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Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans by Fred Ho
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies... -
Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value by Edward Mack
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan's publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature... -
Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author by Steven Feld
Booksplease Price: $39.10This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the... -
The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast by Janet McIntosh
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In this theoretically rich exploration of ethnic and religious tensions, Janet McIntosh demonstrates how the relationship between two ethnic groups in the bustling Kenyan town of Malindi is reflected... -
Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java by Karen Strassler
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.75A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses... -
Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America by Rodolfo Kusch
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922-79) to be translated into English. At its core is... -
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century by Angela Ki Che Leung
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth... -
Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter by Colin Milburn
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71In Mondo Nano Colin Milburn takes his readers on a playful expedition through the emerging landscape of nanotechnology, offering a light-hearted yet critical account of our high-tech world of fun and... -
The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern... -
Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music by Alexandra T. Vazquez
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a... -
The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands by Christopher Wright
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of... -
The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, SIC 8 by Peter Thompson
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $89.77The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The "speculative materialism" that he first... -
The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader by Antoinette Burton
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan... -
We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom by Anne Eller
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.95In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence... -
Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government by Tony Bennett
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in... -
Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America by Jennifer Terry
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the... -
Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive by Clare Hemmings
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and... -
Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration by Shelly Chan
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Diaspora's Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China's politics, economics, and culture. Chan... -
Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment by Derek P. McCormack
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $116.36In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of... -
Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting... -
Colonial Racial Capitalism by Susan Koshy
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of... -
The Transsexual/Transvestite Issue by Emmett Harsin Drager
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.46Contributors to this special issue challenge the racialization, relegation, and invisibilization of trans experience. While "transsexual" and "transvestite" were central categories that organized... -
Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose by Thom van Dooren
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and... -
September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? by Mary L. Dudziak
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $93.80Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events... -
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic by Denise Brennan
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex... -
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad by Aisha Khan
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Mixing-whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism-is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with... -
Materiality by Daniel Miller
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $25.26Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief-whether religious or secular-have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely... -
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how... -
Capitalist Humanitarianism by Lucia Hulsether
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades---to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for... -
For a Pragmatics of the Useless by Erin Manning
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.34What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning... -
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South by Prathama Banerjee
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the... -
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. Ward
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace... -
The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa-often fictionalized and reliant... -
Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners by Lynn M. Thomas
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $41.34For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture-embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health... -
Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History by Elana Levine
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic, creative, technological, social, and cultural... -
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible by Arturo Escobar
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of... -
!Presente!: The Politics of Presence by Diana Taylor
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In !Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical... -
Constitutionalism, Identity, Difference, and Legitimacy: Theoretical Perspectives by Michel Rosenfeld
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in... -
Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms by Inderpal Grewal
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global... -
Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies by Dennis L. Dworkin
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar...