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books & journalsfall & winter 2009
university press
D U K E
 
general interest
Surviving against the Odds
, Dunham 1
 A Decade of Negative Thinking 
, Schor 2
The Bathers
, Williams 3
Selenidad
, Paredez 4
Makeover TV 
, Weber 4
Hold On to Your Dreams
, Lawrence 5
Liquidated
, Ho 6
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader 
, Anzaldúa 7
The Search for the Codex Cardona
, Bauer 8
The Labor of Job
, Negri 9
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies
, Dean 10
Debating Moral Education
, Kiss and Euben 11
Words in Motion
, Gluck and Tsing 12
The Intimate University 
, Abelmann 13
The Making of a Human Bomb
, Abufarha 13
cultural studies
Freedom Not Yet 
, Surin 14
North of Empire
, Berland 14
Communities of Sense
, Hinderliter, Kaizen, Maimon, Mansoor,and McCormick 15
 Jacques Rancière
, Rockhill and Watts 15
Translating Time
, Lim 16
The Cultural “State” of Contemporary Taiwan
, Lupke 16
The Un-Americans
, Litvak 17
Collective History 
, Edwards and McCarthy 17
Tracking Europe
, Verstraete 18
Dada and Photomontage across Borders
, Bathrick,Huyssen, and Rabinbach 18
Ruins of Modernity 
, Hell and Schönle 19
Slaves to Fashion
, Miller 19
Next of Kin
, Rodríguez 20
 Africana Thought 
, Farred 20
literature
The Americas
,
Otherwise
, Zamora and Spitta 21
 American Poetry after 1975
, Bernstein 21
gay & lesbian studies/queer theory
Reframing Bodies
, Hallas 22
The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century 
,Stockton 22
Homophobias
, Murray 23
For the Record
, Arondekar 23
religion
Religion and Poverty 
, Paris 24
Creating Ourselves
, Pinn and Valentin 24
Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana
, Lorentzen, Gonzalez,Chun, and Do 25
anthropology
The Edge of Islam
, McIntosh 25
Crooked Stalks
, Pandian 26
Liberalization’s Children
, Lukose 26
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis
, Song 27
Other-Worldly 
, Zhan 27
River of Tears
, Dent 28
Managing African Portugal
, Fikes 28
science studies
Ordinary Genomes
, Taussig 29
Emergence and Embodiment 
, Clarke and Hansen 29
 A Body Worth Defending 
, Cohen 30
Hitting the Brakes
, Johnson 30
history of economics
The Provocative Joan Robinson
, Aslanbeigui and Oakes 31
environmental studies
The Environment and the People in American Cities,1600s–1900s
, Taylor 31
latin american studies
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform
, Mayer 32
 Jungle Laboratories
, Soto Laveaga 32
Blazing Cane
, McGillivray 33
Black and Green
, Asher 33
Holiday in Mexico
, Berger and Wood 34
Indigenous Development in the Andes
, Andolina, Laurie,and Radcliffe 34
Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree
, Langer 35
New Languages of the State
, Gustafson 35
Children of Fate
, Milanich 36
history
The Iranian Revolution at Thirty 
, Ghamari-Tabrizi, Bonakdarian,Rahimieh, Sadri, and Abrahamian 36
Mobilizing Youth
, Whitney 37
Reproducing the French Race
, Camiscioli 37
political science
Choosing to Lead
, Carter and Scott 38
Now Is the Time!
, Shaw 38
Racially Writing the Republic
, Baum and Harris 39
sociology
Blood and Culture,
Miller-Idriss 39
linguistics
The Life and Death of Texas German
, Boas 40
electronic collections
40
journals
41
selected backlist & bestsellers
44
order form
48
sales information
Inside Back Cover 
index
Inside Back Cover 
BOOK REVIEW EDITORS—
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(919) 688–4391
or sent to the attention of Publicity, Duke University Press.All requests must be submitted on publication letterhead.
 
FRONT COVER ART:Istanbul, 2001. Photo by Jennette Williams, from
The Bathers
. See page 3 and insert.BACK COVER ART:S. Ann Dunham in an Indonesian village. Photo courtesy of Bron Solyom,from
Surviving against the Odds
, page 1.
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 general interest 
Srviving against th Odds
Village Industry in Indonesia
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dunham
Edited and with a preface by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper With a foreword by Maya Soetoro-Ng andan afterword by Robert W. Hefner 
President Barack Obama’s mother, S. AnnDunham, was an economic anthropologistand rural development consultant who workedin several countries including Indonesia.Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. Shedied in 1995, at the age of 52, before havingthe opportunity to revise her dissertationfor publication, as she had planned. AliceG. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper, Dunham’sgraduate adviser and fellow graduate stu-dent respectively, undertook the revisionsat the request of Dunham’s daughter, MayaSoetoro-Ng. The result is
Surviving against theOdds
, a book based on Dunham’s research, over a period of fourteen years,among the rural craftsmen of Java, the island home to nearly half Indonesia’spopulation.
Surviving against the Odds
reects Dunham’s commitment tohelping small-scale village industries survive; her pragmatic, non-ideologicalapproach to research and problem-solving; and her impressive command of history, economic data, and development policy. Along with photographs of Dunham, the book includes many pictures taken by her in Indonesia.After Dunham married Lolo Soetoro in 1967, she and her six-year-old son,Barack Obama, moved from Hawai‘i to Soetoro’s home in Jakarta, where MayaSoetoro was born three years later. Barack returned to Hawai‘i to attend schoolin 1971. Dedicated to Dunham’s mother Madelyn, adviser Alice, and “Barackand Maya, who seldom complained when their mother was in the eld,”
Surviving against the Odds
centers on the metalworking industries in the Javanese village of Kajar. Focusing attention on the small rural industriesoverlooked by many scholars, Dunham argued that wet-rice agriculture wasnot the only viable economic activity in rural Southeast Asia.
Surviving against the Odds
includes a preface by the editors, Alice G. Deweyand Nancy I. Cooper, and a foreword by Dunham’s daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng,each of which discusses Dunham and her career. In his afterword, the anthro-pologist and Indonesianist Robert W. Hefner explores the content of 
Survivingagainst the Odds,
its relation to anthropology when it was researched andwritten, and its continuing relevance today.
A JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER BOOK
S. Ann Dnham
(1942–1995), mother of President BarackObama and Maya Soetoro-Ng, earned her undergraduate,master’s, and doctoral degrees, all in anthropology, fromthe University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Dunham spent yearsworking on rural development, micronance, and women’swelfare through organizations including
USAID
, the WorldBank, the Ford Foundation, the Indonesian Federation of Labor Unions, and Bank Rakyat Indonesia.
 Aic G. Dwy 
,an Indonesianist, is Professor Emeritus of Anthropologyat the University of Hawai‘i.
Nancy I. Coopr 
is AdjunctAssociate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i.
Maya Sotoro-Ng 
has a doctorate in internationalcomparative education from the University of Hawai‘i andteaches high-school history in Honolulu.
Robrt W. Hfnr 
 is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs atBoston University. He is President of the Association for Asian Studies.
anthropology
Dcmbr 
368 pages, 50 illustrations (including 22 in color) cloth, 978-0-8223-4687-6,
$27.95tr/£18.99
“
Surviving against the Odds
is a work of very ne scholarshipgrounded in a deep understanding of Indonesia. Reading it, Ilearned a great deal about economic anthropology, blacksmithing(across a range of dimensions, from the supernatural to metal-lurgy), local life and labor in the Javanese village of Kajar, andthe remarkable welter of development schemes and projects inplay during the long period of S. Ann Dunham’s research. Dunhamknew the arcane world of development very well and her accountof it is fascinating and important.”—
DONAlD BReNNeIS
,University of California, Santa Cruz, past president of the AmericanAnthropological Association
 An anthropological study by themother of President Barack Obama
S. Ann Dunham in Bali in the early 1990s.Photo courtesy of Bron SolyomS. Ann Dunham with craftswomen on the island of Lombok.Photo courtesy of Bron Solyom
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