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Askew, Kelly

Deeds and Misdeeds: Land Titling and Women’s Rights in Tanzania, with Rie Odgaard
New Left Review 118 pgs 68-85.
July-Aug 2019

Modes of Dispossession of Indigenous Lands and Territories in Africa, with Elifuraha Laltaika 
In Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John G, Galaty and Günther Schlee (Eds) Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Agro-Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa, pp. 99-122.
Oxford: Berghahn Books
2019

African Postsocialisms
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press. Previously released as a special issue of Africa, Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 76, No. 1
2006

Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania
The University of Chicago Press
2002

The Anthropology of Media
Wiley-Blackwell, Chicago
2002

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Behar, Ruth 

Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys
Publisher: Duke University Press
Year of Publication: 2013
Location: Durham, NC

 


La presencia del pasado en un pueblo español

Museo Etnográfico de LeónYear of
León, Spain
2013

An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
Rutgers University Press
Piscataway, NJ
2007

The Vulnerable Observer
Beacon Press, Boston
1996

Translated Woman
Beacon Press, Boston
1993


Burch, Melissa 

Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma
American Anthropologist
Forthcoming

Captive Afterlives in the Age of Mass Conviction
History and Anthropology, 30:5, 515-520, DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2019.1638778
2019

(Re)entry from the Bottom Up: Case Study of a Critical Approach to Assisting Women Coming Home from Prison
Critical Criminology, October 15, 2016, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-016-9346-3.
2016

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Chivens, Thomas

The Politics of Awareness: Making Domestic Violence Visible in Poland
Indiana University Press: 171-194
2010

Płeć a Interwencja [Intervening Gender].
Universityof Warsaw Press
2007

After Post-socialism? Transition’s Obscured
Inevitability. 
    
The Anthropology of East Europe Review
2005

Excessive States
Real: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature
2000

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Dua, Jatin

Ambergris, Livestock, and Oil: Port-making as Chokepoint Making in the Red Sea
Ethnos, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1696861
2020

Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
University of California Press.
2019

Hijacked: Economies of Protection in the Western Indian Ocean 
Comparative Studies in Society and History 61 (3): 479-507.
2019

The Abandoned Seafarer: Networks of Care and Capture in the Global Shipping Economy
History and Anthropology. 30 (5): 497-502.
2019

Captivity: A Provocation 
Public Culture 30 (1): 3-18. Co-authored with Kevin Lewis O’Neill.
2018.

 

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Fehervary, Krisztina

Politics in Color and Concrete:  Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary
IUP
2013

Socialist Modern to Supernatural Organicism: Cosmological Transformations Through Home Decor 
Cultural Anthropology.
2012 Volume: 27(4)

Goods and States: The Political Logic of State Socialist Material Culture
Comparative Studies in Society and History.
2009 Volume: 51(2)Pages: 426–459

The Materiality of the New Family House in Hungary: Postsocialist Fad or Middle Class Ideal?
City and Society
2011 Volume: 23(1)Pages: 18-41

American Kitchens, Luxury Bathrooms, and the Search for a ‘Normalʼ Life In Postsocialist Hungary
Ethnos.
2002 Volume: 67(3):Pages: 369-400  

 


Frye, David

Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain: Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) and The Grifter (El Buscón, by Francisco de Quevedo (Translation)
Hacket Publishing 
2015

A Planet For Rent by Yoss (José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) (Translation)
Restless Books
2014

Ángel Rama, Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America (Translation)
Duke University Press
2012

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, First New Chronicle and Book of Good Government (Translation)
Hackett Publishing
2006

Indians into Mexicans: History and Identity in a Mexican Town
Austin: University of Texas Press
1996

 

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Hsieh, Jennifer

Making Noise in Urban Taiwan: Decibels, the State, and Sono-Sociality
American Ethnologist
Forthcoming 

To Hear as I Do: The Concessions of Hearing in a Noise Management Apparatus In Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality, edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk,  Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui,  189-212. 
University of Oxford Press.  doi:10.1093/oso/9780197511121.003.0008
2020

Piano Transductions: Music, Sound, and Noise in Urban Taiwan 
Sound Studies Journal 5, no. 1 (February): 4-21 . doi: 10.1080/20551940.2018.1564459
2019


Hull, Matthew

Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan
University of California
Berkeley (California)
2012

Documents and Bureaucracy
Annual Review of Anthropology 
2012 Volume 41 pg 790

Democratic Technologies of Speech:  From WWII America to Post-colonial
Delhi Periodical: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
2010 Volume 20(2) Pages: 257-282

Ruled by Records: The Appropriation of Land and the Misappropriation of Lists in Islamabad
American Ethnologist
2008 Volume: 34(4)Pages: 501–518

The File: Agency, Authority, and Autography in a Pakistan 
Language and Communication
2003 Volume: 23(3-4)Pages: 287-314

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Keane, Webb

Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories
Princeton University Press
2016

Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission
Encounter

University of California Press
2007

Semiotics and the Social Analysis of Material Things
Language and Communication 
Volume: 23, nos 2-3
Pages: 409-425
2003

Semiotics and the Social Analysis of Material Things
Language and Communication 
Volume: 23, nos 2-3
Pages: 409-425
2003

Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of
Representation in an Indonesian Society

University of California Press
1997


Kirsch, Stuart

Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text
Oakland: University of California Press.
2018

Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and their Critics 
Berkeley: University of California Press
2014

Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.
2006

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Lemon, Alaina

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Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays  
University of California Press
2018

Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism  
Duke University Press
2000

The Matter of Race
Volume: Russia’s Races: the meanings and practices of race in Imperial Russiaand the Soviet Union, ed. David Rainbow.
McGill U Press.
2019

MetroDogs: the Heart in the Machine
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Volume: 21
Pages: 660-679
2015

Touching the
Gap: Social Qualia and Cold War Contact
Anthropological Theory (special issue on Qualia)
Volume: 13(1/2)
Pages: 67-88
2013

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McGovern, Mike

A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country 
University of Chicago Press
2017

Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern 
University of Chicago Press
2012

Making War in Côte d’Ivoire
University of Chicago Press
2011

Liberty and moral ambivalence: Postsocialist transitions, refugee hosting, and bodily comportment in the Republic of
Guinea
American Ethnologist. 42(2): 247-261.
2015

History is Stubborn: Talk about Truth, Justice, and National Reconciliation in the Republic of Guinea.
Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol 55(1): 198-225.
2013


Moll, Yasmin

The Idea of Islamic Media: The Qur’an and the Decolonization of Mass Communication
The International Journal of Middle East Studies
52(4):623-42
2020

Living through Thick Concepts in Revolutionary Egypt
The International Journal of Middle East Studies
2(3): 493-97
2020

Television is Not Radio: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival
Cultural Anthropology
33(2): 233–65
2018

Subtitling Islam: Translation, Mediation, Critique
Public Culture
29(2): 333-61
2017

The Wretched Revolution
Middle East Report
Volume 44, No. 4: 34-39
2014


Mueggler, Erik

Rewriting Bondage: Literacy and Slavery in a Qing Native Domain
Comparative Studies in Society and History 63 (1): 1-34.
2021

Lady Qu’s Inscriptions:
Literacy and Sovereignty in a Native Domain, Southwest China

Journal of Asian Studies 79 (3): 1-22.
2020

Songs for Dead Parents: Body and World in Southwest China 
University of Chicago Press
2017

The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet.
University of California Press
2011

The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence and Place in Southwest China
University of California Press
2001

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Paredes, Alyssa

We Are Not Pests. In The Promise of Multispecies Justice, edited by Sophie Chao, Karin Bolender, and Eben Kirksey. Durham: Duke University Press.forthcoming 2022
 
Experimental Science for the “Bananapocalypse”: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 
2021

Weedy Activism: Women, Plants, and the Genetic Pollution of Urban Japan. Journal of Political Ecology 28(1): 70-90.2021

Chemical Cocktails Defy Pathogens and Regulatory Paradigms. In Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene, edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou. Stanford Digital Projects – Stanford University Press. 


Partridge, Damani

Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin
University of California Press
2022

Interrogating ‘Diversity’
Special Issue of Public Culture, co-edited with
Matthew Chin.
Volume 31, Number 2 (May). 
2019

Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity vs Democratic Inclusion In Refugees Welcome? Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany, Sharon MacDonald and Jan Jonathan Block, eds. New York:
Berghahn Books, pp.265-287.
2019

Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race,
Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany  
Indiana University Press, New
Anthropologies of Europe series, Matti Bunzl and Michael Herzfeld, eds.
2012

Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Racial MemoryAmidst Contemporary Race In Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 52, No. 4, October 2010. 2009 “Wir
sind dasAnti-‘Volk’Nichtweißsein
und die Verkehrung von Mobilität nach dem Mauerfall.” In 1989 / Globale Geschichten, Susanne Stemmler, Valerie Smith and Bernd
M. Scherer, eds. Göttingen:
Wallstein Verlag, pp. 47-53.
2010

We Were Dancing in the Club, Not on the
Berlin Wall: ‘Black’ Bodies, Street Bureaucrats, and Exclusionary Incorporation in the New Europe

Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 660–687.
2008 

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Roberts, Elizabeth F.S.

Making Better Numbers Through Bioethnographic Collaboration
AmericanAnthropologist, Vol 123#2, 355- 369.

The Power and Limits of Classification — A 32-Year-Old Man with Abdominal Pain 
The New England Journal of Medicine. Perspectives. Daphna Stroumsa, M.D., M.P.H., Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, Ph.D., Hadrian Kinnear, B.A., and Lisa H. Harris, M.D., Ph.D. (PDF)
2019

What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City 
Cultural Anthropology Vol. 32, Issue 4, pp. 592–619 (PDF)
2017

When Nature/Culture Implodes: Feminist Anthropology and Biotechnology, Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century. E, Lewin and M, Silverstein (eds). Pp: 105-125. New Brunswick: Rutgers University (PDF)
2016

Gods, Germs and Petri Dishes: Toward a Nonsecular Medical Anthropology 
Medical Anthropology 35:3, 209-219 (PDF)
2016

 


Rubin, Gayle

Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
Duke University Press
2011

Surveiller et Jouir: Anthropologie Politique du Sex
EPEL (Éditions Psychanalytiques de l’École
Lacanienne), Paris
2010

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Shryock, Andrew

The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Studies: Form, Duration, Difference.
Judith Scheele and Andrew Shryock, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2019

Deep History: the Architecture of Past and Present.
Andrew Shryock and Dan Smail, eds. 
Berkeley: University of California Press
2011

Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade. Nabeel Abraham, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock, eds.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press
2011

Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend.
Andrew Shryock, editor.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
2010

Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan.
Berkeley: University of California Press
1997


Stonington, Scott

The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand.
University of California Press
2020

Case Studies in Social Medicine. 
The New England Journal of Medicine
[Longitudinal series running monthly from November 2018 (Issue 379;20) through February 2020 (15 articles)
Stonington SD, Holmes SM, Hansen H, Greene JA.
2018-2020

'Acute-on-chronic’: states of emergency, the social pain body and the one-way ‘staircase’ of pharmaceutical escalation. Medical Anthropology. [Online ahead of print].
2021

Karma masters: the ethical wound, (hau)ntological choreography, and complex personhood in Thailand 
American Anthropologist 122 (4): 759–70.
2020

On the (f)utility of pain. 
The Lancet 385(9976): 1388–1389
2015