Introduction. Taking People Seriously
Jeremy MacClancy
1. Coming of Age in the Concrete Killing Fields of the US Inner City
Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos, and Fernando Montero
2. Religion: It’s Not What It Used to Be
Susan Harding
3. Gender and Sexuality
Sally Engle Merry
4. Unraveling “Race” for the Twenty-First Century
Faye V. Harrison
5. Imagined but Not Imaginary: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Early Twenty-First Century
Richard Jenkins
6. Socialism: Ethics, Ideologies, and Outcomes
Chris Hann
7. Economy
James G. Carrier
8. Anthropology, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism
Roberto J. González
9. The Anthropological Borderlands of Global Migration
Ruben Andersson
10. Anthropology and Development
Katy Gardner
11. Environment and Anthropology: Socio-natures in a Politicized Anthropocene
James Fairhead and Melissa Leach
12. Toxic Life in the Anthropocene
Margaret Lock
13. Anthropologies of the Sciences: Thinking across Strata
Mike Fortun and Kim Fortun
14. Every Era Gets the Internet It Deserves (or, the Phases of Hacking)
Christopher Kelty
15. The Practice of Human Rights
Catherine Buerger and Richard Ashby Wilson
16. Anthropology and the Right to Self-Determination of Forest Peoples
Marcus Colchester and Tom Griffiths
17. Anthropology/Media
Faye Ginsburg
18. Reading Time: An Anthropology of Clocks in the History of Photography
Christopher B. Steiner
19. Critical Anthropologies and the Resurgence of Culture Museums: Alternative Histories
Anthony Alan Shelton
20. Paradise Postponed: The Predicaments of Tourism
Jeremy MacClancy
21. Resounding Power: Politicizing the Anthropology of Music
Matt Sakakeeny
List of Contributors
Index