In addition to the featured hardcover releases, the Penn Press fall 2009 catalog announces many new paperbacks, among them: From Civil Rights to Human Rights; W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet; Visions of Progress; Mapping Decline; The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa; Faculty Towers; Hitler's Face; Monsters; Used Books; Marriage and Violence; and The Crusades and the Christian World of the East.

Complete Catalog: Anthropology, Folklore, Linguistics

Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.

Abrahams, Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices (2005)

Abrahams, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul (2006)

Abramson, Ethnic Identity in Tang China (2007)

Abusharaf, Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (2006)

Alter, Knowing Dil Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter (1999)

Alter, Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border (2000)

Alter, Asian Medicine and Globalization (2005)

An-Na'im, Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus (1992)

Anderson, Lang Rongrien Rockshelter: A Pleistocene, Early Holocene Archaeological Site from Krabi, Southwestern Thailand (1990)

Anthony, Man and Animals: Living, Working, and Changing Together (1984)

Appadurai/Korom, Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions (1991)

Argenti-Pillen, Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (2002)

Ashkenazi/Jacob, The Essence of Japanese Cuisine: An Essay on Food and Culture (2000)

Bacchilega, Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies (1997)

Bacchilega, Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism (2006)

Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (1992)

Bailey, The Saving Lie: Truth and Method in the Social Sciences (2003)

Baldeck, Touching the Mekong (2003)

Baldeck, The Heart of Haiti (2005)

Baldeck, Presence Passing (2007)

Baldeck, Himalaya: Land of the Snow Lion (2008)

Baruah, India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (1999)

Becker, Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji (1995)

Beetz/Satterthwaite, The Monuments and Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize (1981)

Bell/Canuto, Understanding Early Classic Copan (2003)

Berger, Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America (2005)

Besteman, Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery (1999)

Birdwhistell, Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication (1970)

Bloch, Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State (2003)

Bloch/Kendall, The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East (2004)

Bockstoce, The Archaeology of Cape Nome, Alaska (1979)

Boehm, Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies (1986)

Boldurian/Cotter, Clovis Revisited: New Perspectives on Paleoindian Adaptations from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico (1999)

Bonnemère, Women as Unseen Characters: Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea (2004)

Bornstein, Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel (2001)

Bottigheimer, Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition (2002)

Brandes, Metaphors of Masculinity: Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore (1980)

Brandes, Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico (1988)

Breckenridge/van der Veer, Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (1993)

Brody/Allen, Beauty From the Earth: Pueblo Indian Pottery from the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1990)

Campana, Before Farming: Hunter-Gatherer Society and Subsistence (1995)

Campbell, Folktales from Iraq (2005)

Claassen/Joyce, Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica (1996)

Constable, Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia (2004)

Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching (2005)

Copeland-Carson, Creating Africa in America: Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City (2004)

Crabtree/Ryan, Animal Use and Culture Change (1991)

Crabtree/Ryan, Early Animal Domestication and Its Cultural Context: Dedicated to the Memory of Dexter Perkins, Jr. and Patricia Daly (1989)

D'Alisera, An Imagined Geography: Sierra Leonean Muslims in America (2004)

Daly/Sarkin, Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2006)

Danien, Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2002)

Danien/Sharer, New Theories on the Ancient Maya (1992)

Danien, Maya Folktales from the Alta Verapaz (2005)

Davenport, Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts (2005)

de Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend (2006)

Debénath/Dibble, Handbook of Paleolithic Typology: Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe (1993)

Dening, Beach Crossings: Voyaging Across Times, Cultures, and Self (2004)

Desjarlais, Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas (1992)

Desjarlais, Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless (1997)

Dibble/Monte-White, Upper Pleistocene Prehistory of Western Eurasia (1988)

Dibble/Lenoir, The Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas (France) (1995)

Dibble/McPherron, A Multimedia Companion to the Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas (1995)

Dibble/Williamson, The Human Evolution Cookbook (2003)

Dorst, Looking West (1999)

Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (2008)

Emigh, Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theater (1996)

Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North (1970)

Fernandes, Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (1997)

Finkler, Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier (2000)

Foley, The Heartland Chronicles (1995)

Foley, Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas (1990)

Franklin/Ragoné, Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation (1997)

Furst, Visions of a Huichol Shaman (2003)

Gambhir, The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages (1996)

Geller/Stockett, Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future (2006)

Gilmore, Misogyny: The Male Malady (2001)

Gilmore, Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors (2002)

Glassie, All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming (1976)

Glassie, Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (1969)

Glassie, Irish Folk History: Tales from the North (1982)

Gmelch, The Tlingit Encounter with Photography (2008)

Goffman, Strategic Interaction (1970)

Goffman, Forms of Talk (1981)

Goluboff, Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue (2002)

Green, Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying (2008)

Greenhouse, Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (Oct 2009)

Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective (2000)

Hall, Lives in Translation: Sikh Youth as British Citizens (2002)

Hannas, The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity (2003)

Harris/Stearns, Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook, 2/e (1997)

Harris, New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings: Supplement to Understanding Maya Inscriptions (1993)

Harris, Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyph and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings (1994)

Hewamanne, Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka (2007)

Hinson, Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (2000)

Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1964)

Hodgson, The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizârî Ismâî'lîs Against the Islamic World (2005)

Honwana, Child Soldiers in Africa (2005)

Hufford, The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions (1982)

Hufford, Chaseworld: Foxhunting and Storytelling in New Jersey's Pine Barrens (1992)

Huss-Ashmore/Schall, Health and Lifestyle Change (1992)

Huss-Ashmore, Coping with Seasonal Constraints (1988)

Hymes, Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach (1974)

Inhorn, Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (1996)

Inhorn, Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions (1994)

Inness, Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race (2000)

Jackson, "Camp Pain": Talking with Chronic Pain Patients (1999)

Jok, War and Slavery in Sudan (2001)

Jordan/Kalcik, Women's Folklore, Women's Culture (1985)

Joseph/Slyomovics, Women and Power in the Middle East (2000)

Joyce/Gillespie, Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies (2000)

Kapchan, Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition (1996)

Khosravi, Young and Defiant in Tehran (2007)

Kingfisher, Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (2002)

Knappett, Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2005)

Korom, Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora (2002)

Kushnareva/Michael, The Southern Caucasus in Prehistory: Stages of Cultural and Socioeconomic Development from the Eighth to the Second Millennium B.C. (1997)

Kuzmina/Mair, The Prehistory of the Silk Road (2007)

Labov, Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular (1973)

Labov, Sociolinguistic Patterns (1973)

Lagos, Autonomy and Power: The Dynamics of Class and Culture in Rural Bolivia (1994)

Latimer, The Bird Who Gave Milk (1999)

Latimer, The Magical Lion (1999)

Lau, New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden (2000)

Lemarchand, The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa (2008)

Lindio-McGovern, Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance (1997)

Linger, Anthropology Through a Double Lens: Public and Personal Worlds in Human Theory (2005)

Long/Oxfeld, Coming Home?: Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed Behind (2004)

Loten, Tikal Report 23A: Miscellaneous Investigations in Central Tikal (2002)

Lyons/Peters, Buddhism: History and Diversity of a Great Tradition (1985)

Maček, Sarajevo Under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime (2009)

Magliocco, Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America (2004)

Mahmood, Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants (1996)

Maira/Soep, Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, the Global (2004)

McHugh, Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming To Know Another Culture (2001)

Menon, Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India (Nov 2009)

Mikell, African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (1997)

Miller/Gleason, The Archaeology of Garden and Field (1994)

Mitchell, Betrayal of the Innocents: Desire, Power, and the Catholic Church in Spain (1998)

Mizoguchi, An Archaeological History of Japan, 30,000 B.C. to A.D. 700 (2002)

Moerman, Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis (1988)

Montagu, The Anatomy of Swearing (2001)

Moran, Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (2005)

Morgan/Michaels, Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions (1999)

Moss, The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege (2003)

Murray, Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief (2007)

Napier, The Righting of Passage: Perceptions of Change After Modernity (2004)

Narayan, Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching (1989)

Ness, Where Asia Smiles: An Ethnography of Philippine Tourism (2002)

Newcomb, Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco (2008)

Niles, Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (1999)

Nordstrom, A Different Kind of War Story (1997)

Noyes, Fire in the Placa: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (2003)

Nurse/Spear, The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 (1985)

O'Connor, Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions (1995)

Ochsenschlager, Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden (2004)

Olszewski/Dibble, The Paleolithic Prehistory of the Zagros-Taurus (1993)

Orser, Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation (2003)

Peteet, Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (2005)

Pezzati, Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2002)

Price/Price, Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension (2006)

Redeker Hepner, Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora (Jun 2009)

Reina/Kensinger, The Gift of Birds: Featherworking of Native South American Peoples (1991)

Robben, Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005)

Robben, Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War (Dec 2009)

Roberts, From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom (1989)

Rose, Patterns of American Culture: Ethnography and Estrangement (1989)

Ross, Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes (2009)

Rothman, Tepe Gawra: The Evolution of a Small, Prehistoric Center in Northern Iraq (2001)

Ryan/Crabtree, The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology (1995)

Sabloff, Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan (2001)

Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (2004)

Sanday/Goodenough, Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender (1990)

Sanday, Aboriginal Paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater: Track of the Rainbow Serpent (2007)

Sanjek, Gray Panthers (2009)

Sapir, Notes on Chasta Costa Phonology and Morphology (1914)

Sarroub, All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School (2005)

Schacker, National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England (2003)

Schwartz, Forest Society: A Social History of Petén, Guatemala (1990)

Sharer/Sedat, Archaeological Investigations of the Northern Maya Highlands, Guatemala: Interaction and Development of Maya Civilization (1987)

Shimada, Andean Ceramics: Technology, Organization, and Approaches (1999)

Shokeid, A Gay Synagogue in New York (2002)

Shopen, Languages and Their Speakers (1987)

Shopen, Languages and Their Status (1987)

Skidmore, Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (2004)

Sluka, Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (1999)

Slyomovics, The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998)

Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005)

Smith, Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism, 2/e (1989)

Smith/Eadington, Tourism Alternatives: Potentials and Problems in the Development of Tourism (1992)

Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship (1997)

Stoller, The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology (1989)

Stølen, Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence: The Refugees' Return (2007)

Straight, Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya (2006)

Stuempfle, The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago (1996)

Szwed, Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture (2005)

Taylor, Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics (1995)

Tedlock, The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation (1983)

ter Haar, How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought (Jun 2009)

Thiranagama/Kelly, Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building (Nov 2009)

Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion (2004)

Trix, Spiritual Discourse: Learning with an Islamic Master (1993)

Trix, The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb (2009)

Turner, Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing (1992)

van der Veer, Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora (1994)

Van Stan, Textiles from Beneath the Temple of Pachacamac, Peru: A Part of the Uhle Collection (1967)

Wafer, The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble (1991)

Wailes, Craft Specialization and Social Evolution: In Memory of V. Gordon Childe (1996)

Weeks, The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (2003)

Weslager, Delaware's Forgotten Folk: The Story of the Moors and Nanticokes (1943)

Wheeler, The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture (2000)

Williams, Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap (2004)

Williams, Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2003)

Williams/Wierzbowski, Native American Voices on Identity, Art, and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem (2005)

Winegrad, Through Time, Across Continents: A Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum (1993)

Wise, Exile and Return Among the East Timorese (2006)

Wright, Gender and Archaeology (1996)

Wyatt, The Blacks of Premodern China (Oct 2009)

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