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Book Synopsisaeo An exciting new book by one of the leading social and feminist theorists writing today. aeo Brings together Barretta s work on key issues in the social sciences and humanities. aeo Highly original and interdisciplinary.Trade Review"In this lucid book, Barrett engages timely issues in great range and depth: humanism, anti-humanism, and ecological responsibility; the disciplinary constitution of objects of study and the writerliness of theory; the relationship of politics and aspiration. Contesting all reductionisms, Michele Barrett is acutely aware of but not paralysed by her own "disciplinary cathexis". She supplements Marxism, interacts with post-structuralism, situates postmodernism in postmodernity, and remains firmly focused on historical change within feminism. She brings us all the way into popular culture - Star Trek and Ken Follett - and ends with a virtuoso encounter between Virginia Woolf and Michel Foucault." Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "Imagination has not been contemporary social theory's strongest suit. Michele Barrett is one of the few theorists who has consistently argued for thee importance of this interface and in these elegantly written, lucidly formulated, vigorously argued essays on a variety of cognate themes, she develops and enlarges her exploration of this complex terrain of enquiry." Stuart Hall "In this astute and lively book, Michèle Barrett takes the reader on a memorable and informed trip through the highs and lows of twentieth-century culture and its analysis. Framed by two challenging and entertaining essays on Virginia Woolf - as she encountered Freud and might have encountered Foucault - Imagination in Theory explores the dynamism of the century-association of literature and theory, and provides one of the best arguments for the productive energy of that alliance." Cora Kaplan "She writes with clarity and elegance about complex issues and is a pleasure to read. This is a useful collection of her interdisciplinary work for both the uninitiated and those already acquainted with her fascination for the juncture between culture, creativity, theorizing and sociology." Melanie Mauthner, Feminist Theory. "Another impressive book, Imagination in Theory which contains eleven engaging essays that take culture, theory and writing as themes." Years Work in Critical Cultural TheoryTable of Contents1. Introduction: Culture, Theory, Writing. 2. Words and Things. 3. Virginia Woolf: Subjectivity and Politics. 4. Aesthetics and Cultural Criticism. 5. Feminism and Cultural Politics. 6. The Concept of 'Difference'. 7. Psychoanalyses and Feminisms. 8. Rethinking the Marxist/Feminist Encounter. 9. Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies. 10. Human Nature. 11. Virginia Woolf Meets Michel Foucault. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo An exciting new book by one of the leading social and feminist theorists writing today. aeo Brings together Barretta s work on key issues in the social sciences and humanities. aeo Highly original and interdisciplinary.Trade Review"In this lucid book, Barrett engages timely issues in great range and depth: humanism, anti-humanism, and ecological responsibility; the disciplinary constitution of objects of study and the writerliness of theory; the relationship of politics and aspiration. Contesting all reductionisms, Michele Barrett is acutely aware of but not paralysed by her own "disciplinary cathexis". She supplements Marxism, interacts with post-structuralism, situates postmodernism in postmodernity, and remains firmly focused on historical change within feminism. She brings us all the way into popular culture - Star Trek and Ken Follett - and ends with a virtuoso encounter between Virginia Woolf and Michel Foucault." Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "Imagination has not been contemporary social theory's strongest suit. Michele Barrett is one of the few theorists who has consistently argued for thee importance of this interface and in these elegantly written, lucidly formulated, vigorously argued essays on a variety of cognate themes, she develops and enlarges her exploration of this complex terrain of enquiry." Stuart Hall "In this astute and lively book, Michèle Barrett takes the reader on a memorable and informed trip through the highs and lows of twentieth-century culture and its analysis. Framed by two challenging and entertaining essays on Virginia Woolf - as she encountered Freud and might have encountered Foucault - Imagination in Theory explores the dynamism of the century-association of literature and theory, and provides one of the best arguments for the productive energy of that alliance." Cora Kaplan "She writes with clarity and elegance about complex issues and is a pleasure to read. This is a useful collection of her interdisciplinary work for both the uninitiated and those already acquainted with her fascination for the juncture between culture, creativity, theorizing and sociology." Melanie Mauthner, Feminist Theory. "Another impressive book, Imagination in Theory which contains eleven engaging essays that take culture, theory and writing as themes." Years Work in Critical Cultural TheoryTable of Contents1. Introduction: Culture, Theory, Writing. 2. Words and Things. 3. Virginia Woolf: Subjectivity and Politics. 4. Aesthetics and Cultural Criticism. 5. Feminism and Cultural Politics. 6. The Concept of 'Difference'. 7. Psychoanalyses and Feminisms. 8. Rethinking the Marxist/Feminist Encounter. 9. Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies. 10. Human Nature. 11. Virginia Woolf Meets Michel Foucault. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Joas is one of Germanya s leading social theorists today. aeo This book is a major study and re--evaluation of the theories of action. aeo As well as surveying past and current debates, it also offers a new theory of the creative character of human activity.Trade Review"A masterful comprehensive rethinking of the theory of action that interweaves sociological and philosophical motifs. Joas sharply criticizes prevailing understandings of "rational" and "normatively oriented" concepts of action. He explores the fundamentals of a theory of creative action that draws its inspiration from the pragmatic investigations of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, but systematically develops their insights in novel ways. The scope, insight, and lucidity of Joas's subtle argument are truly impressive. This is an exemplar of sociological imagination at its best." Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research "This is a most outstanding book: erudite, profound, and inclusive on a most important subject. A must for scholars in many fields." Amitai Etzioni, author of The Spirit of Community "This deeply serious and intelligent book embodies sociological theorizing at its best. Joas tackles the most difficult theoretical, empirical, and moral questions of the day, and he comes up with answers that compel attention. The Creativity of Action is a refreshing antidote to the skepticism about social science theory that marks our age." Jeffrey Alexander, University of California Los AngelesTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. The Emergence of the Theory of Action. 2. Metaphors of Creativity. 3. Situation - Corporeality - Sociality The Fundamentals of a Theory of the Creativity of Action. 4. Creative Democracy. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and up-to-date account of the developments in British education from 1945 to the present day. Focuses on how and why the gender gap is closing in the British education system.Trade Review"This book is an excellent read and I have no doubt that it will become a standard text in the sociology of education. It represents the first attempt at explaining the closing gender gap (if not the emergence of a new one!) in terms of the wider social, political, cultural and economic changes in the 1980s and 1990s." Phillip Brown, School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff "There are 3 main reasons why this book is worth reading many times and from different perspectives. The first is that it brings together the long-term scholarship of three of England's leading feminist scholars in education. The second is that it is an important knowledge-based intervention in an educational debate which has claimed a high profile in media and education policy circles over the 1990s and into the 2000s. The third reason is that the book's lines of argument are conceptually and empircally rich and its conclusions provocative." British Educational Research JournalTable of ContentsPreface. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Part I: Refashioning Gender Relations. 1. Revisiting Gender in the 1990s. 2. Changing Gender Patterns in Education. 3. Challenging Victorian Values. Part II: Social Policy and Education Reform. 4. Motherhood and Women's Work in the Welfare State. 5. Schooling, Teachers and Feminism. 6. Markets, Competition and Performance. Part III: New Generations of Girls and Boys. 7. Schoolgirls and Social Change. 8. Schoolboys and Social Change. 9. Closing the Gender Gap in Education?. Authors' Note on Further Reading. References and Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise.Trade ReviewJacques Derrida has been awarded the prestigious Theodor W. Adorno-Preis, 2001Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Translator's Note. Artifactualities: Jacques Derrida. Echographies of Television: Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Chapter 1 Right of Inspection. Chapter 2 Artifactuality, Homohegemony. Chapter 3 Acts of Memory: Topolitics and Teletechnology. Chapter 4 Inheritances – and Rhythm. Chapter 5 ‘Cultural Exception': the States of the State, the Event. Chapter 6 The Archive Market: Truth, Testimony, Evidence. Chapter 7 Phonographies: Meaning – from Heritage to Horizon. Chapter 8 Spectrographies. Chapter 9 Vigilances of the Unconscious. The Discrete Image: Bernard Stiegler. Notes

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Book SynopsisThis is a major new account of the nature of religion and its changing role in modern societies, by one of the most original French sociologists writing on religion today. In a stylish and accessible study, Hervieu--Leger addresses the problem of how to distinguish religion from other systems of meaning in modern Western society.Trade Review'This book establishes Danièle Hervieu-Léger as one of the most important contemporary sociologists of religion. In the best tradition of French Sociology, she places the problem of modern religion within a broad interpretation of modern consciousness. Her book will be a classic in the field.' Peter Berger, Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture in Boston 'The author is a noted sociologist of religion in France, and this book is yet another and very valuable, contribution to the growing literature that rejects and moves beyond the older assumption that there is a necessary connection between modernity and secularization.' First Things 'This is an interesting book that deserves a wider audience if only for its detailed consideration of the relative merits of competing religions.' American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsForeword by Gracie Davie. Introduction. Part I Doubt about the subject matter: . 1. Sociology in opposition to religion? Preliminary considerations. 2. The fragmentation of religion in modern societies. 3. The elusive sacred. Part II As our fathers believed:. 4. Religion as a way of believing. 5. Questions about tradition. 6. From religions to the religious. Part III A break in the chain:. 7. Religion deprived of memory. 8. The chain reinvented. Conclusion: Post-traditional society and the future of religious institutions. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisDemocracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor. Political equalities matter more than ever, while economic inequality is accepted almost as a fact of life. It is the separation between economic and political that lies at the heart of this book.Trade Review'In this important intervention, Anne Phillips, with her customary clarity, reconnects the case for political and economic equality without sacrificing the political recognition of difference. It may not be a fashionable argument, but it is one which needs to be read and debated widely in the face of entrenched inequalities of material and political resources.' Ruth Lister, University of Loughborough 'Anne Phillips has done it again! Which Equalities Matter? is at once a major theoretical contribution and a salutory political intervention.' Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research 'In an age of growing inequality, Anne Phillips has written a timely and important book: a politically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, energetic and circumstantial argument for reversing the trend. Egalitarianism finds here a wonderfully lively and skilful defender.' Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton ‘An important new book.' The Guardian '[A] welcome contribution to current debates.' Journal of European Area StudiesTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Democracy and Equality 1 2 Taking Difference Seriously 20 3 Does Economic Equality Matter? 44 4 From Access to Recognition 74 5 Deliberation and the Republic 99 6 Equal Yet Unequal? 124 Notes 134 Bibliography 143 Index 149

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Book SynopsisChoosing Ethnic Identity explores the ways in which people are able to choose their ethnic identities in contemporary multiethnic societies such as the USA and Britain. Notions such as adopting an identity, or self--designated terms, such as Black British and Asian American, suggest the importance of agency and choice for individuals.Trade Review"In this intellectually challenging and highly original study, Miri Song mobilizes a wide body of theoretical writing and empirical evidence, originating in both the UK and the U.S. Choosing Ethic Identity presents a new conceptual apparatus for evaluating inequality in societies increasingly confronted by manifold narratives of victimization," Steven J. Gold, Michigan State University "Miri Song has written an enormously stimulating and authoritative account of the changing nature of ethnic identity. Drawing judiciously on a wealth of material from both the US and Britain, she is able to show that the assertion of ethnic identity involves a complex set of political and social relations. Song's account of these issues should be a must for anybody who is concerned with the formation of ethnic and racial identities." John Solomos, Professor of Sociology, City University, London “Choosing Ethnic Identity makes an important contribution to a developing literature in the field of race and ethnic studies dealing with the subtleties and complexities of both radicalized and ethicized identities, and the political landscapes in which some versions of identity are erased or marginalized. Tracing the intertwining race of ethnicity in Britain and the United States, Song exposes some of the plasticity of ethnicity as 'options' in the shaping of lives and subjective and the political tensions surrounding them.....Overall, this is a readable and valuable contribution to the theorization of race and ethnicity on both sides of the Atlantic." Caroline Knowles, University of LondTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1 Ethnic identities: choices and constraints. Chapter 2 Comparing minorities’ ethnic options. Chapter 3 Negotiating individual and group identities. Chapter 4 The growth of ‘mixed race’ people. Chapter 5 The diversification of ethnic groups. Chapter 6 The second generation in a global context. Chapter 7 Debates about racial hierarchy. Chapter 8 The future of ‘race’ and ethnic identity. Notes. References. Index

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Book SynopsisReveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. Following the movement of people, culture and religion from East to West, this work breaks down the perceived opposition between Islam and Europe, showing Islam to be a part of Europe's past and present.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1 Past Encounters. 2 Bitter Icons and Ethnic Cleansing. 3 Islam and Terrorism. 4. The Taliban, the Bamiyan and Us -- the Islamic Other. Notes. References and Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisHow do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called human sciences. But these disciplines are scattered among many different departments and hold up a cracked mirror to humankind.Table of ContentsI. Phenomenology of the Will 1. Attention: A Phenomenological Study of Attention and its Philosophical Connections 2. The Unity of the Voluntary and the Involuntary as a Limit-Idea 3. The Problem of the Will and Philosophical Discourse 4. The Phenomenology of the Will and the Approach through Ordinary Language II. Semantics of Action 5. The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought 6. Freedom 7. Myth 8. The Symbolic Structure of Action 9. Human Beings as the Subject of Philosophy III. Hermeneutics of the Self 10. Individual and Personal Identity 11. Narrative Identity 12. The Paradoxes of Identity 13. Strangeness Many Times Over 14. The Addressee of Religion: The Capable Human Being

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Book SynopsisTrigger''s work integrates insights from archaeology, history, ethnology, linguistics, and geography. This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the heroic age of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evalTrade Review"Unforgettable drama and a fascinating disquisition on cultural adaptation ... a work of such historical imagination and literary quality that Trigger deserves to rank with Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and Marshall McLuhan ..." Boyce Richardson, Saturday Night. "Indispensable reading for anyone interested in Amerindian or early Canadian history. Cornelius J. Jaenen, The Canadian Historical Review.

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Book SynopsisA moving examination of the lives of three generations of Inuit women from Canada's Eastern High Arctic.Trade Review"A moving account of three generations in the arctic that sends a fascinating mixture of messages about its hardships and it riches." Hugh Brody "In this wonderful tapestry of stories, cast by memory and illuminated by wisdom, there is a mystery that sustains a powerful Inuit unity. These three life histories - elusive as the Arctic itself - shine as brightly as constellations in the long winter darkness." Canadian Geographic "An absorbing collection of stories from the lives of three Inuit women." MacLeans "An enthralling series of stories ... readers will take great delight in following the footsteps of the storytellers as they weave their way from tale to tale, some filled with sorrow, others with bewilderment and joy." Alberta News Review

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Book SynopsisIn the west, the idea of autonomy is often associated with a sense of freedom a self-interested state of being unfettered by rules or obligations to others. This original anthropological study explores a type of obedient autonomy that thrives on setbacks, blossoms as more rules are imposed, and flourishes in adversity. Obedient Autonomy analyzes this model, and explains its precepts through examining the specialized and highly organized discipline of archaeology in China.The book follows Chinese students on their journey to becoming full-fledged archaeologists in a bureaucracy-saturated environment. Often required to travel in teams to the countryside, archaeologists are uniquely obliged to overcome divisions among themselves, between themselves and their peasant-workers, and between themselves and bureaucratic officials. This analysis reveals how these interactions provide teachers of archaeology with stories used to foster obedient autonomy in their students. Moreover, it Trade ReviewThe author is pioneering a new field, using politically neutral social anthropology and its theoretical constructs to examine Chinese intellectual life. This approach makes this an important work with no lack of sound observations and it should initiate further enquiry. -- Bruce Gordon Doar * The China Quarterly, Fall 2005 *After extended research in the last nineties, Evasdottire worked out a model, or many patterns of behaviour, of archaeologists, which she illustrates with a great variety of portraits and stories. The result is of the highest interest, and very readable. The book opens new windows to understanding relationships among the Chinese, the ambitions and frustrations of the intellectuals, as well as the personal rewards of hard word and finding one’s proper place in society * Chinese Cross Currents, Summer 2005 *What stands out in this well-written and most interesting book is the lucidity and straightforward approach of its author. From experience gained as the result of intensive fieldwork, Erika Evadottir has become extremely well acquainted with the archaeology of China, and yet she has kept enough distance from her object of study to give us a confident picture of the field based on an analysis of the facts as well as a creative approach to theoretical speculation. That is why this book is not only worth reading by archaeologists interested in China but also an important contribution to research on intellectuals in China and their attitude towards the Chinese state and society. -- Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, East Asian Studies, University of Vienna * China Review International, vol.12, no.2, Fall 2006 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Autonomy and Autonomies2 The Social Contract3 The Rule of Law4 The Separation of Powers5 Majority Rule6 Interest Groups7 Minority Rights8 The Pursuit of HappinessNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons?Trade ReviewThe flavor is ethnographic and particularistic; Harrison provides many conceptual frames through which to view the experiences of her interviewees, yet their own voices come through. This retention of individuality makes the book unique, providing an unusual narrative depth. The author's command of the theoretical literature is impressive ... Highly recommended. -- C. Hendershott * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Being a Tourist 2 Making Connections 3 The Tourist Aesthetic 4 Journeying Home 5 Colouring the World’s Map 6 Coming Back Notes Travellers’ Biographies References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons?Trade ReviewThe flavor is ethnographic and particularistic; Harrison provides many conceptual frames through which to view the experiences of her interviewees, yet their own voices come through. This retention of individuality makes the book unique, providing an unusual narrative depth. The author's command of the theoretical literature is impressive ... Highly recommended. -- C. Hendershott * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Being a Tourist 2 Making Connections 3 The Tourist Aesthetic 4 Journeying Home 5 Colouring the World’s Map 6 Coming Back Notes Travellers’ Biographies References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisDeeply researched and eloquently written, Settlers on the Edge ... makes an important and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of who belongs in the North. – Farley MowatTrade ReviewSettlers on the Edge benefits from a prose style that, while sophisticated, is clear and free of jargon. Thompson presents a number of insights about late Soviet and post-Soviet society in general, and certainly about Chukotka itself. The stories of his informants are often affecting. Students and specialists in Russian history and arctic studies will find this is a most welcome addition to their libraries, as will anyone interested in anthropological research and colonial and post-colonial studies. It should appeal to a wider audience as well. -- John McCannon, Southern New Hampshire University * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Vol. 38 (2011) *Table of ContentsIllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 IntroductionPart 1: The Soviet Years, 1955-912 Northern Settlement and the Late-Soviet State3 Arctic Idyll: Living in Soviet ChukotkaPart 2: Transition to Crisis, 1991-20004 Idyll Destroyed5 Surviving without the StatePart 3: Reconstruction, 2001-56 Modernization Again: The State Returns7 Two Solitudes8 Conclusion: Practices of Belonging9 AfterwordAppendices1 List of Informants2 Glossary of Russian TermsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book offers the first comprehensive, comparative examination of Asian religions in British Columbia. Its insightful and accessible community accounts offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese religions from East and Central Asia.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Don Baker and Larry DeVriesPart 1: Traditions from South Asia1 Hindu and Other South Asian Religious Groups / Larry DeVries2 The Making of Sikh Space: The Role of the Gurdwara / Kamala Elizabeth Nayar3 Religion, Ethnicity, and the Double Diaspora of Asian Muslims / Derryl N. MacLean4 Zoroastrians in British Columbia / Rastin MehriPart 2: Traditions from Southeast Asia5 Thai and Lao Buddhism / James Placzek and Ian G. Baird6 Sri Lankan and Myanmar Buddhism / Bandu Madanayake7 Vietnamese Buddhist Organizations / Cam Van Thi Phan (aka Thich nu Tri Kha)Part 3: Traditions from East and Central Asia8 Korean Religiosity in Comparative Perspective / Don Baker9 Tibetan Religions / Marc des Jardins10 Traditional and Changing Japanese Religions / Michael Newton11 Christianity as a Chinese Belief / Li Yu12 Chinese Religions / Paul CroweConcluding Comments / Dan OvermyerSuggested ReadingsContributors

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Book SynopsisOil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes?Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North.Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet the expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that the evaluation of such projects remains rooted inTrade ReviewThis book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of barriers to procedural justice in Aboriginal communities, and it offers important lessons for regulators, policy makers, and rights advocates well beyond the Northwest Territories. Senior undergraduate or graduate students interested in anthropology, indigenous studies, or political ecology will find the work accessible and very relevant to the contemporary history of development on aboriginal lands. -- Cyrus M. Hester, Arizona State University * NICHE *Table of ContentsForeword: The Paradoxical Politics of Participatory Praxis / Graeme WynnPrefaceIntroduction: People, Land, and Pipelines1 “Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way”: The Community Hearing Process2 “A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose”: Perceptions of Industrial Impacts3 Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement4 Consultation and Other Legitimating PracticesConclusion: The Politics of ParticipationNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes?Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North.Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet the expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that the evaluation of such projects remains rooted inTrade ReviewThis book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of barriers to procedural justice in Aboriginal communities, and it offers important lessons for regulators, policy makers, and rights advocates well beyond the Northwest Territories. Senior undergraduate or graduate students interested in anthropology, indigenous studies, or political ecology will find the work accessible and very relevant to the contemporary history of development on aboriginal lands. -- Cyrus M. Hester, Arizona State University * NICHE *Table of ContentsForeword: The Paradoxical Politics of Participatory Praxis / Graeme WynnPrefaceIntroduction: People, Land, and Pipelines1 “Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way”: The Community Hearing Process2 “A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose”: Perceptions of Industrial Impacts3 Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement4 Consultation and Other Legitimating PracticesConclusion: The Politics of ParticipationNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisSaving the Nation through Culture tells the little-known story of how a group of Chinese scholars attempted to use “low culture” to promote national unity during a long period of crisis.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Seeking a Solution for the Nation: The Folklore Movement’s Origins at National Peking University2 Carrying on amidst Chaos: Establishment of Folklore Studies in South China3 Developing an Excellent Situation: The Spread of the Folklore Movement in China4 Breaking with the Past: The Folklore Movement in WartimeConclusionAppendices; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisSince the civil war of the 1970s, Cambodia has suffered devastating upheavals that killed a million ' people and exiled hundreds of thousands. This book is the first to examine Cambodian culture after the ravages of the Pol Pot regime-and to bear witness to the transformation and persistence of tradition among contemporary Cambodians at home...Trade ReviewCambodian Culture Since 1975 is a significant and much-needed contribution to... a rekindling of interest in Khmer studies. For Khmer specialists, Southeast Asian studies scholars and generalists, this highly readable, sensitively written collection of essays is indispensable.... This book has a wealth of ethnographic information and analysis to offer those interested in Khmer studies and those looking for comparative material on diasporic and holocaust experiences, as well as scholars with an interest in Southeast Asian culture.... For any discussion of Cambodia's attempts to come to grips wth its past and look into the future, this book is a valuable and empathetic repository of information that will serve as a model for future work. -- Bonnie Brereton * Khosana *

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Book SynopsisIn Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union.Trade ReviewHirsch does not simply... posit another ideological or epistemological model of Soviet history. She instead provides a completely new kind of analysis. Her book is more than an innovative study of high quality; it stakes out a position that cannot fail to have a long-standing impact on the historiography of the Soviet state. -- Marina Mogil'ner * Ab Imperio *Referring to the Soviet Union as an 'empire of nations,' Hirsch demonstrates through prodigious research how ethnographers from the former tsarist regime collaborated with the Leninists to shape the new state. Hers is the tale of a modernizing, self-styled scientific state that imposed categories, names, and programs on ethnic populations with relatively little say in their own fate.... Empire of Nations is an exceptionally rich book and a significant addition to the growing literature on the construction of the Soviet state. Beautifully written and clearly presented even when the story hovers on complicated administrative matters, Hirsch's account of the Soviet Union as a 'work in progress' that neither began with a blueprint nor achieved completion reaffirms the now widely accepted view of nation-formation as a process of human intervention and invention. -- Ronald Grigor Suny * The Moscow Times *This innovative and important book reinterprets the formation of the Soviet Union in the years after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Instead of focusing on the views of the Soviet leadership and the events surrounding the official formation of the Soviet Union in 1922, Hirsch takes a broader perspective on the processes involved with establishing a nationalities policy in the Soviet Union from the prerevolutionary background through the 1930s by looking at the activities of experts and local elites, among others. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One. Empire, Nation, and the Scientific State1. Toward a Revolutionary Alliance2. The National Idea versus Economic ExpediencyPart Two. Cultural Technologies of Rule and the Nature of Soviet Power3. The 1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples4. Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities5. Transforming "The Peoples of the USSR": Ethnographic Exhibits and the Evolutionary TimelinePart Three. The Nazi Threat and the Acceleration of the Bolshevik Revolution6. State-Sponsored Evolutionism and the Struggle against German Biological Determinism7. Ethnographic Knowledge and TerrorEpilogueAppendixes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant fat talk aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness to the nation, but little about the dangers of today's epidemic of fat talk to individuals and society at large. The human trauma caused by the war on fat is disturbingand it is virtually unknown. How do those who do not fit the ideal body type feel being the object of abuse, discrimination, and even revulsion? How do people feel being told they are a burden on the healthcare system for having a BMI outside what is deemedwith little solid scientific evidencehealthy? How do young people, already prone to self-doubt about their bodies, withstand the daily assault on their body type and sense of self-worth? In Fat-Talk Nation, Susan Greenhalgh tells the story of today's fight againsTrade ReviewAs Greenhalgh asks in the final pages, 'if one comment can destroy a child's life, what should we do now?' (p. 284) She offers some concrete and worthy initiatives that include dispelling biomyths, discouraging fat-talk, and banning fat-bullying (pp. 286–287). These are important suggestions that have the potential to change behaviours. * biosocieties *Her [Greenhalgh's] argument against the fat industry, presented in a Foucauldian manner, is extremely strong, particularly in the context of existing patriarchal hegemony. * Choice *In Fat-Talk Nation, Greenhalgh argues that the war on obesity is harmful to people of all sizes. Effectively appealing to logos, pathos, and ethos, she presents a range of negative effects (i.e. the human costs) the war is having on young people in the United States through weaving empirical evidence with autoethnographic essays. * Sociology of Health & Illness *Greenhalgh focuses her keen ethnographic eye on the personal narratives and the local moral worlds her students shared with her about their bodies and their struggles with fat. In a down-to-earth, accessible style, this book systematically details the many costs and unintended consequences of America's 'War on Obesity.'... Greenhalgh's smart, accessible text can be read by multiple audiences. Her formulation of fat talk, biobullying, and biomyths, etc. gives us an easy, clear vocabulary that can be used dynamically to problematize the war on fat in the public sphere and in public health. * Anthropological Quarterly *Fat-Talk Nation clearly underscores the ways in which America's war on obesity has really become a war on fat people.... Greenhalgh provides a vivid account of the intense physical and emotional suffering experienced by young people raised in an aggressively fat-phobic society, making her book a noteworthy contribution to the literature. * American Ethnologist journal *Table of ContentsPreface 1. A Biocitizenship Society to Fight Fat 2. Creating Thin, Fit Bodies 3. Obese 4. Overweight 5. Underweight 6. Normal 7. Physical and Mental Health at Risk 8. Families and Relationships Unhinged 9. Does Biocitizenship Help the Very Fat? 10. Social Justice and the End of the War on Fat Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisValley of Opportunity recreates an age when Indians, colonists, and post-Revolutionary settlers embraced a similar dream: to create a successful economy in the rural hinterland of the middle colonies. Peter C. Mancall draws on abundant evidence from seldom-used archives in the region, as well as from libraries on both sides of the Atlantic, to reconstruct their daily economic life.The author describes the varied economic transformations that took place in the area, considering these changes from an environmental as well as an economic standpoint. He shows how different groups of people perceived the resources of the region and how their perceptions shaped settlement patterns, land use, and the formation of commercial networks. Ultimately, each of the three peoples looked beyond the mountains that set the boundaries of their physical world and tried to establish ties to the larger commercial network that linked North America to Europe.Mancall offers connections bTrade ReviewValley of Opportunity is an important book. Like the region it analyzes, it moves across boundaries, providing new vistas while connecting arbitrarily divided terrains. * Journal of American History *Mancall merits commendation for his attention to ecological as well as economic revolutions, his incorporation of Indians into the transition question, and his reminder that conquest left a continental legacy. * Western Historical Quarterly *Mancall shows how valley residents tied themselves into the commercial network that linked North America to Europe. Some people prospered in this valley of opportunity, many did not, and their fates often were determined less by their own endeavors than by the forces of the Atlantic economy that reached into their world. * Ethnohistory *Mancall's central argument is that the 'economic culture’ of the backcountry was shaped by a complex interaction of physical environ- ments, local societies, and powerful developers—an encounter decided on the terms of the latter group, the agents of the greater Atlantic economy. Mancall’s is a sober and sobering thesis, underscoring the power of capital on the eighteenth-century frontier. * William and Mary Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Physical World 2. The Susquehanna Indians 3. Indian-Colonist Trade 4. The Collapse of Intercultural Trade 5. The Colonists' Economy 6. The War in the Valley 7. Postwar Economic Development Conclusion: The Economic Culture of the Revolutionary BackcountryAppendix Index

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Book SynopsisPearce presents a study of the concept of savagism as reflected in the American writings on Indians that appeared in political pamphlets, drama, poetry, and other writings.

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Book SynopsisThe Anihshininiwak, an Algonquian people who live in the remote subarctic forests of northwestern Ontario, speak a variety of Ojibwe that represents one of the most robust indigenous languages in North America. In this book, Lisa Valentine explores the language and discourse of the people of Lynx Lake, an Anihshininiwak community where every member uses the Severn Ojibwe language.For the most part, anthropologists translate, interpret, and report the discourse of the peoples they study. In this study, the Anihshininiwak speak for themselves. Valentine presents their voices as the focus of her research and a guide to their culture, which she finds to be unique in its integration of contemporary ideas and technology into a traditional lifestyle. In adapting radio and television to community service and in their approach to Native-language literacy, this singular group confirms that new technologies are not necessarily precursors to enculturation. Culture-external institutions,

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Book SynopsisIdeally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.

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Book SynopsisThis intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. This in-depth biography explores the scholarly and political aspects of Shternberg's life and how they influenced each other. It also places his career in both national and international perspectives.Trade Review"This scholarly biography of Lev Shternberg, a leading Russian anthropologist, will be of interest to his fellow social scientists as well as to followers of Russian history and especially to those concerned about the experiences of Jews in Russia during the late tsarist and early Communist years."—Jeffrey Johnson, Buffalo Jewish Review"Sergei Kan has produced a superb intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg. . . . This biography succeeds—where many do not—in bringing the complexity of the subject's identity to life within a historical context."—Jeffrey W. Jones, Ethnohistory"Kan, a professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, has produced a thorough study of Shternberg's life and influence."—Morton I. Teicher, National Jewish Post and Opinion "This long-awaited intellectual biography of the founder of the Leningrad School of Ethnography, Lev Shternberg, by Sergei Kan is a landmark study both as a biography of an influential scholar and as a foundational work in the history of Russian anthropology."—David G. Anderson, Anthropos"This is the biography of an exceptional Russian Jew. . . . It is also an exceptional introduction to the history and development of anthropology and ethnography in Russia which focuses on both the institutions and the relevant currents of thought. . . . [Kan's] intelligence and his mastery of the sources make this a model piece of research and a very valuable contribution to a number of disciplines."—Shaul Stampfer, East European Jewish Affairs"This is an important book that informs the Western audience of Lev Shternberg (1861–1927), one of the leading figures in Russian and Soviet anthropology."—Tanya Argounova-Low, SibiricaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsSeries Editors' IntroductionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Early Years2. Sakhalin3. Beginning a Professional Career in the Capital4. Scholarship and Activism during the 1905 Revolution5. The Last Decade before the Storm6. The Years of Turmoil, 1914-177. Building a New Anthropology in the “City of the Living Dead”8. The NEP Era and the Last Years of Shternberg’s Life9. All Humanity Is OneConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book Synopsis Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial hierarchy, Melville J. Herskovits (18951963) employed physical anthropology and ethnography to undermine racist and hierarchical ways of thinking about humanity and to underscore the value of cultural diversity. His research in West Africa, the West Indies, and South America documented the far-reaching influence of African cultures in the Americas. He founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies in 1948 at Northwestern University, and his controversial classic The Myth of the Negro Past delineated African cultural influences on American blacks and showcased the vibrancy of African American culture. He also helped forge the concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his book Man and His Works. While Herskovits promoted African aTrade Review"Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) played a signal role in establishing African anthropology and African studies in the American academy. . . . Herskovits's Diasporic vision has shown remarkable staying power inside and outside the academy, influencing ongoing identity politics, regardless of any inherent originality or truth. For this reason, Jerry Gershenhorn's intellectual biography, which sets Herskovits in the context of the race issue in the United States, is a welcome addition to the debate."—The Times Literary Supplement"Gershenhorn tells Herskovits’s important story with amazing insight and clarity."—John David Smith, The North Carolina Historical Review"This portrait of Melville Herskovits is a valuable introduction."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"[A] fascinating and brilliant intellectual biography. This lucid and engaging text belongs in every serious anthropology and African studies collection."—Choice"Gershenhorn's volume will very likely stand the test of time and will become the standard by which biographies of the behavioral scientists who were bedeviled by the black-white paradigm will be judged. This volume has solid foundations based on in-depth research in all of the major repositories of Africana-related human science materials, and it provides a synthesis of the vast literature in the history of the human sciences."—Vernon J. Williams, Jr., Journal of African American History

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Book SynopsisPlacing White's life and work in historic context, this book documents the sociopolitical influences that affected his career, including many aspects of White's life that are largely unknown, such as the reasons he became antagonistic toward Boasian anthropology.Trade Review"The biography's strength is in explicating White's views in the context of his personal experiences and his engagement in politics, both ideological and academic. Peace avoids adulation, despite sympathy to White's lifelong struggles; the book sagely illustrates a controversial figure in American anthropology. It will interest political scientists and historians of intellectual ideas as well as anthropologists."—Choice"An illuminating portrait of a complex figure whose ideas were ahead of their time—one whose critical role in the recent history of anthropology has been too little appreciated as other theoretical currents have gained sway."—American Ethnologist

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Book SynopsisCharts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950).Trade Review“An examination of the life and work of one of America’s most colorful linguistic anthropologists, seen against the background of the organization and funding of research on American Indian languages in the 1920s and early 1930s.”—The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas“Wendy Leeds Hurwitz has done an outstanding, even exemplary job. . . . Grounded in reliable historicism (left happily untheorized in the book), the author writes with her won clear voice and draws her own spirited conclusions. The book is well and thoughtfully structured, each of its parts contributing to a soundly argued narrative whole, and it is altogether both authoritative and good reading”—Thomas Buckley, Ethnohistory

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when anthropologists lose themselves during fieldwork while attempting to understand divergent cultures? When they stray from rigorous agendas and are forced to confront radically unexpected or unexplained experiences? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"This work is a refreshing counter to an increasingly neopositivist academy, a must-read for those interested in what a critical, phenomenological ethnography looks and feels like in anthropology today."—Leslie A. Robertson, BC Studies“In this book, thick ethnographic description, thoughtful analysis, and theoretical postulate borrowed from cognitive psychology, social psychology, anthropology, folklore and history are interwoven into a beautiful fabric so that ethnography in practice emerges in present acts as narratives about the past. . . . The result is an illuminating volume about a complex research method, imbued with spontaneity and much affected by a wide array of emotional, ethical, practical, and moral tensions and dichotomies. . . . Readers may also find it useful and interesting to go backstage with an anthropologist, and see what lies behind the finished performance.”—Gregory S. Szarycz, Anthropological Forum

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Book SynopsisFor more than a century, the Northern Arapaho people lived on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming - the fourth largest reservation in the country. This book draws together aspects of the Northern Arapahos' world - myth, language, art, ritual, identity, and history - to offer a vivid picture of a culture that has endured and changed over time.Trade Review"A remarkable work."—Wick Downing, Denver Westerners RoundupTable of ContentsIllustrationsContemporary Arapaho OrthographyPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Northern Arapahos2. The Approach3. Arapaho Persons and Relations4. The Space and Time of Life Movement5. Childhood6. The Men's Age-Grade System7. Old Age and the End of Life8. Women and Life Movement9. A Total View of Life Movement10. Changes in Age Structure and Life Movement11. Arapaho Knowledge12. Euro-American Knowledge13. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe 55 selections in this volume represent the interests and accomplishments in American anthropology from the establishment of the American Anthropologist through World War I.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: The Beginnings of Anthropology in America A. Irving Hallowell; I. The Development of Anthropology; The Nomenclature and Teaching of Anthropology Daniel G. Brinton; Comment by J. W. Powell; The World's Fair Congress of Anthropology W. H. Holmes; Recent Progress in American Anthropology Obituary of John Wesley Powell; Obituary of Frederic Ward Putnam A. L. Kroeber; II. American Indian Origins; The Views of Alfred R. Wallace on the Antiquity of Man in North America; Stone Art in America J. W. Powell; The Problems of the Unity or Plurality and the Probable Place of Origin of the American Aborigines: A Symposium; III. American Archeology; The Prehistoric Culture of Tusayan J. Walter Fewkes; A Revival of the Ancient Hopi Pottery Art Walter Hough; Some Aspects of North American Archeology Roland B. Dixon; The Relation of Archeology to Ethnology W. H. Holmes, George Grant MacCurdy, Berthold Laufer; Chronology of the Tano Ruins, New Mexico N. C. Nelson; IV. Physical Anthropology; Physical Anthropology in America: An Historical Sketch Ale' Hrdlicka; Dermal Topography: A Correspondence Francis Galton and O. T. Mason; Physical Characteristics of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast Franz Boas; Aboriginal Trephining in Bolivia Adolph F. Bandelier; Note on the Molar Teeth of the Piltdown Mandible William K. Gregory; V. Language; The Present Condition of Our Knowledge of North American Languages Pliny Earle Goddard; On Alternating Sounds Franz Boas; Preliminary Report on the Language and Mythology of the Upper Chinook Edward Sapir; Numeral Systems of the Languages of California Roland B. Dixon and A. L. Kroeber; Language and Environment Edward Sapir; VI. Ethnography; 1. Ethnographic Sketches; The Navajo A. M. Stephen; The Chukchi of Northeastern Asia Waldemar Bogoras; Preliminary Sketch of the Mohave Indians A. L. Kroeber; Notes on the Indians of Maryland, 1705-1706 D. I. Bushnell, Jr; 2. Art and Technology; On the Evolution of Ornament-An American Lesson W. H. Holmes; Primitive Copper Working: An Experimental Study Frank Hamilton Cushing; The Technic of Aboriginal American Basketry Otis T. Mason; 3. Society and Social Life; The Development of the Clan System and of Secret Societies among the Northwestern Tribes John R. Swanton; The Social Organization of American Tribes John R. Swanton; The Family Hunting Band as the Basis of Algonkian Social Organization Frank G. Speck; Family and Sib Robert H. Lowie; The Zuni A'doshle and Suuke Elsie Clews Parsons; 4. War; Coup and Scalp among the Plains Indians George Bird Grinnell; Review of Georg Friederici, Skalpieren und ahnliche Kriegsgebrauche in Amerika James Mooney; 5. Ceremonialism and Religion; Orenda and a Definition of Religion J. N. B. Hewitt; Ceremonialism in North America Robert H. Lowie; Review of Emile Durkheim, Les Formes elementaires de la vie religieuse A. A. Goldenweiser; SBETETDA'Q, A Shamanistic Performance of the Coast Salish Herman K. Haeberlin; 6. Legend and Myth; The Mythology of the Koryak Waldemar Jochelson; Native Account of the Meeting between La Perouse and the Tlingit G. T. Emmons; Review of Franz Boas, Tsimshian Mythology C. M. Barbeau; VII. Method and Theory of Ethnology; Piratical Acculturation W J McGee; Material Cultures of the North American Indians Clark Wissler; Review of Clark Wissler, The American Indian A. L. Kroeber; Review of Robert H. Lowie, Primitive Society A. L. Kroeber; The Methods of Ethnology Franz Boas

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Book SynopsisAlejandro Tsakimp tells of his lives and relationships, the practice of shamanism, and the many challenges and triumphs he has encountered since childhood.Trade Review"[A] beautiful biography... Rubenstein tells readers far more than is normally learned about anthropological fieldwork practice and the effects it has, in a mutual sense, on the roles of both investigator and informant."-Choice CHOICE "Alejandro Tsakimp, a powerful and committed shaman, and the equally determined anthropologist, Steven Rubenstein, co-operate, through Alejandro's memories of his own life, to unfold a poignant and compelling deconstruction of the exploitations created by the discourse and pursuits of the colonialism through which native peoples of Amazonia today are struggling... Rubenstein's discussions are a rich brew, strong, and sometimes deliberately provocative... The volume is highly relevant to classroom use. This is also a book that will give great enjoyment to the general anthropological audience. It is deeply relevant to ongoing heated disputes among Amazonianists."-Joanna Overing, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Maps, and Charts; Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transcription and Shuar Orthography; A Note on Shuar Names; Maps; Part 1. Introductions; 1. Meeting Alejandro; 2. History and Culture; 3. Life History; 4. Working with Alejandro; Part 2. His Stories; 5. First of All; 6. Son and Brother; 7. Student and Worker; 8. Husband and Father; 9. Shaman; 10. The Shuar Federation; 11. Friend and Enemy; 12. Orphan; Part 3. The Return; 13. At a Loss; 14. Informant; 15. Friend; Series Editors' Afterword; Charts; Cast of Characters; Glossary; Notes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This significant new study by Achim . . . analyzes the early history of the National Museum of Mexico, extending understanding of how Mexico centralized its role in debates about the development of precontact American civilizations. Achim is particularly good at analyzing how the underfunded museum was a place of active object transactions, not simply a government-supported institution that demonstrated to other nations that the modernity of a recently independent Mexico was a marker of its international status."—N. J. Parezo, Choice"From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico is a valuable addition. . . . Achim provides an engrossing account of the conflicted and contingent process through which the National Museum's early curators laid the foundations of what would evolve into one of the world's foremost museums."—Seonaid Valiant, Hispanic American Historical Review“A riveting read. Based on meticulous research and full of astute observations, this study interrogates the uncertain and fragile beginnings of one of the world’s most acclaimed museums. Miruna Achim addresses fundamental questions focused on the construction of cultural and political authority and legitimacy. It is an extraordinary achievement.”—Susan Deans-Smith, author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico “A truly outstanding contribution to the field that engages with the institution’s complex and multilayered dimensions, facets, interactions, and relations by weaving a fascinating tapestry encompassing both the private and the public. This is a rigorously researched piece of scholarship of the highest caliber.”—Will Fowler, author of Independent Mexico: The “Pronunciamiento” in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858 Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Uses of a National Museum 1. Genealogies 2. Measures of Worth 3. Collecting the Ruins of Palenque 4. Modes of Display 5. José Fernando Ramírez, Keeper of the Archive 6. Whose Museum? Epilogue: The Invention of Mexican Antiquities Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis ecological history of peasant society in the Peruvian Andes focuses on the politics of irrigation and water management in three villages whose terraces and canal systems date back to Inca times. Set in a remote valley, the book tells the story of a domination and resulting social decline.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading Social History in a Cultural Landscape 1 1. The Setting: A Valley on the Edge of "The Abyss" 17 2. Early History: Story of a Hole on the Map 39 3. Huaynacotas: Irrigation and Ethnicity in an Indigenous Community 71 4. Pampamarca: Hierarchy and Inequity in a Colonized Community 1no 5. Cotahuasi: Domination and Social Decline in a Hacienda District 150 6. A Failure of Good Intentions: The Military's Attempt at Land Reform 199 7. Failure Again: Water Reform, Drought, and the Legacy of Class Conflict 228 8. Water into Blood: Irrigation Improvement, Corruption, and the Coming of the Shining Path 273 Conclusion: The Story of Irrigation in the Andes-"Comedy" and Tragedy in the Commons 291

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. The author argues that the collapse of multinational Yugoslavia and the establishment of separate uninational states did not result from the breakdown of the political or economic fabric of the Yugoslav state; rather, that breakdown itself sprang from the destruction of the concept of a Yugoslav nation. Had such a concept been retained, a collapse of political authority would have been followed by the eventual reconstitution of a Yugoslav state, as happened after World War II, rather than the creation of separate nation-states.Because the author emphasizes nation building rather than state building, the causes and evidence he cites for Yugoslavia's collapse differ markedly from those that have previously been put forward. He concentrates on culture and cultural politics in tTrade Review“Discussing the rise and fall of Yugoslavia from a cultural point of view, that is, how the culture(s) of the country contributed to its formation and to its dissolution, this book leads to an entirely new and more accurate understanding of the tragedy of Yugoslavia.”—Vasa Mihailovich, University of North CarolinaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The rise of the Yugoslav national idea; 2. Creating a synthetic Yugoslav culture; 3. Supranational Yugoslav culture: brotherhood and unity; 4. The precipitous rise and calamitous fall of multinational Yugoslavia; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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