Compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women
Cultural study of the effects of sound technologies--from the phonograph to the Walkman--on African American literature, art, and music in the twentieth century
An innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking within the movements against corporate globalization.
A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision.
An introduction to Indonesia s history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches.
Connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. This title shows how workers' refusal to be treated... Læs mere
This ethnographic analysis of violence that broke out in a South African gold mine soon after apartheid ended in 1994 shows how violence comes to be blamed on ethnic differences retrospectively-and often wrongly.
A powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory.
This sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between visuality and countervisuality, or the right to look.
A groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century
This ethnography of a river restoration project in Kathmandu, Nepal s capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia, contributes to the nascent anthropology of urban environments.
An ethnography of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions including Candomble shows that the lines separating one tradition from another are much less fixed than anthropologists and Afro-Brazilian religious elites have maintained.