Duke University Press: 2463 books
by uncertain commons
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Speculate This! is a concise, provocative manifesto advocating practices of "affirmative speculation" over and against contemporary forms of speculation that quantify and contain risk to generate financial profit for a privileged few. This latter mode of speculation is predatory and familiar,...
by Frank Gado
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1986
Acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays—an uncommon practice in the film industry—and for this practice critics refer to him as a "literary" filmmaker: In this work, Gado examines virtually...
by Kelly Ray Knight
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks...
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections
Histories, Activisms, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other...
by Lynn Spigel, Graeme Turner, Julian Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture. Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user,...
Dilemmas of Difference
Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon...
by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs,...
Endangered City
The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival...
Exiled Home
Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980–1992 civil war. Because of their youth and the violence they left behind, as well as their uncertain legal status in the United States, many grew...
Poor People's Politics
Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
“Political clientelism” is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor People’s Politics to analyze the political...
Securing the City
Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment...
Cuba
Religion, Social Capital, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
When Cuba’s centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. They began to work openly with state institutions on projects such as the promotion of Afro-Cuban heritage...
Long Live Atahualpa
Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Long Live Atahualpa is an innovative ethnographic study of indigenous political movements against discrimination in modern Ecuador. Exploring the politicizing of Indianness—the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination and political agency—Emma Cervone analyzes how the Quichuas mobilized...
Not Hollywood
Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. Not Hollywood is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical...