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University of California Press Everyday Ethics
Book SynopsisExplores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. This title traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Terrain of Everyday Ethics Background to practice 1. Genealogy of the Treatment Model 2. Expert knowledge and Encounters with Futility Tools of the trade 3. Treatment Plans: Mandatory Narratives of Progress 4. Representative Payeeships: The Deep Logic of Dependency 5. Commitment Orders: The Practice of Consent and Constraint From Everyday to Formal Ethics 6. Coercion, Confidentiality, and the Moral Contours of Work Bibliography
£22.50
University of California Press Life in Crisis
Book SynopsisBegun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspoken protest as well as technical efficiency. This title tells the story of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale.Trade Review"An intriguing read that will be useful for students as well as health care practitioners... Recommended." -- D. E. Bill CHOICE "Anyone who believes that providing medical aid to the poorest people in poor and conflict-ridden countries provides moral clarity should read this book and be disabused." -- CLAIRE L. WENDLAND Health Affairs "A must-read ... Historically and analytically rich." -- Lauren Carruth Current AnthropologyTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Terms of Engagement 1. A Time of Crisis 2. A Secular Value of Life Part 2: Global Ambitions 3. Vital Mobility 4. Moral Witness 5. Human Frontiers Part 3: Testing Limits 6. The Problem of Triage 7. The Longue Duree of Disease 8. The Verge of Crisis 9. Action beyond Optimism Epilogue Notes References Index
£56.05
University of California Press Life in Crisis
Book SynopsisBegun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspoken protest as well as technical efficiency. This title tells the story of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale.Trade Review"An intriguing read that will be useful for students as well as health care practitioners... Recommended." -- D. E. Bill CHOICE "Anyone who believes that providing medical aid to the poorest people in poor and conflict-ridden countries provides moral clarity should read this book and be disabused." -- CLAIRE L. WENDLAND Health Affairs "A must-read ... Historically and analytically rich." -- Lauren Carruth Current AnthropologyTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Terms of Engagement 1. A Time of Crisis 2. A Secular Value of Life Part 2: Global Ambitions 3. Vital Mobility 4. Moral Witness 5. Human Frontiers Part 3: Testing Limits 6. The Problem of Triage 7. The Longue Duree of Disease 8. The Verge of Crisis 9. Action beyond Optimism Epilogue Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press How Forests Think
Book SynopsisAvoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself.Trade Review"What's so welcome about Kohn's approach is that he walks a tightrope with perfect balance: never losing sight of the unique aspects of being human, while refusing to force those aspects into separating us from the rest of the abundantly thinking world." The Times Literary Supplement "How Forests Think" is an important book that provides a viable way for people educated in Western philosophy to approach indigenous animism without being credulous or inauthentic. It is refreshing to read a book of this intellectual caliber that takes Runa stories seriously and enters into dialogue with their claims using the tools of Western philosophy." AnthroposTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Runa Puma 1 The Open Whole 2 The Living Thought 3 Soul Blindness 4 Trans-Species Pidgins 5 Form's Effortless Efficacy 6 The Living Future (and the Imponderable Weight of the Dead) Epilogue: Beyond Notes Bibliography Index
£76.00
University of California Press Migrants in Translation
Book SynopsisPresents an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition and cultural translation that emerge in response to these social uncertainties.Trade Review"Pleasant reading and a useful piece of research." -- Marco Santello H-Net "Stimulating and insightful ... a rich ethnography; [and] an important scholarly contribution." -- Staff Allegra Lab "A fundamental contribution to uncovering the moral logics of conditional inclusion that use "recognition" as a tool to define, and prescribe, the right place for immigrants in society." -- Francesco Vacchiano Transcultural Psychiatry This book is an original and important contribution to our understanding of the politics of humanitarianism, citizenship, and cultural difference in contemporary Italy... a must read. Migration StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE WALLS 1. On the Tightrope of Culture 2. Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry TWO. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE 3. Ambivalent Inclusion: Psychiatrists, Nuns, and Bureaucrats in Conversation THREE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE POLICE OFFICE 4. Denuncia: The Subject Verbalized FOUR. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE SHELTER 5. Paradoxes of Redemption: Translating Selves and Experimenting with Conversion FIVE. REENTERING THE SCENE: THE CLINIC 6. Tragic Translations: "I am afraid of falling. Speak well of me, speak well for me" EPILOGUE: OTHER SCENES Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rich, both theoretically and empirically ... It is, in short, a text bound to the complex pursuit of the ethical in a world where such an endeavour is becoming all the more urgent." -- Fiona Murphy The Allegra Laboratory "A unique and important contribution to the scholarships of ethical consumption and alternative food movements." -- Loretta Iegtak Lou The Allegra Laboratory "This book is a valuable source of insight both for scholars and activists looking for more nuanced and "culturally sensitive" approaches to food and its social, political, symbolical, and practical meanings." -- Costanza Curro The Allegra Laboratory "This volume signifi cantly contributes to understanding what it means to practice ethical eating and points to the various dilemmas in paving the way toward more sustainable food systems." -- Tanja Kamin Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Ethical Eating and (Post)socialist Alternatives Jakob A. Klein, Yuson Jung, and Melissa L. Caldwell 1. Homogenizing Europe: Raw Milk, Risk Politics, and Moral Economies in Post-Socialist Lithuania Diana Mincyte 2. The Moral Significance of Food in Reform-Era Rural China Ellen Oxfeld 3. Placing Alternative Food Networks: Farmers' Markets in Post-Soviet Vilnius, Lithuania Renata Blumberg 4. Ambivalent Consumers and the Limits of Certification: Organic Foods in Postsocialist Bulgaria Yuson Jung 5. Connecting with the Countryside? "Alternative" Food Movements with Chinese Characteristics Jakob A. Klein 6. Vegetarian Ethics and Politics in Late-Socialist Vietnam Nir Avieli 7. Agroecology and the Cuban Nation Marisa Wilson 8. Gardening for the State: Cultivating Bionational Citizens in Postsocialist Russia Melissa L. Caldwell Afterword: Ethical Food Systems, Between Suspicion and Hope Harry G. West Contributors Index
£46.75
University of California Press The Sociology of Development Handbook
Book SynopsisFeatures essays that address the intellectual challenges of today, including internal and international migration, transformation of political regimes, globalization, changes in household and family formations, gender dynamics, technological change, population and economic growth, environmental sustainability, peace and war, and more.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Introduction: A Manifesto for the Sociology of Development - Samuel Cohn and Gregory Hooks I. EXPLAINING DEVELOPMENT: SOCIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS 1. Engendering Development: The Evolution of a Field of Research - Valentine M. Moghadam 2. Population and Development - Laszlo J. Kulcsar 3. Strengthening the Ties between Environmental Sociology and Sociology of Development - Jennifer E. Givens, Brett Clark, and Andrew K. Jorgenson 4. The Sources of Socioeconomic Development - Adam Szirmai II. HUMAN CAPABILITIES: INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT 5. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Global North and Global South - Jeffrey T. Jackson, Kirsten Dellinger, Kathryn McKee, and Annette Trefzer 6. Magic Potion/Poison Potion: The Impact of Women's Economic Empowerment versus Disempowerment for Development in a Globalized World - Rae Lesser Blumberg 7. Land Use and the Great Acceleration in Human Activities: Political and Economic Dynamics - Thomas K. Rudel 8. Age Structure and Development: Beyond Malthus - David L. Brown and Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue 9. Development, Demographic Processes, and Public Health - Joshua Stroud, Philip Anglewicz, and Mark VanLandingham 10. Education and Development - David B. Bills III. DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ACCOUNTS 11. The Sociology of Subnational Development: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations - Linda Lobao 12. Sociological Perspectives on Uneven Development: The Making of Regions - Ann R. Tickamyer and Anouk Patel-Campillo 13. Migration and Development: Virtuous and Vicious Cycles - Sara R. Curran 14. Tertiary Education and Development: Strategies of Global South Countries to Meet Growing Tertiary Demand - Mary M. Kritz 15. Migrant Networks, Immigrant and Ethnic Economies, and Destination Development - Kim Korinek and Peter Loebach IV. BUILDING STATES AND FAILING STATES: DEVELOPMENT TRIUMPHS AND DISASTERS 16. The State and Development - Samuel Cohn 17. Women, Democracy, and the State - Kathleen M. Fallon and Jocelyn Viterna 18. War and Development: Questions, Answers, and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century - Gregory Hooks 19. Neoliberalism, the Origins of the Global Crisis, and the Future of States - Richard Lachmann 20. Crisis and the Rise of China - Ho-fung Hung 21. Conflict and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - Zoe Marriage 22. Social Movements and Economic Development - Paul Almeida V. GLOBAL COMPLEXITIES AND LOCAL CONTEXTS: NEW PARADIGMS FOR EXPLAINING DEVELOPMENT 23. Globalization and Development - Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers 24. Transitions to Capitalisms: Past and Present - Rebecca Jean Emigh 25. Quantitative Growth and Economic Development through History - Rosemary L. Hopcroft 26. The Great Divergence: Why Did Industrial Capitalism Emerge in Europe, Not China? - Dingxin Zhao 27. Global Commodity Chains and Development - Jennifer Bair and Matthew Mahutga List of Contributors Index
£100.00
University of California Press Migration and Health
Book SynopsisPresents the study of migrant populations that poses challenges owing to the mobility of these groups, which may be further complicated by cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity as well as the legal status of their members.Table of ContentsForeword Michael V. Drake, MD SECTION ONE. Introductory Materials Section Editor: Marc B. Schenker 1. Introduction Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 2. Studying Migrant Populations: General Considerations and Approaches Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz (CDC, US) Xochitl Castaneda (UC Berkeley, US) 3. Life Course Epidemiology: A Conceptual Model for the Study of Migration and Health Jacob Spallek (Bielefeld University, Germany) Hajo Zeeb (University of Bremen, Germany) Oliver Razum (Bielefeld University, Germany) SECTION TWO. Quantitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz 4. Use of Existing Health Information Systems in Europe to Study Migrant Health Katia Levecque (University of Ghent, Belgium) Elena Ronda-Perez (University of Alicante, Spain) Emily Felt (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) Fernando G. Benavides (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) 5. Use of National Data Systems to Study Immigrant Health in the United States Gopal K. Singh (DHHS, US) 6. The Community-Based Migrant Household Probability Sample Survey Enrico A. Marcelli (San Diego State University, US) 7. Respondent-Driven Sampling for Migrant Populations Lisa Johnston (UC San Francisco, US) Mohsen Malekinejad (UC San Francisco, US) 8. Time-Space Sampling of Migrant Populations Salaam Semaan (CDC, US) Elizabeth DiNenno (CDC, US) 9. Prior Enumeration: A Method for Enhanced Sampling with Migrant Surveys Richard Mines (Agricultural Economics Consultant, US) Coburn C. Ward (University of the Pacific, US) Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 10. Telephone-Based Surveys David Grant (UCLA, US) Royce J. Park (UCLA, US) Lin Yu-chieh (University of Michigan, US) 11. Case-Control Studies Clelia Pezzi (CDC, US) Philip H. Kass (UC Davis, US) 12. Longitudinal Studies Guillermina Jasso (New York University, US) SECTION THREE. Qualitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Xochitl Castaneda 13. Ethnographic Research in Migration and Health Seth M. Holmes (UC Berkeley, US) Heide Castaneda (University of South Florida, US) 14. Participant Observation and Key Informant Interviews Rosa Maria Aguilera (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico) Ana Amuchastegui (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana--Xochimilco, Mexico) 15. Focus Groups/Group Qualitative Interviews Patricia Zavella (UC Santa Cruz, US) 16. Full Circle: The Method of Collaborative Anthropology for Regional and Transnational Research Bonnie Bade (California State University, San Marcos, US) Konane Martinez (California State University, San Marcos, US) 17. Photovoice as Methodology Regina Day Langhout (UC Santa Cruz, US) SECTION FOUR. Crosscutting Issues Section Editors: Marc B. Schenker, Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, and Xochitl Castaneda 18. Ethical Issues across the Spectrum of Migration and Health Research Kevin Pottie (University of Ottawa, Canada) Patricia Gabriel (University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Community-Based Participatory Research: A Promising Approach for Studying and Addressing Immigrant Health Meredith Minkler (UC Berkeley, US) Charlotte Chang (UC Berkeley, US) 20. Occupational Health Research with Immigrant Workers Michael A. Flynn (CDC, US) Donald E. Eggerth (CDC, US) 21. Methodological Recommendations for Broadening the Investigation of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Andrew Rasmussen (Fordham University, US) 22. Working Internationally Carol Camlin (UC San Francisco, US) David Kyle (UC Davis, US) 23. Binational Collaborative Research Sylvia Guendelman (UC Berkeley, US) 24. Ensuring Access to Research for Nondominant Language Speakers Francesca Gany (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Lisa Diamond (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Rachel Meislin (New York University, US) Javier Gonzalez (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) 25. Extended Case Study: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Internal Migrant Access to Health Care and the Health System's Response in India Bontha V. Babu (Indian Council of Medical Research, India) Anjali B. Borhade (Indian Institute of Public Health, India) Yadlapalli S. Kusuma (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India) Contributors Index
£64.00
University of California Press Migration and Health
Book SynopsisPresents the study of migrant populations that poses challenges owing to the mobility of these groups, which may be further complicated by cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity as well as the legal status of their members.Table of ContentsForeword Michael V. Drake, MD SECTION ONE. Introductory Materials Section Editor: Marc B. Schenker 1. Introduction Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 2. Studying Migrant Populations: General Considerations and Approaches Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz (CDC, US) Xochitl Castaneda (UC Berkeley, US) 3. Life Course Epidemiology: A Conceptual Model for the Study of Migration and Health Jacob Spallek (Bielefeld University, Germany) Hajo Zeeb (University of Bremen, Germany) Oliver Razum (Bielefeld University, Germany) SECTION TWO. Quantitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz 4. Use of Existing Health Information Systems in Europe to Study Migrant Health Katia Levecque (University of Ghent, Belgium) Elena Ronda-Perez (University of Alicante, Spain) Emily Felt (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) Fernando G. Benavides (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) 5. Use of National Data Systems to Study Immigrant Health in the United States Gopal K. Singh (DHHS, US) 6. The Community-Based Migrant Household Probability Sample Survey Enrico A. Marcelli (San Diego State University, US) 7. Respondent-Driven Sampling for Migrant Populations Lisa Johnston (UC San Francisco, US) Mohsen Malekinejad (UC San Francisco, US) 8. Time-Space Sampling of Migrant Populations Salaam Semaan (CDC, US) Elizabeth DiNenno (CDC, US) 9. Prior Enumeration: A Method for Enhanced Sampling with Migrant Surveys Richard Mines (Agricultural Economics Consultant, US) Coburn C. Ward (University of the Pacific, US) Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 10. Telephone-Based Surveys David Grant (UCLA, US) Royce J. Park (UCLA, US) Lin Yu-chieh (University of Michigan, US) 11. Case-Control Studies Clelia Pezzi (CDC, US) Philip H. Kass (UC Davis, US) 12. Longitudinal Studies Guillermina Jasso (New York University, US) SECTION THREE. Qualitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Xochitl Castaneda 13. Ethnographic Research in Migration and Health Seth M. Holmes (UC Berkeley, US) Heide Castaneda (University of South Florida, US) 14. Participant Observation and Key Informant Interviews Rosa Maria Aguilera (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico) Ana Amuchastegui (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana--Xochimilco, Mexico) 15. Focus Groups/Group Qualitative Interviews Patricia Zavella (UC Santa Cruz, US) 16. Full Circle: The Method of Collaborative Anthropology for Regional and Transnational Research Bonnie Bade (California State University, San Marcos, US) Konane Martinez (California State University, San Marcos, US) 17. Photovoice as Methodology Regina Day Langhout (UC Santa Cruz, US) SECTION FOUR. Crosscutting Issues Section Editors: Marc B. Schenker, Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, and Xochitl Castaneda 18. Ethical Issues across the Spectrum of Migration and Health Research Kevin Pottie (University of Ottawa, Canada) Patricia Gabriel (University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Community-Based Participatory Research: A Promising Approach for Studying and Addressing Immigrant Health Meredith Minkler (UC Berkeley, US) Charlotte Chang (UC Berkeley, US) 20. Occupational Health Research with Immigrant Workers Michael A. Flynn (CDC, US) Donald E. Eggerth (CDC, US) 21. Methodological Recommendations for Broadening the Investigation of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Andrew Rasmussen (Fordham University, US) 22. Working Internationally Carol Camlin (UC San Francisco, US) David Kyle (UC Davis, US) 23. Binational Collaborative Research Sylvia Guendelman (UC Berkeley, US) 24. Ensuring Access to Research for Nondominant Language Speakers Francesca Gany (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Lisa Diamond (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Rachel Meislin (New York University, US) Javier Gonzalez (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) 25. Extended Case Study: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Internal Migrant Access to Health Care and the Health System's Response in India Bontha V. Babu (Indian Council of Medical Research, India) Anjali B. Borhade (Indian Institute of Public Health, India) Yadlapalli S. Kusuma (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India) Contributors Index
£35.70
University of California Press The Transplant Imaginary
Book SynopsisExplores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements.Trade Review"The Transplant Imaginary is an important contribution for those who follow anthropological literature on transplantation from one of the most eminent scholars working on the topic." SomatosphereTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science 1. The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary 2. Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity 3. Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart 4. Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Tales of the ExApes
Book SynopsisWhat do we think about when we think about human evolution? This book explores our scientific narrative of human origins - the study of evolution - and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations.Trade Review"Marks's book is a wise and witty analysis of how science and culture are inextricably intertwined as we compose and narrate the science of who we are and where we came from, and it permits us to make just a bit more sense of the science." -- Candida Moss The Daily Beast "Great book ... very much worth the read." -- Greg Laden Greg Laden's Blog "A well-written text ... Recommended." CHOICE connect "This was the kind of subject that excited greats like Paul Ricoeur, Martin Buber, and Hans Jonas. But unlike the occasionally tortured prose of these admittedly brilliant thinkers, Marks' books are to the point, funny even... The reading is easy; even the most difficult subjects in molecular biology and philosophy are handled with wit and the minimum of jargon." Science & EducationTable of ContentsPreface 1. Science 2. History and Morality 3. Evolutionary Concepts 4. How to Think about Evolution Non-reductively 5. How Our Ancestors Transgressed the Boundaries of Apehood 6. Human Evolution as Bio-cultural Evolution 7. Human Nature/Culture Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press The Weight of Obesity
Book SynopsisBased on years of fieldwork, this book offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets - and their bodies - radically transformed. It is suitable for anyone who cares about the politics of healthy eating.Trade Review"Yates-Doerr's book offers wise counsel... an excellent indictment of nutritionism." -- Raj Patel "She convincingly argues there is an element of race-making in the talk around fat and the pathologization of certain lifestyles." Medical Anthology Quarterly "The richness of the book lies in its attention to detail. Emily demonstrates a lovely care for language throughout, showing how specific words are not just embedded in but elicit social contexts." -- Rebeca Ibanez Martin Somatosphere "In the short few weeks that I have had [Weight of Obesity] on my desk, I have come to consider it as a text to think with, an approach to learn from, and material to teach. The text will inform my own practices as an anthropologist, a science studies body, a teacher, and-on a good day-a writer. Just to wrap up my praise: like very few others, this text accomplishes what any book should: it makes one live with it, through it, and see the world through its eyes. If a book has eyes, that is-and of course, not to over-privilege the visual among the senses." -- Marianne de Laet Somatosphere "The Weight of Obesity offers a plethora of wide-ranging ideas that emerge powerfully from an ethnography that is subtly grounded on the rupture of political change and the inequities of a global political economy." -- Simon Cohn Somatosphere "The Weight of Obesity is a wonderful book. It is a book that invites the reader to read aloud brilliant insights and moving, sometimes truly piercing observations. The book contrasts myriads of local intricacies with the global health attempts at 'treating obesity'. The book links eating practices to such heterogeneous things as pesticides, traditional social obligations of food preparation, the workings of bodies, global politics and hunger, fortified sugar, the beauty of fatness, and racism. This is done with great sensitivity for the particular ways the language of her informants frames practices of eating, health, and happiness. The book is rica, the Guatemalan word for delicious, tasteful, rich." -- Jeannette Pols SomatosphereTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Map Introduction: The Richness of Eating 1. Disease and Modernities 2. Nutritional Black-Boxing 3. Care of the Social 4. Contemporary Body Counts 5. Bodies in Balance 6. Many Values of Health Conclusion: The Opposite of ObesityNotes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism
Book SynopsisPicture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.Trade Review"Warnes shows us how globalization, mechanized farming, refrigeration, and mass consumerism affect the way world consumers shop for food in supermarkets and how the global industrial food system encourages consumers to overeat." * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Entrance 1. Inside Views 2. Aristocratic Baskets 3. In the Supermarket 4. The Late Cart 5. Carts UnchainedExit Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£18.90
University of California Press The Stranger at the Feast
Book SynopsisAt publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. The Stranger at the Feast is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of one of the world's oldest and least-understood religious traditions. Based on long-term ethnographic research on the Zege peninsula in northern Ethiopia, the author tells the story of how people have understood large-scale religious change by following local transformations in hospitality, ritual prohibition, and feeding practices.Ethiopia has undergone radical upheaval in the transition from the imperial era of Haile Selassie to the modern secular state, but the secularization of the state has been met with the widespread revival of popular religious practice. For Orthodox Christians in Zege, everything that matters about religion comes back to how one eats and fasts with others. Boylston shows how practices of feeding and avoidance have remained central even as their meaning and purpose has dramatically changed: from a means of marking class distinctions within Orthodox society, to a marker of the difference between Orthodox Christians and other religions within the contemporary Ethiopian state.Trade Review"Truly remarkable." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsMap Note on Amharic Pronunciation and Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A History of Mediation 2. Fasting, Bodies, and the Calendar 3. Proliferations of Mediators 4. Blood, Silver, and Coffee: The Material Histories of Sanctity and Slavery 5. The Buda Crisis 6. Concrete, Bones, and Feasts 7. Echoes of the Host 8. The Media Landscape 9. The Knowledge of the World Conclusion Reference List Index
£27.00
University of California Press A War on People
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For those interested in a theoretically complex and ambitious contribution to the anthropology of ethics and political anthropology, this book has much to offer." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On War and Potentiality 1. The Drug War as Widely Diff used Complexity 2. “Addicts” and the Disruptive Politics of Showing 3. A Community of Those without Community 4. Disclosive Freedom 5. Attuned Care Epilogue: Otherwise Notes Index
£28.50
University of California Press The United States of War
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A wide-ranging survey of the American way of war, expensive and incessant, in support of an empire we’re not supposed to have. . . . Vine offers much to ponder about our militarized foreign policy and its deep antecedents." * Kirkus Reviews *"Military expansion, war without end, and the pervasiveness of violence in American lives: Vine offers countless insights into this uniquely American way of war." * Foreword Reviews *"While the idea that the global expansion of military bases corresponds with the rise of US empire may seem obvious, this book convincingly shows that it is both consequence and cause. Vine brilliantly documents the way widespread global military positions—which are always sold to the public as defensive—are, by their very nature, offensive and become their own self-fulfilling ecosystems of conquest. . . . One walks away convinced that the US empire and its global network of bases must be dismantled if we are to have any hope of putting a stop to the devastating cycle of endless US wars and meddling." * Jacobin *“I hope every person on earth reads The United States of War.” * War is a Crime *"Provides a comprehensive history of Washington’s quest for empire. . . . The United States of War is a unique history text. Convincing in its portrayal of US military bases as both the outposts of empire and the remote supplier to the troops whose mission is to maintain and expand that empire, the timeline the author constructs is one that argues the US has always been an imperial nation—and not by some accident or circumstance of history." * CounterPunch *"A sweeping indictment of the nation’s heavily militarized foreign policy, including the nearly incalculable costs, financial as well as moral, that have been exacted both at home and abroad. . . . The definitive account of the history of U.S. overseas bases and their role in the history of American militarism." * Washington Report on Middle East Affairs *“Revelatory. . . . By identifying the link between bases and war, Vine has found a simple and possibly powerful lever with which to move . . . large structural forces. You want peace? Close the bases. Fewer overseas outposts would mean fewer provocations for foreign anger, fewer targets for attacks, and fewer inducements for Washington to solve its problems by using force.” -- Daniel Immerwahr, * The Nation *"Wonderful and disturbing. . . . Encyclopedic in its coverage. . . . I highly recommend the book. It roused even me, a lifetime pacifist and antiwar activist, to increased awareness of the profound extent and impact of US bases and wars on both the United States and the rest of the world. The book is an extremely useful (and therefore very depressing) compendium of what can rightfully be called the US war machine and empire." * Anthropology and Humanism *"David Vine’s book, enriched by a series of maps, is not just a history book based on a mere chronological sequence of events. It also gives voice to some of the people who were affected by US expansionist policy. The interviews collected during many years of research make this book an important resource not only for all scholars interested in geopolitics and US history, but also for all people who want to understand the reason for so many conflicts around the world and the evolution of American imperialism." * Houston Review of Books *"Make[s] it quite clear that war on other peoples and nations is the defining element of the United States, its past, its present and probably its future. It’s a very tall order, but Vine makes it clear that preventing US wars overseas begins by closing US bases overseas." * Counter Punch *"In explaining the nation's permawar reality, Vine makes a profoundly important contribution to educators as well as to activists and advocates who challenge the nation's engrained militarism." * Peace & Change *"One of the most illuminating studies of how the US' empire of forts and bases developed and works." * The Wire *"The United States of War is for anyone who wants to find a single source for an encompassing yet relatively concise overview of the ceaseless intervention and aggression by the United States, from its racist, colonial roots, to its extractive, deadly activities from bases around the world today." * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"The United States of War is a clarion call for fundamental transformation of U.S. society and culture away from militarism." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface A Note on Language and Terminology Introduction: “If We Build Them, Wars Will Come” Part I Imperial Succession 1. Conquest 2. Occupied Part II Expanding Empire 3. Why Are So Many Places Named Fort? 4. Invading Your Neighbors 5. The Permanent Indian Frontier 6. Going Global Part III imperial transitions 7. The Military Opens Doors 8. Reopening the Frontier Part IV Global Empire 9. Empire of Bases 10. The Spoils of War 11. Normalizing Occupation 12. Islands of Imperialism 13. The Colonial Present 14. Building Blowback Part V Hyperimperialism 15. Did the “Cold War” End? 16. Out-of-Control War 17. War Is the Mission Conclusion: Ending “Endless Wars” Gratitude and Thanks Appendix: U.S. Wars, Combat, and Other Combat Actions Abroad Notes Suggested Resources Index
£23.75
University of California Press The Life of a Pest An Ethnography of Biological
Book SynopsisThe Life of a Pest tracks the work practices of scientists in Mexico as they study flora and fauna at scales ranging from microscopic to ecosystemic. Amid concerns about climate change, infectious disease outbreaks, and biotechnology, scientists in Mexico have expanded the focus of biopolitics and biosecurity, looking beyond threats to human life to include threats to the animal, plant, and microbial worlds. Emily Wanderer outlines how concerns about biosecurity are leading scientists to identify populations and life-forms either as worthy of saving or as pests in need of elimination. Moving from high security labs where scientists study infectious diseases, to offices where ecologists regulate the use of genetically modified organisms, to remote islands where conservationists eradicate invasive species, Wanderer explores how scientific research informs, and is informed by, concepts of nation.Trade Review"The Life of a Pest is a textured ethnography that offers a rewarding read to those interested in Mexican science, Mexican politics, STS, and future-oriented technologies." * Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Living Better in Mexico 1. From Degenerates to Regeneration, Convicts to Conservation 2. The Care of the Pest and Animal Betrayals 3. Acclimatizing Biosecurity 4. Invisible Biologies, Embodied Environments 5. The Bureaucracy of Genetic Modification Conclusion: Vivir Mejor and the Biodiverse Nation Notes References Index
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University of California Press A Time of Lost Gods
Book SynopsisTraversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of spirit mediums in a rural county of China's Central Plain, it asks: What ghostly forms emerge after the death of Mao and the so-called end of history? The story of religion in China since the market reforms of the late 1970s is often told through its destruction under Mao and relative flourishing thereafter. Here, those who engage in mediumship offer a different history of the present. They approach Mao's reign not simply as an earthly secular rule, but an exceptional interval of divine sovereignty, after which the cosmos collapsed into chaos. Caught between a fading era and an ever-receding horizon,those left behind by labor outmigration refigure the evacuated hometown as an ethical-spiritual center to come, amidst a proliferation of madness-inducing spirits.Following pronouncements of China's rise, and in the wake of what Chinese intellectuals termed semicolonialism, the stories here tell of spirit mediums, patients, and psychiatrists caught in a shared dilemma, in a time when gods have lost their way. Trade Review"A Time of Lost Gods is a most welcome addition to our understandings of religion and psychiatry in contemporary China." * China Quarterly *"Ng has expertly offered an invaluable insight into the Chinese religious landscape. This volume should be read by all those with an interest in Chinese religion, especially those who favor the ethnographic approach." * Religious Studies Review *“Ng opens worlds. . . .This elegantly written monograph is a must-read for scholars of the medical humanities and the anthropology of medicine in China.” * Asian Medicine *Table of ContentsPrologue: We Never Should Have Met Introduction: The China of China 1. After the Storm 2. Ten Thousand Years 3. Spectral Collision 4. A Soul Adrift 5. Vertiginous Abbreviation Coda: Those Who Remain Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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University of California Press Constructing Frames of Reference
Book SynopsisMany consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the New Archaeology changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise. This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called ethnoarchaeologythe study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological recordand this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations. The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.
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University of California Press Evolution of Sickness and Healing
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University of California Press The Likeness Semblance and Self in Slovene
Book SynopsisThe Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfacesof people and things, systems and locationsrendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia's most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness exploresalternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.Trade Review"We encounter here a unique and provocative twist in the quest to depict Slovenia and the Slovenes. . . . A skillful pen, evoking deadly sincerity and a chuckle with the same stroke, is an invitation to explore this unconventional narrative." * Slovene Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Andandpersand Introduction I. Of Semblances and . . . II. Of Selves A Break in the Pattern Chapter 1 I. Walter Benjamin, Ljubljana, 1986 II. Walter Benjamin (et al.) Speaks His Mind, Ljubljana, 1986 (2001, 2003) Chapter 2 I. Technologies of Self-Protection II. “By the very cunning of the scene” Portraits of a Three-Headed Mountain (1968, 2004, 2007) Chapter 3 I. Two in the Same: Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša II. This Is Going to Hurt a Little Chapter 4 I. Is Slavoj Žižek Full of Shit? II. More on the Same Subject Chapter 5 I. Inside the Body Is Blood and Bone II. “ . . . or at least fail while trying” Afterword: Melania Trump (née Melanija Knavs) Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sovereign Attachments Masculinity Muslimness and
Book SynopsisSovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution. Trade Review"Khoja-Moolji’s success lies in highlighting the imbrications of sovereignty with religion as well as gender. . . . Sovereign Attachments would be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of international relations, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic studies and Asian studies." * LSE Review of Books *"Khoja-Moolji’s book, with its focused context and excellent feminist analysis, illuminates the complex dynamics of sovereignty, forcing the reader to move beyond visible sovereign contests of violence and to consider those contests that occur in the cultural sphere." * Al-Raida *“Khoja-Moolji presents critical new material that contributes to debates regarding the role of emotion, kinship, and gender in political movements. . . . Sovereign Attachments is a fascinating read” * Ethos *"The interdisciplinary depth and reach of the book make it an impressive contribution to the study of gender, religion, and politics. . . . Khoja-Moolji’s creative, vivid, and nuanced textual analysis provides a convincing bulwark for her central thesis." * Reading Religion *"The book is a remarkable contribution on how sovereignty is maintained by the Pakistani state and challenged by the Taliban through the performativity of Islamo-masculinity, kinship metaphors and memory in the public culture of Pakistan." * Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific * “An interesting and engaging treatise, this book will interest scholars of Islam, gender, politics, and Pakistan.” * Economic and Political Weekly *"Khoja-Moolji’s work is an engaging and well-organized piece of literature that is remarkably relevant to not only understanding Pakistan’s current political landscape, but also today’s international relationships." * Feminist Media Studies *"Such a masterful takedown of Pakistani visions of masculinity — both state and non-state — makes Khoja-Moolji one of the clearest and most original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, South Asia, Islam and cultural and gender studies. . . .An essential read for anyone interested in imagining more hopeful and generous futures." * Dawn *"Scholars in numerous other fields—postcolonialism, gender, media, and so forth—can benefit from Khoja-Moolji’s game-changing re-theorization of sovereignty and deep investigation." * Gender & Politics *"Khoja-Moolji’s work. . . . makes a significant contribution to the understanding of gender and the contestation of sovereignty in Pakistan and more broadly, Muslim majority contexts." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Those who want to better understand the delicate but resolute efforts employed by the [Pakistani State] and other actors for nurturing consent for violence should grab a copy of Sovereign Attachments." * Strategic Analysis *"This ability to simultaneously show the strong hold of the ideas hitherto discussed as well as their fragility, while also ensuring lucid prose and cutting-edge analysis spotlights Shenila Khoja-Moolji as one of the most clear and original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, Islam, and cultural and gender studies today." * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Public Lives of Sovereignty Part One: Sovereign Islamo-Masculinities 1 • Narrating the Sovereign 2 • Identity, Alterity 3 • Competing Sovereigns Part Two: Stylizing Political Attachments 4 • Subordinated Femininities 5 • Kinship Metaphors 6 • Managing Affect Conclusion: Imbricated Sovereignties Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sovereign Attachments
Book SynopsisSovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution. Trade Review"Khoja-Moolji’s success lies in highlighting the imbrications of sovereignty with religion as well as gender. . . . Sovereign Attachments would be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of international relations, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic studies and Asian studies." * LSE Review of Books *"Khoja-Moolji’s book, with its focused context and excellent feminist analysis, illuminates the complex dynamics of sovereignty, forcing the reader to move beyond visible sovereign contests of violence and to consider those contests that occur in the cultural sphere." * Al-Raida *“Khoja-Moolji presents critical new material that contributes to debates regarding the role of emotion, kinship, and gender in political movements. . . . Sovereign Attachments is a fascinating read” * Ethos *"The interdisciplinary depth and reach of the book make it an impressive contribution to the study of gender, religion, and politics. . . . Khoja-Moolji’s creative, vivid, and nuanced textual analysis provides a convincing bulwark for her central thesis." * Reading Religion *"The book is a remarkable contribution on how sovereignty is maintained by the Pakistani state and challenged by the Taliban through the performativity of Islamo-masculinity, kinship metaphors and memory in the public culture of Pakistan." * Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific * “An interesting and engaging treatise, this book will interest scholars of Islam, gender, politics, and Pakistan.” * Economic and Political Weekly *"Khoja-Moolji’s work is an engaging and well-organized piece of literature that is remarkably relevant to not only understanding Pakistan’s current political landscape, but also today’s international relationships." * Feminist Media Studies *"Such a masterful takedown of Pakistani visions of masculinity — both state and non-state — makes Khoja-Moolji one of the clearest and most original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, South Asia, Islam and cultural and gender studies. . . .An essential read for anyone interested in imagining more hopeful and generous futures." * Dawn *"Scholars in numerous other fields—postcolonialism, gender, media, and so forth—can benefit from Khoja-Moolji’s game-changing re-theorization of sovereignty and deep investigation." * Gender & Politics *"Khoja-Moolji’s work. . . . makes a significant contribution to the understanding of gender and the contestation of sovereignty in Pakistan and more broadly, Muslim majority contexts." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Those who want to better understand the delicate but resolute efforts employed by the [Pakistani State] and other actors for nurturing consent for violence should grab a copy of Sovereign Attachments." * Strategic Analysis *"This ability to simultaneously show the strong hold of the ideas hitherto discussed as well as their fragility, while also ensuring lucid prose and cutting-edge analysis spotlights Shenila Khoja-Moolji as one of the most clear and original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, Islam, and cultural and gender studies today." * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Public Lives of Sovereignty Part One: Sovereign Islamo-Masculinities 1 • Narrating the Sovereign 2 • Identity, Alterity 3 • Competing Sovereigns Part Two: Stylizing Political Attachments 4 • Subordinated Femininities 5 • Kinship Metaphors 6 • Managing Affect Conclusion: Imbricated Sovereignties Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Fires of Gold Law Spirit and Sacrificial Labor in
Book SynopsisFires of Goldis a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa's most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal legal system to police, adjudicate, and navigate conflict in this theater of violence, destruction, and rebirth. These authorities, or shadow sovereigns, include the transnational mining company, collectivized artisanal miners, civil society advocacy groups, and significant religious figures and spiritual forces from African, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Often more salient than official bodies of government, the shadow sovereigns reveal a reconstitution of sovereign powerone that, in many ways, is generated by hidden dimensions of the legal system. Coyle Rosen also contends that spiritual forces are central in anchoring and animating shadow sovereigns as well as key forms of legal authority, economic value, and political contestation. This innovative book illuminates how the crucible of gold, itself governed by spirits, serves as a critical site for embodied struggles over the realignment of the classical philosophical triad: the city, the soul, and the sacred. Trade Review"Lauren Coyle Rosen’s compelling ethnography of a Ghanaian gold-mining city centers on the value of gold. But, as in those early modern mercantile encounters, it is also about the very logics of religion and ritual that place conflicting understandings of the value of exchange at the center of political struggles. Fires of Gold masterfully theorizes the dynamics of “liberalization,” which have occurred not just in Ghana but across the world since the late 1980s, as altered early modern ideas about the free market have reformed postcolonial welfare states." * Religiology *"Rosen’s ethnography provides important insights into the force field that structures life around Obuasi’s gold mines and goes beyond mere political and legal analysis by revealing the different forms of power, violence, and activism that complicate the success story of Ghana’s gold industry and rule-of-law system." * Allegra Laboratory *"Fires of Gold remains a dense, compelling and well-constructed ethnography that enriches the growing literature in the anthropology of resource extraction and uses an entry point on mining-related conflicts to bring together issues of labor struggles and existential precarity, spiritual controversies and religious change, political authority under constant contestation and redefinition, all ultimately shaping the uncertain future of a bustling but crisis-ridden one-company town." * Cahiers D'études Africaines *"Coyle Rosen convincingly describes the flattening of sovereignty between a diversity of actors in Obuasi that parallels a conflictual verticalisation of spiritual authorities spurred by the growth in monotheist practice. Ghana’s praised success as a liberal democracy should be read in the context of the spiritual and pragmatic violence that reshapes the state in what the author describes as ‘a re-spiritualization, or re-enchantment, of sovereignty and political life.'" * Journal of Modern African Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps Introduction 1. Artisanal Miners and Sacrificial Laws 2. Spiritual Sovereigns in the Shadows 3. Pray for the Mine 4. Fallen Chiefs and Divine Violence 5. Effigies, Strikes, and Courts Conclusion: Out of the Golden Twilight? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Other Natures
Book SynopsisAncient Greek ethnographiesdescriptions of other peoplesprovide unique resources for understanding ancient environmental thought and assumptions, as well as anxieties, about how humans relate to nature as a whole. In Other Natures, Clara Bosak-Schroeder examines the works of seminal authors such as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus to persuasively demonstrate how non-Greek communities affected and were in turn deeply affected by their local animals, plants, climate, and landscape. She shows that these authors used ethnographies of non-Greek peoples to explore, question, and challenge how Greeks ate, procreated, nurtured, collaborated, accumulated, and consumed. In recuperating this important strain of ancient thought, Bosak-Schroeder makes it newly relevant to vital questions and ideas being posed in the environmental humanities today, arguing that human life and well-being are inextricable from the life and well-being of the nonhuman world. By turning to such ancient ethnographies, we caTrade Review"Ancient ethnographies, [Bosak-Schroeder] says, can help people 'confront environmental degradation and transform their own relationships to other species.'" * Nature *"Anyone working on ancient ethnography or trying to interpret particular ethnographic accounts will want to read Other Natures for the light it sheds on those scholarly problems. Others will want to read it too, for the innovative model it presents of using modern ecological concerns to reinterpret ancient evidence." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Greek Introduction PART I. ANCIENT PERSPECTIVES 1. Sources and Methods 2. Rulers and Rivers 3. Female Feck 4. Dietary Entanglements 5. Resisting Luxury PART II. PRESENT CONCERNS 6. After the Encounter 7. Transformation in the Natural History Museum Notes References Index Locorum Index
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University of California Press Evolution of Sickness and Healing
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University of California Press The Succeeders
Book SynopsisA powerful and challenging look at what success and belonging mean in America through the eyes of Latino high schoolers. This book challenges dominant representations of the so-called American Dream, those patriotic narratives that focus on personal achievement as the way to become an American. This narrative misaligns with the lived experience of many first- and second-generation Latino immigrant youth who thrive because of the nurture of their loved ones. A story of social reproduction and change, The Succeeders illustrates how ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valuable, and who is an American are worked out by young people through their ordinary acts of striving in school and caring for friends and family. In this eye-opening book, Andrea Flores examines how ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valued, and who is considered to be an American are worked out by young people through ordinary acts of striving in school and caTrade Review"Through its focus on Latinx youth in the South, The Succeeders makes a much-needed contribution to studies on Latinx communities, immigration, and education." * CHOICE *"Flores skillfully presents a regional landscape of how Latina/o students currently experience belonging and through their critiques incite us to consider what belonging could be." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. "Be Somebody": The Stakes of Academic Achievement Part I Contexts of Belonging 1. City of Success: Living and Learning in Music City Part II Learning to Belong 2. Mowing the Lawn and Getting Pregnant: Latinidad and Educational Exceptionalism 3. "Your Story Is Your Ticket": Becoming a Moral Minority and Reproducing Exclusion Part III Unlearning to Belong 4. "Their Name Is Also Written on My Diploma":Striving for Parental Inclusion 5. "Education with Her Family": Caring for Siblings and Redefining Success 6. Somos Una Familia: Transforming Belonging and Making Friends into Family Conclusion. Graduations Appendix: The Succeeders Program Notes References Index
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University of California Press Coincidences Synchronicity Verisimilitude and
Book SynopsisMost people have a story to tell about a remarkable coincidence that in some instances changed the course of their lives. These uncanny occurrences have been variously interpreted as evidence of divine influence, fate, or the collective unconscious. Less common are explanations that explore the social situations and personal preoccupations of the individuals who place the most weight on coincidences. Drawing on a variety of coincidence stories, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson builds a case for seeing them as allegories of separation and lossrevealing the hope of repairing sundered lives, reconnecting estranged friends, reuniting distant kin, closing the gap between people and their gods, and achieving a sense of emotional and social connectedness with others in a fragmented world.Table of ContentsPreface Time to Time A World in a Grain of Sand Lost and Found Synchronicity and Suffering The Other Portion Correspondences Ships That Pass in the Night Chance Meeting Coincidence and Theodicy Amazing Grace About Time March 15, 2019 Person to Person Confluences Love It So Happened That . . . Contrived Coincidences The Double Chinese Boxes Autumn Leaves Magdalene of the Black Rose All the Birds of the Air Place to Place The Relativity of Our Viewpoints As Time Goes By Pieces of Music Strangers on a Train The Lost Child In the Nature of Things Il Ritorno in Patria Affective Coincidences Coincidence and Fate The Question of Verisimilitude Coda Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press Coincidences
Book SynopsisMost people have a story to tell about a remarkable coincidence that in some instances changed the course of their lives. These uncanny occurrences have been variously interpreted as evidence of divine influence, fate, or the collective unconscious. Less common are explanations that explore the social situations and personal preoccupations of the individuals who place the most weight on coincidences. Drawing on a variety of coincidence stories, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson builds a case for seeing them as allegories of separation and lossrevealing the hope of repairing sundered lives, reconnecting estranged friends, reuniting distant kin, closing the gap between people and their gods, and achieving a sense of emotional and social connectedness with others in a fragmented world.Table of ContentsPreface Time to Time A World in a Grain of Sand Lost and Found Synchronicity and Suffering The Other Portion Correspondences Ships That Pass in the Night Chance Meeting Coincidence and Theodicy Amazing Grace About Time March 15, 2019 Person to Person Confluences Love It So Happened That . . . Contrived Coincidences The Double Chinese Boxes Autumn Leaves Magdalene of the Black Rose All the Birds of the Air Place to Place The Relativity of Our Viewpoints As Time Goes By Pieces of Music Strangers on a Train The Lost Child In the Nature of Things Il Ritorno in Patria Affective Coincidences Coincidence and Fate The Question of Verisimilitude Coda Acknowledgments Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Insistent Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Insistent Life is an exciting and thought-provoking contribution to the field of Jain studies, particularly because it draws on an impressive array of sources to think about how a minority religious tradition many thousands of years old can (and should) participate in modern, complicated debates about human life." * Reading Religion *"This compelling book brilliantly illustrates how an ancient minority religious tradition like Jainism can be used to deliberate on modern bioethical issues, debates, and discussions, making it an illustrious contribution to bioethics and Jain studies." * Religious Studies Review *
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University of California Press The United States of War
Book Synopsis2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, HistoryA provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today's costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. InThe United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world's largest-ever collection of foreign military basesa global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country's relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today's multi-trilliondollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American warswhich have left millions dead, wounded, and displacedwhile offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.Trade Review"A wide-ranging survey of the American way of war, expensive and incessant, in support of an empire we’re not supposed to have. . . . Vine offers much to ponder about our militarized foreign policy and its deep antecedents." * Kirkus Reviews *"Military expansion, war without end, and the pervasiveness of violence in American lives: Vine offers countless insights into this uniquely American way of war." * Foreword Reviews *"While the idea that the global expansion of military bases corresponds with the rise of US empire may seem obvious, this book convincingly shows that it is both consequence and cause. Vine brilliantly documents the way widespread global military positions—which are always sold to the public as defensive—are, by their very nature, offensive and become their own self-fulfilling ecosystems of conquest. . . . One walks away convinced that the US empire and its global network of bases must be dismantled if we are to have any hope of putting a stop to the devastating cycle of endless US wars and meddling." * Jacobin *“I hope every person on earth reads The United States of War.” * War is a Crime *"Provides a comprehensive history of Washington’s quest for empire. . . . The United States of War is a unique history text. Convincing in its portrayal of US military bases as both the outposts of empire and the remote supplier to the troops whose mission is to maintain and expand that empire, the timeline the author constructs is one that argues the US has always been an imperial nation—and not by some accident or circumstance of history." * CounterPunch *"A sweeping indictment of the nation’s heavily militarized foreign policy, including the nearly incalculable costs, financial as well as moral, that have been exacted both at home and abroad. . . . The definitive account of the history of U.S. overseas bases and their role in the history of American militarism." * Washington Report on Middle East Affairs *“Revelatory. . . . By identifying the link between bases and war, Vine has found a simple and possibly powerful lever with which to move . . . large structural forces. You want peace? Close the bases. Fewer overseas outposts would mean fewer provocations for foreign anger, fewer targets for attacks, and fewer inducements for Washington to solve its problems by using force.” -- Daniel Immerwahr, * The Nation *"Wonderful and disturbing. . . . Encyclopedic in its coverage. . . . I highly recommend the book. It roused even me, a lifetime pacifist and antiwar activist, to increased awareness of the profound extent and impact of US bases and wars on both the United States and the rest of the world. The book is an extremely useful (and therefore very depressing) compendium of what can rightfully be called the US war machine and empire." * Anthropology and Humanism *"David Vine’s book, enriched by a series of maps, is not just a history book based on a mere chronological sequence of events. It also gives voice to some of the people who were affected by US expansionist policy. The interviews collected during many years of research make this book an important resource not only for all scholars interested in geopolitics and US history, but also for all people who want to understand the reason for so many conflicts around the world and the evolution of American imperialism." * Houston Review of Books *"Make[s] it quite clear that war on other peoples and nations is the defining element of the United States, its past, its present and probably its future. It’s a very tall order, but Vine makes it clear that preventing US wars overseas begins by closing US bases overseas." * Counter Punch *"In explaining the nation's permawar reality, Vine makes a profoundly important contribution to educators as well as to activists and advocates who challenge the nation's engrained militarism." * Peace & Change *"One of the most illuminating studies of how the US' empire of forts and bases developed and works." * The Wire *"The United States of War is for anyone who wants to find a single source for an encompassing yet relatively concise overview of the ceaseless intervention and aggression by the United States, from its racist, colonial roots, to its extractive, deadly activities from bases around the world today." * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"The United States of War is a clarion call for fundamental transformation of U.S. society and culture away from militarism." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface A Note on Language and Terminology Introduction: “If We Build Them, Wars Will Come” Part I Imperial Succession 1. Conquest 2. Occupied Part II Expanding Empire 3. Why Are So Many Places Named Fort? 4. Invading Your Neighbors 5. The Permanent Indian Frontier 6. Going Global Part III imperial transitions 7. The Military Opens Doors 8. Reopening the Frontier Part IV Global Empire 9. Empire of Bases 10. The Spoils of War 11. Normalizing Occupation 12. Islands of Imperialism 13. The Colonial Present 14. Building Blowback Part V Hyperimperialism 15. Did the “Cold War” End? 16. Out-of-Control War 17. War Is the Mission Conclusion: Ending “Endless Wars” Gratitude and Thanks Appendix: U.S. Wars, Combat, and Other Combat Actions Abroad Notes Suggested Resources Index
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University of California Press Passport Entanglements
Book SynopsisPassport Entanglements traces the many tangled threadspolitical, historical, economic, global, and localthat are tied to the existence of Indonesianaspalor real but fake passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate's attempts to regularize or clean up (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate riTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Terms and Abbreviations 1. Passports and Ethnographic Entanglements 2. Ethnographer and Interlocutor 3. Care and Control 4. Real and Fake 5. State and Society 6. Migrant and Citizen 7. Temporalities and Scales References Index
£63.90
University of California Press Passport Entanglements
Book SynopsisPassport Entanglements traces the many tangled threadspolitical, historical, economic, global, and localthat are tied to the existence of Indonesianaspalor real but fake passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate's attempts to regularize or clean up (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate riTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Terms and Abbreviations 1. Passports and Ethnographic Entanglements 2. Ethnographer and Interlocutor 3. Care and Control 4. Real and Fake 5. State and Society 6. Migrant and Citizen 7. Temporalities and Scales References Index
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University of California Press Being Single in India
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women living in India, examining what makes living outside marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, the book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides, from urban professionals and rural day laborers, to those who identify as heterosexual and lesbian, to others who evaded marriage both by choice and by circumstance. For women in India, complex social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to their lives and decisions, and evading marriage is often an unintended conseTrade Review"The book strikes a balance between examining the challenges as well as the possibilities of being single. . . . Lamb’s discussion of what makes a woman unmarriageable is both poignant and relevant." * Anthropology & Aging *"No doubt this book is a must read for scholars, students as well as a non-specialist audience interested in studying gender, sexuality, marriage and social change in India." * Contributions to Indian Sociology Journal *
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University of California Press Joy and Pain
Book SynopsisA poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black peopleand how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. At the Southern California Librarya community organization and an archive of radical and progressive movementsthe author meets a young man, Marley. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it embraces social visions of radical freedom that allow the pursuit of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. Structured as a record collection of five albums, this innovative book relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In Joy and Pain, Marley's experiencesTrade Review"Lively discussions of Black musicians including Ice Cube and Kendrick Lamar pepper the narrative, as do deep dives into the tactics and strategies of advocacy groups such as the Black Panther Party and the California Housing and Action Network. Progressive activists will savor this in-depth portrait of the struggle for justice." * Publishers Weekly *"A creative, intimate ethnography centering on Marley, a charismatic and smart teen but reluctant protagonist. . . . The result is a gripping, up-close portrait of how the carceral state in LA makes Black life so precarious. . . . This innovative, intimate book examines Marley’s joy and pain as he encounters a web of precarity created by housing, education, health care, and social services. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"A work of narrative storytelling, careful historical detail, and [an] homage to a community library that holds together many threads of hope within a system of destruction." * Journal of African American History *"Joy and Pain is a book whose message, dynamic depictions, and political intervention will be appreciated for its clarity and conviction by anyone interested in unpacking the fictions that create and sustain social inequality and the multilayered truths that challenge it." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Look at California ALBUM 1: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT A Side: A Place Called Home B Side: Manufacturing a Problem ALBUM 2: THE HEART OF REBELLION A Side: A True Education B Side: Watts to the Future ALBUM 3: ALL THAT GLITTERS A Side: Nonprofit Management B Side: All Power to the People ALBUM 4: CRUEL AND BEAUTIFUL A Side: Shelter from Paradise B Side: Socialist Visions ALBUM 5: LIBERATORY VIBES A Side: Freedom Ain’t Free B Side: The Price of Freedom Closing Note: Freedom on the Mind Grounding Materials Works Cited Illustration Credits Index
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University of California Press Ways of Eating
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a study that arcs gracefully from our changing understanding of the Neolithic Revolution to the era of genetically modified organisms, fast food, Slow Food, and environmental depletion, the focus is forward-facing." * World of Fine Wine *"Food has always provided ways of expressing cultural identity, regional differences, degrees of sophistication and economic status. Wurgaft and White trace these processes over centuries and across the globe. Their conclusions are both celebratory and thought-provoking." * Inside Story *"[A]t its heart, Ways of Eating is a love letter to the anthropology and history of food." * Current *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction VIGNETTE 1 Duccio’s Eden CHAPTER 1 Nature and Culture in the Origins Of Agriculture VIGNETTE 2 Akashiyaki at Nishi-Akashi CHAPTER 2 Staple Empires of the Ancient World VIGNETTE 3 Coffee and Pepper CHAPTER 3 Medieval Tastes VIGNETTE 4 Before Kimchi CHAPTER 4 The Columbian Exchange, or, the World Remade VIGNETTE 5 The Spirit Safe CHAPTER 5 Social Beverages and Modernity VIGNETTE 6 Authenticity in Panama CHAPTER 6 Colony and Curry VIGNETTE 7 The Icebox CHAPTER 7 Food’s Industrial Revolution VIGNETTE 8 Bricolage CHAPTER 8 Twentieth-Century Foodways, or, Big Food and Its Discontents VIGNETTE 9 Nem on the Menu CHAPTER 9 Ways of Eating Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£21.60
University of California Press Sounding the Indian Ocean
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Sounding the Indian Oceanis the first volume to integrate the fields of ethnomusicology and Indian Ocean studies. Drawing on historical and ethnographic approaches,the book explores what music reveals about mobility, diaspora, colonialism, religiousnetworks, media, and performance.Collectively, the chapters examine different ways the Indian Ocean might be heard outside of a reliance on colonial archives and elite textual traditions, integrating methods from music and sound studies into the history and anthropology of the region. Challenging the area studies paradigmwhich has long cast Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as separate musical culturesthe book shows how music both forms and crosses boundaries in the Indian Ocean world.
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University of California Press Textures of Terror
Book SynopsisInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration. Part memoir and part forensic investigation,Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemalaand how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in postconflict countries where violence never ended. Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, inTrade Review"A scathing critique of a dysfunctional justice system, the willful incompetence of those charged with upholding women’s rights and a cast of institutional actors who seem hostile to the very idea of justice." * ReVista *"Sanford has woven Textures of Terror into a testimonio that draws on the emotional power of the stories she witnessed to demand a response to the larger tragedy of feminicide in Guatemala, and the ongoing refusal or impossibility of the government to address it." * NACLA *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Dramatis Personae Introduction 1 The Night Claudina Isabel Did Not Come Home 2 Esperanza’s Story: Sold at 12 3 Cycles of Violence 4 #TengoMiedo (#IAmAfraid) 5 Paradise for Killers 6 Marked Women 7 Bittersweet Justice Notes References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The History of the Family
Book SynopsisThe History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations.Table of ContentsThe meaning of family; the role of the ancestors; the politics of family; the arranged marriage; the nature of passion; the economics of the household; the rise of domesticity.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Anthropological Linguistics
Book SynopsisAnthropological linguistics is concerned with the place of language in its social and cultural context. This book provides a review of research questions which span the disciplines of linguinitics and anthropology, yet presents a biologically based view of this cross-disciplinary field.Trade Review"Foley's book illustrates quite convincingly that 'Linguistics without anthropology is sterile, anthropology without linguistics is blind'(Hockett 1973: 675)" Gunter Senft, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics "I applaud Foley for having overcome one of the main constraints of structuralist - inspired approaches to analysis." Peter Muhlhausler, University of AdelaideTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Introduction. 1. Introduction. Part II: The Evolution of Language. 2. The Evolution of Language. Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind. 3. Mind, Universals and the Sensible World. 4. Structuralism. 5. Cognitive Anthropology. 6. Kinship. 7. Color. Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind. 8. On Relativist Understanding. 9. Models and Metaphors. 10. Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition. 11. Space. 12. Classifiers. Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking. 13. Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples. 14. Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood. 15. Language and Gender. 16. Language and Social Position. 17. Language and Socialisation. 18. Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art. Part VI: Culture and Language Change. 19. Contact Induced Language Change. 20. Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering. 21. Literacy. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cultural Politics
Book SynopsisGlenn Jordan and Chris Weedon look at the role of culture in reproducing and contesting social relations of class, gender and race. They focus on relationships between culture, subjectivity, and power, in what is the first comprehensive introduction to contemporary cultural politics. * Whose culture shall be the official one and whose shall be subordinated? * What cultures shall be regarded as worthy of display and which shall be hidden? * Whose history shall be remembered and whose forgotten? * What images of social life shall be projected and which shall be marginalized? * What voices shall be heard and which shall be silenced? * Who is representing whom and on what basis? * How can marginalized and oppressed people be empowered to change their social position? * What is cultural democracy and how can it be achieved? These key questions are among the radical issues Cultural Politics addresses, through case studiTrade Review"With exemplary clarity, this book explains what cultural politics are, explores the history of their emergence in twentieth-century Marxist, feminist and anti-racist thought and practice and reviews the most important contests in recent cultural theory. I have no doubt that it will be an important intellectual resource for teachers and students in all areas of the study of culture." Steven ConnorTable of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Mapping the Terrain:. 1. Introduction: What are Cultural Politics?. 2. Liberals and Humanists, Cosmopolitans and Eurocentrics: on the Development of Cultural Policy in Britain. Part II: The Cultural Politics of Class:. 3. Writing as a Weapon in Class Struggle: Radical Cultural Politics in Britain to the Second World War. 4. Marxist Cultural Politics in Eastern Europe: the Case of the German Democratic Republic. 5. Whose History is it? Class, Cultural Democracy and Constructions of the Past. Part III: The Cultural Politics of Gender:. 6. Feminism and the Cultural Politics of Gender. 7. Alternative Subjectivities: White Feminist Fiction. 8. Gender, Racism and Identity: Black Feminist Fiction. Part IV: The Cultural Politics of Race:. 9. Marking Difference, Asserting Power: the Cultural Politics of Racism. 10. Primitives, Politics and the Avant-garde. 11. Dialogues: Race and the Cultural Politics of the Avant-garde. 12. Encounters: Postcolonial Artists and the Art Establishment. 13. From Primitivism to Ethnic Art: Neo-colonialism in the Metropolis. 14. Racism, Culture and Subjectivity: Australian Aboriginal Writing. Part V: Concluding Reflections:. 15. The Postmodernist Challenge/Challenging Postmodernism: a Cultural Politics for Today. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names and Voices. Subject Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture
Book SynopsisCovers a period from c 1450 onwards and attempts to serve the needs of readers whose interests lie beyond the boundaries of Irish culture. This book offers insight into those subjects such as literature, and political history. It features coverage of architecture, music, painting, and other arts, with stress upon their European contexts.Trade Review"Particularly good entries may be found on 'Censorship', 'Suburbs', 'Historians terms', 'Medicine, contributions to', Copyright and piracy in the eighteenth century' and 'Colonisation, theories of', to take just a random selection. The panel of contributors seems very strong and the editor's remarks on them as a body are very interesting. The work is comprehensively indexed (hooray)." Peter J. Guilding, Reference Reviews "McCormack presents a fascinating snapshot of modern Ireland. With its emphasis on Irish culture beyond Yeats and Heaney, this is an invaluable addition to any reference collection." J.J. Doherty, Northern Arizona University "The Companion is a bounteous compilation, from which students and casual readers alike will emerge with a far healthier idea of what has constituted Irish culture in the modern era."The Times Higher Education Supplement "The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture, edited by W. J. McCormack is particularly useful for basic information on interdisciplinary terms, movements, and other topics. A thorough topic index aids access." Choice "Like most books from this publisher, the Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture is a handsome volume. In its outward appearance, the Companion is an object that book-buying people almost automatically covet". Anglia: Zeitschrift fur Englische PhilologieTable of ContentsIllustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. A-Z Entries. Appendix. Select Bibliography of Recent Publications. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Approaches to Discourse
Book Synopsis* provides guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics. * compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory.Trade Review"Deborah Schiffrin has written a rigorous yet accessible description and comparison of various approaches to the analysis of discourse." Pragmatics Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments. Part I: The Scope of Discourse Analysis. 1. Overview. 2. Definitions of Discourse. Part II: Approaches to Discourse Analysis. 3. Speech Act Theory. 4. Interactional Sociolinguists. 5. The Ethnography of Communication. 6. Pragmatics. 7. Conversation Analysis. 8. Variation Analysis. Part III: Conclusion. 9. Structure and Function. 10. Text and Context. 11. Discourse and Communication. 12. Conclusion: Language as Social Interaction. Appendix 1: Collecting Data. Appendix 2: Transcription Conventions. Appendix 3: Sample Data. Bibliography. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sport in Britain 19452000
Book SynopsisAn account of the changing nature of sport in Britain since the end of World War II. The book examines: the changing patterns of participation; commercialization; the role of the media in promoting sport and its stars; and Britain's role in international sport and its attendant political problems.Trade Review"Any book by Holt or Mason is recommended reading, but one by Holt and Mason is mandatory as this book has proved ... I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I learnt much and congratulate Holt and Mason on a fine publication." British Journal of Teaching Physical Education Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Playing and Watching. 2. Reconstruction, 1945-1952. 3. Amateurism. 4. The Professionals. 5. Media and Celebrity. 6. Civic and National Identity. 7. Governments and Sport. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sport in Britain 19452000
Book Synopsis* Explores British sport as experienced by those who watched it, played it, wrote and talked about it. * Gives equal attention to the post--war years and to the more immediate present. * Includes discussion of women, ethnic minorities, and the disabled within the general text rather than treating them separately.Trade Review"Any book by Holt or Mason is recommended reading, but one by Holt and Mason is mandatory as this book has proved ... I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I learnt much and congratulate Holt and Mason on a fine publication." British Journal of Teaching Physical Education Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Playing and Watching. 2. Reconstruction, 1945-1952. 3. Amateurism. 4. The Professionals. 5. Media and Celebrity. 6. Civic and National Identity. 7. Governments and Sport. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Peoples of the Middle Niger
Book SynopsisThe Peoples of the Middle Niger This book provides the first comprehensive history of the peoples of the Middle Niger written by an English-speaking scholar. The Island of Gold' was the medieval Muslim and later European name for a fabled source of gold and other tropical riches. Although the floodplain of the Niger river lies far from the goldfields, the mosaic of peoples along the Middle Niger created a wealth of grain, fish, and livestock that supported some of Africa's oldest cities, including Timbuktu. These ancient cities of the region that came to be known as Western Sudan were founded without outside stimulation and their inhabitants long resisted the coercive, centralized state that characterized the origins of earliest towns elsewhere. In this book, Roderick James McIntosh uses the latest archaeological and anthropological research to provide a bold overview of the distant origins of life for the inhabitants of the Middle Niger, and an explanation for theTrade Review"McIntosh's contribution is an immensely scholarly and in some ways a subversive book. The great strength of McIntosh's book is in its implicit demand that we re-examine the comfortable old taxonomies." History Today "A splendid achievement ... this volume sets a new standard of thoroughness in the presentation of West African history." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African StudiesTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures. List of Maps. Preface. 1. Riches Beyond Lucre, The Island of Gold. 2. The Dry Basins of the Middle Niger. 3. Historical Imagination: 4100 BP. 4. Peoples of the Four Live Basins. 5. Historical Imagination: 300 BC. 6. Penetration of the Deep Basins. 7. Historical Imagination: AD 400. 8. Prosperity and Cities. 9. Historical Imagination: AD 1000. 10. The Imperial Tradition. 11. Historical Imagination: AD 1472. 12. Epilogue: Resilience of an Original Civil Society?. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Origins of Human Disease
Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the diseases of humankind and their causes from earliest times to the present day. It is a tour de force drawing upon the authora s extensive work on the history of infection, as well upon evidence drawn from archaeology, history and demography.Table of ContentsPart One: Disease History ; 1. Hunting and Gathering ; 2. Agriculture ; 3. Industry ; Part Two: Disease Origins, Introduction ; 4. Prenatal Diseases ; 5. Diseases Due to Deficiencies and Hazards: Diseases of Poverty ; 6. Diseases Due to Maladaptation and Hazards: Diseases of Affluence ; Part Three: Disease Control, Introduction ; 7. Prenatal Diseases ; 8. Diseases of Poverty ; 9. Diseases of Affluence ; Conclusions.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Racist Culture
Book SynopsisRacist Culture offers an anti-essentialist and non-reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity throughout modernity. He shows that rascisms are often not aberrant or irrational but consistent with prevailing social conceptions, particularly of the reasonable and the normal. He shows too how this process is being extended and renewed by categories dominant in present day social sciences: the West; the underclass; and the primitive. This normalization of racism reflected in the West mirrors South Africa an its use and conception of space. Goldberg concludes with an extended argument for a pragmatic, antiracist practice.Trade Review"It is a significant and much needed contribution to studies of racism. As an advance on the existing literature, it is unusually important. Its scholarship is impressive, it is highly readable and it will be of widespread interest among scholars and students.... should also be of interest to general readers." Peter Fitzpatrick, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of Kent at Canterbury Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction: Racial Subjects. 2. Modernity, Race and Morality. 3. Racialized Discourse. 4. The Masks of Race. 5. Racist Exclusions. 6. Racisms and Rationalities. 7. Racial Knowledge. 8. Polluting the Body Politic: Race and Urban Location. 9. Taking Race Pragmatically. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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