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.

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 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)

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)

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

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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