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The Penn Press fall 2008 catalog announces Volume 3 of the Life of Benjamin Franklin, by J. A. Leo Lemay; Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought, by Moshe Idel; the second edition of Depression: Causes and Treatment, by Aaron Beck and Brad Alford; the fourth edition of Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, by Geri-Ann Galanti; and Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia, by Emily Toth. Among other new paperback offerings are these: Growing Greener Cities, edited by Eugenie Birch and Susan Wachter, In Search of Progressive America, edited by Michael Kazin, and an updated Price of Citizenship, by Michael Katz.
Contemporary Ethnography
Kirin Narayan, Series Editor

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

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)

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)

Dorst, The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma (1989)

Foley, The Heartland Chronicles (1995)

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

Hewamanne, Stitching Identitites 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)

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

Khosravi, Young and Defiant in Tehran (2007)

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

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

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

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)

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

Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship (1997)

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

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

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

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

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

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




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