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In the Metro Marc Augé 2002 Fall

A lyrical and dynamic consideration of the Paris metro.

Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico An Anthropology of Nationalism Claudio Lomnitz 2001 Fall

An innovative examination of the interaction between culture and politics in Mexico.

Metaculture How Culture Moves through the World Greg Urban 2001 Fall

A revelatory consideration of how culture changes, evolves, and is made new.

Landscapes of Urban Memory The Sacred and the Civic in India’s High-Tech City Smriti Srinivas 2001 Spring

A rich analysis of religion, civic life, and global transformation in India.

In and Out of Morocco Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown David A. McMurray 2001 Spring

A revealing inquiry into how global culture is lived locally.

The Limits of Multiculturalism Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology Scott Michaelsen 1999 Fall

Traces anthropology’s Native American roots.

A Poetics of Political Economy in Egypt Kristin Koptiuch 1999 Spring

Analyzes how economic transformation changes the meaning of artisanship.

Spaces of Their Own Women’s Public Sphere in Transnational China Mayfair Mei-hui Yang 1998 Fall

An exploration of women’s public expression--in China and beyond.

In Near Ruins Cultural Theory at the End of the Century Nicholas B. Dirks, Editor 1998 Fall

A group of leading scholars considers the current state of cultural analysis.

The Forgotten Queens of Islam Fatima Mernissi 1997 Fall

The essential work about women in Islamic history, now in paperback.

Modernity at Large Cultural Dimensions of Globalization Arjun Appadurai 1996 Fall

Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world.

Word’s Out Gay Men’s English William L. Leap 1996 Spring

The first book-length analysis of the language used by gay men.

Consuming Modernity Public Culture in a South Asian World Carol A. Breckenridge, Editor 1995 Spring

Illustrates that what is distinctive of any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. Behind the embattled arena of culture in India, for example, lie particular social and political interests such as the growing middle class; the entrepreneurs and commercial institutions; and the state. The contributors address the roles of these various intertwined interests in the making of India's public culture, each examining different sites of consumption. The sites they explore include cinema, radio, cricket, restaurants, and tourism. Consuming Modernity also makes clear the differences among public, mass, and popular culture. Contributors include Arjun Appadurai, Frank F. Conlon, Sara Dickey, Paul Greenough, David Lelyveld, Barbara N. Ramusack, Rosie Thomas, and Phillip B. Zarrilli.

Colonial Inscriptions Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya Carolyn Martin Shaw 1995 Spring

Explores how images of African colonialism have been influenced by European and American racism and sexual fantasies.

Fictions of Feminist Ethnography Kamala Visweswaran 1994 Spring

Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts which fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of “sisterhood” and the recovery of “lost” voices. In these essays about her work with women in Southern India, Kamala Visweswaran addresses such troubled issues. Blurring distinctions between ethnographic and literary genres, these essays employ the narrative strategies of history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and post-colonial discourse to reveal the fictions of ethnography and the ethnography in fiction.

University of Minnesota Press

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