Catastrophe & Culture
2002. Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith
Using a variety of natural and technological disasters-including Mexican earthquakes, drought in the Andes and in Africa, the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the O…
Community Building in the Twenty-First Century
2005. Edited by Stanley E. Hyland
“Community” has long been a critical concept for social scientists, and never more so amid the growing economic inequity, natural and human disasters, and warfare of the opening years of the twenty-first century.…
Confronting Cancer
2009. Edited by Juliet McMullin and Diane Weiner
In this book, anthropologists examine the lived experiences of individuals confronting cancer and reveal the social context in which prevention and treatment may succeed or fail.
Dangerous Liaisons
2011. Edited by Laura McNamara and Robert A. Rubinstein
Throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century, anthropologists have watched with both interest and concern as government agencies — particularly those with military and intelligence …
Development & Dispossession
2009. Edited by Anthony Oliver-Smith
Because there can be no return to land submerged under a dam-created lake or to a neighborhood buried under a stadium or throughway, the solutions devised to meet the needs of people displaced by development must …
Disturbing Bodies
2015. Edited by Zoë Crossland and Rosemary A. Joyce
As bodies are revealed, so are hidden and often incommensurate understandings of the body after death. The theme of “disturbing bodies” has a double valence, evoking both the work that anthropologists do…
The Evolution of Political Systems
1990. Edited by Steadman Upham
The contributors to this book rely on archaeological and ethnographic case studies to examine the social, economic, and political processes behind the development of these “middle-range” political systems, located…
The Fabric of Indigeneity
2016. ann-elise lewallen
The author synthesizes ethnographic field research, museum and archival research, and participation in cultural-revival and rights-based organizing to show how women craft Ainu and indigenous identities through clothwork and …
Global Health in Times of Violence
2009. Edited by Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer
By investigating the fields of violence that define our modern world, the authors are able to provide alternative global health paradigms that can be used to develop more effective…
Globalization, Water, & Health
2005. Edited by Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford
Drawing on expertise in medical and ecological anthropology, the contributors challenge and deepen our understanding of the management, sale, and conceptualization of water as it affects human healt…
Gray Areas
2003. Edited by Philip B. Stafford
This volume features ten scholars from anthropology, nursing, sociology, gerontology, human geography, and other disciplines who provide ethnographic case studies exploring critical care decision-making, models of c…
Half-Lives & Half-Truths
2007. Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston
Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and processing, lived in r…
Indians & Energy
2010. Edited by Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner
This book explores the ways people have transformed natural resources in the American Southwest into fuel supplies for human consumption. Not only do Native Americans possess a large percentage of the…
Making Disasters
2015. Craig R. Janes and Oyuntsetseg Chuluundorj
The authors analyze a broad range of phenomena that are fundamentally linked to the adverse social and economic consequences of climate change, including urbanization and urban poverty, access to essen…
Más Que un Indio (More Than an Indian)
2006. Charles R. Hale
This deeply researched and sensitively rendered study raises troubling questions about the contradictions of anti-racist politics and the limits of multiculturalism in Guatemala and, by implication, other countries in the midst …
(Mis)managing Migration
2014. Edited by David Griffith
Managed migration enables nation-states to regulate population movements; direct foreign nationals to specific, identified economic sectors that citizens are less likely to care about; match employers who claim labor sh…
Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control
2019. Edited by Julie Armin, Nancy J. Burke, and Laura Eichelberger
The contributors in this volume explore what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, c…
The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
2022. Edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara KneeseThis book brings together scholars who are intrigued by today’s rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. What are the beliefs, values, and ontologies entwined with these emergent death practices? Are we witness…
Otros Saberes
2014. Edited by Charles R. Hale and Lynn Stephen
The six research projects that form the core of the Otros Saberes initiative bring together a diverse group of Afro-descendant and indigenous collaborations with academics. The focus of each research p…
Remaking Life & Death
2003. Edited by Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock
This volume reflects a growing international concern about issues such as organ transplantation, new reproductive and genetic technologies and embryo research, and the necessity of cross-cultural compa…