Books

Policing Methamphetamine:
Narcopolitics in Rural America

In its steady march across the United States, methamphetamine has become, to quote former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, “the most dangerous drug in America.

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Addiction Trajectories

Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience.

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Policing and Contemporary Governance

This volume draws attention to the centrality of police and policing to the project of governance and the experience of being human in the contemporary world.

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The Anthropology of Police

Even beyond the methodological particularities and geographic breadth of cultural anthropology, there are a set of conceptual and analytical traditions that have much to bring to broader scholarship in police studies.

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