Spring 2012 - University of California Press

eligion / anthropology
David Morgan
The Embodied Eye
Religious Visual Culture and the
Social Life of Feeling
This groundbreaking overview of religion
as visual culture relates ways of seeing to
touching, hearing, feeling, dreams, imagination,
and visions, demonstrating that
vision is not something that occurs in
abstraction, but is a fundamental way of
embodying the human self.
David Morgan is Professor of Religion at Duke
University.
FEBRUARY
288 pages, 6 x 9”, 50 b/w photographs
Religion/Christianity/Art History
World
cloth 978-0-520-27222-4 $70.00tx/£48.95
paper 978-0-520-27223-1 $29.95tx/£19.95
James B. Waldram
Hound Pound Narrative
Sexual Offender Habilitation and
the Anthropology of Therapeutic
Intervention
This is a detailed ethnographic study of a
therapeutic prison unit in Canada for the
treatment of sexual offenders. Waldram
argues that the aggressive and confrontational
nature of the prison’s treatment
approach is counterproductive to the goal
of what he calls “habilitation”—the creation
of pro-social and moral individuals
rendered safe for our communities.
James B. Waldram is Professor of Anthropology
at the University of Saskatchewan.
MAY
280 pages, 6 x 9”
Anthropology/Social Problems
World
cloth 978-0-520-27255-2 $65.00tx/£44.95
paper 978-0-520-27256-9 $29.95tx/£19.95
David Chidester
Wild Religion
Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent
South African history, from the advent of
democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the
World Cup in 2010. David Chidester uncovers
surprising dynamics of sacred space,
violence, fundamentalism, heritage, media,
sex, and the political economy of the sacred.
David Chidester is the author of Authentic Fakes:
Religion and American Popular Culture (UC Press).
APRIL
279 pages, 6 x 9”
Comparative Religion
World
cloth 978-0-520-27307-8 $65.00tx/£44.95
paper 978-0-520-27308-5 $26.95tx/£18.95
Matthew S. Hull
Government of Paper
The Materiality of Bureaucracy in
Urban Pakistan
In the planned city of Islamabad, order and
disorder are produced through the ceaseless
inscription and circulation of millions of
paper artifacts among bureaucrats, politicians,
property owners, villagers, imams
(prayer leaders), businessmen, and builders.
Matthew S. Hull explains why writing practices
designed during the colonial era to
isolate the government from society have
become a means of participation in it.
Matthew S. Hull is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
MAY
304 pages, 6 x 9”, 24 b/w photographs,
6 line illustrations, 1 map, 1 table
Anthropolgy/Middle Eastern Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-27214-9 $65.00tx/£44.95
paper 978-0-520-27215-6 $26.95tx/£18.95
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