Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca
Poultry Production in the Tropics
Compendium of the Economically Important Seashells in Panay, Philippines
Agency in Ancient Writing
The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border
A Future for Amazonia
Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics
Standing Up with G̲a'ax̱sta'las
Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
A stirring portrait of a controversial Kwakwaka’wakw leader and the efforts of her descendants to reconcile a difficult history in the hopes of forging a positive cultural identity for future generations.
Killing with Kindness
Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs
Set in Haiti following the 2004 coup and enhanced by research carried out after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their relationships with local communities. It offers rich ethnographic comparisons of two Haitian women’s NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention and examines participation and autonomy as well as donor policies that inhibit these goals.
Killing with Kindness
Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs
Set in Haiti following the 2004 coup and enhanced by research carried out after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their relationships with local communities. It offers rich ethnographic comparisons of two Haitian women’s NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention and examines participation and autonomy as well as donor policies that inhibit these goals.
Maya Creation Myths
Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam
Maya Creation Myths provides not only new and outstanding translations of these myths but also an interpretive journey through these often misunderstood texts, providing insight into Maya cosmology and how Maya intellectuals met the challenge of the European clergy's attempts to eradicate their worldviews.
Cuba in the Shadow of Change
Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution
Human No More
Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology
The Mermaid and the Lobster Diver
Gender, Sexuality, and Money on the Miskito Coast
Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World
Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru
The Anthropology of Labor Unions
People of the Middle Fraser Canyon
An Archaeological History
The first synthesis of the archaeological and ethnological evidence pertaining to the St’át’imc or Upper Lillooet people of the Mid-Fraser Canyon.
The Shape of Script
How and Why Writing Systems Change
This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors--who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt--utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted.