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Book SynopsisThis book brings together historical and ethnographic perspectives on Indian consumer identities. Through an in-depth analysis of local, regional, and national histories of marketing, regulatory bodies, public and domestic practices, this interdisciplinary volume charts the emergence of Indian consumer society and discusses commodity consumption as a main feature of Indian modernity. Nationalist discourse was shaped by moral struggles over consumption patterns that became a hallmark of middle-class identity. But a number of chapters demonstrate how a wide range of social strata were targeted as markets for everyday commodities associated with global lifestyles early on. A section of the book illustrates how a new group of professionals engaged in advertising trying to create a market shaped tastes and discourses and how campaigns provided a range of consumers with guidance on modern lifestyles'. Chapters discussing advertisements for consumables like coffTrade Review"This fascinating and important collection of essays provides a timely corrective to social sciences approaches to the study of Indian culture and society. Any contemporary understanding of Indian modernity – caste, class, gender, intimacies, religiosity, citizenship, etc. – is incomplete without an understanding of how consumer cultures shape everyday lives. Focussing on both the colonial and post-colonial periods, the book’s contributors lucidly outline the multiple publics imagined by advertising as well as how people construct identities through varied acts of consumption."Sanjay Srivastava, British Academy Global Professor, University College London"This collection of articles, with a well written introduction, is an important contribution to the analysis of the process of growth and working of consumer capitalism in contemporary India. The major strength of this collection is its focus on a deep, as well as immediate, historical perspective behind complex intertwining social fields: production practices, market cultures and consumer choices. Well-informed by western sociological theories, the contributors have underlined the making and transformation of consumer culture from the restricted horizon of colonial environment to the glittering world of mass consumption and mass culture with its necessary predicaments."Gautam Bhadra, Honorary Professor at the Centre For Studies in Social Sciences, IndiaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Notes on the advertisement and the advertising agency in India’s twentieth century 2. A magic system? Print publics, consumption, and advertising in modern Tamil Nadu 3. Making the ideal home? Advertising of electrical appliances and the education of the middle-class consumer in Bombay, 1925-40 4. Wooing Indians with new smokes: cigarette and bidi advertising in British India 5. Creating desire in the name of the nation, 1947-65 6. Consuming the home: creating consumers for the middleclass house in India, 1920-60 7. Drink it the damn way we want: some reflections on the promotion and consumption of coffee in India in the twentieth century. 8. The Housewife goes to Market: Food, Work, and Neoliberal Selves in Kolkata Middle-class Families 9. Consumer citizenship and Indian Muslim youth 10. Consuming credit: microfinance and making credit markets at the bottom of the pyramid

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Book SynopsisDiversity of Belonging in Europe analyzes conflicting notions of identity andbelonging in contemporary Europe. Addressing the creation, negotiation, and (re)use of diverse spaces and places of belonging, the book examines their fascinatingcomplexities in the context of a changing Europe.Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, the volume examinesrenegotiations of belonging played out through cultural encounters with differenceand change, in diverse public spaces and contested places. Highlighting theinterconnections between social change and culture, heritage, and memory, thechapters analyze multilayered public spaces and the negotiations over culture andbelonging that are connected to them. Through analyses of diverse case studies, theeditors and authors draw out the significance of the participation or exclusion ofdiffering community, grassroots, and activist groups in such practices and diTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Redefining and negotiating public spaces of belonging; 1. Museums as a public space of belonging? Negotiating dialectics of purpose, presentation and participation; 2. Negotiated belonging: Migrant religious institutions in Warsaw; 3. "Deep Historicization" and Political and Spatio-Temporal "Centrism": Layers of time and belonging in the reconstructed city centres of Berlin and Potsdam; 4. Shaping Europeanness. The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 as a new mode of governance: Between coordinative and communicative discourses; 5. The Iceberg, the Stage and the Kitchen: Neglected public places and the role of design- led interventions; 6. Establishing a place in the European cultural space. Grassroots cultural action and practices of self-governance in South East Europe; Part II: Encountering contested belongings in public places; 7. Taxonomies of Pain: Museal Embodiments of Identity and Belonging in Post-communist Romania; 8. Negotiation of belonging of built heritage: Russian and Soviet heritage in Warsaw; 9. In the Centre of Conflict. Negotiating Belonging and Public Space in Post-Unification Berlin Mitte; 10. Encounters through Kahlenberg: Urban traces of transnational right-wing action; 11. Staging claims of belonging in a post-imperial England: Museums, Brexit and the ‘Windrush Scandal’; 12. Redefining collective heritage, identities and belonging: Colonial statues in the times of Black Lives Matter

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists' religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of conflict' and complementarity'. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.Trade Review"In this careful and shrewd study of the lives of science and of religion in an Indian setting, Renny Thomas offers startling new approaches to familiar problems of spiritual practice and rational analysis in institutions of laboratory sciences. The book combines superbly documented case-studies of rigorous fieldwork with accessible and ambitious analyses of the very notions of a fundamental conflict, or a highly idealised complementarity, between scientific and religious forms of existence and conduct. In these studies, Thomas illuminates the variable senses of cultural behaviour and of doctrinal commitment that are evidenced by his many informants and interlocutors. He demonstrates the dangers of an exclusively Eurocentric approach to the alleged relations between the scientific world-view and religious faith, while exploring in fascinating detail crucial issues such as practices of devotion, of celebration, of prayer, and of debate and education. In closely related explorations of the fraught issue of caste adherence among Indian scientists, of attempts to trace the achievements of modern science within religious traditions, and of practices of distinction and of reconciliation in the everyday conduct of scientific workers, this study will set quite new standards for the central debates around faith and reason in modern societies." - Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge, UK"Renny Thomas's ethnographic look at religious practices and beliefs among Indian scientists is a vital contribution to our understanding of religion, science, and social structures. It helps us wrestle with the inflections of modernity and the construction of scientific life across the world. Thomas's work surpasses typical studies by showing that religion--not just science--happens in labs and explores the politics of science and culture as that happens. This book engages both explicit and implicit religious practices and beliefs, including Indian forms of non-belief and atheism, and provides new ways of thinking about religion and science everywhere. Thanks to its wide-ranging contributions, this book is of profound significance." - Robert M. Geraci, Manhattan College, USA"It has been increasingly recognised that many of the general conclusions drawn about the relations between science and religion are limited by a narrow focus on specific features of late Western modernity. This excellent new ethnographic study of science and religion in India helps remedy this deficiency. It prompts us to fresh questions about the applicability of the categories ‘science’ and ‘religion’ and about standard ways of relating them in terms of conflict or complementarity. This book also models a novel anthropological approach to science and religion that is reminiscent of the work of Latour and Woolgar. All up, this is a most welcome contribution to the science-religion field and is highly recommended." - Peter Harrison, University of Queensland, Australia "In this remarkable book, Renny Thomas urges us to move beyond the political rhetoric of science and religion. In a pandemic weary world filled with tense engagements between religion and science, Thomas offers a rich, layered, and candid ethnographic study of postcolonial science in India - its labs and scientists- revealing a nuanced, complex, and tantalizing view of Indian science and scientists. He offers an important and urgent call - science cannot save us from religion, or religion from science - both are deeply implicated in claims of truth. We need to engage with them both. This is a book for our times." - Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA "Renny Thomas's interesting work fills in many silences in earlier ethnographies on scientific laboratories.. Having drawn substantially in his review of literature on these sources, he proceeds to look at the essential way in which the question of compartmentalisation is posed in new ways. The question is really about co-existence and cultural relativism and the manner in which scientists are able to explain the presence of ritual, caste histories and cultural parameters in their life. Thomas is an engaging writer, using conversations with laboratory scientists to negotiate with paradoxes and puzzles in the manifest world of objectivity and patronage. Questions of equality and informative yet suppressed histories of conflict are key to the book. It is hard to upset the apple cart on experiential modes of Social Life, Ideologies and Reality, but he has succeeded in drawing attention to the vitality of focussed enquiry in social science, using personal biographies as his index for symbolic representation of every day practises." - Susan Visvanathan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India"This remarkable book is a major leap forward in the study of science and religion – it uncovers and dismantles West-centric modes of thinking about both categories. Thomas’ insightful combination of ethnography and history examines closely the complicated and varied contexts of scientific identity and religious practice among Indian scientists. With skillful analysis of everyday practices in a major science institution – from publication schedules to cafeteria arrangements – Thomas demonstrates the persistence of religion, spirituality, and caste among both believers and non-believers. He has pioneered novel and essential ways to think about science and religion outside the West." - Matthew Stanley, New York University, USA"How do forms of the religious life shape scientific life? Drawing on finely tuned laboratory ethnography and on conversations with scientists in India, Renny Thomas takes readers beyond dichotomies — mostly emergent from Western contexts — that would have science and religion as either in sharp conflict or as easily complementary. This rigorous and empathetic book teaches us that essentialist definitions of science and religion are, in addition to being politically dangerous, a distraction from the much more interesting story, captivatingly recorded here, of science, religion, and belief lived." - Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA"By means of a rich ethnographic study of contemporary Indian scientists, Renny Thomas provides a fascinating window into the construction of scientific praxis, the lived relationship between ‘science and religion’, and the entanglement of caste and professional culture in South Asia. It is heartily recommended for scholars of religion as well as science and technology studies." - Jason Josephson Storm, Williams College, USA"For decades, scholars have laboured under the assumption that the myth of conflict between science and religion is best countered by the proposition of alternative relationships. It hardly occurred to anyone to examine the everyday practices and reflections of working scientists, to see if this assumption held water. Until now. The new ethonologists of science and religion - among whom Thomas is sure to be a leading light - are rapidly overturning the old ideas, demonstrating the subtleties and complexities that arise in ordinary people's lives in science and religion. This book should prove to be a vital point of reference for science and religion in India - and worldwide - for years to come." - Mark Harris, University of Edinburgh, UK"The book is a valuable contribution to the anthropological understanding of science and religion in India, as it brings out some pertinent contextual questions." - Tiatemsu Longkumer, IIAS Reviews"This is an illuminating study that throws light on an area that has remained largely unexplored. It shows up the notion of an intractable opposition between religion and science/rationality as false dogma. The author does an excellent job of marshalling past and present discourses to contextualise his findings and make them more meaningful." - N. Kalyan Raman, The Wire"[A] seminal contribution, which distinguishes Thomas as a sharp critic and a glowing ethnographer." - Sayantan Datta, Doing Sociology"Science and Religion in India is unique for its hands-on ethnographic approach that follows scientists into their laboratories to study their religious lives, or lack of one." – Religion Watch"As Thomas convincingly argues, the interface of science and religion in India is too complex to be summarized as either conflicting or complementary. Thomas provides a compelling argument for how Indian scientists navigate the boundary between science, religion, culture, caste, and modernity… [This] is an excellent book. It will attract researchers specializing in science, religion, and spirituality, as well as general readers with an interest in the Indian context." – Di Di, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"This is a remarkably well-researched book, a landmark ethnographic study in the sociology of science in India. […] I think this is a book that should be widely read for the many important messages it contains." – R. Ramaswamy, IIC Quarterly"Science and Religion in India has a bold claim: to rethink conventional narratives of the relationship between science and religion. Thomas’s novel contribution is to study how religion is practiced in the laboratory. [...] Science and Religion in India joins a growing set of recent books that explore the modernity of both science and religion in contemporary India. [...] They help us see the surprising ways people in the world wrestle with the imperfect categories—such as science and religion, tradition and modernity, East and West—that are humanity’s collective inheritance." – Eric Moses Gurevitch in Physics Today"Thomas wisely allows his subjects to speak at length concerning the relation between their cultural belief systems and their own ideas about their role as scientists. The book is rich in detail and stimulates questions. […] Science and Religion in India can also be re-read as an account of how one does ethnography among people who know something esoteric which the anthropologist or sociologist does not. Thomas is remarkably transparent in the book about his methods and admits his approach and methodology were uncommon in India. From that reflexive angle too, this is a conscientious work in its transparency and thus an important contribution in the sociology and anthropology of science and scientists. It could be used as a teaching text with people not particularly interested in the Indian angle of this kind of research." - Robert S. Anderson in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society"This is a welcome ethnographic study to the discussion of science and religion that is heavily based on historical and theoretical debates. It will be stimulating reading for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as for researchers interested in questions of belief, rationality and knowledge practices in the Indian context and beyond." - Victor Secco in Society and Culture in South Asia"Science and Religion in India is an important contribution to the sociology/anthropology of religion and science, and science and technology studies in particular. The ethnographic study re-examines the apparently settled opposition between faith and reason of European Enlightenment." - Subhadeepta Ray in Contributions to Indian Sociology"This ethnographic study of the religious lives of laboratory scientists is a very welcome addition to the literature on science and religion in India. [….] a rare and detailed account of contemporary Indian scientists’ attitudes toward religion. It is fraught with implications for understanding religious and cultural nationalism in India. Because Thomas provides a substantive critique of European conceptions of modernity, it will be a fruitful read for anyone who is interested in arriving at a less Eurocentric understanding of this subject area. It is written in clear, direct language and describes historical contexts and theoretical concepts in a way that will make it accessible for non-experts, including undergraduates." - Daniel Heifetz in Nova Religio"Science and Religion in India will leave the reader’s head spinning with different intertwined, and at times contradictory, interpretations of the relationship between religion and science posited by Thomas’ respondents and in (auto)biographies of India’s eminent scientists. In this multivocality, we see different ways in which scientists working in India today examine the possibility of accommodating both Western and ancient Indic science, science and religion, religious praxis and rationality, cultural belonging and non-belief. By offering a glimpse of the multiplicity and intricacy of these individual examinations, Science and Religion in India succeeds in its aim to problematize binary understandings of religion and science, and convincingly argues that it makes sense to study the ways in which people connect and perform religion and science in a case-study-based, contextualized and historicized way." - Tine Vekemans in Religion“Thomas allows his subjects to speak at length, astutely embeds their ideas and practices within broader historical, sociological, and anthropological debates on science and religion, and is transparent about his own positionality and methodological challenges of ‘studying up.’ This makes this brilliant ethnography not only a valuable contribution for a broad readership in science studies but also an excellent teaching text.” - Claudia Lang in Technology and Culture“Outside of academic scholarship, an important takeaway of the book relates to efforts at diversity and decolonization in the South Asian context. A healthy awareness of the social and cultural dominance of a few privileged-caste communities in Indian science and academia, and the Indian diaspora in general, is essential for any meaningful action on those fronts, and Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment makes a timely contribution to that awareness.” - Kiran Kumbhar in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Science, Rationality, and Scientific Temper in Postcolonial India; 2 Beyond Disenchantment: Scientists, Laboratories, and Religion; 3 The Making of Scientist-Believers; 4 Being Atheistic, Being Scientific: Scientists as Atheists; 5 Caste, Religion, and the Laboratory Life; Conclusion; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSince the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve. Today, this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet, there remain important areas of disagreement and debate: what is the difference between societal change, development and evolution? What specific aspects of cultures change, develop or evolve and why? Do societies change, develop or evolve in particular ways, perhaps according to cycles, or stages or in response to survival necessities? How do different disciplinesfrom sociology to anthropology to psychology and economicsapproach these questions? This book provides complex and nuanced answers to these, and many other, questions. First, the book invites readers to consider the broad landscape of societal dynamics across human history, beginning with humanity's origins in small nomadic bands of hunter gatherers through to Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Social Environment of Evolutionary AdaptednessChapter 2. "Cultural Evolution," DescriptivelyChapter 3. Evolutionary SociologyChapter 4. Cyclic TheoriesChapter 5. Cumulative Cultural EvolutionChapter 6. MemeticsChapter 7. The Evolution of Norms, Values and IdentitiesChapter 8. Toward an Integration and Theoretical Extension

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Book SynopsisIn Engaging in Narrative Inquiry, Second Edition, D. Jean Clandinin, a pioneer in narrative research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry, clarifying, extending, and refining methods. This updated edition looks at changes and developments in the field since the publication of the first edition in 2013, exploring how narrative inquiry explores human lives through a narrative lens that honors experience as a source of important knowledge and understanding. The book includes several exemplary cases with the author's critique and analysis of the work. The following are new to this edition: New exemplary cases, including Menon's autobiographical narrative inquiry as the starting point for framing a research puzzle and justifying a study, Chung's account of a study that begins with living alongside participants, and a paper from Swanson's autobiographical narrative inquiry An expanded discussion of the phTable of ContentsIntroduction. Narrative Inquiry: Both a View of and a Methodology for Studying Experience 1. Living, Telling, and Retelling: Processes of Narrative Inquiry 2. Designing and Living Out a Narrative Inquiry 3. Narrative Beginnings: Sajani (Jinny) Menon 4. Unpacking “Narrative Beginnings” in Sajani Menon’s Doctoral Study 5. Beginning with Telling Stories: Andrew’s Stories of Playing Basketball 6. Unpacking “Beginning with Telling Stories: Andrew’s Stories of Playing Basketball” 7. Beginning with Living Stories: Simmee Chung’s “Education Is Ceremony: Thinking With Stories of Indigenous Youth and Families” 8. Unpacking “Education Is Ceremony: Thinking With Stories of Indigenous Youth and Families” 9. Autobiographical Narrative Inquiries: Cindy Swanson’s “Unbundling Stories” 10. Unpacking “Unbundling Stories: Encountering Tensions between the Familial and School Curriculum-Making Worlds” 11. Narrating Relational Ethics throughout the Inquiry and Beyond 12. Research Texts: Revisiting the Justifications for the Inquiry 13. A Reflective Turn on Narrative Inquiry

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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers a critically important contribution to debates around the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews in education. Edited by five leading figures in the field, and drawing on expert international scholarship and research, the book provides cutting-edge analysis that bridges the religious and secular in global educational contexts. Considering the role of the United Nations, UNESCO, OECD and PISA in varied international contexts, the book draws on critical analysis of primary empirical research and secondary critique to offer a coherent blend of theoretically complex yet practical analysis of policy implementation. Throughout this accessible and logically structured volume, the authors assert that the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews is one of the most important and pressing issues for religion in education. As a field-defining work of research into education, religion and worldviews, the book will be essential reading for

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Book SynopsisThe majority of the world's population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the urban age. However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals that most people live in different types of suburban environments.Drawing together scholars from across the globe, this book provides a series of national, regional, and local case studies from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to exemplify the diverse and dynamic nature and importance of suburbia in 21st century urban studies, city-building, and urbanism.This book explores the evolving social, physical, and economic character of the suburbs and how structural processes, market dynamics, and government policies have shaped and transformed suburbia around the world. It highlights the continTrade Review'Though urban studies has long been preoccupied with the inner city, suburbanisation continues to be the dominant form of urban development, with COVID accelerating the demand for suburbs regarded as more spacious and salubrious than their inner city counterparts. Recognising this, Suburbia in the 21st Century questions the privileging of suburbia, and explores the underside of the suburban dream, taking us into a non-place realm that is often debt-ridden, alienating and environmentally damaging. The wide range of international case studies in this collection nonetheless highlights the diversity of suburban forms, and deftly avoids dystopian stereotypes to provide a more nuanced and balanced analysis. An important and timely book that represents the state-of-the-art in critical urban scholarship.'Phil Hubbard, Professor of Urban Studies, King’s College London, UK'This definitive collection provides a rich compendium of research and writing on the suburbs by leading scholars in the field. Challenging reductionist views of the suburb as subordinate to the city, the contributions in this book present suburbia as diverse, complex and dynamic. Theoretically informed but empirically detailed, the chapters offer broad ranging insights into the nature, character and transformations taking place within suburban environments across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada as well as a number of European nations. An essential reference for urban geographers, planners, and sociologists, Suburbia in the 21stCentury: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? is an important and timely volume which demands to be widely read.'Nicole Gurran, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Henry Halloran Trust, The University of Sydney, Australia 'The edges of our cities have become central to discussions about how and where we will live in the future. Suburbia in the 21st Century assembles a cutting-edge collection that injects evidence to these deliberations. In a series of critical essays leading analysts take the pulse of these new urban heartlands, variously diagnosing spaces of opportunity and despair, spotting signs of policy failure and social utopia. These investigations help to correct popular ideas of the suburbs as simply sterile or affluent spaces, highlighting instead their variability of form, myriad lifestyles, resident groups, problems and potential. This exciting and timely collection brings insight, energy and critique to a subject that concerns us all. In the post-pandemic context and as these centres of increasing urban gravity continue to grow this collection helps us to understand the problems and possibilities of our new (sub)urban condition.'Rowland Atkinson, Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield, UK 'A remarkable book that makes a compelling case for urban studies and planning to reconsider the suburbs. This outstanding edited collection is accessible reading for scholars, students, and practitioners alike. Its contributors mount clear and persuasive arguments about why we ought to take the suburbs seriously, exploring myriad issues including suburban diversity and disadvantage. The book demolishes a longstanding fallacy that the suburbs are banal 'blandscapes'. Using international case examples, its contributors convincingly illustrate how the suburbs are places characterised by ethno-racial, sexual and socio-economic diversity. Overturning the cartoonish caricatures of low-density housing, golf courses and shopping malls that occupy the imaginary of some urban theorists, this book shows how suburbs are heterogeneous spaces of social (re)production. The book masterfully redresses a longstanding asymmetry in (sub)urban writing, research, and theorising.'Jason Byrne, Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania, Australia‘This fine collection presents a wide-ranging assessment of Suburbia in the 21st Century. In the wake of recent economic, ecological and social disruptions, most recently the Covid pandemic, this re-evaluation of the ‘suburban project’ is timely and challenging. Long considered a haven from the rigours of city life, the suburb has not escaped the many injuries visited on the wider global patterns of urbanisation in recent years. It bears witness to human dreams and nightmares. This book brings together analyses from leading contributors to suburban scholarship who make sense of these harms, as well as the continuing meaning and gratification that many people find in the suburban setting. The editors are to be congratulated for the wide international sweep of the book which takes us beyond the more familiar urban terrains of the anglosphere.’Brendan Gleeson FASSA, Professor of Urban Policy Studies and Director of the Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia‘Maginn and Anacker provide us with a fascinating contribution to the burgeoning and much-needed scholarly work on suburbs across the globe. With chapters from leading suburban scholars, this volume takes us to countries such as Australia, Finland, Ireland and France, to name a few, to demonstrate the varied and dynamic processes of suburbanization and the suburban experience. Engaging theory and undergoing empirical analyses of the dreamscape and discord that is suburbia, Maginn and Anacker achieve their goal of rightly placing these places at metaphorical center of urban scholarship. This book is a necessary read for real engagement beyond the current city focus of urban studies.’Bernadette Hanlon, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University, USATable of Contents1. Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? Part I: Representations of Suburbia 2. Fixing Post-suburbia: Recalibrating the Way we Think, Speak, and Act Upon Toronto’s Periphery 3. Master Planned and Active Lifestyles Developments in Australia: Gerotopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare? 4. Suburban Shopping Malls in Melbourne, Australia: Changing Roles and Impacts as New Town Centres for Diverse Communities 5. Liminal Space, Film Noir, and the Production of the (American) Suburb Part II: To Suburbia and Beyond 6. The Canadian Dream? Growth Trends in Canada’s Suburban and Urban Neighbourhoods 7. Place Attachment in Non-Place Spaces? Community, Belonging and Mobilities in ‘Post-Suburban’ South East England 8. Does Galicia Experience Suburbanisation? (Sub)Urban Processes, Morphologies, and Planning on the Morrazo Peninsula 9. Suburban Housing Estates in Finland: Historic Development and Contemporary Challenges Part III: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? 10. Worlds Away in Suburbia: The Changing Geography of High-Poverty Neighbourhoods in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area 11. End of the (Sub)Urban Dream? The Foreclosure Crisis and Unmarried Partnered, Same-Sex Households in the United States 12. Between the Suburbs and the Banlieue 13.No Soft Landing for the Suburbs: Credit, Debt, and the Fracturing of the Suburban Dream in Ireland Conclusions 14. Covid-19 (Sub)Urbanisms: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions. Demonstrating that ethnography is best viewed as a series of site-specific challenges, it showcases ethnographic fieldwork as ongoing analytic engagement with concrete social worlds. From engagements with boxing and nightlife to preschooling and migratory encampments, portrayed is a process that is anything but a set of pre-packaged challenges and hurdles of simple-minded procedural tropes such as entrée, rapport, and departure. Instead, ethnography emerges as what it has been from its beginnings: a rough-and-ready analytic matter of seeking understanding in unrecognized and diverse fields of interaction. Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in the practice of participant observation and related questions of research methTable of ContentsIntroduction: Contours of the Craft PART I: SITES 1. Insider Ethnography in Professional Boxing 2. Getting at the Experience of Confinement in Detention 3. Working Against Social Order in Documenting Imprisonment 4. Site Juxtaposition and Constitutive Comparison in Provisional Encampments PART II: SELVES 5. Is Ethnography Only for Early Career Researchers? 6. Senior Activists and Age Affiliations in Ethnographic Peering 7. Shifting Codes, Continual Vetting and Recurrent Rapport-Building 8. Creating Space for "Foreign Brides" to Talk Back PART III: SOCIAL WORLDS 9. Preschool Social Worlds in Interactional Context 10. Going Concerns of Ethnographic Membership 11. When Fieldwork Comes Home 12. Interpretive Complexity in Language Discordant Fieldwork PART IV: AFTERWORD Elaborating Contours of the Craft

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Book SynopsisMethods for Community-Based Research describes how Community-Based Research (CBR) is particularly suited to understand and take action on issues of educational justice.The book shifts assumptions about who is considered a researcher, drawing attention to issues of power and the ethics of collaborations, and foregrounding how those who have often been positioned as the objects of educational interventions canand have the rights toplay an active role in creating educational arrangements more conducive to their own flourishing.The authors draw on a decade-long partnership across the boundaries of race, language, immigration status, and institutional affiliation to provide examples that illustrate the complexities and possibilities of this work. They distill principles, practices, and ongoing inquiries for researchers to consider across all aspects of the research process.The book supports researchers in creating the conditions for collaborative inquiry int

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Book SynopsisWhat do animalsother than human animalshave to do with religion? How do our religious ideas about animals affect the lives of real animals in the world? How can we deepen our understanding of both animals and religion by considering them together? Animals and Religion explores how animals have crucially shaped how we understand ourselves, the other living beings around us, and our relationships with them.Through incisive analyses of religious examples from around the world, the original contributions to this volume demonstrate how animals have played key roles in every known religious tradition, whether as sacred beings, symbols, objects of concern, fellow creatures, or religious teachers. And through our religious imagination, ethics, and practices, we have deeply impacted animal lives, whether by domesticating, sacrificing, dominating, eating, refraining from eating, blessing, rescuing, releasing, commemorating, or contemplating them. Drawing primarily on perspectiveTable of ContentsOn Human Animal Being: An Opening Linda Hogan Introduction to Animals and Religion Aaron S. Gross, Dave Aftandilian, and Barbara R. Ambros Part I: Religion and Identity 1. L’nuwey Views of Animal Personhood and Their Implications Margaret Robinson 2. Animal Consciousness and Cognition Robert W. Mitchell and Mark A. Krause 3. Emotion Donovan O. Schaefer 4. Gender and Sexuality Katharine Mershon 5. Race, Animals, and a New Vision of the Beloved Community Christopher Carter 6. From Inspirational Beings to “Mad” Veg/ans: Tensions and Possibilities between Animal Studies and Disability Studies Alan Santinele Martino and Sarah May Lindsay 7. Human Beings and Animals: Same, Other, Indistinct? Matthew Calarco Part II: Religious Practices and Presence 8. Learning to Walk Softly: Intersecting Insect Lifeworlds in Everyday Buddhist Monastic Life Lina Verchery 9. An Islamic Case for Insect Ethics Sarra Tlili 10. Animal Theology Allison Covey 11. Blue Theology and Water Torah: People of Faith Caring for Marine Wildlife Dave Aftandilian 12. Animal Families in the Biblical Tradition Beth A. Berkowitz 13. The Cat Mitzvah: Jewish Literary Animals Andrea Dara Cooper 14. Blessings of Pets in Jewish and Christian Traditions Laura Hobgood 15. Becoming-Priceless through Sacrifice: A Goat for San Lázaro-Babalú Ayé Todd Ramón Ochoa 16. Refraining from Killing and Releasing Life? The Ethical Dilemmas of Animal Release Rituals in East Asia Barbara R. Ambros 17. Vegetarianism, Prohibited Meats, and Caring for Animals in Chinese Religious History Vincent Goossaert 18. The Difficult Virtue of Vegetarianism in Tibetan Buddhism Geoffrey Barstow 19. Veganism as Spiritual Practice Adrienne Krone 20. The Spiritual Practice of Providing Sanctuary for Animals Barbara Darling 21. Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics Kenneth R. Valpey 22. The Council of All Beings: A Deep Ecology Ritual Connecting People with Animals and the Natural World Eric D. Mortensen 23. Commemorating Animals in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.: Celebrating Kinship or Manifesting Difference? Barbara R. Ambros Part III: Religious Responses to Animal Lives 24. Contemplative Practices for Connecting to Animals (and Ourselves) Dave Aftandilian 25. Companion Animals Laura Hobgood 26. Domestication and Religion Nerissa Russell 27. The Ethics of Eating Animals: Jewish Responses Aaron S. Gross 28. Meditations on Living with Ghosts: The Settlement Legacy of Buffalo Extinction James Hatley 29. Urban Wildlife: Threats, Opportunities, and Religious Responses Seth B. Magle and Dave Aftandilian 30. The Connection We Share: Animal Spirituality and the Science of Sacred Encounters Barbara Smuts, Becca Franks, Monica Gagliano, and Christine Webb. About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLanguage Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics. The first introductory guide of its kind, it is presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. The book includes numerous examples of the sources and types of data used in this field, as well as the various factors affecting language demography. Taking a global perspective supported by examples, it gives explanations of how demolinguistic analyses are performed and their main applications in relation to minority and majority languages.Language Demography will be of interest to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from linguistics and modern languages to sociology, anthropology, and human geography.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Demography and DemolinguisticsDemolinguistics and GeodemolinguisticsDemolinguistics and GeographyDenominations for DemolinguisticsThe Precursors of DemolinguisticsSummary2. Linguistics for DemographersFundamental Linguistic ConceptsGeographic ConsiderationsPsychosocial ConsiderationsSocial and Ethnic ConsiderationsLanguage VitalitySummary3. Demography for LinguistsPopulationComposition of the PopulationPopulation DistributionDemographic ChangesMigrationsFrom Facts to TheoriesSummary4. Demolinguistic Data and SourcesDataSourcesAdministrative RegistersCensusesSurveys International and Digital SourcesEncyclopedias, Catalogs, and Other SourcesSummary5. Demolinguistic FactorsSpeakers and Their CommunitiesSpeaker ProfilesExplanatory FactorsSummary6. Demolinguistic AnalysesObjectives and Levels of Demolinguistic AnalysisQualitative and Quantitative AnalysisThe Statistical Elements of DemographyErrors, Biases, and Changes in CriteriaGraphical RepresentationsSummary7. Applications of DemolinguisticsEthnic, Local, and Social Minority LanguagesImmigrant Minority Languages Regional and National LanguagesTransnational Majority LanguagesSummaryConclusion

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Book SynopsisExtracting Reconciliation argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources.Making use of two historical case studies concerned with the intersection of resource extraction, Crown/Inuit relations, and waste legacies in Nunavut, Canada, the authors illuminate the mechanisms of colonial and neoliberal governance globally that promise reconciliation while delivering the status quo. Through Indigenous and non-Indigenous anticolonial and posthuman concepts and theories, the book engages with the inhuman politics of settler colonial extractivism and explores the socio-ethical social justice dimensions, political possibilities, and environmental implications of a much more challenging and accountable reckoning between (settler) colonialism and Indigenous land rights.This book is of interest to students and scholars in gender studies, postcolonial Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Reconciling Reconciliation; 2. Reconciling Geology; 3. Reconciling Resource Extraction; 4. Reconciling Waste; Conclusions: Reckoning

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Book SynopsisBusiness Anthropology: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues in the field. It introduces readers to the application of anthropological theory and practice to real world examples in industry and will assist students in developing awareness, skill, and perspectives to help address real life situations they encounter in the world.Topics covered include: Defining applied, design and digital anthropology Explaining key research methods and approaches used in industry, government, and non-profit sectors Investigating issues internal to an organization that assist in managing change Covering topics like marketing communications, user experience, product development and entrepreneurship Explaining ways for organizations to partner and interact with communities, economics and politics to implement change Discussing approaches to encourage public conversation about social Table of Contents1. Introduction to Business Anthropology 2. Methodologies of Cultural Analysis 3. Anthropology in Consumer Research 4. Organizational Anthropology 5. Design Anthropology 6. A Digital Anthropology approach to Culture 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEthnomusicology and its Intimacies situates intimacy, a concept that encompasses a wide range of often informal social practices and processes for building closeness and relationality, within the ethnomusicological study of music and sound. These scholarly essays reflect on a range of interactions between individuals and communities that deepen connections and associations, and which may be played out relatively briefly or nurtured over time.Three major sections on Performance, Auto/biographical Strategies, and Film are each prefaced by an interview with a scholar or practitioner with close knowledge of the subject that links the chapters in that section. Often drawing directly on fieldwork experience in a variety of contexts, authors consider how concepts of intimacy can illuminate the ethnographic study of music, addressing questions such as: how can we understand ethnomusicological and ethnographic research and performance as processes of musically mediated intimaTable of ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Musical Intimacy in PerformanceIntrospection I Chapter 1: The Intimacy of InterlockingChapter 2: Spiritual and Emotional Dimensions of Female Lullaby Singing in AfghanistanChapter 3: Afghan Wars and Musical IntimacyPart II: Intimate Confessions and Biographical StrategiesIntrospection II Chapter 4: Radio and the Music ConfessionalChapter 5: Amīr Kòhusraw Between Balkh and Delhi: The Transnational Legacies of an Indo-Afghan Poet-Musician Chapter 6: Meetings With Masterly Musicians: Collaboration, Creation, and Curation in the Pursuit of Ethnomusicological KnowledgeChapter 7: Searching for a Voice: An Anatolian TalePart III: Filmic IntimaciesIntrospection III Chapter 8: Intimacy in Ethnographic Film: Listening to How to Improve the World by Nguyễn Trinh ThiChapter 9: The Sonic Intimacies of Khosrow Sinai’s A Lost Requiem (1983)Chapter 10: Intoxicated Intimacies: Drunken Heroes in Greek Popular Film and SongEpilogue: Digital Ethnomusicology in a Socially-Distanced World

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Book SynopsisBrazil after Bolsonaro captures and presents the voices of a wide range of stakeholders including academics and journalists in Brazil and abroad to produce the first systematic engagement with Lula's latest presidency.Providing fair and balanced perspectives on Lula, the authors examine the legacy of Lula's previous presidency; what happened in the interim in the eras of Rousseff, Temer, and Bolsonaro; and what are the challenges facing a new Lula administration. This book is divided into three main sections (Background to change, Context and issues, and Foreign policy) and chapters detail the political, social, and economic dimensions of change in Brazil and its wider repercussions. A fourth section sees Luís Guillermo Solís Rivera, President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018, offer reflections on Lula from the perspective of a fellow president.Assuming no prior knowledge and written in an accessible style, this book is ideal for those seeking to further their Trade Review"This volume offers a timely and insightful overview of Lula's return to office and the challenges faced by his new administration. The contributors—including leading experts in the field—provide clear analysis of topics including the political conflicts of the last decade, the persistence of Bolsonarismo, and the politics of social spending, higher education, Black representation, public security, human rights and environmental protections. This is an extremely valuable contribution to understanding current Brazil, both for specialists and a broader audience."Bryan McCann, Georgetown University"This insightful book is about the electoral defeat of the extreme-right populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, by a democratic coalition that gave Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva his third term in the presidential office. It is also about the legacy of political radicalization and destruction of state capacities the new president will have to face and overcome. Certainly, a topic of greatest interest for readers that care for the future of democratic politics worldwide."Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, University of São Paulo“This is an essential book to understand today’s Brazil and Lula, whose success is paramount for the aspirational Global South.”Krishnan Srinivasan, The Wire"[The] first in-depth assessment of the country's shifting political scene since the sea-change of the October 2022 presidential poll."Robert Plummer, The Round TableTable of ContentsPart 1: The person and situation 1. Lula and the PT in Brazilian politics, 1980-2022 2. A new chance for Lula 3. Why Bolsonaro failed, just Part 2: Context and issues 4. A tropical Game of Thrones: Courts and executive-legislature relations from Bolsonaro to Lula 5. The return of Lula and the challenges facing Brazil’s economy: will the chicken fly? 6. Social issues 7. Education 8. Black Identity, mobilisation and politics in Brazil 9. Crime, violence and public security 10. Human rights and justice 11. Lula and Amazonia 12. Lula’s comeback – a new era for Indigenous peoples? Part 3: Foreign policy 13. Pink Tide Revisited – Bolsonarismo, Social Movements and the Future of South American Integration 14. Brazil in the world Part 4: The perspective of another President 15. Personal reflections – a colleague’s reflections on Lula

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As forensic human identification receives increased global attention, practitioners, policy makers, and students need an appropriate resource that describes current methods and modalities that have shaped todayâs policies and protocols. A supplemental follow-up to Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction, Advances in Forensic Human Identification covers advances in the most well-known scientific techniques and discusses new and developing subjects and modalities of human identification.A collection of contributions from worldwide experts, the book embraces a broad context and looks at several issues beyond physical identification of human remains or offenders. The book examines online, sexual, and biometric identities and discusses problems associated with investigative practice, such as the developing use of the Internet as a distribution and communication medium for criminal activities. It also explores miscarriages of justice that can result from flawed

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Book SynopsisEngaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and interdisciplinary array of scholars have been brought together to provide an extensive source of regional and trans-regional competencies, and a systematic and critical discussion of the field's central methodological concepts and terms. Based on a wide range of case studies, the book is divided into twenty-seven chapters across which cultural, social, and political issues relating to transculturality from Antiquity to today and within both Asian and European regions are explored. Key terms related to the field of transculturality are also discussed within each chapter, and the rich variety of approaches provided by the contributing authors offer the reader an expansive look into the field of transculturality. Offering a wealth of expertise, and equipped with a selection of illustrations, thTable of ContentsPart I: Delineating Transculturality; Part II: Transcultural Spaces and Agents; Part III: Transcultural Temporalities; Part IV: Transcultural Semantics; Part V: The Transcultural Lens

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Book SynopsisDespite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers. Ways of Walking combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored ''technique of the body''. This book presents studies of walking in a range of regional and cultural contexts, exploring the diversity of walking behaviours and the variety of meanings these can embody. As an original collection of ethnographic work that is both coherent in design and imaginative in scope, this primarily anthropological book includes contributions from geographers, sociologists and specialists in education and architecture, offering insights into human movement, landscape and social life. With its interdisciplinary nature and truly international appeal, Ways of Walking will be of interest to scholars across a range of social sciences, as well as to policy makers on both local and national levels.Trade Review'This is a marvelously detailed book about many different forms of pedestrianism. I strongly recommend Ways of Walking for its really good analyses of just how walking has been and still is fundamental to human life.' John Urry, Lancaster University, UK 'The humble art of walking has been virtually ignored in the social sciences. This excellent book teaches us otherwise. Walking is shown to be absolutely fundamental to how we think, how we act and how we dwell.' Christopher Tilley, University College London, UK 'This fascinating collection, edited by Aberdeen-based anthropologists Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst, unveils the tacit nature of walking and will likely make most readers take a different stroll through their own ethnographic data. The volume convincingly demonstrates that walking is not merely another field of enquiry, but an integral, and often forgotten, aspect of social life per se.' Social Anthropology 'The eclectic accounts of walking collated in Ways of Walking illustrate how fundamental moving on foot is to human life. The content is engaging and varied. The reader is transported, chapter by chapter, to far-flung places in urban and rural settings in the developed and developing worlds. ...This is a fascinating book that will heighten the reader's awareness of walking practices - their own as well as others.' New Zealand Geographer 'Whilst each chapter in itself offers an intriguing ethnographic insight into the ways of walking, the collection as a whole opens up into a rich, engrossing, and highly enjoyable conversation.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 'The collection edited by Ingold and Vergunst sets a standard for work on what it is to walk and to know place and the relationship between the two. The work of the editors can be found at the heart of contemporary debates and research regarding mobility, knowledge and perception.' SociologyTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction, Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst; Before a step too far: walking with Batek hunter-gatherers in the forests of Pahang, Malaysia, Lye Tuck-Po; Walking stories: leaving footprints, Allice Legat; The dilemmas of walking: a comparative view, Thomas Widlok; Feet following hooves, Pernille Gooch; Performing on the landscape versus doing landscape: perambulatory practice, sight and the sense of belonging, Kenneth R. Olwig; Listen to the sound of time: walking with saints in an Andalusian village, Katrín Lund; Taking a trip and taking care in everyday life, Jo Lee Vergunst; Walking through ruins, Tim Edensor; Walking out of the classroom: learning on the streets of Aberdeen, Elizabeth Curtis; Enchantment engineering and pedestrian empowerment: the Geneva case, Sonia Lavadinho and Yves Winkin; 'Taking a line for a walk': walking as an aesthetic practice, Raymond Lucas; A collectable topography: walking, remembering and recording mountains, Hayden Lorimer and Katrín Lund; Index.

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Book SynopsisGendering Migration demonstrates the significance of studying migration through the lens of gender and ethnicity and the contribution this perspective makes to migration histories. Through a consideration of the impact of migration on men and masculine identities as well as women and feminine identities, it extends our understanding of questions of gender and migration, focusing on the history of migration to Britain after the Second World War. The volume draws on oral narratives as well as documentary and archival research to demonstrate the important role played by gender and ethnicity, both in ideas and images of migrants and in migrants'' own experiences. The contributors consider a range of migrant and refugee groups who came to Britain in the twentieth century: Caribbean, East-African Asian, German, Greek, Irish, Kurdish, Pakistani, Polish and Spanish. The fresh interpretations offered here make this an important new book for scholars and students of migration, ethnicity, gendeTrade Review'Based on a series of fascinating case studies, this book makes a major contribution to the mainstreaming of gender - both male and female - into the study of migration, race and ethnicity. Focusing on both well-known and lesser-known migrant groups who have arrived in Britain since the war, the volume enriches our understanding of the gendered texture of Britain's so-called multicultural society.' Russell King, University of Sussex, UK 'This survey makes a case for the significance of studying trends related to gender and ethnicity within studies of migration. The collection of essays therein examine the history of migration in post World War Two Britain and, in so doing, draw on a range of sources, from archival research to interviews with migrants. In sum, the essays explore how the intersection of gender and ethnicity affects both the ways in which recent migrants to Britain have been represented as well as how migrants themselves construe their varied identities and experiences.' Ethnicity and Race in Changing World: A Review JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction, Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster; 'The black peril': race, masculinity and migration during the First World War, Richard Smith; Britain and the refugees of Europe, 1939-50, Wendy Webster; Bilateral relations: British soldiers and German women, Inge Weber-Newth; Male and female Polishness in post-war Leicester: gender and its intersections in a refugee community, Kathy Burrell; Gender, race and the ideal labour force, Dolly Smith Wilson; Notions of 'home' and belonging among Greeks in the UK, Venetia Evergeti; Becoming nurses: Irish women, migration and identity through the life course, Louise Ryan; Spaniards in the UK - a successful female post-industrial migration, Tony Morgan; Gender and generation in Pakistani migration: a critical study of masculinity, Ali Nobil Ahmad; 'No job for a grown man': transformations in labour and masculinity among Kurdish migrants in London, Sarah J. Keeler; Masculinity and migration: life stories of East African Asian men, Joanna Herbert; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the difficult conditions researchers may face in the field and provides lessons in how to navigate the various social, political, economic, health, and environmental challenges involved in fieldwork. It also sheds important light on aspects often considered secret or taboo. From anthropologists just starting out to those with over forty years in the field, these researchers offer the benefit of their experience conducting research in diverse cultures around the world. The contributions combine engaging personal narrative with consideration of theory and methods. The volume emphasizes how being adaptable, and aware, of the many risks and rewards of ethnographic research can help foster success in quantitative and qualitative data collection. This is a valuable resource for students of anthropological methods and those about to embark on fieldwork for the first time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Bonnie L. Hewlett Part 1: Paths into the Field 1. Learning Fields Vishvajit Pandya 2. Stumbling Around the Sacred: Some Personal Observations Benjamin Grant Purzycki 3. From the Orinoco to Sorority Row: Searching for a Field Site as an Evolutionary Anthropologist Nicole Hess Part 2: Gendered Relations and Other Challenges in the Field 4. Doing Ethnomusicological Research as a White Woman in Cameroon and the Central African Republic Susanne Fürniss 5. A Boss, a Mother, a Red Antelope, and All the Things in Between Sylvie Le Bomin 6. Culturally Appropriate Solutions to Fieldwork Challenges Among the Mbendjele BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin Daša Bombjaková Part 3: The Observer and the Observed: The Metamorphosis of Research, Methods, and the Researcher 7. My Life in the School of Hard Knocks: How an Aspiring Anthropologist Became a White Cameroonian Robert Moïse 8. Spā߀min, Ethnographers and Mixed Methods Robert Quinlan 9. Mothering in the Field: Participant Observation on Cultural Transmission Victoria Reyes-García 10. The Quiet Joy of Fieldworkers in the Kalahari Akira Takada Part 4: Dangerous Fields 11. The Origins of Surviving Fieldwork - Nancy Howell 12. When All Hell Breaks Loose: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork Amid Gunplay, Catastrophe, and Mayhem J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat Part 5: Ethics, Advocacy, and Other Everyday Moral Dilemmas of Research 13. Surviving Agta Fieldwork Thomas N. Headland with Janet D. Headland 14. Do You Consent to Participate in the Research Study? Paul Verdu 15. Who Owns the Poop? And Other Ethical Dilemmas Facing an Anthropologist Who Works at the Interface of Biological Research and Indigenous Rights Alyssa Crittenden 16. But What if the "Field" is a Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory? How it Happened, What it’s Like. The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly James J. McKenna Appendix: Regional Packing List and Other Favorite Items in the Field

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Book SynopsisRecent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally.The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, Table of ContentsI: Caste and Social Structure; 1: Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Society and Culture; 2: Family, J?ti, Village; 3: A Comparative Analysis of Caste: The United States and India 1; II: The Structure of Intercaste Relations; 4: Caste Regions of the North Indian Plain; 5: Toward A Grammar of Defilement in Hindu Sacred Law; 6: Caste Ranking and Food Transactions: A Matrix Analysis; 7: Caste and World View: The Application of Survey Research Methods; III: Is the Caste System Changing?; 8: Mobility in the Caste System; 9: Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century Caste System; 10: The Politics of Untouchability: A Case from Agra, India; IV: Caste in Politics, Economics, and Law; 11: Structures of Politics in the Villages of Southern Asia; 12: Caste and Merchant Communities; 13: Changing Legal Conceptions of Caste; V: The Joint Family, Its Structures and Changes; 14: Region, Caste, And Family Structure; 15: Chitpavan Brahman Family Histories: Sources for a Study of Social Structure and Social Change in Maharashtra; 16: Time-Dimension and Structural Change in an Indian Kinship System: A Problem of Conceptual Refinement; 17: 17. The Indian Joint Family In Modern Industry; VI: Language and Social Structure; 18: Social Dialect and Semantic Structure in South Asia; 19: The Structure of Variation: a Study in Caste Dialects; 20: Occupation and Residence in Relation to Dharwar Dialects

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Book SynopsisFrom antiquity to the present, many have written on the subject of beauty, but precious few have done so with the capacity themselves to write beautifully. The Sense of Beauty is that rare exception. This remarkable early work of the great American philosopher, George Santayana, features a quality of prose that is as wondrous as what he had to say. Indeed, his summation remains a flawless classical statement. Beauty seems to be the clearest manifestation of perfection, and the best evidence of its possibility. If perfection is, as it should be, the ultimate justification of being, we may understand the ground of the moral dignity of beauty. Be''auty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.The editor of this new edition, John McGormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history Table of ContentsPart I. The Nature of Beauty, Part II. The Materials of Beauty, Part III. Form, Part IV. Expression.

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Book SynopsisRace in Psychoanalysis analyzes the often-unrecognized racism in psychoanalysis by examining how the colonialist discourse of late nineteenth-century anthropology made its way into Freud's foundational texts, where it has remained and continues to exert a hidden influence. Recent racial violence, particularly in the US, has made many realize that academic and professional disciplines, as well as social and political institutions, need to be re-examined for the racial biases they may contain. Psychoanalysis is no exception.When Freud applied his insights to the history of the psyche and of civilization, he made liberal use of the anthropology of his time, which was steeped in colonial, racist thought. Although it has often been assumed that this usage was confined to his non-clinical works, this book argues that through the pivotal concept of primitivity, it fed back into his theories of the psyche and of clinical technique as well.Celia Brickman Trade Review"Celia Brickman’s masterpiece, Race In Psychoanalysis, is one of only a handful of books that I would describe as having profoundly changed the way I think about Freud and the development of psychoanalysis...Brickman’s book will remain a classic and generations of analysts will need to study it to understand and reconceptualize the most fundamental assumptions and tenets of psychoanalysis..."-from the foreword by Lewis Aron, Ph.D., Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis."Brickman’s remarkably innovative work turns the lens of post-colonial theory on the unconscious racial assumptions of psychoanalysis, offering a new and radical take on the central tension in Freud’s thoughts between valorizing and undermining the idea of the "civilized" world. Erudite, lucid and compelling, Race in Psychoanalysis is a timely argument for transforming psychoanalysis into a genuinely critical theory of the repudiation of the Other. It should be read by all students of psychoanalysis as well as everyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and its contribution to modern thought."-Jessica Benjamin, author of Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third.""In Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind, Celia Brickman illuminates the manner in which our colonialist and enslaving past continues to reverberate within the construction of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Taking a thoughtful and detailed tour through the history of Freud’s relationship with the sociopolitical forces within Europe during his time, Brickman chronicles the various iterations of the use of the darkened masses as timeless and primitive. Illuminating the way race and racialized object relations permeate our canonical texts, her perspective is a wonderful new resource to locate pathways to a multicultural, racial, and ethnically diverse discourse within theory construction and training in psychoanalysis."The pitfalls and paradoxes concerning race that are embedded within the field" become points of access for those perceived as other, not-white, and different from whiteness to become psychoanalysts. Brickman points to the lived psychodynamics of racialization as the way to further Freud’s wish that his project be for the people."-Annie Lee Jones, Ph.D., clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak."Celia Brickman’s masterpiece, Race In Psychoanalysis, is one of only a handful of books that I would describe as having profoundly changed the way I think about Freud and the development of psychoanalysis...Brickman’s book will remain a classic and generations of analysts will need to study it to understand and reconceptualize the most fundamental assumptions and tenets of psychoanalysis..."Lewis Aron, Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis."Brickman’s remarkably innovative work turns the lens of post-colonial theory on the unconscious racial assumptions of psychoanalysis, offering a new and radical take on the central tension in Freud’s thoughts between valorizing and undermining the idea of the "civilized" world. Erudite, lucid and compelling, Race in Psychoanalysis is a timely argument for transforming psychoanalysis into a genuinely critical theory of the repudiation of the Other. It should be read by all students of psychoanalysis as well as everyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and its contribution to modern thought."Jessica Benjamin, author of Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third.""In Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind, Celia Brickman illuminates the manner in which our colonialist and enslaving past continues to reverberate within the construction of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Taking a thoughtful and detailed tour through the history of Freud’s relationship with the sociopolitical forces within Europe during his time, Brickman chronicles the various iterations of the use of the darkened masses as timeless and primitive. Illuminating the way race and racialized object relations permeate our canonical texts, her perspective is a wonderful new resource to locate pathways to a multicultural, racial, and ethnically diverse discourse within theory construction and training in psychoanalysis."The pitfalls and paradoxes concerning race that are embedded within the field" become points of access for those perceived as other, not-white, and different from whiteness to become psychoanalysts. Brickman points to the lived psychodynamics of racialization as the way to further Freud’s wish that his project be for the people."Annie Lee Jones, clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak."Equipped with a mastery of post-colonial theory, critical race theory, feminist critique and theories from religious studies, as well as a sophisticated understanding of psychoanalytic theory, Ms Brickman offers us a radical perspective on Freud's meta-psychological, cultural and clinical thought. Ms Brickman offers cogent summaries of Freud's writings and extrapolates numerous examples from a vast body of clinical and cultural texts demonstrating a deep familiarity with his oeuvre."Romy A. Reading is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in individual psychological treatment for adults and adolescents. To read this review in full, please see the following: Reading, R. A. (2021) Race in psychoanalysis: aboriginal populations in the mind: by Celia Brickman, New York, Routledge, 2018, 234 pp., £25.89, ISBN: 9781138749399. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 102:642-645Table of ContentsForeword; Preface to the new edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The figure of the primitive: a brief genealogy; 2. Psychoanalysis and the colonial imagination: evolutionary thought in Freud’s texts; 3. Race and gender, primitivity and femininity: psychologies of enthrallment; 4. Historicizing consciousness: time, history, and religion; 5. Race and primitivity in the clinical encounter; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself generated political innovation and thus enabled political centralization to occur. It moves beyond a Great Tradition focus on elite religion to understand how local political authority was negotiated, contesTable of Contents1. New directions in the archaeology of religion and politics in the Americas by Arthur A. Joyce 2. The mobile house: religious leadership at Chacoan and Chacoan revival centers by Erina Gruner 3. The elements of Cahokian shrine complexes and basis of Mississippian religion by Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat 4. Cherokee religion and European contact in southeastern North America by Christopher B. Rodning 5. Unsettled gods: religion and politics in the Early Formative Soconusco by Sarah B. Barber 6. Religion, urbanism, and inequality in ancient central Mexico by David M. Carballo 7. Religion in a material world by Rosemary A. Joyce 8. Political engagement in household ritual among the Maya of Yucatan by Scott R. Hutson, Céline C. Lamb, and David Medina Arona9. Ritual is power? Religion as a possible base of power for early political actors in ancient Peru by Matthew Piscitelli 10. Timing is everything: religion and the regulation of temporalities in precolumbian Peru by Edward Swenson 11. From landscape to ontology in Amazonia: the Llanos de Mojos as a middle ground by John H. Walker 12. The multivalent mollusk: spondylus, ritual, and politics in the prehispanic Andes by Jerry D. Moore 13. Power at the crossroads of politics and religion: a commentary by María Nieves Zedeño

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Book SynopsisUncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.This book offers new perspectives on the central issues of uncertainty and possibility, and identifies new research methods which take advantage of disruptive and experimental techniques. Advancing a practical agenda for future making, it reveals how uncertainty can be engaged as a generative technology' for understanding, researching and intervening in the world. Drawing on key themes in creative methodologies, such as making, essaying, inhabiting and attuning, chapters explore contemporary sites of practice. The book looks at maker spaces and technology design, the imaginaries of architectural design, the temporalities of built cultural heritage, and interdisciplinary making and performing. Based on the authors'' own academic work and their appliTrade ReviewA welcome contribution to this disciplinary hybrid ... Provokes a kind of uncertainty that the reader needs to embrace in order to explore the possibilities that the book may generate for the future of design anthropology. Indeed, if this is intended, the book succeeds. And it is, I believe, its key strength. - AnthroposTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Author Biographies 1. Approaching Uncertainty 2. What is Uncertainty? 3 Uncertainty as Technology4. Strategies for Disruption, Yoko Akama (RMIT University, Australia), Elisenda Ardevol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain), Deborah Lanzeni (RMIT University, RMIT EU, Spain), Ann Light (University of Sussex, UK), Katherine Moline (University of New South Wales: Art & Design, Australia), Sarah Pink (RMIT University, Australia), Shanti Sumartojo (RMIT University, Australia)5. Surrendering to and Tracing Uncertainty, Tom Jackson (University of Leeds, UK), YokoAkama, Sarah Pink, Shanti Sumartojo 6. Uncertainty as Technology for Moving Beyond, David Carlin (RMIT University, Australia),Yoko Akama, Sarah Pink, Shanti Sumartojo 7. Propositions and Practical Applications References Index

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Book SynopsisSomalis are one of the most chastised Muslim communities in Europe. Depicted in the news as victims of female genital mutilation, perpetrators of gang violence, or more recently, as radical Islamists, Somalis have been cast as a threat to social cohesion, national identity, and security in Britain and beyond. Somali, Muslim, British shifts attention away from these public representations to provide a detailed ethnographic study of Somali Muslim women's engagements with religion, political discourses, and public culture in the United Kingdom. The book chronicles the aspirations of different generations of Somali women as they respond to publicly charged questions of what it means to be Muslim, Somali, and British. By challenging and reconfiguring the dominant political frameworks in which they are immersed, these women imagine new ways of being in securitized Britain. Giulia Liberatore provides a nuanced account of Islamic piety, arguing that it needs to be understood as one among many Trade ReviewIn this fine ethnography, Giulia Liberatore traces Somali women’s explorations of their Islamic tradition across generations and across London, as they critically assess diverse teachers and preachers. All those interested in Muslims in the West should read this lucid and penetrating analysis. * John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, USA *At the heart of this ethnography lies the ways in which Somali women in London strive to embody new forms of moral Muslim womanhood in an environment that, even as it offers opportunities, also stereotypes and others them. Thoughtfully conceptualized and contextualized, skilfully woven into the wider historiographies on Somalia and the Somali and Muslim diaspora, and couched in vivid and accessible language, this book is a must-read for specialist and general readers alike. * Lidwien Kapteijns, Wellesley College, USA *In this important and detailed contribution, Liberatore very much gives the floor to her research participants. What emerges perhaps challenges some of the conventional thought around Islam and Muslims in Britain, and certainly ensures that British Somali Muslims cannot be an afterthought in British Muslim identity politics or research agendas. * Nasar Meer, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on Language1. Introduction2. An Ethnography with Somali Women in London3. Memories of Modern Mogadishu4. Tuition Centres and Somali Mosques: Raising Good Daughters in London5. Updating Soomaalinimo: Young Somalis and the Problematization of Culture6. Mosque Hopping: Seeking Islamic Knowledge in London7. Multiculturalism, British Values, and the Muslim Subject8. Imagining an Ideal Husband9. Beyond PreventReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions concerning human nature and the nature of cooperation. The editors present a wide range of vivid anthropological case-studies focused on everyday cooperation in Chinese communities, for example, between children in Nanjing playing a ballgame; parents in Edinburgh organising a community school; villagers in Yunnan dealing with common pool resource problems; and families in Kinmen in Taiwan worshipping their dead together. On the one hand, these case studies illustrate some uniquely Chinese cultural factors, such as those related to kinship ideals and institutions that shape the experience and practice of cooperation. They also illustrate, on the other handTable of ContentsContributor biographies Preface: The Morality of Chinese Cooperation, Charles Stafford (London Schoolof Economics, UK), Ellen Judd (University of Manitoba, Canada) and Eona Bell (Cambridge University, UK)1. Kin and non-kin cooperation in China, Charles (London Schoolof Economics, UK)2. Playing ball: Cooperation and competition in two Chinese primary schools, Anni Kajanus (University of Helsinki, Finland)3. The role of xiao in moral reputation management and cooperation in urban China andTaiwan, Désirée Remmert (London School of Economics, UK)4. Harmony ideology in Chinese families: Cooperating despite unfairness, Magdalena Wong (ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 5. Cooperation in funerals in a patrilineal village in Jinmen (Taiwan), Hsiao-Chiao Chiu (University of Edinburgh, UK)6. Memory leaks: Local histories of cooperation as a solution to water-related cooperationProblems, Andrea E. Pia (London School of Economics, UK)7. Care as bureaucratic lubricant: The role of female care workers in an old people’s home in ruralChina, Cecilia Liu (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)8. Reputation, morality and power in an emigrant community ( qiaoxiang ) in GuangdongProvince, Meixuan Chen (University of Bristol, UK)9. Jiaoqing ethics and the sustainability of non-kin cooperation, Di Wu (Sun Yat-Sen University,China and SOAS, UK)10. Power, gender and ‘network-based cooperation’: A study of migrant workers in Shenzhen, I-Chieh Fang (NationalTsing Hua University, Taiwan)11. Challenges to ethnic cooperation among Hong Kong Chinese in Scotland, Eona Bell (Cambridge University, UK)12. Problems in the new cooperative movement: A window onto changing cooperation mechanisms, Mark Stanford (University of Oxford, UK)13. Cooperation, competition and care: Notes from China’s New Rural Cooperative MedicalSystem, Ellen R. Judd (University of Manitoba, Canada)Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMaterial Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology, history and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union, from Peter the Great to Putin.Material culture in Russia and the USSR holds a particularly important role, as the distinction between private and public spheres has at times developed in radically different ways than in many places in the more commonly studied West. With case studies covering alcohol, fashion, cinema, advertising and photography among other topics, this wide-ranging collection offers an unparalleled survey of material culture in Russia and the USSR and addresses core questions such as: what makes Russian and Soviet material culture distinctive; who produces it; what values it portrays; and how it relates to ''high culture'' and consumer culture.Trade Review"Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values, Identities is a welcome addition to what is still an underrepresented field, studies of the material culture of Eastern Europe. - H-Net The book is an important contribution to the field, and its strongest chapters contextualize material culture in Russia and the USSR by placing it in a global and transnational perspective, allowing us to identify the particular meanings of objects in a Russian and Soviet setting while linking these objects to worldwide patterns of consumption and exchange. - The Russian Review In his introduction to Material Culture in Russia and the USSR, Graham Roberts not only offers a solid definition of what constitutes material culture, but also argues that the 11 articles in this collection bridge the gap between Slavic and material culture studies. - Canadian Slavonic Papers"Table of ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values, Identities Graham H. Roberts, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défence, France1. Windows in Russian Peasant Dwellings in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Ivan R. Sokolovskii, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia2. Equalizing Misery, Differentiating Objects: The Material World of the Stalinist Exile Emilia Koustova, University of Strasbourg, France3. Constructing Soviet Domesticity and Managing Everyday Life from Khrushchev to Collapse Anna Alekseyeva, University of Oxford, UK4. Photographs in Contemporary Russian Rural and Urban Interiors Olga Boitsova, University of St. Petersburg, Russia5. Russian Culture through a Shot Glass: The Shustov Cognac Advertising Campaign 1910-12 Sally West, Truman State University, USA6. The Invention of Soviet Advertising Marjorie L. Hilton, Murray State University, USA7. Gender and the Emergence of the Soviet 'Citizen-Consumer' in Comparative Perspective Amy Randall, Santa Clara University, USA8. 'The Great Soviet Dream': Blue Jeans in the Brezhnev Era and Beyond Natalya Chernyshova, University of Winchester, UK9. 'The Disco Mafia' and 'Komsomol Capitalism' in Soviet Ukraine during Late Socialism Sergey I. Zhuk, Ball State University, USA10. The Material Culture of the Soviet Village between the 1950s and the 1980s as Represented in Soviet Feature Cinema Lyudmila Mazur and Oleg Gorbachev, Ural Federal University, Russia11. The Role of a Number of Key Places and Things of Soviet Material Culture in the Works of Lyudmila Ulitskaya Giulia Gigante, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BelgiumAfterword Alaina Lemon, University of Michigan, USABibliographyIndex

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