ANTHROPOLOGY
Exchanging Words: Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park by Christopher Ball (SAR Press/University of New Mexico Press; 256 pages; $49.95). Focuses on the Wauja people and their interplay with spirits, ancestors, other indigenous groups in trade, the Brazilian government, and others.
More Than Words: Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali by Richard Fox (Cornell University Press; 264 pages; $95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Explores Balinese ritual practices of “apotropaic” writing---including inscriptions on palm leaves, amulets, and bodies---and linked beliefs about the life and volition of such inscriptions.
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border by Ieva Jusionyte (University of California Press; 285 pages; $85 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of the border-crossing work of firefighters and paramedics in Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.
Through Their Eyes: A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central by Michael Koskey, Varpu Lotvonen, and Laurel Tyrell (University of Alaska Press; 195 pages; $19.95). Combines oral-historical and archival sources in histories of three central-eastern Alaskan communities.
ARCHAEOLOGY
An Archaeology of Structural Violence: Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal Town by Michael P. Roller (University Press of Florida; 235 pages; $80). Combines archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and Marxist perspectives in a study of northeastern Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region, with a focus on Lattimer, site of the killing of 19 immigrant minerworkers, on strike, in 1897.
Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica: Archaeology as Historical Anthropology edited by Rani T. Alexander and Susan Kepecs (University of New Mexico Press; 433 pages; $85). Case studies include indigenous communities, colonization, and interethnic interaction in Tehuantepec (in Oaxaca, Mexico) since 1450.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Andy Warhol, Publisher by Lucy Mulroney (University of Chicago Press; 176 pages; $45). Draws on previously untapped archival sources in six case studies of the artist and filmmaker’s collaborative practice as a publisher in different genres.
Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty (Cornell University Press; 336 pages; $49.95). A cultural history of links between art and politics in Japan from 1945 to 1960; groups discussed include “reportage” painters; the Society for Creative Aesthetic Education, known as Sobi; and the regional avant-garde group Kyushu-ha.
The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905--1930 by Iva Glisic (Northern Illinois University Press; 220 pages; $39). Documents the practical politics of the avant-garde movement.
A Knight for the Ages: Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry edited by Elizabeth Morrison (Getty Research Institute; 180 pages; $55). Combines essays and reproductions in a study of a 16th-century Flemish illuminated manuscript recounting the adventures of a 15th-century knight.
Taking African Cartoons Seriously: Politics, Satire, and Culture edited by Peter Limb and Tejumola Olaniyan (Michigan State University Press; 308 pages; $49.95). Includes essays on political cartooning in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography by Nandini B. Pandey (Cambridge University Press; 302 pages; $105). Considers how Virgil, Ovid, and other poets understood, debated, and contested Rome’s evolving political iconography, including that of the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum.
CRIMINOLOGY
Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime by Jonathan Lusthaus (Harvard University Press; 304 pages; $39.95). Draws on more than 200 interviews with cybercriminals around the world, including in Russia, Ukraine, Nigeria, China, Romania, and Brazil.
ECONOMICS
The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia by Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Cornell University Press; 210 pages; $49.95). Bridges concepts of bounded and traditional rationality in a study contrasting how policymakers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore have adapted models of venture capitalism from Silicon Valley.
GENDER STUDIES
Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-Peterson (University of Minnesota Press; 288 pages; $100 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on clinical archives, including letters from children to their physicians, in a study of transgender children’s experiences since 1900, before the term “transgender” was in use.
Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in Cote d’Ivoire by Christine Cynn (Ohio State University Press; 258 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines the gender and neoliberal politics shaping the language of HIV prevention campaigns in the West African country.
HISTORY
Arkansas’s Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest by Matthew Hild (University of Missouri Press; 206 pages; $40). A study of farmer and labor protest movements in the state during the late 19th century.
Between Persecution and Participation: Biography of a Bookkeeper at J. A. Topf & Sohne by Annegret Schule and Tobias Sowade, translated by Penny Milbouer (Syracuse University Press; 160 pages; $60 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Traces the life of Willy Wiemokli, the son of a baptized Jewish father and a Protestant mother who was declared a “half-Jew” under Nazi racial laws, was briefly at Buchenwald, but went on to work for the manufacturer of the ovens used in the concentration camps.
Deep in the Piney Woods: Southeastern Alabama From Statehood to the Civil War, 1800--1865 by Tommy Craig Brown (University of Alabama Press; 245 pages; $39.95). Challenges, among other things, the notion that whites in the sparsely populated region showed little interest in supporting secession and the Confederacy.
The Experts’ War on Poverty: Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America by Romain D. Huret, translated by John Angell (Cornell University Press; 246 pages; $49.95). Translation of a French study of social scientists involved in anti-poverty research and policy from the New Deal through the late 1960s.
Fight Like a Tiger: Conway Barbour and the Challenges of the Black Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America by Victoria L. Harrison (Southern Illinois University Press; 169 pages; $27.50). Uses the life of an ambitious former slave, born around 1815 in Virginia, to examine the early formation in the free-black community of the black middle class.
Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953--1961 by Cheehyung Harrison Kim (Columbia University Press; 261 pages; $65). Documents workers’ everyday acts of resistance and accommodation in the context of North Korea’s push for accelerated industrialization after the war.
How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories by Alex Rosenberg (MIT Press; 296 pages; $27.95). Argues that the human love of narrative, hard-wired from our evolution, distorts our understanding of history.
The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist by Ben Wynne (Louisiana State University Press; 336 pages; $47.50). Traces the life of the Virginia-born politician, who as a fiery pro-Union U.S. Senator from Mississippi dueled with opponents and engaged in a fistfight with the later president of the Confederacy.
Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial: The Yildiz Case by Avi Rubin (Syracuse University Press; 264 pages; $60 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses the 1881 trial of the former Grand Vizier Ahmed Midhat Pasa and other defendants accused of murdering the recently dethroned Sultan Abdulaziz in 1876; uses the trial and its representation in public discourse and historiography to document the emergence of a new culture of legalism in Ottoman society.
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America by Kirsten Fermaglich (New York University Press; 256 pages; $28). Draws on court documents, oral histories, literature, and other sources in a study of name-changing’s impact on American Jewish culture.
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism by Paul Hanebrink (Harvard University Press; 353 pages; $29.95). Traces the evolution, history, and persistence of the notion of Communism as a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe; finds parallels in the depictions today of a Muslim threat.
The Winter Palace and the People: Staging and Consuming Russia’s Monarchy, 1754--1917 by Susan P. McCaffray (Northern Illinois University Press; 288 pages; $39). Topics include the St. Petersburg palace and its grounds as a stage for the projection of imperial power.
LAW
How to Save a Constitutional Democracy by Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq (University of Chicago Press; 320 pages; $35). Examines “democratic backsliding” in the United States and other countries; topics include how elements of U.S. constitutional design can actually hasten such tendencies.
Many Nations under Many Gods: Public Land Management and American Indian Sacred Sites by Todd Allin Morman (University of Oklahoma Press; 272 pages; $39.95). Offers case studies of the Hopi, the Washoe, and others engaging in “consultation,” a process mandated by legislation when a federal agency’s proposed action will affect land of significance to indigenous peoples.
Pursuing Justice in Africa: Competing Imaginaries and Contested Practices edited by Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane (Ohio University Press; 332 pages; $75). Topics include such issues as post-conflict reconciliation, gender justice, and land restitution.
LITERATURE
After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet by Julie Dobrow (W.W. Norton & Company; 384 pages; $27.95). Focuses on the mother and daughter---Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham---whose work enabled Dickinson’s initial posthumous publication.
American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen by Gavin Cologne-Brookes (Louisiana State University Press; 256 pages; $45). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of Springsteen’s writing, music, and performances, including his work as seen through the lens of American pragmatist philosophy.
Iron Curtain Journals: January--May 1965 by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Michael Schumacher (University of Minnesota Press; 400 pages; $29.95). Edition of the poet’s previously unpublished journals of his travels in Cuba, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union.
Rufus: James Agee in Tennessee by Paul F, Brown (University of Tennessee Press; 422 pages; $34.95). Focuses on the writer’s boyhood in Tennessee, where his family called him by his middle name, Rufus.
Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature by Mandy Suhr-Sytsma (Michigan State University Press; 202 pages; $29.95). Explores the reversal of YA conventions in works by Sherman Alexie, Jeannette Armstrong, Joseph Bruchac, Drew Hayden Taylor, Susan Power, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel.
William S. Burroughs’ “The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution edited by Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett (Ohio State University Press; 144 pages; $17.95). First complete publication of Burroughs’s satire, drawn primarily from a tape-recorded performance by the writer in 1970.
PHILOSOPHY
For the Love of Metaphysics: Nihilism and the Conflict of Reason from Kant to Rosenzweig by Karin Nisenbaum (Oxford University Press; 296 pages; $85). Traces the shifting fortunes of post-Kantian German idealism, with a focus on F. H. Jacobi, Salomon Maimon, J.G. Fichte, F.W.J. Schelling, and Franz Rosenzweig.
Perilous Futures: On Carl Schmitt’s Late Writings by Peter Uwe Hohendahl (Cornell University Press; 222 pages; $45). Focuses on writings published by the controversial German thinker after World War II, including The Nomos of the Earth, Theory of the Partisan and Political Theology II---as well as his posthumously published diaries.
Philosophy as Agon: A Study of Plato’s Gorgias and Related Texts by Robert Metcalf (Northwestern University Press; 248 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Discusses the dialogues as dramatic texts centered on the dynamic engagement of adversaries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective by Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink (University of Pennsylvania Press; 272 pages; $49.95). Examines the interplay of gender, race, and inequality in welfare-reform policies and explores feminist alternatives.
Good Governance Gone Bad: How Nordic Adaptability Leads to Excess by Darius Ornston (Cornell University Press; 276 pages; $95 hardcover, $31.95 paperback). Focuses on Sweden, Finland, and Iceland in an analysis of governance in Nordic Europe and the region’s countries’ vulnerability to economic crisis.
Politics Under the Influence: Vodka and Public Policy in Putin’s Russia by Anna L. Bailey (Cornell University Press; 264 pages; $95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Documents how the vodka-industry lobby used a government anti-alcoholism campaign as a front to reduce the competitiveness of its chief rival---the multinational beer industry.
POPULAR CULTURE
Sherlock’s World: Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of BBC’s Sherlock by Ann K. McClellan (University of Iowa Press; 286 pages; $40). Offers a literary perspective on the British series and the fan fiction created by its admirers.
RELIGION
Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World by Khairudin Aljunied (Southeast Asia Program/Cornell University Press; 162 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Examines the thought of the Muslim reformer, scholar, cleric, and public intellectual Haji Abdul Malik bin Abdul Karim Amrullah (1908-81), who was commonly known by the acronym Hamka.
“Jesus Saved an Ex-Con": Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration by Edward Orozco (New York University Press; 224 pages; $30). A study of Community Renewal Society, in Chicago, and LA Voice, two faith-based organizations working to expand the rights of people with criminal records.
When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen (Yale University Press; 272 pages; $27.50). Reconstructs life in the earliest Jerusalem community of Jesus’ followers, including divisions that fractured the movement.
RHETORIC
Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age by Calum Lister Matheson (University of Alabama Press; 172 pages; $49.95). Draws on Kenneth Burke, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, and other theorists in a rhetorical and psychoanalytic study of the cultural fascination with the prospects of nuclear annihilation and post-bomb rebirth.
The Discourse of Propaganda: Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror by John Oddo (Penn State University Press; 288 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Offers an intertextual perspective on propaganda as a process, including its creation, performance, repetition, and spread.
Precarious Rhetorics edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Adela C. Licona, and Christa Teston (Ohio State University Press; 312 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Interdisciplinary writings that apply precarity theory to topics in rhetoric, including the rhetorical framing of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants.
SOCIOLOGY
Against Creativity by Oli Mould (Verso; 256 pages; $24.95). A critique of how capitalism, in concert with neoliberalism, has co-opted and redefined creativity; offers an alternative perspective grounded in “collective flourishing.”
The Neoliberal Diet: Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People by Gerardo Otero (University of Texas Press; 288 pages; $95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Examines links between agricultural policy and the obesity epidemic, with a focus on the NAFTA region.
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