Books by Fellows

Titles

Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda

2010. Neil Kodesh

Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to its functioning.

Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast

2009. Jan Hoffman French

Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analysis of successful claims to land by two neighboring black communities in the backlands of northeastern Brazil, 2000 IDRF Fellow Jan Hoffman French demonstrates how these two communities have come to distinguish themselves from each other while revising and retelling their histories and present-day stories.

Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front

2010. Anna Krylova

Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it into the twentieth-century history of women, war, and violence.

The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

2010. Paulina Bren

The Market and the Masses in Latin America: Policy Reform and Consumption in Liberalizing Economies

2009. Andy Baker

Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India: Making Place for Rural Development

2009. Pratyusha Basu

When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan

2009. Lori Ann Watt

In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society

2010. Mark Carey

Huanjing yu Jiankang: kuaxueke shijiao [Environment and Health: Cross-disciplinary perspectives]

May 2010. Jennifer Holdaway (Editor); Wuyi Wang (Editor); Jingzhong Ye (Editor); Shiqiu Zhang (Editor)

Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany

2009. Cynthia Miller-Idriss

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