Spring 2012 - University of California Press

anthropology
Michael Lempert
Discipline and Debate
The Language of Violence in a
Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
In the first in-depth account of disciplinary
practices at a Tibetan monastery in India,
Michael Lempert shows how monasteries
use harsh methods to make monks of men,
and how this tradition is changing as modernist
reformers—like the Dalai Lama—
adopt liberal and democratic ideals, such as
natural rights and individual autonomy.
Michael Lempert is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
FEBRUARY
267 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 line drawings, 1 map,
3 charts, 3 tables
Anthropology/Buddhism/Asian Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-26946-0 $65.00tx/£44.95
paper 978-0-520-26947-7 $26.95tx/£18.95
Sherine Hamdy
Our Bodies Belong
to God
Organ Transplants, Islam, and the
Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt
This book analyzes the national debate over
organ transplantation in Egypt as it has
unfolded during a time of major social and
political transformation.
Sherine Hamdy is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at Brown University.
FEBRUARY
344 pages, 6 x 9", 20 b/w photographs
Anthropology/Middle Eastern Studies/Religion
World
cloth 978-0-520-27175-3 $65.00tx/£44.95
paper 978-0-520-27176-0 $27.95tx/£19.95
Michael Jackson
Between One and
One Another
Through portraits of individuals encountered
in his life, in the course of his travels,
and in fieldwork pursued in Sierra Leone
and Australia, Michael Jackson extends his
path-breaking work in existential anthropology
by focusing on the interplay
between two modes of human existence:
that of participating in other peoples’ lives
and that of turning inward to one’s self.
Michael Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor
of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School.
AVAILABLE
232 pages, 6 x 9"
Anthropology of Religion/Global Anthropology
World
cloth 978-0-520-27233-0 $65.00tx/£44.95
paper 978-0-520-27235-4 $26.95tx/£18.95
Daniel Miller and
Sophie Woodward
Blue Jeans
The Art of the Ordinary
Based on fieldwork in a highly diverse
North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller
and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday
item—blue jeans—to learn what one
article of clothing can tell us about our
individual and social lives.
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at
University College, London. Sophie Woodward
is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of
Manchester.
FEBRUARY
168 pages, 6 x 9", 2 tables
Global Anthropology/Consumerism
World
cloth 978-0-520-27218-7 $60.00tx/£41.95
paper 978-0-520-27219-4 $24.95tx/£16.95
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