Faculty Publications

Books and films written, edited, or directed by members of the department

2024 David B. Edwards, Alžběta Kovandová-Bartoničková, directors Another Summer: Afghan and Ukrainian Stories of Exile (documentary film)
2024 Benjamin H. Snyder Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment (University of California Press)
2023 Olga Shevchenko and Oksana Sarkisova In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press)
2023 Joel Lee, K. Satyanarayana, eds. Concealing Caste: Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature (Oxford University Press)
2022 Phi Hong Su The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin (Stanford University Press)
2021 Joel Lee Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism and Underground Religion (Cambridge University Press)
2021 Kim Gutschow, Robbie Davis-Floyd & Betty Anne Daviss Sustainable Birth in Disruptive Times (Springer Nature)
2020 James L. Nolan, Jr. Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (Harvard University Press, Belknap)
2017 David B. Edwards Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan (University of California Press)
2017 Antonia E. Foias and Jeanette Castellanos, co-authors The Earliest Maya Farmers of Peten: New Evidence from Buenavista-Nuevo San Jose, central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala. Journal of Anthropology, vol. 2017. Open Source Journal. (Hindawi Press)
2016 Benjamin H. Snyder The Disrupted Workplace: Time and the Moral Order of Flexible Capitalism (New York: Oxford University Press)
2016 James L. Nolan, Jr. What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb (Cambridge University Press)
2015 Christina Simko The Politics of Consolation: Memory & the Meaning of September 11 (Oxford University Press)
2014 Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham, eds. From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Newfound Press)
2014 Michael F. Brown Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People (Harvard University Press)
2014 Olga Shevchenko, ed. Double Exposure: Memory and Photography (Transaction Publishers)
2013 Antonia E. Foias Ceramics, Production and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region: The Economic Parameters of the Classic Maya Collapse (VIMA Petexbatun Monograph Series, No. 7. Vanderbilt University)
2013 Antonia E. Foias Ancient Maya Political Dynamics (University Press of Florida)
2012 Antonia E. Foias, co-editor Motúl de San José: Politics, History, and Economy in a Classic Maya Polity (University Press of Florida)
2009 Olga Shevchenko Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow (Indiana U Press)
2009 Robert Jackall, ed. With a Critical Eye: An Intellectual and His Times, by Arthur J. Vidich, with introduction by Robert Jackall (Newfound Press)
2009 James L. Nolan, Jr. Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement (Princeton UP)
2007 Robert Jackall, ed. Die Intellektuellen Und Die Moderne Gesellschaft / Hans Speier (Nausner & Nausner)
2006 David B. Edwards Kabul Transit (Akbar Taxiwan Pictures and Bullfrog Films)
2005 Robert Jackall Street Stories: The World of Police Detectives (Harvard UP)
2005 Antonia E. Foias and Sandra L. López Varela, eds. Geographies of Power: Understanding the Nature of Terminal Classic Pottery in the Maya Lowlands (Archaeopress)
2004 Kim Gutschow Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas (Harvard UP)
2003 Michael F. Brown Who Owns Native Culture? (Harvard UP)
2002 James L. Nolan, Jr., ed. Drug Courts in Theory and In Practice (Aldine de Gruyter)
2002 David B. Edwards Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad (U California Press)
2001 James L. Nolan, Jr. Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement (Princeton UP)
2001 Peter Just Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict and Morality in an Indonesian Society (Rowman & Littlefield)
2000 Peter Just and John Monaghan Social & Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP)
2000 Robert Jackall and Janice Hirota Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy (U Chicago Press)
1998 James L. Nolan, Jr. The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century’s End (NYU Press)
1997 Michael F. Brown The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Harvard UP)
1997 Robert Jackall Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders and the Forces of Order (Harvard UP)
1996 James L. Nolan, Jr., ed. The American Culture Wars: Current Contests and Future Prospects (U Press of Virginia)
1996 David B. Edwards Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (U California Press)
1995 Robert Jackall, ed. Propaganda (NYU Press)
1990 Michael F. Brown and Eduardo Fernández War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon (U California Press)
1988 Robert Jackall Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers (Oxford UP)
1986 Michael F. Brown Tsewa’s Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society (Smithsonian Inst. Press)
1984 Michael F. Brown Una Paz Incierta: Las Comunidades Aguarunas Frente al Impacto del la Carretera Marginal (CAAAP, Lima)
1984 Robert Jackall and Henry M. Levin, eds. Worker Cooperatives in America (U California Press)
1978 Robert Jackall Workers in a Labyrinth: Jobs and Survival in a Bank Bureaucracy (Allenheld, Osmun)