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GENERAL INTEREST
The Passion of Tiger Woods,
Starn 1
Deviations,
Rubin 2
The Weather in Proust,
Sedgwick 3
Darger’s Resources,
Moon 4
Red Nails, Black Skates,
Rand 5
Words of Protest, Words of Freedom,
Coleman 6
A Different Light,
Nair 7
Image Matters,
Campt 8
The Camera as Historian,
Edwards 9
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship,
Calirman 10
Art and Social Movements,
McCaughan 10
How a Revolutionary Art Became Ofcial Culture,
Coey 11
Object Lessons,
Wiegman 12
The Fantasy of Feminist History,
Scott 13
The Theorist’s Mother,
Parker 14
Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture,
Chow 15
On Being Included,
Ahmed 16
The Erotic Life of Racism,
Holland 17
Trans-Americanity,
Saldívar 18
Adiós Muchachos,
Ramírez 19
Pop When the World Falls Apart,
Weisbard 20
MUSIC
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra,
Feld 21
Contemporary Carioca,
Moehn 22
Metal Rules the Globe,
Wallach, Berger, and Greene 22
CULTURAL STUDIES
Networked Reenactments,
King 23
The Already Dead,
Cazdyn 23
When Biometrics Fail,
Magnet 24
Perspectives on the Global Crisis,
Postone 24
Somebody’s Children,
Briggs 25
GENDER & SEXUALITY
Techniques of Pleasure,
Weiss 25
Sex and Disability,
McRuer and Mollow 26
Odd Couples,
Muraco 26
POLITICAL THEORY
All in the Family,
Ferguson 27
FILM, TV & MEDIA STUDIES
Swift Viewing,
Acland 27
Music, Sound, and Technology in America,
Taylor, Katz, and Grajeda
28
The Oriental Obscene,
Chong 28
Producing Bollywood,
Ganti 29
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3,
Nafcy 29
ANTHROPOLOGY
Lively Capital,
Sunder Rajan 30
Bad Souls,
Davis 30
The Make-Believe Space,
Navaro-Yashin 31
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive,
West 31
Muslim Becoming,
Khan 32
Unearthing Gender,
Jassal 32
Freedom in Entangled Worlds,
Kirksey 33
Transnational Sport,
Joo 33
CARIBBEAN/LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Beyond the Lettered City,
Rappaport
and Cummins 34
Histories of Race and Racism,
Gotkowitz 34
Chocolate and Corn Flour,
Lewis 35
The Flower and the Scorpion,
Sigal 35
Decolonizing Native Histories,
Mallon 36
Patients of the State,
Auyero 36
Intimate Distance,
Bigenho 37
Long Live Atahualpa,
Cervone 37
Culture of Class,
Karush 38
Revolutionary Medicine,
Brotherton 38
Citizenship from Below,
Sheller 39
Obeah and Other Powers,
Paton and Forde 39
New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico,
Gledhill and Schell 40
The Mayan in the Mall,
Way 40
HISTORY
The Making of the Middle Class,
López and Weinstein 41
A Primer for Teaching World History,
Burton 41
The Pariahs of Yesterday,
Moch 42
Foreign Front,
Slobodian 42
Calling the Law into Question,
Tyson and Urban 43
AMERICAN STUDIES
Darkening Mirrors,
Batiste 43
Queequeg’s Cofn,
Brander Rasmussen 44
Poverty in Common,
Goldstein 44
ASIAN STUDIES
Ontology of Production,
Nishida Kitaro
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positions
: Twenty Years After,
Barlow 45
Neoliberalism in Vietnam,
Leshkowich and Schwenkel 46
China and the Human,
Eng, Ruskola, and Shen 46
Creativity and Its Discontents,
Pang 47
SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
South Asian Feminisms,
Loomba and Lukose 47
The Sexual Life of English,
Chandra 48
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The Contemporary Novel,
Bewes 48
NEW JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cultural Politics
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Tikkun
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HISTORY OF ECONOMICS
Histories on Econometrics
, Boumans, DuPont-Kieer, and Qin 49
selected backlist & bestsellers
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journals
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ANTHROPOLOGY/SPORTS
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168 pages, 20 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5210–5,
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The Passion of Tiger Woods
An Anthropologist Reportson Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal
orin
starn
Perhaps the best golfer ever,Tiger Woods rocketed to thetop of a once whites-only sport.Endorsements made him a globalbrand and the world’s richestathlete. The child of a multiracialmarriage, Woods and his blond,blue-eyed wife, Elin Nordegren,seemed to represent a newpostracial America. Then, in late2009, Woods became embroiledin a sex scandal that made head-lines worldwide. In this conciseyet far-reaching analysis, OrinStarn brings an anthropologist’sperspective to bear on Tigergate.He explores our modern mediaobsession with celebrity scandalsand their tawdry ritualized drama, yet he offers much more than the usualbanal moralizing about the rich and famous. Starn explains how Tiger’s travailsand the culture of golf reect broader American anxieties—about race andsex, scapegoating and betrayal, and the role of the sports hero.
The Passionof Tiger Woods
is required reading for all those interested in the high-stakesworld of professional golf, the politics of sports and celebrity, and the mythsand realities surrounding the awed yet riveting gure who remains amongthe most famous athletes of our time.
A JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER BOOK
Orin Starn
is Professor andChair of Cultural Anthropologyat Duke University. He is theauthor of
Nightwatch: ThePolitics of Protest in the Andes
and a co-editor of
The PeruReader: History, Culture, Politics
,both also published by DukeUniversity Press. His most recentbook is the award-winning
Ishi’sBrain: In Search of America’sLast “Wild” Indian
. An avidgolfer with a ve handicap,Starn has written about golf for the
Los Angeles Times
and other newspapers and provided commentary on
ESPN
and
NPR
. He blogs about golf at golfpolitics.blogspot.comand regularly teaches a course about sports and society.
“Orin Starn’s excellent examination of Tiger Woods offersdeep insight, original thinking, and valuable new perspec-tives. This book tells us a lot about Tiger, but even moreabout ourselves.”—
JAIME DIAZ
, senior writer,
Golf Digest
“The next time someone asks me about anthropology’svalue to contemporary cultural debates, I’ll just tell themto read Orin Starn’s
The Passion of Tiger Woods
, a funny,engaging, readable, and unapologetically anthropologicaltake on celebrity scandal, popular culture, and Americansports. From playful musings on a potentially recessive‘golf gene’ to critiques of (wildly popular!) speculativegenetic theories about black athleticism, Starn takes uson an entertaining ride through the history of golf, the riseof its current superstar, and the media maelstrom of racialand sexual imagery that followed from a relatively minor car crash in Florida one fateful Thanksgiving night.”—
JOHNL. JACKSON JR
., author of
Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness
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