Jeremy MacClancy

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

Anthropology on the Front Lines

Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and more anthropologists are dedicating themselves not just to observing but to understanding and helping solve social problems wherever they occur—in international aid organizations, British TV studios, American hospitals, or racist enclaves in Eastern Europe, for example. In Exotic No More, an initiative of the Royal Anthropological Institute, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate, in clear, unpretentious prose, the tremendous contributions that anthropology can make to contemporary society. They cover issues ranging from fundamentalism to forced migration, child labor to crack dealing, human rights to hunger, ethnicity to environmentalism, intellectual property rights to international capitalisms. But Exotic No More is more than a litany of gloom and doom; the essays also explore topics usually associated with leisure or "high" culture, including the media, visual arts, tourism, and music. Each author uses specific examples from their fieldwork to illustrate their discussions, and 62 photographs enliven the text. Throughout the book, the contributors highlight anthropology's commitment to taking people seriously on their own terms, paying close attention to what they are saying and doing, and trying to understand how they see the world and why. Sometimes this bottom-up perspective makes the strange familiar, but it can also make the familiar strange, exposing the cultural basis of seemingly "natural" behaviors and challenging us to rethink some of our most cherished ideas—about gender, "free" markets, "race," and "refugees," among many others. Contributors: William O. Beeman Philippe Bourgois John Chernoff E. Valentine Daniel Alex de Waal Judith Ennew James Fairhead Sarah Franklin Michael Gilsenan Faye Ginsburg Alma Gottlieb Christopher Hann Faye V. Harrison Richard Jenkins Melissa Leach Margaret Lock Jeremy MacClancy Jonathan Mazower Ellen Messer A. David Napier Nancy Scheper-Hughes Jane Schneider Parker Shipton Christopher B. Steiner

Exotic No More

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Chantal Tetreault

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Performing Youth Identities in French Cites

Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity. Provides solid, real-world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism Offers detailed data on linguistic practices that is more focused than generalized anthropological studies Includes the experiences of French-Algerian adolescent girls who remain largely absent from academic and popular discourse Reveals the cultural richness and diversity of a population that is stigmatized and marginalized in a national context

Transcultural Teens

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H. Samy Alim

Geneva Smitherman

Michael Eric Dyson

Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U. S.

In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use-and America's response to it.

Articulate While Black

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Rosina Lippi

Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United State

In English with an AccentRosina Lippi-Green examines American attitudes towards language, exposing the way in which language is used to maintain and perpetuate social structures.

English with an Accent

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Sharon Bohn Gmelch

The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman

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Marcel Mauss

Ian Cunnison

E. E. Evans-Pritchard

Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

"Since its first publication in English in 1954, Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le Don has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts. A brilliant example of the comparative method, it presents the first systematic study of the custom -- widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day Melanesia -- of exchanging gifts." "The gift is a perfect example of what Mauss calls a total social phenomenon, since it involves legal, economic, moral, religious, aesthetic, and other dimensions. He sees the gift exchange as related to individuals and groups as much as to the objects themselves, and his analysis calls into question the social conventions and economic systems that had been taken for granted for so many years." "In a modern translation, introduced by the distinguished anthropologist Mary Douglas, The Gift is essential reading for students of social anthropology and sociology.

The Gift

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Marlon M. Bailey

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside

Butch Queens up in Pumps

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Sharon E. Hutchinson

Coping with Money, War, and the State

Through the pioneering efforts of the famed British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer of southern Sudan have become one of anthropology's most celebrated case studies. Now Sharon Hutchinson combines fresh ethnographic evidence and contemporary theoretical perspectives to show not only what has happened to the Nuer since their 1930s encounters with Evans-Pritchard, but, more importantly, what is to be gained from a thoroughly historicized treatment of ethnographic materials. Hutchinson's work provides a vision for what anthropology has become in the 1990s.



Concentrating on Nuer perceptions, experiences, and evaluations of change, Hutchinson traces the historical conditions that have led contemporary men and women to reconsider fundamental aspects of their lives. She raises a number of important issues that Evans-Pritchard did not: How can we move beyond static structural models based on notions of cultural "boundedness," "homogeneity," and "order"? How have Nuer people been actively reshaping and reassessing local forms of power in light of dramatic economic shifts, religious proselytizing, civil war, and colonial and postcolonial rule?



Hutchinson has produced a rich ethnographic document that offers a new rhetorical strategy for writing ethnographies that is processual, dialogical, and reflexive all at once.

Nuer Dilemmas

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Rebecca L. Stein

Philip Stein

This concise introductory textbook emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective while still incorporating key theoretical concepts.

The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft

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Lisa. Capps

Elinor Ochs

Jerome. Bruner

The Discourse of Agoraphobia

Offering a novel analysis of a patient’s experience of agoraphobia, this collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist proposes a view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. It opens up potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by establishing a framework for therapeutic intervention.

Constructing Panic

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Marshall D. Sahlins

Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom

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Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities

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Edward E. Evans-Pritchard

A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People

The Nuer

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Colin Turnbull

An anthropologist describes his observations during three years among the BaMbuti Pygmies

The Forest People

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Lawrence F. Locke

Waneen W. Spirduso

Stephen Silverman

A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, 'Proposals That Work' offers clear advice backed up with examples.

Proposals That Work

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Paul A. Erickson

The fifth edition of this bestselling reader builds a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theory, with a sharpened focus on gender and anthropology, and the anthropology of new media and technology. Short introductions and key terms accompany every reading, and light annotations have been added to aid students in reading original articles. Used on its own or together with A History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition, this anthology offers a flexible and unrivalled introduction to anthropological theory that reflects not only the history but also the changing nature of the discipline today.

Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory

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Penelope Eckert

Sally McConnell-Ginet

Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly updated and restructured, brings out more strongly an emphasis on practice and change, while retaining the broad scope of its predecessor and its accessible introductions which explain the key concepts in a non-technical way. The authors integrate issues of sexuality more thoroughly into the discussion, exploring more diverse gendered and sexual identities and practices. The core emphasis is on change, both in linguistic resources and their use and in gender and sexual ideologies and personae. This book explores how change often involves conflict and competing norms, both social and linguistic. Drawing on their own extensive research, as well as other key literature, the authors argue that the connections between language and gender are deep yet fluid, and arise in social practice.

Language and Gender

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Don Kulick

Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

Travesti

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Laura M. Ahearn

Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal

A discussion of the implications of the emergence of love-letter correspondences for social relations in Nepal

Invitations to Love

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Naomi Wolf

How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

The Beauty Myth

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Ilisa Barbash

Lucien Taylor

A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos

Cross-Cultural Filmmaking

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Margaret. Mead

In Three Primitive Societies

First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambuli -- Mead advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Helen Fisher and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. A precursor to Mead's illuminating Male & Female, Sex & Temperament lays the groundwork for her lifelong study of gender differences.

Sex and Temperament

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Martin F. Manalansan

Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay identity is not teleological but fraught with fissures, Martin Manalansan IV describes how Filipino gay immigrants, like many queers of color, are creating alternative paths to queer modernity and citizenship. He makes a compelling argument for the significance of diaspora and immigration as sites for investigating the complexities of gender, race, and sexuality.

Manalansan locates diasporic, transnational, and global dimensions of gay and other queer identities within a framework of quotidian struggles ranging from everyday domesticity to public engagements with racialized and gendered images to life-threatening situations involving AIDS. He reveals the gritty, mundane, and often contradictory deeds and utterances of Filipino gay men as key elements of queer globalization and transnationalism. Through careful and sensitive analysis of these men's lives and rituals, he demonstrates that transnational gay identity is not merely a consumable product or lifestyle, but rather a pivotal element in the multiple, shifting relationships that queer immigrants of color mobilize as they confront the tribulations of a changing world.

Global Divas

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Selected Essays from V. A. R. , 1990-1994

Visualizing Theory

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Ingrid Piller

An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics

This book explores how linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to migration and globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and imparity of participation, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice is a call to write language into the social justice agenda.

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice

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Katherine Scully

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