This collection of anthropology of science essays explores the new forms of capital, markets, ethical, legal, and intellectual property concerns associated with

Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting

“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”—The New York Ti

Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1

An imaginative analysis of the interplay between rhetoric and physical space in the creation of the nation's capital.