Anthropology

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The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

By Emily H. C. Chua
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: China Understandings Today

Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China

Social Organization in South China, 1911–1949

The Case of Kuan Lineage in K’ai-p’ing County

By Yuen-fong Woon
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sociology, History, American Religious History, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exploration of the effects on patrilineal kinship ties of the social and political changes in the period between the revolutions of 1912 and 1949

My Life as a Night Elf Priest

An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

By Bonnie Nardi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life

An anthropologist's analysis of one of the world's most popular online world games

A Telescope on Society

Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond

Edited by James S. House, F. Thomas Juster, Robert L. Kahn, and Howard Schuman
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology

Maps the development of social science in the twentieth century through the instrument of survey research

Slaves to Fashion

Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

By Robert Ross
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Class Studies

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth

Preference Pollution

How Markets Create the Desires We Dislike

By David George
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the failure of markets to shape desirable preferences

Doing Time on the Outside

Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America

By Donald Braman
Subjects: Anthropology, African American Studies, Law, Sociology

A compelling account of the unintended social, financial, and personal consequences of incarceration on the families of prisoners

Fragments of Development

Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity

By Suzanne Bergeron
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology

Offers an account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy

Stories as Equipment for Living

Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff

Edited by Marc Kaminsky, Deena Metzger, and Mark Weiss
Introduction by Thomas R. Cole
By Barbara Myerhoff
Foreword by Jack Kugelmass
Subjects: Anthropology, American Studies, Health & Medicine, Sociology, Jewish Studies

Takes us deeper into Barbara Myerhoff's examination of the place of narrative in human life, providing a treasury of reflection, experience, and wisdom as colorful as any collection of tales

The Future of Class in History

What's Left of the Social?

By Geoff Eley & Keith Nield
Subjects: History, Historical Methods and Theory, American Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Political History, Class Studies

In the struggle between "social" and "cultural" thinking, the refusal to choose sides can be a radical and vital move

After the End of History

The Curious Fate of American Materialism

1st Edition

By Robert E. Lane
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, African American Studies, Anthropology, Law, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

A creative presentation of Lane's career research as an ongoing conversation between two fictitious social scientists with opposing views

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

Worldly Provincialism

German Anthropology in the Age of Empire

Edited by H. Glenn Penny & Matti Bunzl
Subjects: German Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Illustrates the impact of imperialism on German scholars in the fields of anthropology and ethnology

Legalizing Moves

Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency

By (photographer) Susan Bibler Coutin
Subjects: Anthropology, Law, Latin American Studies, Sociology

Examines the transnational implications of immigrants' legalization efforts

Global Prescriptions

The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy

Edited by Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth
Subjects: Law, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology

Essays on the emerging new orthodoxy in international law that advocates the "rule of law" and "civil society" across the globe

Economic Organizations and Social Systems

By Robert A. Solo
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology

The reappearance of a book written and published before its time

The Limits of Coexistence

Identity Politics in Israel

By Rebecca L. Torstrick
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Assesses the factors that will determine whether Jews and Palestinians can live together in peace

Food Rules

Hunting, Sharing, and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea

By Harriet Whitehead
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies

Presents a radically new picture of the role of social actors in the making of culture

Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages

Rural Labor Markets in Colombia, 1975-1990

By Sutti Ortiz
Subjects: Anthropology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Latin American Studies, Sociology, Class Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A close ethnographic study of how culture, power, gender, and institutions affect labor exchanges

Comparing Jewish Societies

Edited by Todd M. Endelman
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Religion
Series: The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series

Introduces a rigorous comparative dimension to the study of Jewish civilization and culture

The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences

Edited by Terence McDonald
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Sociology, Political Science

Eleven essays that probe the historical project in a wide range of disciplines

Body Thoughts

By Andrew Strathern
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine

Diagnosing America

Anthropology and Public Engagement

Edited by Shepard Forman
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A clarion call to anthropologists to help address critical social problems that tear at the fabric of our society

The Wages of Conquest

The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies

By Hugo G. Nutini
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, History, Sociology

A thorough account of the development of Western aristocracies as a unitary system

The Possibility of Popular Justice

A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States

Edited by Sally Engle Merry & Neil Milner
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Political Science, American Politics, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Can popular justice ever be a real alternative to the violence and coercion of state law?

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