Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
Choosing Daughters
Family Change in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families. Coupled with China's birth-planning policy, this has led to a severe gender imbalance. But a counterpattern is emerging in rural China where a noticeable proportion of young couples...
Insufficient Funds
The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese...
by William B. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived...
Neoliberalism's Demons
On the Political Theology of Late Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda. Neoliberalism's Demons argues that it is much more than that: a complete worldview, neoliberalism presents the competitive marketplace as the model for true human flourishing. And it has enjoyed great...
Divine Currency
The Theological Power of Money in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and economic...
Close Reading with Computers
Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead. The first monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear on a single novel in a...
And Then We Work for God
Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages,...
Genesis 1-11
Tales of the Earliest World
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
This book invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis, from the creation of the world, through the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel, to the introduction of Abraham. Edwin M. Good offers a new translation...
Hotels and Highways
The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "laboratories" of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American...
Milton and the Post-Secular Present
Ethics, Politics, Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Our post-secular present, argues Feisal Mohamed, has much to learn from our pre-secular past. Through a consideration of poet and polemicist John Milton, this book explores current post-secularity, an emerging category that it seeks to clarify and critique. It examines ethical and political engagement...
Rights After Wrongs
Local Knowledge and Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practiced, and debated in local contexts. Rights After Wrongs ethnographically explores the chasm between the ideals and the practice of human rights. Specifically,...
Discreet Power
How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate...
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership
An Examination of Grassroots Leaders in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership contributes to the growing tradition of giving voice to grassroots leaders, focusing on the largely untapped potential of faculty and staff on college campuses. In an increasingly corporatized environment, grassroots leadership can provide a balance to the...
by Johan Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The spread of market-oriented reforms has been one of the major political and economic trends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Governments have, to varying degrees, adopted policies that have led to deregulation: the liberalization of trade; the privatization of state entities;...