Duke University Press: 2463 books
New Masters, New Servants
Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their...
Whither China?
Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2002
Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that...
China Urban
Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2001
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility...
Cities Surround The Countryside
Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin...
by Krista Comer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In Surfer Girls in the New World Order, Krista Comer explores surfing as a local and global subculture, looking at how the culture of surfing has affected and been affected by girls, from baby boomers to members of Generation Y. Her analysis encompasses the dynamics of international surf tourism in...
The Quality of Home Runs
The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality...
The Color of Liberty
Histories of Race in France
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2003
France has long defined itself as a color-blind nation where racial bias has no place. Even today, the French universal curriculum for secondary students makes no mention of race or slavery, and many French scholars still resist addressing racial questions. Yet, as this groundbreaking volume shows,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the "writing culture"...
Nightwatch
The Politics of Protest in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements...
A Coincidence of Desires
Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
In A Coincidence of Desires, Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention...
The Tatars of Crimea
Return to the Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1998
This new edition of Edward A. Allworth’s The Tatars of Crimea has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find peace and acceptance in a homeland.
Contributors to...
Strip Cultures
Finding America in Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not...
The South Africa Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped...
Organizing Empire
Individualism, Collective Agency, and India
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
Organizing Empire critically examines how concepts of individualism functioned to support and resist British imperialism in India. Through readings of British colonial and Indian nationalist narratives that emerged in parliamentary debates, popular colonial histories, newsletters, memoirs, biographies,...