Anthropology and Sociology – Summer 2014
- Capitalism and classical sociological theory / John Bratton and David Denham.
- The subject of virtue : an anthropology of ethics and freedom / James Laidlaw
[The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account of a major dimension of human conduct which social theory has so far failed adequately to address.] - The urban ethnography reader / edited by Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra K. Murphy.
- Reimagining social movements : from collectives to individuals / edited by Antimo L. Farro, Henri Lustiger-Thaler.
- Chronicles from the field : the Townsend Thai project / Robert M. Townsend, Sombat Sakunthasathien, and Rob Jordan. [This fascinating and accessible text describes Townsend’s field research efforts in Thailand that span over 15 years, making it perhaps the longest running, high-frequency panel data set in a developing country.]
- Ten thousand things : nurturing life in contemporary Beijing / Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang. [Examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.]
- Life as a Dalit : views from the bottom on caste in India / edited by Subhadra Mitra Channa and Joan P. Mencher.
- Troubled periphery : crisis of India’s north east / Subir Bhaumik.
- Working childhoods : youth, agency and the environment in India / Jane Dyson.
- City of lies : love, sex, death and the search for truth in Tehran / by Ramita Navai
[Tehran (Iran) — Social conditions — 21st century.] - Imag(in)ing the Nagas : the pictorial ethnography of Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann and Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf / Alban von Stockhausen.
[Photography in ethnology — History.] - Indigenous African knowledge production : food-processing practices among Kenyan rural women / Njoki Nathani Wane. [Embu (African people) — Social life and customs.]
Food
- Japan’s dietary transition and its impacts / Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi.
- The road to vindaloo : curry cooks & curry books / David Burnett, Helen Saberi.
- The no-nonsense guide to world food / Wayne Roberts.
Gender
- Women’s agency and social change : Assam and beyond / Meeta Deka.
- Leftover Women The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. / by Fincher, Leta Hong
- Masculinities in a global era / Joseph Gelfer, editor.
- Blackness and sexuality / editors, Michelle Wright, Antje Schuhmann.
- The gay agenda : claiming space, identity, and justice / Gerald Walton, editor.
- Desire between women in Caribbean literature / by Keja Valens.
- A feminist ethnomusicology : writings on music and gender / Ellen Koskoff ; foreword by Suzanne Cusick.
- Politics of the body : gender in a neoliberal and neoconservative age / Alison Phipps.
- Transformative policy for poor women : a new feminist framework / Bina Fernandez. [India.]
- Framing the rape victim : gender and agency reconsidered / Carine M. Mardorossian.