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Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru by Kathryn Burns
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast other people's words in official forms and... -
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story by Ian Condry
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.82In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with... -
Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties by Warwick Anderson
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.74By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism. Insights from psychoanalysis shaped European and North American ideas about the colonial world and... -
Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present by Laura Gotkowitz
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Ninety percent of the indigenous population in the Americas lives in the Andean and Mesoamerican nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. Recently indigenous social movements in... -
Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $35.68In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of a black European subject by examining how specific black European communities used family photography to create forms of identification and... -
Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries by Nicole Marie Guidotti-Hernandez
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Unspeakable Violence addresses the epistemic and physical violence inflicted on racialized and gendered subjects in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early... -
Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes by Joanne Rappaport
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08In Beyond the Lettered City, the anthropologist Joanne Rappaport and the art historian Tom Cummins examine the colonial imposition of alphabetic and visual literacy on indigenous groups in the... -
Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption by Laura Briggs
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88In Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces-poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence-that have shaped transracial and transnational adoption in... -
Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.88Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel... -
Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century by Gilbert M. Joseph
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied... -
The Life of Captain Cipriani: An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government by C. L. R. James
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant historians and Marxist theorists of the... -
Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers by Shalini Shankar
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In Advertising Diversity Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations. Drawing from periods of... -
Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai by Marcia C. Inhorn
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In Cosmopolitan Conceptions Marcia C... -
Blacktino Queer Performance by E. Patrick Johnson
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.17Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art... -
The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism by Bianca C. Williams
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by... -
Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body by Ari Larissa Heinrich
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $188.79What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how... -
The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976-1988 by Martin Duberman
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $57.54For many, the death of a parent marks a low point in their personal lives. For Martin Duberman-a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian studies-the death of his... -
Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History by Lamonte Aidoo
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and... -
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir K. Puar
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar's pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across... -
The Anzalduan Theory Handbook by AnaLouise Keating
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94In The Anzalduan Theory Handbook AnaLouise Keating provides a comprehensive investigation of the foundational theories, methods, and philosophies of Gloria E. Anzaldua. Through archival research and... -
Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India by Laurent Pordie
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at... -
Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century by Faith Smith
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67In Strolling in the Ruins Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger... -
The Visceral Logics of Decolonization by Neetu Khanna
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87In The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she... -
Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece by Suzanne Preston Blier
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $45.02In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most... -
The Apartment Complex: Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) to the crumbling tenement in a dystopian Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole... -
Ethnography #9 by Alan Klima
RRP: $207.90Booksplease Price: $167.45As Alan Klima writes in Ethnography #9, "there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought." In this experimental... -
Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires by Nicholas D'Avella
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In Concrete Dreams Nicholas D'Avella examines the changing social and economic lives of buildings in the context of a construction boom following Argentina's political and economic crisis of 2001... -
Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible... -
Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing River by Andrew Alan Johnson
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39The Mekong River has undergone vast infrastructural changes in recent years, including the construction of dams across its main stream. These projects, along with the introduction of new fish... -
The Nature of Space by Milton Santos
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a... -
Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media by Lester D. Friedman
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources-from news reports to Web sites to tv shows-for information about diseases, treatments,... -
Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico by Pamela Voekel
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.94Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political... -
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization by Ian Condry
Booksplease Price: $70.88In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan's vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs... -
The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru by Jessaca Leinaweaver
Booksplease Price: $65.46In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores "child circulation," informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At... -
Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change by Lauran R. Hartley
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is the first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature, which has burgeoned only in the last thirty years. This comprehensive... -
The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico by John Dwyer
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lazaro Cardenas's land redistribution program. Because no... -
Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa by Christopher T. Nelson
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of... -
Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique by Bliss Cua Lim
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $44.08Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally... -
Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia by Aparecida Vilaca
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, a group of Wari' Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service... -
Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France by Susan Whitney
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitney examines how youth moved to the forefront of French politics in the two decades following the First World War. In those years Communists and Catholics forged the...