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Book SynopsisIn popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigré (a migrant''s wife) may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naïve dupe. Her migrant husband also faces multiple representations as profligate womanizer, conquering hero, heartless enslaver, and exploited workhorse. These depictions point to fluctuating understandings of gender, status, and power in Senegalese society and reflect an acute uneasiness within this coastal West African nation that has seen an exodus in the past thirty-five years, as more men and women migrate out of Senegal in hope of a better financial future.Marriage Without Borders is a multi-sited study of Senegalese migration and marriage that showcases contemporary changes in kinship practices across the globe engendered by the neoliberal demand for mobility and flexibility. Based on ten years of ethnographic research in both Europe and Senegal, the book examinTrade Review"In its totality, this book is a finely constructed examination of transnational Senegalese marriages . . . The author seamlessly transitions from discussions on socially constructed myths of wealthy migrants to in-depth analyses of surveillance from abroad and the tensions that arise within the domestic sphere. The scope of the book is impressive, as it covers a diverse set of complex issues like gender, class, kinship, economic standing, and cultural understandings of prestige and power, all under the conceptual framework of 'transnational marriages . . . ' This book is an excellent piece of scholarship," * African Studies Quarterly *"In Marriage without Borders, Dinah Hannaford takes us into the intimate, complex domain of transnational Senegalese marriages: the expectations, accomplishments, caring, complicity, compromises, disappointments, waiting, suspicions, and conflicts that result from spouses' separation across continents . . . Hannaford draws a vivid picture of the intricacies of the social, economic, moral, religious, caring, and sexual aspects of transnational marriage . . . [A]n engaging, illustrative, and instructive book." * International Migration Review *"Deeply researched and engagingly written, Marriage Without Borders traces how new forms of transnational kinship emerge as increasing numbers of Senegalese men migrate abroad in order to sustain their relatives who remain back home. Equally attentive to the 'women who wait' and the men who go abroad, Dinah Hannaford offers a moving portrait of what happens to conjugality when couples live separated by vast distances. Her book makes clear that we've turned a corner in studies of transnational family life, one where it is no longer possible to celebrate the interconnectedness made possible by new communications technologies without also taking into account the terrible human cost of this new way of achieving social reproduction in the contemporary world." * Jennifer Cole, University of Chicago *"Marriage Without Borders is a richly evocative account of the multiple costs of mobility under conditions of neoliberal inequality. Although focused on Senegal and Senegalese abroad, it tells a story relevant to all for whom migration has become a necessity." * Sara L. Friedman, author of Exceptional States: Chinese Immigrants and Taiwanese Sovereignty *"Marriage Without Borders engages a very important topic and Dinah Hannaford successfully communicates the problems faced by young male migrants who seek to establish their place in the world and the challenges endured by the wives they leave behind in Senegal." * Wendy Wilson-Fall, Lafayette College *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This fascinating and unique book is the result of Devaka Premawardhana'sjourney of nearly one year to explore the local response to the recent arrivalof Pentecostal churches in northern Mozambique . . . [A] rich and inspiring book, which should be read by anyone interested in African Studies and anthropology of Christianity." * African Studies Review *"Who would have thought that a book set in the middle of what is considered a quite remote location even in Mozambique-the Makhuwa area of Niassa Province-could so eloquently address important concerns relating to Pentecostalism and the enigma of change in Africa, in anthropology, and more generally? This gem of a book executes such a challenging task in highly original ways . . . [B]eautifully and compellingly written . . . Premawardhana has written a book that should-and will-have a broad impact." * Journal of Religion in Africa *"Literatures tied to themes of migration, refugees, religious conversion, and phenomenology are all brought to bear expertly. Analysis of the fluidity of rural Mozambicans' relationship to Pentecostal churches and teachings is enriched with sparing application of well-chosen theories. The author accomplishes this with nuance, and utmost respect for the human experiences that command his attention." * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"Beautifully and brilliantly written . . . an existential ethnography of the Makhuwa people of Northern Mozambique, a meditation on colonialism, globalization, modernity and the nature of Pentecostalism, a critique of cultural theory, and a fascinating narrative of 'snakebites and elephant invasions, chronic illnesses and recurring wars, disputes within families and conflicts with the state.'" * Nova Religio *"This book, no doubt, adds new, unique, and refreshing insight to the ever-growing research and publications on Pentecostalism. Not only does it examine Pentecostalism in a place where it had not been studied extensively, it does so by means of time-tested anthropological methods and theoretical frameworks. This unique approach and the vivid and enthralling narrative style make this book a must-read." * Journal of World Christianity *""Faith in Flux reminds us how intensive fieldwork and rich ethnography are not only what define anthropology but also what anthropologists draw on to challenge theoretical assumptions and make their voices heard in scholarly debates . . . Faith in Flux should be recommended not only to scholars of Christianity and Africanists but also to undergraduate and graduate students of anthropology."" * Anthropological Quarterly *"Premawardhana's book is a pleasure to read, as he seamlessly weaves the theoretical discussion into his intriguing vignettes. He discusses his own presence and reception with the people among whom he lived in a way that established credible ethnographic authority. Whether the reader is interested in constructions of conversion, Christianity and cultural adaptation, or the impact of transnational Pentecostalism in local communities, Premawardhana's work provides a valuable and detailed case study." * Pneuma *"Faith in Flux brilliantly realizes the potential of ethnography not only to illuminate other lifeworlds but to offer incisive critiques of current theoretical assumptions in religious studies and the social sciences. In lucid and enthralling prose, Devaka Premawardhana takes us deep into the world of the Makhuwa, offering new ways in which global Christianity, tradition, mobility, conversion, and social change may be understood." * Michael Jackson, author of How Lifeworlds Work: Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being *"Faith in Flux is a beautifully written and theoretically novel book that focuses on a geographical area that has been severely neglected in the anthropological record. Devaka Premawardhana amply illustrates the idea that radical renewal is neither foreign to traditional societies nor necessarily a byproduct of globalization, modernization, or Pentecostal conversion." * Ilana van Wyk, University of Cape Town *"Intersecting the study of Pentecostalism, modernity, and globalization with insights from existential anthropology, especially bodily dispositions toward mobility, Faith in Flux is a book that will no doubt lead anthropologists of Christianity to view their own work in a new light. Devaka Premawardhana challenges scholars to rethink the idea of religious conversion as a profound rupture with the past." * Sonia Silva, Skidmore College *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. Othama—To Move Chapter 1. A Fugitive People Chapter 2. Between the River and the Road PART II. Ohiya ni Ovolowa—To Leave and to Enter Chapter 3. Border Crossings Chapter 4. Two Feet In, Two Feet Out PART III. Okhalano—To Be With Chapter 5. A Religion of Her Own? Chapter 6. Moved by the Spirit Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn The Roots of Ethnicity, Ronald R. Atkinson argues that although colonial rule and its aftermath have played a major role in shaping the particular manifestations of ethnicity in Africa, many sociohistorical developments crucial to current expressions of ethnicity can be traced to a past long before the colonial period. Atkinson develops his argument through an exhaustive examination of the origins of the collective identity of the Acholi of present-day northern Uganda. His study makes clear that by the time of European conquest the essential foundations and the crucial parameters for the evolution of Acholi society and ethnic consciousness had long been established. In presenting his argument for the need to extend the existing scholarship on ethnicity in Africa beyond its twentieth-century focus, Atkinson provides what is perhaps the most detailed reconstruction and analysis yet available of the pre-1800 evolution of an African sociopolitical order. Beyond these contributions to Trade Review"An excellent book which should not only appeal to the specialist in Ugandan or Luo history but also to the general Africanist concerned with questions of ethnicity and the use of oral history/narrative." * African Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the cultural mythology of skin color during the English Renaissance.Trade Review"When did racial differences become racial prejudices? . . . Sujata Iyengar argues in this bold book that the search for a 'straightforward historical trajectory' from racialism to racism ought to be resisted. She argues that the history of 'race' as a literary, cultural, and social construct is far more polyvalent than has been previously acknowledged." * Sixteenth Century Journal *"A work of impressive scholarship." * The Historian *

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Book SynopsisIn this study of Guatemalan peasants rebuilding their lives after years in the crossfire, anthropologist Kristi Anne Stolen examines the dynamics of violence, survival strategies in situations of extreme violence, and social reconstruction in its aftermath.Trade Review"This work contributes in significant ways to the literature dealing with Guatemala as well as political violence in general. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisEthnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China''s past, the Tang had roots in Inner Asia, and its rulers continued to have complex relationships with a population that included Turks, Tibetans, Japanese, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Persians, and Arabs.Marc S. Abramson''s rich portrait of this complex, multiethnic empire draws on political writings, religious texts, and other cultural artifacts, as well as comparative examples from other empires and frontiers. Abramson argues that various constituencies, ranging from Confucian elites to Buddhist monks to barbarian generals, sought to define ethnic boundaries for various reasons but often in part out of discomfort with the ambiguity of their own ethnic and cultural identity. The Tang court, meanwhile, Trade Review"The author has ranged far and wide, plucking nuggets of material from dynastic histories, gazetteers, contemporary scholarly treatises, memorials to the emperor, poetry, and artwork. This is a groundbreaking book." * Peter B. Golden, Rutgers University *"Striving to be objective and balanced, the author presents a fascinating look into the ways the Han Chinese conceptualized their non-Han ethnic Other, and vice versa. The concluding argument, that Tang China marks a key shift from ethnic pluralism to a model of Chinese cultural exclusivity, is a thought-provoking one." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe Risk of War focuses on practices and performances of everyday life across ethnonational borders during the six-month armed conflict in 2001 between Macedonian government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA)—a conflict initiated by the NLA with the proclaimed purpose of securing greater rights for the Albanian community in Macedonia and terminated by the internationally brokered Ohrid Framework Agreement. Anthropologist Vasiliki P. Neofotistos provides an ethnographic account of the ways middle- and working-class Albanian and Macedonian noncombatants in Macedonia''s capital city, Skopje, went about their daily lives during the conflict, when fear and uncertainty regarding their existence and the viability of the state were intense and widespread.Neofotistos finds that, rather than passively observing the international community''s efforts to manage the political crisis, members of the Macedonian and Albanian communities responded with resilienTrade Review"Neofotistos examines the political implications of everyday practices and performances in impressive ethnographic detail, using sophisticated social theory to analyze the material and offering enlightening interpretations of it to shed light on how people are able to live in multicultural communities in times of conflict." * Loring M. Danforth, Bates College *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Critical Events 2. The Eruption of the 2001 Conflict 3. Living in a Confusing World 4. Performing Civility 5. When the Going Gets Tough 6. Claiming Respect Epilogue Appendix: Ohrid Framework Agreement and the 2001 Constitutional Amendments List of Abbreviations Notes Glossary References Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn contemporary Turkey—a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation—the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstitious relics of a pre-modern era. Yet all sorts of people, and not just the desperately ill, continue to seek them out. After years of research with healers and their patients in working-class neighborhoods of urban Turkey, anthropologist Christopher Dole concludes that the religious healer should be regarded not as an exception to Turkey''s secular modern development but as one of its defining figures. Healing Secular Life demonstrates that religious healing and secularism in fact have a set of common stakes in the ordering of lives and the remaking of worlds.Linking the history of medical reforms and scientific literacy campaigns to contemporary efforts of Qur''anTrade Review"A well written and structured mature ethnographic work that investigates into the micro-politics of secularism in refreshing ways. It constitutes an important contribution to the study of neglected practices and worldviews at the margins of Turkish society, which were forced into exilic locations by secularist as well as normative Islamic discourses." * Anthropos *"Healing Secular Life is a remarkable examination of the intersecting worlds of secularism and religion in Turkey, as seen through the experience of popular religious healing. Dole's great accomplishment is to project the aesthetic and moral sides of therapeutic remaking of people's lives and worlds as the ethnographic framing for understanding how politics and religion come together in the sensibility of ordinary people who are living through an extraordinary time. A fascinating and compelling ethnography." * Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University *"A fine ethnography that examines the cultural politics of healing practices in contemporary Turkey. It offers a fresh and original account of the cultural discourses and modes of aesthetic representation and perception that congeal around questions of religious healing." * Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College *"A very impressive, theoretically sound and consistent, and empirically detailed account of how state power and its secularist project in Turkey excludes, despises, attacks, and yet contains and controls the religious therapeutic authority." * Berna Turam, Northeastern University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Medicine and the Will to Civilization Chapter 2. Healing Difference at the Limits of Community Chapter 3. Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of Secular Life Chapter 4. The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, Value Chapter 5. A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of Relations Chapter 6. Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of Loss Conclusion: Fragment Appendix: Genres of Healing Notes Glossary References Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one''s beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography.Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may reproduce constraining social conditions. Inflected by the author''s own experience of separation and singlTrade Review"Pinto’s complex and moving ethnography explores women’s lives in the context of different psychiatric care settings in a North Indian city. Woven together with Pinto’s own experiences of love’s breakdowns between India and Boston, Daughters of Parvati centres on the ways women take on the vulnerabilities and dependencies of marriage and family, and how psychiatric care, pharmaceuticals, and institutions mediate when relationships fall apart. [A]n illuminating ethnography [and] a complex and intimate example of feminist ethnography at its most vulnerable and powerful….[A] magisterial contribution to anthropological studies of global psychiatry and of kinship and care. It is also a moving and intimately reflexive book suggesting the power of ethnographic writing in its limits and possibilities." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"“[A] compelling ethnography about women’s engagement with Western psychiatric care in North India. In bearing witness to the difficult lives of women on the verge of mental and relational breakdowns, Pinto offers a nuanced account of the gendered particularities of everyday psychiatric practice in India. Her observations of the Indian context open windows onto global anthropological debates about the ethics of institutional care and medical therapeutics, the vicissitudes of biopolitical power and subject making, and the challenges of reflexive research in conditions of human crises and abuses.…[S]ome of the most sophisticated anthropological writings on the subject." * American Anthropologist *"Daughters of Parvati is critical reading for scholars of medical anthropology, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist methodologies...Pinto’s work reveals not only the limits and constraints of our ethnographic methodologies (and, in turn, clinical and diagnostic settings) but also, crucially, their possibilities. " * Isis *"One of the most compelling ethnographies I have read in recent years." * Veena Das, Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"A poignant, compelling, complex, and provocative example of anthropological storytelling. Based on original and evidently difficult fieldwork focused on the treatment of women's mental illnesses in north India, the book offers a gendered reading of psychiatry. It is also very much an intimate and intensely reflexive ethnography." * Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University *"An important book, making interventions in how we think about choreographies of clinical mental health work with families broken and repaired. Its ethnographic specificities have to do with India, but its accounts of medical, familial, and narrative crises are of broad theoretical import." * Michael M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Table of ContentsNote on Transliterations Introduction: Love and Affliction Chapter 1. Rehabilitating Ammi Chapter 2. On Dissolution Chapter 3. Moksha and Mishappenings Chapter 4. On Dissociation Chapter 5. Making a Case Chapter 6. Ethics of Dissolution Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisAlong the Bolivian Highway traces the emergence of a new middle class in Bolivia, a society commonly portrayed as the site of struggle between a superwealthy white minority and a destitute indigenous majority. Miriam Shakow shows how Bolivian middle classes have deeply shaped politics and social life. While national political leaders like Evo Morales have proclaimed a new era of indigenous power and state-led capitalism in place of racial exclusion and neoliberal free trade, Bolivians of indigenous descent who aspire to upward mobility have debated whether to try to rise within their country''s longstanding hierarchies of race and class or to break down those hierarchies. The ascent of indigenous politics, and a boom in coca and cocaine production beginning in the 1970s, have created dilemmas for middling Bolivians who do not fit the prevailing social binaries of white elite and indigenous poor. In their family relationships, political activism, and community life, the new miTrade Review"Shakow has produced a fascinating and beautifully written ethnography that explores the question: 'What might postneoliberalism look like?' In her portrayal of upwardly mobile urban indigenous Bolivians, out go polarized constructions of the social categories class and ethnicity. Instead we see an indigenous middle class dynamically shaped by effects of the coca boom, free-market government reforms, and different interpretations of Evo Morales's state socialism. Shakow shows us the work world of this heterogeneous labor force and their debates about social transformation, clientelism, and commitments to new sorts of collective action. This is a pathbreaking, theoretically sophisticated ethnography that is an exciting, very accessible read." * Kay Warren, Brown University *"This detailed and insightful ethnography focuses on the ambiguities and complexities of race, class, and political-economic transformation in the Bolivian middle classes, which are often ignored in studies of power and resistance." * Bret Gustafson, Washington University in St. Louis *"Along the Bolivian Highway draws upon rich ethnographic research to document changes in class and other civic sensibilities across a dramatic period of change in contemporary Bolivian society." * Andrew Orta, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign *Table of ContentsNote on Language Introduction Chapter 1. The Formation of a New Middle Class Chapter 2. The Intimate Politics of New Middle Classes in Sacaba Chapter 3. Middling Sacabans Respond to Evo and MAS Chapter 4. Condemning Clientelism Chapter 5. Laments of Betrayal Chapter 6. Middle Classes and Debates over the Definition of Community Conclusion Notes Family Tree of Doña Saturnina Ramírez Glossary Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisRituals of Ethnicity is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Shneiderman offers a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities today despite the increasing realities of mobile, hybrid lives. She shows that ethnicization may be understood as a process of ritualization, which brings people together around the shared sacred object of identity.The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, Rituals of Ethnicity is framed by the Maoist-state civil conflict in Nepal and the movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland in India. The histories of individual nation-states in this geopolitical hotspot—as well as the cross-border flows of people and ideas between them—reveal the far-reaching and mutually entangled discouTrade Review"Theoretically informed (but never pompous), attractively and clearly written (but not overwritten), ethnographically grounded (but never boring), multi-sited and boundary-crossing, politically aware, engaged, and reflexive, Sara Shneiderman's ethnographic monograph makes a significant, indeed brilliant, intervention in Himalayan anthropology, one that is (or ought to be) just as relevant for specialists of India as it is for scholars of Nepal." * David Gellner, in Pacific Affairs *"An entirely unique and stunning ethnography. Shneiderman finds herself assisting the Thangmi's drive to manifest their distinctiveness and seek recognition. She manages a high-wire performance herself: one full of compassion, acute theoretical insight, exemplary balance, and respect for the sacredness of the quest-doing as much credit to ethnography as a craft as to the Thangmi as a people. Few have been as fortunate in their ethnographer as the Thangmi." * James C. Scott, Yale University *"Brilliant and original, Rituals of Ethnicity traces how identity, ethnicity, and indigeneity are constructed by members of a marginalized group within different state structures. Arguing for the importance of often self-conscious rituals for mobilizing and objectifying ethnicity, Shneiderman shows how anthropology too can be marshaled for this project, recasting ethnography as a variety of ritualized performance." * Kirin Narayan, Australian National University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface Chapter 1. Of Rocks and Rivers—Being Both at Once Chapter 2. Framing, Practicing, and Performing Ethnicity Chapter 3. Origin Myths and Myths of Originality Chapter 4. Circular Migration, Circular Economies of Belonging and Citizenship Chapter 5. Developing Associations of Ethnicity and Class Chapter 6. Transcendent Territory, Portable Deities, and the Problem of Indigeneity Chapter 7. The Work of Life-Cycle Rituals and the Power of Parallel Descent Chapter 8. Resisting the End of a Ritual Epilogue: Thami ke ho?—What Is Thami? Glossary Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisState Theory and Andean Politics explores the material and cultural processes by which states come to appear as real and tangible parts of everyday life in the Andes, showing the state to be one of many forces vying for a claim to legitimate domination in a highly contested political field.Trade Review"A heroic, successful, and grounded assault on the apparent empirical reality of the state and its 'state effects.' These intrepid scholars hurl themselves at the Andean state, but they bring an analytical imagination and ethnographic practice to match the shape-shifting social production of the state that we can all learn from. A major break in the sterile, realist clouds that have obscured a more nuanced understanding of both state effects and state affects." * James C. Scott, Yale University *"A very important book for political anthropologists and historians of state formation. Its compelling and unique argument will be a fascinating intervention" * Nancy Postero, University of California, San Diego *"A splendid collection of very strong essays by first-class scholars that contributes to the regional ethnographic and historical literature and to discussions of the nature of the state, political rule, and citizenship in the region. State Theory and Andean Politics fills a void." * Finn Stepputat, Danish Institute for International Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Off-Centered States: Rethinking State Theory Through an Andean Lens —Christopher Krupa and David Nugent PART I. CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGIES OF RULE Chapter 2. The Idea of the State in Colombia: An Analysis from the Periphery —María Clemencia Ramírez Chapter 3. Respatializing the State from the Margins: Reflections on the Camba Autonomy Movement in Santa Cruz, Bolivia —Nicole Fabricant Chapter 4. State Formation and Class Politics in Colombia —Lesley Gill PART II. OFF-CENTERED MORPHOLOGIES OF STATE Chapter 5. Cadastral Politics: Property Wars and State Realism in Highland Ecuador —Christopher Krupa Chapter 6. New Arenas of State Action in Highland Ecuador: Public Health and State Formation, c. 1925-1950 —A. Kim Clark Chapter 7. The State and Indigenous Women in Ecuador, 1925-1975 —Mercedes Prieto PART III. FEAR, FANTASY, AND DELUSION Chapter 8. Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization —Irene Silverblatt Chapter 9. Appearances to the Contrary: Fantasy, Fear, and Displacement in Twentieth-Century Peruvian State Formation —David Nugent PART IV. CROSS-BORDER PROCESSES OF STATECRAFT Chapter 10. Notes on the Formation of the Andean Colonial State —Karen Spalding Chapter 11. The Aspirational State: State Effects in Putumayo —Winifred Tate PART V. THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS Chapter 12. Off-Centered States: An Appreciation —Gyanendra Pandey Chapter 13. Viewing States from the Global South —Akhil Gupta Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisBuilding on long-term ethnographic research at the first integrated school of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Citizens of an Empty Nation offers a ground-level view of how reunification processes are negotiated by Bosnian youth, shedding light on the larger projects of humanitarian intervention, social cohesion, and citizenship.Trade Review"An intimate and compellingly written ethnography of the lives of youth in postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, illuminating the depth and complexity of state politics as manifested and refracted in youths' lives." * Kimberley Coles, author of Democratic Designs: International Intervention and Electoral Practice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina *"International politicians sound great when they talk about 'multiculturalism' and 'integration,' but Azra Hromadžić takes them to school-specifically, to the Mostar Gymnasium, where the tensions, temptations, and limitations of an ethnically divided state are felt, around the tables, in the hallways, in the shared bathroom. This book combines critical insight and humane sensitivity in equal measures. It is a model for how postconflict ethnography should be performed." * Eric Gordy, author of Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia *"In this rich, reflexive, and carefully crafted ethnography of youth in a Bosnian high school existing in the space between between reunification and segregation, Azra Hromadžić captures the lived realities of her subjects' everyday lives in the context of ethnicized nationalisms and international peace-building. The book is a passionate plea to look beyond the certainties of fixed categories and explore the possibilities of restoring, however fleetingly, a discourse and practice of hope for a better future." * Paul Stubbs, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. INTEGRATEING THE SCHOOL Chapter 1. Right to Difference Chapter 2. Cartography of Peace-Building Chapter 3. Bathroom Mixing PART II. DISINTEGRATING THE NATION Chapter 4. Poetics of Nationhood Chapter 5. Invisible Citizens Chapter 6. Anti-Citizens Conclusion Epilogue. Empty Nation, Empty Bellies Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association''s criteria for diagnosis are not. As embedded as these ideas now are in the American mindset, however, they are more widely applicable, this volume attempts to show, than is generally recognized. The essays in Culture and PTSD trace how trauma and its effects vary across historical and cultural contexts.Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to other cultural contexts and details local responses to trauma and the extent they vary from PTSD as defined in the American Psychiatric Association''s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Investigating responses in Peru, Indonesia, Haiti, and Native American communities as well as among combat veterans, domestic abuse victimsTrade Review"This book should be compulsory reading for all civilian and military mission advisors and mentors." * Journal of Global South Studies *"Stress and trauma have become part of globalized languages of suffering and healing and the construct of PTSD is at the center of this discourse. The editors have brought together a stellar group of contributors who present historical and ethnographic studies that unpack some of the complexity of trauma response and PTSD to show the interplay of social contexts, cultural practices, and psychological processes. Culture and PTSD marks important advances in cultural psychiatry and will be richly rewarding for both researchers and mental health practitioners." * Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University *"Culture and PTSD is a wonderful, rich, exciting book that raises and sometimes answers critical questions at the juncture of anthropology and the interdisciplinary study of PTSD. It is a valuable volume that makes a significant contribution to the field." * Erin Finley, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio *Table of ContentsPART I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Introduction. Culture, Trauma, and PTSD —Byron J. Good and Devon E. Hinton Chapter 1. The Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Trauma: Eleven Analytic Perspectives, a Typology of Errors, and the Multiplex Models of Distress Generation —Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good PART II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 2. Is PTSD a Transhistoric Phenomenon? —Richard J. McNally Chapter 3. What Is "PTSD"? The Heterogeneity Thesis —Allan Young and Naomi Breslau Chapter 4. From Shell Shock to PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Perspective on Responses to Combat Trauma —James K. Boehnlein and Devon E. Hinton PART III. CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 5. Trauma in the Lifeworlds of Adolescents: Hard Luck and Trouble in the Land of Enchantment —Janis H. Jenkins and Bridget M. Haas Chapter 6. Gendered Trauma and Its Effects: Domestic Violence and PTSD in Oaxaca —Whitney Duncan Chapter 7. Exploring Pathways of Distress and Mental Disorders: The Case of the Highland Quechua Populations in the Peruvian Andes —Duncan Pedersen and Hanna Kienzler Chapter 8. Latinas' and Latinos' Risk for PTSD After Trauma Exposure: A Review of Sociocultural Explanations —Carmela Alcántara and Roberto Lewis-Fernández Chapter 9. Karma to Chromosomes: Studying the Biology of PTSD in a World of Culture —Brandon A. Kohrt, Carol M. Worthman, and Nawaraj Upadhaya Chapter 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities —Tom Ball and Theresa D. O'Nell Chapter 11. Culture, Trauma, and the Social Life of PTSD in Haiti —Erica James Chapter 12. Is PTSD a "Good Enough" Concept for Postconflict Mental Health Care? Reflections on Work in Aceh, Indonesia —Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and Jesse H. Grayman List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking ethnography of "fearless governance", Stavroula Pipyrou shows how Grecanici-the Greek linguistic minority of Calabria, Southern Italy-have crafted the means to invert hegemonic culture and participate in the power games of minority politics on local and national scales.Trade Review"Combining magnificent writing with meticulous scholarship, Stavroula Pipyrou discreetly opens multiple windows onto the souls and lives of the Grecanici, a secretive people who live in shadows that obscure even the edges of their own identity as Greek-speakers in an Italian landscape. Her valuable study is free of the nationalistic exaggeration so often associated with the romantic image of rediscovered ethnic outliers and offers rich insights into the dynamics of identity in southern Europe." * Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University *"Deploying superb ethnographic skills and the (closely read) anthropology of Italy and the Mediterranean, Pipyrou shows how the Grecanici construct relationships of kinship, friendship, clientage, and association in an impressive exploration of what she usefully conceptualizes as 'fearless governance.'" * Jane Schneider, The Graduate Center, CUNY *"Stavroula Pipyrou's lucid account of the hard-edged performance by which the Grecanici control and regulate their lives together makes for brilliant ethnography. Her narrative brings the anthropological archive to life." * Douglas Holmes, Binghamton University *"Stavroula Pipyrou mounts a theoretically progressive and empirically documented analysis of the Greek linguistic minority of Calabria, combined with a rare and compelling ethnography of 'Ndrangheta social forms to present an outstanding study of cultural solidarity and political resistance." * Charles Stewart, University College London *

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Book SynopsisFrom 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a postwar era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of no victor, no vanquished was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to consign the war to the past. However, since then, Lebanon has found itself still entangled in various forms of political violence, from car bombings and assassinations to additional outbreaks of armed combat.In War Is Coming, Sami Hermez argues that the country''s political leaders have enabled the continuation of violence and examines how people live between these periods of conflict. What do everyday conversations, practices, and experiences look like during these moments? How do people attempt to find a measure of certainty or stability in such times? Hermez''s ethnographic study of eTrade Review"War is Coming…offers a rigorous and sophisticated exploration into…expressions and experiences of the everyday, where violence lurks as both eventful and ordinary…[It] presents us with a long-awaited ethnographic account of violence beyond and against ideas of Lebanese exceptionalism…War is Coming opens an interesting debate not only on the ways people experience violence but the kind of life possible in protracted conflict…[It] is insightful, knowledgeable, and ethnographically captivating…Students and researchers curious about ethnography as methodology will find this book thought provoking and useful." * Anthropological Quarterly *"War is Coming is an excellent ethnographic account of how life is lived in situations of ongoing political instability and in the aftermath of war. It is also beautifully written, with evocative descriptions of the ethnographic context and how the interviews were conducted. I would recommend this book to anyone interested more generally in postwar memory, but also those seeking to better understand the ways in which ongoing instability and frustration play a part in contemporary Lebanese popular politics." * PoLAR *""War is Coming is an ambitious ethnographic examination of Lebanon's long history of instability . . . [O]ne of the strongest virtues of War is Coming:[is] in its ethnographic detail and its determination to not impose closure, it embodies the Lebanese experience, and so humanizes people and processes so often dehumanized and caricatured within social scientific literatures on civil wars and the best-practices lingo of the post-conflict reconciliation industry." * MIddle East Journal *"Deeply poignant. An eloquently written and altogether fascinating read about how violence is lived in multiple temporal registers in Lebanon, and how both remembering past and anticipating future violence critically shape lived experience in the present." * Lara Deeb, Scripps College *

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Book SynopsisIn Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians'' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness, intense individualism, and a growth of incivilities. On the other, daydreaming and hope, as well as civility and solidarity in political protests, street carnivals, and social movements, continue to persist. Young Iranians describe themselves as being stuck in purposelessness and forced to endure endless waiting, and they are also aware that they are perceived as unproductive and a burden on their society. Despite the aspirations and inspiration they possess, they find themselves forced into petrifying social and spatial immobility. Uncertainty in the present, a seemingly futureless tomorrow: these are the circumstances that Khosravi explores in Precarious LivesTrade Review"A theoretically well-informed, engaging account... Its comparative approach and theoretical richness will make it a worthwhile read not only for anthropologists of Iran, the Middle East, and Central Asia, but also for those in other disciplines working on such themes as youth culture, under- or unemployment, neoliberalism, inequality, gender and the family, crime and criminalization, and class." * Anthropological Quarterly *"Professor Khosravi has provided detailed, well written accounts of the lives of ordinary Iranians, as well as analysis of some contemporary film and artistic endeavors. His narrative gives welcome prominence to the Iranian middle and lower economic classes, with some additional material from areas outside of Tehran, including his native Bakhtiari region, where members of his family still reside. This book thus departs from other recent works that have focused on more elite populations, with heavy attention to the wealthier residents of northern Tehran." * The Middle East Journal *"Shahram Khosravi's elegant new book weaves together his two substantive areas-urban Iranian youth culture and migration and border studies-to narrate stories of social lives carved out of multiple precarities, ever-present waitings, but also, the need to hope. Dispensing with facile dichotomies that caricature contemporary Iran, Khosravi's rich and granular storytelling breathes life, in all of its complexity and contradiction, into depictions of Iran's most vulnerable populations." * Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington *"In his second important anthropological accounting of social tensions in contemporary Iran, Shahram Khosravi deftly brings Iran into the conversation about the transformations affecting countries across the globe: precarity and the criminalization of youth; neoliberal practices of 'blaming the victims' of increased poverty; and street-level performances of resistance and demands for rights. Engaging with film, photography, painting, and street performativity, Khosravi shows Iran is not as 'other' as either Western or Iranian media portray it, and calls to mind comparative phenomena such as Japanese shut ins, American incarceration culture, and European migrant detention camps." * Michael M.J. Fischer, author of Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry *"Shahram Khosravi writes brilliantly about the unintended consequences of the Iranian Revolution on the traditional family, on the social lives of young people, on the 'street' as a space of free expression and protest, and on public walls as places of political expression. Precarious Lives is a thoroughly researched analysis of the 'precarious' society that is contemporary Iran, a country at war with its own youth." * Paul Stoller, author of The Sorcerer's Burden and 2013 Anders Retzius Gold Medal Laureate in Anthropology *"There is so much social theory incisively deployed by Shahram Khosravi, and so many pertinent anthropological works about other places used for comparative purposes, that Precarious Lives will appeal to more readers than those interested in Iran, or those interested in the anthropology of time and space." * Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne *

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Book SynopsisHow does smallness shape a country and its relations with other countries? In comparative case studies that cover a diverse set of regions, Small Countries describes a number of similar problems with which small countries must cope, on domestic levels as well as in their transnational and global encounters.Trade Review"Small Countries is a remarkably fresh and engaging contribution to the anthropology of the nation-state. While such macroanthropology has often been understood to stand in tension with more traditionally localized sorts of ethnographic practice, the authors use the very smallness of the 'small country' to show how ideas and practices of national cultural intimacy disrupt received ideas of scale that still haunt our understandings of what is, and is not, anthropological. Through a fascinating set of cases presented by an impressive set of contributors, this stimulating book arrives at a distinctive and original perspective on the nation-state." * James Ferguson, Stanford University *"Small Countries is unique: its chapters cover a range of societies that do not get much analyzed anthropologically, a potpourri of far-flung places from New Zealand to Sierra Leone to Norway to Palestine united by the common trope of smallness. It is also remarkable because of the down-to-earth quality of its prose: its chapters are a delight to read. Not just anthropologists, but anyone who reads the Economist or Foreign Affairs, or for that matter a daily newspaper, can enjoy and learn from this collection of essays." * Gordon Mathews, Chinese University of Hong Kong *

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Book SynopsisJahazpur is a small market town or qasba with a diverse population of more than 20,000 people located in Bhilwara District in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. With roots deep in history and legend, Shiptown (a literal translation of landlocked Jahazpur''s name) today is a subdistrict headquarters and thus a regional hub for government services unavailable in villages. Rural and town lives have long intersected in Shiptown''s market streets, which are crammed with shopping opportunities, many designed to allure village customers. Temples, mosques, and shrines attract Hindus and Muslims from nearby areas. In the town''s densely settled center—still partially walled, with arched gateways intact—many neighborhoods remain segregated by hereditary birth group. By contrast, in some newer, more spacious residential areas outside the walls, persons of distinct communities and religions live as neighbors. Throughout Jahazpur municipality a peaceful pluralism normally prevails.Trade Review"Gold provides a rich, textured account of ethnographic practice, deeply situated in the peculiarities of Jahazpur. . . . Shiptown is a book filled with juicy vignettes, captivating narratives, and colourful conversations as Gold documents, analyses, and produces knowledge about life in Jahazpur. . . . Gold has been able to bring Jahazpur to life on the pages through lucid prose and a seamless flow of the text." * Economic & Political Weekly *"Shiptown is closely observed and beautifully written. Gold's lucid, engaging tone glides lightly over impressive scholarship." * Contributions to Indian Sociology *"Gold effortlessly describes many facets of rural/urban life of Jahazpur which she aptly calls 'Shiptown.' . . . The book is full of ethnographic and methodological insights from an accomplished ethnographer." * Nidān:International Journal for indian Studies *"Ann Grodzins Gold's prose is beautiful and often poignant, drawing the reader into public and domestic spaces, and oral histories and everyday conversations of Jahazpur. She lays bare the contingencies and daily decisions of fieldwork itself. Very few ethnographies are so honest." * Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University *

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Book SynopsisFragile Families examines the precarious position of Latina/o families who are simultaneously caught up in systems of child welfare and immigration enforcement, focusing on the central role of child welfare decision-making in producing and maintaining boundaries of citizenship, race, and national belonging in the United States.Trade Review"[A] timely book that unearths the complex intersection of the immigration and child welfare systems in our country . . . This book draws attention to the challenges of traversing multiple bureaucratic systems and cross-border politics that possess immense power over the livers of people, yet are plauged with flaws that require our immediate attention." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Fragile Families makes original contributions to our understanding of U.S. immigration and family law, as well as the inner workings of the institutions that intervene in the lives of undocumented children and mixed status families. Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez offers a detailed look into the practices and perspectives of social workers, judges, and foster and biological parents and the lives of the children who are affected by their decisions." * Susan Terrio, Georgetown University *"Fragile Families is compelling and incredibly timely. The book makes for compelling reading and is chock full of theoretical and empirical insights." * Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced *

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Book SynopsisSandya Hewamanne''s Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone analyzed how female factory workers in Sri Lanka''s free trade zones challenged conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom of the global economy. In Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka Hewamanne now follows many of these same women to explore the ways in which they negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their home villages. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over fifteen years, the book explores how the former free-trade-zone workers manipulate varied forms of capital—social, cultural, and monetary— to become local entrepreneurs and community leaders, while simultaneously initiating gradual changes in rural social hierarchies and gender norms.Free trade zones introduce Sri Lankan women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, Hewamanne contends. Her book illustrates how varied manifestations of neoliberal attitudes within local contexts resultTrade Review"The book is an enjoyable read, in particular the narratives of the aspirations, successes, difficulties, relationships, and negotiations in the women’s lives. This has much to do with Hewamanne’s fieldwork, carried out over years of visits and drawing on research techniques and materials, interactions, and friendships that require time to build and the reflexivity that time can enable...[T]his is a substantial and worthwhile read for all those concerned with a gamut of themes related to gender, work and economic activity, neoliberal processes, migration, subjectivity, emotion, agency, and cultural negotiations." * American Journal of Sociology *"The value of Hewamanne’s new book lies in the ethnographic detail of the 37 respondents that she follows, where initial friendships and connections morph into a research constituency… The book helps to better appreciate the ways in which gendered subjectivities manifest through ongoing societal transformation." * Progress in Development Studies *"What happens when women free-trade-zone factory workers retire and return to rural villages? Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka provides one of the first studies to address this timely question as it offers a fascinating account of women's navigation of the competing gender cultural norms of factory and village." * Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work *"Sandya Hewamanne is a superlative ethnographer of former free-trade-zone garment workers who return to their villages all over Sri Lanka with independent earnings and networking skills that they use to craft well-being for more than themselves. Hewamanne's depiction of their 'politics of contentment' is a powerful contribution to feminist political economy." * Ann Kingsolver, University of Kentucky *"Many scholars have studied labor migration and women's integration into industrial capitalism. Fewer, however, have taken the next step to follow the workers back to their homes. This original aspect of Sandya Hewamanne's book provides a significant contribution to scholarship in gender studies and economic anthropology. Connecting work in the international market with social change in rural villages is exciting and new." * Michele Gamburd, Portland State University *"This volume builds on the author's successful, and in many ways innovative, Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone. Fresh and original, the stories that unfold in the course of this book are vivid, surprising, and affecting." * Jonathan Spencer, Edinburgh University *

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Book SynopsisExplains how archaeologists can use Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' mode of production concept to study long-term patterns in human society. Presenting a range of different perspectives from researchers working in a wide variety of societies and time periods, this volume clearly demonstrates why historical materialism matters to the field of archaeology.Trade ReviewFor more than a century, scholars have critiqued, misinterpreted, and bickered about Marx’s concept of mode of production. Modes of Production and Archaeology cuts through the dense and thorny intellectual thicket that grew up from these debates. The book presents an easily understood discussion of Marx’s concepts and demonstrates how archaeologists can analyze modes of production to explain long term patterns in cultural change.”—Randall McGuire, author of Archaeology as Political Action “Shows clearly how historical materialist ideas and concepts are productive in developing the theory and practice of archaeology.”—Robert Chapman, author of Archaeologies of Complexity “Covers a huge range of ground and brings together ideas and analyses in a way that has not really been done yet in archaeology.”—Colin Grier, Washington State University

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Book SynopsisBringing together case studies of prehistoric and historic sites from Western and non-Western contexts, this volume makes the claim that colonialism can and should be compared across radically different time periods and locations. Christine Beaule challenges archaeologists to rethink these two major self-imposed boundaries of study.Trade ReviewAn original contribution and an important one. Presents interesting and compelling case studies in the variability of colonialism and colonial encounters.”—Melissa S. Murphy, coeditor of Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas “Creates bridges to understand and compare diverse sets of data and questions, incorporating larger ideas of colonial and indigenous structure, action, reaction, and agency. These new insights may turn over some previously held understandings of what we associate with colonialism and how to perceive it.”—John G. Douglass, coeditor of Ancient Households of the Americas: Conceptualizing What Households Do “Pushes archaeologists out of familiar theoretical, methodological, and regional silos to expand understandings of colonial context and relations between old-timers/indigenous people and newcomers/colonists.”—Siobhan Hart, coeditor of Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology

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Book SynopsisExploring a wide range of settings and circumstances in which individuals or groups of people have been forced to move from one geographical location to another, the case studies in this volume demonstrate what archaeology can reveal about the agents, causes, processes, and effects of human removal.

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Book SynopsisExamines how settlements along South America's Pacific coastline played a role in the emergence, consolidation, and collapse of Andean civilizations from the Late Pleistocene era through Spanish colonization. This wide-ranging volume evaluates and revises long-standing research on ancient maritime sites across the region.Table of Contents Content List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Chapter 1. A Historical Perspective on the Studies of Andean Maritime Communities Part I Early Maritime Adaptations (BP 13000 to 5500) Chapter 2. Maritime Communities in the Atacama Desert. Masters of the Sub Tropical Pacific Coast of South America. Chapter 3. Economic Organization and Social Dynamics of Middle-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Communities in the Coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Northern Chile). Chapter 4. The Use and Construction History of Huaca Prieta, North Coast of Peru. Part II Maritime Communities Between 5,500 and 2,500 BP. Chapter 5. Changing Complexity in the Norte Chico, 3000-1800 BCE. Chapter 6. Maritime Communities and Coastal Andean Urbanization: Preliminary Insights from Early Horizon Samanco, Nepeña, North-Central Peru. Chapter 7. The Supply and Consumption of Marine Resources at the Inland Center of Caylan, Coastal Ancash. Chapter 8. The Fisherman's Garden: Horticultural Practices in a Second Millennium Maritime Community of the North Coast of Peru. Chapter 9. The Ethnogenesis of Pescador Identity: The Implications of Biodistance Analyses of Initial Period (1500 – 1200 BC) Human Remains from Gramalote Peru, for our Understanding of the Social and Economic Dyamics of Ancient Andean Maritime Communities. Part III Maritime Communities Between 2,500 and 600 BP. Chapter 10. Fisherman, Farmer, Rich Man, Poor Man, Weaver, Parcialidad Chief? Household Archaeology at Cerro la Virgen, a Chimu Town within the Hinterland of Chan Chan. Chapter 11. Subsistence economies in margin areas with natural constraints: interactions between social dynamics, natural resource management and paleoenvironment in the Sechura Desert, Peru. Chapter 12. Late Prehistoric Maritime Communities in Coastal Ecuador. Part 4. Maritime Communities between 600 and 300 BP. Chapter 13. Maritime Adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru: A Comparison of Late Intermediate and 20th Century Fishing. Chapter 14. El Contrato del Mar: Colonial Life and Maritime Subsistence at Carrizales, Zaña Valley, Peru. Chapter 15. Fish[i]stories: Seafolk of the Northern Peruvian Coast. NotesList of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Galßpagos Islands are one of the world's premiere nature attractions, home to unique ecosystems widely thought to be untouched and pristine. This volume reveals that the archipelago is not as isolated as many imagine, examining how centuries of human occupation have transformed its landscape.

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Book SynopsisSynthesizes a wealth of new archaeological data to illuminate the origins of Maya civilization and the rise of Classic Maya culture. Prominent Maya scholars argue that the development of social, religious, and economic complexity began during the Middle Preclassic period (1000-300 BC), hundreds of years earlier than previously thought.Trade ReviewRichly detailed. . . . Bring[s] together recent advancements in studies of the development of Maya civilisation." - Antiquity

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Book SynopsisThrough various case studies, Ancient Foodways illustrates how archaeologists can use bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, architecture, and other evidence to understand how food acquisition, preparation, and consumption intersect with economics, politics, and ritual.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the classical roots of Western culture and its religious sources in order to find its underlying intellectual and spiritual commitments. The essays are written from a single vantage point - one associated with Thomas Aquinas, though their natural law outlook is far older.

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Book SynopsisA textbook of theological anthropology structured in four parts. The first attempts to clarify the relationship between theology, philosophy and science. The second part provides a historical overview of the doctrine of grace. The third part provides a systematic understanding of Christian grace. The fourth part deals with different philosophical aspects of the human condition.Trade Review“An extremely thorough treatment of the Catholic view of anthropology. Paul O’Callaghan is a theologian of great erudition and energy.” —James Keating, associate professor of theology, Providence College

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Book SynopsisPresents a philosophical portrait of human persons on which we are entirely irreducible to anything non-personal, by synthesizing claims from many strands of the Catholic tradition. These include Thomism, Scotism, phenomenology, personalism, nouvelle theologie, analytic philosophy, Greek and Russian thought, and several others.

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Book SynopsisThis text presents 12 cross cultural case studies, written from an anthropological perspective, focussing on the analysis of space and place. They present theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture.Trade ReviewTheorizing the City is a collection of articles in urban anthropology focusing on the relationship between spatial environs and urban cultures from Toronto, Atlanta, and New York to Barcelona, Spo Paulo, Vienna, and Accra (Ghana). Bringing together urban theory and fieldwork, the contributors examine a number of tensions that play out in diverse urban settings. . . . The use of theory helps to bring about some rich connections between the spatial environment and the experiential elements of city life in different parts of the world. * Social Service Review *The best æreadersÆ have three characteristics: the individual selections are of excellent quality, felicitous editing ensures that the selections cohere, and the whole is introduced by a majestic (or at least competent) overview of the field. By this measure, Setha Low has produced a very useful text and one which I will certainly recommend to students. . . . Without exception, the chapters are well written and are likely to provide a sound basis for discussion within class. * JRAI *Taken together, this volume represents a valuable collection of essays that do well to capture the contemporary state of urban anthropology, as well as providing useful theoretical frameworks and methodological examples for understanding and writing about the city. . . . The essays collected here judiciously integrate the particular analytic powers of ethnographic and historical analysis to frame local social processes within transnational and global processes. . . . In particular, this volumeùand the images of the city Low offersùmay serve as an excellent resource for teachers interested in provoking students to think about and understand the cities they (may) inhabit. * H-Urban *These informative essays make clear that anthropology has much to offer to urban theory and public policy debates. -- Nancy Foner * author of From Ellis Islands to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration *Using rich comparative material, this volume presents an intriguing anthropological vision of how cities are shaped. A major addition to a comparative anthropology of cities, this volume demonstrates the complex structural and cultural forces that shape urban experience. -- Judith Goode * professor of anthropology and urban studies, Temple University *Theorizing the City has become fundamental reading for those students of urban society and culture who wish to better understand twentieth-century city forms and spaces, as well as why certain race, gender, age, and class inequalities continue to be manifested today. -- Alejandro Lugo * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Permissions Introduction. Theorizing the City - Setha M. Low Part 1 The Divided City 1 The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community - Steven M. Gregory 2 Creating Family Forms: The Exclusion of Mena and Teenage Boys from Families in the New York City Shelter System, 1987-1991 - Ida Susser 3 Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation - Teresa P. R. Caldeira Part 2 The Contested City 4 Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica - Setha M. Low 5 Landscape and Power in Vienna: Gardens of Discovery - Robert Rotenberg Part 3 The Global City 6 Personal Relations and Divergent Economies: A Case Study of Hong Kong Investment in South China - Josephine Smart and Alan Smart 7 Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiji Market - Theodore C. Bestor Part 4 The Modernist City 8 The Modernist City and the Death of the Street - James Holston 9 The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo - Deborah Pellow Part 5 The Postmodern City 10 Making Place in the Nonplace Urban Realm: Notes on the Revitalization of Downtown Atlanta - Charles Rutheiser 11 Discourses of the City: Policy and Responses in Post-Transitional Barcelona - Gary McDonogh 12 Spatial Discourses and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront - Matthew Cooper Biological Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Mao badge was a political icon in the form of a pin that was widely distributed to create, sustain and inflate the Mao personality cult during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. This study shows how the badges have taken on new meanings, far surpassing the intentions of their creators.Trade ReviewThis interesting book belongs on the shelf of those of us interested in the material culture of the Cultural Revolution. * China Journal *Strangely moving. . . . While [in China, Schrift] discovered a subculture of people who collected buttons bearing portraits of the Great Helmsman: thousands of varieties had been manufactured from the Cultural Revolution, when they served as one of the few permitted forms of personal adornment or aesthetic display. . . . I found reading the book a surprisingly emotional experience. * Newsday; Newsday Long Island *A wonderfully rich and riveting account, Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge represents an important contribution to our understanding of the Cultural Revolution and its place in Chinese culture. Schrift provides an informative examination of the Mao cultÆs recent transformation into its present form of pop cultural campiness. -- William Jankowiak * author of Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City *An excellent study of symbolism and factionalism in Maoist China. Schrift shows how mundane objects were transformed into sacred icons of revolutionary ideology. This book offers new insights into the dynamics of the Cultural Revolution. -- J. L. Watson * author of Golden Arches East: McDonaldÆs in East Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Mao Consumption and the Chinese Political Imaginary Badges in Context: The Early Years of the Cultural Revolution Manufacturing Mao An Iconography of Mao Badges Bloodlines, Political Capital, and Badges Aluminum Gods: Mao Badges and Chinese Ritual Life The Red Old Days: Heritage, Historical Memory, and the Endurance of Mao References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume suggests that for Caribbean people, migration is simply one of many ways to pursue a better future. It show not only that the nation-state is an exhausted form of political organization, but that in the Caribbean the ideological reach of the nation-state has always been tenuous.Trade ReviewCarnegie has taken up his pen, and his fine scholarly intelligence, against the nation-state, its lofty pretensions and its low crimes, its interferences as well as its betrayals. Challenging in its provocations and substantive in its arguments, this book is a welcome ontribution to studies of nationalism and the Caribbean. - David Scott, Columbia UniversityTable of Contentspt. I. Struggling with and against Race and Nation. Ch. 1. The Dundus and the Nation. Ch. 2. A Cultural Mapping of the Nation pt. II. Nation and Transnation. Ch. 3. Border Visions. Ch. 4. Transterritorial Lives pt. III. Prefiguring the Postnational. Ch. 5. Caliban's Early Pioneering Journeys. Ch. 6. A Politics of Transterritorial Solidarity: The Garvey Movement and Imperialism Conclusion: World Community Imagined

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Book SynopsisWriting about children on the school playgrounds of working-class Belfast, Northern Ireland, Donna M. Lanclos uses their own words to show how they shape their social identities. She explores their ideas about gender, family, adult-child interactions, and Protestant/Catholic tensions.Trade ReviewWe are so used to hearing about the terrible effects upon children of ongoing tragedies like Northern IrelandÆs æTroublesÆ that it revives the readerÆs spirit to see someone like Lanclos actually spend time with children and find in their folklore evidence of the childrenÆs resilience. The children in these pages use their folklore to take some power in their circumstances, demonstrating that they are not passive victims of violence and sectarianism. -- Jay Mechling * American studies, University of California, Davis *Table of ContentsIntroduction A day in the life Rudeness and defining the line between child and adult Masculinity and femininity on the playground Exploring the Protestant/Catholic divide Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDrawing on her research of the Mixtec Indians' migration from the southwest of Mexico to Baja California, the author shows that sometimes the push for indigenous labels is more a process of external oppression than it is of minority empowerment. This book is useful to scholars working in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and ethnic studies.Trade ReviewVirtually all of the scholarship on identity sees it as something that comes from the bottom-up. Martinez Novo recognizes the popular side of identity formation, but also looks at the process from the top down. How do more powerful actors-state institutions, intellectuals, elites, NGOs, etc.-try, in an imperfect and messy way, to mold collective identities? Martinez Novo not only poses this rather interesting problem, but investigates it with an innovative methodology and supports it with sound scholarship.-Steve Striffler, author of in the Shadows of State and CapitalTable of ContentsContents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Mixtec Communities at the Mexican Border. 3 The Making of Vulnerabilities: Indigenous Day Laborers in Mexico's Neoliberal Agriculture; 4 ""We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government."" State Institutions and Indigenous Migrants in Baja California in the 1990s; 5 Representations of Indigenous Women Street Vendors in Tijuana; 6 Race, Maternalism, and Community Development; 7 Conclusion: Cultural Difference and Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat makes a social movement a movement? Where do the contagious energy, vision, and sense of infinite possibility come from? This book seeks to answer these questions through conversations and interviews with a generation of activists who came of political age in Los Angeles during the 1990s.Trade Review"During the 1990s an amazing new generation of young activists, mostly women, immigrants, and people of color, transformed the Los Angeles labor movement, bringing a new vision of democracy to organizations not always ready for change. Now Karen Brodkin gives us their story in this wonderfully inspiring book, bursting with wisdom, dedication, imagination, and, best of all, models for how the labor movement can become a dynamic and embracing social movement seeking justice for all." -- Dana Frank * University of California, Santa Cruz *"This engaging, accessible volume makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literatures on social movements, racial justice, the political activism of men and women of color, and the labor movement today." -- Sandra Morgen * Professor of Women's Studies, Penn State University *"Persuasive. Insightful. As a contribution to our understanding of social movements, the book's strength is its emphasis on ideological factors and motivations. * Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society *"During the 1990s an amazing new generation of young activists, mostly women, immigrants, and people of color, transformed the Los Angeles labor movement, bringing a new vision of democracy to organizations not always ready for change. Now Karen Brodkin gives us their story in this wonderfully inspiring book, bursting with wisdom, dedication, imagination, and, best of all, models for how the labor movement can become a dynamic and embracing social movement seeking justice for all." -- Dana Frank * University of California, Santa Cruz *"This engaging, accessible volume makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literatures on social movements, racial justice, the political activism of men and women of color, and the labor movement today." -- Sandra Morgen * Professor of Women's Studies, Penn State University *"Persuasive. Insightful. As a contribution to our understanding of social movements, the book's strength is its emphasis on ideological factors and motivations. * Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society *Table of ContentsPreface List of Organizations About the NarratorsIntroduction 1. The Context of Labor and Immigrant Workers' Right Activism in Los Angeles 2. Narrators and Narrative 3. Political Identity Starts at Home: Border-Crossing Families and the Making of Political Selves 4. Making Identities Political 5. Democracy and Political Praxis Conclusion Appendix A: Study Design and Use of Narrative Appendix B: Organizer Survey Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFor more than a century, Times Square has mesmerized the world with the spectacle of its dazzling supersigns, its theaters, and its often-seedy nightlife. This work offers a portrait of the street life, politics, economics, and cultural forces that mold America's urban centers.Trade ReviewThe strength of this book lies in Chesluk's ability to ground his ethnographic inquiries with a historically informed sensibility of the cultural career of redevelopment efforts in Times Square. Unique and innovative, Money Jungle represents an important contribution to urban anthropology and to the studies of cities generally. -- John Hartigan Jr. * Department of Anthropology, University of Texas *Money Jungle is a compelling ethnography that takes the reader on a layered and vivid tour of the people and forces that produce urban change. With his imaginative and multifaceted approach to an iconic site, Chesluk makes a strong contribution to anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. -- Lorna A. Rhodes * author of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison *Alternately Herculean and Sisyphean, the struggle to clean up Times Square has never been chronicled with more thoroughness or insight, nor with greater sensitivity to the ramifications of the attempt. -- Charles Ardai * founder and editor of Hard Case Crime *The strength of this book lies in CheslukÆs ability to ground his ethnographic inquiries with a historically informed sensibility of the cultural career of redevelopment efforts in Times Square. Unique and innovative, Money Jungle represents an important contribution to urban anthropology and to the studies of cities generally. -- John Hartigan Jr. * Department of Anthropology, University of Texas *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Photographs Chapter OneBrilliant Corners: The Redevelopment of Times Square\ Chapter TwoMagnificent Spectacle: Real Estate, Theater, Advertising, and the History of Times Square ​Chapter ThreeThe New Spaces of Times Square: Commerce, Social Control, and the Built Environment ​Chapter FourThe Midtown Community Court: Intimacy and Power in an Experimental Courtroom ​Chapter Five Times Square Ink.: Redevelopment of the Self ​Chapter Six"Visible Signs of a City Out of Control": Images of Order and Disorder in Police-Community Dialogue ​Chapter Seven "It Doesn't Exist, But They're Selling It": The Debates over "Air Rights" ​Chapter Eight ​Conclusion: The Meanings of Times SquareNotes Index

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Book SynopsisChallenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization.Table of ContentsRethinking security, confronting inequality : an introduction / Barbara Sutton and Julie Novkov Contesting militarization : global perspectives / Gwyn Kirk Gender, race, and militarism : toward a more just alternative / Barbara Lee Activist statements : visions and strategies for a just peace / International Congress of Women at The Hague Gender and Human Security Network, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center Los nuevos desaparecidos y muertos : immigration, militarization, death, and disappearance on Mexico's borders / Lynn Stephen Saving Iranian women : Orientalist feminism and the Axis of Evil / Roksana Bahramitash On women and "Indians" : the politics of inclusion and exclusion in militarized Fiji / Teresia K. Teaiwa Plunder as statecraft : militarism and resistance in neocolonial Africa / Patricia McFadden Because Vieques is our home : defend it! Women resisting militarization in Vieques, Puerto Rico / Katherine T. McCaffrey Manhood, sexuality, and nation in post 9/11 United States / Bonnie Mann The citizen-soldier as a substitute soldier : militarism at the intersection of neoliberalism and neoconservatism / Leonard C. Feldman I want you! The 3 R's : reading, 'riting, and recruiting / Karen Houppert Living room terrorists / Catherine Lutz Militarizing women in film : toward a cinematic framing of war and terror / Janell Hobson Army of none : militarism, positionality, and film / Cindy Sousa and Ron Smith Teaching about gender, race, and militarization after 9/11 : nurturing dissent, compassion, and hope in the classroom / Simona Sharoni

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Book Synopsis In The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram, medical anthropologist Janelle S. Taylor analyzes the full sociocultural context of ultrasound technology and imagery. Drawing upon ethnographic research both within and beyond the medical setting, Taylor shows how ultrasound has entered into public consumer culture in the United States. The book documents and critically analyzes societal uses for ultrasound such as nondiagnostic 'keepsake' ultrasound businesses that foster a new consumer market for these blurry, monochromatic images of eagerly awaited babies, and anti-abortion clinics that use ultrasound in an attempt to make women bond with the fetuses they carry, inciting a pro-life state of mind. This book offers much-needed critical awareness of the less easily recognized ways in which ultrasound technology is profoundly social and political in the United States today. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Sonographers and the Making of the Public Fetus 3. Obstetrical Ultrasound between Medical Practice and Public Culture 4. Love Machine: The Theory of Ultrasound Bonding 5. Prenatal Diagnosis, Pregnancy, and Consumption 6. Entertaining Fetuses: Keepsake Ultrasound and Crisis Pregnancy Centers 7. Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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