Edited by Charles Stewart (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) Social scientists have used the term "Creolization" to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new cultures across the globe. However, the term has been under-theorized and tends to be used as a simple synonym for "mixture" or "hybridity." In this volume, by contrast, renowned scholars give the … Continued
By James L. Peacock (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region legendarily resistant to change. The U.S. South, long defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving out of this national and oppositional frame of reference into one that … Continued
Edited by Richard H. Grove (NHC Fellow, 1995–96), Vinita Damodaran, and Satpal Sangwan Discussing diverse aspects of the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, from a variety of perspectives, it brings together leading experts from the fields of history, history of science, archaeology, geography and environmental studies, and covers a time span from 50,000 … Continued
Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and Carolyn F. Sargent Small Wars gathers together a hard-hitting series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures. Perceived as avenging spirits of … Continued
By William M. Reddy (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) In The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions, William M. Reddy offers a theory of emotions which both critiques and expands upon recent research in the fields of anthropology and psychology. Exploring the links between emotion and cognition, between culture and emotional expression, Reddy … Continued
By Ákos Östör (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) Akos Ostor′s work is an interpretive study of cultural forms and meaning in the social relations of everyday life in Vishnupur, India. Culture and Power considers basic issues of anthropology, problems in the study of social categories and concepts and the social reality, the impact of the West on … Continued
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti’s hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the leaders and their supporters. Yet the crisis, economic and political, … Continued
By Sherry B. Ortner (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention homeward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to her Newark roots … Continued
By Luise White (NHC Fellow, 1993–94; 2016–17) During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so … Continued
Edited by Bruce Kapferer (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology – a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism – is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no … Continued