Anthropology

On the Run in Siberia Rane Willerslev 2012 Spring

A hair-raising tale of idealism, political corruption, shamanism, and survival in the Siberian wilderness

Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism Megan C. Thomas 2012 Spring

A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology

Citizens’ Media against Armed Conflict Disrupting Violence in Colombia Clemencia Rodríguez 2011 Fall

Citizens’ media countering armed conflict and rebuilding community in Colombia

Filipino Crosscurrents Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization Kale Bantigue Fajardo 2011 Fall

How migrant Filipino seamen navigate alternative masculinities in the global shipping industry

Saigon’s Edge On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City Erik Harms 2011 Spring

Exploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the world’s people live

Suburban Beijing Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China Friederike Fleischer 2010 Fall

Understanding the effects of market liberalization through life in a modern Chinese suburb

Rebirth of the Clinic Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care Cindy Patton, Editor 2010 Fall

Analyzing the medical clinic after neoliberalism

A Return to Servitude Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún M. Bianet Castellanos 2010 Fall

Tourism, consumption, migration, and the Maya in Cancún

Navigating the African Diaspora The Anthropology of Invisibility Donald Martin Carter 2010 Spring

Diaspora seen through the lenses of political economy and cultural production

Black and Indigenous Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras Mark Anderson 2009 Fall

Reveals that indigeneity can be a way of being more than a matter of blood

Casablanca Movies and Memory Marc Augé 2009 Fall

A poetic and meditative essay on the impact of film on our personal and collective memories

Red Lights The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China Tiantian Zheng 2009 Spring

A revealing and intimate study of rural Chinese women working in an urban sex trade

Deadliest Enemies Law and Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2007 Spring

How U.S. federal law creates racial conflict between Native American and white people

Shimmering Screens Making Media in an Aboriginal Community Jennifer Deger 2006 Fall

Reconsiders the interplay between aboriginal communities and media

The Stars Edgar Morin 2005 Spring

The legendary work on the mythic nature of movie stardom

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