New Books Network

Gregory Forth, “A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019)

Gregory Forth
A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path
Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society
McGill-Queens University Press, 2019

Animal Studies NBN Special Series New Books in Anthropology New Books in Language New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network October 23, 2020 Akash Ondaatje

Gregory Forth, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has studied the Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores for more than three decades. In A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an... Read More

Thomas S. Mullaney, “The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China” (Stanford UP, 2019)

Thomas S. Mullaney
The Chinese Deathscape
Grave Reform in Modern China
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Chinese Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network New Work in Digital Humanities October 23, 2020 Luca Scholz

In the past decade alone, more than ten million corpses have been exhumed and reburied across the Chinese landscape. The campaign has transformed China’s graveyards into sites of acute personal, social, political, and economic contestation. In The Chinese Deathscape. Grave Reform in Modern China, three historians of China, Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke,... Read More

Minjeong Kim, “Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and ‘Multiculturalism’ in Rural South Korea” (U Hawai’i Press, 2018)

Minjeong Kim
Elusive Belonging
Marriage Immigrants and 'Multiculturalism' in Rural South Korea
University of Hawaii Press, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Korean Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network October 23, 2020 Da In Choi

Studies on marriage migration often portray marriage migrants as victims of globalization and patriarchy. Although there are intersecting oppressions among female migrant workers, the tendency to conflate marriage migration with sex trafficking among humanitarian organizations and scholars lead to erasure of divergent experiences. In her book, Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants... Read More

William Germano, “Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books” (U Chicago Press, 2016)

William Germano
Getting it Published
A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (3rd Edition)
University of Chicago Press, 2020

NBN Book of the Day NBN Special Series New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network Scholarly Communications October 23, 2020 Daniel Shea

When I put down Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press, 2016), I looked up and began to wonder. I wondered about the book on gnomic poetry in Medieval Greek I had read over the weekend. I wondered about the... Read More

Sara Luna, “Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border” (U Texas Press, 2020)

Sara Luna
Love in the Drug War
Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
University of Texas Press, 2020

Mobilities and Methods NBN Special Series New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 23, 2020 Alize Arıcan

Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 2008 and 2009, a time of intense drug violence, Sarah Luna met and built relationships with two kinds of migrants, women who... Read More

Margrit Pernau, “Emotions and Colonial Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Margrit Pernau
Emotions and Colonial Modernity in Colonial India
From Balance to Fervor
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in British Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network October 23, 2020 SherAli Tareen

In her stunning and conceptually adventurous new book Emotions and Colonial Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor (Oxford University Press, 2020), Margrit Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought. By considering a wide array of... Read More

Anthony L. Gardner
Stars with Stripes
The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in World Affairs New Books Network October 23, 2020 Tim Gwynn Jones

If the US is – in the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – the “indispensible nation” then the economic, democratic and institutional alliance between the US and the EU is the “essential partnership”. So argues Tony Gardner, Barack Obama’s ambassador to the EU and advisor to Joe... Read More

Lisa B. Thompson, “Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues: Three Plays” (Northwestern UP, 2020)

Lisa B. Thompson
Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues
Three Plays
Northwestern University Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts October 23, 2020 Andy Boyd

Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright. Her latest book Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues: Three Plays (Northwestern University Press 2020) collects plays from throughout her two decades as a playwright. “Underground” is a tense two-hander exploring themes of... Read More

Kristin Plys, “Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India” (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Kristin Plys
Brewing Resistance
Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network October 23, 2020 Sneha Annavarapu

In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India’s peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized. Various groups fought for the social justice but in response, Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi suspended the constitution, and with it, civil liberties. The... Read More

Ellen Wayland-Smith, “The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America” (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Ellen Wayland-Smith
The Angel in the Marketplace
Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America
University of Chicago Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Biography New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 23, 2020 Lilian Calles Barger

Ellen Wayland-Smith is an associate professor of writing at University of Southern California. Her book The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America (University of Chicago Press, 2020) follows the career of adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub who in the mid-twentieth century created the advertising... Read More