ANTHROPOLOGY
Eating Korean in America: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity by Sonia Ryang (University of Hawai’i Press; 208 pages; $39). Focuses on differences in how naengmyeon cold noodle soup; jeon pancakes; galbi barbecued beef; and bibimbap are served in restaurants and grocery stores in Iowa City, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Kona and Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Extraordinary Encounters: Authenticity and the Interview edited by Katherine Smith, James Staples, and Nigel Rapport (Berghahn Books; 205 pages; $70). Essays on theoretical and methodological issues related to the ethnographic interview; topics include the interview in a politicized “action-research” setting, in this case a campaign to unionize sex workers in Britain.
Flexible Capitalism: Exchange and Ambiguity at Work edited by Jens Kjaerulff (Berghahn Books; 287 pages; $95). Writings on social relationships in the flexible and uncertain work environments of late capitalism; settings include the oil and gas industry of Alberta, Canada.
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction by Pat Shipman (Harvard University Press; 266 pages; $29.95). Links the disappearance of the Neanderthals to humans’ enhanced hunting ability with the domestication of “wolf-dogs.”
Israeli-Palestinian Activism: Shifting Paradigms by Alexander Koensler (Ashgate Publishing Company; 206 pages; $109.95). Offers an ethnographic perspective on activism around house demolitions in what the Israeli government considers unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel’s southern “internal frontier.”
The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil by Graham Denyer Willis (University of California Press; 192 pages; $70 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on three years of fieldwork in Sao Paulo in a study of police, a leading crime family, and a tacit understanding concerning killing in the name of social order.
Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India by Sara Shneiderman (University of Pennsylvania Press; 305 pages; $75). Explores the collective construction of ethnicity for a marginalized group that migrates between the borderlands of Nepal, India, and Tibet.
Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia by Emma Kowal (Berghahn Books; 198 pages; $95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in a health center in Darwin in a study of problematic aspects of the work of white Australians on behalf of Aboriginal communities.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory edited by Nathan Goodale and William Andrefsky Jr. (Cambridge University Press; 312 pages; $110). Writings that apply evolutionary theory to the understanding of the procurement, manufacture, and use of stone tools; topics include innovation and natural selection in Paleoindian projectile points from the American Southwest.
Living and Leaving: A Social History of Regional Depopulation in Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde by Donna M. Glowacki (University of Arizona Press; 312 pages; $60). Focuses on religious change and other social factors that contributed to the exodus of tens of thousands of Pueblo peoples from the region by the end of the 1200s.
Tikal: Paleoecology of an Ancient Maya City edited by David L. Lentz, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Vernon L. Scarborough (Cambridge University Press; 370 pages; $99). Research on agriculture and the sustaining of a large population in the city’s tropical forest environment in the Late Classic period in what became Guatemala.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America by Monika Siebert (University of Alabama Press; 240 pages; $54.95). Examines the responses of Indian artists, filmmakers, and writers to misrepresentations of North America’s indigenous peoples.
Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice by Krista Thompson (Duke University Press; 349 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Explores performance for the camera in dancehalls, proms, and other settings in Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the United States.
BIOLOGY
Bacterial Genomics: Genome Organization and Gene Expression Tools by Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee (Cambridge University Press; 230 pages; $99). Examines how tools from genomic sequencing can be applied in the study of bacterial adaptation.
The Hadal Zone: Life in the Deepest Oceans by Alan Jamieson (Cambridge University Press; 382 pages; $80). Discusses research on life in depths greater than 6,000 meters.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification From Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule edited by Josephine Crawley Quinn and Nicholas C. Vella (Cambridge University Press; 404 pages; $125). Writings by scholars from Europe and North Africa on such topics as defining Punic Carthage, and Punic-Iberian connections.
COMMUNICATION
The Real Cyber War: The Political Economy of Internet Freedom by Shawn M. Powers and Michael Jablonski (University of Illinois Press; 269 pages; $95 hardcover, $25 paperback). Considers the economic and geopolitical interests behind U.S. government calls for a universally accessible Internet.
ECONOMICS
Labor Markets, Institutions, and Inequality edited by Janine Berg (Edward Elgar Publishing; 432 pages; $160). Includes empirical essays on collective bargaining, minimum wage laws, part-time work, inequality, and related issues in developed and developing countries.
Managing the Middle-Income Transition: Challenges Facing the People’s Republic of China edited by Juzhon Zhuang (Edward Elgar Publishing; 592 pages; $190).
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude: Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin edited by Dennis R. Judd and Stephanie L. Witt (University of Nevada Press; 288 pages; $34.95). Writings on the Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Boise metropolitan regions and the combination of urban sprawl, aridity, and libertarian politics.
FILM STUDIES
The Architecture of David Lynch by Richard Martin (Bloomsbury Academic; 230 pages; $120 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Explores the significance of space, architecture, and locations in the work of the American director; draws on such theorists of architecture and the urban as Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, Jane Jacobs, and Edward Soja.
Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory by Victor Fan (University of Minnesota Press; 296 pages; $94.50 hardcover, $27 paperback). Applies the Chinese concept of bizhen or “approaching reality” to issues of cinematic ontology explored by Andre Bazin.
Closed Circuits: Screening Narrative Surveillance by Garrett Stewart (University of Chicago Press; 281 pages; $100 hardcover, $30 paperback). Discusses M, Rear Window, The Conversation, Source Code, and other films that have portrayed surveillance.
The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema by Peter Stanfield (Rutgers University Press; 216 pages; $90 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Explores seven cycles of crazes in the decade’s low-budget filmmaking, including a crop of boxing movies and social-problem films.
GENDER STUDIES
The Crisis-Woman: Body Politics and the Modern Woman in Fascist Italy by Natasha V. Chang (University of Toronto Press; 166 pages; US$50). Draws on scientific, medical, and popular literature in a study of Fascist notions of the modern woman as a donna-crisi---a figure popularly depicted as too thin, childless, and cosmopolitan
GEOGRAPHY
Megaregions: Globalization’s New Urban Form edited by John Harrison and Michael Hoyler (Edward Elgar Publishing; 288 pages; $130). Topics include the evolution of China’s Pearl River Delta in historical perspective, and why megaregional planning works against sustainability.
HISTORY
The Battle for Moscow by David Stahel (Cambridge University Press; 480 pages; $35). Uses previously untapped sources to examine factors that foretold the failure of Hitler’s final offensive on Moscow on the eve of the winter of 1941.
Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps by Kim Wunschmann (Harvard University Press; 387 pages; $45). Draws on previously unpublished materials in a study of Jewish prisoners in concentration camps created as early as 1933 with Hitler’s ascent to power.
Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence edited by Steven High (University of British Columbia Press; 368 pages; US$99). Essays that draw on the experiences of scholars who have engaged survivors in oral-history projects.
Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande by George T. Diaz (University of Texas Press; 241 pages; $45). Traces the history of illicit trade across the U.S.-Mexico border since 1848.
China’s War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance Against Japan by Parks M. Coble (Harvard University Press; 267 pages; $39.95). A study of Chinese war correspondents following the Japanese invasion of 1937 that links the suppression of their legacy to gaps in the Chinese historiography of the war.
The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth edited by Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert (University Press of Kentucky; 243 pages; $50). Writings on the history and historiography of irregular warfare during the conflict, including the involvement of Indians in the Southwest.
Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada by Douglas McCalla (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 321 pages; US$100 hardcover, US$34.95 paperback). Draws on the accounts of 750 families at seven stores between 1808 and 1861 in a study of the origins, buying, and use of dry goods, food, and hardware.
Dandyism in the Age of Revolution: The Art of the Cut by Elizabeth Amann (University of Chicago Press; 275 pages; $45). Discusses the muscadin, incroyable, currutaco, crop, and other representations of daring dress as a political statement in late 18th-century France, England, and Spain.
Democracy’s Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead by Andrew Burstein (University of Virginia Press; 272 pages; $29.95). Evaluates claims and misconceptions in a study of the Founder’s appropriation by both left and right.
Faces Like Devils: The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks by Matthew J. Hernando (University of Missouri Press; 320 pages; $60). Contrasts the politics of Taney and Christian County Bald Knobbers---masked vigilantes who wore hoods with horns in 19th-century Missouri.
From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages by William Chester Jordan (Princeton University Press; 223 pages; $39.50). Focuses on those accused of criminal associations in a study of abjuration or forced exile of various individuals and groups from England to France in the “long” 13th century.
The Icon Curtain: The Cold War’s Quiet Border by Yuliya Komska (University of Chicago Press; 290 pages; $45). Discusses the Bohemian Forest as the quiet woodland border between Czechoslovakia and West Germany, and describes the “prayer wall” created there in the 1950s.
An Industrious Mind: The Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes by J. Sears McGee (Stanford University Press; 520 pages; $70). A biography of a 17th-century English country gentleman, lawyer, historian, antiquarian, and Puritan, who is described as having left the most extensive archive of personal papers of anyone in early modern Europe.
Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945 by Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson (University of Manitoba Press, distributed by Michigan State University Press; 288 pages; US$31.95). Documents the experiences of English-born immigrants from the 1940s to the 1970s.
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh (Syracuse University Press; 352 pages; $49.95). Examines the jurisprudence and religious pragmatism of Muhammad Kazim Khurasani, who was among the leading Shi’ite clerics who supported Iran’s constitutional revolution in 1906-11.
Joe: The Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend by Ron J. Jackson Jr. and Lee Spencer White (University of Oklahoma Press; 325 pages; $29.95). Reconstructs the life of a slave known only as “Joe,” who was owned by Lt. Col. William B. Travis, survived the siege of the Alamo, and was questioned by Santa Anna; finds that he was the younger brother of the abolitionist William Wells Brown.
Juan Bautista de Anza: The King’s Governor in New Mexico by Carlos R. Herrera (University of Oklahoma Press; 308 pages; $29.95). A biography of the Sonora-born soldier-explorer turned colonial governor, who served from 1778 to 1788.
The Most Dangerous German Agent in America: The Many Lives of Louis N. Hammerling by M.B.B. Biskupski (Northern Illinois University Press; 200 pages; $29). Draws on archives in four countries to reconstruct the mysterious life of a Polish immigrant (d. 1935) who was involved in business, political, and labor intrigue.
Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana by George Edward Milne (University of Georgia Press; 312 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Traces the development of racial consciousness among the Natchez Indians in the early 1700s as French-speaking colonists and their slaves were an increasing presence in the region.
A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics by Todd Scribner (Catholic University of America Press; 264 pages; $34.95). Focuses on the Reagan era and the efforts of George Weigel, Michael Novak, and other neoconservative intellectuals to shape debates over Catholic identity in the post-Vatican II era.
Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World by Janet Polasky (Yale University Press; 371 pages; $35). Documents how American and French revolutionary ideals were spread in books, broadsides, letters, and other materials by 18th-century travelers.
Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory by Catherine Holder Spude (University of Oklahoma Press; 326 pages; $24.95). Discusses issues of gender and class in the rise and fall of bars and brothels in the boomtown of Skagway between 1897 and 1918.
The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration Across the Borderlands After the American Civil War by Todd W. Wahlstrom (University of Nebraska Press; 189 pages; $55). Describes how former Confederates in alliance with Mexico’s Emperor Maximilian sought to develop agricultural colonies in the northern state of Coahuila, but were thwarted by violence in the borderlands.
Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 by Michelle Haberland (University of Georgia Press; 228 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Pays particular attention to Vanity Fair factories in Alabama in a study of the role of women in the apparel industry in the South during the period; draws on newly collected oral histories.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species From the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond by Niles Eldredge (Columbia University Press; 376 pages; $35). Traces the history of thinking over the emergence of new species since Lamarck’s writings in 1801.
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing by Laura J. Snyder (W.W. Norton & Company; 432 pages; $27.95). Discusses the painter and the amateur scientist in a study of the revolution in optics in 17th-century Holland.
LAW
In the Shadow of the Great Charter: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Magna Carta by Robert M. Pallitto (University Press of Kansas; 244 pages; $29.95). Examines the legacy of the 1215 English charter for U.S. constitutional law through an analysis of its presence in Supreme Court jurisprudence.
LITERATURE
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times by Kate Rigby (University of Virginia Press; 232 pages; $59.50 hardcover, $24.50 paperback). Draws on authors from Heinrich Kleist and Mary Shelley to Colin Thiele and Alexis Wright in a study of fiction as a realm for contemplating human relations in the face of eco-catastrophe.
The Dirty Dust: Cre na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley (Yale University Press; 308 pages; $25). First English translation of a 1949 novel in dialogue that some have called the most important prose work in modern Irish.
An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850 by Siobhan Carroll (University of Pennsylvania Press; 290 pages; $59.95). Draws on literary, journalistic, and travel writing in a study of representations of the poles, the oceans, and other regions hard to reach or control.
Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature by Katra A. Byram (Ohio State University Press; 296 pages; $67.95). Juxtaposes works by Textor, Storm, and Raabe against works by Grass, Handke, and Sebald in a study of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, or the struggle to come to terms with the past.
The Imperative of Reliability: Russian Prose on the Eve of the Novel, 1820s-1850s by Victoria Somoff (Northwestern University Press; 248 pages; $79.95). Describes how a “story-discourse” convergence hastened the transition from shorter forms of Russian prose to the fully developed realist novel.
Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction by Kai Mikkonen (Ohio State University Press; 268 pages; $76.95). Explores the interplay of fiction and nonfiction in works about sub-Saharan Africa by such writers as Loti, Gide, Leiris, Simenon, Cendrars, Celine, Conrad, Greene, Waugh, and Dinesen.
Prophetic Visions of the Past: Pan-Caribbean Representations of the Haitian Revolution by Victor Figueroa (Ohio State University Press; 336 pages; $69.95). Draws on theorists of the “decolonial turn” in a study of works by Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Luis Pales Matos, Aime Cesaire, Derek Walcott, Edouard Glissant, and Manuel Zapata Olivella.
Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period by Sarah Houghton-Walker (Oxford University Press; 294 pages; $110). Analyzes images of gypsies in English literature and art from 1780 to 1830 and sets those representations in wider cultural context; writers discussed include Wordsworth, Austen, Clare, Cowper, and the Brontes.
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 2, 1848-1871 by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti (University of Missouri Press; 352 pages; $60). Completes a biography of the American artist and writer, who was the source for many of her husband’s stories.
Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media edited by Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson (Ohio State University Press; 294 pages; $69.95). Essays that challenge simple oppositions between oral and written, learned and popular, and clerical and lay culture in medieval England; topics include the confessional formula of the Bolton Hours.
Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549 by Sebastian Sobecki (University of Notre Dame Press; 264 pages; $38). Draws on literary, political, and other realms in a study of how medieval theories of translation, Lancastrian political culture, and the unwritten tradition of the common law contributed to a vernacular legal culture.
The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism by Aaron Jaffe (University of Minnesota Press; 159 pages; $67.50 hardcover, $22.50 paperback). Explores a range of ordinary objects from the perspective of modernist critical theory.
Yoknapatawpha Blues: Faulkner’s Fiction and Southern Roots Music by Tim A. Ryan (Louisiana State University Press; 288 pages; $45). Draws parallels between, for example, racial violence in Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun” and Geeshie Wiley’s Last Kind Words Blues.”
MUSIC
The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds by Martha Feldman (University of California Press; 421 pages; $60). Topics include how the castration of boys for singing was understood in Italy through the Catholic concept of sacrifice.
Couldn’t Have a Wedding Without the Fiddler: The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island by Ken Perlman (University of Tennessee Press; 496 pages; $39.95). Draws on more than 150 interviews in a study of the history, style, and transmission of traditional fiddling on the Canadian island.
Javaphilia: American Love Affairs With Javanese Music and Dance by Henry Spiller (University of Hawai’i Press; 296 pages; $42). Focuses on Lou Harrison, Mantle Hood, Eva Gauthier, and Hubert Julian Stowitts in a study of Americans who embraced the music and performing arts of the Indonesian island of Java.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography by Michael Hicks (University of Illinois Press; 240 pages; $29.95). A study of the group since its 19th-century founding; topics include its clashes with LDS leaders over repertoire and style.
Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West by Peter Gough (University of Illinois Press; 304 pages; $50). Explores the politicized, vernacular traditions that characterized the FMP’s activities in the west.
PHILOSOPHY
Hegel and the English Romantic Tradition by Wayne Deakin (Palgrave Macmillan; 212 pages; $95). Juxtaposes the work of the German philosopher with that of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Percy and Mary Shelley.
Heidegger and the Emergence of the Question of Being by Jesus Adrian Escudero, translated by Juan Pablo Hernadez (Bloomsbury Academic; 203 pages; $112). Translation of a 2010 work by the Spanish philosopher that focuses on Heidegger’s first Freiburg and Marburg lectures.
Motivational Internalism edited by Gunnar Bj√∏rnsson and others (Oxford University Press; 306 pages; $65). Writings on debates over the notion that there is an intrinsic link between moral judgment and moral motivation.
Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time by Francois Hartog, translated by Saskia Brown (Columbia University Press; 260 pages; $35). Translation of a 2003 French work on such topics as changing views of time in Chateaubriand’s Historical Essay and Travels in America.
Saussure’s Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology: Undoing the Doctrine of the “Course in General Linguistics” by Beata Stawarska (Oxford University Press; 286 pages; $74). A study of the Swiss linguist and philosopher that offers a critique of the way his work was edited and presented in the posthumously published Course (1916).
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Benefit-Cost Analyses for Security Policies: Does Increased Safety Have to Reduce Efficiency? edited by Carol Mansfield and V. Kerry Smith (Edward Elgar Publishing; 288 pages; $130). Writings on the application of cost-benefit analysis to homeland-security policies in the United States.
Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties: Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics by Clarence Lang (University of Michigan Press; 184 pages; $65 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a meditation on the damage done by neoliberalism to the black community and the problem of dwelling on the legacy of the 1960s.
The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics by Andrew Small (Oxford University Press; 288 pages; $50). Topics include Chinese support for Pakistan’s nuclear program, and China’s dealings with the Taliban.
Counting Species: Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics by Rafi Youatt (University of Minnesota Press; 224 pages; $87.50 hardcover, $25 paperback). Uses concepts of biotic, abiotic, and other forms of agency beyond the human to explore the construction of global biodiversity loss as a political problem.
Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism by Tristan James Mabry (University of Pennsylvania Press; 254 pages; $69.95). Draws on fieldwork in Iraq, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines in a comparative study of identity in six Muslim separatist movements.
The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe: Between Decentralization and Centralization in the Activation Era by Mariely Lopez-Santana (State University of New York Press; 212 pages; $85). Offers comparative case studies of Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States.
Unifying the Nation: Article IV of the United States Constitution by Joseph F. Zimmerman (State University of New York Press; 208 pages; $80). Examines court cases linked to both sections of the Article, which prevents one state from treating the citizens of another state in a discriminatory manner.
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition: The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual by Maurice St. Pierre (University of Virginia Press; 256 pages; $59.50). Focuses on Williams’s development as an intellectual in a study of the first prime minister of an independent Trinidad and Tobago.
RELIGION
Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon by Jessica M. Parr (University Press of Mississippi; 235 pages; $60). Examines the life and religious legacy of the 18th-century Anglican clergyman and missionary who was central to revivalism in the American colonies.
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume II: Pure Land edited by James C. Dobbins (University of California Press; 295 pages; $59.95). Edition of writings on Pure Land Buddhism by the Japanese thinker, who was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the West.
A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement by John Stratton Hawley (Harvard University Press; 438 pages; $49.95). Explores the historical contingencies that produced the notion of a devotional movement centered on singing poet-saints across India between 600 and 1600.
RHETORIC
Sign of Pathology: U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s-1960s by Nathan Stormer (Penn State University Press; 272 pages; $69.95). Offers a Foucauldian analysis of medical literature of the topic and its wider cultural meaning.
SOCIOLOGY
Angel Patriots: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America by Alexander T. Riley (New York University Press; 315 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Discusses memorials, films, books, and other commemorations of the passengers on the fourth hijacked plane on 9/11.
Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work by Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of California Press; 296 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of how sex work figures in Vietnam’s emerging capitalist economy in an ethnographic study of four hostess bars in Saigon that cater to a high-end foreign and local clientele.
Grounds for Difference by Rogers Brubaker (Harvard University Press; 219 pages; $39.95). New and previously published writings on such topics as a “return to biology” in discourse on racial and ethnic difference.
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