Anthropology

Consoling Ghosts Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile Jean M. Langford 2013 Fall

The ghosts—and varying ideas about death, dying, and the aftereffects of violence—emerging from the stories of emigrants from Laos and Cambodia

Black Women against the Land Grab The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil Dennis Childs 2013 Fall

An in-depth look at black women’s significant role in land and housing rights struggles

Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall

How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA

Pregnant on Arrival Making the Illegal Immigrant Eithne Luibhéid 2013 Fall

The case of Ireland reveals how the implications of pregnancy and sexuality figure in the determination of immigrants’ legal status

The Art of Making Do in Naples Jason Pine 2012 Fall

An American anthropologist traverses the contact zones between organized crime and everyday life in Naples

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

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