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Book SynopsisFrom the local to the global level, religion is â more than ever â an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture available. The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes new discussions of: the study of religion and culture in the twenty-first century texts, films and rituals cognitive approaches to religion globalization and multiculturalism spirituality in the West popular religion. With new case studies, linking cultural theory to real world religious experience and practice, and guides to further reading, Religion: The Basics is an essential buy for students wanting to get toTable of ContentsHow Power Operates in Religion. Gender Issues. The Role of Belief, Rituals, and Religious Texts. Religion in the Contemporary World. Is Religion the Same as Culture? How Does it Fit in With Modern Life? The Rise of Paganism

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Book SynopsisBronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.' Through vivid evocations of Kula life, including the building and launching of canoes, fishing expeditions and the role of myth and magic amongst the Kula people, Malinowski brilliantly describes an inter-island system of exchange - from gifts from father to son to swapping fish for yams - around which an entire community revolves. A classic of anthropology that did much to establish the primacy of painstaking fieldwork over the earlier anecdotal reports of travel writers, journalists and missionaries, it is a compelling insight into a world now largely lost from view. With a new forewTrade Review'No writer of our times has done more than Bronislaw Malinowski to bring together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living and the cool abstractions of science.' - Robert Redfield'A contribution of the first rank to anthropological and sociological liteature.' EconomicaTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition. Introduction: The Subject The Method and Scope of This Enquiry. 1. The Country and Inhabitants of the Kula District. 2. The Natives of the Trobriand Islands. 3. The Essentials of The Kula. 4. Canoes and Sailing. 5. The Ceremonial Building of A Waga. 6. Launching of a Conoe and Ceremonial Visiting - Tribal Economics in The Trobriands. 7. The Departure of an Overseas Expedition. 8. The First Halt of The Fleet on Muwa. 9. Sailing on the Sea-Arm of Pilolu. 10. The Story of Shipwreck. 11. In the Amphletts- Sociology of The Kula. 12. In Teewara and Sanaroa- Mythology of the Kula. 13. On the Beach of Sarubwoyna. 14. The Kula in Dobu-Technicalities of The Exchange. 15. The Journey Home- The Fishing and Working of The Kaloma Shell. 16. The Return Visit of The Dobuans to Sinaketa. 17. Magic and the Kula. 18. The Power of Words in Magic-Some Linguistic Data. 19. The Inland Kula. 20. Expeditions Between Kiriwina and Kitava. 21. The Remaining Branches and Offshoots of The Kula. 22. The Meaning of Kula. Index

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Book SynopsisAn Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these âdematerialisationsâ, this book situates the way some people disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound implications for our understanding of personhood and materiality. Using case studies which range widely in time over Western societies and the technologies of materialising the immaterial, from icons to the scanning tunnelling microscope and 3-D printing, Buchli addresses the significance of immateriality for our own economics, cultural perceptions, and emerging forms of social inclusion and exclusion. An Archaeology of the Immaterial is thus an important and innovative contribution to material cultural studies which demonstrates that the making of the immaterial is, like the making of the material, a profoundly powerful operation which works to exert social control and delineate the borders of the imaginable and the enfranchised. Table of Contents1. Introduction Chapter 2: Immateriality and the Ascetic Object in late Antiquity 3: The Christian Ascetic Object and the Reformation 4. The Reformation 5. The Twentieth Century

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing. Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objects is an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the self but a pivot for reflexivity and introspection, a tool for autobiographic elaboration, a way of knowing oneself through things.Trade Review"[T]he book's heart really lies in the vicissitudes of personal experience, and the ethnographer's relationships with certain individuals. In this respect, the book properly takes its place among other recent works that center on the particularities of experience. Here the author's long fieldwork in Kodi serves her well." -- Indonesia"The stories are beautifully told, and Hoskins makes it easy to enjoy them. ...she is a very welcome guide, helping the reader follow the chains of metaphors that turn experience into poetry. Any student who has suffered through Saussure and Levi-Strauss deserves the pleasure of reading this book." -- The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Betel Bag; Chapter 3 Domesticating Animals and Wives; Chapter 4 The Royal Snake Shroud; Chapter 5 Spindles and Spinsters; Chapter 6 The Drum and Masculinity; Chapter 7 Green Bottles and Green Death; Chapter 8 Conclusions;

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Book SynopsisIn this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular brands of postmodern thought.Trade Review"Eagleton shows his firm grasp of political tactics and knowledge of history. It is exceptional" Steven Donovan Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Beginnings. 2. Ambivalences. 3. Histories. 4. Subjects. 5. Fallacies. 6. Contradictions. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of the Berber-speaking peoples. From the first appearance of humans in the Maghreb, through the rise of the formidable Berber kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania, the book traces the origins of the distinct characteristics of these disparate and segmented people.Trade Review"Brett and Fentress have produced a remarkable study of the Berber-speaking peoples of North Africa that is both scholarly and highly readable." American Journal of Archaeology. "Fentress and Brett combine their efforts to produce a well-rounded history of the Berbers ... a solid introduction for English-speaking students at all levels." CHOICE. 'Here at long last is a decent and thoroughly worthwhile general book on Berbers.' Journal of North African StudiesTable of ContentsList of Plates x List of Figures xii List of Maps xiv Series Editors' Preface xv Preface xvii Introduction 1 1. Berbers in Antiquity 10 2. The Empire and the Other: Romans and Berbers 50 3. The Unification of North Africa by Islam 81 4. The Arabization of North Africa 120 5. The Wheel of State 154 6. Pastoral Berbers: Nomads, Slaves and Saints 200 7. The Society and its Habitat 231 8. Berbers and Berberism 271 Notes 283 Bibliography 319 Index 340

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Book SynopsisOur notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love depends on overcoming it. Miller traverses literature, philosophy, history, political theory, and psychology to show how disgust animates our world.Trade ReviewWilliam Ian Miller...meticulously dissects the notion of disgust with the rigor of a legal brief, trying to determine its boundaries and powers. -- Edward Rothstein * New York Times *Having ably dissected humiliation in his 1993 book of that title, Miller now sets his keen insights on something even more fundamental to the human condition: disgust. It is easy to dismiss disgust as a mere gut-level twinge; after all, the word (and thus, to some extent, the concept) did not even enter the English language until the 17th century. But Miller convincingly argues for disgust's wide-ranging cultural influence...With an Aristotelian zeal and thoroughness, he proceeds to explore the ramifications of disgust's various manifestations, from its role as the strict guardian of social hierarchies to its place as the gentle handmaiden of civilization...Miller has done a tasteful and intelligent job of shedding light on the muck of our most visceral and primordial emotion. * Kirkus Reviews *This is unique: an investigation into disgust and how we manage to sublimate aversion into sociological, psychological, and cultural channels...Readers willing to overcome their own disgust may find [Miller's idea] a brilliant one and also an unusual way to address how we love...and how we hate...More than mapping out revulsion, however, Miller maintains that moral outlooks emanate from disgust--a radical proposition that is argued provocatively. * Booklist *[A] learned book...Miller rightly perceives that disgust helps to define our identities, create hierarchies, and order our world. -- Anthony Storr * The Observer *Miller is a professor of law, but he brings to his task a mind well-stocked in literature, psychology, anthropology and history. He aims to bridge the academic and lay worlds, and to restore moral psychology to the wholeness it had for Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld...He wants us to treat disgust with the seriousness it deserves, as a determinant of love, sexuality, politics, and even our sense of self. And against all the odds he's succeeded: this is a fascinating book. Disgust is more than a feeling: it is an emotion with an inescapably moral tinge, and it has to be learned (the Wolf Boy of Aveyron did not know it). It is not simple misanthropy or plain nausea, but it is Sartre's existential nausee; it is Hamlet's view of the world and everyone in it. It is a response to defilement; it denotes a recoil from horror (cruelty and gore, or even Beauty and the Beast); it arises suddenly, but is slow to dissipate. And disgust is not a disembodied emotion like contempt. It is too visceral to be ironic, it always involves the senses, and it expresses itself in physical terms...Dealing in ideas which are frowstily familiar, [Miller] makes of them something startlingly fresh. This exploration of the psyche's murky byways would make a major book in itself, but Miller's purpose is deeper: he wants to prove that disgust is actually useful--in love, and possibly in the social arena. -- Michael Church * Financial Times *Although Miller is not the first scholar to bring disgust out from the spell of silence under which it has traditionally been kept hidden, he is the first to do so with a depth and empirical amplitude that corresponds to the complexity of the topic...Miller has written a compact study of a roiling subject, studded with local brilliances, that makes a large, but clearly arguable, point. Human society needs the "moral emotions," disgust perhaps most of all, to enforce its taboos, its armory of boundary-rules, and to keep pollution at bay. -- W. R. Robertson * Canadian Review of Comparative Literature *Miller is certainly an expert on the unsavory. He brilliantly marshals sources that span a millennium of Western history, drawing critically on the works of such diverse thinkers as Hume, Hazlitt, and Freud. * Library Journal *[A]n enjoyable, methodologically eclectic academic romp. -- Jenny Turner * Independent on Sunday *Miller's book has secured one of those rare gifts: a perfectly realized cover. In a dark room, a large group of diners looks disapprovingly at the viewer. The one empty seat indicates that he or she once had a place at the table but is now excluded...Miller mines history (particularly the Middle Ages), literature (particularly skaldic), Freud, Orwell and his own experiences as a parent of four young children to show the holes in Mary Douglas's theory that the disgusting is anomalous, something that doesn't fit (say, hair growing out of ears), and in Paul Rozin's argument that disgust resides in "food rejection or in anxieties about our animal origins." There's plenty of talk about unconscious desire and surfeit of the generative...but above all, Miller argues that disgust establishes rank...Especially after the 18th century, disgust became more clearly bound up with class, bourgeois good taste and moral values. Miller's a fine, entertaining, self-deprecating writer who has created a book that, if not always appetizing, is still a tasteful examination of a strong emotion that is generally held at arm's length. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *[A] marvelously fertile new book...a wonderfully unclassifiable work that mixes history and philosophy with autobiographical reflections, [and] ranges from frank (though never crude) discussions of the comic potential of flatulence to the deeper implications of disgust for a democratic society. -- David Futrelle * Salon Magazine (Web) *While much of Miller's The Anatomy is devoted to a discussion of psychological responses to the disgusting, his most important contribution may be his detailing of the social and political ramifications of those responses. -- Michael Kenney * Boston Globe *Miller has written a wide-ranging and rich account of the emotion of disgust, drawing on psychology, literature, and history--all filtered through his own vivid narrative of the phenomena of bodily existence… Many writers about disgust have treated it as a bare feeling, with little or no cognitive content. Miller argues powerfully that this approach is inadequate. Disgust actually has a very complex and sophisticated cognitive content. -- Martha C. Nussbaum * New Republic *Mr. Miller's novel line of inquiry, as well as frequent displays of wit and insight, makes The Anatomy of Disgust an engaging book. -- Robert Grudin * New York Times Book Review *Gripping, solid, and utterly comprehensive. * Spy Magazine *William Miller...[is] an original and imaginative law professor...who studies what used to be called the "moral passions". He has followed his 1993 book Humiliation with a fascinating study of disgust--a universal human feeling that underpins many moral responses...His literary evidence is rich: Swift's fascination with the stinking privy stool behind the dressing table; Shakespeare's bubbling cauldron of witch-brew; the maggot-blown world of Jacobean tragedy; Freud gaping at the engulfing vagina...But Mr Miller does more than catalogue revoltingness. His interest is in the moral meaning of disgust...[T]his is a thought-provoking, humane study. * The Economist *While The Anatomy of Disgust does disgust, it also enthralls, enlightens, dazzles and entertains. It "anatomizes" disgust--which Miller defines as a "strong sense of aversion to something perceived as dangerous because of its powers to contaminate, infect or pollute"--by exploring it as both a physical sensation and a moral sentiment. In both cases, it turns out, disgust has enormous political and social implications. But perhaps the most striking thing about The Anatomy of Disgust, as Miller himself says, is its willingness to be "methodologically promiscuous", to draw on history, literature, moral philosophy and psychology as well as on events from Miller's own life...What this beautifully written book reminds us so brilliantly is how much the humanities--and in some ways only the humanities--can tell us about the empirical world, the world of physical sensation, social behaviour, and political conflict. -- Andrew Stark * Times Literary Supplement *[A] most useful book...one that takes its readers, however reluctantly, down alleys of life worth traversing. One wouldn't have thought that the subject of disgust could exfoliate so elaborately, or throw off so many provocative insights, as it does in these pages, not only into the way we live but into the way we have always lived. The capacity for disgust, it turns out, may be as significant as any quality we possess...[Miller] is excellent when, enlarging his argument beyond the level of the heartily repulsive, he takes up the social subtleties of disgust. -- Joseph Epstein * The New Yorker *Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Darwin's Disgust 2. Disgust and Its Neighbors 3. Thick, Greasy Life 4. The Senses 5. Orifices and Bodily Wastes 6. Fair Is Foul, and Foul Is Fair 7. Warriors, Saints, and Delicacy 8. The Moral Life of Disgust 9. Mutual Contempt and Democracy 10. Orwell's Sense of Smell Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2008. Anyone interested in magic and its history will find this a fascinating book. In it, the author discusses Chaldean magic and sorcery, demonology, amulets, the ritual of the dead, the development of Chaldean mythology and the relationship of Chaldean magic to other traditions. A number of spells and incarnations are included, permitting the reader a first-hand look at Chaldean magical practices.Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Magic and Sorcery of the Chaldeans.; Chapter 2 The Chaldean Demonology.; Chapter 3 Chaldean Amulets and their Uses.; Chapter 4 Chaldean Sorcery and its Dual Nature.; Chapter 5 Comparison of the Egyþtian with the Chaldean magic.; Chapter 6 Contrasts between Egyþtian and Chaldean Magical Systems.; Chapter 7 The Magic of the Ritual of the Dead.; Chapter 8 Contrasts between the Accadian and Egyptian Magic.; Chapter 9 The Chaldœo Babylonian religion and its doctrines.; Chapter 10 Development of the Chaldean Mythology.; Chapter 11 The religions System of the Accadian magic Books.; Chapter 12 The Origin of the Myth of the Zi.; Chapter 13 The Mythology of the Underworld.; Chapter 14 The Religions and the Magic of the Turanian Nations.; Chapter 15 The Early Median Mythology compared with that of the Chaldeans.; Chapter 16 Finno-Tartarian Magical Mythology.; Chapter 17 Further Analysis of Finnish Demonology.; Chapter 18 The Accadian People and their Language.; Chapter 19 The Accadian Language.; Chapter 20 Differentiation of the Accadian and its allied Languages.; Chapter 21 Altaic affinities of the Accadian Language.; Chapter 22 Accadian and Altaic affinities.; Chapter 23 Phonology of the Accadian Language.; Chapter 24 The origin of the Kushito-Semitic religion.; Chapter 25 The two Ethnic elements in the Babylonian nation.; Chapter 26 The Origin of the Chaldaio-Babylonian Cosmogonies.; Chapter 27 The Priortty of the Accadian Population of Chaldea.; Chapter 28 The Sumirian Influence in Chaldean and Babylonian Civilization.; Chapter 29 The Influence of the Kushite Mythology in Chaldean Faith.; Chapter 30 The Turanians in Chaldea and ancient Asia.; Chapter 31 The Archaic Legislation of the Accadians.;

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Book Synopsisaeo A highly innovative contribution towards the study of popular culture which focuses on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves. aeo Written in a highly accessible style and illustrated with case studies, the author examines the development of club cultures or "taste cultures".Trade Review'Sarah Thornton's book raises some serious issues about cultural empowerment and the retrograde role of that growing academic discipline, cultural studies.' C-Theory 'The book covers not only the club scene and its relationship with the media, but also the history of the discotheque, the decline of 'live' music and the corresponding rise in popularity of its pre-recorded counterpart, as well as the notion of 'hipness' - a concept central to youth culture.' The Pulse 'If ... an academic, critical analysis of the far-reaching cultural effects of clubbing sets your pulse racing, this thoroughly researched book makes for an essential bedside companion.' Musik 'Club Cultures is staking out new territory. Thornton has provided an accessible and interesting account of her subject that will be of great use to anyone trying to find out whatever happened to youth culture since the heady days of Dick Hebdige as long ago as 1979.' The Times Higher Education Supplement 'Imagine a book that could be subtitled Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dance But Didn't Even Know Such Questions Existed.' Q Magazine 'This major contribution to the study of youth movements also looks at DJs, drugs, fanzines, globalisation and best of all, asks what exactly are the raver hierarchies of hipness? An accessible and informed book, deserving of a wide audience.' Preview 'A highly accessible yet rigorously written study of popular culture ... an important contribution not only to current media debates, but also that oft overlooked question of club music and gender.' Everywoman 'One of the smartest and most audacious pieces of musical sociology in years.' Spin 'Club Cultures provides an interesting out-look on dance culture ... you'll definitely have a better understanding of the phenomenon after reading it.' Bikini 'Club Cultures addresses a number of substantive fields within sociology. As a treatise on popular culture, and the sociology of culture generally, the book is an excellent case study that introduces a way of analyzing subcultures on their own ocnsimptive terms.' American Journal of Sociology 'An admirable degree of theoretical and empirical sophistication and attempt[s] to situate the phenomena under study in a wider social context ... an in-depth account of the origins and meanings of the British club scene ... the empirical observation is deeply and skilfully woven into a rich and carefully constructed analysis ... Club Cultures is a refreshing, provoking and stimulating book which I enjoyed reading. I strongly recommend it and I have no doubt that it will be a success.' European Journal of CommunicationTable of Contents1. The Distinctions of Cultures Without Distinction. 2. Authenticities from Record Hops to Raves. 3. Exploring the Meaning of the Mainstream. 4. The Media Development of 'Subcultures'. Afterword. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsisa constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen.Trade ReviewExtraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade -- Maggie Gee * Daily Telegraph *The book that changed my life... a constant companion -- Bill Bailey * Prospect Magazine *One of the year's most original and outstanding books...fascinating labyrinths of history and human experience, which he perceptively, intructively and absorbingly explores. This is a read to relish * Financial Times *Theodore Zeldin's all-embracing history of our feelings throughout the ages [is] brilliantly original and unsettling... His scope is dazzling... A seductive and unusually thought provoking book * Sunday Telegraph *Bubbling wit... Zeldin makes life exciting for the reader. It is like being on some careering fair-ground ride that whirls you from one limelit fragment of civilisation to the next at breakneck speed...gatecrashing all the cultures of the world * Spectator *

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Book Synopsis''Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.''In The Human Age award-winning nature writer Diane Ackerman confronts the fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet. Humans have ''subdued 75 per cent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness''. We now collect the DNA of vanishing species in a ''frozen ark'', equip orang-utans with iPads, create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us. Ackerman takes us on an exciting journey to understand this bewildering new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating - perhaps saving - the future.The Human Age is a surprising, optimistic engagement with the dramatic transformations that haTrade ReviewA dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious. * New York Times *Full of scientific nuggets and bundles of research, this is written in an accessible and entertaining style. * The Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisTaking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present.Trade ReviewNovel and insightful.... Di Leonardo's study is an important reassessment of the ethnic experience in America. * American Anthropologist *

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Book SynopsisThe rise of the multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry points to one immutable truth about us as human beings: we want to know where we come from and who our ancestors were. John H. Relethford and Deborah A. Bolnick explore this topic and many more in this second edition of Reflections of Our Past.Where did modern humans come from and how important are the biological differences among us? Are we descended from Neandertals? How should we understand the connections between genetic ancestry, race, and identity? Were Native Americans the first to inhabit the Americas? Can we see evidence of the Viking invasions of Ireland a millennium ago even in the Irish of today? Through engaging examination of issues such as these, and using non-technical language, Reflections of Our Past shows how anthropologists use genetic information to suggest answers to fundamental questions about human history. By looking at genetic variation in the world today and in the past, we can reconstruct the recent and remote events and processes that have created the variation we see, providing a fascinating reflection of our genetic past.Trade Review"Reflections of Our Past is an engaging and accessible work about the genetic history of humankind expressed without the confusing jargon so often found in the literature in this field." —Gerrell Drawhorn, CSU-Sacramento"For anyone curious about the science behind the DNA ancestry tests whose commercials inundate our TVs, this book is a must read." —Justin Garcia, Millersville University of Pennsylvania"[A] readable, relevant, accurate book by two top-notch, trustworthy researchers on an important and often misunderstood topic." —Sheela Athreya, Texas A&MTable of ContentsPreface1. The History in Our Genes2. The Naked Ape3. Out of Africa: Our Genetic Legacy4. The Fate of the Neandertals (and Other Archaeic Humans)5. The First Inhabitants of the Americas6. Genetics and the Spead of Agriculture in Europe7. Voyagers of the Pacific8. Three Tales from Ireland9. Admixture and History10. Ancestory, Identity, and Race

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Book SynopsisOutlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earthTrade ReviewCampion's Astrology and Cosmologyis an ambitious examination of cosmologies and astrologies from around the world. The diversity of cultures Campion includes is impressive. -- Jacqueline Feke * History of Astronomy *What is up in the sky has significance in almost every religion, and this book looks at Australia, Oceania, North America, South and Central America, Sub-Sahara Africa, Egypt, China, India, Babylon, Judaism, Classical Greece with Christianity, Islam, and 'Theosophical, New Age, and Pagan Cosmologies.' -- Gareth J. Medway * The Magonia Blog: Astrology and Religion *"This innovative study presents astrologies and cosmologies - broadly conceived - as counterparts and mirrors of human societies. Unlike most students of astrology, Campion transcends the limitations of the Western tradition to examine the nature and roles of astrological and cosmological concepts in cultures from all continents. His examples provide original insights into how cosmologies shape these cultures' artistic, intellectual, and religious activities. -- Stephen McCluskey,West Virginia UniversityThe book is crammed with information, occasionally punctuated by interpretation or analysis. Over 50 pages of notes and bibliography enable readers to check the author's exactitude for him or herself. -- L. De Danaan * CHOICE *Table of ContentsCosmology and Religion: Measurement and Meaning 2. Astrology: The Celestial Mirror 3. Australia: The Dreaming 4. Oceania: Navigating the Sky 5. North America: The Great Spirit 6. South and Central America: Salvation and Sacrifice 7. Sub-Saharan Africa: Heaven on Earth 8. Egypt: The Solar Society 9. China: The Celestial Offices 10. India: Ancient Traditions and Modern Practice 11. Babylon: Signs in the Sky 12. Judaism: Myth, Magic, and Transcendence 13. Classical Greece: Ascent to the Stars 14. Christianity: Influence and Transcendence 15. Islam: Faith and Reason 16. Theosophical, New Age, and Pagan Cosmologies: Nature and Transformation Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA Guide to Qualitative Meta-synthesis provides accessible guidelines for conducting all phases of theory-generating meta-synthesis research, including data collection, analysis, and theory generation. It is a research methodology that is designed to generate evidence-based theory by extracting, analyzing, and synthesizing qualitative findings from across published investigations. These theories provide scaffolding that can be used by health-care providers and other professionals to make context-based decisions and implement situation-specific actions. Theory-generating meta-synthesis methods stem from the qualitative research paradigm, especially grounded theory. Systematic and rigorous methods are used to identify topically related research reports that provide qualitative findings for analysis. The subsequent analysis of the data goes beyond merely reorganizing and recategorizing research findings. Newly synthesized concepts are developed, and the dynamic relationsTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementChapter 1. Introduction to Theory-generating Meta-synthesis ResearchChapter 2. Research Purpose, Topic, Questions, and HypothesesChapter 3. Data Collection and Sampling with E. Diane JohnsonChapter 4. Data Extraction, Analysis, and Theory GenerationChapter 5. Writing up the ResultsChapter 6. Looking AheadGlossaryAppendix 1. Examples of Theory-generating Meta-synthesis InvestigationsAppendix 2. Article Reprint: Perceived Competency and Resolution of Homelessness Among Women With Substance Abuse ProblemsAppendix 3. Article Reprint: Qualitative Systematic Review of Intimate Partner Violence among Native AmericansAppendix 4. Article Reprint: Intimate Partner Violence and its Resolution among Mexican AmericansAppendix 5. Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP)

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Book SynopsisDeals with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring.Trade Review"This is an almost ideal realisation of the twin aims of anthropology and ethnographic writing... This is not just a book about a tiny island, and not just a book for Melanesianists. It coordinates a number of contemporary issues in anthropology." Marilyn Strathern, Man "At once both virtuoso ethnography and a brilliant effort at systematic conceptualization in social theory." George Marcus, Choice "The Fame of Gawa will sit comfortably on the shelf alongside--or perhaps even replace--Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific as a classic of anthropology... [Munn's book] ... masterfully integrates cultural analysis with detailed ethnography." Miriam Kahn, American Anthropologist

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Book Synopsis Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. In so doing, they revitalized past but unrealized political projects and anticipated impossible futures by acting as if they had already arrived. Refusing to reduce colonial emancipation to national independence, they regarded decolonization as an opportunity to remake the world, reconcile peoples, and realize humanity’s potential. Emphasizing the link between politics and aesthetics, Gary Wilder reads Césaire and Senghor as pragmatic utopians, situated humanists, and concrete cosmopolitans whose postwar insights can illuminate current debaTrade Review"Freedom Time is an important book. It is also exceptionally scholarly and extremely readable. Such qualities rarely inhere in a single text. And they are rarely bundled into an analysis so passionate and timely that excavates past attempts at human emancipation in order to reveal new pathways into modernization." -- Massimiliano Tomba * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"Rich, dense, and meticulously researched, Gary Wilder’s book offers nuanced critical reflections on the alternative landscapes of freedom proposed by Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor." -- Kaiama L. Glover * French Studies *"There is an important message here ... for a broad audience, and I sincerely hope that it reaches beyond French Studies, postcolonial, or colonial historical studies. Wilder observes that Césaire, Sédar and their contemporaries in black Caribbean and African thought ‘are rarely included in general considerations of interwar philosophy or postwar social theory’ (9). What Freedom Time does most convincingly is to demonstrate that the social theory studied in European universities is weaker for this omission and that serious engagement with these thinkers is long overdue." -- Lucy Mayblin * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"[A] thoughtful and challenging work on the often maligned Negritude thinkers, poets, and politicians Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor." -- Brett A. Berliner * Callaloo *"[A] tremendous achievement in scope and originality. Readers who wish to think about the nation-state from a deeply historical and theoretically sophisticated perspective will be richly rewarded." -- Anuja Bose * Africa Today *"Freedom Time is an engaging book that combines cultural anthropology, political theory and postcolonial theory and offers the reader a detailed intellectual history of Leopold Senghor and Aimé Césaire between 1945 and 1960." -- Frank Gerits * European Review of History *"Gary Wilder’s Freedom Time constitutes an exciting and significant contribution to the field of nation and nationalism study in that he challenges the claim that decolonisation and self-determination can, and should, only lead to one form of state sovereignty: the nation-state." -- Kristin Hissong * Nations and Nationalism *"Wilder provides us with a provocative retelling of the intellectual and political vision of two luminaries of the 20th century, and he does a great service by recasting our attention to these two authors to provoke reflection on the condition of nationhood and sovereignty in the 21st century. The text is always engaging and at times possesses a lyricism that echoes the poetics of Césaire and Senghor.... This book is a welcome addition, providing a substantial contribution to the field of francophone intellectual history." -- Michael Lambert * Anthropological Quarterly *"Freedom Time is a dynamic treatise deftly upholding the Fanonian and Wynterian imperatives to navigate ongoing processes of decolonization and becoming Human betwixt and between the allure of emancipations masking as freedom." -- Neil Roberts * Theory & Event *"Freedom Time is an impressive, inspiring, necessary work. . . . Wilder's lucid, sensitively textured and impressively well-researched book allows us to rethink the meaning of decolonisation and the conceptual nexus surrounding it." -- Deborah Walker-Morrison * Cultural Studies Review *"Wilder’s reading of Senghor and Césaire is subtle and engaging, and challenges the idea that they were cynical – or naive." -- Musab Younis * London Review of Books *Table of ContentsIndex 373 Preface ix Acknowledgments xv 1. Unthinking France, Rethinking Decolonization 1 2. Situating Cesaire: Antillean Awakening and Global Redemption 17 3. Situating Senghor: African Hospitality and Human Solidarity 49 4. Freedom, Time, Territory 74 5. Departmentalization and the Spirit of Schoelcher 106 6. Federalism and the Future of France 133 7. Antillean Autonomy and the Legacy of Louverture 167 8. African Socialism and the Fate of the World 206 9. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy 241 Chronology 261 Notes 275 Works Cited 333

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Book SynopsisA collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical debate on “subjecthood” and “subjectivity” in Modernity, as it was framed by the “Controversy on the subject” from the 1960’s, and showing how it is now continued in a “controversy on the Universal”.Trade Review"The appearance of this book in France was something of a historic event. Under the heading of 'universality,' a concept that Balibar has almost single-handedly salvaged, Citizen Subject tries to rethink political belonging in our time, so as to redeem a humanism capable of contesting itself from the inside and available to serve the struggles of our day. Balibar rewrites a central tradition of Western philosophy from Descartes through Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, and from Wolstonecraft through Fanon, showing in case after brilliant case that the very writers most invoked as origins (or critics) of the subject had in fact been engaged in a common enterprise of thinking a social, nontranscendent self, the democratic citizen under the contradictory conditions of modernity. The result is one of the strongest, most ambitious, and most pertinent rewritings of the history of philosophy that readers are likely to encounter in their lifetimes." -- -Bruce Robbins Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsForeword-After the Quarrel INTRODUCTION Citizen Subject Response to a Question from Jean-Luc Nancy: "Who Comes After the Subject?" ANNEX: Subjectus/subjectum PART ONE "Our True Self Is Not Entirely Within Us" 1. "Ego sum, ego existo": Descartes on the Verge of Heresy 2. "My Self," "My Own": Variations on Locke 3. Aimances in Rousseau: Julie or The New Heloise as a Treatise on the Passions 4. From Sense Certainty to the Law of Genre: Hegel, Benveniste, Derrida PART TWO Being(s) in Common 5. Ich, das Wir, und Wir, das Ich ist: Spirit's Dictum 6. The Messianic Moment in Marx 7. Zur Sache Selbst: The Common and the Universal in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 8. Men, Armies, Peoples: Tolstoy and the Subject of War 9. The Social Contract Among Commodities: Marx and the Subject of Exchange PART THREE The Right to Transgression 10. Judging Self and Others (On the Political Theory of Reflexive Individualism) 11. Private Crime, Public Madness 12. The Invention of the Superego: Freud and Kelsen 1922 13. Blanchot's Insubordination (On the Writing of the Manifesto of the 121) CONCLUSION The Uneasiness of the Subject Bourgeois Universality and Anthropological Differences

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword from the Helmuth Plessner Society | vii Translator’s Preface and Acknowledgments | ix Preface to the First Edition (1928) | xv Preface to the Second Edition (1965) | xix Introduction | xxxvii J. M. Bernstein 1. Aim and Scope of the Study | 1 The Development of Intuitionist Lebensphilosophie in Opposition to Experience, 3 • Lebensphilosophie and the Theory of the Humanities, 11 • Working Plan for the Foundation of a Philosophy of the Human, 22 2. The Cartesian Objection and the Nature of the Problem | 34 Extension vs. Interiority and the Problem of Appearance, 34 • Appearance as Originating in Interiority, 38 • The Prior Givenness of Interiority and the Forward Displacement of Myself: The Proposition of Immanence 41 • Extension as Outer World; Interiority as Inner World, 46 • The Proposition of Representation and the Element of Sensation, 51 • The Inaccessibility of Other I’s according to the Principle of Sensualism, 55 • The Need for a Revision of the Cartesian Dichotomy in the Interest of a Science of Life, 58 • A Methodological Reformulation of the Opening Question, 64 3. The Thesis | 75 The Question, 75 • The Dual Aspect in the Appearance of Ordinary Perceptual Things, 76 • Against the Misinterpretation of This Analysis: A Closer Focus on the Subject Matter, 81 • The Dual Aspect of Living Perceptual Things: Köhler contra Driesch, 84 • How Is Dual Aspectivity Possible? The Nature of the Boundary, 93 • The Task of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 99 • Definitions of Life, 104 • Nature and Object of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 110 4. The Modes of Being of Vitality | 115 Essential Characteristics Indicating Vitality, 115 • The Positionality of Living Being and Its Spacelikeness, 118 • Living Being as Process and Type; the Dynamic Character of the Living Form; the Individuality of the Living Thing, 123 • Living Process as Development, 129 • The Curve of Development: Aging and Death, 137 • The Individual Living Thing as a System, 144 • The Self-Regulation of the Individual Living Thing and the Harmonious Equipotentiality of Its Parts, 149 • Individual Living Things as Organized: The Dual Meaning of Organs, 154 • The Temporality of Living Being, 159 • The Positional Union of Space and Time and the Natural Place, 168 5. The Organizational Modes of Living Being: Plants and Animals | 172 The Circle of Life, 172 • Assimilation—Dissimilation, 182 • Adaptedness and Adaptation, 186 • Reproduction, Heredity, Selection, 196 • The Open Form of Organization of the Plant, 202 • The Closed Form of Organization of the Animal, 209 6. The Sphere of the Animal | 219 The Positionality of the Closed Form: Centrality and Frontality, 219 • The Coordination of Stimulus and Response in the Case of an Inoperative Subject (Decentralized Type of Organization), 227 • The Coordination of Stimulus and Response by a Subject (Centralized Type of Organization), 231 • The Animal’s Surrounding Field Organized into Complex Qualities and Things, 242 • Intelligence, 252 • Memory, 257 • Memory as the Unity of Residue and Anticipation, 262 7. The Sphere of the Human | 267 The Positionality of the Excentric Form: “I” and Personhood, 267 • Outer World, Inner World, Shared World, 272 • The Fundamental Laws of Anthropology: The Law of Natural Artificiality, 287 • The Law of Mediated Immediacy: Immanence and Expressivity, 298 • The Law of the Utopian Standpoint: Nullity and Transcendence, 316 Appendix | 323 Glossary | 337 Notes | 345 Index | 359

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Book SynopsisRecent years have seen not just a revival, but a rebirth of the analogue record. More than merely a nostalgic craze, vinyl has become a cultural icon. As music consumption migrated to digital and online, this seemingly obsolete medium became the fastest-growing format in music sales.Trade Review"A passionate ode to the analogue record, and testament to how vinyl embodies the content it mediates, with each record's unique journey etched into the material - The Times Higher Education - Hillegonda C. Rietveld Bartmanski and Woodward have created a masterpiece that any record lover should have on their shelves - Record Collector magazine Vinyl is a state-of-the-art treatment of an unforgettable object and medium that raises many of the issues central to contemporary anthropology. Its subject-matter should make it appealing to students and general audiences, while its theoretical sophistication makes it relevant to scholars of music, technology, popular culture, and cultural objects. - Anthropology Review Database - Jack David Eller Although there have been some attempts in a similar direction … Bartmanski’s and Woodward’s book stands out by providing a refreshing perspective on contemporary vinyl culture informed by cultural sociology and material culture studies … the book is a stimulating in-depth study of a central part of contemporary vinyl culture which complements extant studies on record collectorship and the history of the analogue record. It will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in auditory and material culture as well as vinyl fans – or those who want to become such. - Information, Communication & Society - Anne-Kathrin Hoklas Bartmanski and Woodward … provide meticulous detail as to how materiality matters … Bartmanski and Woodward divide their book into chapters that fervently trace various aspects of vinyl: its history, its functionality and use as a medium, its production and physical properties, and its consumption. In each chapter, they attend to the materially mediated cultural meanings within which vinyl is entangled. - Qualitative Sociology - Robin Bartram [This] book has much to recommend it. The authors have a fine grasp of the complex and overlapping issues that are involved in establishing vinyl’s status as a ‘special object’ ... [A] fascinating analysis of the format's 'meaningful circulation'. - Popular Music Picking up the story from a cultural and sociological angle, Ian Woodward and Dominik Bartmanski have written what might well be the first modern history of the humble vinyl record since its exponential surge back into the public imagination. - The Vinyl Factory Vinyl is an essential study of a residual technology’s new lives and meanings in the digital age. ... The book is written with love for vinyl records, their aesthetics and the forms of social life they foster. ... [A] vital work to spin, mix and play off. - IASPM@ Journal This study is a very insightful and informative contribution to the emerging literature on vinyl ... [Bartmanski and Woodward] combine a cultural sociological approach with insights from material cultural studies, supporting and illustrating their theoretical discussion with frequently fascinating material from interviews. ... A fascinating and instructive study. - Anthropos What has been going on in the cities during the last 5 or 6 years to lead 20- to 50-year-old people to purchase vinyl LPs, instead of CDs, in stores and venues for retail, leisure, learning, and entertainment, and what human desires are satisfied by collecting LPs? … Hearing music is not enough, the authors suggest, and many younger people (especially those who can’t read notated scores) yearn to hold their music in their hands … Bartmanski and Woodward’s Vinyl is a work of sociology. It is to their credit that the epilogue affirms their training and practice as sociologists, and that my last impression of them is as sturdy academics. - Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal - Alyssa Barna, Eastman School of Music Bartmanski and Woodward have written an impassioned book that will surely resonate with analogue enthusiasts and that may even inspire new vinyl diggers. For sociologists interested in the materiality of cultural objects, the status of vinyl in Berlin’s electronic music scene represents a compelling example. - Contemporary Sociology - Vaughn Schmutz, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA Excerpted - PopMatters Featured in 'Ubiquitous Grooves: A Vinyl Obituary' - Popmatters"Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface1. Vinyl as Record: Several Lives of the 'King Format'2. Medium: Handling and Hearing3. Thing: Qualities and Entanglements4. Commodity: Value and Markets5. Totem: Scene-Making in Urban SpacesEpilogue: Modern IconNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Pulling Back the Curtain on Qualitative Research, the authors maintain that for sociologists the entire world is a laboratory. Seldom do they attend social gatherings without observing people and their interaction in a systematic and intellectually curious way. Regular trips to the grocery store, church services, and engagement with social media all open the door to sociological questioning and encourage forms of empirical observation and data collection.Here, in this practical and in-depth guide to conducting qualitative sociological field research, the authors offer step-by-step guidance to the processes of choosing a research question and forming research objectives; gaining entry to research settings; and reporting and analyzing findings. Each chapter features a past research assignment, wherein the authors draw attention to important ethical considerations and extract the many lessons, quirks, and unanticipated findings they experienced along the way that rTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. Designing and Conducting Qualitative Research 2. Striving for Objective and Unbiased Qualitative Research 3. Visiting the Old Order Amish in Oklahoma and Kansas: Case Studies 4. Working on a Beef Slaughter Assembly Line 5. Portraying the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus at a Shopping Mall 6. Studying Morticians and Funeral Directors 7. Interviewing Topless Dancers 8. Riding With Modern American Motorcyclists 9. Performing a Content Analysis of Motorcyclists and the Media 10. Studying Kindergarten 11. Pumping Iron in the 1980s and Working Out in the Twenty-First Century 12. Conducting Qualitative Research in the Age of Disenlightenment Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume addresses the rising interest in the role of religion in global issues worldwide. The ambitious Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as the framework for this exploration, discussing questions such as: What role does religion play in poverty and poverty alleviation? How does religion inspire people in combatting gender inequality? What is religion's role in fueling conflict and which resources can religion offer for peace and reconciliation? Based on the conviction that not one single faith tradition or discipline can adequately address the complexity of current global issues, this book brings in the perspectives of different faith traditions and different disciplines. Combining cutting-edge research with case studies and concrete implications for academics, policymakers, and practitioners, this concise and easily accessible volume helps to build bridges between these different actors anTrade Review"Religion Matters makes a forceful case that a deeply embedded consideration of religious approaches to development thinking and action needs to be a central part of the international development landscape. Primarily through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the analysis focuses on both strengths and weaknesses that the myriad of religious institutions and communities bring to specific challenges. It offers well thought-out-frameworks to help policymakers as they navigate the complex religious worlds that include both powerful core ideas and fodder for ample controversy and, more hopefully, dialogue."Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, USA; Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue"This book highlights the important role that religion can play in achieving the SDGs as well as some of the pitfalls. It combines social science and theological approaches with ‘spotlights’ on particular topics from practitioners in the field to underscore the fact that religion matters for development and needs to be taken seriously. In contrast to many other texts in this field, the contributors are all ‘insider voices’ and ‘imminent critics’ of the faith traditions they write about. This volume, therefore, brings a fresh approach for academics, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the relationships between religion and the SDGs." Emma Tomalin, Professor of Religion and Public Life, University of Leeds, UK"This book seeks to build bridges across the secular-religious divide and between the different spheres of engagement in development, including academics, policymakers, and practitioners. The authors develop this aim in two parts: Part 1: The rise of religion and development and Part 2: Religion and the sustainable development goals. The book engages these two topics in 12 chapters from many different religious perspectives making it a wonderful example of interreligious dialogue and putting the spotlight on many different contentious and contested issues around the globe. This kind of collaborative form of research on religion and development gives expression to an African (isiXhosa) saying: "The bird builds its nest by using other birds"."Ian Nell, Professor of Practical Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa"The issue of the relationship between religion and the SDGs is a crucial topic, not least because the influence of the former may be crucial in achieving the latter. In this volume, Christine Schliesser analyses the role of religion in the SDGs. The book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the role of religion in development and should be of particular interest to students and the general reader."Jeffrey Haynes, Emeritus Professor of Politics, London Metropolitan University, UK"Religion is embedded in every expression of human culture around the globe and, in spite of increasing secularism, religion continues to be a major influence for the vast majority of people in the world today. So, if we are to achieve the ambition of the Agenda 2030 with the 17 SDGs, it’s essential to consider religion in every aspect of development. This book provides an excellent introduction for policymakers and practitioners, it builds bridges across the secular-religious divide and encourages faith communities to work together to address complex issues."Tony Macaulay, Northern Ireland author, leadership consultant, peace builder and broadcaster"This book comprises of recent advancements in development theory and practice. It embraces vital discussions on gender equality, poverty, inequality, peace and justice, all of which are fundamental in understanding the significance of religion in development. These discourses take place in a network of global dialogue, involving voices from various faith traditions."Auli Vähäkangas, Professor in Practical Theology, University of Helsinki, FinlandTable of ContentsNotes on the Author, List of Contributors, Foreword, Executive Summary, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, PART I: The Rise of Religion in Development – Background and Current Trends, 1. Religion Matters – Rediscovering Religion, 2. The Sustainable Development Goals and Religion – The Rise of Faith Actors in Development, 3. Meet the Family – Religion’s Different Faces in Development, 4. What’s So Special about Them? Potentials and Problems of Faith Actors in Development, PART II: Religion and the SDGs, 5. “It Is Not God’s Will for Us to Be Poor!” Religion Matters for Poverty Alleviation (SDG 1 and 2), 6. “Holistic Healing” – Religion Matters for Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3), 7. “Largest and Most Successful Education Provider … Outside of Public Education Systems” – Religion Matters for Quality Education (SDG 4), 8. “Your Women, Let Them Be Silent in the Assemblies” – Religion Matters for Gender Equality (SDG 5), 9. “I Have a Dream” – Religion Matters for the Reduction of Inequality (SDG 10), 10. “Green Religion” – Religion Matters for Climate Action (SDG 13), 11. “Brokers of Peace” – Religion Matters for Peace and Justice (SDG 16), 12. Now What? Implications for Academics, Policymakers, and Practitioners, References, Index

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Book SynopsisNPR''s Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war isNostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement is an accessible primer on the contemporary US militia movement. Exploring the complicated history of militias in the United States, starting with the Revolutionary War period, this book leverages unique data from ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and previously unseen archival materials from militia founder Norm Olson to detail the modern movement's origin and trajectory through the attempted insurrection of January 6th and beyond.This book uses the lenses of nostalgia and settler colonialism to explain militia members' actions and beliefs, including their understandings of both nationalism and masculinity. This aTrade Review“It is rare for scholars or journalists to have the kind of insider access to the militia movement that Amy Cooter has. Combining rich ethnographic data with historical context and sociological critique, Paper Patriots provides a rigorous analysis of the modern militia movement that should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding new developments and historical continuities on the American right.” Ruth Braunstein, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut“The militia and the hard right in America keep not going away. Indeed, given the global prevalence of populism, internet outlets, and patterns of democratic deconsolidation on a worldwide scale, the issues examined in this book seem likely to remain relevant well into the future. Its understanding of the origins of the militia movement, as well as the author’s access to Norm Olson’s archives, is valuable. The logic of the approach is right on target and adds to the conversation about the way(s) the militia movement operates in the United States, and, by extension, the hard right as well. I am a big fan of the promise of this book!” Lane Crothers, Professor of Politics, Illinois State University“Cooter convincingly argues that growth in the modern, unlawful militia movement is a barometer for broader political trends. With insights gleaned from both original empirical data and rich historical and theoretical framing, Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand contemporary threats to U.S. democracy.” Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss, American University & PERIL“Cooter’s book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding contemporary militia groups or domestic extremism more broadly. Her years of research – often based on direct interaction with participants in these groups – reveal the complexity, fluidity, and inconsistency in what drives those who participate in nostalgic groups. And though this book focuses on militia groups, Cooter offers important lessons for stakeholders and practitioners who are concerned about a range of different forms of domestic extremism.” Sam Jackson, Senior Research Fellow, CTEC @ MIISTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Modern US Militia Movement: Member’s Motivations, Beliefs and Practices2. Militia History in the US: Contextualizing the Modern Movement3. Militia Origins: The Gospel According to Norm Olson4. The Oklahoma City Bombing and Militia Decline: A Floundering Father 5. Settling for Nostalgia: How Nostalgia and a Rural Mentality Shape the Militia Movement6. The Movement’s Trajectory: The early 2000s, the Trump Era, and Beyond7. Conclusion: Signals of Violence and Informed Best Practices

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Book SynopsisFashion, Upcycling, and Memory questions practices and explores its profound connection to memory and sustainability. Through a practice-based researcher lens, the research examines the intricate interplay between upcycling and memory, unveiling assemblages of concepts, objects, and values that inspire action.This book takes readers on a journey through the multidimensional relationship between individuals and clothing. It delves into the disposal of garments and the transformative aspirations embedded within the fashion industry. Employing the unique research methodology known as A/r/t/ography, which merges artistic practice, rigorous research, and educational development, this book unearths the dynamic interplay between upcycling and memory.The author unravels the intricate web of connections within upcycling through diverse practices, methods, and insightful interviews. By critically questioning established norms and scrutinizing the actions of fashion designTrade Review"We have been led to believe fashion is a means to squander resources for vanity. But as Odabaşı shows, fashion is not a cemetery for discarded time, but a reservoir of revitalized imagination. Opening the wardrobe to deep study, Odabaşı proposes a series of sagacious systems to rethink upcycling and ask: What kind of history do we want fashion to write?”Dr. Otto von Busch, Professor, Parsons School of Design at The New School, USATable of Contents1. Sustainable fashion: The memory of fashion; 2. Memory and A/r/tography; 3. Fashion; 4. Fashion and memory; 5. The assemblage of sustainable fashion: Upcycling; 6. Sustainable fashion education: Lessons from the past experiences; 7. Alive fashion from the periphery

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Book SynopsisFeminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters reclaims the notion of alien encounters together with strange but queerly loved companions: Vulgar slugs, diatoms (micro-algae), and familiars (spirit guides of witches). The book's three human co-authors ask: what would it take to establish more-than-human, bio- and geo-egalitarian co-existence on a planet in trouble?This playfully crafted mixed-genre book is informed by feminist posthumanisms and co-created with a spectral community of more-than-humans who are respectfully summoned to contribute with their perspectives. In focus of the entangled artistic-philosophical-poetic investigations are questions of ethics, aesthetics, and methodologies to co-exist response-ably rather than based on modern human beliefs in exceptionalism and entitlement to sovereignty, control, and conquest of more-than-human worlds. Feminist Reconfi gurings of Alien Encounters is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, teTrade ReviewOn a damaged earth, human beings must finally learn to meet more-than-humans on their terms. That’s no small trick for the vertebrate-centric, especially when the partners are unfamiliars like diatoms and slugs. Helped by one or two spirit familiars, this smart, lively book is full of tips for cultivating response-ability, possibly even before the dire heritage of human exceptionalism boils us all up. Donna Haraway, Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USAA sensitive yet vibrant and sympathetically weird volume exploring queer ways to think of the less emphasized others of our world’s occupants. The authors remind us that posthumanism deals with a host of alien and strange fabulations which have lived alongside us and existed for longer than us, in their own ways irreducible to anthropocentric philosophical capture. A beautiful and activism-inspiring book. Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UKWith tenderness and vulnerability, the authors sincerely stretch their hands, hearts and minds out to meet and be met by alien others. In doing so they sculpt a post-human practice of kinship that is much needed in these petro-patriarchal times. Playful, thoughtful and committed, this book bridges theory, art, and creative writing, putting to use all these tools in such a way that readers will feel they can embark on alien journeys themselves. Camila Marambio, PhD, Curator, Artist, Independent Researcher, Ensayos. Curator of the Chilean Pavillion Turba Tol Hol-Hol at the 59th Venice Art Biennale 2022This book is a kin-spirited gathering of somatic and spectral desires to connect with mineralized, mucous-abundant and mysterious others beyond, and within, our different Earthly ways of being. It seeks out creative, epistemic hybridity through collective imaginings that tenderly nibble and glide, and poetically disrupt genres of writing, knowing, care, and companionability with other-than-human collaborators. Susan Reid, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia, Cultural Theorist, Creative Researcher, Artist and WriterOverturning expectations, the authors playfully and deconstructively employ both cognitive and affective techniques of estrangement and defamiliarization to undermine human exceptionalism and power, offering instead radically different, mutualistic practices of more-than-human companionships. For many readers, this startling and ambitious text will be an alien – yet highly productive - encounter in itself. Margrit Shildrick, Guest Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production, Stockholm University, SwedenTable of ContentsPrologue: Experimental Writing with Spectral Communities and Triquetras; Chapter 1: Reconfiguring Alien Encounters: Introduction; Intertext I Alien Arrivals: Slugs; Chapter 2: Encountering Vulgar Slugs: What Can a Bite Tell About More-than-Human Becomings?; Intertext II Alien Arrivals: Diatoms; Chapter 3: Becoming a Compassionate Diatom Companion; Intertext III Alien Arrivals: Familiars; Chapter 4: Writings from the Pit: On Creative Blocks and the Internal Editor as Familiar Spirit; Chapter 5: More-than-Human Ethics and Poetics; Chapter 6: Conversations on Alien Methods and Writing; Epilogue: Endless End

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Book SynopsisIn the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development. However, there is little clarity on what such centring entails and how it can be achieved. This edited volume addresses this gap by highlighting what community-led practices look like and how they compare across different sociocultural and organisational landscapes.Bringing together the work of over 30 international authors, ranging from experienced community-led development practitioners to acclaimed scholars, the book reflects on and critically analyses grassroots initiatives, national-level organisations, and larger-scale international operations. The case studies demonstrate the similarities and differences in community-led practices according to organisational size and spread, while documenting the process of human change that these practices unleash. The volumeâs

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change. It provides up-to-date analysis of the challenges and constraints facing CSOs involved in diplomatic missions and working with foreign donors.Bringing together case studies from Cameroon, Egypt, Poland, Palestine, Lebanon and Libya, this edited collection reflects on how external calls for proposals in the fields of womenâs empowerment, community development, education, training, exchange programmes, democracy, human rights and peacebuilding influence the way civil society organisations contribute, deliver, intervene and position themselves in various societies. It explores the lessons learnt by various CSOs in identifying societal problems, understanding grassroots demands, prioritising development agendas and campaigning for peacebuilding. Grounded in a firm theoretical framework and based on up-to-date empirical research, the book reflects on the leadership shown by civil society organisations in development, politics and business and their impact on community development initiatives and local change process.This book will be an important resource for researchers, policymakers, donors, NGO practitioners and the beneficiaries themselves, within the areas of international development, peacebuilding, civil society, politics and international relations.

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Book SynopsisEmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier emphasizes anthropology's critical role at the frontier of emerging technologies (EmTech). The book explores the opportunities and challenges that arise as anthropologists venture into the territory of EmTech, pushing the boundaries of traditional academic approaches and methodologies.By sharing the stories and insights of early to mid-career anthropologists working in AI, robotics, Web3, cybersecurity, and other cutting-edge fields, the book provides a possible roadmap for future practitioners seeking to make an impact in the world of EmTech. These anthropologists demonstrate how the discipline''s unique perspective and skills can be applied to address the complex ethical, social, and cultural implications of emerging technologies.The volume showcases how anthropologists can act as visionaries, innovators, and early adopters, shaping the trajectory of EmTech towards more ethical, equitable, inclusive, and sustainab

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Book SynopsisDetective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity's most trenchant problems. The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the possibilities of communal life, as industrialization and urbanism accelerate the alienation and atomization we recognize as modern conditions. Here the detective appears as an image of thinking still able to perceive the threads that link such alienated people together, and therefore able to imagine solutions along the lines of these obscured connections. Reading the genre's journey, from its origins in Poe to its most unorthodox form in Pynchon, allows fresh perspectives on the possibilities and limits of modern community, from its endurance as part of modernization to its meaning today as a sticking point in theoretical debate and political activism.

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Book SynopsisThis updated second edition of Using Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner is a comprehensive introduction to non-academic anthropological practice.The demand for anthropologist practitioners is strong and growing every day; practice is in many ways the leading edge of anthropology today, and one of the most exciting aspects of the discipline. How can anthropology students prepare themselves to become practitioners? Specifically designed to help students, including those in more traditional training programs, prepare for a career in putting anthropology to work in the world, this revised edition contains updates on a number of topics, including AI, and contains expanded sections on career preparation and job-hunting.Using Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner will help both undergraduate and graduate anthropology students prepare themselves for careers outside the university, and to use their anthropological skills and abilities in the government, private and non-profit sectors.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history.Table of Contents1. Introduction: inventing traditions Eric Hobsbawm; 2. The invention of tradition: the Highland tradition of Scotland Hugh Trevor Roper; 3. From a death to a view: the hunt for the Welsh past in the Romantic period Prys Morgan; 4. The context, performance and meaning of ritual: the British Monarchy and the invention of tradition, c.1820–1977 David Cannadine; 5. Representing authority of tradition in Victorian India Bernard S. Cohen; 6. The invention of tradition in Colonial Africa Terence Ranger; 7. Mass-producing traditions: Europe, 1870–1914 Eric Hobsbawm.

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Book SynopsisPrimatology draws on theory and methods from diverse fields, including anatomy, anthropology, biology, ecology, medicine, psychology, veterinary sciences and zoology. The more than 500 species of primate range from tiny mouse lemurs to huge gorillas, and primatologists collect data in a variety of environments including in the field, research facilities, museums, sanctuaries, zoos, and from the literature. The variability in research interests, study animals and research sites means that there are no standard protocols for how to study primates. Nevertheless, asking good questions and designing appropriate studies to answer them are vital to produce high quality science. This accessible guide for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers explains how to develop a research question, formulate testable hypotheses and predictions, design and conduct a project and report the results. The focus is on research integrity and ethics throughout, and the book provides practical advice on oTrade Review'In this invaluable book, Professor Joanna M. Setchell presents an exceptionally comprehensive and highly accessible guide to the study of primates. The text offers a detailed description of every aspect of the planning, execution and presentation of a primatological research study. In addition to scientific guidance and coverage of key conceptual ideas, crucial practical advice about the realities and challenges of research are provided. Furthermore, Setchell explores a range of issues that are so critical to consider fully in modern science, among them cultural sensitivity, ethics, research integrity and inclusivity. To my mind, this is an essential text for any student of primatology; it will be top of the reading list for every course I teach in this area.' Stuart Semple, University of Roehampton'A landmark book covering everything a modern primatologist needs to know, including research design and execution, ethics, field methods, conservation politics, and writing up for journals and the public. It is a complete encyclopedia describing the modern complexities of studying our closest relatives. The book advises how to negotiate and deal with political and ethical issues from village to university. In addition, it links basic research with conservation agendas in a unified and mutually reinforcing way. The final chapter gives convincing arguments for why primatology is relevant, even essential to understanding modern-day life and science. At long last a volume that will give students and professors a road map of solutions to real world problems of conducting research. Thorough, rigorous and compelling, this is a must-read for all primatology graduate students and seasoned scientists. I recommend it all to anthropologists, primatologists, biologists, and environmental and social scientists working in field research.' Patricia C. Wright, State University of New York, Stony Brook'This book is timely, highly needed and very welcome. It introduces basic principles and rules of scientific inquiry - from devising research questions to preparing research results for publication, always considering ethical issues - and tackles these issues from a taxon-specific, namely primatological perspective. This approach makes the book much more accessible for students at all levels of training and for young scientists than more general and abstract introductions to scientific practice. Throughout all chapters, the book transpires Joanna M. Setchell's broad experience as a researcher and author, and as an editor for the International Journal of Primatology. Despite the primate-focused approach, I am convinced that this book will not only be very useful to students of primatology, but also to scholars from other taxon-specific and organism-centered biological disciplines, such as mammalogy or ornithology.' Eckhard W. Heymann, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Germany'… all essential topics are thoroughly covered in one volume and applied especially to the study of primates … This volume is indispensable for those teaching and engaging in primatological research.' L. K. Sheeran, Choice'Setchell has provided a timely, nicely executed, and valuable book that we should embrace regardless of how long we have been in the business - and that can yield several benefits to our research and teaching missions … this book makes a fantastic graduation gift for undergraduates considering graduate school or postgraduates wrapping up their degree … this volume pushes us to reflect and improve, helping us and our students get farther and, it is my hope, to more interesting places.' Mitchell T. Irwin, The Quarterly Review of Biology'Whatever background brought you to primatology and wherever you want to study primates- indeed whichever primates you want to study- this book will be an extremely useful guide… It should be essential reading for graduate/post-graduate students. I am sure more seasoned researchers will not only learn something but also find it very useful for teaching and mentoring.' Anna T. C. Feistner, The Primate EyeTable of Contents1. Asking questions about primates; 2. Ethics in primatology; 3. Keeping science healthy: research integrity; 4. Inclusive science; 5. Understanding statistical evidence; 6. Communicating ideas in writing; 7. Introduction to the primates; 8. Why study primates?; 9. Identifying a research question; 10. Finding out what we know; 11. Reading journal articles; 12. Formulating hypotheses and predictions and designing a study; 13. Observing and manipulating; 14. Choosing measures; 15. Planning data analysis; 16. Sampling and statistical power; 17. Checking feasibility and finalising your plans; 18. Writing a research proposal; 19. Collecting data; 20. Conducting fieldwork; 21. Analysing and interpreting data; 22. Writing a scientific report; 23. Submitting to a peer-reviewed journal; 24. Presenting your work at a conference; 25. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book combines archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and paleogenetic data to present a unique demographic perspective on this period of early prehistory, combining social and evolutionary approaches. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in archaeology and biological anthropology.Table of Contents1. Towards a Social Palaeodemography of Early Prehistory; 2. Stones, Bones, and Genes: A Palaeodemographic Database; 3. Hunter-Gatherer Demography; 4. Visitation: The First European Populations (~1.8 million-300,000 years ago); 5. Residency: The Neanderthals and their Neighbours (~300,000-40,000 years ago); 6. Expansion: The Arrival of Homo Sapiens and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000 years ago-35,000 years ago); 7. Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000 years ago-15,000 years ago); 8. Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society.

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Book SynopsisUltrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of superorganism taking precedence over the individuals within it. Human society is now an autonomous, highly integrated network of technologies, institutions, and belief systems dedicated to the expansion of economic production. Recognizing this allows a radically new interpretation of free market and neoliberal ideology which - far from advocating personal freedom - leads to sacrificing the well-being of individuals for the benefit of the global market. Ultrasocial is a fascinating exploration of what this means for the future direction of the humanity: can we forge a better, more egalitarian, and sustainable future by changing this socio-economic - and ultimately destructive - path? Gowdy expTrade Review'Building on fresh understandings of evolution, this amazing book revolutionizes our understanding of the past and explores a future in which our humanity may be rekindled on a planet likely to be too hot to sustain conventional agriculture. A tour de force.' Peter G. Brown, McGill University'The evolutionary economist John Gowdy has written a grand narrative tracing how over thousands of years the global human society has become complex, stratified, and interconnected, turning into a vast self-regulating superorganism. And now this superorganism has fallen prey to the ideological virus of neoliberalism, which subordinates the well-being of individuals to the needs of the global market. Ultimately, Ultrasocial is a scathing indictment of neoliberal ideology and market fundamentalism from the evolutionary point of view.' Peter Turchin, University of Connecticut and author of Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth'Gowdy puts forward the provocative case that as we came under the yoke of states, humans became closer to ants and termites. Individually we may still be social primates, but collectively we are now closer to a leafcutter ant colony. A stimulating read that reworks the fabric of history away from a simple narrative of increasing complexity and prosperity, to one in which we have traded autonomy and humanity for power. A book that might just change your mind on what it means to be human.' Luke Kemp, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge'In this highly original, stimulating, and provocative interdisciplinary analysis, John Gowdy bridges the agricultural societies of African mound-building termites and fungus-gardening ants with human nature to generate deep insights into modern economics and sustainability.' James Traniello, Boston UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. The Evolution of Human Ultrasociality: 1. The Ultrasocial Origin of our Existential Crisis; 2. The Evolution of Ultrasociality in Humans and Social Insects; 3. Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage and the Evolution of Human Nature; 4. The Agricultural Transition and how it Changed our Species; Part II. The Rise and Consolidation of State/Market Societies: 5. The Rise of State Societies; 6. The Modern State/Market Superorganism; 7. Neoliberalism: The Ideology of the Superorganism; Part III. Back to the Future: 8. Taming the Market: A Minimal Bioeconomic Program; 9. Evolving a Sustainable and Equitable Future: What can we learn from Non-Market Cultures?; 10. Reclaiming Human Nature: The Future will be Better (Eventually); Index.

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Book SynopsisPresenting a comprehensive overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, this book is suitable for scholars of social interaction across the areas of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, interpersonal communication, discursive psychology and sociolinguistics.Trade Review"The editors of The Handbook of Conversation Analysis have been successful in compiling a tightly structured collection with chapters that are consistently lucid and comprehensive in their treatment of the 'core' concerns of Conversation Analysis.... The Handbook of Conversation Analysis shows Conversation Analysis's distinctive approach to language and social interaction to be much broader than some caricatures of the field would have us believe and, as such, it should appeal to sociolinguists of various types."—Susan Ehrlich, Journal of Sociolinguistics 20/2, 2016 "Taken as a whole, these 36 chapters are extremely useful as a resource for all students and researchers interested in CA. They offer an excellent inventory of what CA has achieved in the 45 years of its existence. In that sense the Handbook is a clear landmark for CA as a field, reconsidering the past as well as looking into the future." (Discourse Studies, 1 June 2014) "This magnificent volume is essential reading for specialists and interested non-specialists alike. Above all, it will provide a brilliant teaching resource. With this Handbook, CA has come of age." (The Sociological Review, 21 October 2013) "However, these minor criticisms aside, the book is a must-have resource for learning, teaching and conducting research in CA, and as such essential reading for both students and academics." (LINGUIST List, 15 July 2013)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xvi 1 Introduction 1Tanya Stivers and Jack Sidnell Part I Studying Social Interaction from a CA Perspective 9 2 Everyone and No One to Turn to: Intellectual Roots and Contexts for Conversation Analysis 11Douglas W. Maynard 3 The Conversation Analytic Approach to Data Collection 32Lorenza Mondada 4 The Conversation Analytic Approach to Transcription 57Alexa Hepburn and Galina B. Bolden 5 Basic Conversation Analytic Methods 77Jack Sidnell Part II Fundamental Structures of Conversation 101 6 Action Formation and Ascription 103Stephen C. Levinson 7 Turn Design 131Paul Drew 8 Turn-Constructional Units and the Transition-Relevance Place 150Steven E. Clayman 9 Turn Allocation and Turn Sharing 167Makoto Hayashi 10 Sequence Organization 191Tanya Stivers 11 Preference 210Anita Pomerantz and John Heritage 12 Repair 229Celia Kitzinger 13 Overall Structural Organization 257Jeffrey D. Robinson Part III Key Topics in CA 281 14 Embodied Action and Organizational Activity 283Christian Heath and Paul Luff 15 Gaze in Conversation 308Federico Rossano 16 Emotion, Affect and Conversation 330Johanna Ruusuvuori 17 Affiliation in Conversation 350Anna Lindström and Marja-Leena Sorjonen 18 Epistemics in Conversation 370John Heritage 19 Question Design in Conversation 395Kaoru Hayano 20 Response Design in Conversation 415Seung-Hee Lee 21 Reference in Conversation 433N. J. Enfield 22 Phonetics and Prosody in Conversation 455Gareth Walker 23 Grammar in Conversation 475Harrie Mazeland 24 Storytelling in Conversation 492Jenny Mandelbaum Part IV Key Contexts of Study in CA: Populations and Settings 509 25 Interaction among Children 511Mardi Kidwell 26 Conversation Analysis and the Study of Atypical Populations 533Charles Antaki and Ray Wilkinson 27 Conversation Analysis in Psychotherapy 551Anssi Peräkylä 28 Conversation Analysis in Medicine 575Virginia Teas Gill and Felicia Roberts 29 Conversation Analysis in the Classroom 593Rod Gardner 30 Conversation Analysis in the Courtroom 612Martha Komter 31 Conversation Analysis in the News Interview 630Steven E. Clayman Part V CA across the Disciplines 657 32 Conversation Analysis and Sociology 659John Heritage and Tanya Stivers 33 Conversation Analysis and Communication 674Wayne A. Beach 34 Conversation Analysis and Anthropology 688Ignasi Clemente 35 Conversation Analysis and Psychology 701Jonathan Potter and Derek Edwards 36 Conversation Analysis and Linguistics 726arbara A. Fox, Sandra A. Thompson, Cecilia E. Ford and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen References 741 Names Index 812 Topic Index 815

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local activists. Engaging with recent debates surrounding immigration and the inclusion of ethnic minorities in the city, the book takes up the question of ethnicity and gentrification. It argues for an urban policy that gives up the preoccupation with policies concerning the residential mix and place transformation in favour of empowering its citizens. A lively and engaging analysis, in which theoretical rigour is illuminated with rich interviews and empirical content in order to shed light on the relationship between gentrification, displacement, and integration, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, geography, anthropology and urban studies.Trade Review’Tone Huse does something rarely accomplished in gentrification research: the inclusion of the voices of those for whom urban redevelopment spells severe disruption to treasured ways of life.This sensitive and insightful ethnographic study demonstrates that our research, and our cities, are better for remembering those who are too frequently ignored.’ Steve Herbert, University of Washington, USA ’Gentrification comes in many flavours, and Tone Huse’s sensitive and vivid biography of a street in eastern Oslo captures a broad range of current and recent processes of change in the urban landscape, from the impact of global neoliberalism to the new ethnic diversity. Written with verve and gusto, this book offers an unusual, attractive and compelling perspective on urban transformations in Western Europe.’ Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo, NorwayTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Renewal and eviction; Little Pakistan; The win-win myth; Birds of a feather attend school together?; The new GrA,nland; The art spectacle; Unrest and fear; Minorities in the city; From TA,yen Street; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social, and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there be well-being within illness?In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher. Carel's fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable questions about how we all whether healthcare professionals or not view the ill, challenging us to become more thoughtful. Illness unravels the tension between the universality of illness and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us.Revised and updated throughout, the third edition of this groundbreaking volume includes a new chapter on organ transplantation. Illness: The CryTrade Review"This short, powerful and wise book by noted philosopher Havi Carel has much to offer all those affected by illness. Patients and healthcare professionals, as well as academics with an interest in the experience of illness, should all read this book." Rachel Cooper, University of Lancaster, UK. "Havi Carel's Illness: The Cry of the Flesh is a wonderful introduction to phenomenology of medicine. It is a clearly written and richly nuanced personal and philosophical account of living with uncertainty, progressive disability, and fear of early death. Epicurus, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others are used as sources of ideas for living well – creatively and flexibly – with illness. This third edition is revised and updated throughout (including a new chapter on the meaning of organ transplantation), yet keeps the import and directness of the original 2008 edition. I look forward to using it in my Philosophy of Medicine classes." Miriam Solomon, Temple University, USA "Havi Carel weaves her own experience of breathlessness with lessons in the philosophy of health and illness. Combining analysis and memoir, her book shows how philosophy can provide a form of therapy to deal with the expectations and desires that an illness can destroy. The cry of Carel's flesh is philosophically moving and deeply human." David Teira, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, SpainPraise for previous editions:"One of the most profoundly moving (as well as academically worthwhile) books I have had the pleasure (if that is the correct word) to read. The book will be a useful addition on reading lists for modules that examine illness and disability and death and dying and it has the potential to generate excellent discussions about how both the individual and society deal with illness and disability." Times Higher Education Supplement"A thoroughly readable, engaging book which should be warmly welcomed, not only for the personal nature of the writing, but for its ambition to draw on the insights of philosophers to improve the lives of ill people. It is a truly commendable effort which showcases the practical relevance of philosophy by applying it to the concrete situation of illness. Illness reflects the distinctly Epicurean idea of philosophy as ‘medicine for the soul’." Philosophical Quarterly"This book achieves something rare among works of philosophy: it speaks with a heartfelt directness that instantly engenders an intimate connection between author and reader. It demands a level of personal engagement, both emotional and self-reflective, that is at times hard to bear, as the author courageously and persistently lays before us the painful details of her experiences of being ill and shares with us the philosophical insights that those experiences have informed or inspired. Despite its profoundly unsettling subject-matter, the book is eminently readable and engrossing; it exhibits a depth of humanity that is sadly lacking in much of the increasingly technical and jargon-laden products of contemporary philosophical discourse, and constitutes a vivid testament to the possibility of philosophical optimism in the face of potentially crushing adversity." International Journal of Philosophical Studies"Illness makes a powerful argument for exploring the experience of illness and the associated philosophical questions. Carel’s inclusion of herself in the book is often moving and shows well the power of bringing philosophy and personal life together." Philosophy in Review"This book offers an important contribution to the ongoing project of the phenomenology of illness, and offers a powerful argument for the inclusion of applied phenomenology in medical and healthcare training. One of the main strengths of this book is that it forces you to think, and to think philosophically. Carel neatly lifts philosophy off the page, and places it out there like a talisman in our everyday life. The book deserves to be read widely by the public, and I would suggest needs to be read widely by clinical practitioners as a point of reference for their own practice." Metapsychology"Illness offers us something that we all need to read and think about … If I were to write a book about illness, I would want it to be just like this one." Arena"a marvelous book … a very clear and detailed account of the phenomenology of illness and the contribution it could make to medical practice and research." Homeopathy"A masterpiece. Moving seamlessly between an unsparingly honest personal narrative and philosophical reflections on our condition as embodied subjects, Havi Carel has fashioned a uniquely authentic account of the lived experience of illness. It should be read – and reread – by everyone who is professionally involved with illness, who is ill, or is likely to become ill; which is to say, by all of us." Raymond Tallis, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Manchester"A genuinely important philosophical work. Carel succeeds in offering a wide-ranging, original, wholly convincing and quite beautiful account of the phenomenology of illness. This is a remarkably insightful book about what it is to be human and how to live. Anybody who cares about who they are and how they live ought to read it." Matthew Ratcliffe, Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham"A tremendous achievement, as well as being a very moving personal document." Christopher Bertram, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Bristol"This short, powerful and wise book by noted philosopher Havi Carel has much to offer all those affected by illness. Patients and healthcare professionals, as well as academics with an interest in the experience of illness, should all read this book." Rachel Cooper, University of Lancaster, UK"Havi Carel's Illness: The Cry of the Flesh is a wonderful introduction to phenomenology of medicine. It is a clearly written and richly nuanced personal and philosophical account of living with uncertainty, progressive disability, and fear of early death. Epicurus, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others are used as sources of ideas for living well – creatively and flexibly – with illness. This third edition is revised and updated throughout (including a new chapter on the meaning of organ transplantation), yet keeps the import and directness of the original 2008 edition. I look forward to using it in my Philosophy of Medicine classes." Miriam Solomon, Temple University, USA "Havi Carel weaves her own experience of breathlessness with lessons in the philosophy of health and illness. Combining analysis and memoir, her book shows how philosophy can provide a form of therapy to deal with the expectations and desires that an illness can destroy. The cry of Carel's flesh is philosophically moving and deeply human." David Teira, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain"The first edition was a book about suffering, but the third, to me, reads like a book on the philosophical and psychological experience of hope and suffering. This is best encapsulated in the work's own closing words: I continue to ride my electric bike to work, go to yoga class, and see friends and family. I continue to walk my dog, listen to music, write. I continue to live. Sometimes my illness makes life hard. It often takes up more time and space than I would like it to. But it has also given me an ability to bew truly happy in the present, in being here and now. (p. 185) The shadow is overcome." - Alexander Westenberg, Metapsychology Praise for previous editions:"One of the most profoundly moving (as well as academically worthwhile) books I have had the pleasure (if that is the correct word) to read. The book will be a useful addition on reading lists for modules that examine illness and disability and death and dying and it has the potential to generate excellent discussions about how both the individual and society deal with illness and disability." Times Higher Education Supplement"A thoroughly readable, engaging book which should be warmly welcomed, not only for the personal nature of the writing, but for its ambition to draw on the insights of philosophers to improve the lives of ill people. It is a truly commendable effort which showcases the practical relevance of philosophy by applying it to the concrete situation of illness. Illness reflects the distinctly Epicurean idea of philosophy as ‘medicine for the soul’." Philosophical Quarterly"This book achieves something rare among works of philosophy: it speaks with a heartfelt directness that instantly engenders an intimate connection between author and reader. It demands a level of personal engagement, both emotional and self-reflective, that is at times hard to bear, as the author courageously and persistently lays before us the painful details of her experiences of being ill and shares with us the philosophical insights that those experiences have informed or inspired. Despite its profoundly unsettling subject-matter, the book is eminently readable and engrossing; it exhibits a depth of humanity that is sadly lacking in much of the increasingly technical and jargon-laden products of contemporary philosophical discourse, and constitutes a vivid testament to the possibility of philosophical optimism in the face of potentially crushing adversity." International Journal of Philosophical Studies"Illness makes a powerful argument for exploring the experience of illness and the associated philosophical questions. Carel’s inclusion of herself in the book is often moving and shows well the power of bringing philosophy and personal life together." Philosophy in Review"This book offers an important contribution to the ongoing project of the phenomenology of illness, and offers a powerful argument for the inclusion of applied phenomenology in medical and healthcare training. One of the main strengths of this book is that it forces you to think, and to think philosophically. Carel neatly lifts philosophy off the page, and places it out there like a talisman in our everyday life. The book deserves to be read widely by the public, and I would suggest needs to be read widely by clinical practitioners as a point of reference for their own practice." Metapsychology"Illness offers us something that we all need to read and think about … If I were to write a book about illness, I would want it to be just like this one." Arena"A marvelous book … a very clear and detailed account of the phenomenology of illness and the contribution it could make to medical practice and research." Homeopathy"A masterpiece. Moving seamlessly between an unsparingly honest personal narrative and philosophical reflections on our condition as embodied subjects, Havi Carel has fashioned a uniquely authentic account of the lived experience of illness. It should be read – and reread – by everyone who is professionally involved with illness, who is ill, or is likely to become ill; which is to say, by all of us." Raymond Tallis, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Manchester"A genuinely important philosophical work. Carel succeeds in offering a wide-ranging, original, wholly convincing and quite beautiful account of the phenomenology of illness. This is a remarkably insightful book about what it is to be human and how to live. Anybody who cares about who they are and how they live ought to read it." Matthew Ratcliffe, Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham"A tremendous achievement, as well as being a very moving personal document." Christopher Bertram, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of BristolTable of ContentsPreface to the third edition. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The body in illness. 2. The social world of illness. 3. Illness as dis-ability and health within illness. 4. Fearing death. 5. Sewn open. 6. Living in the present. LAM: facts and figures. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2006. Frances Keyzer was an Englishwoman who lived in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century, when French women were reckoned to be the cleverest of cooks, and the Parisians the cleverest of all. In nineteen chapters, this book is intended to be an aid to English women, French Household Cookery begins with the elementary rules of good cooking - cleanliness, fresh ingredients and good butter - and goes on to present a hundred and thirty-seven recipes for well-loved domestic dishes that rely upon the simple methods employed in French homes, where daily meals were always as well prepared as at the most luxurious tables.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Hors-D'œuvre; Chapter 2 Soups and Purées; Chapter 3 Fish; Chapter 4 Ragoûts (Stews); Chapter 5 Entrées and Plain Household Dishes; Chapter 6 Venison; Chapter 7 Pasties and Pâtés; Chapter 8 Roasts; Chapter 9 Sauces; Chapter 10 Salads; Chapter 11 Vegetables; Chapter 12 Potatoes; Chapter 13 Omelettes and Eggs Generally; Chapter 14 Macaroni and Rice; Chapter 15 Sweet Dishes—Ices; Chapter 16 Summer Food; Chapter 17 How to Make Coffee; Chapter 18 Economy Dishes; Chapter 19 Menus with Recipes from the Best Paris Chefs;

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Book SynopsisSituated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes explores historical practices, investigates current trends, and imagines future work in genetic research to answer persistent, political questions about human diversity. Readers are guided through fascinating thought experiments, complex measures and metrics, fundamental evolutionary patterns, and in-depth treatment of exciting case studies. The work culminates in a philosophical rationale, based on scientific evidence, for a moderate position about the explanatory power of genes that is often left unarticulated. Simply put, human evolutionary genomics - our genes - can tell us much about who we are as individuals and as collectives. However, while they convey scientific certainty in the popular imagination, genes cannot answer some of our most important questions. Alternating between an up-close and a zoomed-out focus on genes and genomes, individuals and collectives, species and populations, Our Genes argues thTrade Review'Winther's book is a synthesis of philosophical perspectives on modern evolutionary genomics, written by one of the few people in the world who have a sufficiently deep understanding of both philosophy and biology to achieve such an undertaking. It is a remarkable tour de force of the philosophy of genomics that should be essential reading for students and scholars interested in the broader implications of human genomic research. But the book will also appeal to a more general audience interested in understanding genetics and in finding out what genetics and evolutionary biology can, and cannot, tell them about the fundamental question: Who am I?' Rasmus Nielsen, University of California, Berkeley, USA'Our Genes makes a significant and welcome contribution! Race theorists seeking to reconcile humanities training and impulses with the insights of contemporary genomics will find Winther's rigorous but accessible study particularly valuable. This is vital work.' Paul C. Taylor, Vanderbilt University, USA'It's a rare book indeed in which someone from another discipline examines the basic suppositions and habits of thought characteristic of one's own field with equal parts inspiration and care such that it gives you a whole new perspective on what you do and why. Rasmus Winther's Our Genes is one such book. It is a seamless alloy of evolution, genetics, and the philosophy of biology in which each topic is explained in a manner accessible to non-experts. It also subjects these ideas to deep examination and cogent criticism with pressing implications both for how philosophers should approach problems in population genetics and how population geneticists might sharpen their questions. It should be widely and closely read in philosophy and population genetics seminars alike and could well form the foundation for a new generation of fruitful collaborations between philosophers and population geneticists.' Charles S. Roseman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA'Our Genes isn't the last word, it's the first words you should read on the population genetics, molecular genetics, and gene/environment interaction that shaped Homo sapiens over the last several hundred thousand years. Rasmus Winther has produced a tour de force of scientific synthesis, and philosophical analysis, and wisdom about the uses of both.' Alex Rosenberg, Duke University, USATable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Origins and Histories; 3. The Mind, the Lab, and the Field: Three Kinds of Populations; 4. Metrics and Measures; 5. Models and Methodologies; 6. Six Patterns of Human Genomic Variation; 7. Natural Selection; 8. Intelligence, Female Orgasm, and Future Discovery; 9. Is Race Real?; 10. The Conscious Universe: Genes in Complex Systems; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventional approaches to technology design and innovation; and how a critical anthropology of the way that emerging technologies are experienced in everyday life circumstances offers new insights for future-making practices. In pursuing these questions, this book responds to a call for new anthropologies that respond to the current and emerging technological environments in which we live, environments for which thinking critically about the possible, plausible, and impossible futures are no longer sufficient. Taking the next step, this book asserts that aTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Complicating Futures 2. Modelling the Future? 3. Innovation routes 4. Digital Anticipation 5. Algorithmic futures and the unsettled sense of care 6. Organising artificial intelligence and representing work 7. Making sense of sensors 8. Drones as a gendered matter of concern 9. Future Mobility Solutions? 10. Eco-sensory technologies and the surrealist impulse Afterword

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Book SynopsisOn February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that dominated headlines around the world. Millions of Ukrainians would flee the country, and a third of the population would be displaced. In the days following the invasion, Swedish migration expert Gregg Bucken-Knapp sent text messages to his Ukrainian colleagues, offering support and assistance. These were their responses. In a series of graphic vignettes, Messages from Ukraine takes the words of Ukrainian migration professionals and transforms them into snapshots of how war affects the lives of everyday people: those who are forced to flee home and seek safety elsewhere, those who choose to stay and volunteer or fight, those who witness events unfolding from afar, and those who find themselves trapped in cities under siege. Messages from Ukraine captures a moment in time to tell a timeless story about war, displacement, determination, and resilience. Proceeds from the sale of MTable of ContentsMessages from Ukraine Appendix I: Timeline of Events Appendix II: Interview with the Authors Appendix III: Study Guide References

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight. 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin's book illuminates the development of containerizationincluding design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewCraig Martin has brought real love and insight to the logistical life of the shipping container. He reveals its role in the distributive space of extensive global networks and other dark places and their knotty politics, without ever losing track of our personal attachment and alienation to this box of ubiquity, this vessel of choreographed capitalism. Shipping Container is an efficient little package, calculating, brisk, economical, and yet, it is anything but a standardized account; it just sings. * Peter Adey, Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Object Lessons’ describes themselves as ‘short, beautiful books,’ and to that, I'll say, amen. … [I]t is in this simplicity that we find insight and even beauty. Shipping Container by Craig Martin asks us to contemplate an object on which we depend to move 90 percent of what goes from point A to points B through Z on the globe, but also with which very few of us have had direct contact. If you read enough ‘Object Lessons’ books, you'll fill your head with plenty of trivia to amaze and annoy your friends and loved ones — caution recommended on pontificating on the objects surrounding you. More importantly, though, in the tradition of McPhee's Oranges, they inspire us to take a second look at parts of the everyday that we've taken for granted. These are not so much lessons about the objects themselves, but opportunities for self-reflection and storytelling. They remind us that we are surrounded by a wondrous world, as long as we care to look. * Chicago Tribune *Shipping Container discusses in detail the mechanics of this object. It broadens this out to reflect on the significance of design and the efficiencies of standardization. Verdict: Borrow. Shipping Container is impressive in the way it manages to spin an apparently dull object into intelligent and interesting explanations of design and commerce. * Book Riot *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Packaging Stuff 2. 20 x 40 x 8 feet: Design and Development of a Global Object 3. Twist Lock: Global Object of Capitalism 4. Breaking the Seal: Illicit Lives of the Container 5. Four Walls: Container Afterlives: 6. Conclusion: Global Object to Come Index

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Book SynopsisExchange Ideologies documents the social world of Aleppo''s traders before the destruction of the city, exploring changing conceptions of commerce in Syria. Syria''s traders have been seen as embodying a timeless culture of the bazaar, or an ahistorical Islamic culture of trade. Other accounts portray them as venal figures, motivated only by profit, and commerce as a purely instrumental pursuit. Rejecting both approaches, Paul Anderson traces the diverse social structures, and notions of language, through which Aleppo''s merchants understood and construed commerce and the figure of the merchant during a period of economic liberalization in the 2000s. Rather than seeing these social structures and representations as expressions of a timeless bazaar culture, or as shaped only by Islamic tradition, Exchange Ideologies relates them to processes of politically managed economic liberalization and the Syrian regime''s attempts to ensure its own survival in the m

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Book SynopsisIn most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our present situation, and where we are heading. In this major new book, the leading sociologist, historical anthropologist and demographer Emmanuel Todd sheds fresh light on our current predicament by reconstructing the historical dynamics of human societies from the Stone Age to the present. Eschewing the tendency to attribute special causal significance to the economy, Todd develops an anthropological account of history, focusing on the long-term dynamics of family systems and their links to religion and ideology – what he sees as the slow-moving, unconscious level of society, in contrast to the conscious level of the economy and politics. He also analyses the dramatic changes brought about by the spread of education. This enables him to explain the different historical trajectories of the advanced nations and the growing divergence between them, a divergence that can be observed in such phenomena as the rise of the Anglosphere in the modern period, the paradox of a Homo americanus who is both innovative and archaic, the startling electoral success of Donald Trump, the lack of realism in the will to power shown by Germany and China, the emergence of stable authoritarian democracy in Russia, the new introversion of Japan and the recent turbulent developments in Europe, including Brexit. This magisterial account of human history brings into sharp focus the massive transformations taking place in the world today and shows that these transformations have less to do with the supposedly homogenizing effects of globalization and the various reactions to it than with an ethnic diversity that is deeply rooted in the long history of human evolution.Trade ReviewTo the study of the United States, the Soviet Union and France, Emmanuel Todd has brought a unique combination of empirical rigour and humanist insight. Now, in Lineages of Modernity, this great thinker has found his greatest subject.’Michael Lind, author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States ‘Emmanuel Todd provides intellectual nourishment of the first order. His family-based, anthropological-historical account uncovers another part of the hidden wiring of human development and provides a welcome antidote to the relentless economism of so much contemporary analysis. And for those of us unfamiliar with the Todd perspective, he writes with clarity and erudition, marshalling a huge amount of evidence to provide a fresh but undogmatic perspective on the modern world, usually with half an eye on the ancient one.’David Goodhart, member of the Policy Exchange think-tank and author of The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics ‘Emmanuel Todd is an internationally known scholar whose work on the development and influence of family systems around the world has challenged many preconceptions. This is a bold, iconoclastic, wide-ranging study, marshalling a great deal of material from history, anthropology, demography and other disciplines. It is written from an unusual angle and rightly challenges the primacy of economic forces, emphasizing instead the role of family systems, ideology, education and culture in the shaping of human history. There is much to learn from this work.’Alan Macfarlane, Life Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge ‘Vast and mind-expanding’The Independent“[Todd] Uncovers the hidden wiring of modernity using his own special historical-anthropological method — which predicted both the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Donald Trump.”Evening StandardTable of Contents Preface to the English edition Introduction. The differentiation of family structures and the inverse model of history Chapter One. The differentiation of family systems: Eurasia Chapter Two. The differentiation of family systems: Indian America and Africa Chapter Three. Homo sapiens Chapter Four. Judaism and early Christianity: family and literacy Chapter Five. Germany, Protestantism and universal literacy Chapter Seven. Educational take-off and economic development Chapter Eight. Secularization and the crisis of transition Chapter Nine. The English matrix of globalization Chapter Ten. Homo americanus Chapter Eleven. Democracy is always primitive Chapter Twelve. Democracy undermined by higher education Chapter Thirteen. A crisis in Black and White Chapter Fourteen: Donald Trump as will and representation Chapter Fifteen. The memory of places Chapter Sixteen. Stem family societies: Germany and Japan Chapter Seventeen. The metamorphosis of Europe Chapter Eighteen. Communitarian societies: Russia and China Envoi Post-script: the future of liberal democracy Notes Index

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