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  • The Day of Shelly's Death
    The Day of Shelly's Death • Renato Rosaldo
    "In this extraordinary myth cycle, Renato Rosaldo has transformed the story of a death into a multidimensional event made of culturally diverse voices. The poems follow each other, building a tale. Read them aloud. The alchemy of ethnography, narrative, and poetry reassembles an ancient grammar of magic and music. I was swept into an unexpected open space, where telling matters. Anthropologists and poets alike will be inspired and moved."—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coeditor of Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon
  • Biological Relatives
    Biological Relatives • Sarah Franklin
    "Sarah Franklin makes vivid how IVF is a kin-making, person-making, and world-making engine, one that refabricates the facts of life into bundles of kin and bundles of kin into facts of life. No wonder I read Biological Relatives as a fabulous work of SF in all its tones—string figures, speculative fabulation, science fact. Because Franklin's multigeneric gifts are generous, my debts are large."—Donna Haraway
  • Sex, or the Unbearable
    Sex, or the Unbearable • Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman
    "Berlant and Edelman's penetrating and courageous encounter significantly raises the level of debate in contemporary cultural studies."—Leo Bersani
  • Announcing a new home for e-Duke Books in 2014!
    The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection has moved to HighWire. Visit the new site at read.dukeupress.edu and read the collection's FAQs to learn more.

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Duke University Press, internationally recognized as a prominent publisher of books and journals, publishes approximately 120 books annually and over 40 journals, as well as offering five electronic collections. A not-for-profit scholarly publisher, Duke University Press is best known for publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

  • Senior Editor Valerie Millholland is retiring this month. Read about her career and our celebrations for her on our blog.
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  • Our Spring 2014 catalog is now available online. An interactive pdf can be accessed here.
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