Important Books Assigned (Fall 2023)

The following books (listed in the order they are assigned in the course) are important texts in the course; they are all available either as ebooks or pdfs via ereserve:

See Class Schedule for specific required and supplementary readings from these books.

Books with substantial assigned readings (listed in order assigned):

  • Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
  • Pun Ngai. Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace. Duke University Press, 2005.
  • Verdery, Katherine. What was Socialism, What Comes Next? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
  • Zaloom, Caitlin. Out of the pits : traders and technology from Chicago to London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Cowen, Deborah. The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
  • De Leon, Jason. The Land of Open Graves Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. UCalif. Press, 2015.

Recommended or reference books (only a portion assigned, only a few copies available):

  • Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and its Discontents. New York: Norton, 2002.
  • Inda, Jonathan Xavier and Renato Rosaldo, eds. The anthropology of globalization: a reader (2nd Edition, 2008).
  • Ferguson, James. Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
  • Graeber, David. 2001. Toward an anthropological theory of value : the false coin of our own dreams. New York : Palgrave.
  • Harney, Stefano and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Minor Compositions, 2013. (also available open access online)