New Books & Selected Backlist | 2012 Anthropology Anthropology 2012 Contents New books and selected backlist Cultural On our website you’ll find much more than we can Anthropology 1 include in this catalog: a complete list of our books in Religion & Anthropology, sample chapters, tables of contents, and Culture 9 many other features, including ebook availability. Global Anthropology 13 Ordering information Asia 14 Order online at www.ucpress.edu/go/anthropology Forthcoming in 2012 16 To receive a 20% discount, enter source code 12M5196 into the shopping cart. 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Cultural Anthropology Anthropology 2012 The Paper Road Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet Erik Mueggler This book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-cen- tury botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical speci- mens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. “An eloquent, even haunting narrative of the relationships between colonial explorers/scientists and their native col- laborators that makes vivid the theme of ‘colonial intimacy.’” —Charlotte Furth, University of Southern California. Erik Mueggler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies Available November 2011 346 pp. 45 b/w photos (W) $70.00 cloth (£48.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26902-6 Also by Erik Mueggler: $29.95 paper (£20.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26903-3 ebook forthcoming The Age of Wild Ghosts Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China Deep China 2001 375 pp. 15 line illus. The Moral Life of the Person 3 maps 3 tables (W) $60.00 cloth (£41.95) What Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell Us about China Today ISBN 978-0-520-22623-4 Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, $28.95 paper (£19.95) Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua ISBN 978-0-520-22631-9 Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, the authors delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice. “An indispensable antidote to the copious body of politically and economically oriented literature that dominates current writing about the Chinese super-power.”—Margaret Lock, author of Twice Dead Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University; Yunxiang Yan is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Jing Jun is a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing); Sing Lee is a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong; Everett Zhang is a Professor at Princeton University; Pan Tianshu is a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai); Wu Fei and Guo Jinhua are Professors at Peking University (Beijing). Cover art is from The Paper Road by Erik Mueggler. Available September 2011 316 pp. (W) See facing page. Art at left is from Coffee Life in Japan $65.00 cloth (£44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26944-6 by Merry White. See page 15. $26.95 paper (£18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-26945-3 ebook forthcoming Order online with source code 12M5196 for a 20% discount at www.ucpress.edu/go/anthropology • 1 Cultural Anthropology Humanitarian Reason A Moral History of the Present Didier Fassin Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war. He traces and analyzes recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices— what he terms “humanitarian reason”—and shows in vivid examples how humanitarianism is confronted by inequality and violence. “A rigourous, principled, and compelling account of the emergence of humanitarianism.”—Michael Lambek, editor of Illness and Irony “Humanitarianism emerges both as a form of reason and as a key force in the contemporary arts of government.”—Claudio Lomnitz, author of Death and the Idea of Mexico Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Available October 2011 352 pp. 6 tables (W) $65.00 cloth (£44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27116-6 $26.95 paper (£18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27117-3 ebook forthcoming “Blue Jeans undeniably Blue Jeans provokes. It succeeds at The Art of the Ordinary bringing the ordinary into Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward plain view.” This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global Robert J. Foster, author of displacement, dislocation, and migration. Based on intensive Coca-Globalization field work in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an every- day item—blue jeans—to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of “the normative.” Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College, London. He is the author of many books, including The Comfort of Things, Stuff, and Tales from Facebook. Sophie Woodward is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and the author of Why Women Wear What They Wear. Available 2012 168 pp. 2 tables (W) $60.00 cloth (£41.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27218-7 $24.95 paper (£16.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27219-4 ebook forthcoming 2 • Phone orders 1-800-777-4726 Cultural Anthropology Between One and One Another “A lively, fascinating Michael Jackson exploration of the Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in exis- interplay between tential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between being part of the lives two modes of human existence: that of participating in of others and being other peoples’ lives and that of turning inward to one’s self. apart from them.” Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted upon and taking action, Jackson shows how the histori- Robert Desjarlais, author of cal complexities and particularities found in human interac- Counterplay tions reveal the dilemmas, conflicts, cares, and concerns that shape all of our lives. Michael Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Available 2012 269 pp. (W) $65.00 cloth (£44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27233-0 $26.95 paper (£18.95-) ISBN 978-0-520-27235-4 ebook forthcoming The Nature of Race How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference Ann Morning What do Americans think “race” means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks. Drawing from in-depth interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergradu- ates, Morning explores different conceptions of race—finding for example, that while many sociologists now assume that race is a social invention or “construct,” anthropologists and biologists are far from such a consensus. Ann Morning is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at New York University. 2011 328 pp. 9 b/w photos 6 tables (W) $65.00 cloth (£44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27030-5 $26.95 paper (£18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27031-2 ebook forthcoming Order online with source code 12M5196 for a 20% discount at www.ucpress.edu/go/anthropology • 3 Cultural Anthropology Trade of the Tricks Inside the Magician’s Craft Graham M. Jones From risqué cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, Trade of the Tricks offers an unprecedented look in- side the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, Graham M. Jones gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their astonishing deceptions. “A witty, learned, engaging trip through the world of French magic, Trade of the Tricks builds intriguing ideas on the deep knowledge that comes from prolonged, intensive observa- tion.” —Howard Becker, author of Art Worlds Graham M. Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Available September 2011 312 pp. 15 b/w photos (W) $65.00 cloth (£44.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27046-6 $26.95 paper (£18.95) ISBN 978-0-520-27047-3 ebook forthcoming New in paperback Counterplay An Anthropologist at the Chessboard Robert Desjarlais “The subject of chess boasts more books than any other game, but this one is special, crafted for the general reader as well as the aficionado. Like the game itself, Counterplay is an enjoyable mental exercise.”—Foreword “Explores the inner world of a chess player and examines how we attempt to make meaning from the game and the forms of life that surround it.”—Jonathan Rowson, PhD, Grandmaster and British Chess Champion (2004-2006) Robert Desjarlais is Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College.