"Well-argued, clearly written essays by anthropologists committed to understanding culture through theoretically grounded analysis of its material underpinnings. The authors' impassioned call for an anthropology that addresses pressing social problems--exploitation, inequality, violence, hunger, and underdevelopment--is a welcome counterweight to studies that view power primarily as discourse or poetics."--Marc Edelman, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY"A major contribution to anthropology in both theory and application."--Barbara Miller, George Washington UniversityThe social...

"Will assume a significant role in what is unquestionably the most important area of new, revisionary work in romantic studies. . . . Watkins extends the work of recent feminist romantic critics who have been developing one of the liveliest critical debates in studies of British romanticism. . . . Watkins' theoretical analysis of the gender dynamics at work in the logics of Sadeian power, bourgeois capitalism, and romantic idealism offers a new perspective on the gendering of romantic discourse."--Greg Kucich, University of Notre Dame
When a romanticist links sexual violence and visionary...

Focusing on the organization of production and labor use in the Caribbean's second largest sugar industry, this work depicts the reality of the Dominican sugar economy of the 1980s. In depth analyses display one of the 20th century's most extensive forms of super exploitation.