Duke University Press (duke + university_press)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2001
Janice Boddy
. Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Nancy Rose Hunt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. xii+475 pp. [source]


Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2006
NINA L. ETKIN
Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices. Adriana Petryna, Lakoff Andrew, and Arthur Kleinman, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 301 pp. [source]


Crossing, Creolization, and the African Roots of American Culture

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2006
HARRIET JOSEPH OTTENHEIMER
Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues. Stuart L. Goosman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 291 pp. Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race. Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 317 pp. Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture. John Szwed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 283 pp. [source]


Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2006
COLIN CLARKE
Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica. Deborah Thomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 358 pp. [source]


The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2005
MARK GOODALE
The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia. Daniel M. Goldstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 275 pp. [source]


Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2004
KAREN L. KELSKY
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Louisa Schein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. 365 pp. [source]


The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora."

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2004
VERNE A. DUSENBERY
The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation and the Formation of. Sikh "Diaspora." Brian Keith Axel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 297 pp. [source]


To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2002
Thomas Maloney
To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965. Jeffrey L. Gould. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 305 pp. [source]


Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2001
Bartholomew Dean
Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru. Vincent C. Peloso. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 251 pp., maps, figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. [source]


A New Look at Women's Work in the Caribbean

ANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 1 2001
Elizabeth Crespo
Carla Freeman. High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy,Women, Work and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xiii. 334 pp. [source]


The Imagination at Work within the Global Economy

ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK REVIEW, Issue 2 2006
William H. Leggett
What's Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. Michael Goldman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. [source]