What is the relationship between common sense categories of experience and analytical
concepts developed in order to understand the processes that produce such categories and …

" Reproduction" is a slippery concept, connoting parturition, Marxist notions of household
sustenance and constitution of a labor force, and ideologies that support the continuity of …

In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which
colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human …

This article explores the ethics of the current" War on Terrorism, asking whether
anthropology, the discipline devoted to understanding and dealing with cultural difference …

“Deborah A. Thomas's Exceptional Violence is at once methodologically astute, richly
researched, and critically engaged. In reframing the historical object of violence in Jamaica …

In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity—but
what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as …

Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the
ways in which desire and pleasure—as well as ideas about gender, political power, and …

Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and
sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with …

In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they
cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head …

In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within
the new" flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps …