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Crafting a Tibetan Terroir
Winemaking in Shangri-La
How wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives
Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers how the deployment of the French notion of...
ISBN: 9780295753362
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Satirical Tibet
The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail?
Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious freedom and...
ISBN: 9780295753119
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Necropolitics of the Ordinary
Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore
Can a state make its people forget the dead?
Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the...
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Viable Ecologies
Conservation and Coexistence on the Galápagos Islands
How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservation
Famous for their geographic isolation and high proportion of endemic species, the Galápagos Islands have long been promoted as the premier...
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Kernels of Resistance
Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power
The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and won
Right before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala’s legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and...
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China's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing...
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Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Cyclists from India reimagine transportation infrastructure for all
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic...
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From Forest Farm to Sawmill
Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
A worker-centered, woman-centered history of China's economic transformation
Socialist China’s state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land...
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Cold War Deceptions
The Asia Foundation and the CIA
Investigates how the CIA tried to influence scholars and governments
During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and...
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Hacking the Underground
Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures
"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying...
ISBN: 9780295751948
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Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska
A unique collaboration celebrating the importance of parkas in Yup'ik material culture
Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or...
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Regional Identities in Southeast Asia
Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, is a community of multiple identities. Over time, its citizens' loyalties were formed around national and transnational frameworks involving ethnic, religious, and ideological affinities. In the post-independence...
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Sustaining Natures
An Environmental Anthropology Reader
Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate students
Environmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded in respectful and systematic ethnographic research and writing that spotlights uncommon perspectives on widely...
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Modified Bodies, Material Selves
Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai
A comparative analysis of body politics, selfhood, and the pursuit of consumer-based agency
Thin body, white skin, and big eyes. Such beauty ideals are ubiquitous across Shanghai, where salons and weight-loss clinics offering an array of...
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Fukushima Futures
Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape
A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoods
Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
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Surviving the Sanctuary City
Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
On the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcement
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating...
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Spawning Modern Fish
Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon
Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology
Multispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of fish
Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have...
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Upland Geopolitics
Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush
Cold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosure
In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries...
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Turning Land into Capital
Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region
In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War–era revolutions. This trend, marked by increased land concentration and the promotion of export-oriented agribusiness at...
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Fixing the Image
Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh
Introduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval, ultrasound took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine. Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information...
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