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Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic WritingCreative and diverse approaches to ethnographic knowledge production and writing Ethnographic research has long been cloaked in mystery around what fieldwork is really like for researchers, how they collect data, and how it is analyzed within the social sciences. Naked Fieldnotes, a unique compendium...
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Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on VulnerabilityAs monstrous bodies on-screen signal a wide range of subversive destabilization of the notions of identity and community, this anthology asks what meanings monsters and monstrosity convey in relation to our recent circumstances shaped by neoliberalism and the pandemic that have led to the...
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Michigan's Venice: The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape, 1640-2000A chronicle of a unique waterscape and how its inhabitants navigated, claimed, and reshaped the region. Few maritime landscapes in the Great Lakes remain so deeply and clearly inscribed by successive cultures as the St. Clair system--a river, delta, and lake found between Lake...
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering AnthropologistThe first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) helped define the contours of anthropological research at the turn of the twentieth century. In this first book-length biography of Stevenson, Darlis A. Miller challenges older interpretations of her subject's life...
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Living with Agent Orange: Conversations in Postwar Viet NamFor over half a century, the Vietnamese people have endured the harmful legacies of Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide used by the American military as a type of chemical warfare. While scientists and politicians continue to debate how to best address its human and...
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Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist PracticeIn the hills of China's central Hunan province, an anxious young apprentice officiates over a Daoist ritual known as the Banner Rite to Summon Sire Yin. Before a crowd of masters, relatives, and villagers--and the entire pantheon of gods and deceased masters ritually invited...
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Italian Louisiana: History, Heritage & TraditionAt the close of the nineteenth century, Louisiana's ports hosted an influx of Italian immigrants. Like so many immigrant communities before, acclimating to their new home was not easy. Though the Italian contribution to Louisiana's culture is palpable and celebrated, at one time ethnic...
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Human Behavioral EcologyHuman behavioral ecology (HBE) applies the principles of evolutionary theory and optimisation to the study of human behavioural and cultural diversity. Among other things, HBE attempts to explain variation in behaviour as adaptive solutions to the competing life-history demands of growth, development, reproduction, parental...
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Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race, and GenocideHannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of...
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Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien AbductionsSHOCKING. CONTROVERSIAL. UNPRECEDENTED. A CASE LIKE UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN THE ANNALS OF UFO INVESTIGATION, DNA RESEARCH, OR ALIEN ABDUCTION. Sydney, Australia. July 23, 1992. Twenty-eight-year-old Peter Khoury was awoken by what appeared to be two females--both striking and unearthly--kneeling on his bed. What...
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Grassroots Law in Papua New GuineaThe introduction of village courts in Papua New Guinea in 1975 was an ambitious experiment in providing semi-formal legal access to the country's overwhelmingly rural population. Nearly 50 years later, the enthusiastic adoption of these courts has had a number of ramifications, some of...
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Glorious MudHow did a boy from the South Dakota prairies end up as a tropical oceanographer?When he was young, Gregg roamed the hills on horseback, hunting for fossils and rattlesnake dens, dreaming of adventure in faraway lands.Fuelled by a boundless thirst for knowledge (and exotic...
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Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning WorldA NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION - A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling...
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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New NatureNature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help. Human action has transformed our planet and ushered in a new geological epoch--the Anthropocene. The effects are global in scope, but take shape within distinct social...
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Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern ChinaEven in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China explores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. A Central Asian Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people, the Uyghur are identified in China as one...
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Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian WitnessSouthwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Evangelism/Missions/Global Church)Drawing on forty years of teaching and mission experience, leading missiological anthropologist Darrell Whiteman brings a wealth of insight to bear on cross-cultural ministry.After explaining the nature and function of culture and the importance...
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Creative Resistance: The Social Justice Practices of Monirah, Halleh, and DialaHow can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration?For the people featured in this book, this is not a philosophical question - it is a lived reality. Drawn from first-hand experience of violent conflict and displacement, the stories in this...
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Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790-1840In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by colonial and post-colonial historians alike. By examining how early Hawaiian chiefs appropriated Western sailing technology to help build their island nation,...
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Being-in-America: White Supremacy and the American SelfWhite supremacy and American-style individual autonomy are mutually supportive and co-dependent. Attacking white racism will not dislodge white supremacy, which the author contends is the greatest danger facing America. That can only be accomplished by making concurrent and significant modifications in American individualism. Yet,...
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Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings Are Reshaping the WorldAll aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new...
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