ANTHROPOLOGY
An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Networks by Deirdre McKay (Indiana University Press; 196 pages; $85 hardcover, $30 paperback). An ethnographic study of Filipino caregivers working in London, both legally and illegally; topics include their social networks online.
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait by Attiya Ahmad (Duke University Press; 270 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). A study of South Asian domestic workers’ adaptation of Muslim practices and precepts and their reworking rather than rejection of their previous identities.
Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler and others (Intellect Books; 255 pages; $28.50). Writings by anthropologists and historians on the Uzuakoli Leprosy Center in 1930s Nigeria and four other medical field sites in 20th-century Africa---at Ayos, Cameroon; Niakhar, Senegal; Kisumu, Kenya; and Amani, Tanzania.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Hiri: Archaeology of Long-Distance Maritime Trade along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea by Robert John Skelly and Bruno David (University of Hawai’i Press; 608 pages; $85). Draws on archaeological research in recipient villages in a study of maritime trade in ceramics and other goods.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968 by James Voorhies (MIT Press; 275 pages; $34.95). Discusses artists, curators, institutions, and artworks that have figured in efforts to make spectatorship more engaging and participatory; topics include relational art and the New Institutionalism.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry by Charles H. Stocking (Cambridge University Press; 208 pages; $99.99). Describes a dual nature of sacrifice in terms of a “poltiics of the belly,” in which the belly signifies both male stomach and female womb; combines analysis of material culture with discussion of such texts as the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey.
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece: Manipulating Material Culture edited by Lisa C. Nevett (University of Michigan Press; 368 pages; $85). Covers Greece and Greek settlements elsewhere during the first millennium BC.
COMMUNICATION
Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival edited by Phil Rose (Intellect Books; 244 pages; $100). Multidisciplinary writings on technopoly, as coined by Neil Postman to refer to the surrender of culture to technology; topics include Internet addiction, self-tracking technologies, and confronting technopoly with education.
Taking Up McLuhan’s Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality edited by Corey Anton, Robert K. Logan, and Lance Strate (Intellect Books; 287 pages; $100). Writings that examine or apply Marshall McLuhan’s notion of the role formal cause plays in the emergence of new technologies.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The New Criminal Justice Thinking edited by Sharon Dolovich and Alexandra Natapoff (New York University Press; 346 pages; $45). Writings by scholars in law, sociology, criminology, Critical Race Theory, and organizational theory on the “criminal regulatory state,” prisoners’ rights, constitutional criminal law, and related issues.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Governing Complex Systems: Social Capital for the Anthropocene by Oran R. Young (MIT Press; 296 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Topics include goal setting as a governance strategy.
FILM STUDIES
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy by Vicki Mayer (University of California Press; 147 pages; $34.95). Discusses New Orleans and Louisiana as a site for filmmaking in the silent era, and for film and television production today; pays particular attention to Treme.
Essays on the Essay Film edited by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan (Columbia University Press; 372 pages; $105 hardcover, $35 paperback). Combines foundational and previously published essays with new and previously untranslated writings.
My Life as a Filmmaker by Yamamoto Satsuo, translated by Chia-ning Chang (University of Michigan Press; 294 pages; $75 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Annotated translation of the posthumously published autobiography by the Japanese director (1910-83).
GAME STUDIES
Queer Game Studies edited by Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw (University of Minnesota Press; 295 pages; $108 hardcover, $27 paperback). Combines essays on LGBT aspects of games with writings that apply queer theory to destabilize how scholars and designers understand the medium; topics include board games to engage people in social-justice issues, what games can learn from “kink,” and finding the queerness in games.
HISTORY
The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity by James G. Mansell (University of Illinois Press; 246 pages; $95 hardcover, $30 paperback). Explores noise as an expression of modernity in early 20th century Britain, and the anxiety, anger, hope, and other responses it elicited.
Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South by Leonard Rogoff (University of North Carolina Press; 368 pages; $35). A biography of the North Carolina-born reformer (1879-1971) who pursued a long life of activism while never marrying and living almost her entire life in the house where she was born.
The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico by Lisa Sousa (Stanford University Press; 404 pages; $65). Focuses on the Nahua, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Mixe in a comparative study of the roles and status of women in prehispanic and colonial Mesoamerica.
A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule by Jonathan Schlesinger (Stanford University Press; 272 pages; $65). Uses Manchu and Mongolian sources in a study challenging previous accounts of Chinese environmental history under the Qing; documents Qing court responses to the depletion of such resources as fur, mushrooms, and river-mussel pearls in China’s borderlands.
LAW
The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law by Nathan B. Oman (University of Chicago Press; 299 pages; $50). Discusses the moral status and desirability of markets as central to the justification for contract law.
Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age by Nelson Tebbe (Harvard University Press; 266 pages; $39.95). Uses a concept of “social coherence” to develop a way of evaluating when and how exemptions will be granted on grounds of religious freedom in cases involving, for example, women’s reproductive and LGBT rights.
Transatlantic Defence Procurement: EU and US Defence Procurement Regulation in the Transatlantic Defence Market by Luke R.A. Butler (Cambridge University Press; 468 pages; $125). Offers a legal perspective on defense procurement that examines regulatory hinderances to U.S.-European Union trade.
LINGUISTICS
Complexity in Language: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene, Christoph Coupe, and Francois Pellegrino (Cambridge University Press; $110). Topics include a complexity-science perspective on language choice in a multilingual society.
Following Searle on Twitter: How Words Create Digital Institutions by Adam Hodgkin (University of Chicago Press; 198 pages; $40). Uses John Searle’s theory of speech acts as “status function declarations” to examine Twitter’s institutional structure and its toolkit for members.
LITERATURE
East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison by Yoshinobu Hakutani (University of Missouri Press; 322 pages; $80). Examines East-West exchange in relation to American Transcendentalism, modernism, and African-American postmodernism; topics include how Japanese poetics through Yone Noguchi influenced Ezra Pound.
Faulkner and History edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas Jr. (University Press of Mississippi; 264 pages; $65). Writings by historians and literary scholars on such topics as the writer’s engagement with historical figures, and the meanings of his fiction for such historians as C. Vann Woodward and Albert Bushnell Hart.
Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 by Michel Leiris, translated by Lydia Davis (Yale University Press; 234 pages; $30). First English translation of Fibrilles, the third book of a four-book autobiography written over a period of 35 years by the French author (1901-90), which he titled collectively La Regle du Jeu.
The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages by Mary Dzon (University of Pennsylvania Press; 408 pages; $65). Examines medieval interest in Christ’s childhood, a topic little discussed in the Gospels, but flourishing in apocryphal legend; considers how such legends were received in popular and elite discourse, with particular attention to writings by Aelred of Rievaulx, Birgitta of Sweden, and Thomas Aquinas.
Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age edited by Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett (University of Michigan Press; 293 pages; $60). Interdisciplinary essays that draw on literary and other realms to discuss fringe science and unconventional methods of inquiry during the period; topics include mesmerism and sympathetic identification in Charles Adams’s Notting Hill Mystery.
Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet by Paul S. Atkins (University of Hawai’i Press; 280 pages; $68). A study of Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241), who championed innovations in the 31-syllable waka tradition; topics include his quite varied reception from his era through the modern period.
William Faulkner: A Life Through Novels by Andre Bleikasten, translated by Miriam Watchorn with Roger Little (Indiana University Press; 511 pages; $50). Translation of the late French Faulknerian scholar’s 2007 study, interweaving the American author’s life and his literary concerns.
MUSIC
China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception edited by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle (University of Michigan Press; 344 pages; $85). Writings on the encounter of Western and Chinese music.
The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word by Marian Wilson Kimber (University of Illinois Press; 352 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). Discusses a form of performance that emerged in the 1850s, was dominated by female performers, and involved the recitation of poetry or drama accompanied by music.
The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff (University Press of Mississippi; 420 pages; $85). Completes a trilogy on African-American popular music; figures discussed include Butler “String Beans” May, Ora Criswell, and Trixie Smith.
PHILOSOPHY
Hegel on the Proofs and Personhood of God: Studies in Hegel’s Logic and Philosophy of Religion by Robert R. Williams (Oxford University Press; 319 pages; $95). Discusses Hegel’s critique of Kant and renewal of ontotheology in the form of philosophical trinitarianism; other topics include the philosopher’s concept of personhood and his theological trinitarianism.
Kierkegaard’s Theology of Encounter: An Edifying and Polemical Life by David Lappano (Oxford University Press; 264 pages; $95). Focuses on writings from the Danish thinker’s middle period, 1846-52.
Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion by Heinrich Meier, translated by Robert Berman (University of Chicago Press; 200 pages; $40). Translation of a 2013 German book that explores tensions between philosophy and religion from the perspective of Rousseau’s Social Contract and Leo Strauss’s Some Thoughts on Machiavelli.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
China’s Governance Puzzle: Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State by Jonathan R. Stromseth, Edmund J. Malesky, and Dimitar D. Gueorguiev (Cambridge University Press; 343 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Combines quantitative and qualitative perspectives in a comparative study of governance reforms across provinces.
Europe’s Eastern Crisis: The Geopolitics of Asymmetry by Richard Youngs (Cambridge University Press; 262 pages; $84.99 hardcover, $28.99 paperback). Focuses on European Union policy toward countries on its Eastern borders, with a focus on impact of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the crisis in Ukraine.
Far-Right Politics in Europe by Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg, translated by Jane Marie Todd (Harvard University Press; 310 pages; $29.95). Translation of a 2015 French study of far-right politics across Europe, including populist, Catholic nationalist, and other strains.
Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico by Veronica Herrera (University of Michigan Press; 200 pages; $75). Discusses the clientelistic manipulation of water provision, using the resource to reward friends and punish enemies; includes a comparative study of eight Mexican cities: Leon and Irapuato; Naucalpan and Celaya; Toluca and Xalapa; and Neza and Veracruz.
Weapon of Choice: Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation by Matthew Ford (Oxford University Press; 248 pages; $39.95). Examines the forces that shape innovations in military technology and procurement; draws on archives in Britain, Canada, and the United States.
Why Democracy Deepens: Political Information and Decentralization in India by Anoop Sadanandan (Cambridge University Press; 202 pages; $99.99). Draws on fieldwork in villages in the bordering states of Bihar and West Bengal in a study of factors that have promoted grassroots democracy in one setting over the other since the 1992 constitutional amendment in India that decentralized governance.
POPULAR CULTURE
Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era by Drew Morton (University Press of Mississippi; 208 pages; $65). Traces the reciprocal influence of the visual styles of film and comic books.
PSYCHOLOGY
Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System edited by Corinne C. Datchi and Julie R. Ancis (New York University Press; 319 pages; $99 hardcover, $35 paperback). Research on how race, gender, class, and other factors affect the experience of women and girls in the criminal justice systems; topics include victims of domestic abuse and sex trafficking, juvenile and adult prisoners, undocumented women in immigration detention facilities, and transwomen.
RELIGION
Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan by G. Clinton Godart (University of Hawai’i Press; 336 pages; $68). Examines the history of evolutionary theory in Japan beginning in the early Meiji period.
Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus by Boyd Taylor Coolman (Oxford University Press; 270 pages; $95). A study of the medieval theologian (d. 1246), who spent much of his life as an abbot and teacher in the northern Italian town of Vercelli; explores what is termed his anthropological appropriation of the concept of hierarchy of Dionysius the Areopagite.
Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud by Barry W. Holtz (Yale University Press; 223 pages; $25). Traces the life of the ancient rabbi, who played a key role in what is known as rabbinic Judaism and was executed by Roman authorities.
The “Uttaratantra” in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Centrality of the Buddha-Nature Treatise by Tsering Wangchuk (State University of New York Press; 208 pages; $80). A study of Tibetan commentaries and exegeses on the Indian Buddhist treatise, written between the 11th and the 15th centuries.
Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryop by Jin Y. Park (University of Hawai’i Press; 296 pages; $65). Examines the life and teachings of Kim Iryop (1896-1971), a Korean Christian who embraced Buddhism and feminism as a young woman, becoming a Zen Buddhist nun and a leading figure in her monastic community.
SOCIOLOGY
Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994 by Andy Clarno (University of Chicago Press; 287 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Discusses settler colonialism and “racial capitalism” in a comparative study of marginalization and securitization in the Johannesburg and Jerusalem metropolitan regions.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Butterfly Politics by Catharine A. MacKinnon (Harvard University Press; 490 pages; $29.95). Published and previously unpublished writings on gender inequality, sexual harassment, pornography, rape, engaged scholarship, and other topics by the legal scholar and feminist activist.
Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminism and Postracialism in United States Culture by Tanya Ann Kennedy (State University of New York Press; 251 pages; $85). Topics include Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel The Help and the hit TV series Mad Men as texts that incorporate the civil rights movement and the women’s movements into a narrative of triumphalism that suppresses claims of injustice today.
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