Single Mother by Choice chronicles the journey of Ann, a 41-year-old woman throughout her intensive mothering of three donor-conceived children from infancy to tween years. This analysis of one family’s life illuminates the complexities of twenty-first, middle-class American motherhood, whether single or not, and the synergies between 2^nd wave feminism and neoliberalism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

During the first decades of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany were perceived as rivals. Focusing on the 1880s-1930s, this study provides explanations for how the American approach to technology and culture differed from that of the Germans, and how these differences produced various expressions of transatlantic modernity.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

In this comprehensive reassessment of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson highlight the diversity and breadth of the area’s archaeological sites and the innovative findings they offer. In doing so, they highlight archaeology’s implications for transforming our understanding of present-day, social justice.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History: 18th/19th Century

An exacting assessment of the bounty policies that facilitated the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf, Animal Genocide and its Aftermath re-evaluates the legal, political, and social definition of animal killing, proposing it constitutes a form of genocide that requires a historical and cultural reckoning.

Subject: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

A clarifying re-examination of the issues affecting ethnic studies education in K-12 schools, this book explores how the program’s disregard for the lives of American Jews correlates with the increase in antisemitism with the U.S. Consequently, it advances a renewed framework for thinking about the Jewish experience in contemporary American education.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Educational Studies Sociology

This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology by analysing the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the K’ich’e Maya community of Momostenango, Guatemala.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

In this updated edition, the author describes shifting medical guidance that increasingly supports breastfeeding yet remains largely separated from infant sleep guidance. The volume also provides a path towards more equitable approaches to nighttime infant care grounded in reproductive justice.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Going beyond traditional relationships between practicing anthropologists and urban communities, this develops the foundations to extend the current scope of applied anthropology to grassroots research and lasting community programs using two partnering Milwaukee organizations as examples.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies

Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General)

Intimate Histories investigates the role and conceptualizations of intimacy between African American and German relations between 1933 through 1990. Reviewing issues surrounding anti-miscegenation laws, casual sexual encounters, and unique friendships, this book traces how intimacy became an important site of transnational racial history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Edges of Noir addresses film studies’ neglect of 1960s experimental noir films that have resisted easy classification against more popularly regarded late noir films and responds to the interpretive dilemmas and anxieties of the time to which the films provided expression.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies

Presented is a lexicon of imagery, conventions, and symbols used by Plains Indians to communicate their warfare and social narratives. Familiarity with the lexicon will enable interested scholars and laypersons to understand what are otherwise enigmatic rock art drawings found from Calgary, Alberta through ten U.S. states, and into the Mexican state of Coahuila.

Subject: Archaeology

The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, temple architecture and sculptural motifs.

Subject: Archaeology

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance intersect police the groups which are most represented in the child welfare system, including low income, female-headed families living in racialized neighborhoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience in the 20th century.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

The Htoo family, who are Sgaw Karen and originally from Burma, resettled in the United States refugee resettlement program in 2007. This book chronicles their life in their new country. The book provides historical and cultural information on the Sgaw Karen people against the backdrop of the Htoo family’s path from Burma to Thailand.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyday institutions and organizations.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, exploring the relationship between higher education and neoliberalism.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is carnivalesque, temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies.

Subjects: Memory Studies Literary Studies Film and Television Studies

Dictionary of American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Featuring a compendium of nearly 1,500 American proverbs spanning the 17th century to present day, this dictionary also includes a scholarly introduction along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship.

Subjects: Literary Studies Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology

Framing the emergence of queer enclaves in reference to place, this volume explores the physical and symbolic spaces of LGBTQ Americans. Authors provide an overview of the concept of “place” and its role in informing identity formation and community building. The book also includes interactive project prompts, providing opportunities to practically apply topics and theories discussed in the chapters.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

While taking a critical look at the labor and social issues related to timber, the story of labor, immigration, and development around the San Francisco Bay region is told through the lens of an archaeological case study of a major player of the timber industry between 1885 and 1920. Timber, Sail, and Rail recounts the mill operations and broadly examines its intersections with other industries, such as shipping, brick manufacture, rail companies, lime production, and other lesser enterprises.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Transport Studies

This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. These essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.

Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)

This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States’ efforts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on both the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and demonstrates just how high the stakes are as the US confronts the possibility of war without end.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely “applied archaeology,” this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)

Historically significant archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer Americans is emphasized. The book features chapters on archaeology and interpretation, as well as several case studies focusing on queer preservation projects.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier myth from a European perspective.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

The Decisionist Imagination explores the relationship between the key concept of “decisionism,” as it emerged from 1920s political theory, and the postwar development of formal decision theory when sovereign decision-making became an object of scientific inquiry in a new cultural, institutional, and international landscape.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Oil and Sovereignty explores the national and international strategies formulated to deal with the first oil crises in 1973-1974, as steadily increasing prices and reduced production raised the specter of an uncertain future for many.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

Refashioning cultural analysis into a hard-edged tool for the study of American society and culture, Lee Drummond explores the 9/11 terrorist attacks, abortion, sports doping, and the Jonestown massacre-suicides, providing the basis for a new theory of culture grounded in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from agrarian life to survival in post-industrial America, while still maintaining their Cambodian identities. The ethnography details how America’s mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia has had enormous consequences on Khmer refugees and their children.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. The contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in making of engaged and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

There is surprisingly little fieldwork done in and on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed seeks to fill that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon for anthropological research and practice.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

The side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court provides a novel socio-legal approach in studying constitutional litigation, focusing on conditions of mobilisation, decision-making and implementation.

Subject: Sociology

Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies

This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will be of interest in disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

The 1960s were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. This book examines how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator’s lived body. Bodies in Pain analyses how Aronofsky’s films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

“This is a groundbreaking book…that represents a sophisticated assemblage of ideas to frame and drive the analysis of data gleaned through long-term engagement with each site…Using the well-delineated concepts of travel, assemblage, and translation, [Kingfisher] explains the contradictory ways in which policy discourse is produced and through which traveling ideas ‘touch down’ in varied places and times and are selectively taken up by people in varied systems of social relations and grounded experiences.”  ·  Judith Goode, Temple University

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

“Schachter has produced a powerful and moving account of Native Hawaiian elders who have now passed physically but continue to live on in spirit in the prose that she has assembled from the writings gifted to her.  This work represents the best that anthropology has to offer Indigenous peoples seeking to remain Native in a decidedly anti-Native world—a document that gives voice to the truths they know and which connects generations in a lineage of discourse.”  ·  Ty Tengan, University of Hawaii

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Museum Studies

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Subject: Colonial History

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Urban Studies Sociology