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When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the meaning of money in China and the United States. Though the topic is of perennial interest - and never more so than in our era, when economic forecasts of China's growing economy generate shallow news stories and public fear -the lectures were never edited for publication, so their rich analysis has been unavailable to anthropologists ever since. With this book--the first volume in a collaboration between Hau Books and the University of Rochester - Martin's lectures are brought back, fully edited and richly illustrated. A new introduction by Martin herself brings her analysis wholly up to date, while an afterword by Jane I. Guyer and Sidney Mintz discusses Martin's work, influence, and legacy. The Meaning of Money in China and the United States will instantly assume its rightful place as a classic in the field, with Martin's insights as germane and productive as they were nearly thirty years ago.--

Introduction: Generation 1.5, immigrants who moved to a different country before adulthood, are hypothesized to have unique cognitive and behavioral patterns. We ex­amined the possible differences in cigarette smoking between Asian subpopulations who arrived in the United States at different life stages.Methods: Using the Asian subsample of the 2015 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Cur­rent Population Survey, we tested this Gen­eration 1.5 hypothesis with their smoking behavior. This dataset was chosen because its large sample size allowed for a national-level analysis of the Asian subsamples by sex, while other national datasets might not have adequate sample sizes for analysis of these subpopulations. The outcome variable was defined as whether the survey respondent had ever smoked 100 cigarettes or more, with the key independent variable operationalized as whether the respon­dent was: 1) born in the United States; 2) entered the United States before 12; 3) entered between 12 and 19; and 4) entered after 19. Logistic regressions were run to examine the associations with covariates including the respondent's age, educational attainment, and household income.Results: Asian men who entered before 12 were less likely to have ever smoked 100 cigarettes than those who immigrated after 19; for Asian women, three groups (born in the United States, entered before 12, en­tered between 12 and 19) were more likely to have smoked 100 cigarettes than those who immigrated after 19.Conclusions: While Asian men who came to the United States before 12 were less at risk for cigarette smoking than those who immigrated in adulthood, the pattern was the opposite among Asian women. Those who spent their childhood in the United States were more likely to smoke than those who came to the United States in adult­hood. These patterns might result from the cultural differences between US and Asian countries, and bear policy relevance for the tobacco control efforts among Asian Americans. Ethn Dis. 2022;32(2):75-80; doi:10.18865/ed.32.2.75

This special issue concludes with pragmatic advice for ethnographers seeking to have an impact on public perceptions of health problems, and to influence public policy. We asked four people with different disciplinary perspectives – an academic anthropologist who launched a popular interest anthropology magazine, a journalist for an internationally cited newswire, a policy maker-cum-visual-ethnographer, and a health official in a national government agency – a single question: What is an immediate step that ethnographers of health might take to affect social change?