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South of the Future
(December 2020)
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas
Anindita Banerjee - Editor
Debra A. Castillo - Editor
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Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and othe...(Read More) |
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Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
(November 2020)
Ana-Maurine Lara - Author
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Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observatio...(Read More) |
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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds
(October 2020)
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger - Author
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Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.
In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes the agency of materiality—the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities—beyond human intentions. Using materials from three regions where Flueckiger conducted ex...(Read More) |
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Ceremony Men
(May 2020)
Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection
Jason M. Gibson - Author
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Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.
By analyzing one of the world’s greatest collections of Indigenous song, myth, and ceremony—the collections of linguist/anthropologist T. G. H. Strehlow—Ceremony Men demonstrates how inextricably intertwined ethnographic collections can become in complex his...(Read More) |
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From Situated Selves to the Self
(May 2020)
Conversion and Personhood among Roman Catholics in Tokyo
Hisako Omori - Author
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Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism.
In many parts of the world, the Roman Catholic Church in the twenty-first century finds itself mired in scandal, and its future prospects appear fairly dim in the eyes of many social critics. In From Situated Selves to the Self, however, Hisako Omori finds a radically different situation, with jubilant...(Read More) |
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Bringing the Nation Back In
(March 2020)
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the Struggle to Define a New Politics
Mark Luccarelli - Editor
Rosario Forlenza - Editor
Steven Colatrella - Editor
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Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.
Bringing the Nation Back In takes as its starting point a series of developments that shaped politics in the United States and Europe over the past thirty years: the end of the Cold War, the rise of financial and economic globalization, the creation of the European Union, and the development of the ...(Read More) |
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Urban Migrants in Rural Japan
(February 2020)
Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society
Susanne Klien - Author
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Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.
Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-growth Japan. By exploring narratives and trajectories of individuals who relocate from urban to rural areas and seek new modes of working and living, this multisited ethn...(Read More) |
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Ghost Fleet Awakened
(November 2019)
Lake George's Sunken Bateaux of 1758
Joseph W. Zarzynski - Author
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Chronicles the history and archaeological study of Lake George, New York’s sunken bateaux of 1758.
In Ghost Fleet Awakened, Joseph W. Zarzynski reveals the untold story of a little-recognized sunken fleet of British warships, bateaux, from the French and Indian War (1755–1763). The story begins more than 250 years ago, when bateaux first plied the waters of Lake George, New York. Zarzynski enlightens readers ...(Read More) |
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The Big Thaw
(September 2019)
Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North
Ezra B. W. Zubrow - Editor
Errol Meidinger - Editor
Kim Diana Connolly - Editor
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Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.
Climate change, one of the drivers of global change, is controversial in political circles, but recognized in scientific ones as being of central importance today for the United States and the world. In The Big Thaw, the editors bring together experts, advocates, and academic professionals who address the serious issue of how climate...(Read More) |
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Postnormal Conservation
(June 2019)
Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance
Katja Grötzner Neves - Author
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Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.
Since their inception in the sixteenth century, botanic gardens have been embroiled with matters of governance. In Postnormal Conservation, Katja Grötzner Neves reveals that, throughout its long history, the botanical garden institution ha...(Read More) |
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