1. Introduction. Upon further reflection / Clare L. Boulanger ; 2. America
the view from across the (reflecting) pond / Clare L. Boulanger
Ecology/economy ; 3. Mickey, Nicky, and Barbie : kinderculture in America / Richard H. Robbins ; 4. Consuming ourselves to death / Richard Wilk ; 5. The button : not a simple notion / Paul Grebinger ; 6. Safety and health in the safer and healthier agriculture / Brandi Janssen
Family life and leisure ; 7. Chauffering and commuting : a story of work, family, class, and community / Lara Descartes, Conrad P. Kottak, and Autumn Kelly ; 8. Military families : the long journey home / Sarah Hautzinger and Jean Scandlyn ; 9. Every time we type goodbye : heartbreak American-style / Ilana Gershon ; 10. Striptease, leisure, and labor in the Midwestern United States / Beth Hartman
Class and power ; 11. Talk of broken borders and stone walls : anti-immigrant discourse and legislation from California to South Carolina / Ann Kingsolver ; 12. Gender, race, and class in America : home in New Haven / Micaela di Leonardo ; 13. Welcome to an East Harlem shooting gallery / Philippe Bourgois
Ritual and religion ; 14. A pilgrimage to the past : Civil War reenactors at Gettysburg / Matthew H. Amster ; 15. Memories of Burning Man / S. Megan Heller ; 16. When worlds collude : Groundhog Phil and the Super Bowl meet on Candlemas / Robert Myers ; 17. Metakinesis : how God becomes intimate in contemporary American Christianity / Tanya M. Luhrmann
Ideology ; 18. Little boys writ big : gender, economy, and The Big Bang Theory / Clare L. Boulanger ; 19. Warmaking as the American way of life / Catherine Lutz ; 20. American cultural denial : the CATs' compass / E. L. Cerroni-Long ; 21. Living up to our words / Paul Durrenberger
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