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AltaMira Press Causal Explanation for Social Scientists
Book SynopsisAll social scientists, despite their differences on many issues, ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to answer those questions. The selected readings, all illuminating causal explanation for social scientists, are not only by anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and human ecologists but also by philosophers, biologists, psychologists, historians, and specialists in other fields. The essays will appeal to those doing applied research on practical problems as well as those seeking mainly to satisfy their curiosity about the causes of whatever events or types of events interest them.Trade ReviewThe volume is a compendium unlike most others. Rather than gather causal arguments about specific substantive outcomes, Vayda and Walters have assembled essays on how to question, how to reason, and why to do it a pragmatic fashion....The book is thoroughly coherent, strategically repetitive, and by no means unconvincing. Whether your field is human ecology, land change science, vulnerability research, or political ecology, there are sobering lessons here about bad methodological habits and good question writing....[I]t is hard not to come away from this collection with a renewed sense of energy and possibility. The world is filled with strange events and outcomes, after all, none of which have ready-made answers, and all of which can avail themselves to energetic observers with open minds. For a moment, viewed this way, it is possible to think that environment-society research might actually be filled with surprise. That is a welcome message. * Human Ecology *Table of ContentsIntroductory Essay: Pragmatic Methods and Causal-History Explanations by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters Part I. A Pragmatic View of Causal Explanation Chapter 1. Causal Explanation by David Lewis Chapter 2. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events by E. E. Evans-Pritchard Chapter 3. Geertz and the Interpretive Approach in Anthropology by Michael Martin Part II. Causal Histories of Events Chapter 4. The Range and Power of Narrative Style in Science by Stephen Jay Gould Chapter 5. Famines by Amartya Sen Chapter 6. Analysis or Reductionism? by Ernst Mayr Chapter 7. The Role of Fact in the Particular and the General by Richard C. Lewontin Chapter 8. Explanatory Relativity by Alan Garfinkel Part III. "How-Possibly" Explanations Chapter 9. Homage to Clio, or Toward an Historical Philosophy for Evolutionary Biology by Robert J. O'Hara Part IV. Systems and Structures Chapter 10. Plague and Fertility in Early Modern Europe by Geoffrey Hawthorn Part V. Theories, Generalizations, and Practical Judgments Chapter 11. Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models by Thomas C. Schelling Chapter 12. Rice Harvesting: A View from the Theory of Common Property by Neil H. Sturgess and Hesti Wijaya Part VI. Causal Reasoning: Forms, Results, and Caveats Chapter 13. Statistical Models and Shoe Leather by David A. Freedman Chapter 14. The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses by T.C. Chamberlin Chapter 15. Confirmation Biase: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises by Raymond S. Nickerson Chapter 16. The Last Northern Cod by Thomas R. McGuire Chapter 17. The Body of the Detective Model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe by Nancy Harrowitz Chapter 18. Thinking and Reasoning in Medicine by Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and Jiajie Zhang Chapter 19. On Types of Scientific Inquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning by David A. Freedman Chapter 20. Counterfactuals and Revisionism in Historical Explanation by Ross Hassig Part VII. Consequence Explanations and their Misuse Chapter 21. The Obsessional Search for Meaning by Jon Elster Chapter 22. Confirmation Bias in Consequence Explanations by Andrew P. Vayda Part VIII. Dos and Don'ts in Interdisciplinary Research on Causes of Events Chapter 23. Dos and Don'ts in Interdisciplinary Research on Causes of Fires in Tropical Moist Forests: Examples from Indonesia by Andrew P. Vayda Chapter 24. Critical Regions, Ecosystem Management, and Human Ecosystem Research by Thomas K. Rudel Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales Synagogue Life A Study in Symbolic Interaction
Book SynopsisVia a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He illustrates how people come to the synagogue not only for spiritual purposes but also to find out where and how they fit into life in the neighborhood in which they share.In his new introduction, Heilman discusses what led him to write this book and the process of personal transformation through which he, as an Orthodox Jew, had to go in order to turn a disciplined eye on the world from which he came. Rather than using the stranger-as-native approach of classic anthropology, he had instead to begin as a native who discoverd how to look at a once-taken-for-granted synagogue life like a stranger. In the afterword, arguing for the efficacy of this approach, Heilman offers guidance on how natives can use their special familiarity and still be trained to distance themselves from their own group, making use of the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. Synagogue Life offers a fascinating portrait that has something to say to social scientists as well as all those curious about what happens in the main arena of Orthodox Jewish community life.Table of Contents1: Background, Beginnings, and Definitions; 2: The Setting; 3: The House of Prayer: The Cast of Characters; 4: Shifting Involvements; 5: Gossip; 6: Joking; 7: Singing, Swaying, Appeals, and Arguments; 8: The House of Study; 9: The House of Assembly; 10: Final Words
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Cornell University Press On the Subject of Java
Book SynopsisWhat are the limits of cultural critique? What are the horizons? What are the political implications? John Pemberton explores these questions in this far-reaching ethnographic and historical interpretation of cultural discourse in Indonesia since 1965. Pemberton considers in particular how the appearance of order under Soeharto''s repressive New Order regime is an effect of an enigmatic politics founded upon routine appeals to cultural values.Through a richly textured ethnographic account of events ranging from national elections to weddings, Pemberton simultaneously elucidates and disturbs the contours of the New Order cultural imaginary. He pursues the fugitive signs of circumstances that might resist the powers of New Order rule through unexpected village practices, among graveyard spirits, and within ascetic refuges.Key to this study is a reexamination of the historical conditions under which a discourse of culture emerges. Providing a close reading of a number of Trade ReviewI highly recommend Pemberton's study of Java to scholars of ritual for its complex and nuanced treatment of the relationship of ritual and politics. * Journal of Ritual Studies *
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Culture of the Cold War 2e
Book SynopsisHis new epilogue is partly a guide for new historians to tackle the complexities of Cold War studies.Trade ReviewA lively and well-documented account of how the Cold War both produced and was sustained by super-patriotism, intolerance and suspicion, and how these pathologies infected all aspects of American life in the 1950s-entertainment, churches, schools. Older readers will remember and still be amazed; younger ones will find this a readable introduction to a bizarre aspect of the American past. Foreign Affairs, reviewing the first editionTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Politicizing Culture: Suspicious MindsChapter 2. Seeing Red: The StigmaChapter 3. Assenting: The Trend of IdeologyChapter 4. Praying: God Bless AmericaChapter 5. Informing: Many Are CalledChapter 6. Reeling: The Politics of FilmChapter 7. Boxed-In: Television and the PressChapter 8. Dissenting: Pity the LandChapter 9. Thawing: A Substitute for VictoryEpilogueBibliographical EssayIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Sacred Encounters
Book SynopsisThis catalogue of the international Sacred Encounters exhibition displays the similarities and differences between European Christianity and Native American beliefs, the effects of colonization and forced acculturation, and the processes by which Indian people sustain their traditional values.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Captives and Cousins Slavery Kinship and
Book SynopsisAn examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throughout the Southwest borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the 19th century.Trade Review"Bold and brilliant, James Brooks's fresh look at raiding and slaving takes us beyond the familiar categories of Indians and Hispanics to reveal the deep divisions of gender and class within each group. Sweeping over four centuries, his vivid narrative tells us why people simultaneously preyed on one another and absorbed one another in this violent land." - David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University
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University of Pennsylvania Press Reconnecting State and Kinship
Book SynopsisReconnecting State and Kinship seeks to overcome the traditional dichotomy between state and kinship, asking whether concepts associated with one sphere surface in the other, tracking the evolution of these concepts through time and space, and exploring how this binary is reinforced within the social sciences.Trade Review"Arguing that the anthropology of kinship and political anthropology have become two distinct sub-disciplines, mirroring the assumed dichotomy of traditional versus modern societies, this edited volume sets out to demonstrate the theoretical weakness that arises of such positions. Through excellent chapters by experienced anthropologists, we are shown the fallacy of the separation. Kinship and politics emerge as mutually constitutive enriching our understanding of both." * Signe Howell, University of Oslo *"An excellent collection that goes quite some way to suturing the divide between studies of kinship and family and ethnographies of the state. Editors Tatjana Thelen and Erdmute Alber have crafted a coherent volume that speaks to larger themes within contemporary political anthropology, assembling a uniformly strong set of contributions that pull together a number of key threads in ways that make this book very useful for scholars working in gender studies, kinship studies, and the anthropology of the state." * Rebecca Bryant, Utrecht University *"Reconnecting State and Kinship makes a valuable contribution by arguing for the mutual relevance of the fields of kinship and studies of the state. The book's editors and contributors demonstrate how concepts 'travel' between the realms of kinship and the amalgam of actors that animate the state, and in doing so acquire new meanings." * Alice Wilson, University of Sussex *
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Taylor & Francis Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective
Book SynopsisGlobal environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In this premier teaching text, authors Ann McElroy and Patricia K. Townsend integrate biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health, providing a complete and authoritative ecological perspective that is essential for interpreting medical anthropology. Research by biological anthropologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists illuminates the history and prehistory of disease, along with coverage of contemporary health issues, both local and global. This sixth edition is thoroughly revised and updated, with expanded discussion on the interaction of environment and infectious disease; new material on climate change, globalization, and the effects of war on physical and mental health; and an entirely new chapter on ethics in community health and medical anthropology. Trade Review"I have used Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective on numerous occasions and it is close to my ideal for a textbook in anthropology. Its perspectives in ecology, evolution, and biocultural interpretation are in the forefront of the biomedical and social sciences. I should be proud to have written it myself." --Michael Little, Binghamton University, SUNY "McElroy and Townsend's textbook is a classic, and remains the best overall introduction to medical anthropology available. It is engagingly and clearly written, covering a broad range of topics from biocultural and evolutionary perspectives. I wouldn't consider using any other text to introduce students to this fascinating field of study." --Katherine A. Dettwyler, University of Delaware "The ecological perspective has proven its utility for understanding health and healing across cultures and through the major health transitions. The new edition of McElroy and Townsend retains the classic ecological approach while updating and expanding treatment of the major topics adding illustrative and contemporary case studies; it continues to be in the very first rank of medical anthropology texts." --Lawrence Schell, University at Albany, SUNYTable of ContentsAbout the Authors and Contributors Preface Chapter One: The Ecology Of Health And Disease Environment, Culture, and Health Profile: Arctic Adaptations by Ann McElroy A Working Model of Ecology and Health Recommended Readings Chapter Two: Research Methods In Health Problems Anthropological Approaches to the Use of Medicinal Plants Bio-Environmental Data Profile: Cannibal Mourners by Patricia K. Townsend Clinical Data Epidemiological Data Social and Cultural Data Recommended Readings Chapter Three: Human Biocultural Diversity And Health Evolution and Biological Diversity Human Immune Systems and Defense against Disease Mutation, Genetic Change, and Disease Resistance Profile: Malaria And African Agriculture by Ann McElroy Evolution and Medicine Skin Color and Adaptation Recommended Readings Chapter Four: The Prehistory Of Disease Paleopathology: The Study of Disease in Prehistory Nutrition and the Transition to Agriculture Profile: Dry Bones: Health in Southwestern Prehistory by Patricia K. Townsend Beyond the Skeleton: Icemen and Mummies Daily Life in the Past: Clues from the Skeleton Violence and Inequality The Emergence of Cities Forensic anthropology: contemporary applications Recommended Readings Chapter Five: Emerging Diseases Of The 21st Century The Ecology of Disease in the Anthropocene Profile: The Medical Ecology of Cholera in Ecuador by Linda Whiteford Emerging Diseases in Aging Populations Recommended Readings Chapter Six: Changing Population and Environmental Hazards The Study of Population Profile: Stress, Alcohol, and Demographic Change in Northern Siberia by John P. Ziker Environmental Trauma in Industrial Societies Recommended Readings Chapter Seven: Human Reproduction as a Biocultural Process Evolutionary and Ecological Influences on Reproduction Pregnancy Profile: Three Birth Stories by Care Providers in Pregnancy and Birth Birth Alternatives Maternal Mortality Towards an Ecology of Birth Recommended Readings Chapter Eight: The Ecology of Nutrition Human Nutritional Requirements Subsistence by Hunting and Gathering Subsistence in the Humid Tropics Agriculture Profile: Local Differences in Iodine Deficiency Goiter in the Western Himalaya by Richard V. Lee Industrial Agriculture The Anthropology of Food and Cooking Food, Medicine, or Drug? Recommended Readings Chapter Nine: The Global Economy of Food: Stuffed or Starved Globalization and Food Systems The Obesity Epidemic: Alternative Interpretation Nutrition and Child Growth Food Insecurity Profile: Famine in Ethiopia by Patricia K. Townsend Recommended Readings Chapter Ten: Stress, Trauma, and Mental Illness Responding to Trauma: the Stress Concept Understanding the Physiology of Stress Can Stress Induce Healing? Biomarkers of Stress Stress and Psychiatric Disorders Profile: Legacies of War by Culture-Bound Syndromes Resilience: A Buffer Against Stress Stress and Evolutionary Adaptedness Recommended Readings Chapter Eleven: Health Resources for Vulnerable Populations Change and Vulnerability Repercussions of Culture Contact on Health in the Arctic Profile: Culture Change and Inuit Health: Two Families by Ann McElroy Health Care for Displaced Populations Medical Pluralism Health Disparities Living with Disability and Coping with Vulnerability Recommended Readings Chapter Twelve: Health Costs and Benefits of Globalization Spirit Possession in a Malaysian Factory Globalization and Health Evaluating the Health Effects of Agricultural Development Strategies for Improving Health Paying the Costs of Industrial Development Profile: Hazardous Waste and the Mohawks at Akwesasne by Patricia K. Townsend Recommended Readings Chapter Thirteen: First, Do No Harm: Ethics in Medical Anthropology Medical Anthropology and Bioethics Profile: Using Anthropological Methods to Understand Condom Use for STI Prevention in the Inner City by Pamela I. Erickson Difficulties in Following Bioethical Regulations in Anthropological Research Ethical Dilemmas in the Field Ethical Regulation and Conflicts in Anthropology Activism, Engaged Anthropology, and Participatory Research Recommended Readings Chapter Fourteen: Applying Medical Anthropology in Health Careers Medical Anthropologists in International Health Career Paths in Medical Anthropology Profile: Learning Field Methods in Costa Rica by Nancy Romero-Daza and David A. Himmelgreen Recommended Readings References Index
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The University of Alabama Press Ethnographers in the Field The Psychology of
Book SynopsisWengle documents what fieldworking ethnographers undergo; what kind of data ethnographers generate, what kind of facts they notice, what kinds of events they record. The anonymity of Wengle's informants let them speak bluntly about their experiences.... includingt the downside of ethnography -self-doubt, depression, and private coping strategies.Trade ReviewWengle documents convincingly, and with a great deal of sensitivity to and empathy for his informants, what fieldworking ethnographers undergo while anthropologizing If one wants to understand what kind of data ethnographers generate, what kind of facts they notice, what kinds of events they record (rather than others that they could have generated, noticed or recorded, but did not) [then] reading Wengle?s book is indispensable. It goes a long way toward doing away with the mystique of fieldwork, since, in addition, it discusses everything that is important in life - food sex, death, am I forgetting anything? Ethnographers in the Field is an elegant and foretelling must for anyone seriously contemplating fieldwork. - American Anthropologist ""This book is valuable because the anonymity of Wengle's informants permitted them to ad-lib very bluntly about their experiences.... Thus we can learn more about the downside of ethnography - the self-doubt, depression, and private coping strategies."" - Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly; ""This critical examination of both the professional and personal aspects of fieldwork contributes to a better understanding of how such complex interactions shape analysis and interpretation."" - Mid-America Folklore.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Living Beings Perspectives on Interspecies
Book SynopsisLiving Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees.Many discussions of such relationships highlight the exceptional qualities of the human members of the category, insisting for instance on their religious beliefs or creativity. In contrast, the international case studies in this volume dissect views based on hierarchical oppositions between human and other living beings. Although human practices may sometimes appear to exist in a realm beyond nature, they are nevertheless subject to the pull of natural forces. These forces may be brought into prominence through a consideration of the interactions between human beings and other inhabitants of the natural world.The interplay in this book between social anthropologists, philosophers and artists cuts across species divisions to examine the experiential dimensions of interspecies engagements. In ethnographically and/or historically contextualized chaptersTrade Review"[Living Beings] provides a stimulating new collection of ethnographic and historical perspectives on the ways in which other living beings are ‘good to think’, and are of vital material and metaphorical importance in human spirituality and creativity. - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Living Beings offers a lot to think about ... it indicates a serious and growing emphasis on the subject, and it shows that anthropology as well as other disciplines still have contributions to make. - Anthropology Review Database [This book] represent[s] a significant milestone for the multispecies turn and offer[s] some useful theoretical and methodological foundations ... Seasoned fieldworkers will find a refreshing new angle with which to analyse old fieldnotes and new projects. - Australian Journal of Anthropology Living Beings provides a multitude of interesting and innovative ways to rethink the relationship between humans and other-than-human beings. By pushing methodological and theoretical boundaries, the ideas presented in this volume will be especially inspiring to readers who are interested in interdisciplinary research projects with art and philosophy. - Anthropological Notebooks"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Living Beings and Vital PowersPenny Dransart, University of Wales, Trinity St David, UKInterspecies Interaction Being-together with Animals: Death, Violence and Non-cruelty in Hindu Imagination.Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University, USASymbolic Meanings Between People and Trees/ForestsThe Nature of Nature in Ramon LlullSarah Jane Boss, Roehampton University, UKThe Tree of Guernica: Political Poetics of Rootedness and BelongingSafet Hadzimuhamedovic, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKBringing the Forest to the City: Spaces Imagined in Israeli ‘Sacred Song Circles’Ronit Grossman-Horesh, The Open University of Israel/Tel-Aviv University, IsraelInterspecies Interaction in Physical SettingsSensuous Photographies: Living Things Explored through Phenomenological Practice Carole Baker, University of Plymouth, UKThe Field: An Art Experiment in Biopower in a Woodland Near Stansted Airport, EssexAlana Jelinek, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UKHuman Responses to ‘Wildness’Hunting the Wild ‘Other’ to Become a Man: wildlife Tourism and the Modern Identity Crisis in Israeli Safaris to East AfricaRachel Ben David, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelBecoming Animal in the Chinese Martial ArtsD. S. Farrer, University of Guam, GuamMoral Issues in Engagements Between Animals and the Environment'Anthropomorphism', 'Anthropocentrism' and the Study of Language in PrimatesDavid Cockburn, University of Wales, Trinity St David, UKDressed in Furs: Clothing and Yaghan Multispecies Engagements in Tierra del FuegoPenelope Dransart, University of Wales, Trinity St David, UKBibliographyIndex
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HAU The AntiWitch
Book SynopsisFeatures a synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation. This volume tries to bring a fresh generation of scholars into conversation with the work of a truly innovative thinker. It is suitable for practitioners of psychoanalysis as well as to anthropologists.
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Saint Philip Street Press Social Theory After the Internet
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Legare Street Press Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Being the Transactions of
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Masonry and Antimasonry a History of Masonry as
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Legare Street Press Ancient Jewish Proverbs
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Legare Street Press Treason History of the Order of Sons of Liberty
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Legare Street Press Constitution Book of 1723
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Legare Street Press Ars Quatuor Coronatorum
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Bibliography of the Writings of Albert Pike Prose
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disassembling Police Culture
Book SynopsisDrawing on six years of ethnographic research, this book critically examines police culture, exploring police behaviours, decisionmaking and actions. Police culture is a concept widely used, often critically, to characterise the working attitudes and behaviours of (usually uniformed) police officers. It is shorthand for a workplace imbued with machismo, racism, sexism, a thirst for danger and excitement, cynicism and conservatism. Rather than looking for culture or identifying how culture affects behaviours, this book identifies factors that influence the decisions and actions, including technology, targets, training, timing, intelligence, geography and supervision, thus reassembling police culture much as Bruno Latour sought to reassemble the social. The analysis develops a clearer and critical understanding of culture by explicitly connecting the debates about police culture to those about organisational culture. Offering a detailed ethnography of two shifts, it grounds theTrade Review"Mike Rowe has done us all a favor by taking on the hazy and protean concept of culture to explain all that is wrong (and some that is right) with police behavior. This is a timely and whip smart ethnography of everyday policing as carried out by officers on the streets in three urban departments located in England. Resting on six years of close observation of the working patterns of officers, Rowe argues with telling evidence that policing is far from the intense, breathtaking activity as portrayed in the movies and TV but is comprised of tedious, rather repetitive tasks in which highly specific features such as the varied social contexts in which the work takes place, the wide range of individual and group preferences held by officers, the day-to-day supervisory practices in the field (or lack thereof), and the unevenly enforced policies of a department matter far more when accounting for police behavior than the popular but flawed and flattening notion of police culture. This is hard slogging scholarship of a lively and relevant sort that deserves the close attention of those interested in just how the police shape and are shaped by the work that they do."John Van Maanen, Professor Emeritus of Organization Studies, MIT "A timely, important, thought provoking and challenging book. Keenly observed and researched, conceptually rigorous and a real pleasure to read. Recommended for anyone interested in the crucial area of police culture, Science and Technology Studies in policing and the links between them – or, indeed, the realities and daily work of policing more broadly." Abi Dymond, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of ExeterTable of Contents1.Introducing police culture 2.Spencer and Carol: a shift 3.Turning blue? 4.On the record 5.Part of a whole 6.Billy and Timothy: a shift 7.No cultural dopes 8.Culture disassembled
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Routledge Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Field
Book SynopsisThis handbook provides an authoritative account of social work field education in the global south. It presents an overview of various aspects of theory and practice modules in the social work curriculum and advances in research in social work field education in the developing world through in-depth analyses and global case studies.Key features:â Discusses critical issues and new directions in the theory and practice of social work field education, challenges in field work education, decolonising field work training, developing competent social work graduates, aligning fieldwork with cultural practices in indigenous communities, the idea of clinical social work, and a comparative analysis of social work field supervision.â Integrates theory and practice of social work field education for students and teachers from diverse geographical and cultural contexts across the global south, including countries from South Asia and Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Ca
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Taylor & Francis Performing Religion on the Secular Stage
Book SynopsisThis book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled by secularism and avant-garde experimentalism on the other, has led theatre artists throughout the twentieth century to create a uniquely modern theatrical hybridâtheater performances that simultaneously re-inscribe and grapple with religion and religious performativity. The book compares this phenomenon with medieval forms of religious theater and offers deep and original analyses of significant contemporary works ranging from plays and performances by August Strindberg, Hugo Ball (Dada), Jerzy Grotowski, and Hanoch Levin, to those created by Adrienne Kennedy, Rina Yerushalmi, Deb Margolin, Milo Rau, and Sarah Ruhl. The book analyzes a new and original historiography of a uniquely modern theatrical phenomenon, a study that is of high importance considering the reemergence of religion in contemporary culture and politics.
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film is dedicated to bringing the work of Indigenous filmmakers around the world to a larger audience. By giving voice to transnational and transcultural Indigenous perspectives, this collection makes a significant contribution to the discourse on Indigenous filmmaking and provides an accessible overview of the contemporary state of Indigenous film.Comprising 37 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts: Decolonial Intermedialities and Revisions of Western Media Colonial Histories, Trauma, Resistances Indigenous Lands, Communities, Bodies Queer Cultures and Border Crossings Youth Cultures and Emancipation Art, Comedy, and Music. Within these sections Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts from around the world examine various aspects of Indigenous film cultures, analyze the works of Indigenous directors and producer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Language Demography
Book SynopsisLanguage Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics. The first introductory guide of its kind, it is presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. The book includes numerous examples of the sources and types of data used in this field, as well as the various factors affecting language demography. Taking a global perspective supported by examples, it gives explanations of how demolinguistic analyses are performed and their main applications in relation to minority and majority languages.Language Demography will be of interest to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from linguistics and modern languages to sociology, anthropology, and human geography.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Demography and DemolinguisticsDemolinguistics and GeodemolinguisticsDemolinguistics and GeographyDenominations for DemolinguisticsThe Precursors of DemolinguisticsSummary2. Linguistics for DemographersFundamental Linguistic ConceptsGeographic ConsiderationsPsychosocial ConsiderationsSocial and Ethnic ConsiderationsLanguage VitalitySummary3. Demography for LinguistsPopulationComposition of the PopulationPopulation DistributionDemographic ChangesMigrationsFrom Facts to TheoriesSummary4. Demolinguistic Data and SourcesDataSourcesAdministrative RegistersCensusesSurveys International and Digital SourcesEncyclopedias, Catalogs, and Other SourcesSummary5. Demolinguistic FactorsSpeakers and Their CommunitiesSpeaker ProfilesExplanatory FactorsSummary6. Demolinguistic AnalysesObjectives and Levels of Demolinguistic AnalysisQualitative and Quantitative AnalysisThe Statistical Elements of DemographyErrors, Biases, and Changes in CriteriaGraphical RepresentationsSummary7. Applications of DemolinguisticsEthnic, Local, and Social Minority LanguagesImmigrant Minority Languages Regional and National LanguagesTransnational Majority LanguagesSummaryConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Accountability Research
Book SynopsisThis book discusses (auto- )ethnographies of accountability, undertaken (in close collaboration) by a multinational group of accounting and organization theory researchers over a period of three years. The key assumption underlying the book is that accountability is inherently an identity- creating process where the study of account- making has to be done participatively, with radical openness to the one(s) being researched, as well as to their context. That openness we call ethnography'. The values or assumptions inherent to the practices of account and identity-making, in a specific context, are what (auto- )ethnographies seek to describe and identify. These values and assumptions warrant critical, ethical reflection, and this is what the researchers presented here have tried to provide.The chapters in this book all are mini- studies of relatedness. The scale of examination is intimate; the reflections provided by the researchers are mainly methodological.This book i
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Infection Prevention and Control
Book SynopsisAn understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. This new book, Infection Prevention and Control: A Social Science Perspective positions the specialty of IPC as more than a technical discipline concerned with microbes. It is about people and their behaviour in context and the book therefore explores a number of relevant social sciences and their relationship to IPC across different contexts and cultures. IPC is relevant to every person who works in, and accesses health care and it remains a global challenge. Exploring novel approaches and perspectives that expand our collective horizons in an ever changing and evolving IPC landscape therefore makes sense.Key Features: Offers new perspectives beyond the topic area of infection prevention and control, to push the frontiers of knowledge and to challenge the status quo Interprofessional in nature and relevantTable of ContentsPart 1: Psychosocial Perspectives Chapter 1: Psychosocial theories and approaches: Their impact upon infection prevention and controlChapter 2: The psychosocial nature of infection prevention and controlChapter 3: The concept of truthPart 2: Leadership PerspectivesChapter 4: Leadership and influence in infection prevention and control Chapter 5: Power and compliance within infection prevention and control practiceChapter 6: Patient safety, governance, leadership and infection prevention and controlChapter 7: Communicating with compassion: service user perspectivesChapter 8: The weaponising of IPC and its heart breaking consequencesChapter 9: Why do we choose to work in infection prevention and control?Part 3: Real world perspectivesChapter 10: Human factors engineering in infection prevention and controlChapter 11: How we talk about infection prevention and hand hygiene matters for behaviour change Chapter 12: Do campaigns make you anxious: A focus on unintended consequencesChapter 13: Educating, engaging, campaigning – social media as an adjunct to infection prevention and controlChapter 14: Unshackling infectiousness and dismantling stigma: Gay men and HIVChapter 15: Physician Associates and their role in reducing the transmission of infection - a personal perspectiveChapter 16: Infection prevention and control in healthcare-built environmentsChapter 17: Musings on philosophy and infection prevention and control
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critics Not Caretakers
Book SynopsisThe essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning.The book begins with several essays that outline the basis of an alternative, sociorhetorical approach to studying religion, before moving on to a series of discrete dispatches from the ongoing theory wars, each of which uses the work of such writers as Karen Armstrong, Walter Burkert, Benson Saler, and Jacob Neusner as a point of entry into wider theoretical issues of importance to the field's future. The author then examines the socio-political role of this brand of critical scholarshipa role that differs dramatically from the type of sympathetic caretaking generally associated with scholars of religion who feel compelled to go Trade Review"The issues discussed in the first edition have not gone away; they are here now with a vengeance. This second edition rises to the occasion with new provocative chapter introductions that are not to be missed. But what is most remarkable is how the old and new come together in a way that will have us read the field—its history, its challenges, and its potential--with fresh perspective and the vigor to make it better."Richard Newton, The University of Alabama, U.S.A."Russell T. McCutcheon’s Critics Not Caretakers was one of a small handful of key works from the last thirty years that helped to bring about a paradigm shift in the academic study of religion, a shift that opened up space for all-new avenues of research on the political history of the concept of religion. The material new to this second edition helps readers—both old and new—situate the book in relation to the history of the discipline, the debates that were taking place at the time of its publication, and the scholarship since that has participated in the book’s trajectory; along the way, McCutcheon points to where his hopes for the discipline remained as yet unfulfilled. Critics is now essential reading for any scholar writing on the contested history of "religion.""Craig Martin, St. Thomas Aquinas College, U.S.A."What McCutcheon does so masterfully in this work is to provide clarity on what religious studies as a discipline has the power to do so well: to analyze how people both create and respond to ideas of unquestionable authority, the driving concept behind so many movements we call “religion” today. However, this book’s longevity and relevance lies in its central claim that scholars of religion also have these unquestionable authorities with which they must grapple. This is a must-read for anyone who takes seriously the social and political dynamics that define the academic study of religion."Leslie Smith, Avila University, U.S.A."In Critics Not Caretakers, McCutcheon offers a way of writing about and teaching contentious topics, not only in the study of religion but also in the wider humanities and social sciences since it is not really about ‘religion’ but the critical study of a category that has been taken for granted. This augmented second edition is a reminder of what it is a scholar of religion is studying: the ways in which humans categorise, classify, divide the world around them into sacred/secular, insider/outsider and so on, bringing to our attention the scholarly assumptions privileging the ‘sacred’ and the ‘insider’ in these bifurcations. McCutcheon gives attention to both theoretical concerns and pedagogy, and thus this book has a practical application for those researching and teaching the study of religion."Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University, UK.Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition Acknowledgments to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the Second Edition Copyright Permissions Introduction to the Second Edition Part I. Background1. "Not Nearly Critical Enough": Studying Religion as Part of the Humanities Part II. Redescribing Religion as Something OrdinaryIntroduction to Chapter 22. More than a Shapeless Beast: Lumbering Through the Academy with the Study of Religion Introduction to Chapter 33. Redescribing "Religion" as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion Part III. Dispatches from the Theory WarsIntroduction to Chapter 44. Writing a History of God: "Just the Same Game Wherever You Go" Introduction to Chapter 55. Explaining the Sacred: Theorizing on Religion in the Late Twentieth Century Introduction to Chapter 66. "We’re All Stuck Somewhere": Taming Ethnocentrism and Trans-Cultural Understandings Introduction to Chapter 77. The Economics of Spiritual Luxury: The Glittering Lobby and the Parliament of Religions Introduction to Chapter 88. "My Theory of the Brontosaurus...": Postmodernism and "Theory" of Religion Part IV. Culture Critics and CaretakersIntroduction to Chapters 9 and 109. A Default of Critical Intelligence? The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual 10. Talking Past Each Other: Public Intellectuals Revisited Part V. Going Public: Teaching TheoryIntroduction to Chapters 11–1411. Our "Special Promise" as Teachers: Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance12. Redescribing "Religion and..." Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem 13. Methods and Theories in the Classroom: Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals 14. Theorizing in the Introductory Course: A Survey of Resources Part VI. This Messy Mix of Historical Human PerformanceAfterword to the Second Edition BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India
Book SynopsisIn The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India, the focus of the author is the process of establishment of Hindu-Muslim unity as a result of historical, social and cultural factors over a period of ten centuries. Traversing this era, he reveals how the Muslim rulers contributed to such harmony and how the two cultures exchanged and accepted each other''s tenets to enrich and formulate a composite Indian culture. To explore the foundations on which the complex culture of India rests, the author examines the contribution of Sufism which inherently connotes syncretism and tolerance, as well as the simultaneous rise of the Bhakti movement in medieval India.This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)Table of ContentsPreface1. Assimilating Features of Indian Culture2. Early Arab Contacts and the Advent of Islam in India3. In Search of Equivalence: Interaction between Sufism and Hinduism4. Sufi Ideals, Sufi Institutions and the Impact of Sufis on Indian Society and Culture5. The Bhakti and Sufi Movements6. The Efforts of Muslim Rulers for Unity and Harmony7. The Syncretic Cults: Blending of Hindu–Muslim Elements8. Mutual Influences on Social and Religious Life9. Glimpses of Composite Indian Culture10. EpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Cambridge University Press Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
Book SynopsisThroughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region.However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome in order to produce it, and the solutions that emerged. Including essays by an international team of scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in the prehistoric past and in more recent ethnographic times.Trade Review'The book is well illustrated, and the references that follow each chapter are up to date. The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in archaeology as well as researchers in the field.' M. J. O'Brien, Choice'This is an excellent book on a little-known archaeological fact that prehistoric and ethnographically known hunter-gatherers who lived in circumpolar regions produced pottery … The book is well illustrated, and the references that follow each chapter are up to date. The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in archaeology as well as researchers in the field. It's written and edited to appeal to general readers with some knowledge of archaeology.' M. J. O'Brien, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Cold winters, hot soups and frozen clay: understanding the emergence of ceramic traditions across the Circumpolar North Kevin Gibbs and Peter Jordan; 2. Why did northern foragers make pottery?: Investigating the role of incipient Jomon ceramics within wider hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies in prehistoric Japan Junzo Uchiyama; 3. Vessels on the Vitim: 'Neolithic' ceramics in eastern Siberia V. M. Vetrov and P. N. Hommel; 4. Maritime nomads of the Baltic Sea: ceramic traditions, collective identities and prehistoric cuisine Sven Isaksson, Kevin Gibbs, and Peter Jordan; 5. The paradox of pottery in the remote Kuril Islands Erik Gjesfjeld; 6. Understanding the function of container technologies in prehistoric SW Alaska Marjolein Admiraal and Rick Knecht; 7. Ethnographic and archaeological perspectives on the use life of Northwest Alaskan pottery Shelby Anderson; 8. An exploration of arctic ceramic and soapstone cookware technologies and food preparation systems Liam Frink and Karen Harry; 9. Ceramic use by middle and late woodland foragers of the Maritime Foragers Michael Deal, Thomas Farrell, Latonia Hartery, Alison Harris and Michael Sanders; 10. Prestige foods and the adoption of pottery by Subarctic foragers Mathew Boyd, Megan Wady, Andrew Lints, Clarence Surette and Scott Hamilton; 11. Use of ceramic technologies by circumpolar hunter-gatherers: current progress and future research prospects Brian Hayden.
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