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Mumbai Taximen

Autobiographies and Automobilities in India

By Tarini Bedi

In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives and voices of chillia taxi drivers who have sustained a hereditary trade for...

The Ends of Kinship

Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York

By Sienna R. Craig

For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped...

The Nuosu Book of Origins

A Creation Epic from Southwest China

By Mark Bender, Aku Wuwu, Jjivot Zopqu

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701

The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group...

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnúwit Átawish Nch'inch'imamí

Reflections on Sahaptin Ways

By Virginia R. Beavert. Edited by Janne L. Underriner. Edited by Janne L. Underriner

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and...

Caring for Glaciers

Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas

By Karine Gagné. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led...

Seawomen of Iceland

Survival on the Edge

By Margaret Willson

Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History

The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from...

In the Circle of White Stones

Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet

By Gillian G. Tan

This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of...

White Grizzly Bear's Legacy

Learning to Be Indian

By Lawney L. Reyes

"I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt. My attention was directed to the area where Kettle Falls once flowed. As I stood there the wind came. As I listened...

Symbolic Immortality

The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

By Sergei Kan

Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska—or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This...

Fieldwork Connections

The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America

By Ayi Bamo, Stevan Harrell, and Ma Lunzy

Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist,...

Tulalip, From My Heart

An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community

By Harriette Shelton Dover. Edited by Darleen Fitzpatrick. Foreword by Wayne Williams

In Tulalip, From My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her...

B Street

The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam

By Lawney L. Reyes

B Street tells intimate stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was...

Sweet Cakes, Long Journey

The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon

By Marie Rose Wong

Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland’s two Chinatowns (one an urban area of...

Island

Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940

By Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung

In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often...

No More Cherry Blossoms

Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays

By Philip Kan Gotanda

In these four new plays, renowned playwright Philip Kan Gotanda explores the choices and challenges Japanese American women face. Although set in different decades of the twentieth century, the playsare all absolutely modern in the...