Grappling with Mental Illness explores psychiatry’s attempt to monopolize the field of mental illness from the end of World War II to the present day, as well as its interactions with four major social sciences: psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, each of which presented its own challenges to psychiatry’s presumed pre-eminence.

Through the stories of trauma experts, Israel Defense Forces officers, local therapists, and residents, Keren Friedman-Peleg reveals how Israel’s psychological aid system in communities bordering Gaza became a battleground of competing interests and contested ideas about how communities should endure, recover, and rebuild.

Chola in a Choke Hold grapples with questions of indigeneity and gender by investigating women’s involvement in the world of Bolivian lucha libre. Nell Haynes contends that the luchadoras promote the idea that their global- and future-oriented notion of Indigenousness is as “real” and “authentic” as a notion of indigeneity rooted in the past.

Music and Noise examines the practice of controversial Protestant parading in present-day Northern Ireland. Refraining from common categorizations of parading as straightforwardly political or apolitically “cultural,” anthropologist Sean French’s ethnographic study instead asks: political in what way?

Lavishly illustrated, Travels on the Edge not only carries readers to some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world but also celebrates the challenges and joys of scientific research. Its author brings a rich human perspective to regions few people have had a chance to explore.

An inside look at the transformation of Hershey, Pennsylvania, from a model industrial community into a twenty-first century suburbia powered by a $12 billion philanthropy.

Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. Author Scott M. Youngstedt offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections between three medical sectors: traditional, Islamic, and biomedical.

Cuba’s small business owners are on the front lines of a changing economy. The Struggle for the Market takes readers inside Havana’s vibrant marketplaces, revealing small-scale entrepreneurs’ challenges and triumphs as they navigate the complexities of legal reforms and their relationship with the state that both empowers and constrains them.

By analyzing ethnographic interviews with the youth of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Susanna Trnka reveals the emotional, financial, and deeply personal ideas at stake as understandings of health shift in the minds of young people, who are often at the vanguard of new trends in mental health, physical fitness, and digital health technologies.