Bad Boys
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
by Ann Arnett Ferguson

Winner: Gustavus Myers Center for The Study of Human Rights in the United States' 2001 Outstanding Book Award

Winner: Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association's 2001 Distinguised Book Award

How do schools identify African American males as "bad boys"?

What Professors Are Saying
"I chose Bad Boys...[because] the writing is engaging...Ferguson incorporates relevant and useful theories, [making] the text much easier to use as a basis for classroom discussion. [She] demonstrates how, even in what seems to be an ideal situation...the black boys are marginalized and criminalized. Finally...Ferguson has innovative ideas about labeling, black masculinity, racial identity, and schooling. Overall, I am very excited about using this text in my classroom."
—Tanya Golash-Boza, University of North Carolina

Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System
by J. Terrence McCabe

Winner: 2005 The Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association's 2005 Julian Steward Award

An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya.

• No other book on pastoral communities
• This is the first major ethnography to emerge from the South Turkana Ecosystem Project
• It brings together the strengths of ecosystem ecology and cultural anthropology
• It is also the first ethnography to utilize the concept of arid land ecosystems as disequilibrium systems.

Free Trade and Freedom
Neoliberalism, Place, and Nation in the Caribbean
by Karla Slocum

Considers the relationship between market liberalization, social movements, and everyday forms and narratives of work.

A History of Disability
by Henri-Jacques Stiker
translated by William Sayers

A bold analysis of the evolution of Western attitudes toward disability, available for the first time in English.

Islam and the Prayer Economy
History and Authority in a Malian Town
by Benjamin F. Soares

A close look at the changing terms of exchange between gifts and blessings.

• Timely topic: the book is the first comprehensive anthropological and historical treatment of the diversity of Muslim practice in one setting in Africa
• Combines rich and detailed ethnography of Muslim practice with theory and analysis of changes in the practice of Islam
• Accessible style that makes it suitable for both specialists and students (undergraduates and graduate students)
• The book will be of interest to policymakers, including State Department personnel and other government analysts

La Partera
Story of a Midwife, New Edition
by Fran Leeper Buss
with a new preace

The story of one woman's life in rural New Mexico and of her emergence as a community leader.

Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities
A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered
by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

A study of Muslim, Sinhala, and Tamil households in Sri Lanka that examines the commonality of the patriarchal structures and economic problems in such households.

• The book engages with key economic theories, while ensuring that scholars and students across disciplines are able to appreciate and understand the on-going debates.
• Questions and challenges economistic and bounded readings of household theory used by development economics, and zones in on the central import of integrating the cultural, political, and social dimensions to social reality and how they impinge upon women's lives in diverse ways.
• Unlocks the multiple contradictions of social reality to show how a region well known for women's social development and matrilineal structures can also be strange bedfellows with patriarchy. Thus the book shows the need for careful celebration of particular parts of South Asia as "feminist nirvana".

Natures Past
The Environment and Human History
edited by Paolo Squatriti

A global examination of how human communities have interacted with different kinds of natural environments through their cultural, social and economic activities.

Slaves to Fashion
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
by Robert J.S. Ross

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