Anthropology

Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America-the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status.

Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying.

The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory.

War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce.

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world.

Since the initial publication of Cultures@SiliconValley fourteen years ago, much has changed in Silicon Valley.

China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families.

The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people.

America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood that ';is witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood out of the footnotes and places it front and centerwhere it belongs' (Louann Brizendine, MD, New York Times bestselling author).

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*; Explains the theoretical basis behind psychomagic, Jodorowsky's shamanic healing technique*; Details the author's technique of ';psychotrance' to access his subconscious mind to discover the most suitable psychomagic remedy*; Shares passionate correspondence between Jodorowsky and patients and admirers who have successfully used psychomagic methods for personal healingThrough films, books, comics, and art spanning seven decades, legendary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has offered his singular surrealistic perspective on the fundamentally dreamlike nature of reality.

In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh.

What are the possibilities for multispecies justice?

The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory.

In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political.

In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr.

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world's palm oil.

In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography with regard to contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university.

In Collective Biologies, Emily A.

In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A.

In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People, David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously manufactures waste and scarcity.

Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states' attempts to govern them.

Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face.

In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has created opportunities for young people to creatively explore their gendered, classed, and racialized subjectivities in and through transnational media worlds.

In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to existential danger.

Following a decade of U.

Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves.

In The Occupied Clinic, Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir-the world's most densely militarized place.

Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting zoos.

The Mekong River has undergone vast infrastructural changes in recent years, including the construction of dams across its main stream.

In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.

In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador.

In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future.

From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil.

In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "e;supersoldiers"e; capable of withstanding extreme trauma.

The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives they study.

Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing's "e;old city"e; in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar-one of the capital city's poorest neighborhoods and only a stone's throw from Tian'anmen Square-lived in dilapidated conditions without sanitation.

In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment.

Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them.

In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.

The years between 2006 and 2015, during which Evo Morales became Bolivia's first indigenous president, have been described as a time of democratic and cultural revolution, world renewal (Pachakuti), reconstituted neoliberalism, or simply "e;the process of change.

Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon.

Over the past decade, Ethiopia has had one of the world's fastest growing economies, largely due to its investments in infrastructure, and it is through building dams, roads, and other infrastructure that the Ethiopian state seeks to become a middle-income country by 2025.

Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being.

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The end of authoritarian rule in 1998 ushered in an exhilarating but unsettled period of democratization in Indonesia.

The contributors to Sounds of Vacation examine the commodification of music and sound at popular vacation destinations throughout the Caribbean in order to tease out the relationships between political economy, hospitality, and the legacies of slavery and colonialism.