Anthropology

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

The Cinema, or the Imaginary Man Edgar Morin 2005 Spring

A classic work exploring the nexus of the cinematic image and the human mind—at last available in English!

Queer Migrations Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings Eithne Luibhéid and Lionel Cantú Jr., Editors 2005 Spring

At the intersection of citizenship, sexuality, and race, a new perspective on the immigrant experience

Oblivion Marc Augé 2004 Fall

A renowned social thinker considers the nature and necessity of forgetting

Dry Place Landscapes of Belonging and Exclusion Patricia L. Price 2004 Spring

Gathers tales from the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico to understand the relationship between people and place in a borderland

University of Minnesota Press