American Anthropological Association 2021

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Sex in the Middle East and North Africa

L. L. Wynn, Angel M. Foster

Flexible Families

Nicaraguan Transnational Families in Costa Rica

Caitlin E. Fouratt

Unmasked

COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji

Emily Mendenhall

Resisting Extractivism

Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention

Michael Wilson Becerril

Manifold Destiny

Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule

John Tofik Karam

Delivering Health

Midwifery and Development in Mexico

Lydia Z. Dixon

For the Public Good

Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India

Patricia Antoniello

In Search of Providence

Transnational Mayan Identities, Updated Edition

Patricia Foxen

Higglers in Kingston

Women's Informal Work in Jamaica

Winnifred Brown-Glaude

What the Signs Say

Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn

Shonna Trinch, Edward Snajdr

Sex, Skulls, and Citizens

Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)

Ashley Elizabeth Kerr

Sounds of the Citizens

Dancehall and Community in Jamaica

Anne M. Galvin

Changing Birth in the Andes

Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru

Lucia Guerra-Reyes

Atenco Lives!

Filmmaking and Popular Struggle in Mexico

Livia K. Stone

A Good Position for Birth

Pregnancy, Risk, and Development in Southern Belize

Aminata Maraesa

From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans

Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America

Richard Pace

Transforming Therapy

Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico

Whitney L. Duncan

Lawyering an Uncertain Cause

Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the US

Michele Statz

Beyond Cuban Waters

Africa, La Yuma, and the Island's Global Imagination

Paul Ryer

Wasted Wombs

Navigating Reproductive Interruptions in Cameroon

Erica van der Sijpt

Mistreated

The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho

Nora Kenworthy

Vodun in Coastal Benin

Unfinished, Open-Ended, Global

Dana Rush

Abortion Pills, Test Tube Babies, and Sex Toys

Emerging Sexual and Reproductive Technologies in the Middle East and North Africa

L. L. Wynn, Angel M. Foster

Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty

Women's Agency in a South African HIV Prevention Trial

Eirik Saethre, Jonathan Stadler

Memory Activism

Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine

Yifat Gutman

Battering States

The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel

Madelaine Adelman

Lethal Decisions

The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS

Arthur J. Ammann

The Price of Safety

Hidden Costs and Unintended Consequences for Women in the Domestic Violence Service System

Sara Shoener

Sex, Shame, and Violence

A Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities

Kathleen Cash

Regulating Romance

Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda’s Time of AIDS

Shanti Parikh

Identity and the Second Generation

How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space

Faith G. Nibbs, Caroline B. Brettell

Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA

Development, Politics, and Participation on the US-Mexico Border

Suzanne Simon

Recovery's Edge

An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency

Neely Laurenzo Myers

Practically Invisible

Coastal Ecuador, Tourism, and the Politics of Authenticity

Kimbra Smith

Opting for Elsewhere

Lifestyle Migration in the American Middle Class

Brian A. Hoey

Community and Difference

Change in Late Classic Maya Villages of the Petexbatun Region

Markus Eberl

How Human Rights Can Build Haiti

Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign

Fran Quigley

Not Trying

Infertility, Childlessness, and Ambivalence

Kristin J. Wilson

Dying Unneeded

The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis

Michelle A. Parsons

Becoming the Tupamaros

Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States

Lindsey Churchill

Illness Is a Weapon

Indigenous Identity and Enduring Afflictions

Eirik Saethre

Traumatic States

Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile

Nia Parson

Free Market Tuberculosis

Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia

Erin Koch

Islands of Love, Islands of Risk

Culture and HIV in the Trobriands

Katherine Lepani

Dignity and Health

Nora Jacobson

Transnational Desires

Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York

Suzana Maia

Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe

HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers

David S. Simmons

Everyday Ruptures

Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective

Cati Coe, Rachel R. Reynolds, Deborah A. Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, Heather Rae-Espinoza

Family Secrets

Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique

Rachel R. Chapman

Chasing Polio in Pakistan

Why the World's Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail

Svea Closser

Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions

Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil, Second Edition

Richard G. Parker

Healing Invisible Wounds

Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World

Richard F. Mollica

Culture Keeping

White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference

Heather Jacobson

At Work in the Field of Birth

Midwifery Narratives of Nature, Tradition, and Home

Margaret MacDonald

Love and Globalization

Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World

Mark B. Padilla, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Miguel Munoz-Laboy, Robert Sember, Richard G. Parker

Healing by Heart

Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers

Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, Dorothy E. Vawter, Phua Xiong, Barbara Babbitt, Mary M. Solberg