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Evolutionary Systems and Society
A General Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This work is a bold new effort to embrace all aspects of life—molecular, cellular, behavioral, and cultural—within the formulation of a general theory of evolution that extends classical Darwinian theory to include human society.
A Primer for Teaching Environmental History
Ten Design Principles
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers...
Adam's Gift
A Memoir of a Pastor's Calling to Defy the Church's Persecution of Lesbians and Gays
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, was visited one morning in 1984 by Adam, a longtime parishioner whom he liked and respected. Adam said that he was gay, and that he was leaving The United Methodist Church, which had just pronounced that “self-avowed practicing homosexuals”...
A Nation Rising
Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A Nation Rising chronicles the political struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Scholars, community organizers, journalists, and filmmakers contribute essays that explore Native Hawaiian resistance and resurgence from the 1970s to the early 2010s....
The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen
Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where—using Western standards—none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers—Joseph Ho‘ona‘auao Kānepu‘u (1824–ca. 1885) and Joseph...
Red Tape
Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural...
The Beautiful Generation
Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Since the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards, been chosen to head major clothing labels, and had their designs featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar,...
Cosmologies of Credit
Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the...
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her...
Indelible Inequalities in Latin America
Insights from History, Politics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Since the earliest years of European colonialism, Latin America has been a region of seemingly intractable inequalities, marked by a stark divide between the haves and the have-nots. This collection illuminates the diverse processes that have combined to produce and reproduce inequalities in Latin...
Greening Brazil
Environmental Activism in State and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment,...
by Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, Tobias Rees
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and...
Black France / France Noire
The History and Politics of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. Yet the lived realities of race and racism...
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith
New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster...