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Empire and Dissent
The United States and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Since the early nineteenth century, the United States has repeatedly intervened in the affairs of Latin American nations to pursue its own interests and to “protect” those countries from other imperial powers or from internal “threats.” The resentment and opposition generated by the encroachment...
Asian Biotech
Ethics and Communities of Fate
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell...
The Already Dead
The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In The Already Dead, Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names "the new chronic." Cazdyn argues that just as contemporary medicine uses targeted drug therapies and biotechnology...
The Male Pill
A Biography of a Technology in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2003
The Male Pill is the first book to reveal the history of hormonal contraceptives for men. Nelly Oudshoorn explains why it is that, although the technical feasibility of male contraceptives was demonstrated as early as the 1970s, there is, to date, no male pill. Ever since the idea of hormonal contraceptives...
Lively Capital
Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship...
Tissue Economies
Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns...
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment
The Politics of Local Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2000
The tension between professional expertise and democratic governance has become increasingly significant in Western politics. Environmental politics in particular is a hotbed for citizens who actively challenge the imposition of expert theories that ignore forms of local knowledge that can help to...
Creative License
The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other musicians’...
Two Bits
The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation...
by Frank Gado
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1986
Acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays—an uncommon practice in the film industry—and for this practice critics refer to him as a "literary" filmmaker: In this work, Gado examines virtually...
by Kelly Ray Knight
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks...
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections
Histories, Activisms, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other...
by Lynn Spigel, Graeme Turner, Julian Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture. Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user,...
Dilemmas of Difference
Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon...