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"Digital Memory Agents in Canada" explores memory performances and representations with different cultural and spatial relationships to Canada.

New edition of Aihwa Ong's classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.

Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely different.

In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight—she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wron

This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with America

This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural sy

The best-selling author of Why the West Rules—for Now examines the evolution and future of human values.

On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiari

Despite the mass dislocation and repatriation efforts of the last century, the study of return movements still sits on the periphery of anthropology and migration research.

From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Faire fortune, c’est plus qu’une passion, plus qu’un art, une quête permanente de l’inaccessible. Et, toujours, une aventure.

This “fascinating autobiography” from an award-winning Asian-American female author “reads like a novel” (The Washington Post Book World).

“Much will be made—and rightly so—of the eloquent commentary [Lam’s] essays provide on Vietnam and the Vietnamese . . .

Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives.