...Rewind and Fast Forward ...

...Fast Break to the Future ...

...Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion ...

... This chapter summarizes a number of the book’s discoveries considered important by the author, and reflects on the ethnographic adventure this book has taken. It first reflects on the fast-paced change over the past decade in the ethnographic sites as well as in China as a whole, which has posed...

... This chapter explores cross-dressing law’s legal operations and effects as it developed as a flexible tool for policing multiple gender offenses, including those of feminist dress reformers, female impersonators, fast young women who dressed as men for nights out on the town, and people whose...

... about global health and colonial medicine. Interjecting fresh field evidence, it considers the book’s layers of violence and harm; the therapeutic, insurgent, and hedonistic in this “shrunken milieu” with intricate healing, fast, infectious modern dance music, practices of joy, and eviction reverie...

... is fast becoming reality. All of humanity, as coinheritors of the earth, must share in the responsibility to create a world of humans and nonhumans caught, not in global systems of depredation and exploitation, but in communities of mixture, exchange, reciprocity, and mutuality. Universal justice can...

... This essay explores the economic and affective relationship between jazz music and cigarettes as they circulated the globe in the early twentieth century, focusing especially on interwar Shanghai, China. Cigarettes and jazz were both big business in Shanghai and they spun together to the fast...

..., was aesthetically opposed to fast tempo bebop and its their intellectual leanings, and further complicated by French ambivalence toward the United States. The chapter also compares jazz to classical music and describes how jazz influenced popular music, literature, and film. France jazz classical music...

... In this chapter, Mapfumo deals with the complexities of keeping his band on top within a fast-changing Zimbabwean music market, and developing an international reputation. Money is a constant issue, especially as Mapfumo family members become more and more involved in the management of band...

... Rewinding past more than one hundred years of history, to early U.S. military adventures in Central America, and then fast-forwarding back again, produces a parallax effect—bringing political and economic forces that have shaped the ecology of Panama into sharp relief. As the Smithsonian’s field...