This article adopts a comparative perspective to review the recent increase in the sex ratio at
birth (SRB) across Asia. It first describes and compares the most recent birth statistics in Asia …

Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's
Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of …

Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st
century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and with mainstream media and …

Since the mid‐1990s,'neoliberalism'has grown in importance as an explanatory trope for
socio‐cultural anthropologists. This article seeks to unravel the various strands of …

" I was swept into the world of Hershatter's Gender of Memory. Each of these oral histories is
riveting and astonishing, giving a human--and often, heartbreaking--dimension to history. As …

One of the main puzzles of modern population and social history i among all countries
confronting rapid population growth in the secon of the twentieth century, China chose to …

What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of
political order, or" stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has …

Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the
ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In …

China's fertility policy, a national priority for over two decades, has evolved to contain highly
localized features, yet variation in fertility policy implementation by locality has not been well …

The article challenges the notion that below‐replacement fertility and its local variation in
China are primarily attributable to the government's birth planning policy. Data from the 2000 …