seen their
loyalty to the state questioned and
experienced sectarian hostility, and yet
their community is also championed
by state ideologues as bearers of the
nations folkloric heritage.
Kabir Tambar offers a critical appraisal
of the tensions of democratic pluralism.
Rather than portraying pluralism as a
governing ideal that loosens restrictions
on minorities, he focuses on the forms
of social inequality that it perpetuates
and on the political vulnerabilities
to which minority communities are
thereby exposed.
Stanford Studies in Middle
Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures

Nation and Family

Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism,

and Gendered Citizenship in
India
Narendra Subramanian

The distinct personal laws that govern

the major religious groups are a key
aspect of Indian multiculturalism
and secularism, and support specific
gendered rights in family life. Nation
and Family is the most comprehensive
study to date of the public discourses,
processes of social mobilization,
legislation and case law that formed
Indias three major personal law
systems, which govern Hindus,
Muslims, and Christians. This is the
first book to systematically compare
Indian experiences to those in a wide
range of other countries that inherited
personal laws specific to religious
group, sect, or ethnic group. The book
shows why Indias postcolonial policymakers changed the personal laws they
inherited less than the rulers of Turkey
and Tunisia, but far more than those
of Algeria, Syria and Lebanon, and
increased womens rights for the most
part, contrary to the trend in Pakistan,
Iran, Sudan and Nigeria since the 1970s.
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Political and Legal Anthropology

Refugees of the Revolution

Experiences of Palestinian Exile

Diana Allan

Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of

everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp
in Beirut. Diana Allan provides an
immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life
as well as inner lives, tracking how
residents relate across generations,
cope with poverty and marginalization,
and planpragmatically and speculativelyfor the future. Rethinking
the relationship between home and
homeland, Allan challenges common
assumptions about Palestinian identity
and nationalist politics and presents
new possibilities for the future of the
Palestinian community.
With analytical subtlety, empathy, and
political courage, Diana Allan raises
questions around the way that activists
and researchers working in Palestinian
refugee camps focus on the national
past. Her careful attention to the words
and lives of Shatila people has produced
a study that makes us think again.
Rosemary Sayigh
Stanford Studies in Middle
Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures

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Days of Revolution

Political Unrest in an Iranian

Village
Mary Elaine Hegland

Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province

of southwestern Iran lies Aliabad.
Mary Hegland arrived in this thensmall agricultural village of several
thousand people in the summer of
1978, unaware of the momentous
changes that would sweep this town
and this country in the months ahead.
Days of Revolution offers an insiders
view of how regular people were
drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution andas
Hegland returns to the region thirty
years laterits aftermath. Sharing
stories of conflict and revolution
alongside in-depth interviews, the
book sheds new light on this critical
historical moment.
There are a great number of books on
the Islamic Revolution, but none have
accomplished what Mary Hegland has.
This is an exceptional study of modern
Iran, offering a detailed account of village life before, during, and after the
Islamic Revolution. A brilliant book
that deserves to be widely read.
Janet Afary,
University of California, Santa Barbara

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No Billionaire Left Behind

Satirical Activism in America

Zooland

The Institution of Captivity

Angelique Haugerud

Irus Braverman

Growing economic inequality,

corporate influence in politics, an
eroding middle class. Many Americans
leave it to politicians and the media
to debate these topics in the public
sphere. Yet other seemingly ordinary
Americans have decided to enter the
conversation of wealth in America by
donning ball gowns, tiaras, tuxedos,
and top hats and taking on the
imagined roles of wealthy, powerful,
and completely fictional characters.
Why? In No Billionaire Left Behind,
Angelique Haugerud, who embedded
herself within the Billionaires and
was granted the name Ivana Itall,
explores the inner workings of these
faux billionaires and mines the depths
of democracys relationship to political
humor, satire, and irony.

The Cultural Lives of Law

This hilarious book addresses todays

most pressing issuessocial justice,
skewed distributions of wealth and
income, movements for changeand
brilliantly reveals how whacky activists
challenge the establishment and overly
serious protest movements.
Marc Edelman,
Hunter College and the
CUNY Graduate Center

288 pp., 7 illustrations, 2013

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Back Stories

U.S. News Production and

Palestinian Politics
Amahl A. Bishara

344 pp., 21 illustrations, 2012

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Political and Legal Anthropology

Digging for the

Disappeared

If God Were a Human

Rights Activist

Adam Rosenblatt

We live in a time when the most

appalling social injustices and unjust
human sufferings no longer seem
to generate the moral indignation
and the political will needed both to
combat them effectively and to create
a more just and fair society. If God
Were a Human Rights Activist aims to
strengthen the organization and the
determination of all those who have
not given up the struggle for a better
society, and specifically those that have
done so under the banner of human
rights. It discusses the challenges to
human rights arising from religious
movements and political theologies
that claim the presence of religion
in the public sphere. Increasingly
globalized, such movements and the
theologies sustaining them promote
discourses of human dignity that rival,
and often contradict, the one underlying secular human rights.

Forensic Science after Atrocity

The mass graves from our long human
history of genocide, massacres, and
violent conflict form an underground
map of atrocity that stretches across the
planets surface. In the past few decades,
due to rapidly developing technologies
and a powerful global human rights
movement, the scientific study of those
graves has become a standard facet of
post-conflict international assistance.
Digging for the Disappeared provides
readers with a window into this growing
but little-understood form of human
rights work, including the dangers and
sometimes unexpected complications
that arise as evidence is gathered and the
dead are named.
Adam Rosenblatt examines the ethical,
political, and historical foundations of
forensic investigation, from the graves
of the disappeared in Latin America
to genocides in Rwanda and the former
Yugoslavia to post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.
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Campaigning for Justice

Human Rights Advocacy in

Practice
Jo Becker

336 pp., 2012

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos

160 pp., 2015

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Of Medicines and Markets

Intellectual Property and Human

Rights in the Free Trade Era
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy

208 pp., 4 tables, 4 figures, 2013

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Stanford Studies in Human Rights

The Rise and Fall of Human

Rights

Cynicism and Politics in Occupied

Palestine
Lori Allen

This book provides a groundbreaking

ethnographic investigation of the
Palestinian human rights world.
Though human rights activity began as
a means of struggle against the Israeli
occupation, it has since been professionalized and politicized, transformed
into a public relations tool for political
legitimization and state-making. In its
failure, the human rights industry has
become the object of cynicism. But far
from indicating apathy, such cynicism
generates a productive critique of
domestic politics and Western interventionism. The books broad appeal
lies in illuminating the successes and
failures of Palestinians varied engagements with human rights in their quest
for independence.
280 pp., 2013
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In the Wake of
Neoliberalism

Citizenship and Human Rights in

Argentina
Karen Ann Faulk

240 pp., 5 illustrations, 2012

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Anthropology

New Series

of Policy
e d i tor s

Cris Shore and

Susan Wright

Advisory Board
Donald Brenneis
Janine Wedel
Dvora Yanow

The Anthropology of

Policy series promotes

Navigating Austerity

State Debt Policy and Popular

Economies on a South Asian River
Laura Bear

Navigating Austerity addresses a key

policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment
when austerity dominates political and
economic life? To get to the heart of
this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of
boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river pilots
on the Hooghly River, a tributary of
the Ganges that flows into the Bay of
Bengal and Indian Ocean. Through
their accounts, Bear traces the hidden
currents of state debt crises and their
often devastating effects.
Bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and
workers attempts to reverse the decline
of ruined public infrastructures, environments and urban spaces lead Bear to
argue for a radical rethinking of economics according to a social calculus.
This is a critical measure derived from
the ethical concerns of people affected
by national policies. It places issues of
redistribution and inequality at the fore
of public and environmental plans.
272 pp., 2015
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Drugs, Thugs, and

Diplomats

innovative method-

ological and theoretical

Fixing Colombia Through

U.S. Policy

approaches to the

study of policy. The

Winifred Tate

In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid

package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat
leftist guerrillas, support peace, and
build democracy. More than 80% of
the assistance, however, was military
aid, at a time when the Colombian
security forces were linked to abusive,
drug-trafficking paramilitary forces.
Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats examines
the U.S. policymaking process in the
design, implementation, and consequences of Plan Colombia, as the aid
package came to be known.
Winifred Tate explores the rhetoric
and practice of foreign policy by the
U.S. State Department, the Pentagon,
Congress, and the U.S. military Southern Command. Tates ethnography
uncovers how policymakers utopian
visions and emotional entanglements
play a profound role in their efforts to
orchestrate and impose social transformation abroad. She argues that US officials zero tolerance for illegal drugs
provided the ideological architecture
for the subsequent militarization of
domestic drug policy abroad.

series challenges the

assumption that policy

is a top-down, linear
and rational process,
and a field of study
primarily for policy

professionals. Books
in the series analyze
the contradictory
nature and effects of
policy, including the
intricate ways in which
people engage with
policy, the meanings it
holds for different local,
regional, national, and
internationally-based
actors and the complex
relationships and social
worlds that it produces.

296 pp., 2015

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We Are All Migrants

Political Action and the

Ubiquitous Condition of
Migrant-hood
Gregory Feldman

Barriers and boundaries between

nations are being contested, fought
for, torn asunder, and redrawn across
the globe. What happens when the
people of these nations are in one way
or another denied a place to call their
own? Now more than ever, the questions
of citizenship, migrancy, and political
action are vital. In this powerful and
polemical book, author Gregory Feldman argues that We Are All Migrants. By
investigating the history and traditions
of migration, Feldman shows how the
terms modern meaning is inseparable
from the rise of the mass public, the
isolation of the laboring individual, and
the proliferation of rationalized practices of public administration. Lacking
natural connections to people and place,
untethered individuals live as migrants
unmoored from people and place. In
todays world people experience conditions commonly understood as the life
of a proverbial migrant.
112 pp., 2014
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The Migration Apparatus

Security, Labor, and Policymaking

in the European Union
Gregory Feldman

248 pp., 2011

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Tequila!

Distilling the Spirit of Mexico

Marie Sarita Gaytn

Tequila! traces how and why tequila

became and remains Mexicos national
drink and symbol. Starting in Mexicos
colonial era and tracing the drinks rise
through the present day, Marie Sarita
Gaytn reveals the formative roles
played by some unlikely characters.
Although the notorious Pancho
Villa was a teetotaler, his image is
now plastered across the labels of all
manner of tequila producershes
even the namesake of a popular brand.
Mexican films from the 1940s and
50s, especially Western melodramas,
buoyed tequilas popularity at home
while World War II caused a spike in
sales within the whisky-starved United
States. Today, cultural attractions
such as Jose Cuervos Mundo Cuervo
and the Tequila Express let visitors
insert themselves into the Jaliscan
countryside and relish in the nostalgia
of pre-industrial Mexico.
224 pp., 19 illustrations, 1 map, 2014
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Global Futures in East Asia

Youth, Nation, and the New

Economy in Uncertain Times
Edited by Ann Anagnost,
Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren

Contemporary Issues in Asia and

the Pacific

328 pp., 2013

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Migration and Transnational Perspectives

The Last Best Place?

Gender, Family, and Migration in

the New West
Leah Schmalzbauer

The Last Best Place? asks us to consider

the multiple racial and class-related
barriers that Mexican migrants must
negotiate in the unique context of
Montanas rural gentrification. These
daily life struggles and inter-group
power dynamics are deftly examined
through interviews and ethnography,
as are the ways gender structures
inequalities within migrant families
and communities. The research
extends even farther to highlight
the power of place and demonstrate
how Montanas geography and rurality intersect with race, class, gender,
family, illegality, and transnationalism
to affect migrants well-being and
aspirations. Though the New West is
just one among many new destinations, it forces us to recognize that
the geographic subjectivities and
intricacies of these destinations must
be taken into account to understand
the full complexity of migrant life.
224 pp., 2014
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Moving Matters

Paths of Serial Migration

Susan Ossman

200 pp., 2013

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Governing Immigration
Through Crime

A Reader

Edited by Julie A. Dowling and

Jonathan Xavier Inda

In the United States, immigration is

generally seen as a law and order issue.
Amidst increasing anti-immigrant
sentiment, unauthorized migrants have
been cast as lawbreakers. Governing
Immigration Through Crime offers a
comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of crime and punishment
to manage undocumented immigrants.
Presenting key readings and cuttingedge scholarship, this volume examines
a range of contemporary criminalizing
practices: restrictive immigration laws,
enhanced border policing, workplace
audits, detention and deportation, and
increased policing of immigration
at the state and local level. Of equal
importance, the readings highlight how
migrants have managed to actively resist
these punitive practices. This text brings
together critical theorists of immigration
to understand how the current political
landscape propagates the view of the
illegal alien as a threat to social order.
320 pp., 2013
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Resources for Reform

Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina

Elana Shever

248 pp., 2012

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Neoliberalism, Interrupted

Mediating the Global

Edited by Mark Goodale and

Nancy Postero

Transnational business people, international aid workers, and diplomats

are all actors on the international stage
working for organizations and groups
often scrutinized by the public eye. But
the very lives of these global middlemen
and women are relatively unstudied.
Mediating the Global takes up the
challenge, uncovering the day-to-day
experiences of elite foreign workers and
their families living in Nepal, and the
policies and practices that determine
their daily lives. In this book Heather
Hindman calls for a consideration of the
complex role that global middlemen and
women play, not merely in implementing policies, but as objects of policy.

Social Change and Contested

Governance in Contemporary
Latin America

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal

forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and
social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted
examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalisms
hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard
collection of case studies undermines
the conventional dichotomies used
to understand transformation in
this region, such as neoliberalism vs.
socialism, right vs. left, indigenous vs.
mestizo, and national vs. transnational.
Deploying both ethnographic research
and more synthetic reflections on
meaning, consequence, and possibility,
the essays focus on the ways in which
a range of unresolved contradictions
interconnect various projects for
change and resistance to change in
Latin America. Useful to students
and scholars across disciplines, this
groundbreaking volume reorients how
sociopolitical change has been understood and practiced in Latin America.
It also carries important lessons for
other parts of the world with similar
histories and structural conditions.

Expatrias Forms and Consequences

in Kathmandu
Heather Hindman

Examining the lives of expatriate

professionals working in Kathmandu,
Nepal and the families that accompany
them, Hindman unveils intimate stories
of the everyday life of global mediators.
She focuses on expatriate employees
and families who are affiliated with
international development bodies,
multinational corporations, and the
foreign service of various countries.
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Birth in the Age of AIDS

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Two Aspects of Human Nature

Cecilia Van Hollen

Arthur P. Wolf

Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and

poignant portrayal of the experiences
of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood
at the beginning of the 21st century.
The government of India, together
with global health organizations,
established an important public health
initiative to prevent HIV transmission
from mother to child. While this
program, which targets poor women
attending public maternity hospitals,
has improved health outcomes for
infants, it has resulted in sometimes
devastatingly negative consequences
for poor, young mothers because
these women are being tested for
HIV in far greater numbers than their
male spouses and are often blamed
for bringing this highly stigmatized
disease into the family.

Why do most people never have sex

with close relatives? And why do they
disapprove of other people doing so?
Incest Avoidance and the Incest Taboos
investigates our human inclination to
avoid incest and the powerful taboo
against incest found in all societies.
Both subjects stir strong feelings
and vigorous arguments within and
beyond academic circles. With great
clarity, Wolf lays out the modern assumptions about both, concluding that
all previous approaches lack precision
and balance on insecure evidence.
Researchers he calls constitutionalists
explain human incest avoidance by
biologically-based natural aversion,
but fail to explain incest taboos as
cultural universals. By contrast, conventionalists ignore the evolutionary
roots of avoidance and assume that
incest avoidant behavior is guided
solely by cultural taboos. Both theories
are incomplete.

Van Hollens meticulous and fascinating

study reveals how global health practices create unexpected local effects.

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Medical Anthropology

Incest Avoidance and the

Incest Taboos

Women, Reproduction, and HIV/

AIDS in India

Claire Wendland,
Departments of Anthropology and
Obstetrics & Gynecology,
University of Wisconsin

288 pp., 2 maps, 2013

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Every student of anthropology should

read this book.
Charles Stafford,
London School of Economics

188 pp., 2014

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Pious Practice and Secular

Constraints

Women in the Islamic Revival in

Europe
Jeanette S. Jouili

The visible increase in religious practice

among young European-born Muslims
has provoked public anxiety. New
government regulations seek not only
to restrict Islamic practices within the
public sphere, but also to shape Muslims, and especially womens, personal
conduct. Pious Practice and Secular
Constraints chronicles the everyday
ethical struggles of women active in
orthodox and socially conservative
Islamic revival circles as they are torn
between their quest for a pious lifestyle
and their aspirations to counter negative representations of Muslims within
the mainstream society.
Jeanette S. Jouili conducted fieldwork
in France and Germany to investigate
how pious Muslim women grapple
with religious expression: for example,
when to wear a headscarf, where to
pray throughout the day, and how to
maintain modest interactions between
men and women. Her analysis stresses
the various ethical dilemmas the
women confronted in negotiating these
religious duties within a secular public
sphere.
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And Then We Work for God

Rural Sunni Islam in Western

Turkey
Kimberly Hart

Sunni Islam structures individual lives

through ritualsbirth, circumcision,
marriage, military service, deathand
the expression of these traditions
varies between villages. Kimberly
Hart delves into the question of why
some choose to remember and keep
alive the past, while others want to
face a future unburdened by local
cultural practices. Her answer speaks
to global transformations in Islam, to
the push and pull between those who
maintain a link to the past, even when
these practices challenge orthodoxy,
and those who want a purified global
religion.
And Then We Work for God not only
reveals that there is no one traditional
Islam, but thoughtfully uncovers how
the practice of rural Islam is intimately
connected to changing visions of the
state and religion in the rest of Turkey
and the world.
Esra zyrek,
University of California, San Diego

304 pp., 10 photos, 2013

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Juridical Humanity

A Colonial History
Samera Esmeir

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Memories of Absence

How Muslims Remember Jews in

Morocco
Aomar Boum

Memories of Absence investigates how

four successive generations in Morocco
remember the lost Jewish community.
Moroccan attitudes toward the Jewish
population have changed over the
decades, and a new debate has emerged
at the center of the Moroccan nation:
Where does the Jew fit in the context
of an Arab and Islamic monarchy?
Can Jews simultaneously be Moroccans and Zionists? Drawing on oral
testimony and stories, on rumor and
humor, Aomar Boum examines the
strong shift in opinion and attitude
over the generations and increasingly
anti-Semitic beliefs in younger people,
whose only exposure to Jews has been
through international media and
national memory.
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Rhinestones, Religion, and

the Republic

Fashioning Jewishness in France

Kimberly A. Arkin
Stanford Studies in Jewish
History and Culture

320 pp., 2013

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