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Book SynopsisThrough an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many long-standing myths about the disease.Drawing on her 30 years of research on the infection, Charlotte Roberts begins by outlining its bacterial causes, how it spreads, and how it affects the body. She then considers its diagnosis and treatment, both historically and in the present. She also looks at the methods and tools used by paleopathologists to identify signs of leprosy in skeletons. Examining evidence in human remains from many countries, particularly in Europe and including Britain, Hungary, and Sweden, Roberts demonstrates that those affected were usually buried in the same cemeteries as their communities, contrary to the popular belief that they were all ostracized or isolated from society into leprosy hospitals. Other myths addressed by Roberts include the assumptions that leprosy can't be cured, that leprosy is no longer a problem today, and that what is called "leprosy" in the Bible is the same illness as the disease with that name now. Roberts concludes by projecting the future of leprosy, arguing that researchers need to study the disease through an ethically grounded evolutionary perspective. Importantly, she advises against use of the word "leper" to avoid perpetuating stigma today surrounding people with the infection and resulting disabilities. Leprosy will stand as the authoritative source on the subject for years to come.A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen.

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Book SynopsisExamining the long-lasting effects of European colonization on Mexican populationsThe Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521. Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history to examine the response to European colonization, providing evidence for the resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous change.Essays focus on Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Oaxaca, providing a cross-regional perspective, and they highlight Mexican scholars’ work and viewpoints. They examine the effects of the castas system—which the colonizers used to organize society according to parentage and the social construction of race—on individuals’ and groups’ access to power, social mobility, health, and mate choice. Contributors illuminate the poorly understood extent that this system—and the national identity of mestizaje that replaced it—caused structural inequality and the structural violence of stress and health disparities, as well as genetic admixture.Five hundred years after the Spanish first clashed with Aztec forces and began to influence modern Mexico, this volume adds to discussions of colonialism, the reconstruction of biosocial relationships, and the work of decolonization. Students and scholars in anthropology and history will gain insights into how human populations transform and adapt in the wake of major historical events that result in migration, demographic change, and social upheaval.

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Book SynopsisNorthern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Albanian-speaking tribes in Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo. Robert Elsie provides comprehensive material on the 69 different tribes, including data on their locations, religious affiliations, tribal structures and relations, population statistics, tribal folklore, legends and history. Also included are excerpts from the works of prominent nineteenth and early-twentieth century writers, such as Edith Durham and Johann Georg von Hahn, who travelled through the tribal regions, as well as short biographies on prominent figures linked to the tribes. As the first book of its kind, The Tribes of Albania will be of interest to scholars and students of the Balkans, of southeastern European anthropology, ethnography and history.Trade Review`The tribal system of northern Albania is one of the most fascinating aspects of a very distinctive part of Europe. Over hundreds of years, when their territory was under Ottoman rule but seldom fully under Ottoman control, these tribes provided a basis for social identity, local justice and military action. So cohesive were they that the unity of a tribe could easily survive the conversion of one part of it to Islam. Anyone who studies the history of these people will encounter tribal names and tribal identities at every step; and yet, until now, there has never been a general work gathering all the scattered information about them that survives in sources of many different kinds. The Tribes of Albania will be an indispensable and authoritative work of reference. There are few people in the world who could have written such a work; absolutely no one could have done it as well as Robert Elsie, whose knowledge of this material is unparalleled.’ - Sir Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, `The tribalism of the north has been of primary significance to Albania right up until modern times, yet anyone attempting to study it soon encounters daunting difficulties. The topic was taboo in the Communist period, while earlier surveys and travellers’ accounts are inevitably scattered and inconsistent. Now Robert Elsie has very helpfully brought together a wealth of information, in as clear and systematic a fashion as the subject permits, to create this scholarly handbook to the northern tribes, their structures, geography, and history. It is to be welcomed as a valuable contribution to the ongoing demystification of the country.’ – Jason Tomes, author of King Zog: Self-Made Monarch of AlbaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction Editorial note The Tribes of the Northern Albanian Alps (Malësia e Madhe) The Tribes of the Pulat Region The Tribes of the Dukagjin Region The Tribes of the Gjakova Highlands (Malësia e Gjakovës) The Tribes of the Puka Region The Tribes of the Lezha Highlands (Malësia e Lezhës) The Tribes of the Kruja Highlands (Malësia e Krujës) The Tribes of Mirdita The Tribes of the Mat Region The Tribes of the Upper Drin Basin Minor Tribes Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEmotions are a loaded topic. From love and hate to grief, fear and envy, emotions are increasingly understood as driving forces in social life. The Emotions: A Cultural Reader applies a cross-cultural perspective on emotions. It examines the fact that emotions are socially and culturally constructed, while highlighting problems of comparison and translation of local terms and emotional experiences. Are emotions cultural or universal? To what extent are there culturally distinct emotions? The Emotions closes the traditional Western gap where emotions are separated from rationality and thought: the heart versus mind debate. By presenting both classic essays and new cutting-edge chapters from anthropology, sociology and psychology with important contributions from philosophy and neuroscience, the volume connects a rich range of cross-cultural studies to form a thriving interdisciplinary debate on emotions.Trade Review"I believe that several essays in this book will make readers feel very differently about emotions. It is recommended for anyone who would like to have their cultural beliefs vigorously shaken up. - Media/Culture Reviews online Anthropologist Wulff has assembled the most comprehensive collection of theoretically rich and empirically diverse articles on emotions to date. Highly recommended. - T. L. Loos, CHOICE Magazine In sum, The Emotions: A Cultural Reader is a special, multidisciplinary book that would fit advanced undergraduates in psychology, cross-cultural theory, ethnology and social sciences in general. - The British Psychological Society - Yves Laberge, PhD"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Into the Mood, Helena WulffI. Exploring EmotionsPreface, Helena Wulff1. Emotion Talk Across Cultures, Paul Heelas 2. Emotion, Thought, and Estrangement: Emotion as a Cultural Category, Catherine Lutz3. Emotions, Feelings and Hedonics in the Human Brain, Morten L. Kringelbach4. Emotion (or Life, the Universe, Everything), Kay Milton5. Can Happiness be Taught?, Martin E. P. Seligman6. Exploring the Managed Heart, Arlie Russell Hochschild7. ´Catholics, Protestants and Office Workers from the Town´: The Experience and Negotiation of Fear in Northern Ireland, Karen D. Lysaght8. Emotions in Academia, Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren9. The Cartesian Divide of the Nation-State: Emotion and Bureaucratic Logic, Don HandelmanII. Love and HatePreface, Helena Wulff10. Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry, Lila Abu-Lughod 11. Perilous Passions: Romantic Love and Love Magic in Russia, Galina Lindquist12. Relations with the Imagined Child: The Emotionality of Becoming an Adoptive Parent in Norway, Signe Howell 13. Knowledge and the Practice of Love and Hate Among the Enxet of Paraguay, Stephen W. KiddIII. Anger, Shame and Grief Preface, Helena Wulff14. Getting Angry: The Jamesian Theory of Emotion in Anthropology, Robert C. Solomon15. The Shame of Headhunters and the Autonomy of Self, Michelle Z. Rosaldo16. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage: On the Cultural Force of Emotions, Renato Rosaldo17. Moving Corpses: Emotions and Subject-Object Ambiguity, Maruska SvasekIV. Desire and Expectations Preface, Helena Wulff 18. ´Cool Play': Emotionality in Dance as a Resource in Senegalese Urban Women's Associations, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach19. The Emotional Life of Gay Men: Observations from New York, Moshe Shokeid20. From Rational Calculation to Sensual Experience: The Marketing of Emotions in Advertising, Timothy D. Malefyt21. Emotional Baggage: The Meaning/Feeling Debate Amongst Tourists, Jonathan SkinnerV. The Emotional Self and Identity Preface, Helena Wulff22. Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali, Clifford Geertz23. Emotions and the Self: A Theory of Personhood and Political Order Among Pintupi Aborigines, Fred R. Myers24. Rachel's Emotional Life: Movement and Identity, Nigel RapportAfterword, Robert A. LeVine

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Book SynopsisIn this revealing new book, Bøås and Dunn explore the phenomenon of 'autochthony' - literally ‘son of the soil’ - in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues in political life, directly relating to the politics of place, belonging, identity and contested citizenship. Thus, land claims and autochthony disputes are the hallmark of political crises in many places on the African continent. Examining the often complex reasons behind this recent rise of autochthony across a number of high-profile case studies - including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, and Kenya - this is an essential book for anyone wishing to understand the impact of this crucial issue on contemporary African politics and conflicts.Trade ReviewEmpirically rich and beautifully written, this book's account of the rise of an exclusionary autochtony discourse in Africa in the legitimization of political violence is paradigm-busting. It shows how and why conventional arguments focusing on natural resources, environmental scarcity, or even ethnicity miss the mark entirely and instead how the disruptions of economic liberalization, decentralization, and political liberalization have exacerbated melancholic uncertainty and nervousness about belonging and its inextricable tie to land and citizenship rights -- with parallels throughout the world. It is a must read for anyone interested in civil war, its cycles of recurrence, the potential for civil war, and the need for change in current policies of peace-building. * Susan L. Woodward, The Graduate Center, City University of New York *This book addresses a critical and badly neglected issue in the politics of modern Africa, and makes a vital contribution to understanding the dynamics of conflict in the continent. * Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University *Politics of Origin in Africa argues that the definition of citizenship on exclusionary terms or the activation of ethnicity and autochthony discourses are an integral component of state-making practices. Through detailed empirical studies of violent manifestations observed in Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya and the DRC, Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn decipher interactions between space and identity, politics and memory, land ownership and landlessness. The outcome is an insightful and stimulating discussion of strategies associated with situations where the redistribution of resources within the neopatrimonial state and through its big men is highly dysfunctional. * Daniel C. Bach, University of Bordeaux *In this compelling study of how identity and conflict may be linked in Africa, Bøås and Dunn provide detailed case studies of the Ivory Coast, DRC, Liberia and Kenya to show how the narrative of autochthony is deployed to create the Other, often with violent consequences. As the authors convincingly substantiate, the construction and exploitation of labels and identifications, such as autochthony, reflect a symptom, rather than a cause, of Africa's maldevelopment. * Ian Taylor, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews *Authocthony has become an important term for discussing identity politics and its relations in francophone Africa. Showing its centrality to the non-francophone countries as well, Politics of Origin in Africa reveals the inadequacy of the literature purporting resource curse on the one hand and resource scarcity on the other as the root cause for conflicts in the continent. Highlighting authocthony as "a strategy and not a fact", the authors bring the issue of local conflicts over land control and property rights to the fore, connecting them to political discourses and practices of both local and national character. This gives the book a truly refreshing, insightful and not least necessary perspective on African conflicts. * Mats Utas, The Nordic Africa Institute *The authors' compelling insights, rooted in a deep understanding of the politics of patronage, reveal how powerful forces in the global economy disrupt old patterns of stability and how the introduction of democratic elections and administrative decentralization can in fact aggravate conflict. This is an essential book both for scholars and analysts seeking to understand the new trajectories of conflicts in African countries, and the decisive shift away from top-down networks of authority to uncertain and often contentious centres of power. * William Reno, Northwestern University *Table of Contents1. Introduction: conflict, land scarcity and tales of origin 2. Autochthony, melancholy and uncertainty in contemporary African politics 3. Liberia: civil war and the 'Mandingo question' 4. Kenya: majimboism, indigenous land claims and electoral violence 5. Democratic Republic of Congo: 'dead certainty' in North Kivu 6. Côte d'Ivoire: production and the politics of belonging 7. Conclusion

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Book Synopsis"Dr Price might well be called ''The Charles Darwin of Nutrition''." - The Laryngoscope, 1950.Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, a compendium of ancestral wisdom, is a ground-breaking work in nutrition. Price liberally included illustrations and wrote in non-technical language to make the book as accessible as possible.Weston Price, a dentist with an interest in nutrition and health, travelled the globe, and observed the dietary habits of several diverse cultures, including the isolated Lötscher in Switzerland, Native Americans, Polynesians, Pygmies, and Australian Aboriginals. He observed that various diseases endemic to Western industrial societies of the 1920s and 1930s were rarely present in the indigenous populations he visited, but that as these groups abandoned their ancestral diet and adopted Western diets, they showed increases in typical Western diseases. He concluded that the modern Western diet, and, in particular, sugar, flour, and processed vegetable oils are responsible for these diseases and that Western methods of commercially preparing and storing foods stripped away vitamins and minerals necessary to prevent disease.Initially, the medical and scientific communities vigorously rejected this controversial work as lacking scientific precision; nevertheless, research has confirmed his conclusions and modern medical orthodoxy is slowly accepting that lifestyle and diet are a major factor, perhaps the major factor, in the degenerative diseases that have beset the developed world. A plethora of health-promoting diets have sprung from his observations including Paleo, keto, primal blueprint and the ancestral diet movement. Many have credited this book with greatly improving their health.This edition Is Weston Price''s original edition. Contains 134 original images and additional maps. Is set in an easy to read 11-point font. Weston A. Price (1870 -1948) was a Canadian-born dentist. While practicing in the United States, he conducted research, developed new dental techniques and equipment and published research papers and a textbook. He soon came to believe that nutritional deficiencies are largely responsible for dental caries. To investigate this, he visited the isolated people of Lötschental in Switzerland in 1931. He saw that they had excellent teeth but, more than that, they enjoyed outstanding general health and vigour, and soon he was travelling the globe cataloguing indigenous people''s diets and comparing the health of those who had maintained their ancestral diet and those who had starting consuming modern Western foods. He published this now famous work in 1939. Travelling the world, observing and recording, like Darwin, he made a revolutionary discovery that is slowly percolating into medical science.

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Book SynopsisThe family tomb as a physical claim to the patrimony, the attributed powers of the dead and the prospect of post-mortem veneration made the cult of the dead an integral aspect of the Judahite and Israelite society. Over 850 burials from throughout the southern Levant are examined to illustrate the Judahite form of burial and its development. Vessels for foods and liquids were of paramount importance in the afterlife, followed by jewellery with its protective powers. The cult of the dead began to be an unacceptable feature of the Jerusalem Yahwistic cult in the late eighth to seventh century BCE. This change of attitude was precipitated by the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel and the consequent theological response.

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Book SynopsisThe critique of power in contemporary Africa calls for a new approach to the making of political subjectivities. Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the urgent need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its official and unofficial forms, its moves between the personal and the social in postcolonial transformations. Memory and the Postcolony brings these transformations into perspective. It is divided into three sections in which distinguished anthropologists explore death and subjectivity; the memory work of elections and public commissions; and fundamentalism and the future. Presenting a sustained comparative analysis of memory as a politicized reality, the book will be essential reading for all scholars of postcolonial societies, as well as all those with an interest in contemporary Africa.Trade Review'Those who have come to fear that 'post-colonialism' is but another fashionable discourse destined to self-destruct in a cloud of specious theory and jargon will find proof to the contrary in this book. In the African 'crisis of memory' the contributors, distinguished senior and some of the most imaginative young scholars in the field, found a common theme and a complex of practises that holds these essays together. Above all, they demonstrate that anthropology's work did not end with the demise of colonialism and that it continues to produce findings and criticl insights worth to be pondered by historians, political scientists, students of law and religion, and many others.' - Johannes Fabian, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam 'The preface 'post' in 'postcolony' alludes to a potent predicate that can never be erased. From the ashes and ruins of colonial memory arise the violence of Zaire and Sudan, the memorials of Zimbabwe, Madagascar and Malawi and the utopian dreams of Ghanaian and Zambian Pentecostals. Two questions arise: how much suffering died with the so-called end of the colonial era in Africa, and what is being remembered and regenerated? Drawing together a leading group of Africanists and anthropologists, Richard Werbner has assembled an excellent collection of original research and critical theoretical work about the role of the signs and symbols of Africa's colonial legacy in shaping attitudes toward power and the contemporary public spaces. The result is a stunning and first-rate anthology that uncovers the historical and ethnographic roots of the postcolonial condition. ' - Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Professor of Sociology and Director of the African and African-American Studies Research Project, University of California, San Diego 'The essays in this volume are must reading for all who contemplate life in the African postcolony' - African Studies ReviewTable of Contents 1. Introduction - Richard Werbner 2. Beyond the Grave: Death, Body and Memory in Postcolonial Zaire/Congo - Filip De Boeck 3. Death, Memory and the Politics of Legitimation: Nuer Experiences of the Continuing Sudanese Civil War - Sharon Hutchinson 4. Smoke from the Barrel of a Gun: Memory, Postwars of the Dead, and Reinscription in Zimbabwe - Richard Werbner 5. The Uses of Defeat: Memory and Political Morality in East Madagascar - Jennifer Cole 6. Systematic Judicial and Extra-Judicial Injustice: Preparations for Future Accountability - Sally Moore 7. Fundamentalism, Cultural Memory and the State: Contested Representations of Time in Postcolonial Malawi - Rikj van Dijk 8. 'Make a Complete Break with the Past': Memory and Postcolonial Modernity in Ghanian Pentecostalist Discourse - Birgit Meyer 9. Memory and Becoming Chosen Other: Fundamentalism and Elite-Making in a Zambian Catholic Mission School - Anthony Simpson 10. Afterword - Liisa Malkki

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Book Synopsis- Directly relevant to the needs of teachers and researchers in music, musicology, ethnomusicology and social anthropology.This book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand music as social practice. The authors focus on the role of music in the construction of national and regional identities; the media and 'postmodern identity'; concepts of authenticity; aesthetics; meaning; performance; 'world music'; and the use of music as a focus for discursive evocations of 'place'. The chapters tackle a wide range of subjects including 16th century etiquette, Celtic music and Chopin. The volume will be of interest to social anthropologists, and those working in the fields of cultural studies, politics, gender studies, musicology and folklore.Trade Review'All [the individual essays] have important contributions to make, and are jammed full of engaging refrains, dynamic and resonant points, arranged with skill and attention to harmony in the composition and orchestration of a sustained debate. There is no question that the book is an accomplished result from a series of seminars.'Anthropological Notebooks'A very rich array of concrete problems [...] Martin Stokes does a marvellous job of integrating the essays and of showing how each does its part to develop social theory by considering knots of local and global experience. [...] This collection promises a fresh breeze and new initiative for ethnomusicology, and perhaps a bit of humour as well in the form of internal discrepancies and divergent points of view.'MANTable of ContentsContents: M. Stokes, Introduction: Ethnicity, Identity and Music - M. Chapman, Thoughts on Celtic Music - J. Baily, The Role of Music in the Creation of an Afghan National Identity, 1923-73 - Z. Mach, National Anthems: The Case of Chopin as a National Composer - S. A. Reily, Macunaima's Music: National Identity and Ethnomusicological Research in Brazil - M. Stokes, Place, Exchange and Meaning: Black Sea Musicians in the West Coast of Ireland - S. Cohen, Identity, Place and the 'Liverpool Sound' - F. Magowan, 'The Land is our Marr (Essence); It Stays Forever': The Yothu-Yindi Relationship in Australian Aboriginal Traditional and Popular Musics - P. Parkes, Personal and Collective Identity in Kalasha Song Performance: The Significance of Music-making in a Minority Enclave - H. La Rue, Music, Literature and Etiquette: Musical Instruments and Social Identity from Castiglione to Austen

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Book SynopsisOffers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focussing attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river valleys, mountain spurs in their immediate surroundings. These monuments played an active role in socializing the landscape and creating meaning in it.A Phenomenology of Landscape is unusual in that it links two types of publishing which have remained distinct in archaeology: books with atmospheric photographs of monuments with a minimum of text and no interpretation; and the academic text in which words provide a substitute for visual imagery. Attractively illustrated with many photographs and diagrams, it will appeal to anyone interested in prehistoric monuments and landscape as well as students and specialists in archaeology, anthropology and human geography.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction - Place, Landscape and Perception: Phenomenological Perspectives - The Social Construction of Landscape in Small-Scale Societies: Structures of Meaning, Structures of Power - An Affinity with the Coast: Places and Monuments in South

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Book SynopsisThroughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence and mass production, it is easy to forget that just over a generation ago, young girls from middle- and working-class backgrounds were routinely taught to sew as a practical necessity. However, not only have the skills involved in home dressmaking been overlooked and marginalized due to their association with women and the home, but the impact home dressmaking had on women's lives and broader socioeconomic structures also has been largely ignored. This book is the first serious account of the significance of home dressmaking as a form of European and American material culture. Exploring themes from the last two hundred years to the present, including gender, technology, consumption and visual representation, contributors show how home dressmakers negotiated and experienced developments to meet a wide variety of needs and aspirations. Not merely passive consumers, home dressmakers have been active producers within family economies. They have been individuals with complex agendas expressed through their roles as wives, mothers and workers in their own right and shaped by ideologies of femininity and class.This book represents a vital contribution to women's studies, the history of fashion and dress, design history, material culture, sociology and anthropology.Trade Review'Sewing,as a fixture of production, consumption, femininity, gentility, home, and work, deserves the serious attention of historians and theoreticians ... the most interesting essays reveal how ... women actually served to integrate the home into commercial life ... This series(dress,body culture) attempts to move specialists out of their professional ghetto while infusing such theoretically 'hot'subjects such as dress and bodies with some real material content.Both are welcome goals'.Business History Review'A collection of well researched essays ... An interesting book to dip into as each essay is complete in itself. A student of dress would find it useful as it has personal accounts that you wouldn't find anywhere else.'Costume 'This seminal publication contributes to Berg's recent prolific impact on the field of costume studies, and this book will not disappoint those searching for the latest serious academic inquiry into new areas in the field of dress ... The editor's incisiv

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Book SynopsisThe use of Closed-Circuit Television, or CCTV, has dramatically increased over the past decade, but its presence is often so subtle as to go unnoticed. Should we unthinkingly accept that increased surveillance is in the public's best interests, or does this mean that ‘Big Brother' is finally watching us? This book asks provocative questions about the rise of the maximum surveillance society. Is crime control the principal motivation behind increased surveillance or are the reasons more complex? Does surveillance violate peoples' right of privacy? Who gets surveilled and why? What are its implications for social control? Does surveillance actually reduce crime? What will developments in technology mean for the future of surveillance? What rights do individuals under surveillance have? How is the information gathered through CCTV used by the authorities?Based on extensive fieldwork on automated surveillance in Britain over a two-year period, this book not only attempts to answer these vexing questions, but also provides a wealth of detailed information about the reasoning behind and effects of social control.Trade Review'No one can miss the cameras; they're on the main roads, in the city streets, and in the stores. You can, however, mistake their meaning. The Maximum Surveillance Society offers a clear and nuanced reading of the social and political trends revealed in the recent rush to install CCTV cameras. With a wealth of day-to-day detail, and a sensitive use of theory, this book displays the grounded scholarly imagination at its best.Avoiding both alarmism and complacency, the authors provide a timely analysis that demands widespread attention.'David Lyon, Professor of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario'[A] landmark study.' The Big Issue'In this timely book, Norris and Armstrong address intriguing questions about the role of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillence in contemporary society ... Pulling back the curtain to expose both the inside of the control room and the political machine that promotes the growth of CCTV, the book provides a fresh perspective onTable of ContentsPart I: Images of Social Control, Introduction: Visions of Surveillance, A History of Photographic Surveillance and the Rise of CCTV, The Ever Present Gaze: CCTV Surveillance in Britain, The Selling of CCTV: Political and Media Discourses Part II: The Unforgiving Eye, Introduction: Watching the Watchers - Theory and Method, The Watchers and the Watched: The Social Structuring of Surveillance, Working Rules and the Social Construction of Suspicion, Communications and Consequences, From Images to Action: From the Control Room to the Street, Part III: Seeing the Future, Towards the Maximum Surveillance Society

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particular designs as fixed and given, by looking at the process of evocation it finds an open and continuing dialogue between things, their makers and their consumers. This is not, however, to diminish the role of design in shapinghuman consciousness. The contributors do not view objects as blank carriers onto which humans project prior psychic dramas, but rather, place crucial importance on the precise materials from which they are made, their social, economic and historic reasons for being, and the way that we interact with them through our senses. This book therefore studies the physical withinthe intellectual, directly testing the concept of material culture. With telling illustrations, and spanning the Renaissance to the present day, leading scholars converge across disciplines to explore the souvenir-value of jewellery, textiles, the home, the urban space, modernist design, photography, the museum and even the sunken wreck. Together they show howthe sense of the past and of history, far from being a 'radical illusion' as some post-modernists claim, has been a deeply felt reality.Trade Review'Deftly combines the study of memory with material culture, enhancing our understanding of both. The book opens up a new field of research. Its combination of history and theory, and its emphasis on the tactile and tangible components of memory clearly signal the future direction of scholarship about how we use objects to give continuity and meaning to human experience.'Professor John Brewer, University of Chicago'A triumph of intellectual choreography ... sets the mind spinning.' Design History Society Newsletter'All the chapters make excellent reading, well researched, always stimulating, often most entertaining, with relevant and moving photographic illustrations. The bibliographic references and the detailed index greatly facilitate its use.' 'Material Memories' will certainly occupy a central place in the growing literature on material culture, as it bridges history, anthropology and art studies.'Journal of Design History'Focusing on the concept of the souve

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Book SynopsisIn tracing the process through which monuments give rise to collective memories, this path-breaking book emphasizes that memorials are not just inert and amnesiac spaces upon which individuals may graft their ever-shifting memories. To the contrary, the materiality of monuments can be seen to elicit a particular collective mode of remembering which shapes the consumption of the past as a shared cultural form of memory.In a variety of disciplines over the past decade, attention has moved away from the oral tradition of memory to the interplay between social remembering and object worlds. But research is very sketchy in this area and the materiality of monuments has tended to be ignored within anthropological literature, compared to the amount of attention given to commemorative practice. Art and architectural history, on the other hand, have been much interested in memorial representation through objects, but have paid scant attention to issues of social memory.Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary in scope, this book fills this gap and addresses topics ranging from material objects to physical space; from the contemporary to the historical; and from high art to memorials outside the category of art altogether. In so doing, it represents a significant contribution to an emerging field.Trade Review'This volume presents a new and intriguing perspective on the relationship between the material and immaterial dimensions of culture, suggesting that people's material technologies of memory are always also their technologies of forgetting.'The Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsPart 1 Ephemeral monuments: ephemeral monuments, memory and royal sempiternity in a grass-fields kingdom, Nicholas Argenti; the place of memory, Susanne Kuchler. Part 2 Remembering and forgetting in images past: Girodet's "Portrait of Citizen Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies" - in remembrance of "things sublime", Helen Weston; bribing the vote - 18th-century monuments and the futility of commemoration, David Bindman; forgetting Rome and the voice of Piranesi's "speaking ruins", Tarnya Cooper. Part 3 War memorials: remembering to forget - sublimation as sacrifice in war memorials, Michael Rowlands; remembering and forgetting in the public memorials of the Great War, Alex King; commemorating 1916, commemorating difference, Neil Jarman.

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Book SynopsisWhat motivates people to dress in a manner that marks them out as different to the conventional norm? Is it true that, with dress, 'anything goes' in our mix-and-match postmodern culture? Have easily recognizable, authentic subcultures imploded in a glut of ironic revivals and stylistic fragmentation? Does this supposed 'post-subcultural' generation actively celebrate ephemerality, transience and disposability, merely casting off and trying on one alternative identity after another in an ever-accelerating fashion frenzy? This exciting book is a considered sociological examination of such questions. By listening to the voices of the subcultural stylists themselves - their subjective perceptions of their style and the ideas that lie behind them - the author provides original insights into issues of subjectivity and identity. Situating an empirical case study within a wider consideration of postmodernism and cultural change, the author rejects cultural studies perspectives that attempt to 'read' subcultures as texts. Drawing on extensive interviews with people who dress in what might be deemed a stylistically unconventional manner, he seeks instead to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms. He argues persuasively that they do both - a stress on postmodern hyperindividualism, fluidity and fragmentation runs alongside a modernist emphasis on authenticity and underlying essence. He concludes that a Romantic libertarianism has permeated working-class culture and that the distinction between 'individualistic' middle-class countercultures and 'collectivist' working-class subcultures has been over-emphasized.Trade Review'Highly recommended for academic libraries.' Library Journal 'Interview excerpts provide powerful illustrations of some of the points made on identification and dress style, and the book is also commendably thorough in its fieldwork details; the interview schedule in particular makes it a book that could be recommended as background reading to students on research methods courses as well.' Times Higher Education Supplement

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Book SynopsisInside Clubbing puts the spotlight on club culture - in all its sweaty, visceral and seductive glory. Moving from hip-hop clubs to fetish events and beyond, the author guides us through the huge spectrum of the contemporary club experience. Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of backgrounds, the author dispels myths and offers new insight into the clubbing scene. Contrary to popular perception, for example, clubbing is not just for youths. The clubbers in Inside Clubbing range from mid-twenties to mid-fifties. Many have been on the scene for years and offer a historical perspective on changes over the last decade. The range of clubs and clubbers discussed also demonstrates the diversity of club culture its more than just an ecstasy-fuelled dance scene. Taking us into queer, trance, Asian, techno, drum n bass, and sex clubs - among others - Inside Clubbing explores the real practice of clubbing. It looks at what people experience and how it affects them, as well as their values and concerns - from friendship and community to drugs, the body, and life outside the clubbing space. This book breaks new ground in offering us the most balanced and sophisticated understanding of the club scene to date.Trade Review'Inside Clubbing makes an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary leisure practices. Section one presents in beautiful, rich and evocative description, the key aspects of clubbing. Inside Clubbing is a highly significant contribution to the anthropology of leisure and pleasure, the body and emotions. It is an accessible and vivid account which breaks new ground in the analysis of contemporary clubbing practices.'Kalissa Alexeyeff, The Australian Journal of Anthropology

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how groups of young male fans come to be defined and identified as football 'hooligans and challenges the assumption that violence is wholly central to the match-day experience for these supporters. Rather, the creation of identity is at the root of hooliganism, with all the cultural values and rituals, codes of honour and shame, and communal patterns of behaviour and consumption that accompany it. The author locates hooliganism historically within the milieu of an industrial working class culture and examines ideas of performance and ritual encompassed in idealized masculinity. The book is based on a decades in-depth study of the 'Blades, a group of football fans supporting Sheffield United, who are notorious for their hooliganism. It contributes to the debate on football hooliganism by challenging many traditionally-held notions of hooliganism and by providing the first anthropological study of football violence. The book also debunks the myth that violence between football fans is organized by 'generals operating within hierarchically structured groups. Falsehoods such as this, it is argued, are advanced to augment the powers of the police and media in redefining and controlling particular groups of individuals whose behaviour does not fit easily within increasingly constrictive codes of social conduct. This book represents essential reading not only for undergraduates of social anthropology, sociology and criminology but also for the general reader with an interest in football culture.Trade Review'This is an intelligently-argued book. If you thought football stands were full of middle-class Hornby-ites congratulating each other on their second car and their commuter-belt homes, then think again. Armstrong makes it clear that hooliganism is still going strong.' Total Football 'An intelligently-argued book.' Planet Football '[Armstrong's] conclusions synthesize and expand other explanations; the result is a more holistic, informed interpretation... The monograph's selection for a Guggenheim Foundation Award for Studies on Aggression and Violence attests to its thoroughness and the importance of this perspective. The descriptions and analysis are skilfully crafted. Armstrong's blending of empirical data and theoretical interpretations raise the debate on hooliganism and will provoke further study.' International Review for the Sociology of Sports 'Armstrong is fascinating on the games-playing and ritualistic nature of hooligan confrontations... There's a huge a

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Book SynopsisAfrican headrests have been moved out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of 'art' objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of style through a case study of headrests of the 'Tellem' of Mali.""African Dream Machines"" questions the assumed one-to-one relationship between formal styles and ethnic identities or classifications.The notion of 'authenticity' as a fixed value in relation to African art is de-stabilised, while historical factors are used to demonstrate that 'authenticity', in the form sought by collectors of antique African art, is largely a construct, which has no basis in historical reality.The final chapter seeks to understand the significance of African headrests in relation to a number of different perspectives: the western fascination with the headrest as a synecdoche for ""otherness""; their iconography in terms of subject matter (human and animal figures); and the ways in which headrests are used as support to the head of a sleeping person.Each of the many headrests discussed is illustrated in a drawing by the author.Trade ReviewScholarship on sub-Saharan Africa is very thinly theorised. Few scholars seem to have the range to make connections with art practice elsewhere and generally offer interpretations which struggle to get beyond ethnographic documentation. Few monographs engage with the wider debates. This book is an exception... The author is one of those at the forefront of this engagement. Professor John Mack, World Art Studies, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Notes on the Use of African Ethnic Names and Country and Place Names References to illustrations in the Text and Notes on Illustrations Chapter 1 Headrests and Art Chapter 2 A Matter of Style, or Why Style Matters Chapter 3 Methodology, Position and Limitations Chapter 4 The Geographical and Chronological Distribution of the Contribution of the Columned Headrest Chapter 5 Authenticity and History Chapter 6 East African Headrests: Identity, Form and Aesthetics Chapter 7 Tracing Histories: Central and Southern African Connections Chapter 8 Not just a Curious Beauty: The Anatomy of Meaning in Useful Objects Notes to Chapters Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisHow do the Jews of Post-Holocaust, post-communist Europe—east and west—regard themselves? Do they perceive themselves as a religious minority, an ethnic group, or simply as ordinary members of the wider European cultures in which they live? How do they regard the wider non-Jewish community, and how do they relate to the Jews of other European countries? To what extent is Israel a factor in forging these relationships? The contributors to this book are authorities in their respective subjects, and all have significant international reputations. Together they cover a wide range of topics from different perspectives. Among the problems considered are: what the future holds for the Jews of Europe; what it means to be Jewish in the countries of eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, and Hungary are considered in detail by local experts); hopes and uncertainties in religious trends; and the likely development of interfaith relations, as seen by both Jews and Christians. A well-argued introduction identifies the points of convergence, the contradictions, and the myths implicit in the different analyses and teases out the main conclusions and implications. Authoritative and accessible, this book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to know about the contemporary concerns of the Jews of Europe. Published for the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. CONTRIBUTORS: Geoffrey Alderman, Max Beloff, Margaret Brearley, Julius Carlebach, Mikhail A. Chlenov, Sergio DellaPergola, Evyatar Friesel, Pier Francesco Fumagalli, Konstanty Gebert, Daniel Gutwein, András Kovács, Igor Krupnik, Norman Lamm, Jonathan Magonet, Elisabeth Maxwell, Stephen H. Miller, Jonathan Sacks, Dominique Schnapper, Eliezer Schweid, David Singer, Norman Solomon, Shmuel Trigano, Jonathan Webber, Robert S. Wistrich.Trade Review‘Webber’s introductory essay and his chapter on Jewish identity are particularly effective in highlighting the impact of a European environment on its Jews. Indeed, the reader encounters comparisons throughout the book that span countries and history, or is led to such comparisons by the different foci of the various articles. . . . Webber’ volume has the potential to stimulate further empirical research in Europe, as well as shedding light on the situation there for non-Europeans who tend to overlook that continent. Those who care about the future of the Jews and Judaism, whether it be in Europe or elsewhere, will find this a very welcome addition to the literature.’- Ephraim Tabory, Contemporary Jewry‘A rich book, containing many interesting insights and observations . . . excellent introductory survey by Jonathan Webber.’- André W. M. Gerrits, Ethnic & Racial Studies‘The twenty-four contributors to this excellent collection of essays are distinguished academic and spiritual leaders of present-day Jewry, mainly in Europe, who have devoted much thought to the problems confronting our people in the modern Western world. . . . The topics covered are varied and important.’- Miriam Kraus, Jerusalem Post‘Timely . . . an impressive assortment of views, wide-ranging in their scope, analysing demographic, sociological and religious trends, surveying particular communities in Eastern and Western Europe, looking at inter-faith relations, and the role of Israel and the Holocaust in defining contemporary Jewish identity . . . interesting, informative and challenging.’- Valerie Monchi, Jewish Chronicle‘Some of the essays in this volume seem already to have been overtaken by events, while other remain strikingly prescient. Taken as a whole, however, this book is a useful contribution to the contemporary debate over the nature of the new Europe, while offering valuable insights for the study of modern Jewish history.’- John D. Klier, Journal of European Studies‘The strength of the compilation lies in the wide variety of viewpoints that originate not simply from Europe but also from Israel and the United States . . . the breadth of coverage in the 290 pages is remarkable . . . Readers interested in a particular approach or topic should scan the contents carefully and use them in conjunction with the concise biographical notes to pinpoint articles to meet their needs. They will be helped in this by Jonathan Webber’s comprehensive analytical introductory essay which also points straightforwardly to what is missing from the discussion.’- Marlena Schmool, Le'elaTable of ContentsForewordPreface and acknowledgementsIntroduction - JONATHAN WEBBERPart 1 A Changing Europe1 The Jews of Europe in the Age of a New Völkerwanderung - MAX BELOFF2 Changing Jewish Identities in the New Europe and the Consequences for Israel - ELIEZER SCHWEIDPart 2 Demographic and Sociological Considerations3 An Overview of the Demographic Trends of European Jewry - SERGIO DELLAPERGOLA4 Modern Jewish Identities - JONATHAN WEBBER5 Judaism in the New Europe: Discovery or Invention? - NORMAN SOLOMONPart 3 Hopes and Uncertainties in Religious Trends6 The Jewish Jew and Western Culture: Fallible Predictions for the Turn of the Century - NORMAN LAMM7 From Integration to Survival to Continuity: The Third Great Era of Modern Jewry - JONATHAN SACKS8 The Role of the Rabbi in the New Europe - JONATHAN MAGONETPart 4 Jewish Communities in Former Communist Countries9 Jewish Communities and Jewish Identities in the Former Soviet Union - MIKHAIL A. CHLENOV10 Constructing New Identities in the Former Soviet Union: The Challenge for Jews - IGOR KRUPNIK11 Changes in Jewish Identity in Modern Hungary - ANDRAS KOVACS12 Jewish Identities in Poland: New, Old, and imaginary - KONSTANTY GEBERTPart 5 Jewish Communities in Western Europe13 Israélites and Juifs: New Jewish Identities in France - DOMINIQUE SCHNAPPER14 The Notion of a 'Jewish Community' in France: A Special Case of Jewish Identity - SHMUEL TRIGANO15 British Jewry: Religious Community or Ethnic Minority? - GEOFFREY ALDERMAN16 Religious Practice and Jewish Identity in a Sample of London Jews - STEPHEN H. MILLER17 Jewish Identity in the Germany of a New Europe - JULIUS CARLEBACHPart 6 Rethinking Interfaith Relations in a Post-Holocaust World18 The Dangers of Antisemitism in the New Europe - ROBERT S. WISTRICH19 The Holocaust as a Factor in Contemporary Jewish Consciousness - EVYATAR FRIESEL20 The Impact of Auschwitz and Vatican II on Christian Perceptions of Jewish Identity - ELISABETH MAXWELL21 A New Catholic—Jewish Relationship for Europe - PIER FRANCESCO FUMAGALLI22 Possible Implications of the New Age Movement for the Jewish People - MARGARET BREARLEYPart 7 Jewish Europe as Seen from Without23 The New Europe and the Zionist Dilemma - DANIEL GUTWEIN24 Jewish Renewal in the New Europe: An American Jewish Perspective - DAVID SINGERNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, this text shows how bodily presentation plays a fundamental role in contemporary identity politics in tension with encompassing national and global stereotypes, which may in turn both constrain and empower local traditions.

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Book SynopsisRapidly advancing globalization impacts indigenous people worldwide. In this long-term study of a remote village famous for its World Heritage-listed rice terraces, where the people actively confront globalization, Shimizu Hiromu considers the extent to which globalization has penetrated even the remote mountains of the Philippines at the grassroots level. The book examines globalization in Ifugao Province since Spain's colonization of the Philippines through to the new wave of migrant workers traveling overseas. By focusing on the village of Hapao and its reforestation and cultural revival movement led by Lopez Nauyac, as well as the work of world-renowned film director Kidlat Tahimik and his attempt to remake himself as an authentic Filipino, this book examines globalization from the periphery and shows that we are all deeply connected in the contemporary era of globalization.Japan Academy Prize Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology AwardTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1 Thinking about Globalization at the Periphery: An Attempt at an Anthropology of Response ability Part I: Five Hundred Years of Negotiating with Global Powers 2 The Ifugao Lifeworld: A Fascination for Anthropologists and Communist Guerillas 3 Life amid the Blessings of Forests: Rice Terrace Cultivation and Woodcarving 4 Confronting Global Power from the Margins: Invasions and Resistance Part II: Re establishing the Connection between the Local and the Global 5 The Praxis of Meaning in Lopez Nauyac's 'Global' Gaze 6 Memories of Overdevelopment: Kidlat Tahimik's 'Circumnavigation of the World' 7 The Politics of Representation: Culture as a Resource Part III: Negotiating with Globalization 8 Working Overseas and Reviving Tradition: Spreading Wings and Putting Down Roots 9 International Cooperation: From Entanglement to a Participatory Anthropology 10 Grassroots: Regional Networks and the Anthropology of Response-ability Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHighlights the important roles that things play in our everyday lives by examining how things and humans interact. Based on ethnographical data from Asia, Africa, and Oceania, the included essays challenge the instrumentalist idea that humans alone are subjects with agency (freedom to act) while things are merely objects at their disposal. Anthropologists have, typically, viewed things through anthropocentric lenses; reducing things to social function or cultural meaning.The book's approach is to shift the question from "what do things mean?" to "what do they do (cause)?" - a shift from meaning to agency. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including researchers from archaeology, ecological anthropology and primatology, as well as cultural anthropologists, and taking the broadest understanding of things, this book probes the permeable boundaries between subject and object, mind and body, and between humans and things to demonstrate that cultures and things are mutually constitutive.This book was published as a joint publication with Kyoto University Press.Table of Contents Figures Tables Photographs Contributors Prologue: Let Things Tell Us 1 Introduction: Why the Anthropology of Mono (Things)? Part I: The Genesis, Extinction and Continuation of Mono 1 Between Form, Word and Materiality: Shanbei Paper-Cuts 2 Mono that lurk, retreat, or manifest: Mono and the body Part II: The Nexus Between Mono and the Environment 3 Mono beyond control: A New Perspective on Cultured Pearls 4 An Ecological Analysis of Pottery Culture: From Clay to “Mono” Part III: The Dynamic Between Mono and the Body 5 Learning Pottery Making: Transmission of Body Techniques 6 Nature and the Body in Male Sex Stimulants Part IV: The Agency of Mono 7 Masks as Performers: Topeng, a Balinese Masked Dance Drama 8 “Living” Musical Instruments: On Changing Sounds of Suling 9 Mono that Show and Tempt: Contingency by Fortune-Tellers Part V: Toward a New Mono Theory 10 The Origin of Tool-using Behavior and Human Evolution 11 “Things” and Their Emergent Sociality in the Primates’ World 12 Livestock as Interface: The Case of the Samburu in Kenya 13 The Cicadas Drizzle of the Chamus Epilogue: Stonehood: Agency as Inagency Essay I: The Appearance of “Mono” I-1 Where a Name Acquires a Form: Motifs of Javanese Batik I-2 Kashta Drives People: The “Mono” Power of Uzbek Embroidery I-3 “Play” Between Mono and Humans: Interdependence with bananas? Essay II: Mysterious “Mono” II-1 Fetishism on Pagodas and Buddha Images II-2 “Mono” Sucked Out of the Body: Shamanic Rituals of Ladakh Essay III: Fluctuating “Mono” III-1 Globalization of Aboriginal Paintings, Localization of “Art” III-2 The Bodies and Art Forms of Pacific Islander Artists III-3 Staying Authentic: Between bingata and Ryukyu Bingata Notes Bibliography Index

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