Henry Carter Hull

The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.

60 Days In offers an unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days.

This compilation highlights four different perspectives on the threat of majoritarian rule or “TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY".

How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided.

Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers

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Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commodities on the planet. Reflecting a contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco, makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive commodity, tobacco becomes a powerful player in a global adventure involving people, corporations, and public health.

Bringing together a range of perspectives

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Men and women are not from separate planets. Making an original and significant argument, Gendering Talk puts gendered communication in perspective by showing that the problem with male/female communication is not how men and women talk to each other, but in how they listen. By closely examining the details of actual conversations between women and men―particularly the conversations of people “coupling”―Hopper draws on theories of arousal,...

Contents: 1. The Bara of Madagascar 2. The Person 3. Residence and Corporation: Shared Values 4. Residence and Corporation: Individual Actions 5. The Marriage of a Brother and Sister 6. Incest, Marriage, and Society 7. Trance and Feminine Power 8. Caveats and Conclusions

American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility in social, economic, and geographic texts in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic", referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the"American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent...

Employing rootedness as a way of understanding identity has increasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to police identity through a politics of purity—excluding anyone who doesn't share the same narrative. Theoretically, a critique of essentialism has led to a suspicion against essence and origins regardless of their political implications. The central...

Que signifie travailler dans la grande distribution aujourd’hui ? En Suisse, deux géants se partagent la quasi-totalité du marché. Pour tenir la concurrence, ils intensifient le travail, exigent davantage de disponibilité de la part de leurs employé·e·s et déqualifient certains postes. Dans ce contexte, comment les responsables de magasin atteignent-ils les objectifs de rentabilité malgré les contraintes ? Comment les caissières font-elles...