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The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
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 (Dec 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)

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)

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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

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)

Dorst, Looking West (1999)

Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (Dec 2007)

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)

Feld, Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 2/e (1990)

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)

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)

Goffman, Forms of Talk (1981)

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

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)

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

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 (Dec 2007)

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

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

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)

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

Lesch/Lustick, Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews (2005)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Orser, Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation (2003)

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

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

Robben, Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005)

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

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

Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (2004)

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

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)

Sexton, Ignacio: The Diary of a Maya Indian of Guatemala (1992)

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)

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

Wright, Gender and Archaeology (1996)




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