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Uncertain Terms

Beacon Press, 1992

"Engaged and insightful, this collection explores the dynamics of gender, class, and race in today's United States. Sophisticated theory, passionate concern, and vivid examples make this a landmark work of social criticism." --Renato Rosaldo
  
  











  



  
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Princeton University Press, 2004

Beautiful, eye-opening, public-minded anthropology
I was surprised to see no review of this book, so I had to write one. It has many interesting facets, but at its core is a vivid and sometimes heart-breaking portrayal of the true face of "globalization" - not the shining abstraction of Thomas Friedman's dreams but a ...
  
  











  



  
Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia
Susan M. Darlington, Amita Baviskar

Duke University Press, 2003

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in ...
  
  











  



  
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Princeton University Press, 1993

Manages to hook together several ethnographic schools.
I found Tsing's book to be very informative about the Meratus culture of Indonesia, as well as very pertinent to the recent battling between the postmodernist and femminist thought schools within ethnographic literature. She manages to use a combination of more ...
  
  











  



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