Anthropology Books
University of Illinois Press To Have and To Hit
Book SynopsisPlaces the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context iTrade Review"It is imperative that these ethnographic accounts of violence against women be added to the literature, as they allow us to view this pervasive phenomenon from broader political, social, and economic perspectives." - Lori Kondora, Feminist Collections "This is an excellent, long overdue book ... that should be in all psychologists' libraries, to remind them to examine how the social context that produces violence against women affects both men and women."-Catherine Hodge McCoid, American Anthropologist "Well-written and easy to read, with many case studies and field examples interspersed with theoretical perspectives to provide an insightful view for the reader of the occurrence of wife-beating... Perhaps, what is most interesting and invaluable about this text is the melding of different disciplines to produce a more comprehensive view of the phenomenon of wife beating... A well-rounded, multi-disciplinary view of a disturbing social problem." -- Jameson K. Hirsch, Women and Health
£23.39
MO - University of Illinois Press Outsider Within
Book SynopsisEnvisioning new directions for an inclusive anthropology Trade Review"This book is intellectually stimulating and insightful, and its ideas are presented with intensity and passion. Harrison clearly relishes her engagement in the anthropology profession, but she also argues that her field must be transformed if it is to have any meaningful input into twenty-first-century scholarship. One of the most gifted and profound writers in anthropology today, it is imperative that her corpus of materials be shared."--Audrey Smedley, professor emerita of anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University
£19.79
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
£19.79
MO - 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
£20.89
Indiana University Press Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria offers a thoughtful new explanation for Nigeria's oil rebellions that will withstand scholarly scrutiny, and strip governments, corporations, and even many NGOs of their operative assumptions about the Niger Delta. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *This book is well written and delivers what it promises to do at the outset. It details appreciably the different claims to Nigerian oil wealth and the consequences that follow when birthright claims go unmet. The growth in oil revenue, and the perception or reality that it has not been shared fairly, have no doubt been the major reasons for power contestation in Nigeria. * Africa Today *This ambitious book employs an anthropological approach to dissecting and understanding relationships among the Nigerian state, multinational corporations, natural resources, local communities in the Niger Delta region, and NGOs. Recommended. * Choice *Clearly presented and accessible, this book offers both a convincing analysis and a fascinating narrative. * Africa *Adunbi's Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria is an excellent book that should be extensively consulted by anyone interested in understanding the politics of energy production. * African Conflict and Peacemaking Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Environment, Transnational Networks, and Resource Extraction1. Sweet Crude: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Oil Politics 2. The Spatialization of Human and Environmental Rights Practices 3. Mythic Oil: Corporations, Resistance, and the Politics of Claim-making 4. Contesting Landscapes of Wealth: Oil Platforms of Possibilities and Pipelines of Conflict 5. The State's Two Bodies: Creeks of Violence and the City of Sin 6. Oil Wealth Of Violence: The Social and Spatial Construction of Militancy 7. Proclaiming Amnesty, Constructing Peace: Oil and the Silencing of Violence Conclusion: Beyond The Struggle for Oil ResourcesNotesBibliography Index
£59.50
Indiana University Press Phenomenology in Anthropology
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[R]eaders of this volume are presented with a strong case for the relevance of a particular (and major) strand within the phenomenological tradition to anthropology, along with several lucid demonstrations of how that strand can be used within anthropological analyses... [P]rovides a new and coherent orientation to what has been happening in the field." -Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Phenomenology's Methodological Invitation Kalpana Ram and Christopher Houston1. Moods and Method: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on Emotion and Understanding Kalpana Ram2. Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Body-World Relations Thomas J. Csordas3. Sacred Suffering: A Phenomenological Anthropological Perspective C. Jason Throop4. Being 'Sita': Physical Affects in the North Indian Dance of kathak Monica Dalidowicz5. Beneath the Horizon: The Organic Body's Role in Athletic Experience Greg Downey6. Unmeasured Music and Silence Ian Bedford7. Experiencing Self-Abstraction: Studio Production and Vocal Consciousness Daniel Fisher8. Being-in-the-Covenant: Reflections on the Crisis of Historicism in North Malaita, Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer9. Seared with Reality: Phenomenology through Photography, in Nepal Robert Desjarlais10. Writing Affect, Love and Desire into Ethnography L.L. Wynn11. Senses of Magic: Anthropology, Art, and Christianity in the Vula'a Lifeworld Deborah Van Heekeren12. Neither Things in Themselves nor Only for Someone: Anthropology, Phenomenology and Poetry Christopher HoustonAfterword Michael Jackson
£59.50
Indiana University Press The Legacy of Dell Hymes Ethnopoetics Narrative
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe contributors to this volume have not only revivified ethnopoetics as a research project in the contemporary moment; they have also pointed the way to fruitful lines of folkloristic research and collaboration in the future, lines founded on the importance of measured and allusive speech and that build on Dell hymes' commitment to the voices of marginalized peoples. * Journal of American Folklore * Table of ContentsIntroduction"Introducing Ethnopoetics: Hymes's Legacy," Anthony K. Webster and Paul V. Kroskrity[section] Listening for Voices1 "Reinventing Ethnopoetics," Robert Moore "The Patterning of Style: Indices of Performance through2 Ethnopoetic Analysis of Century-Old Wax Cylinders," Alexander D. King3 " 'Grow with That, Walk with That': Hymes, Dialogicality, and Text Collections," M. Eleanor Nevins4 " 'The Validity of Navajo Is in Its Sounds': On Hymes, Navajo Poetry, Punning, and the Recognition of Voice," Anthony K. Webster5 "Discursive Discriminations in the Representation of Western Mono and Yokuts Stories: Confronting Narrative Inequality and Listening to Indigenous Voices in Central California," Paul V. Kroskrity6 "Discovery and Dialogue in Ethnopoetics," Richard Bauman[section] Ethnopoetic Pathways 7 "The Poetics of Language Revitalization: Text, Performance, and Change," Gerald L. Carr and Barbra Meek8 "Translating Oral Literature in Indigenous Societies: Ethnic Aesthetic Performances in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings," Sean Patrick O'Neill9 "Ethnopoetics and Ideologies of Poetic Truth," David W. Samuels10 "Contested Mobilities: On the Politics and Ethnopoetics of Circulation," Charles L. BriggsIndex
£21.59
MH - Indiana University Press Humble Theory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTying folklore to larger trends in Western cultural thought, leaving behind narrow concerns with genre or fossilized expressive forms, Humble Theory showcases the potential of folkloristics to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary conversations about culture. * Journal of Folklore Research *Humble Theory is a big book. From a small scholarly field, it announces the most substantial, far-seeing insights into the world's social life. By writing it, Noyes becomes the kind of public intellectual the United States needs. * Journal of American Folklore *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The Work of Folklore Studies1. Humble Theory2. Group3. The Social Base of Folklore4. Tradition: Three Traditions5. Aesthetic is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and AttentionPart II. Histories and Economies of Tradition6. Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Birth of Heritage7. The Work of Redemption: Folk Voice in the Myth of Industrial Development8. Festival Pasts and Futures in Catalonia9. Hardscrabble Academies: Toward a Social Economy of Vernacular Invention10. Cultural Warming? Brazil in Berlin11. Fairy-Tale Economics: Scarcity, Risk, ChoicePart III. Slogan-Concepts and Cultural Regimes12. On Sociocultural Categories13. The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership14. Heritage, Legacy, Zombie: How to Bury the Undead Past15. Compromised Concepts in Rising Waters: Making the Folk ResilientIndex
£56.10
MH - Indiana University Press Humble Theory Folklores Grasp on Social Life
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTying folklore to larger trends in Western cultural thought, leaving behind narrow concerns with genre or fossilized expressive forms, Humble Theory showcases the potential of folkloristics to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary conversations about culture. * Journal of Folklore Research *Humble Theory is a big book. From a small scholarly field, it announces the most substantial, far-seeing insights into the world's social life. By writing it, Noyes becomes the kind of public intellectual the United States needs. * Journal of American Folklore *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The Work of Folklore Studies1. Humble Theory2. Group3. The Social Base of Folklore4. Tradition: Three Traditions5. Aesthetic is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and AttentionPart II. Histories and Economies of Tradition6. Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Birth of Heritage7. The Work of Redemption: Folk Voice in the Myth of Industrial Development8. Festival Pasts and Futures in Catalonia9. Hardscrabble Academies: Toward a Social Economy of Vernacular Invention10. Cultural Warming? Brazil in Berlin11. Fairy-Tale Economics: Scarcity, Risk, ChoicePart III. Slogan-Concepts and Cultural Regimes12. On Sociocultural Categories13. The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership14. Heritage, Legacy, Zombie: How to Bury the Undead Past15. Compromised Concepts in Rising Waters: Making the Folk ResilientIndex
£26.99
Indiana University Press Signs and Society
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Foundations of Peircean Semiotics1. Semiotic Anthropology2. Charles S. Peirce3. Representation, Symbol, and Semiosis: Signs of a Scholarly Collaboration4. Peirce and Saussure on Signs and Ideas in Language5. Troubles with Trichotomies: Reflections on the Utility of Peirce's Sign Trichotomies for Social Analysis6. Semiotic Degeneracy of Social Life: Prolegomenon to a Human Science of SemiosisPart II: Critical Commentaries and Reviews7. Representing Semiotics in the New Millennium8. The World Has Changed Forever: Semiotic Reflections on the Experience of Sudden Change9. Description and Comparison of Religion10. It's About Time: On the Semiotics of Temporality11. Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind12. Two Marxes: Evolutionary and Critical Dimensions of Marxian Social TheoryPart III: Comparative Perspectives on Semiosis13. Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactions Dimensions of Palauan Exchange14. Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence / With Massimo Leone15. The 'Savvy Interpreter': Performance and Interpretation in Pindar's Victory Odes / With Nancy FelsonList of ReferencesIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Signs and Society
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Foundations of Peircean Semiotics1. Semiotic Anthropology2. Charles S. Peirce3. Representation, Symbol, and Semiosis: Signs of a Scholarly Collaboration4. Peirce and Saussure on Signs and Ideas in Language5. Troubles with Trichotomies: Reflections on the Utility of Peirce's Sign Trichotomies for Social Analysis6. Semiotic Degeneracy of Social Life: Prolegomenon to a Human Science of SemiosisPart II: Critical Commentaries and Reviews7. Representing Semiotics in the New Millennium8. The World Has Changed Forever: Semiotic Reflections on the Experience of Sudden Change9. Description and Comparison of Religion10. It's About Time: On the Semiotics of Temporality11. Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind12. Two Marxes: Evolutionary and Critical Dimensions of Marxian Social TheoryPart III: Comparative Perspectives on Semiosis13. Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactions Dimensions of Palauan Exchange14. Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence / With Massimo Leone15. The 'Savvy Interpreter': Performance and Interpretation in Pindar's Victory Odes / With Nancy FelsonList of ReferencesIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Elusive Adulthoods
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages." -Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and ConflictsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Elusive Adulthoods: Introduction / Deborah Durham 2. The Predicament of Adulthood in Botswana / Jacqueline Solway 3. Educated Youth and the Search for in Adulthood Post-war Sri Lanka / Dhana Hughes 4. Learning to Wait: Schooling and the Instability of Adulthood for Young Men in Uganda / Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Lotte Meinert 5. Adulthood and Youth in a Rapidly Urbanizing Chinese County / Andrew B. Kipnis 6. Inventing the Rules: Redefining Moral Agency amongst the First Post-Independence Generation in Papua New Guinea / Karen Sykes 7. "Just Sitting" But Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy8. Between 'Too Young' and 'Already Old': The Fleeting Adulthood of Perestroika Teens / Anna Kruglova Index
£52.20
Indiana University Press Elusive Adulthoods
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important collection that furthers anthropological work on life stages." -Susan Reynolds Whyte, author of Generations in Africa: Connections and ConflictsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Elusive Adulthoods: Introduction / Deborah Durham 2. The Predicament of Adulthood in Botswana / Jacqueline Solway 3. Educated Youth and the Search for in Adulthood Post-war Sri Lanka / Dhana Hughes 4. Learning to Wait: Schooling and the Instability of Adulthood for Young Men in Uganda / Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Lotte Meinert 5. Adulthood and Youth in a Rapidly Urbanizing Chinese County / Andrew B. Kipnis 6. Inventing the Rules: Redefining Moral Agency amongst the First Post-Independence Generation in Papua New Guinea / Karen Sykes 7. "Just Sitting" But Not Sitting Still: Delayed Adulthood and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy8. Between 'Too Young' and 'Already Old': The Fleeting Adulthood of Perestroika Teens / Anna Kruglova Index
£21.59
Indiana University Press Remembering Absence
Book SynopsisNicolas Argenti considers the citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping with moments of contemporary national crisis.Trade Review"A beautifully written ethnography of remembrance of exodus and the tragedies that caused it, this book is an essential reading to scholars of the role of collective memory in trauma, international migration, diaspora, and exile. Argenti conjugates the political with the emotional, the personal with the collective in a groundbreaking ethnography of memory as strategy of resistance to oppression and to the challenges of time in the formation of social identity. "—Joëlle Bahloul, author of The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962"Like cubist painting, Argenti's multidimensional book offers multiple perspectives on a seminal event that continues to explode in differing modalities of history. Telling the story of one of the first humanitarian crises in Europe, it traces the means by which the memories and historicities of the disparate groups associated with an event come to be embedded in the experience of time itself."—Antonis Liakos, author of Pos to parelthon ginetai istoria? [How does the past turn into history?]Table of ContentsPrefaceNote on TransliterationRemembering Absence1. The Light of Certain Stars: From Memory to Historical Simultaneity2. Full Fathom Five: On the Temporal Dimensions of Exodus3. Crisis and Famine: Sovereign Debt, Political Violence, and Oneiric Revelation4. The Love of Flowers: Catastrophe in the Aegean5. Emptiness of Anavatos: Exile, Commemoration, and Melancholia6. Ruins of Kidianta: Dwelling, Oblivion, and Resurrection7. The Abbess of Nea Moni: The Contemporaneity of Divine Vision. 8. Life in the Tomb: Rocket Warriors of Vrontados9. The Darksome Line: Aegean Temporality Reference ListIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Remembering Absence
Book SynopsisNicolas Argenti considers the citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping with moments of contemporary national crisis.Trade Review"A beautifully written ethnography of remembrance of exodus and the tragedies that caused it, this book is an essential reading to scholars of the role of collective memory in trauma, international migration, diaspora, and exile. Argenti conjugates the political with the emotional, the personal with the collective in a groundbreaking ethnography of memory as strategy of resistance to oppression and to the challenges of time in the formation of social identity. "—Joëlle Bahloul, author of The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962"Like cubist painting, Argenti's multidimensional book offers multiple perspectives on a seminal event that continues to explode in differing modalities of history. Telling the story of one of the first humanitarian crises in Europe, it traces the means by which the memories and historicities of the disparate groups associated with an event come to be embedded in the experience of time itself."—Antonis Liakos, author of Pos to parelthon ginetai istoria? [How does the past turn into history?]Table of ContentsPrefaceNote on TransliterationRemembering Absence1. The Light of Certain Stars: From Memory to Historical Simultaneity2. Full Fathom Five: On the Temporal Dimensions of Exodus3. Crisis and Famine: Sovereign Debt, Political Violence, and Oneiric Revelation4. The Love of Flowers: Catastrophe in the Aegean5. Emptiness of Anavatos: Exile, Commemoration, and Melancholia6. Ruins of Kidianta: Dwelling, Oblivion, and Resurrection7. The Abbess of Nea Moni: The Contemporaneity of Divine Vision. 8. Life in the Tomb: Rocket Warriors of Vrontados9. The Darksome Line: Aegean Temporality Reference ListIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Folk Literati Contested Tradition and Heritage in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy focusing on folk literati and cultural traditions in Hongtong, Ziying You engages with a cultural dialogue that spans the local and global, the East and the West, academic and folk, and the past and the present. It allows readers to obtain a deep understanding of the interplay of individual agency and social institutions in processing tradition and making heritage in China and beyond. -- Xiaohong Chen * Journal of Folklore Research *The topic is highly sensitive to current efforts in reworking writings on historical developments in China. This review is important due to the fact that it allows many people to access details of the topic and to start a future discourse about some of the arising questions on heritage and historical values as well as about grassroot intellectuals and existing power structures. -- Corey Moore * Asian-European Music Research Journal *This book is a deep field study of the transmission of local culture in Hongtong, Shanxi. Focusing on the worship of ancient sage kings Yao and Shun, the book extends outward, from the logic of ritual life in three villages, to the continuity and evolution of tradition within an 'ecology' of competing forces and manifestations, and the disruptions introduced by local media and the nomination of local rituals as Intangible Cultural Heritage. . . . With its high level of detail, applied with equal care to textual sources, theory, and fieldwork, You's work stands out in its field. Her sympathetic picture of China's folk literati represents a unique contribution to understanding the transmission and adaptation of local culture both past and present. -- Thomas David DuBois * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Romanization, Chinese Characters, and English TranslationIntroduction1. Background: Situating Local Beliefs about Ehuang and Nüying in Hongtong, Shanxi2. Incense Is Kept Burning: The Role of Folk Literati in Continuing and Representing Local Traditions3. Contested Myth, History, and Beliefs: Worshipping Yao and Shun at Village Temples in Hongtong4. Tradition Ecology: Debating and Remaking Ehuang and Nüying's Conflict Legends by Folk Literati5. Reproducing Tradition: Folk Literati, Sociocultural Differentiation, and Their Interaction with Other Social Actors6. Making Intangible Cultural Heritage: Folklore, Tradition, and PowerConclusionAppendix: In Commemoration of the Reconstruction of the Shun TempleBibliographyIndex
£55.80
Indiana University Press Folk Literati Contested Tradition and Heritage in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy focusing on folk literati and cultural traditions in Hongtong, Ziying You engages with a cultural dialogue that spans the local and global, the East and the West, academic and folk, and the past and the present. It allows readers to obtain a deep understanding of the interplay of individual agency and social institutions in processing tradition and making heritage in China and beyond. -- Xiaohong Chen * Journal of Folklore Research *The topic is highly sensitive to current efforts in reworking writings on historical developments in China. This review is important due to the fact that it allows many people to access details of the topic and to start a future discourse about some of the arising questions on heritage and historical values as well as about grassroot intellectuals and existing power structures. -- Corey Moore * Asian-European Music Research Journal *This book is a deep field study of the transmission of local culture in Hongtong, Shanxi. Focusing on the worship of ancient sage kings Yao and Shun, the book extends outward, from the logic of ritual life in three villages, to the continuity and evolution of tradition within an 'ecology' of competing forces and manifestations, and the disruptions introduced by local media and the nomination of local rituals as Intangible Cultural Heritage. . . . With its high level of detail, applied with equal care to textual sources, theory, and fieldwork, You's work stands out in its field. Her sympathetic picture of China's folk literati represents a unique contribution to understanding the transmission and adaptation of local culture both past and present. -- Thomas David DuBois * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Romanization, Chinese Characters, and English TranslationIntroduction1. Background: Situating Local Beliefs about Ehuang and Nüying in Hongtong, Shanxi2. Incense Is Kept Burning: The Role of Folk Literati in Continuing and Representing Local Traditions3. Contested Myth, History, and Beliefs: Worshipping Yao and Shun at Village Temples in Hongtong4. Tradition Ecology: Debating and Remaking Ehuang and Nüying's Conflict Legends by Folk Literati5. Reproducing Tradition: Folk Literati, Sociocultural Differentiation, and Their Interaction with Other Social Actors6. Making Intangible Cultural Heritage: Folklore, Tradition, and PowerConclusionAppendix: In Commemoration of the Reconstruction of the Shun TempleBibliographyIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press Foresters Borders and Bark Beetles
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe three environmental policy positions and their exemplary representatives would be enough to turn the study into a cutting edge look at the recent past and present of one of the world's most controversial and at the same time most vulnerable ecosystems. Blavascunas can and wants to do more, namely not only to write ethnographically, but also to convince. It expressly does not absolutize the Kossaks, Szumarskis and Korbels, as would contemporary historical approaches, whose narratives cannot do without heroes and a simple conclusion: for or against the jungle and its preservation or deforestation. But it sets other accents; it is about a mapping of what would be possible outside of this pro-contra dichotomy. . . . Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles . . . dares a partisan intervention for the not so human actors in an ancient forest. -- Bruno Arich-Gerz * TEXTEM *Table of Contents1. Puszcza: Of Forests and Time 2. The Forester 3. Scientists and the Communist Past: Syndromes, Disorders, and a Proper Elite 4. Post-peasant Cosmopolitics: Man of the Forest 5. Borderline Engagements: Relict Forest, Relict Communism 6. Resurgence: Outbreaks of Bark Beetle and Right-wing Nationalism 7. Temporal Dimensions: The Past is not Safe at all
£52.70
Indiana University Press The Perfect Vagina
Book SynopsisThe Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation and control of body image in countries where self-care is valorized and medicine is increasingly harnessed for enhancement as well as health.Trade ReviewThe Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with FGCS, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation and control of body image in countries where self-care is valorized and medicine is increasingly harnessed for enhancement as well as health. -- Jana Byars * New Books Network *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Mandy's StoryIntroduction: Vulnerable Vulvas1. Melting Snowflakes: Toward a Clean Slit2. Normativity and the Contradictory Nature of Normal3. Seeking Vulval Perfection4. Vulva Las Vegas: Science, Magic (a Gamble) or More of the Same?5. Autonomy, Risk, Desire, and MagicAppendicesReferencesIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Sharing the Burden of Sickness
Book SynopsisA medical history of Accra that accounts for plural medical traditions and multiple notions of health and healing.Trade ReviewRoberts skillfully and clearly shows how Accra's evolution allowed for a pluralistic therapeutic tradition to develop. * Choice Magazine *Table of ContentsList of TermsAcknowledgmentsNote on SourcesIntroduction1. The Roots of Therapeutic Pluralism in Accra, 1677 to the mid-1800s2. The Convergence of the Five Healing Traditions in the "Healthy" Capital of the Gold Coast3. Therapeutic Pluralism during the Cocoa Boom, 1908–1930s4. Colonial Medical Culture at Korle Bu5. The Creation of an African "Bloodstream"6. The Resilience of Therapeutic Pluralism on the Eve of Ghanaian IndependenceEpilougeBibliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Sharing the Burden of Sickness
Book SynopsisA medical history of Accra that accounts for plural medical traditions and multiple notions of health and healing.Trade ReviewRoberts skillfully and clearly shows how Accra's evolution allowed for a pluralistic therapeutic tradition to develop. * Choice Magazine *Table of ContentsList of TermsAcknowledgmentsNote on SourcesIntroduction1. The Roots of Therapeutic Pluralism in Accra, 1677 to the mid-1800s2. The Convergence of the Five Healing Traditions in the "Healthy" Capital of the Gold Coast3. Therapeutic Pluralism during the Cocoa Boom, 1908–1930s4. Colonial Medical Culture at Korle Bu5. The Creation of an African "Bloodstream"6. The Resilience of Therapeutic Pluralism on the Eve of Ghanaian IndependenceEpilougeBibliographyIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press A Sephardi Sea
Book SynopsisA Sephardi Sea explores how practices of memory- and heritage-making has filled an identity vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today.Trade Review"Micoli has done a masterful research on the many forms of North African and Middle Eastern Jews post-colonial exiles. Digging in the depth of this memory lane, he presents the full texture of their narratives throughout the Mediterranean sea and shows with many luxurious details and stories, how their many migrations from its southern shores to the northern ones, redefined their identity, after the Shoah. A Sephardi Sea shows the centrality of this memory of migration and exile in the making of Sephardi and Mizrahi identities, with the Mediterranean sea at its center, and main site. It fills and immense gap in our knowledge of yet a little known exodus. Miccoli proves to be an avid interpreter of the present, with its many acute observations of Jewish Muslim mixed associations of migrants as sites of the future of Europe. A must read."—Yolande Cohen, Université du Québec à Montréal"In A Sephardi Sea, Miccoli took upon himself an important task that combines different scholarly approaches in an attempt to better understand the modes and practices that maintain the identity of communities in times of drastic changes - namely migration. This is not a history book, but rather an attempt to document the way migrants, men and women, negotiate between the past- looked upon nostalgically - and the present. Between official and non-official attempts to maintain identities and connect the past with the present. The interaction between time and space add to our understanding of ways of coping with trauma of migration."—Esther Schely-Newman, The Hebrew UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Being Jewish in the Mediterranean1. Writing Exile2. (In)tangible Heritages3. An Unfinished PresentConclusion: Afterlives of exileReferencesIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press A Sephardi Sea
Book SynopsisA Sephardi Sea explores how practices of memory- and heritage-making has filled an identity vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today.Trade Review"Micoli has done a masterful research on the many forms of North African and Middle Eastern Jews post-colonial exiles. Digging in the depth of this memory lane, he presents the full texture of their narratives throughout the Mediterranean sea and shows with many luxurious details and stories, how their many migrations from its southern shores to the northern ones, redefined their identity, after the Shoah. A Sephardi Sea shows the centrality of this memory of migration and exile in the making of Sephardi and Mizrahi identities, with the Mediterranean sea at its center, and main site. It fills and immense gap in our knowledge of yet a little known exodus. Miccoli proves to be an avid interpreter of the present, with its many acute observations of Jewish Muslim mixed associations of migrants as sites of the future of Europe. A must read."—Yolande Cohen, Université du Québec à Montréal"In A Sephardi Sea, Miccoli took upon himself an important task that combines different scholarly approaches in an attempt to better understand the modes and practices that maintain the identity of communities in times of drastic changes - namely migration. This is not a history book, but rather an attempt to document the way migrants, men and women, negotiate between the past- looked upon nostalgically - and the present. Between official and non-official attempts to maintain identities and connect the past with the present. The interaction between time and space add to our understanding of ways of coping with trauma of migration."—Esther Schely-Newman, The Hebrew UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Being Jewish in the Mediterranean1. Writing Exile2. (In)tangible Heritages3. An Unfinished PresentConclusion: Afterlives of exileReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press HeSaidSheSaid
Book Synopsis. . . carefully researched and clearly written . . . Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the enterprise of studying language use in context and across contexts. American EthnologistI recommend the book highly.John Haviland, American AnthropologistGoodwin's thoughtful interpretation of these examples [of children's conversation] is replete with wise insights, challenging critical darts, and well-referenced links to a wide literature. Child Development Abstracts & BibliographyIntellectual breadth shines through this book. Barrie Thorne By combining Goffman's approach to ethnography with in-depth conversational analysis, Goodwin provides important and novel insights into the interactive processes through which culture is created and maintained. The results should be of interest to any social scientist. John J. Gumperz . . . required reading for linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators. Language and AcquisitionThis book is clearly a significant addition to the study ofTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Talk as Social Action2 FieldworkSection 1 The Neighborhood and Children's Groups3 The Maple Street Children's Group and Their NeighborhoodSection 2 Directive/Response Sequences and Social Organization4 Research on Directives5 "Man, don't come down in here where I am" Directive Use in a Boy's Task Activity6 Task Activity and Pretend Play amoung GirlsSection 3 Disputes and Gossip7 Building Opposition in Children's Argument8 He-Said-She-SaidSection 4 Stories within Dispute Processess9 Perspectives on Stories10 Stories as Participation Structures11 InstigatingSection 5 Conclusion12 ConclusionAppendix A The ChildrenAppendix B Ritual Insult SequenceAppendix C Boys' Dispute StoriesAppendix D Girls' Instigating StoriesNotesReferences CitedName IndexSubject IndexPhotographs follow page 54
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Indiana University Press Cooking Eating Thinking
Book SynopsisArgues for the existence of a philosophy of foodTrade Review"This is a surprisingly wonderful anthology that truly practices what it preaches. And what it preaches is that practice ... is more nourishing than preaching." - Hungry Mind Review "This is an innovative and extremely eclectic collection of thoughtful and philosophical writings about food ... "- Canadian Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Deane W. Curtin and Lisa M. HeldkeSection OneDeane W. Curtin: Food/Body/PersonDenise Levertov: Matins (excerpt)Plato: from PHAEDOSusan Bordo: Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of CultureKim Chernin: Confessions of an EaterKelly Oliver: Nourishing the Speaking Subject: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Abominable Food and WomenMaria Lugones: Playfulness, World-Traveling, and Loving PerceptionDavid J. Kalupahana: The Indian Background, The Buddha's Conception of PersonhoodAnna S. Meigs: Food Rules and the Traditional Sexual IdeologyNancy Willard: How to Stuff a PepperSection TwoDeane W. Curtin: Recipes for ValuesJean-Francois Revel: From Culture and CuisineDogen: Fushuku-Hamop(Meal-time Regulations)Sen-no-rikyu: Verses of Sen-No-RikyuCalvin Trillin: From American Fried: Adventures of a Happy EaterPeter Singer: Becoming a VegetarianFrom the Rig Veda: The Two Full of ButterFrom the Bible: Genesis 1-3From the Bible: Leviticus 11:1-47Section ThreeLisa M. Heldke: Foodmaking as a Thoughtful PracticePlato: from GorgiasAl Sicherman: The Perfect PiePatrick Suppes: From Probabilistic MetaphysicsJean-Francois Revel: from Culture and CuisineLisa M. Heldke: Recipes for Theory MakingCarol J. Adams: from The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical TheoryBuffalo Bird Woman: from Buffalo Bird Woman's GardenDogen: Tenzo Kyokun (Instruction for the Tenzo)Audre Lorde: from Zami: A New Spelling of My NameVerta Mae Smart-Grosvenor: from Vibration Cooking: or The Travel Notes of a Geechee GirlSection FourLisa M. Heldke: Food Politics, Political FoodAnne Buchanan: Myths About HungerVandana Shiva: Development, Ecology, and WomenBernice Johnson Reagon: Are My Hands Clean?Joyce Carol Oates: Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money, American IndependenceJonathan Swift: A Modest ProposalWes Jackson: Meeting the Expectations of the LandDiane Di Prima: Revolutionary Letter #42, Revolutionary Letter #55Mary Moran: Thanksgiving Dinner During Pelting SeasonWendell Berry: The Pleasures of EatingIndex
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Indiana University Press Deviant Bodies
Book SynopsisPresents an argument that bodies are knowable only through culture and history; they are not in any simple way natural, nor free of relations of power. This book traces the construction of particular deviant bodies, including the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body.Trade Review"... the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character. Times Literary Supplement "Highly recommended for cultural studies ... "The Reader's Review "It would be useful for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of the body, the history and sociology of science and medicine, and women's studies courses, particularly those exploring the feminist critiques of science and medicine." Contemporary Sociology "... a powerful deconstruction of the scientific gaze in configuring bodily deviance as a means of legitimating the social order within multiple historical and social contexts... the many excellent selections will make for compelling reading for students of medical anthropology and the history of science." American AnthropologistTable of Contents• Introduction: Mapping Embodied Deviance — Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla• Gender, Race and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of "Hottentot" Women in Europe, 1815–1817 — Anne Fausto-Sterling• Framed: The Deaf in the Harem — Nicholas Mirzoeff• Colonizing and Transforming the Criminal Tribesman: The Salvation Army in British India — Rachel Tolen• This Norm Which Is Not One: Reading the Female Body in Lombroso's Anthropology — David G. Horn• Anxious Slippages between "Us" and "Them": A Brief History of the Scientific Search for Homosexual Bodies — Jennifer Terry• The Destruction of "Lives Not Worth Living" —Robert N. Proctor• Domesticity in the Federal Indian Schools: The Power of Authority Over Mind and Body — K. Tsianina Lomawaima• Nymphomania: The Historical Construction of Female Sexuality — Carol Groneman• Theatres of Madness — Susan Jahoda• The Anthropometry of Barbie: Unsettling Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture — Jacqueline Urla and Alan Swedlund• Regulated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction — Janice Irvine• Between Innocence and Safety: Epidemiologic and Popular Constructions of Young People's Need for Safe Sex — Cindy Patton• The Hen That Can't Lay an Egg ("Bu Xia Dan De Mu Ji"): Concepts of Female Infertility in Modern China — Lisa Handwerker• The Media-fed Gene: Stories of Gender and Race — Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan LindeeNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press The Potters Art
Book SynopsisAn illustrated examination of pottery and potters on four continents. It discusses and illustrates the work of modern masters of traditional ceramics from Bangladesh, Sweden, various parts of the United States, Turkey, and Japan. It is suitable for those interested in pottery and the study of folklore and folk art.Table of ContentsThe Potter's ArtBangladeshSwedenGeorgiaAcomaTurkeyJapanHagiWork in the ClayAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Soviet Novel Third Edition
Book SynopsisExplores the evolution of the socialist realist novel as a myth-like genre. Combining intellectual and literary history, this work traces the development of the novel's master plot from its origins in the mid-19th century to its end at the close of the 20th.Trade Review"In its sure grasp of a huge subject and in its speculative boldness, Professor Clark's study represents a major breakthrough. It sends one back to the original texts with a whole host of new questions... And it also helps us to understand the place of the official' writer in that peculiar mixture of ideology, collective pressure, and inspiration which is the Soviet literary process." --Times Literary Supplement "The Soviet Novel has had an enormous impact on the way Stalinist culture is studied in a range of disciplines (literature scholarship, history, cultural studies, even anthropology and political science)." --Slavic Review "Those readers who have come to realise that history is a branch of mythology will find Clark's book a stimulating and rewarding account of Soviet mythopoesis." --American Historical Review "It is fresh, original, cogently argued, challenging, provocative: don't miss it! ... All along the way there are countless nuggets of insight and wit ... a truly seminal book." --Russian Review" "Clark's academic study, ... is wide ranging and balanced."--Morning Star, 26 March 2001Table of ContentsIntroduction: the Distinctive role of Socialist Realism in Soviet CultureI. Socialist Realism before 19321. What Socialist Realism Isand What Led to Its Adoption as the Official Method of Soviet Literature2. The Positive Hero in Prevolutionary Fiction3. Socialist Realist Classics of the TwentiesII. High Stalinist Culture4. The Machine and the Garden: Literature and the Metaphors for the New Society5. The Stalinist Myth of the "Great Family"6. The Sense of Reality in the Heroic AgeIII. An Analysis of the Conventional Soviet Novel7. The Prototypical Plot8. Three Auxiliary Patterns of Ritual SacrificeIV. Soviet Fiction since World War II9. The Postwar Stalin Period (1944-53)10. The Khrushchev Years11. Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained?ConclusionAppendix A: The Master Plot as Exemplified in the Production Novel and Other Basic Types of Novel of the Stalin PeriodAppendix B: The Official Short List of Model Novels as Inferred from Speeches to Writers' Union CongressesAfterwordNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry
Book SynopsisAssesses the direction and impact of African philosophy as well as its future role.Trade ReviewA conception of philosophy embedded in culture guides this anthology, divided into three categories (personhood, knowledge, and development), exploring issues in postcolonial African cultures. Part 1 has essays on the role secrecy plays in shaping personal identity in Sierra Leone, the function of moral notions of the self in Swahili medical practices in Zanzibar, and the dynamic view of the self exhibited in Chichewa linguistic practice. In part 2, which examines epistemological aspects of discourses in the forms of storytelling and music, and in the representation of arranged marriages, Karp and Masolo point out the deconstructive function of hidden meanings of praise—naming metaphors; Odoch Pido discusses Acoli concepts of the person; and Kratz explains the philosophic significance of gendered representation of shifts in identity and social relations in Okiek arranged marriages. In part 3 (the role of traditional culture in social change and modernization), Wiredu argues for retaining African social ethics to balance technical rationality of industrialization; Eboussi—Boulaga analyzes the term change, using the genetic concept of mutation to establish criteria identifying beneficial and evil mutations; Jewsiewicki reflects on the moral and social commentary in Kinshasa visual artist Cheri Samba; and Atieno—Odhiambo discusses Luo writers Samuel Ayany's and Paul Mbaya's efforts to synthesize Luo and Christian cultures. Recommended for upper—division undergraduate and graduate courses.November 2001 -- T. L. Lott * San Jose State University *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry Ivan Karp and D. A. MasoloPart 1: Power, Personhood, and AgencyIntroduction to Part 1 Ivan Karp and D. A. Masolo1. "Tok Af, Lef Af": A Political Economy of Temne Techniques of Secrecy and Self Rosalind Shaw2. Islam Among the Humours: Destiny and Agency Among the Swahili David Parkin3. Some African Conceptions of Person: A Critique Didier N. KaphagawaniPart 2: Knowledge and DiscourseIntroduction to Part 2 Ivan Karp and D. A. Masolo4. The Play of Deconstruction in the Speech of Africa: The Role of "Pakruok" and "Ngero" in Telling Culture in Dholuo Peter S. O. Amuka5. Personhood and Art: Social Change and Commentary Among the Acoli J. P. Odoch Pido6. Forging Unions and Negotiating Ambivalence: Personhood and Complex Agency in Okiek Marriage Arrangement Corinne A. Kratz7. Chéri Samba's Postcolonial Reinvention of Modernity Bogumil JewsiewickiPart 3: African Discourses on DevelopmentIntroduction to Part 3 Ivan Karp and D. A. Masolo8. Our Problem of Knowledge: Brief Reflections on Knowledge and Development in Africa Kwasi Wiredu9. The Topic of Change F. Eboussi-Boulaga10. Luo Perspectives on Knowledge and Development: Samuel G. Ayany and Paul MbuyaE. S. Atieno-OdhiamboContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Once Intrepid Warriors
Book SynopsisSituating the Maasai in the larger political, economic, and social context of Kenya and world events, this book shows how broader forces have had an impact on the construction of Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations. It focuses on how development has affected Maasai lives.Trade Review[T]his is a well-researched and innovative account. The 'intrepid women' of the French army have found their historian.42 2012 * European History Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Seeing Maasai1. Gender, Generation, and Ethnicity: Being Maasai Men and WomenMaasai Portrait 1: Koko2. Modernist Orders: Colonialism and the Production of MarginalityMaasai Portrait 2: Wanga3. Why Are You in Such a Hurry? Development and DecolonizationMaasai Portrait 3: Thomas4. Politics of the Postcolonial Periphery: Gender, Ethnicity, and CitizenshipMaasai Portrait 4: Edward Moringe Sokoine5. Poverty and Progress: Gender, Ethnicity, and Pastoralist DevelopmentMaasai Portrait 5: Mary6. The Gendered Contradictions of Modernity and MarginalityConclusion: Maasai Pasts, Maasai FuturesEpilogue: The Last of the Maasai?
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Indiana University Press Osun across the Waters
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the many dimensions of the Yoruba deity Osun in Africa and the Americas. It presents an example of the resilience and renewed importance of traditional Yoruba images in negotiating spiritual experience, social identity, and political power in contemporary African and the African diaspora.Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:IllustrationsPrefaceOrthography1 Introduction:Joseph M. Murphy and Mei-Mei Sanford2 Hidden Power: Osun the Seventeenth OduRowland Abiodun3 A River of Many Turns: the Polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban TraditionIsabel Castellanos4 Orisa Osun: Yoruba Sacred Kingship and Civil Religion in Osogbo, NigeriaJacob Olupona5 Nesta Cidade Todo Mundo E D'Oxum, In This City Everyone is Oxum'sIeda M. R. dos Santos6 Mãe MenininhaManuel Vega 7 Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban MirrorJoseph M. Murphy8 Oshun Brass: An Insight into Yoruba Religious SymbologyC.O. Adepegba9 Overflowing with Beauty: Ochún Altars in Lucumi AestheticsYsamur Flores-Peña10 Authority and Discourse in the Orin Odún OsunDiedre Badejo11 The Bag of Wisdom: Osun and the Origins of Ifa Divination'Wande Abimbola12 Ochún in the Bronx George Brandon13 What Part of the River You're In: African American Women in Devotion to ÒsunRachel Elizabeth Harding14 Eerindinlogun: the Seeing Eyes of Sacred Shells and StonesDavid Ogungbile15 Mama Oxum: Reflections of Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian UmbandaLindsay Hale16 An Oxum Shelters Children in São PauloTânia Cypriano17 Living Water: Osun, Mami Wata, and Olokun in the Lives of Four Contemporary Nigerian Christian WomenMei-Mei Sanford18 Orchestration of the Waters and the Breeze: the Emblems of Oshun in Atlantic PerspectiveRobert Farris Thompson ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Algeria in France Transpolitics Race and Nation
Book SynopsisAn ethnography of the Algerian presence in France and the transnational Berber movement.Trade Review"An insightful chronicle...." —John Bowen".. admirably broad study...." —Times Literary Supplement"" —"... a remarkable work about the dislocating effects of modernity... sure to be influential in the fields of postcolonial theory, French politics, and migration studies." —David A. McMurray"[A] richly nuanced and informative [analysis] of France at the beginning of the twenty-first century." —Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley, H-France"... this is an important call that diaspora should become as important a theme in North African history as it has been in that of sub-Saharan Africa." —H-Africa"This is work of impressive erudition which is richly documented, theoretically sophisticated, and epistemologically provocative in that it situates itself firmly on a transnational axis linking France and Algeria across the Mediterranean." —Susan Terrio"[Silverstein] has elaborated an incisive inquiry into the complex configurations of state power and minority agency that marks a central contribution to the academic study of transnationalism and globalization." —Ruth Mas, University of Colorado at Boulder, Journal Middle East Women's Stds JMEWS, Vol. 6, No. 2 Spring 2010"This informative and sophisticated work... examines Algerian immigration to France... [Silverstein] deftly summarizes the history of Franco-Algerian relations." —Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005"[Silverstein] approaches his subjects through the medium of everyday life, following the random individuals encountered during his field work in the 1990s, applying an ethnographical methodology with a highly critical and self-reflexive awareness of the environment he shared with them.... [This] is a critical work in opening up a broader consideration of the complex set of identifications running between France, Algeria, and the wider Arab and Muslim world." —H-Levant, April, 2011Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Immigration Politics in the New Europe2. Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity3. Spatializing Practices: Migration, Domesticity, Urban Planning4. Islam, Bodily Practice, and Social Reproduction5. The Generation of Generations: Beur Identity and Political Agency6. Beur Writing and Historical Consciousness7. Transnational Social Formations in the New EuropeConclusion
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Indiana University Press A New Old Damascus
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic exploration of consumption and social dynamics in a Middle Eastern city.Trade ReviewAnthropological studies are most interesting and effective when they reach beyond broad generalization to convey sharp sociocultural insight and identify implicit regularity in seemingly haphazard behavior. Success is often inversely correlated with the scale of the population and/or space being analyzed. It is not surprising that an attempt to capture the essence of Damascus, one of the world's oldest cities, succeeds only in part. Indeed, it is not all of Damascus that is even the focus, but rather the old city; not really a description of present Old City Damascus life, nor even a construction of its past, but instead a meditation on indigenous discourse about Old Damascus. Salamandra (Lehman College) tries to enable an understanding of why Old Damascus has become a focus for contemporary elite nostalgia, a site for social encounter, and even political expression. She further examines the role of new wealth and its display, a fostering of Damascene authenticity (with attendant class, regional, and religious/ethnic friction), and Damascus's extensive portrayal and manipulation by Syrian media, often for political reasons. At its best, the book conveys the complexity of contemporary imagining of Old Damascus, but the city itself, the people and places, never really come alive. Summing Up: Recommended. Most levels/libraries. -- L. D. Loeb * Choice *. . . A New Old Damascus is an ambitious attempt to shed light on the complexities of elite Damascenes . . . [I]t remains a noteworthy contribution to the emerging study of globalization, elites, and urbanism in the Middle East. * American Anthropologist *. . . Recommended. * Choice *. . . Salamandra's book presents a compelling analysis that sheds light on the socio-spatial relations prevailing in Old Damascus and gives the reader a rare glimpse into the lives of upperclass Syrians. June 2007 * H-Levant *. . . [this] book will be required reading for scholars generally interested in sectarian politics in the Middle East and scholars specifically interested in Lebanese Shi'i history and politics because the rich account it offers is also helpful for positioning Shi'i activism in Lebanon since the 1960s.Vol. 39 2007 -- Lara Deeb * University of California, Irvine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: A Return to the Old1. "His Family Had a House in Malki, So We Thought He Was All Right": Socio-Spatial Distinction2. "That Color Looks Great on You": Consumption, Display, and Gender3. Old Damascus Commodified4. Ramadan Lived and Consumed5. Conservation, Preservation, and CelebrationConclusion: Weapons of the Not-So-WeakEpilogue: Of Hubble Bubbles and Cell PhonesNotesReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press Divided Cyprus Modernity History and an Island
Book SynopsisProvides social, cultural, and historical context for understanding one of Europe's longest-running conflictsTrade Review"Of the recent publications on the 'Cyprus Problem', Divided Cyprus ranks amongst the best. It is scholarly, very well conceived, nicely structured, and expertly executed. Most importantly, it is thought provoking. I highly recommend it to any serious scholar of Cyprus’ past and present, and to those interested in its future progress." —Cyprus Review"[This] collection demonstrates a most unusual depth of articulation and balance in its accounts.... [It] is well crafted to reach a fariety of audiences, including students, scholars, and activists concerned with Cyprus, and most certainly political geographers interested in unpacking the workings of spatial power in zones of conflict." —Political Geography, Issue 29, 2010Table of ContentsContents<\>AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modernity, History, and Conflict in Divided Cyprus: An Overview Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, and Gisela Welz1. Transforming Lives: Process and Person in Cypriot Modernity Michael Herzfeld2. On the Condition of Postcoloniality in Cyprus Rebecca Bryant3. Disclosure and Censorship in Divided Cyprus: Toward an Anthropology of Ethnic Autism Yiannis Papadakis4. De-Ethnicizing the Ethnography of Cyprus: Political and Social Conflict between Turkish Cypriots and Settlers from Turkey Yael Navaro-Yashin5. Cypriot Nationalism, Dual Identity, and Politics Nicos Peristianis6. Children Constructing Ethnic Identities in Cyprus Spyros Spyrou7. "Contested Natures": An Environmental Conflict in Cyprus Gisela Welz8. Gardens and the Nature of Rootedness in Cyprus Anne Jepson9. Researching Society and Culture in Cyprus: Displacements, Hybridities, and Dialogical Frameworks Floya Anthias10. Recognition and Emotion: Exhumations of Missing Persons in Cyprus Paul Sant Cassia11. Postscript: Reflections on an Anthropology of Cyprus Vassos ArgyrouList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Slavery and South Asian History
Book SynopsisDespite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is overlooked in the region's historiography. This work contributes to a rethinking of slavery in world history. It describes a range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves.Trade Review"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." --Edward A. Alpers, UCLATable of ContentsList of MapsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction Richard M. Eaton1. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South Asia Indrani Chatterjee2. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire Daud Ali3. Turkish Slaves on Islam's Indian Frontier Peter Jackson4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Sunil Kumar5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450–1650 Richard M. Eaton6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500–1850 Ramya Sreenivasan7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700–1800 Sumit Guha8. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600–1857 Michael H. Fisher9. Bharattee's Death: Domestic Slave-Women in Nineteenth-Century Madras Sylvia Vatuk10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857–1860 Timothy Walker11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in Islam Avril A. Powell12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of Silence Indrani ChatterjeeList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Trinidad Carnival
Book SynopsisExplores Carnival as a reflection of the nation and culture of Trinidad and Trinidadians worldwide. This work features nine essays that cover topics such as women in Carnival, the politics and poetics of Carnival, Carnival and cultural memory, Carnival as a tourist enterprise, the steelband music of Carnival, and more.Trade ReviewGreen and Scher carefully selected essays for this collection that reflect the identity crisis within the parent Trinidadian carnival, while paying special attention to the transnationalism of the offspring carnivals spread throughout the globe. . .[T]his collection initiates a discussion of how the ideology of national cultural forms is affected locally by global forces. Moreover, this essay collection examines the process by which carnival fosters and adapts to the changing nature of Caribbeaness on a global scale.64.4 June 2008 * NOTES: QTLY JRL MUSIC LIB ASSN *[E]ditors Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher have gathered a thought-provoking collection of essays that extend our understanding of Trinidadian festivals and festival arts at home and abroad. * Journal of American Folklore *[The] editors . . . have assembled a fine collection of articles that examine the Trinidad Carnival as well as its transnational offshoots. . . . Through a thoughtful review of existing literature they persuasively argue for theoretical and methodological approaches that are sensitive to the multivalent nature of Carnival. 51 (2), 2009 * The World of Music *Anyone wishing to explore tradition, authenticity, community, identity, nation and transnation will be rewarded by reading this volume.Spring/ Summer 2010 * Western Folklore *. . . this book is a must-read for scholars and fans of West Indian culture and particularly Trinidad Carnival and its visual and musical components. It delivers a vast field of information from both a deep historical as well as a contemporary perspective.October 2009 -- John Nunley * H-AfrArts *This collection of essays is a fascinating look at contemporary Carnival as . . . a national and transnational institution. Many of the essays would be useful for readers interested in transnational movement of music and festivals, as well as in Carnival and the Caribbean specifically.August 25, 2009 -- David Lewis * Indiana University *. . . provides interesting and thought provoking reading. . . . [I]t would be valuable for higher level students at university and researchers who have a keen interest in transnational festivals and cultural tourism.Vol. 1.2 2009 -- Donna Chambers * University of Surrey *. . . Tracking the various forces that historically and contemporarily shape Carnival as event, ideology, national culture, and commodity, the essays in Trinidad Carnival never view Carnival through a single analytical lens. Indeed, they never yield a picture of a singular Carnival, a particular mas player. Rather, they show how 'specific Carnivals, specific masqueraders, and specific Carnival controversies are in motion, are well-traveled and circulate through the population not just of Trinidadians, but of Caribbean people everywhere, defining their Caribbean-ness while helping to change those definitions as new contexts arise' (Green and Scher 23). * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Trinidad Carnival in Global Context Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher1. The Invention of Traditional Mas and the Politics of Gender Pamela R. Franco2. The Masquerader-Anthropologist: The Poetics and Politics of Studying Carnival Patricia A. De Freitas3. Authenticity, Commerce, and Nostalgia in the Trinidad Carnival Garth L. Green4. When "Natives" Become Tourists of Themselves: Returning Transnationals and the Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago Philip W. Scher5. Reading Caribana 1997: Black Youth, Puff Daddy, Style, and Diaspora Transformations Lyndon Phillip6. Carnival in Aruba: "A Feast of Yourself" Victoria M. Razak7. Creativity and Politics in the Steelband Music of Ray Holman Shannon Dudley8. "Will Calypso Doom Rock'n'Roll?": The U.S. Calypso Craze of 1957 Ray Funk and Donald R. Hill9. The Politics of Cultural Value and the Value of Cultural Politics: International Intellectual Property Legislation in Trinidad Robin BalligerAfterword Roger AbrahamsGlossary of TermsWorks CitedList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Wandering with Sadhus Ascetics in the Hindu
Book SynopsisPresents a portrait of Hindu renouncers or sadhus or ascetics in northern India and Nepal. This title considers a paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly defined by their solitary spiritual practice, the stripping away of social commitments, and their break with family and community.Trade Review"Will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in any of a number of subjects: meditation, yoga, sacrifice, Vedanta, gender, bhakti, pilgrimage, body, space, desire, and liberation. Beautifully written, it is also a wonderful contribution to the fields of anthropology and religion." -Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut College "Wandering with Sadhus is a nuanced, humane, and evocative study of Hindu renouncers in South Asia. It is also a theoretically powerful contribution to anthropological scholarship on bodies in culture, the intricacies of social organization in South Asia, and the lived practice of a complex religious system." -Ernestine McHugh, author of Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture "Wandering with Sadhus will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in any of a number of subjects: meditation, yoga, sacrifice, Vedanta, gender, bhakti, pilgrimage, body, space, desire, and liberation. It will have broad appeal, and yet it treats its subject matter in depth. Beautifully written, it is also a wonderful contribution to the fields of anthropology and religion." -Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut CollegeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Wandering with Renouncers1. The Body and Sadhu Society2. The Social Structures of Sadhu Life3. Hardwar: The Ground of Space4. Allahabad: The Community in Time5. Kathmandu: The Body in PlaceConclusion: The Culture of Hindu RenunciationAppendix: Literatures on Renunciation and EmbodimentNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Youth and the City in the Global South
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Vietnam, and Zambia, this volume integrates youth studies with urban studies, and argues that youth is an experience in its own right, not merely a transition from childhood to adulthood. It includes case studies in three cities - Recife, Hanoi, and Lusaka.Trade ReviewThis work offers a rich opportunity to witness the dynamics of youth development amid the tumult of poverty, hunger, crime, and desperation in various global communities. Along with a variety of researchers, anthropologist Hansen (Northwestern Univ.) illuminates the difficulties of growing up in the cities of Recife, in Brazil; Hanoi; and Lusaka, in Zambia. Youth face a multitude of poor choices and social impediments within their communities. However, Hansen and her colleagues also focus on the power of cultural nuances and messages that emerge within these communities. Further, the text shows how youth foster meaning in their lives to ensure that they utilize education, the political arena, and even the media in the most appropriate ways for them. While there are many uses for this text, Hansen's collaboration is best suited for library collections focusing on international human rights and youth. Summing Up: Recommended. General and graduate collections. --CHOICED. E. Kelly, Adelphi University, July 2009"The participants in this project issued themselves quite a challenge in bringing the results of a large study together in a book form. Given the task, they did admirably." —Ethnos"... an important volume that demonstrates the value of multi-sited collaborative research." —DANIEL MAINS, Washington University in St. Louis, Social Anthropology, Vol. 17.3 2009"This work offers a rich opportunity to witness the dynamics of youth development amid the tumult of poverty, hunger, crime, and desperation in various global communities.... While there are many uses for this text, Hansen's collaboration is best suited for library collections focusing on international human rights and youth.... Recommended." —Choice, July 2009"Presents groundbreaking comparative research and makes a powerful, nuanced case for understanding the problems and dilemmas of youth in the global South." —Bradley Levinson, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Situating Youth in the City1. Introduction: Youth and the City Karen Tranberg Hansen2. Youth across the Globe: Comparison, Interdisciplinarity, and Cross-National Collaboration Anne Line Dalsgaard and Karen ValentinPart 2. Studying Youth in Cities3. Dominant Ideas, Uncertain Lives: The Meaning of Youth in Recife Anne Line Dalsgaard, Mónica Franch, and Russell Parry Scott4. Politicized Leisure in the Wake of Doi Moi: A Study of Youth in Hanoi Karen Valentin5. Localities and Sites of Youth Agency in Lusaka Karen Tranberg HansenPart 3. Youth Making Meaning6. Youth and the Home Katherine V. Gough7. Toward Eduscapes: Youth and Schooling in a Global Era Ulla Ambrosius Madsen8. The Work of the Imagination: Young People's Media Appropriation Norbert Wildermuth9. Conclusion: Urban Youth in a Global World Karen Tranberg HansenIndex
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Indiana University Press Observational Cinema Anthropology Film and the
Book SynopsisExamines key works, filmmakers, and theorists, from Andre Bazin and the Italian neorealists, to American documentary films of the 1960s, to extended discussions of the ethnographic films of Herb Di Gioia, David Hancock, and David MacDougall. This book describes the importance of observational work in experimental anthropology.Trade ReviewArguing from the works of André Bazin, Colin Young, Herb Di Gioia, and others, the authors make a case for continuous long shots, respectful engagement with subjects, a humanistic perspective that values the quotidian of people's lives, and a reluctance to indulge in pre-information about the subject matter of films' targeted topics. . . . Recommended.July 2010 * Choice *Observational Cinema is a fascinating and much-needed study of an important body of work. * American Ethnologist *Grimshaw and Ravetz offer an appealing study of the observational cinematic method in ethnographic research. XVI, No. 3, 2010 * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One. 1. What Is Observational Cinema? 2. Social Observers: Robert Drew, Albert and David Maysles, Frederick WisemanPart Two. 3. Observational Cinema in the Making: The Work of Herb Di Gioia and David Hancock 4. Observational Cinema on the Move: The Work of David MacDougallPart Three. 5. Rethinking Observational Cinema 6. Toward an Experimental AnthropologyNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Returns to the Field
Book SynopsisDocuments how re-visiting fieldwork sites shapes anthropologists' interpretationsTrade ReviewOverall, this is a great collection of essays that hang together well and — for once! — address the common theme that the edited volume is ostensibly about. At the same time, each is strong enough that it could be read separately. If you are interested in the topic or the contributors, it is definitely worth picking up. * savageminds.org *This is an important book because we need a disciplinary conversation about our myths. . . . [I]s more always better? Are there limits to the value of returns to the field? What are the costs and who will bear them? Returns to the Field has done us the valuable service of allowing this conversation to begin. * Social Anthropology *[V]aluable insights can be gained by returning to the field—whether physically or intellectually—to reflect upon the inevitable shifts in the researcher's intellectual transformation, disciplinary trends, and even popular understandings of key events and narratives that have been documented. Summer/Fall 2014 * Oral History Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction \ Signe Howell and Aud TallePart 1. Change and Continuity in Long-term Perspective 1. Forty-five Years with the Kayapo \ Terence Turner 2. "Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals": Yolngu Mortuary Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change \ Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy 3. Returns to the Maasai: Long-term Fieldwork and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge \ Aud Talle 4. Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of Ethnography \ David Holmberg 5. Nostalgia and Neocolonialism \ Peter MetcalfPart 2. Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space 6. Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast Asian Societies \ Signe Howell 7. Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared History \ Piers Vitebsky 8. Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands \ Edvard Hviding 9. Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding \ Alan BarnardAfterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field \ Bruce KnauftList of ContributorsIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Beyond Nationalist Frames Postmodernism Hindu
Book SynopsisThe political context in which historians of India find themselves is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism. This title offers a view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this conjuncture.Trade Review" ... a subtle and illuminating critique of 'post-modernist' influences on contemporary Indian historical writing."--Asian Affairs, November 2004Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: IntroductionI. Colonial Times: Clocks and Kali-yugaII. Identities and Histories: Some Lower-Caste Narratives from Early Twentieth-Century BengalIII. Intimations of Hindutva: Ideologies, Caste, and Class in Post-Swadeshi BengalIV. Two Muslim Tracts for Peasants: Bengal 1909-1910V. Nationalism and "Stri-Swadhinata": The Contexts and Meanings of Rabindranath's Ghare-BaireVI. Postmodernism and the Writing of HistoryVII. The BJP Bomb and NationalismVIII. Christianity, Hindutva, and the Question of ConversionsIX. Hindutva and History
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Indiana University Press Josephine Bakers Cinematic Prism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJosephine Baker's Cinematic Prism explores Baker's celebrity and ability to have such a hold in the Black film industry even while working almost exclusively with white directors, actors and crew in white—specifically European—spaces. Francis examines the dialogue between Baker and the characters she portrayed, particularly those whose narratives seemed to undermine the stardom they offered. Expertly crafted, Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism illustrates the most prominent links between Black cinema, conflicting opinions of Baker in the popular press and the broader aspirations for progress towards racial equality. * The Root *New Josephine Baker biography chronicles her 'labor on screen' as the first 'global' black woman film star. . . . Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism is available now and details the early days of Baker's stunning career. -- Rae Williams * Atlanta Black Star *Expertly crafted, Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism illustrates the most prominent links between Black cinema, conflicting opinions of Baker in the popular press and the broader aspirations for progress towards racial equality. -- Bella Morais * The Root *An insightfully informative work of meticulous research and painstaking scholarship, Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college, and university library Cinematic History, African-American Studies, and American Biography collections in general, and Josephine Baker supplemental curriculum studies lists in particular. -- James A. Cox * Midwest Book Reviw *This academic, but accessible deep dive into her film career and the impact of her image in the movies is thorough in considering what influenced her, how she reflected the current culture, and how she continues to be an influence today. Francis explores how Baker's performance style was inspired by African dance and blues singers like Ethel Waters, Ma Rainey, and Clara Smith (with whom she performed in the US). She put her own comic lens on these varied influences and presented her take with a boldness that would later show in the style of top stars like Diana Ross and Beyoncé. . . . This is an impressively thorough examination of a relatively short period of Baker's career that nevertheless had a significant impact on her image and legacy. -- Kendahl Cruver * A Classic Movie Blog *The ability of a figure to be discovered and rediscovered with new fascination and excitement time and again is the mark of a true legend. The life and career of the international sensation and multitalented performer Josephine Baker has thus been solidified. . . . Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism follows through with exactly what it announces as its goal in its first few pages: to "treat Baker with care and seriousness as a producer of knowledge" (4). . . . Baker's cinematic prism engenders a way of knowing, thinking, and seeing that transcends the limits of space-time and productively reconsiders how Black women's labor can be assessed and valued. The method through which Francis conducts this thoughtful, yet rigorous, analysis will hopefully inspire those who evoke Baker in the future to do so in the same collaborative spirit. -- Philana Payton * Film Quarterly *In promoting Baker's stature as an American star, Francis has crafted an impressive and pressingly important book. . . . Refreshingly contemporary in its orienation, the light that Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism opens onto its eponymous star brings its author's crucial perspective to an essential history of transnational cinema and performance. -- Colleen Kennedy-Karpat * History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: What Might Be Josephine Baker's Film HistoryIntroduction: Hey! Ha! Shimmy My Bananas! Refracting Baker's Image1. Traveling Shoes: Baker's Migrations and the Conundrums of Sweet Paris2. Shouting at Shadows: The Black American Press, French Colonial Culture, and La sirène des tropiques3. Unintended Exposures: Baker's Prismatic Ethnological Performance in ZouZou4. Seeing Double: Parody and Desire in Le pompier de Folier Bergère and Princesse Tam-TamEpilogue: Long Live Josephine Baker!BibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press The Human Situation
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University of Texas Press From Cuenca to Queens An Anthropological Story
Book SynopsisThis anthropological story of an Ecuadoran man's migration and its effects on his life and the lives of his parents and siblings adds a crucial human dimension to statistics about immigration and the macro impact of transnational migration on the global eTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Time Line of Important Events 1. From Cuenca to Queens: Transnational Lives 2. Transnational Migration: Economies and Identities 3. Family Matters 4. Rosa 5. Lucho 6. The Children 7. Vicente 8. Lives and Stories Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press White Metropolis
Book SynopsisThe first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.Trade ReviewAn ambitious work, White Metropolis deserves attention from historians interested in the history of Texas, urban studies, and southern culture. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue: Through a Glass Darkly: Memory, Race, and Region in Dallas, Texas 1. The Music of Cracking Necks: Dallas Civilization and Its Discontents 2. True to Dixie and to Moses: Yankees, White Trash, Jews, and the Lost Cause 3. The Great White Plague: Whiteness, Culture, and the Unmaking of the Dallas Working Class 4. Consequences of Powerlessness: Whiteness as Class Politics 5. Water Force: Resisting White Supremacy under Jim Crow 6. White Like Me: Mexican Americans, Jews, and the Elusive Politics of Identity 7. A Blight and a Sin: Segregation, the Kennedy Assassination, and the Wreckage of Whiteness Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Anthropology Economics and Choice
Book SynopsisThis book presents the first extended critique of rational choice theory from an anthropological perspective.Trade Review"Beyond its wealth of information, this book is well organized, comprehensible, and engaging." - Carrie Sampson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, International Social Science Review "The book is essential to any economic anthropologist reflecting on the role of the discipline and its relationship to other social sciences. Chibnik ably answers these questions and provides a complex introduction to how economic anthropologists go about their studies.The author's research experience and his thorough understanding of economic anthropology become evident in the book, which accurately portrays the sins scholars from both sides are tempted to commit." - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie SocialeTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. How Important Is Decision Making? Chapter 2. Choices between Paid and Unpaid Work Chapter 3. Risk, Uncertainty, and Decision Making Chapter 4. Experimental Games and Choices about Cooperation Chapter 5. Who Makes Household Economic Decisions? Chapter 6. Is There a Tragedy of the Commons? Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule
Book SynopsisThe study revolves around the central question of why the Palestinian legal profession declined during twenty years of Israeli occupation when, in other Third World countries, the legal profession has often reached its peak during a period of Western colonizationTable of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Imposition of the Modern Legal Profession 3. The Social and Cultural Context 4. Orientalist Despotism 5. The Social Composition of and Entry into the Profession 6. The Organization of the Legal Profession 7. The Content of Legal Practice 8. Deterioration of the Formal Court System 9. Disintegration of the Profession 10. Conclusions Appendix Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press The Journey of a TzotzilMaya Woman of Chiapas
Book SynopsisEnhancing our understanding of the struggle for indigenous rights in Chiapas, this testimonial presents a unique account of that struggle by a woman who has been active at the grassroots level for three decades.Trade Review"The text is accompanied by a photograph of Antonia at an airport looking out a window toward the runway, her head slightly cocked to the side as if she were contemplating the deep divide between the two coun- tries. Eber writes about this moment with heartfelt clarity, describing the sadness and foreignness that Antonia felt during her stay in the United States."--Latin American PerspectivesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueBackground NotesNotes on the Book's Two Voices and Key TermsPeople in Antonia's LifeTime Line of Key Events Mentioned in the BookMap of Highland ChiapasPart I. Becoming a Batz'i Antz (True Woman)1. A Childhood Memory2. Parents3. Learning to Work4. School5. Making One's Soul Arrive6. Listening to the Word of God7. Courtship and Marriage8. Learning to Be a Wife9. Learning to Be a Mother10. Learning to Manage a Household11. Animals12. Water13. Working with CoffeePart II. Contesting the Status Quo, Creating a Different World1. The Time of Fire2. 19973. International Encounters4. Sons5. Daughters6. Daughters-in-Law and Grandchildren7. Cargos8. Cooperatives9. Traveling10. The International Folk Art MarketPart III. Gains and Losses, Lessons Learned1. Envy2. Suffering3. A Difficult Trip4. Faith and Love5. Exodus6. Death7. Life So FarEpilogueAfterwordAppendix A. Antonia's Words in Tzotzil, Spanish, and EnglishAppendix B. Life Histories from Chiapas and Other PlacesNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex
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