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A Technomoral Politics
Good Governance, Transparency, and Corruption in India
Aradhana Sharma
November 2024 288pp 1 b&w iillus.
9781517918088
£23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517918071 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
By examining scalar dimensions of good-governance politics, from the hyperlocal work of activists to global trends, A Technomoral Politics illuminates the paradoxes, limits, and risks of a system that is meant to spread liberal democratic principles but that also ends up promoting antidemocratic, populistauthoritarian forms of rule.
Animal People
Moral Subjects in the Work of Animal Protection
Adam Reed
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
January 2025 330pp 9 b&w halftones
9781501779640 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781501779633 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "moderate" activists. Adam Reed explores the interrelationships between moral cause and organizational culture, including the ways in which expert roles such as investigator and lobbyist inform the practice and outlook of animal protection.
Black Feminist Anthropology, 25th Anniversary Edition
Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics
Irma McClaurin
Foreword by Johnetta Betsch Cole
November 2024 296pp 0 images
9781978843295 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978843301 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this volume, Irma McClaurin has asked her contributors to disclose how their experiences as black women have influenced their anthropological practice in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, and how anthropology has influenced their development as black feminists.
9781487558666
Amdo Lullaby
An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau
Reveals that young children are not passively abandoning their mother tongue for standard Mandarin, but instead are reformatting traditional Amdo Tibetan cultural associations among language, place, and kinship.
Birth in Times of Despair
Reproductive Violence on the USMexico Border
Carina Heckert
Anthropologies of American Medicine
October 2024 256pp 11 b&w images
9781479832071 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479832064 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Expands our understanding of how obstetric violence is enhanced by the structural violence of the state, and unveils the urgency to ameliorate the harm caused by current immigration policies.
Burying Mussolini
Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism
Paolo Heywood
December 2024 204pp 21 b&w halftones, 1 map
9781501778285 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781501778278 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist tourist site with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathizers descending on the town annually.
Capitalist Colonial
Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture
Matan Kaminer
November 2024 256pp
9781503641099
£25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503640511 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Capitalist Colonial, Matan Kaminer's ethnography of the region and its people, argues that the paid and unpaid labor of Thai migrants has been essential to resolving the clashing demands of the bottom line and Zionist ideology within Israel's farm sector.
Children as Social Butterflies
Navigating Belonging in a Diverse
Swiss Kindergarten
Ursina Jaeger
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
November 2024 224pp 0 figures
9781978836983
£24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781978836990 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Children as Social Butterflies examines how kindergarten children experience, negotiate, and claim belonging in a diverse and stigmatized Swiss neighborhood. Schools as formative instances of social belonging are particularly important where children with different migration histories are educated together.
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir
Winemaking in Shangri-La
Brendan A. Galipeau
Series edited and Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Culture, Place, and Nature
November 2024 pp 20 b&w illus., 2 maps
9780295753362 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295753355 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
This book considers how the French notion of terroir works to create ethno-regional identities and village landscapes through the production of Tibetan wine. It provides timely insight into China's entry into the wine market, highlighting the localized impacts of this industry, which include transformation from subsistence agriculture to agrochemical use.
Care and Agency
The Andean Community through the Eyes of Children
Jeanine Anderson & Jessaca B. Leinaweaver
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
October 2024 194pp 21 b&w images and 4 tables
9781978840737 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978840744 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on detailed ethnographies of six towns in the province of Yauyos, restores children to a central research position. Contemporary children’s studies emphasize children’s agency and autonomy, and these take surprising forms under the conditions of the rural Andes.
Based on long-term field research across San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shenzhen, Common Circuits explores a transnational network of hacker spaces that stand as potent, but often invisible, alternatives to the dominant technology industry.
Crucible of the Incurable
Facing ALS
Anthony Stavrianakis
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
November 2024 248pp
9781501778322 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781501778315 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Concerns how people face life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Anthony Stavrianakis spent a year in clinics and with people living with the illness in the United States. He examines the multiple meanings of care in a context of a chronic, degenerative, onehundred percent fatal, neuromuscular illness, whose most common duration is between 2 and 5 years.
9780228022145
9780228022138
Cultural Change among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century
Leila Inksetter
Translated by Bruce Inksetter
McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
September 2024 504pp 27 photos, 8 tables
£45.00/ $49.95 PB
£99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cultural change among the nineteenth-century Algonquin was experienced not only as an uninvited imposition from outside but as a dynamic response to new circumstances by Indigenous people themselves.
Difficult Attachments
Anxieties of Kinship and Care
Edited by Kathryn E. Goldfarb & Sandra Bamford
October 2024 238pp 0 images
9781978841420 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978841437 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In these chapters, the contributors take seriously the contingency of kinship relations (the moments when kinship breaks down or is a source of suffering) and how this prompts scholars to develop new theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Drawing Coastlines
Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
V. Chitra
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
December 2024 294pp 107 b&w halftones
9781501777967 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing Coastlines reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are fast remaking Mumbai's coasts and coastal futures. They set in place infrastructural interventions, vocabularies of development and conservation, and their lines and dots inscribe material conditions of existence and horizons of loss that entangle life forms.
Dancing for Their Lives
The Pursuit of Meaningful Aging in Urban China
Claudia Huang
Global Perspectives on Aging
February 2025 180pp 8 b&w photos
9781978838888 £108.00/ $120.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dancing for their Lives explores the vibrant world of retired Chinese women known as "dancing grannies” who seek fulfillment and companionship amidst societal upheaval. These women, part of China’s “lost generation,” gather in parks and public squares to reclaim their lives through dance in the wake of Chinese economic and cultural transformations.
Dilemmas
Beyond Binaries and Double Binds
Michael Jackson
December 2024 200pp
9781512826708 £25.99/ $29.95 PB 9781512826715 £108.00/ $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Pushing back against the idea that dilemmas as clear-cut binary choices, renowned anthropologist Jackson shows us some of the ways that dilemmas are addressed in non-Western thought, traditions, and philosophy. Drawing on examples from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and Australia, each of thirteen chapters examines a particular dilemma.
Dreams of Presence
A Geographical Theory of Culture
Mitch Rose
December 2024 240pp 3 b&w iillus. 9781487566173 £49.00/ $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Provides a novel theoretical approach to the question of culture and will be of use to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and social theorists grappling to understand why culture continues to be a dominant political force in our contemporary world. The book argues that culture is a claim; not something subjects ever have but something they desire.
Eating Is an English Word
Annemarie Mol
October 2024 208pp 8 iillus.
9781478030867 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478026624 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, using other words, order reality differently: they may fuse eating with breathing, or distinguish chupar from comer. Annemarie Mol and her coauthors exemplify this in a series of material semiotic inquiries into eating practices.
Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage
Ritual, Performance, and Belonging in Buryat Communities of Siberia
Based primarily on anthropological fieldwork undertaken in Western Buryat territory during the process of dissolution, this book explores the relationship between shamanic rituals and formal performing arts, showing how post-Soviet public culture and performances are shaped by one another to create new symbols of national identity.
Feeling Machines
Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-ThanHuman Care
Shawn Bender
November 2024 296pp
9781503641150 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503640191 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book follows roboticists developing technologies in Japan, and travels with the robots themselves into everyday sites of care. By exploring the application of Japanese robotics across the globe, Feeling Machines highlights the entanglements of therapeutic practice and technological innovation in an age of more-thanhuman care.
Excited Delirium
Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
August 2024 320pp 2 iillus.
9781478030553 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026327 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the fabricated medical diagnosis of “excited delirium syndrome” and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.
In a time of intensifying ecological crisis, we need, more than ever, to protect and appreciate nonhuman lives. Feathered Entanglements offers a rich tapestry of human–bird relations across the Indo-Pacific and shows what birds can teach us about how to live with other species in the Anthropocene.
Forest Lost
Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon
Maron E. Greenleaf
November 2024 304pp 21 iillus. 9781478031086 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026853 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism—the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage. She traces cultural, environmental, governmental, material, and multispecies relations involved in making forest carbon valuable and how forest carbon’s commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth.
Fragments of Home
Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter
Tom Scott-Smith
September 2024 250pp
9781503640283 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503639782 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book focuses on seven examples of emergency shelter for refugees, from Germany to Jordan, which emerged after the great "summer of migration" in 2015. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research into these shelters, the book reflects on their political implications and opens up much bigger questions about humanitarian action.
God's Waiting Room
Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Casey Golomski
Global Perspectives on Aging
December 2024 212pp 11 color images
9781978840607 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978840614 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life’s lessons, God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them.
Historieta Doble
A Graphic History of Participatory Action Research
Joanne Rappaport, Lina Flórez G. & Pablo Pérez “Altais”
ethnoGRAPHIC
October 2024 208pp Full-colour iillus. throughout 9781487555177 £20.99/ $27.50 PB
9781487552855 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Traces the roots of participatory action research to the Caribbean coast of Colombia, and to the work of visionary sociologist Orlando Fals Borda with the Colombian Peasant Movement. Beautifully illustrated, this graphic novel shows how Fals Borda combined research and theory with political participation and activism.
Freedoms of Speech
Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power
Edited by Matea Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood & Fiona Wright
Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
February 2025 528pp 5 b&w iillus., 9781487548841 £35.00/ $45.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The book broadly interrogates the classic vision of a singular “Western liberal tradition” of freedom of speech, exploring its internal complexities and highlighting alternative perspectives on the relationship between speech, freedom, and constraint.
Great Plains Ethnohistory
New Interdisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Rani-Henrik Andersson, Thierry Veyrié & Logan Sutton
Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
December 2024 352pp 14 photos, 2 illus., 3 tables, index
9781496241757 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
9781496242099 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Great Plains Ethnohistory offers a collection of stateof-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of ethnography, cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics.
How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic
Edited by Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp
Afterword by Judith Heumann
Foreword by Ed Yong
February 2025 400pp 39 b&w and 17 color images
9781479830855 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479830831 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The book reveals key themes of the pandemic, including hierarchies of disability vulnerability, the deployment of disability as a tool of population management, and innovative crip pandemic cultural production.
In the Time of Ebola
Youth, Family, and Emergency in Sierra Leone
Jonah Lipton
November 2024 162pp 5 b&w halftones
9781501778100
£24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501778094
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The anthropologist Jonah Lipton was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, when the largest Ebola outbreak in history hit. In the Time of Ebola questions dominant framings of crisis and offers ways of theorizing, researching, and responding to emergencies that make the home, the family, and "ordinary life" their starting point.
Kernels of Resistance
Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power
Liza Grandia
November 2024 pp 21 b&w illus., 2 maps, 4 tables
9780295753300 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295753294 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Liza Grandia chronicles how coalitions in Mexico and Guatemala have defended their sacred maize against corporate threats to privatize it. Rather than just “voting with their forks” like the consumer-driven US food movement, Mesoamerican farmers have directly acted. Dramatic and timely, Kernels of Resistance celebrates this triumph over corporate greed.
Learning to Lead
Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education
Jennifer R. Nájera
October 2024 192pp 10 iillus.
9781478030539 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478026303 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of education, Nájera shows how students’ experience in college—both in and out of the classroom—can affect their activism and advocacy work.
Jewish Odesa
Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine
Marina Sapritsky-Nahum
The Modern Jewish Experience
July 2024 374pp 32 b&w photos
9780253070111
9780253070104
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
£43.00/ $48.00 PB
£76.00/ $85.00 HB
Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, examines how the role of Russian language and culture, memories of the Soviet political project, and Odesan's place in a Ukrainian national project have all been questioned in recent years.
Landscapes of Law
Practicing Sovereignty in Transnational Terrain
Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse & Christina L. Davis
August 2024 352pp 1 illus. 9781512826838 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Within this book Greenhouse and Davis observe the supposed ongoing challenges to the policies and institutions of globalization and how national culture is not restricted to the ethnonationalisms of the developing world. This book traces the theoretical implications with transnational law that challenges the conventional separation of the individual.
Life beside Bars
Confinement and Capital in an American
Prison Town
heath pearson
November 2024 248pp 21 iillus.
9781478031147 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026921 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through ethnographic vignettes written in story form, pearson offers an alternative history of the unruly and unexpected ways that people resist, get by, make money, find joy, and build radical social life in the small, unseen spaces beside largescale confinement.
9780253070975
Living in Heritage
Tulou as Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, and Tourist Destination in Contemporary China
Lijun Zhang
Material Vernaculars
October 2024 186pp 39 color illus., 3
b&w tables
£29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253070968 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
An in-depth ethnographic account of the people dwelling and working within traditional tulou architecture in the 21st century.
Master Peace
Lebanon's Violence and the Politics of Expertise
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
The Ethnography of Political Violence
December 2024 224pp 6 b&w illus, 1 table
9781512826739 £27.99/ $32.50 PB
9781512826753 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Based on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, Master Peace examines the politics of expertise in the application of metropolitan theories of violence in post–civil war Lebanon. Through research, interviews, and UN agencies Kosmatopoulos argues that so-called experts have often misrepresented the violence they are tackling.
More-than-Human Aging
Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
Cristina Douglas & Andrew Whitehouse
Foreword by Jay Sokolovsky
Afterword by Susan McHugh
Global Perspectives on Aging
October 2024 208pp 28 b&w images
UNIVERSITY PRESS
So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species.
Love Across Difference
Mixed Marriage in Lebanon
Lara Deeb
October 2024 296pp
9781503640757 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503640054 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on two decades of interviews and research, Lara Deeb shows how mixed couples in Lebanon confront patriarchy, social difference, and sectarianism. Through the example of Lebanon, we can learn about our own social worlds, and about how people react when forced to change their ideas of who can be made kin through marriage.
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia Shesterinina
November 2024 258pp 5 b&w halftones, 5 b&w line drawings, 5 maps, 6 charts
9781501778964 £28.99/ $33.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–1993, Shesterinina explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict.
Necropolitics of the Ordinary
Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore
Ruth E. Toulson
December 2024 pp 15 b&w illus.
9780295753331 £27.99/ $32.00 PB 9780295753324 £94.00/ $105.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemeteries, anthropologist and trained mortician Toulson demonstrates a shift to transform a Daoistinfused obsession with ancestors into an easily controlled "Protestant" Buddhism. Using grieving as interrogative lenses, Toulson explores the scope of and resistance to state power over the dead.
On Speaking Terms
Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship
Luke Owles Fleming
Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
December 2024 296pp 15 b&w figures, 10 b&w tables
9781487549701 £42.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into “joking” and “avoidance” relations? With a particular focus on avoidance relationships, On Speaking Terms argues that in order to understand cross-cultural convergences in the patterning of kinship-keyed comportments, we must attend to the sociolinguistic codes through which kinship relationships are enacted.
Plantation Worlds
Maan Barua
August 2024 320pp 35 iillus.
9781478025610 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020868 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on research spanning fifteen years, Maan Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amid tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In so doing, Barua prompts a rethinking of multispecies ecologies and how they are structured by colonialism and race.
9781496241054
9781496233011
Public Land and Democracy in America
Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Julie Brugger
Anthropology of Contemporary North America
January 2025 400pp
£29.99/ $35.00 PB
£89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Brugger proposes a concept of democracy that encompasses disparate meanings and experiences, embraces conflict, and suggests a crucial role for public lands in transforming antagonism into agonism.
Paths Made by Walking
The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
Amina Tawasil
September 2024 342pp 21 b&w illus., 2 b&w tables
9780253070869 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9780253070852 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This groundbreaking ethnography on Iranian howzevi (seminarian) women reveals how ideologies of womanhood, institutions, and Islamic practices have played a pivotal role in religiously conservative women's mobility in the Middle East. Amina Tawasil invites readers to reconsider their conceptualizations of the women who support the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Politics of Tranquility
The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet
Yasmin Cho
January 2025 186pp 18 b&w halftones, 1 map
9781501778810 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501778803 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily engagements in the remote, mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment of Yachen Gar.
Read in the Name of Your Lord
Islamic Literacy Development in Revolutionary Egypt
Nermeen Mouftah
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Traces the push for universal literacy as a project caught between revolutionary activism and Islamic reformism in post-Mubarak Egypt. Nermeen Mouftah demonstrates how the rise in modern scripturalism underpinned literacy activism, blurring the binary between secular and religious knowledge.
9781978837393
9781978837409
Reclaiming Haiti's Futures
Returned Intellectuals,
Placemaking, and Radical
Imagination
Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson
Critical Caribbean Studies
December 2024 218pp 1 color and 6 b&w images
£25.99/ $29.95 PB
£108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Haiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. But Reclaiming Haiti's Futures tells a different story.
Remapping an Ableist World
Disability and Oppression under Capitalism
Vera Chouinard
October 2024 200pp
9781487524876 £22.99/ $29.95 PB
9781487507183 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Examines the forces shaping our lives in an able capitalist world. It draws on examples including human enhancement and the organ trade to illustrate connections between able capitalist ways of life, impairment, disability, and oppression. Reminds us that for our own well-being and that of generations to comes we must forge a less destructive and more nurturing way of life.
Shamans and Robots
On Ritual, the Placebo Effect, and Artificial Consciousness
Roger Bartra
Translated by Gusti Gould
Univocal
November 2024 176pp
9781517917494 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In this voyage through thousands of years of psychosomatic healing, distinguished anthropologist and sociologist Roger Bartra examines the placebo effect as a key to our understanding of human consciousness. Shamans and Robots demonstrates how biology and technology become intertwined within human culture by using the various histories of ritual and symbolic healing to speculate about future developments in artificial intelligence.
Relative Strangers
Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
Arpan Roy
Anthropological Horizons
October 2024 192pp 3 b&w maps
9781487558710
£42.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait of Dom Romani communities living between Palestine and Jordan, zooming in on everyday life in working-class neighborhoods, and under conditions of perpetual war and instability.
Righteous Sisterhood
The Politics and Power of an AllWomen's Motorcycle Club
Sarah L. Hoiland
January 2025 193pp
9781439925935
£23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781439925928 £80.00/ $89.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hoiland’s insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stories of women bikers for whom riding in an MC is “an act of rebellion” and “liberating” even as it constrains—a reactionary populist version of the American Dream dipped in “girl power.” Hoiland investigates why women choose to join, and why, in some cases, they exit or become exiled.
Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Kristina Jacobsen
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
October 2024 296pp 20 colour iillus., 3 b&w tables
9781487553869 £22.99/ $29.95 PB
9781487553852 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, artisans, shepherds, poets, and language activists, Kristina Jacobsen asks, how are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against the backdrop of American music?
Sonic Icons
Relation, Recognition, and Revival in a Syriac World
Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
November 2024 304pp 5 b&w iillus.
9781531509132 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531509125 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
To the extent that Middle Eastern Christians register in Euro-American political imaginaries, they are usually invoked to justify Western military intervention into countries like Iraq or Syria, or as an exemption to anti-Islamic immigration policies because of an assumption that their Christianity makes them easily assimilable in the so-called “Judeo-Christian” West.
Sovereignty Suspended Building the So-Called State
Rebecca Bryant & Mete
Hatay
The Ethnography of Political Violence
October 2024 360pp 15 illus.
9781512826944 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Sovereignty Suspended is based on more than two decades of ethnographic and archival research in one so-called aporetic state, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It traces the process by which a “north” began to emerge as a tangible, separate, if unrecognized space after the island’s violent partition in 1974.
Soul Woundedness
Spirituality on the Streets of Seattle
Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai
November 2024 240pp 20 b&w iillus.
9781531508388
£25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781531508395 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on over five years of research and as a participant-observer, Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai presents the personal experiences of “street kids,” highlighting how their spiritual beliefs and practices offer them comfort, a sense of community, and a feeling of belonging amidst their struggles. They
Staging the Promises
Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town
Staging the Promises assesses the performative ways through which contemporary capitalist futures are remade. For Jovanović, Bor represents a site that reflects a current global trend: staging the promises of enhanced futures today play a significant role in contemporary populist politics. Through them, she argues, distant futures become gradually withdrawn from people's horizons.
