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The University of Chicago Press Sons of the Shaking Earth Phoenix Books
Book SynopsisWolf drew on anthropology, archaeology, history, and geography to mold a magnificent, sweeping, and beautifully written synthesis. With style and deep personal engagement he unraveled the complexity of Mexico and Guatemala's past with its multiple ethnicities, many languages, and environmental diversity. . . . Armies of graduate students have challenged many of the details, but the book stands as a monument to a time when social scientists were able to think large thoughts and write elegant EnglishForeign Affairs, Significant Books of the Last 75 Years.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Molecular Politics Developing American and
Book SynopsisA comparative study of the development of regulatory policy for genetic engineering in the US and the UK. The author analyzes government responses to the struggles among corporations, scientists, universities, trade unions and public-interest groups over regulating this new field.
£47.50
The University of Chicago Press Anthropology A Continental Perspective
Book SynopsisArguing for an approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, the author examines - with all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. He concentrates on the human body.Trade Review"Anthropology ambitiously argues for the contemporary viability of a general anthropology in the spirit of the purpose that gave rise to the discipline in the nineteenth century. Such works are very rare indeed in anthropology today, yet they are much needed, since the question of 'what is anthropology beyond ethnography?' is very much alive. Christoph Wulf's book is a spirited and informed response to that question." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Body Subject Power in China
Book SynopsisThis volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Contributors investigate problems of bodiliness, engendered subjectivities and discourses of power through written texts, paintings, buildings, interviews and observations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Body, Subject, and Power in China Angela Zito, Tani E. Barlow. 1: The Imagination of Winds and the Development of the Chinese Conception of the Body Shigehisa Kuriyama 2: The Body Invisible in Chinese Art? John Hay 3: Multiplicity, Point of View, and Responsibility in Traditional Chinese Healing Judith Farquhar 4: Silk and Skin: Significant Boundaries Angela Zito 5: The Politicized Body Ann Anagnost 6: The Female Body and Nationalist Discourse: Manchuria in Xiao Hong's Field of Life and Death Lydia H. Liu 7: Sovereignty and Subject: Constituting Relationships of Power in Qing Guest Ritual James L. Hevia 8: (Re)inventing Li: Koutou and Subjectification in Rural Shandong Andrew Kipnis 9: The Classic "Beauty-Scholar" Romance and the Superiority of the Talented Woman Keith McMahon 10: Theorizing Woman: Funu, Guojia, Jiating Tani E. Barlow Glossary of Chinese Characters List of Contributors Index
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Body Subject and Power in China
Book SynopsisThis volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Contributors investigate problems of bodiliness, engendered subjectivities and discourses of power through written texts, paintings, buildings, interviews and observations.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Of Body and Brush Grand Sacrifice as
Book SynopsisThe Qianlong emperor, who dominated religious and political life in China, was ruled by elaborate ritual prescriptions, which determined his dress and behaviour, and how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. This text analyzes how ritualizing power was shared by the throne and the literati.
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John Wiley & Sons Honouring Age The Social Dynamics of Age
Book SynopsisExploring age, intergenerational relationships, and the social power of reputation across ancient Mediterranean cultural contexts, Honouring Age positions age as an essential aspect of communal identity and familial roles in the early Christian experience as represented in one of the most contentious texts in the New Testament, 1 Timothy.Trade Review“By focusing on Roman ideals, Honouring Age substantially advances research on early Christian social ideology and community issues around age. Especially with regard to 1 Timothy, Mona LaFosse dramatically expands our interpretations of the world within and behind this letter.” Annette Bourland Huizenga, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary and author of Wisdom Commentary: 1–2 Timothy, Titus
£98.60
Columbia University Press Human Evolution A Philosophical Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis book is both an introduction and an original contribution to a study of the major evolutionary events, from the orgin of life to the emerence of the human mind.
£90.40
Columbia University Press Sources of Indian Tradition Modern India and
Book SynopsisPrimary sources in the history, philosophy, and religions of South Asia: Volume II focuses on the subcontinent's history from 1498 to 1984, with such topics as the opening of India to the West; Hindu and Muslin social and religious movements; and Pakistan's formation as an Islamic state.Trade ReviewThis is a serious, careful, dependable book, broader and more varied even than the old Sources...It is also easy to read, to look at, and to hear; the new translations are always sound, often charming and occasionally quite brilliant. This is the primary study of Indian civilization. -- Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, University of Chicago For over thirty years, anyone seriously interested in India has always had to keep a copy of this classic within arm's reach. Sources of Indian Tradition is so useful -- as a reference work, sourcebook, or textbook -- that it has been indispensable to scholars all over the world. I welcome the 'return' of this important work to the marketplace. Better still, I am delighted to note that, in matters of fine-tuning, this is an improved and updated and revised version. -- Robert Eric Frykenberg, University of Wisconsin, MadisonTable of Contents20. The Opening of India to the West 21. The Renascence of Hinduism 22. Nationalism Takes Root: The Moderates 23. The Marriage of Politics and Religion: The Extremists 24. The Muslim Revival 25. Tagore and Gandhi 26. Pakistan: Its Founding and Future 27. Six Paths to India's Future
£35.70
Columbia University Press Beyond Anthropology Society and the Other
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the manner in which the perception of human difference has changed from the time of the Renaissance to the 20th century. Building on the insights of Foucault and Garfinkel, it charts how humanity has become contained within the anthropological concept of the Other.
£27.00
Columbia University Press Adapting to Abundance Jewish Immigrants Mass
Book SynopsisAn analysis of immigrant life in the USA which focuses on the habits of consumption. The author describes how Jews responded to the prospect of mass consumption, familiarizing themselves with such activities as installment buying, advertising and vacationing.Trade ReviewA very important book... at the cutting edge of what should be an exciting new scholarly development... opening up whole areas of behavior which [historians] previously shrugged off as irrelevant. Journal of American Ethnic History Well written... creative in its use of a wide range of primary source material. Canadian Review of American Studies Raises interesting questions about the immigrant experience in a gracefully written style. Journal of Consumer Affairs An important book that invites reflection upon the national character. American Jewish Archives
£27.00
Columbia University Press American Culture Between the Wars Revisionary
Book SynopsisExamines the feminist, African-American and avant-garde counter-cultures that flourished in the USA between the two World Wars. It discusses such topics as public art in the Depression, the proletarian subculture and the social poetics of Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes.
£28.80
Columbia University Press De Los Otros
Book SynopsisA detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations.
£90.00
Columbia University Press Adcult USA The Triumph of Advertising in American
Book SynopsisA spirited exploration of the culture created when advertising becomes not just a central institution, but the central institution.Trade ReviewTwitchell is the beaming Koresh of Adcult... Often amusing and illuminating, but always extreme-just like advertising. Time Out, New York What are we to make of this mixture of high and not-so-high culture? 'If we find the process invigorating, you call it bricolage,'writes Twitchell. 'If not, you call it tasteless.' Adweek Twitchell eloquently excoriates the standard dull rants about the evils of commercialism. In true postmodern fashion, he argues that there can be no meaningful division between high art and advertising... Not a single page is without a cleverly turned sentence, thought-provoking remark, or outrageous conclusion. WiredTable of ContentsPreface 1. Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz: American Culture Awash in a Sea of Advertising 2. We Build Excitement: The Delivery of Adcult 3. Strong Enough for a Man but Made for a Woman: The Work of Adcult 4. Halo Everybody, Highlow: Adcult and the Collapse of Cultural Hierarcy 5. Takes a Licking, but Keeps on Ticking: The Future of AdcultSelective Bibliography Index
£70.40
Columbia University Press Rituals of National Loyalty An Anthropology of
Book SynopsisThis book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within a richly detailed account of its working at the village level.
£29.75
Columbia University Press Cities of the Dead
Book SynopsisTakes a look at the continuum of intercultural exchange that reinvents, recreates, and restores history. Complemented with fifty-five illustrations, including photos of Mardi Gras Indians, this work employs a study of the culture. It explores cultural connections over place and time, showing through examples how performance revises the past.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance Circum-Atlantic Memory Locations and Bearings Materials and Methods The Everlasting Club Genealogies of Performance 2. Echoes in the Bone The Effigy Performing Origins The Segregation of the Dead Bodies of Law Congo Sqaure The King is Dead-Long Live the King! 3. Betterton's Funeral "Sticks and Rags": The Celebrity as Effigy Vortices of Behavior The Life of Betterton: Talking with the Dad Canonical Memory and Theatrical Nationhood The Pinacotheca BettertonaeanaL Bibliography of origin White SKin, Black Masks 4. Feathered Peoples The Accursed Share: Abundance, Reproduction, and Sacrifice Condolence Councils and the Great Peace Windsor Forest Dimplomacy
£27.00
Columbia University Press The World of Sofia Velasquez The Autobiography of
Book SynopsisThis is an oral history of a second-generation, urban-born woman who struggles to survive in the poor, Andean city of La Paz. It shows how her identity shifts over time, shaped by the major events in her life. Topics range fron social networks to magical interventions and clairvoyant dreaming.
£29.75
Columbia University Press The Erotic in Sports
Book SynopsisFrom Greek athletic competitions to the cult of body-building at Gold's Gym, this text examines literature, art, television, and movies to uncover a vast array of evidence that cultures across the ages have reflected at length, in celebration and censure, on the erotic nature of sports.
£52.70
Columbia University Press Public SexGay Space Paper
Book SynopsisTwelve essays provide a nuanced portrait of why public sexual activity is such an integral part of gay culture. Contributors explore issues such as visibility and secrecy, as well as economic status and social class, and interrogate the historical trajectories through which certain locations come to be favored sites for sexual encounters.Table of ContentsIntroduction, by William L. Leap 1. Reclaiming the Importance of Laud Humphreys's "Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places", by Peter M. Nardi 2. Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places, by Laud Humphreys 3. A Highway Rest Area as a Socially Reproducible Site, by John Hollister 4. Speaking to the Gay Bathhouse: Communicating in Sexually Charged Spaces, by Ira Tattelman 5. Beauty and the Beach: Representing Fire Island, by David Bergman 6. Sex in "Private" Places: Gender Erotics, and Detachment in Two Urban Locales, by William L. Leap 7. Ethnographic Observations of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Public, by Michael C. Clatts 8. Self Size and Observable Sex, by Stephen O. Murray 9. Baths, Bushes, and Belonging: Public Sex and Gay Community in Pre-Stonewall Montreal, by Ross Higgins 10. Homo Sex in Hanoi? Sex the Public Sphere, and Public Sex, by Jacob Aronson 11. Private Acts Public Space: Defining the Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century Holland, by Theo van der Meer 12. "Living Well Is the Best Revenge": Outing Privacy, and Psychoanalysis, by Christopher Lane
£999.99
Columbia University Press Families We Choose
Book SynopsisThis classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology.Trade ReviewGraceful... Valuable for the ways it demonstrates that, like race, gender and sexual identity, the meaning of kinship is culturally relative--and susceptible to change. The Women's Review of Books The first to analyze the historical conditions, social meaning, and political implications of lesbians and gays' appropriating the language of kinship...A fine book. Contemporary Sociology Represents a new direction in lesbian and gay studies and in the anthropology of American culture. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society This book demands--and deserves--thorough and careful reading...A well-documented work for gay studies collections. Library Journal Weighs in as an important contribution to current debates about family and family values. American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments 1.The Monkey Cage and the Red Desoto 2. Exiles from Kinship Is Straight to Gay as Family Is to No Family? Deck the Halls Kinship and Procreation From Biology to Choice 3. Coming Out to "Blood" Relatives Disclosing Sexual Identity Categorical Understandings (Or, It's All Relative) Family-Which Family? Conditional Love Discursive Locations Taking Identity, Talking Kinship Selection and Rejection 4. Kinship and Coherence: Ten Stories 5. Families We Choose Building Gay Families Substitute for Biological Family? Friends and Lovers From Friendship to Community Deliberating Difference 6. Lovers Through the Looking Glass The Looking-Glass Other Power "Differentials," Relationship "Roles" The Urge to Merge Narcissism, Kinship, and Class Convictions Couples Versus Community Reflections on Metaphor 7. Parenting in the Age of AIDS The Lesbian Mother as Icon Male-Female Revisited: Insemination and AIDS Of Death and Birth Blood Relatives Respond Parents and Persons 8. The Politics of Gay Families Assimilation or Transformation? Common Ground The Big Picture Reengineering Biogenetics Appendix Notes References Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press The Presence of the Past
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£25.20
Columbia University Press Female Desires
Book SynopsisDiscusses same-sex desire among women in non-Western cultures. The book explores female eroticism in societies such as India and Polynesia, aiming to dispel ideas that non-Western women are victims of compulsory heterosexuality and that same-sex female desire is rooted in Western culture.Table of Contents1. Introduction, by Saskia E. Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood 2. Sapphic Shadows:Challenging the Silence in the Study of Sexuality, by Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa Indigenous Histories Colonial Legacies 3. The Politics of Identities and Languages:Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India, by Giti Thadani 4. Lesbians, Men-Women, and Two-Spirits:Homosexuality and Gender in Native American Cultures Erotic Intimacies and Cultural Identities 5. "What's Identity Got to Do with It?" Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname, by Gloria Wekker 6. Let Them Take Ecstasy: Class and Jakarta Lesbians, by Alison J. Murray 7. Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia, by Kendall Doing Masculinity:Butches, Female Bodies,and Transgendered Identities 8. Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire, by Evelyn Blackwood 9. Desiring Bodies or Defiant Cultures:Butch-Femme Lesbians in Jakarta and Lima, by Saskia E. Wieringa 10. Negotiating Transnational Sexual Economies: Femaleand Same-Sex Sexuality in "Tahiti and Her Islands", by Deborah A. Elliston Nationalism, Feminism,and Lesbian/Gay Rights Movements 11. How Homosexuality Became "Un-African": The Case of Zimbabwe, by Margrete Aarmo 12. Women's Sexuality and the Discourse on Asian Values:Cross-Dressing in Malaysia, by Tan beng hui 13. Sexual Preference:the Ugly Duckling of Feminist Demands:The Lesbian Movement in Mexico, by Norma Mogro
£28.50
Columbia University Press Darsan
Book SynopsisAlthough the role of the visual is essential to Indian tradition and culture, most attempts to understand its images are laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with tolerance and imagination.Trade ReviewAn explanation of temple worship and the use of Deity images. Darsan will give the Hindu deeper insight into the practices of his own religion, provide explanations for non-Hindu friends, and convey useful konowledge to his children. Hinduism TodayTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Seeing the Sacred A. Darsan B. The Visible India C. Film Images D. The Image of God E. The Polytheistic Imagination The Nature of the Hindu Images A. The Aniconic and the Iconic Images B. The Ritual Uses of the Images C. Creation and Consecration of Images D. Festivals and Images Image, Temple, and Pilgrimage A. The Temple and the Image B. Image and Pilgrimage Afterword: Seeing the Divine Image in America A. America's Murtis and Temples B. Sri Lakshmi Temple: The Process of Divine Embodiment Notes Appendix I. Bibliography Appendix II. Note on Pronunciation Appendix III. Glossary Index
£16.19
Columbia University Press Buddhism in Chinese Society
Book SynopsisFirst published in French in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with that of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries.Trade ReviewThis work will remain one of this century's classic histories of China. Gernet's account of Buddhism is sobering. Journal of Asian Studies This is perhaps the greatest contribution of Gernet's work: he demonstrates through the skilled use of a dazzling variety of literary evidence the complexity of the interchange between Buddhism and Chinese society. China Review International This is an analysis of Buddhist practice within its socio-economic context and still one of the best examples of Chinese social history in any discipline in forty years. For new generations of researchers, the forty years' wait [for the English translation] has been worth it. China Review The value of this book is its translations of primary sources and its salutary reminder of the importance of economic motivations and activities in the history of Chinese Buddhism. Pacific Affairs
£999.99
Columbia University Press Skin
Book SynopsisShows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of literature, art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings.Trade ReviewA prize-winning examination of the changing cultural and metaphorical significance of skin, through innovative readings of literature, art, philosophy, history, anthropology, medicine, and more. Library Journal [Benthien] deftly illuminates her findings, and she is quite brilliant. This is historical anthropology at its best. -- Joanna Briscoe The Guardian Delves into the cultural role of skin as the place where personal identity is formed and assigned. Publishers Weekly This cultural study examines the relations among self-consciousness, subjectivity, and skin from the 18th century to the present... Benthien discusses the semantic and psychic aspects of touching, feeling, and intellectual perception; the motifs of perforated, armored, or transparent skin. Translation ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the American Edition 1. The Depth of the Surface: Introduction 2. Boundary Metaphors: Skin in Language 3. Penetrations: Body Boundaries and the Production of Knowledge in Medicine and Cultural Practices 4. Flayings: Exposure, Torture, Metamorphoses 5. Mirror of the Soul: The Epidermis as Canvas 6. Mystification: The Strangeness of the Skin 7. Armored Skin and Birthmarks: The Imagology of a Gender Difference 8. Different Skin: Skin Colors in Literature and the History of Science 9. Blackness: Skin Color in African-American Discourse 10. Hand and Skin: Anthropology and Iconography of the Cutaneous Senses 11. Touchings: On the Analogous Nature of Erotic, Emotive, and "Psychic" Skin Sensations 12. Teletactility: The Skin in New Media
£25.20
Columbia University Press Days of Death Days of Life
Book SynopsisExplores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. This book provides descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other religious practices. It analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity.Trade Review[A] Masterful study... Highly recommended. Choice Norget's book should find a welcomed place on many of our shelves. -- Jeffrey H. Cohen Journal of Anthropological Research Will be useful to scholars... [while] still perfectly appropriate for the lay reader. -- Juanita Garciagodoy Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Death and Life in Oaxaca Part I Rites of Popular Life in Oaxaca 1. Anthropology in a Mexican City 2. Practicing Popular Religion in Oaxaca Part II Rites of Popular Death in Oaxaca 3. Living with Death 4. The Drama of Death Part III Living the Day of the Dead 5. Days of the Dead in Oaxaca 6. Spectacular Death and Cultural Change Epilogue: Life in Death Notes References Index
£85.50
Columbia University Press Poetics of Conduct
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Columbia University Press Religion and Public Memory A Cultural History of
Book SynopsisSaint Namdev is a figure central to the history of bhakti, or devotional Hinduism, one of the oldest religious practices in India. This book focuses on Namdev as a feature of Marathi public memory and examines the many ways that he has been remembered.Trade ReviewThis erudite study is an important contribution to several important issues in contemporary social theory, especially the relations of memory, history, and community through the past thousand years of the vernacular millennium. Deeply grounded in manuscript sources, it never loses sight of the living context of performance where the texts originated. -- Sumit Guha, Rutgers University In a sometimes dense but always lively way, Christian Lee Novetzke lets us see the processes that allow the songs and stories of a fourteenth-century saint to live vibrantly today. His book might be called the 'many lives of Sant Namdev' a saint (or sant) very important in Marathi and Hindi but neglected in English. With a discussion of 'public memory' and a thorough explanation of the way in which orality influences literacy and performance trumps permanence, Novetzke brings the cultural world of Namdev to life. He breaks new ground in the field of bhakti studies in his use of many kinds of evidence, from the hand written badas used for several centuries by those who perform the song sermon called kirtan to the film industry that features the sants to the contentious disputes over the idea of Namdev as a social bandit. -- Eleanor Zelliot, Larid Bell Professor of History, Carleton College Secular humanist, social bandit, wandering truth-teller, hardscrabble patriot, (pre)-postcolonial critic, humble devotee, saint-Namdev has been many things to many publics. For Christian Lee Novetzke, the many pasts of Namdev offer an opportunity to investigate not only the literary and religious legacy of this important fourteenth-century singer--sant--of Maharashtra but the manner in which he has been remembered across the centuries and its implications in the cultural, social, and political history of early-modern and modern India. Along the way, we learn much about the place and potential of religion in history and the evolution of the public sphere in India and beyond. Novetzke is a skilled and sensitive writer, and he has produced a challenging, erudite, and engaging book that will interest both historians and scholars of religion. -- William R. Pinch, Wesleyan University The mobility and plasticity of saints' lives invite us to consider how the past comes to be remembered in different ways at different moments in the lives of religious communities. Religion and Public Memory offers a theoretically sophisticated and historically textured analysis of one saint's reception and legacy over several centuries. Highlighting the importance of social memory in understanding the transmission of the past into a series of presents, this book makes a substantive theoretical and cultural-historical contribution to the study of public memory in religious contexts. -- Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College Christian Lee Novetzke is a rising star of his generation. In this book he takes English-language scholarship on Marathi bhakti traditions to new levels of theoretical sophistication, as he investigates the interactions of text with performance and of history with memory in preserving and embellishing the legacy of Sant Namdev. -- Anne Feldhaus, professor of religious studies, Arizona State University In this book Christian Lee Novetzke does a marvelous job of redefining bhakti religion in India--so often described as personal devotion--as a set of practices of recalling the past that constitutes 'public memory.' Novetzke's elegant theorization of the creation of publics at the interstices of memory and history unfolds through original, nuanced studies of the career of the figure of the saint poet Namdev and of kirtan as an oral, performative form in Maharashtra. -- Indira Viswanathan, David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies, Mount Holyoke College This excellent scholarly study is immensely readable and engaging... Highly Recommended. Choice [A] must read for South Asia scholars. -- Madhuri Deshmukh H-Net Reviews An artful and erudite study... By far one of the most provocative and insightful recent works on religion in South Asia. The bewildering range of Novetzke's sources, combined with the high levels of theoretical sophistication that he brings to the idea of 'public memory,' make this an incredibly substantive contribution. It is bound to become a classic in the field. -- Davesh Soneji The Journal of Asian Studies Like an expert musician, Novetzke has the ability to sit down at a score and transpose. This book transposes the enduringly popular Maharashtrian poet-saint Namdev, a true icon of what it means to be in love with God, into a fundamentally new key: the sphere of religious publics. Religion and Public Memory thus reconceptualizes a major aspect of Hindu religion--indeed, global religion--and for those who cherish Namdev, it is a triumph of sympathetic listening. -- Jack Hawley, Columbia University Novetzke brings us a major twenty-first-century update to the study of Hindu bhakti traditions... [His book] demonstrates a broad intellectual move that is worthy of the attention of all historians of religion. -- Dan Gold History of Religions Innovative, exciting, and in many ways pathbreaking... Its range is surely unusual for a first book. -- Vasudha Dalmia Book Review We can hope others will respond to the historiographic challenges posed so effectively by Novetzke. -- Brian Hatcher American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: The Shape of the Book Acknowledgments Introduction: Namdev, Bhakti, Public, and Memory Part 1. Practices of Memory 1. A Sant Between Memory and History 2. Public Performance and Corporate Authorship 3. Orality and Literacy/Performance and Permanence Part 2. Publics of Memory 4. Namdev and the Namas: Anamnetic Authorship from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 5. Memories of Suffering in the Eighteenth Century 6. A Sant for the Nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 7. The Idea of Namdev in Two Films in the Twentieth Century Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index
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Columbia University Press Juggling Identities
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Seth D. Kunin's book fills a large void in the academic literature treating crypto-Judaism and is an extremely significant contribution to the field. This work should attract the attention of a wide audience, both academic and lay alike. For academicians in the fields of social science and history, as well as university libraries, this book should be a requirement for their shelves." -- Stanley M. Hordes, University of New Mexico A fascinating ethnographic study... highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Diversity and Complexity 2. The Case Against the Authenticity of Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico 3. The Case for the Authenticity of Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico 4. Ideal Types of Crypto-Jewish Identity 5. Crypto-Jewish Practice: Memory and Bricolage 6. A Postmodern Take on Crypto-Judaism Conclusion Theoretical Appendix. (Neo)-Structuralism: A Basis for Understanding the Transformative Use of Structure in Crypto-Jewish Culture Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Clash of Identities
Book SynopsisLooking at the shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, this title presents relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. It explores the phenomena of reciprocal relationships between Jewish and Arab communities in mandatory Palestine.Trade ReviewEssential reading for serious scholars of Israel -- Zachary Lockman ShofarTable of ContentsPreface 1. A Model for Analyzing Reciprocal Relations Between the Jewish and Arab Communities in Mandatory Palestine 2. Collective Identity as Agency and Structuration of Society: The Israeli Example, with Dahlia Moore 3. The Formation Process of Palestinian Collective Identities: The Ottoman and Colonial Periods 4. Between Primordial and Civil Definitions of the Collective Identity: Eretz Israel or the State of Israel? 5. State Building, State Autonomy, and the Identity of Society: The Case of the Israeli State 6. Patterns of Militarism in Israel 7. The Social Construction of Israel's National Security 8. Jurisdiction in an Immigrant-Settler Society: The Jewish and Democratic State 9. Exchanging Territories for Peace: A Macrosociological Approach 10. Nationalism, Identity, and Citizenship: An Epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas Controversy: A Non-Platontic Dialogue 11. The Power-Oriented Settlement: PLO-Israel: The Road to the Oslo Agreement and Back? 12. Politicide: Ariel Sharon's Legacy and the Palestinians Epilogue Chronology of Major Events Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Clash of Identities
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEssential reading for serious scholars of Israel -- Zachary Lockman ShofarTable of ContentsPreface 1. A Model for Analyzing Reciprocal Relations Between the Jewish and Arab Communities in Mandatory Palestine 2. Collective Identity as Agency and Structuration of Society: The Israeli Example, with Dahlia Moore 3. The Formation Process of Palestinian Collective Identities: The Ottoman and Colonial Periods 4. Between Primordial and Civil Definitions of the Collective Identity: Eretz Israel or the State of Israel? 5. State Building, State Autonomy, and the Identity of Society: The Case of the Israeli State 6. Patterns of Militarism in Israel 7. The Social Construction of Israel's National Security 8. Jurisdiction in an Immigrant-Settler Society: The Jewish and Democratic State 9. Exchanging Territories for Peace: A Macrosociological Approach 10. Nationalism, Identity, and Citizenship: An Epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas Controversy: A Non-Platontic Dialogue 11. The Power-Oriented Settlement: PLO-Israel: The Road to the Oslo Agreement and Back? 12. Politicide: Ariel Sharon's Legacy and the Palestinians Epilogue Chronology of Major Events Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Winged Faith
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA welcome addition to our catalog of religious movements and a timely reminder that circulation does not flow in only one direction-and never will again. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [An] informative and erudite book. -- Alexandra Kent Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute a rich and challenging text. -- Hanna H. Kim H-Asia Winged Faith is a readable and carefully documented account of an extraordinary modern religious figure, but its appeal is much wider. It is an important contribution to the literature on globalization and a valuable corrective to the pervasive view that globalization, especially cultural globalization, is simply westernization. -- Bryan S. Turner Society It is a book that should be widely read by scholars and people coming from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. -- Amit Chaturvedi Contemporary South Asia Srinivas' impressive study argues for new visions of pluralism that hinge upon an engaged cosmopolitanism...One hopes Srinivas' impressive work will be read by scholars from numerous fields, as its reach is incredibly broad. -- Jeffrey M. Brackett Journal of Hindu StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction: Toward Cultural Understanding 1. Becoming God: The Story of Sathya Sai Baba 2. Deus Loci: Economies of Faith, Sacred Travel, and the Building of a Moral Architecture 3. Illusion, Play, and Work in a Moral Community: Divine Darshan and the Practices of Transnational Devotion 4. Renegotiating the Body: Muscular Morality, Truancy, and the Satisfaction of Desire 5. Secrecy, Ambiguity, Truth, and Power: The Global Sai Organization and the Anti-Sai Network 6. Out of God's Hands: Reframing Material Worlds In Lieu of a Conclusion: Some Thoughts on Cultural Translation and Engaged Cosmopolitanism Appendix Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press Empire and Nation
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction, by Nivedita Menon Part I: Empire and Nation 1. Whose Imagined Community? (1991) 2. The Constitution of Indian Nationalist Discourse (1987) 3. History and the Nationalization of Hinduism (1991) 4. The Fruits of Macaulay's Poison Tree (1985) 5. Of Diaries, Delirium, and Discourse (1996) 6. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1989) 7. Our Modernity (1994) 8. A Tribute to the Master (2001) 9. Those Fond Memories of the Raj (2005) 10. Beyond the Nation? Or Within? (1997) Part II: Democracy 11. Democracy and the Violence of the State: A Political Negotiation of Death (2001) 12. Secularism and Toleration (1994) 13. Satanic? Or the Surrender of the Modern? (1988) 14. Development Planning and the Indian State (1994) 15. We Have Heard This Before (1990) Part III: Capital and Community 16. A Response to Taylor's 'Modes of Civil Society' (1990) 17. A Brief History of Subaltern Studies (1998) 18. The Colonial State and Peasant Resistance in Bengal, 1920-1947 (1986) 19. On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal (1999) Index
£28.50
Columbia University Press A Confiscated Memory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis beautifully written book tells the story of refugees and immigrants who lived during the twentieth century in a single neighborhood in Haifa (Wadi Salib), enduring victimization as a result of war and long ethnic, national, and social discrimination and transformation. Yfaat Weiss focuses on a pre-1948 Palestinian neighborhood in a predominantly Jewish City, laying out the way the displacement of Palestinians gave way to Jewish migrants, who were themselves refugees enduring social discrimination in Israel and were evicted as a result of Israel's most famous social upheaval (1959), a watershed moment in Israeli ethnic relations between Ashkenazy and Sephardic Jews. This captivating history of a mosaic of exclusion and inclusion of national and immigrant minorities-in addition to its other merits, it is an outstanding urban study--reveals the parallel and separate experiences of repeated displacement. This community of 'diachronic neighbors' illuminates the memory of a place and a sequence of displacements. Weiss brings to life and revives the memory of disappeared cultures displaced by war and the drive to modernization. -- Elazar Barkan, professor of international and public affairs and director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, and coauthor of No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation [T]his study adds to the broader discourse on identity and conflict in Israel. Choice [An] important contribution to the growing literature on collective memory and forgetting. -- Michael Feige, Ben-Gurion University American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Prologue: The Neighbors Who Get Rich on Our Account 1. War: Diachronic Neighbors 2. Commotion: "And I Wanted to Do Something Nice, Like They Have Up in Haddar" 3. Evacuation: City Lights 4. Khirbeh: Altneuland Epilogue: Iphrat Goshen and His Wife Miriam Move Into Said's House in Hallisa Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Race and the Genetic Revolution
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThere is perhaps no issue that is of more interest and relevance to the social study of science and public health than race and genetics, and Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan are leaders in the field. Novel and forward thinking, this book will be a valuable addition to a literature that needs to be brought up to speed. -- David Rosner, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University A signal contribution. This volume wonderfully reflects the mission and track record of the Council for Responsible Genetics in clarifying the content and social significance of complex scientific issues and demystifying the ideological penumbras that surround them. I can hardly wait for this book to begin circulation. It should be read and taught as widely as possible. -- Adolph Reed Jr., University of Pennsylvania Essential reading for researchers, students, and policymakers seeking to challenge the new racial genetics. -- Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century Health and science collections alike will find this college-level discussion offers important connections between science and cultural awareness of race, and makes for key reading for students and researchers alike. Midwest Book Review An important strength of this timely,engaging, and readable book-and what distinguishes it from some others-is the claritywith which it demonstrates how genomics findings in one discipline... are applied to others... PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: How Science Embraced the Racialization of Human Populations Sheldon Krimsky Part I. Science and Race: Historical and Evolutionary Perspectives 1. A Short History of the Race Concept, by Michael Yudell 2. Natural Selection, the Human Genome, and the Idea of Race, by Robert Pollack Part II. Forensic DNA Databases, Race, and the Criminal Justice System 3. Racial Disparities in Databanking of DNA Profiles, by Michael T. Risher 4. Prejudice, Stigma, and DNA Databases, by Helen Wallace Part III. Ancestry Testing 5. Ancestry Testing and DNA: Uses, Limits, and Caveat Emptor, by Troy Duster 6. Can DNA "Witness" Race? Forensic Uses of an Imperfect Ancestry Testing Technology, by Duana Fullwiley Part IV. Racialized Medicine 7. BiDil and Racialized Medicine, by Jonathan Kahn 8. Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why it Matters?, by Joseph L. Graves, Jr. Part V. Intelligence and Race 9. Myth and Mystification: The Science of Race and IQ, by Pilar N. Ossorio 10. Intelligence, Race, and Genetics, by Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko, Kenneth K. Kidd, and Steven E. Stemler Part VI. Contemporary Culture, Race, and Genetics 11. The Elusive Variability of Race, by Patricia J. Williams 12. Race, Genetics, and the Regulatory Need for Race Impact Assessments, by Osagie K. Obasogie Conclusion: Toward a Remedy for the Social Consequences of Racial Myths, by Kathleen Sloan List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Imaginary Ethnographies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThough a series of interrelated essays, this is a powerful book presenting a unified argument...Highly recommended. Choice Imaginary Ethnographies reads, most beautifully, like a literary-critical analogue of science fiction gesturing toward new worlds and new forms Cultural CritiqueTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Writing 1. Another Writing Lesson: Levi-Strauss 2. Traveling Literature 3. Restriction and Mobility: Desire Part II: Cannibals 4. The Melancholic Cannibal: Juan Jose Saer's The Witness and Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar 5. War Children in a Global World: Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul 6. Ethnographies of the Future: Personhood Part III: Coda Cosmographical Meditations on the Inhuman: Samuel Beckett's The Lost Ones Notes Bibliography Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Imaginary Ethnographies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThough a series of interrelated essays, this is a powerful book presenting a unified argument...Highly recommended. Choice Imaginary Ethnographies reads, most beautifully, like a literary-critical analogue of science fiction gesturing toward new worlds and new forms Cultural CritiqueTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Writing 1. Another Writing Lesson: Levi-Strauss 2. Traveling Literature 3. Restriction and Mobility: Desire Part II: Cannibals 4. The Melancholic Cannibal: Juan Jose Saer's The Witness and Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar 5. War Children in a Global World: Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul 6. Ethnographies of the Future: Personhood Part III: Coda Cosmographical Meditations on the Inhuman: Samuel Beckett's The Lost Ones Notes Bibliography Index
£23.80
Columbia University Press Love and War How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and
Book SynopsisAn exploration of gender as both a weapon and casualty of war.Trade ReviewDigby brings a fresh view to the term "battle of the sexes" by revealing the gendered politics and cultural programming that drive many of the irrationalities and antagonisms so familiar to heterosexual romantic relations. The argument is intellectually stimulating, politically important, and potentially quite relevant in personal ways for readers. -- Shira Tarrant, author of Men and Feminism and When Sex Became Gender Love and War is a joy to read, indeed, a page turner. Tom Digby opens up a whole new way of understanding the problems intrinsic to heterosexual love, as well as the impact of misogyny in the everyday lives of men and women. His compelling descriptions of the interplay of gender and militarism will significantly alter the way we understand masculinity, sexuality, romantic love, misogyny, and even war itself. Of particular interest is Digby's use of what I call 'situated phenomenology' to shed important new light on the roots of misogyny; the social implications of this new understanding are quite sweeping. For specialists in gender studies like myself, Love and War will be recognized as a major and profoundly stimulating contribution to our field. The book will also appeal to a broad audience, thanks to Digby's highly engaging, conversational writing style. -- Sandra Bartky, author of Femininity and Domination 'Love is a battlefield,' sang the great philosopher Pat Benatar. But why? Why do the metaphors that describe love and romance refer to battles of the sexes, or interplanetary warfare between Martians and Venusians? In a book both judiciously wise and passionately angry, Tom Digby untangles the knots that bind love and war, set men and women in opposition, and create the enmity from which we have to recover if we are to build intimate and loving relationships. -- Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men and Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era Tom Digby's exciting new book argues that the glorification of militarism in contemporary Western culture generates hegemonic conceptions of masculinity and femininity that distort our relationships in all areas of life and produce deeply damaging consequences for everyone. The book is filled with fresh insights and telling cultural illustrations. It is a welcome-and very teachable-addition to the scholarly literature on gender and militarism, and should also prove fascinating to general readers. -- Alison M. Jaggar, author of Gender and Global Justice Love: From romantic poetry to pop music to self-help manuals, we are told that it makes us whole and life worth living. Yet at the same time, love is described as a "battlefield" on which the "war between the sexes" is played out through power struggles, and mismatched expectations. Just metaphors? Tom Digby says "no"-emphatically-and the result is a probing yet engagingly reader-friendly look into how what he calls "war-reliant societies" foster notions about masculinity and femininity that are doomed to collision. Chock-full of examples from contemporary culture and blessedly free of jargon, Love and War is one of the freshest, smartest books I know to introduce students (and everyone else) to how ideas about gender impact both private life and public policy-and vice versa. -- Susan Bordo, author of Unbearable Weight, The Male Body and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen The next time someone refers to a 'battle between the sexes' in the midst of a serious conversation about gender and power, ask them if they've read Love and War. Tom Digby's brilliant book infuses this tired phrase with new intellectual depth and political significance. And for those keeping score, Digby does take sides - with women and men, both of whom stand to gain by a breakdown and eventual transcendence of the gender straitjackets required to sustain militarism and other forms of organized violence. -- Jackson Katz, author of The Macho Paradox and Leading Men, and creator of the documentary film Tough Guise 2 In Love and War, author Tom Digby persuasively shows us that the gender divide we often call the "war between the sexes" is an unnecessary social construct that has tragic consequences for us all. From the bullying of a little boy with a "girl-colored" lunch box, to an American general left furious at the indifference to traumatized World War I veterans, to aboriginal tribes who exist outside our militaristic frame of reference, to the causes and effects of today's ultra-misogynistic porn, Professor Digby serves as our congenial and insightful tour guide through the misty territories of "male" and "female," patiently showing us the path to a better way of configuring the relationship between the sexes. There is great value and hope to be found in Love and War. If we were able, as Professor Digby urges, to change the cultural programming of gender, we might finally free men from the stereotypes that continue to glorify antiquated codes of violence and the emotional paralysis of stoicism. And we might finally free women from having to live in perpetual fear of men. This is a book that should be widely read and deeply taken to heart. -- Kelly Moore, anti-rape activist, New York Times best-selling author, and co-author of the critically acclaimed Amber House Trilogy of young adult novels Fresh, passionate, and long overdue... [Love and War] offers an engaging analysis of the contrasting strands that comprise people's culturally programmed ideas about love... Essential. Choice Love & War is excellent at pulling apart masculinity and its implications for the lives of men and women within militaristic cultures. Bitch Digby has produced an accessible, smart, persuasive work... filled with keen insights, illuminating connections, and heartbreaking examples. Anyone interested in gender, the military, or love should read this book-which is to say that almost everyone should read this book. -- Andrew Huebner H-War Love and War is a treasure trove of insights into gender and the, often tragic, experiences of men and women. There are many aspects of the book that are remarkable but the vivid, and moving, portrait Digby paints of how men suffer under the gender binary is especially valuable. The "warrior masculinity" that he describes is going to influence my teaching and thinking for some time. I will surely be incorporating the book into my class on feminist philosophy. I think it has a better than average chance of getting young people at West Point and elsewhere to think deeply about themselves and their culture. -- Graham Parsons, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY Short, fun read... filled with insights and observations that invest the reader emotionally and provoke personal reflection. It is a fine piece of public philosophy that should be of interest far beyond academia. Feminism and PhilosphyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Battle of the Sexes: Why Is Heterosexual Love So Hard? 2. Let's Make a Deal: The Heterosexual Economy Falls Off a Cliff 3. How to Make a Warrior: Misogyny and Emotional Toughness in the Construction of Masculinity 4. Keeping the Battle of the Sexes Alive: Faith and Fantasy 5. Can Men Rescue Heterosexual Love? More Faith and Fantasy 6. Gender Terrorism, Gender Sacrifice: Getting Beyond Zero-Sum Heterosexuality 7. The Degendering of War: War Loses Its Sex 8. The Demilitarizing of Gender: A Truce in the Battle of the Sexes? Notes Index
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Columbia University Press As Wide as the World Is Wise
Book SynopsisUnderstanding the human condition through ethnography and critical philosophy.Trade ReviewAs Wide as the World Is Wise is a book that gives any soul tortured by questions arising from the way the world is today a feeling that one has found an author who has heard the torment of such a soul and has offered instructions on how to live with these questions, not because they have been solved but because these questions have been heard without recourse to sentimentalism or quick-fix solutions. -- Veena Das, coeditor of The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy Jackson's marvelous book delivers ethnographic evidence for philosophical issues originating from the necessities of ordinary life, reminding us that philosophy actually never was (just) a matter of academic discourse and abstract thinking but has always been rooted in various media-myths, tales, rites, sayings-that express the diversities of life-forms, their norms and values, and their existential truths and wisdom. -- Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Aarhus University At a time when anthropologists are increasingly drawing on and engaging with philosophy and philosophers, Jackson has given us the best account thus far of how this might be possible. Eschewing the common anthropological criticism that philosophy is too universalizing and abstract, Jackson shows us how in our time much philosophical practice is an attempt to think through the immediate and pressing issues of everyday existence. Anthropology, Jackson argues, is perfectly positioned to contribute significantly to such thinking. The result is an important and innovative articulation of a potential philosophical anthropology. -- Jarrett Zigon, author of Morality: An Anthropological Perspective Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Analogy and Polarity 2. Identity and Difference 3. Relations and Relata 4. Matters of Life and Death 5. Ourselves and Others 6. Belief and Experience 7. Persons and Types 8. Being and Thought 9. Fate and Freewill 10. Center and Periphery 11. Ecologies of Mind Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Humans
Book SynopsisThis book brings together more than a hundred top experts, who share their insights on the study of human evolution and what it means for understanding our past, present, and future.Trade ReviewSergio Almécija has produced a most intriguing book that describes the hypotheses, hopes, fears, and beliefs of an extraordinary gathering of scientific scholars in the field of human evolution. Debate is lively among those who wrestle with the details of our origins, and it is certain that this fascinating, remarkable and insightful book will be welcomed by all. -- Don Johanson, discoverer of Lucy and founder of the Institute of Human OriginsHumans is an extraordinary book. It is unlike anything I have ever previously encountered and is fascinating as well as important from a scholarly perspective. -- John G. Fleagle, Distinguished Professor, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook UniversityThis wide-ranging compendium... deliver[s] intriguing insights. The result is a panoramic view of the state of evolutionary science. * Publishers Weekly *A fascinating new book edited by a leading researcher at the American Museum of Natural History. Provides an insightful analysis into the origins and the future of our species. Research scientist Sergio Almécija has compiled an eminent list of contributors. A remarkable book … designed to permit the reader to dip in and out of it, to explore a variety of topics and to gain fresh insights and perspectives. * Everything Dinosaur *I can heartily recommend this book to any fellow human. However, those of us who have long been enthralled by our species’ place within nature and our evolution as primates will be especially interested. * Trilobite Tales *[The] organization and the choice of interviewees is a refreshing one—it’s rare you can directly compare thoughts on some of the most profound questions on human nature from scientists raised in sharply differing traditions of thought. * Paleontological Society *Table of ContentsPreface: What Is This Book?Introduction: User ManualAn Illustrated Guide to Human EvolutionPart I: Prelude1. David Alba2. Peter Andrews3. David Begun4. Brenda Benefit5. Michael “Mike” Benton6. Matt Cartmill7. Yaowalak Chaimanee8. Glenn Conroy9. Simon Conway Morris10. Eric Delson11. Marc Furió12. Dan Gebo13. Jay Kelley14. Yutaka Kunimatsu15. Laura MacLatchy16. Salvador Moyà-Solà17. Masato Nakatsukasa18. Martin Pickford19. David PilbeamPart II: Beginnings20. Leslie Aiello21. Berhane Asfaw22. Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer23. René Bobe24. Tim Bromage25. Jeremy “Jerry” DeSilva26. Steve Frost27. Yohannes Haile-Selassie28. Ashley Hammond29. Sonia Harmand30. Ralph Holloway31. Kevin D. Hunt32. William “Bill” Kimbel33. Fredrick “Kyalo” Manthi34. Mary Marzke35. Emma Mbua36. Robyn Pickering37. J. Michael “Mike” Plavcan38. Kaye Reed39. Brigitte Senut40. Richard “Rich” Smith41. David Strait42. Randall “Randy” Susman43. Peter Ungar44. Carol Ward45. Tim White46. Bernard WoodPart III: Becoming Human47. Eudald Carbonell48. Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo49. Dean Falk50. Katerina Harvati51. Yousuke Kaifu52. Richard Klein53. Carles Lalueza-Fox54. Richard Leakey55. Daniel “Dan” Lieberman56. Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro57. Briana Pobiner58. Marcia Ponce de León59. Mary Prendergast60. Lorenzo Rook61. Antonio Rosas62. Chris Ruff63. Jeffrey “Jeff” Schwartz64. John Shea65. Tanya Smith66. Ian Tattersall67. Matt Tocheri68. Milford Wolpoff69. Christoph ZollikoferPart IV: Now70. Susana Carvalho71. Frans de Waal72. Rolando González-José73. Kristen Hawkes74. Leslea Hlusko75. Sarah Hrdy76. Nina Jablonski77. Clifford “Cliff” Jolly78. Jon Kaas79. Leah Krubitzer80. Susan Larson81. Zarin Machanda82. Tomàs Marquès-Bonet83. Robert “Bob” Martin84. Priya Moorjani85. Mark Pagel86. Herman Pontzer87. Holger Preuschoft88. Joan Richtsmeier89. Robert Sapolsky90. Chet Sherwood91. Craig Stanford92. Jack Stern93. Andrea B. Taylor94. Kenneth “Ken” Weiss95. Richard WranghamPart V: Outro96. Daniel Gilbert97. Henry T. “Hank” Greely98. Kevin Kelly99. David Krakauer100. Misia Landau101. Geoffrey Miller102. Eugenie “Genie” Scott103. Anil SethAcknowledgmentsRecommended ReadingsNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Cities of the Dead
Book SynopsisJoseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans.Table of ContentsPreface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary EditionPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance2. Echoes in the Bone3. Betterton’s Funeral4. Feathered Peoples5. One Blood6. Carnival and the LawEpilogue: New FrontiersReferencesIndex
£90.00
Columbia University Press Scenes of Attention
Book SynopsisThis book investigates attention from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, history, anthropology, art history, and comparative literature.Trade ReviewThis book brings together beautifully written and diverse perspectives on attention: as phenomenon, scholarly practice, memoir, meditation, metahistory, and art. Required reading in an era of exponential financialization and attention deficit disorder at civilizational scale. -- Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google ResearchThese vivid and varied essays are a much-needed antidote to the flattened attention of the click economy. Here are the many dimensions of attention we've been missing: historical, philosophical, psychological, anthropological, and, yes, technological. This timely collection broadens and deepens current debates about the future of attention—and distraction. -- Lorraine Daston, author of Rules: A Short History of What We Live ByScenes of Attention is, in all the best ways, scholarly, inspiring, and unsettling. Its diverse contributors address this most urgent of topics so wisely, and articulate the results of their thinking with such readable lucidity, that one feels as if the complexities of attention had been brought freshly before us, in higher definition than before, and with a depth that had previously been foreshortened. -- Christopher Mole, author of Attention Is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical PsychologyA wonderfully eclectic examination of attention, Scenes of Attention illuminates this central aspect of mind through different vignettes and rich theoretical perspectives that reveal the diversity of how we attend, how attention is shaped, manipulated and transformed. Accessible and engaging, it will provide ample material for productive reflection. -- Wayne Wu, author of Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and ActionA very stimulating volume, Scenes of Attention revolves around the question of how best to approach, understand, and respond to the 'crisis of attention' that we all feel, to varying degrees, in the age of hypermediated multitaskery. These essays provide an interdisciplinary inquiry into the most pressing (and enduring) issues around the attention ecology. -- Dominic Pettman, author of Infinite DistractionTable of ContentsIntroduction, by D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. SmithPart I. Histories of Attention1. The Discovery of Attention, by Richard J. Spiegel2. Attention and Boredom in Early American Psychology, by Henry M. Cowles3. Attending to the Birds: Ornithologists and Listening, by Alexandra Hui4. Attention, Art, and Psychotherapeutics, by Julian ChehirianPart II. Philosophies of Attention5. Attention: Mechanism and Virtue, by Carlos Montemayor6. Attention, Technology, and Creativity, by Carolyn Dicey Jennings and Shadab Tabatabaeian7. Attention to Absence and Imagination, by Jonardon Ganeri8. Dispatch from the Jhāna Wars: Attention Practice in Online Buddhism, by John TreschPart III. Attention, Technology, Culture9. Wearable Attention: Course-Correction for Wandering Minds, by Natasha Dow Schüll10. Attentional ‘Ownership’: Online Education and Self-Possession, by Brian Yuan11. Attention is All You Need: Humans and Computers in the Time of Neural NetworksNick Seaver12. Medium Focus, by Joanna FiducciaPart IV. Endgame(s)13. Attention Fast, Attention Slow: Obsession, Compulsion, Holding Close, by Yael Geller14. Units of Intensive Care: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body, by Lucy Alford BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
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University of Illinois Press FEASTS OF HONOR
Book SynopsisAmong the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are great performances. Bellowing water buffalo and squealing pigs for sacrifice, colorful displays of ritual architecture, and formal processions of gift-bearing guests set the scene for complex dramas about status, human value, and ties to ancestors, followers, and kin. To Indonesians throughout the archipelago, Toraja rituals have come to represent the cultural identity of this well-known group. Feasts of Honor is an exploration of these rituals, their changing meanings, and the lively dialogues they have sparked within Toraja culture, from the Dutch Colonial period to the recent era of nationalism, tourism, and migration.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Somalis Abroad
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bjork ingeniously deploys her own ethnographic experience to show how Somalis in Finland, embarrassed on the global cultural stage by the persistence of clan ideology, nevertheless use clan identities as flexible paths to the intimate reaches of diasporic life."--Michael Herzfeld, author of Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State"Somalis living in Finland represent an important node in the global Somali diaspora. This book, based on immersive fieldwork and interviews conducted in Finnish, English, and Somali, is a welcome and timely addition to the literature on migration and diasporas."--Dianna Shandy, author of Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration"This is a boldly written book that deserves to be read by everyone who wants (or hopes) to understand the role that identity can play in Muslim, and specifically Somali, diaspora communities. In truth, it should be read by anyone with an interest in immigrant issues. Bjork writes incisively yet respectfully, but even more importantly, by comparing what Somalis say they do when it comes to 'clan' affiliations with what they do in actuality , she has produced a model ethnography."--Anna Simons, author of Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone"A helpful addition to the debate on the Somali diaspora. . . . The book will be of use to researchers and students interested in transnational migration and diasporas." --Nordic Journal of Migration Research
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Second Generation of African American
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This volume is a significant contribution to the study of subaltern traditions in the history of anthropology." --Transforming Anthropology"Presents the next generation of scholars who continued to 'keep on keeping on' in departments, among fellow students, and with faculty who thought the natives should be located in the field and not in their midst. Essential for the still lonely Black, Brown, Asian, or Latinx graduate student who is trying to make their way in the discipline."--A. Lynn Bolles, professor emerita, University of Maryland, College Park
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University of Illinois Press RETHINKING HISTORY Indigenous South American
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University of Illinois Press Nurturing Doubt
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1996.
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University of Illinois Press Sex Sexuality and the Anthropologist
Book SynopsisContending that the conventional pose of a genderless, asexual, ethnographic researcher is impossible to sustain, this title brings sex and sexuality into the open as essential components of ethnographic study that must be overtly recognized and proactively addressed. It recounts the real-life experiences of anthropologists.Trade Review"Breaks the taboo on discussing sexuality in fieldwork, urging us to reflect on various methodological, theoretical, and personal issues it raises... Not only does this volume contribute to the mounting effort to bring conversations regarding ethnographers' sexuality into the open, but it also complicates current dialogues of both ethical standards and reflexivity." -- Meena Khandelwal, American Anthropology ADVANCE PRAISE "A balanced and rich collection... The introduction makes a powerful, convincing argument, situating the book within the broader conversation about sexuality and anthropological practice which has emerged on all sides in recent years."- William Leap, coeditor of Out in the Field: Reflections of Gay and Lesbian Anthropologists "This book sets out to help restore some sanity to our erotophobic American culture, from which American anthropologists are unfortunately also suffering. It makes a significant contribution to the field of anthropology."-Walter Williams, author of The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
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