Weekly Book List, February 27, 2012

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AMERICAN STUDIES

Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico by Jose David Saldivar (Duke University Press; 265 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Argues for expanding American studies to include transnational, antinational, and "outernational" approaches.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece by Elizabeth Anne Davis (Duke University