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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction: Upon Further Reflection -- 2. America-The View from across the (Reflecting) Pond -- Ecology/Economy -- 3. Mickey, Nicky, and Barbie: Kinderculture in America -- 4. Consuming Ourselves to Death -- 5. The Button: Not a Simple Notion -- 6. Safety and Health in the "Safer and Healthier" Agriculture -- Family Life and Leisure -- 7. Chauffeuring and Commuting: A Story of Work, Family, Class, and Community -- 8. Military Families: The Long Journey Home -- 9. Every Time We Type Goodbye: Heartbreak American-Style -- 10. Striptease, Leisure, and Labor in the Midwestern United States -- Class and Power -- 11. Talk of "Broken Borders" and Stone Walls: Anti-immigrant Discourse and Legislation from California to South Carolina -- 12. Gender, Race, and Class in America: Home in New Haven -- 13. Welcome to an East Harlem Shooting Gallery -- Ritual and Religion -- 14. A Pilgrimage to the Past: Civil War Reenactors at Gettysburg -- 15. Memories of Burning Man -- 16. When Worlds Collude: Groundhog Phil and the Super Bowl Meet on Candlemas -- 17. Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary American Christianity -- Ideology -- 18. Little Boys Writ Big: Gender, Economy, and The Big Bang Theory -- 19. Warmaking as the American Way of Life -- 20. American Cultural Denial: The CATs' Compass -- 21. Living Up to Our Words -- About the Contributors

Introduction: ethnicity, class and dreams of dignity -- The construction of ethnicity in Sarawak -- form Brunei to Malaysia -- Malaysia and the "race race" to modernity -- Malaysia and Sarawak -- a long, slow pas de deux -- Fieldwork in the urban jungles of Borneo -- Dayaks -- losing the "race race"? -- "Fighting in a different way": in defense of being Dayak -- Conclusion: the impossible dream?