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Being Human
The Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only…
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Between Self and Community
Between Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it shows how both…
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Birds of the Sun
Scarlet macaws are native to tropical forests ranging from the Gulf Coast and southern regions of Mexico to Bolivia, but they are present at numerous archaeological sites in the…
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Borderland Dreams
In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the “Korean dream” that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian…
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Brown Saviors and Their Others
In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of “brown saviors”—globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian…
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Brown Saviors and Their Others
In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of “brown saviors”—globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian…
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Building Community Choirs in the Twenty-First Century
An examination of how community choirs in Northern Ireland are attempting to transcend sectarian boundaries.Building Community Choirs explores the under-researched practice of community choral singing in Northern Ireland. Sarah-Jane Gibson…
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Burning Ambition
Burning Ambition explores how young people learn to understand and influence the workings of power and justice in their society. Since 2008, hundreds of secondary schools across Kenya have been…
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Carbon Calculation
The Carbon Calculation examines how climate science, the policy world, and neoliberalism have mutually informed each other to define the problem of climate change as one of “market failure”—precluding alternatives…
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Caring Cash
Anthropological study of the impact of cash grants on the economic dynamics and relationships among Kenya’s urban poor The idea of giving cash, no-strings-attached, to the poor has become popular…
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