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China's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
In recent years China has positioned itself as a champion of state-led resource conservation and sustainable development as it seeks to combat negative ecological effects of rapid economic growth and to adapt to climate change....
ISBN: 9780295752433
more detailsMumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
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 bicycle communities. Exploring how people bike and...
ISBN: 9780295752693
more detailsSustaining 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...
ISBN: 9780295751450
more detailsFukushima 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...
ISBN: 9780295751344
more detailsEcologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes
The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five...
ISBN: 9780295751498
more detailsThe Camphor Tree and the Elephant
Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia
Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the Anthropocene
What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not...
ISBN: 9780295751184
more detailsLahore Cinema
Between Realism and Fable
A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature films
Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between...
ISBN: 9780295750811
more detailsSpawning 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...
ISBN: 9780295750392
more detailsUpland 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...
ISBN: 9780295750491
more detailsTurning 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...
ISBN: 9780295750460
more detailsNew Lives in Anand
Building a Muslim Hub in Western India
In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town of Anand. Following such...
ISBN: 9780295749648
more detailsMisreading the Bengal Delta
Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change adaptation. Yet to what extent do adaptation projects address...
ISBN: 9780295749617
more detailsMumbai Taximen
Autobiographies and Automobilities in India
Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies
2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Brings...
ISBN: 9780295749860
more detailsAdivasi Art and Activism
Curation in a Nationalist Age
As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a...
ISBN: 9780295749716
more detailsOrdering the Myriad Things
From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Shortlisted for the SHNH Natural History Book Prize (John Thackray Medal) from the Society for the History of Natural History
Longlisted for the 2023 SHNH Natural History Book Prize
An exploration of plant wisdom, from the...
ISBN: 9780295749464
more detailsTimber and Forestry in Qing China
Sustaining the Market
Honorable Mention for the 2022 ISCLH First Biennial Book Prize, sponsored by the International Society for Chinese Law and History
Traces the sourcing of logs that fueled early modern urbanization
In the Qing period (1644–1912), China's population...
ISBN: 9780295748870
more detailsOutcaste Bombay
City Making and the Politics of the Poor
Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolis
Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices...
ISBN: 9780295748504
more detailsConsuming Ivory
Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England
Examines the complex global impact of the ivory trade
The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory...
ISBN: 9780295748818
more detailsMapping Water in Dominica
Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism
How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and people
Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733
Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a...
ISBN: 9780295748726
more detailsThe Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
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...
ISBN: 9780295747699
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