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Book Synopsis Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between coercion and consent? How does a desire for wealth affect a girl''s sexual practices? Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. Sexuality''s contradictions are exposed: power and powerless¡ness, self-determination and cultural control, violence and pleasure. Pleasures and Perils illuminates the methodological and ethical issues anthropologists face when they conduct research on sex, especially among girls. The sexually explicit narratives conveyed in this book challenge not only the reader''s own thoughts onTrade Review"Pleasures and Perils is an accessible yet theoretically astute introduction to theories of sexual subjectivity, discourse, and mediation. It is also a compellingly written story about an island in transition and about the girls who are coming to adulthood as these shifts take place." * New West Indian Guide *"Pleasures and Perils is an accessible yet theoretically astute introduction to theories of sexual subjectivity, discourse, and mediation. It is also a compellingly written story about an island in transition and about the girls who are coming to adulthood as these shifts take place." * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Globalizing Nevis: Radical Shifts from Subsistence to Consumerism 3. Competing Discourses and Moralities at Play 4. Consuming Global Scripts: Media, Sex, and Desire 5. The State and Sexualities 6. Rethinking Sexual-Economic Exchange 7. Theorizing Sexual Pleasure 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRuth Behar’s An Island Called Home is a kaddish, an offering, dedicated to the exiles and to the children of the exiles and for those wandering still, searching for their homes. May they ‘not be given up for lost.Trade Review"Traversing the island, Behar becomes a confidante to a myriad of Jewish strangers. Through one-on-one interviews and black-and-white images taken by her photographer, Humberto Mayol, she uncovers the diasporic thread that connects Cuban Jews....This diligent recounting and pictorial collage of interviews with adolescents, the aging, the impoverished and the political by Behar preserves in memory the people and places that make up Cuba's Jewish story." * Publishers Weekly *"An Island Called Home is a snapshot of Cuban Jewish life and well worth a read by anyone interested in the beloved but mystifying island so close to home in America" -- Miriam Bradman Abrahams * Jewish Book Council *"Traversing the island, Behar becomes a confidante to a myriad of Jewish strangers. Through one-on-one interviews and black-and-white images taken by her photographer, Humberto Mayol, she uncovers the diasporic thread that connects Cuban Jews....This diligent recounting and pictorial collage of interviews with adolescents, the aging, the impoverished and the political by Behar preserves in memory the people and places that make up Cuba's Jewish story." * Publishers Weekly *A fascinating and vital memoir about a rarely glimpsed cultural force in Cuba; both personal and far-reaching. An Island Called Home digs deep to reveal new things about the collective soul of the Cubans. -- Oscar Hijuelos * author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love *This may be Behar's most personal work...she lovingly intertwines her own thoughts and feelings with the more analytical observations of her profession. The result: a narrative that tugs at the heart. * Miami Herald *"A nostalgic look at Cuban Jews, now and then. . . . her supple text is supplemented by the vivid photographs of Cuban photographer Humberto Mayol." * Canadian Jewish News *The book offers a brief historical introduction and an excellent chronology that tell why and how Jews from all over Europe and the Middle East flocked to Cuba in the early years of the twentieth century. This book tells as much about the author as it does about the Jews of Cuba. Behar has spent her life considering herself an outsider. As an academicshe has pursued that posture studying different cultures, hiding her Jewish identity, and wondering where she could take root. In this, her sixth book, Behar reveals the child whose roots are photographs in a suitcase. In Cuba she finds a home. Her tenacity in documenting even the smallest and most distant communities makes this study valuable. * Shofar *"An Island Called Home is a snapshot of Cuban Jewish life and well worth a read by anyone interested in the beloved but mystifying island so close to home in America" -- Miriam Bradman Abrahams * Jewish Book Council *Table of ContentsMap of Cuba (showing places visited) Running Away from Home to Run toward Home Part One: Blessings for the Dead Part Two: Havana Part Three: Traces Part Four: In the Provinces Part Five: Shalom to Cuba How this Book Came to Be a Photojourney Chronology Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Photographs About the Author and Photographer

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Book SynopsisIncorporating investigative journalism, this title examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador. It recounts the story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a 'popular health system'.Trade Review"Healing the Body Politic is an impressive and well-argued work of ethnography. Sandy Smith-Nonini has written an interesting and precise book spiced with engaging stories that implant images in readers' minds that will likely persist long after they have put the work down." -- Leigh Binford * author of The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights *"An impressive, well-written book. Highly Recommended." * Choice *"This is an exceptionallywell-researched book, and Smith-Nonini is a talented writer. Healing the Body Politic will be of great interest to medical and psychological anthropologists as well as to cultural and social anthropologists, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and scholars in and of Latin America more generally." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"Smith-Nonini's book beautifully demonstrates the political and social struggle to control the symbolic power of healing, and the consequences of these struggles on the health of rural and poor Salvadorans through the past three decades." * Ethos *"Healing the Body Politic is a refreshing read when so much of contemporary anthropology is concerned with critiquing the cultures of expertise in international development institutions and casting doubt on the project of trying to improve health and well-being. Smith-Nonini’s work is instead optimistic; she sees the popular health system as an instantiation of hope." * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Terror and Healing in El Salvador Introduction: Theorizing the Body and the State Part One: Exclusion and the Politics of Bare Life 1. Manufacturing Ill-being Repression's Repercussions Part Two: War Against Health 3. Insurgent Health 4. Low-Intensity Conflict and the War against Health 5. Pacification Part Three: Health against War 6. The Anatomy of "Popular Health" in the Repopulated Villages 7. The Elusive Goal of Community Participation Part Four: War by Other Means 8. Popular Health and the State 9. Disinvesting in Health 10. The White Marches Epilogue Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow have civil rights transformed racial politics in America? Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, Conjuring Crisis counters the myth of steady race progress by analyzing how the federal government and local politicians have sometimes "reformed" politics in ways that have amplified racism in the post civil-rights era.Trade Review"Baca provides a valuable window into the complex world of modern racism, in which it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the victim and the perpetrator. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Baca does a solid job of providing local and regional back story to the ongoing racial dramas in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His work make a very powerful statement about the care citizens have to take vis-a-vis the statements made by their political representatives regarding whose interests they serve." * Contemporary Sociology *"Conjuring Crisis is a gem. It takes us into the social drama around federal funding and racism at the twin communities of Fort Bragg and Fayetteville—giving us a rich exploration of the contradictions of 21st century America. George Baca teaches us about post-segregation racism, and also about the unusual role played by the military in and around southern cities." -- Vijay Prashad * author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World *"This nuanced, carefully researched ethnography offers a sobering critique of civil rights reforms in Fayetteville. An important and troubling work." -- Katherine McCaffrey * Associate Professor of Anthropology, Montclair State University *"This book is an impressive and significant contribution to the ongoing debate over how and why race matters in urban politics. Baca provides an extremely intriguing study of how racial hysteria follows a tradition of cultivating and mobilizing white racial anxiety that extends back to the era of slavery." -- John Hartigan * Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas *"The book's unsettling message is that a new kind of racism has emerged to replace the 'overtly racist' system that the civil rights reforms of the 1960s were designed to overcome. A fascinating study." * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Narrating a Racial Crisis Chapter 2: Conspiracies and Crises on Cape Fear Chapter 3: The Cunning of Racial Reform Chapter 4: Performing Crisis Chapter 5: Threatening Images of Black Power Chapter 6: Power Shift Chapter 7: Outsiders and Special Interests Chapter 8: Single Shot Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisComprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs.Trade Review"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." -- Geoffrey Hunt * Institute for Scientific Analysis *"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." -- Geoffrey Hunt * Institute for Scientific Analysis *"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsThrough ethnographic eyes The emergence of drug ethnography Systematic modernist ethnography and ethnopharmacology Drug ethnography since the emergence of AIDS Drugs and globalization: from the ground up and the sky down The conduct of drug ethnography: risks, rewards, and ethical quandaries in drug research careers Career paths in drug-related ethnography: from falling to calling Gender and drug use: drug ethnography by women about women The future of drug ethnography as reflected in recent developments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Guevarra’s fresh, exciting, and provocative analysis provides an extraordinary account of what it means to be a multiethnic American…a remarkable feat!" -- Rick Bonus * author of Locating Filipino Americans *"With a love for the archives and family stories, labor historian Rudy Guevarra provides a wonderfully rich, layered history of a vibrant multiethnic community in southern Califorinia." -- Vicki L. Ruiz * author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America *"An original and detailed account of the intimate, complex relationship between Mexicans and Filipinos in San Diego from 1903 to 1965, Becoming Mexipino is comparative ethnic studies at its best." -- Yen Le Espiritu * University of California, San Diego *"[A] fine book. One of the best histories of the San Diego region and a key title in Filipino American history. It advances the field of Chicana/o studies. Recommended." * Choice *"Rudy Guevarra's personal passion in celebrating and maintaining Mexipino identity into the twenty-first century make Becoming Mexipino an engaging read." * Southern California Quarterly *"Guevarra, a fourth-generation Mexipino from San Diego, makes major contributions to scholarship on the history of immigration to California and the history of San Diego as he tells the forgotten story of ethnic mixing of thousands of Filipinos and Mexicans." * Journal of American History *"Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Becoming Mexipino contributes significantly to our understanding of identity and community formation by those whose color and culture drew them together across ethnic boundaries." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Guevarra’s fresh, exciting, and provocative analysis provides an extraordinary account of what it means to be a multiethnic American…a remarkable feat!" -- Rick Bonus * author of Locating Filipino Americans *"With a love for the archives and family stories, labor historian Rudy Guevarra provides a wonderfully rich, layered history of a vibrant multiethnic community in southern Califorinia." -- Vicki L. Ruiz * author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America *"An original and detailed account of the intimate, complex relationship between Mexicans and Filipinos in San Diego from 1903 to 1965, Becoming Mexipino is comparative ethnic studies at its best." -- Yen Le Espiritu * University of California, San Diego *"[A] fine book. One of the best histories of the San Diego region and a key title in Filipino American history. It advances the field of Chicana/o studies. Recommended." * Choice *"Rudy Guevarra's personal passion in celebrating and maintaining Mexipino identity into the twenty-first century make Becoming Mexipino an engaging read." * Southern California Quarterly *"Guevarra, a fourth-generation Mexipino from San Diego, makes major contributions to scholarship on the history of immigration to California and the history of San Diego as he tells the forgotten story of ethnic mixing of thousands of Filipinos and Mexicans." * Journal of American History *"Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Becoming Mexipino contributes significantly to our understanding of identity and community formation by those whose color and culture drew them together across ethnic boundaries." * Journal of American Ethnic History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Immigration to a Rising Metropolis2. The Devil Comes to San Diego: Race and Spatial Politics3. Survival and Belonging: Civil Rights, Social Organizations, and Youth Cultures4. Race and Labor Activism in San Diego5. Filipino-Mexican Couples and the Forging of a Mexipino IdentityEpilogueNotes Index

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Trade Review"Mark Schuller's ethnography of pre- and post-earthquake disaster Haiti is profoundly riveting, poignant, and courageous. It offers a timely no-holds-barred critique and theoretically nuanced analysis of neoliberal NGO-ization and humanitarian aid. The book also provides an inspiring vision and thougtful recommendations for remedying the problems of 'trickle down imperialism.' This is an important contribution that convincingly explains why we should care about what's happening in Haiti and the troubling implications for elsewhere—including right here in the USA." -- Faye V. Harrison * author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age *"Schuller's analysis of two NGOs is a singular contribution to our understanding of such organizations in underdeveloped countries." -- Mark Schuller * Alex Dupuy, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University *"Mark Schuller provides something that has been sorely lacking from this story—an ethnographic account of nongovernmental politics in Haiti, a country many now dub 'the Republic of NGOs.'" * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"Killing with Kindness offers both engaging ethnographic examples and extensive analysis of the complex network of governmental and nongovernmental institutions through which Haiti and Haitians are ruled. * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesForeword by Paul FarmerAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Doing Research during a Coup1. Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS2. "That's Not Participation!": Relationships from "Below"3. All in the Family: Relationships "Inside"4. "We Are Prisoners!": Relationships from "Above"5. Tectonic Shifts and the Political Tsunami: USAID and the Disaster of HaitiConclusion: Killing with Kindness?Afterword: Some Policy SolutionsNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Preface: Doing the Jewish Family Introduction 1. Terms of Debate Family History and the History of Families Bearing the Children of Israel Narrating the Family Journey Husbands, Wives, and Rabbis in Antiquity In the Ancient Neighborhood "Jewish Gender"? Beyond "Tradition" and "Modernity" An All-Too-Quick Trip to Israel 2. State of the Question The Medieval Jewish Past Today Mediterranean Wolrds Dreamtimes and Lifetimes Leaving Ashkenaz Back to Europe? From Ethnic Dissolution to Ashkenaz Regained Jewish Genes 3. In a New Key Off-Key Echoes of Old Prejudice The Return of "Race"? Families Undone and Redone Suturing the Tears in Family Memory Cut to Identity Possible Futures Keeping Up with the Goldbergs Who Needs the Jewish Family? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReceived an Honorable Mention for the 2015 First Michelle Rosaldo Prize for a First Book in Feminist Anthropology from the Association for Feminist AnthropologyWinner of the Adele E. Clarke Book Award from ReproNetwork After Cuba's 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union fell and Cuba's economic troubles worsened, these programs began to collapse, with serious results for Cuban families. Conceiving Cuba offers an intimate look at how, with the island's political and economic future in question, reproduction has become the subject of heated public debates and agonizing private decisions. Drawing from several years of first-hand observations and interviews, anthropologist Elise Andaya takes us inside Cuba's households and medical systems. Along the way, she introduces us to the women whoTrade Review"Andaya reveals the complex entanglement of women’s reproductive choices, healthcare practices, and the state’s agenda to reshape gender ideologies. This rich ethnography will appeal to regional specialists, and to scholars of gender, reproduction, post-socialism, and social change." -- Nadine Fernandez * author of Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba *Table of ContentsIntroduction : reproduction, women, and the state (Re)producing the new woman : the early revolutionary years Reproducing citizens and socialism in prenatal care Abortion and calculated risks Engendered economies and the dilemmas of reproduction Having faith and making family overseas Conclusion : reproducing the revolution

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Trade Review"Andaya reveals the complex entanglement of women’s reproductive choices, healthcare practices, and the state’s agenda to reshape gender ideologies. This rich ethnography will appeal to regional specialists, and to scholars of gender, reproduction, post-socialism, and social change." -- Nadine Fernandez * author of Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba *Table of ContentsIntroduction : reproduction, women, and the state (Re)producing the new woman : the early revolutionary years Reproducing citizens and socialism in prenatal care Abortion and calculated risks Engendered economies and the dilemmas of reproduction Having faith and making family overseas Conclusion : reproducing the revolution

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Book SynopsisAndrea Whittaker traces the development of international surrogacy industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia. The book offers a nuanced and sympathetic examination of the industry from the perspectives of the people involved in it. Trade Review“An original, comprehensive, and eye-opening account of the unprecedented growth of commercial surrogacy in Southeast Asia. By focusing on the industry’s multiple stakeholders—particularly Thai surrogates who have gestated babies for Australian intended parents—Whittaker writes with ethnographic sensitivity and compassion, while at the same time critiquing the “disruptive industry” within which surrogacy takes place. A must-read for those interested in globalization, biotechnology, and reproductive justice.” -- Marcia Inhorn * author of Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai *"Andrea Whittaker, one of the leading anthropologists working on reproduction has produced an important and timely book. We are presently at a moment when cross-border reproduction is at once, a lucrative industry, a facilitator of people's reproductive hopes and dreams and a site of intense scrutiny and regulation. It is this potent mixture that Whittaker analyses and describes so deftly, taking us through crises in South East Asian reproduction, that despite their particularity, span a globe of experience and connection. This assemblage of facilitators, intended parents, surrogates and the law form a powerful account of the centrality and importance of detailed ethnographic work to the future regulation of cross-border reproduction. Carefully woven and engrossing!" -- Michal Nahman * author of Extractions: An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Language and Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. The Growth of Disruptive Commercial Surrogacy in Asia Chapter 2. Merit and Money: The Moral Economy of Surrogacy Chapter 3. The Best of Intentions Chapter 4. Facilitation Chapter 5. Digital Umbilical Cords Chapter 6. Rotten Trade Chapter 7. Baby Gammy Chapter 8. New Destinations, New Markets Conclusions: The Future of International Surrogacy Appendix Acknowledgments Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisAndrea Whittaker traces the development of international surrogacy industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia. The book offers a nuanced and sympathetic examination of the industry from the perspectives of the people involved in it. Trade Review“An original, comprehensive, and eye-opening account of the unprecedented growth of commercial surrogacy in Southeast Asia. By focusing on the industry’s multiple stakeholders—particularly Thai surrogates who have gestated babies for Australian intended parents—Whittaker writes with ethnographic sensitivity and compassion, while at the same time critiquing the “disruptive industry” within which surrogacy takes place. A must-read for those interested in globalization, biotechnology, and reproductive justice.” -- Marcia Inhorn * author of Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai *"Andrea Whittaker, one of the leading anthropologists working on reproduction has produced an important and timely book. We are presently at a moment when cross-border reproduction is at once, a lucrative industry, a facilitator of people's reproductive hopes and dreams and a site of intense scrutiny and regulation. It is this potent mixture that Whittaker analyses and describes so deftly, taking us through crises in South East Asian reproduction, that despite their particularity, span a globe of experience and connection. This assemblage of facilitators, intended parents, surrogates and the law form a powerful account of the centrality and importance of detailed ethnographic work to the future regulation of cross-border reproduction. Carefully woven and engrossing!" -- Michal Nahman * author of Extractions: An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Language and Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. The Growth of Disruptive Commercial Surrogacy in Asia Chapter 2. Merit and Money: The Moral Economy of Surrogacy Chapter 3. The Best of Intentions Chapter 4. Facilitation Chapter 5. Digital Umbilical Cords Chapter 6. Rotten Trade Chapter 7. Baby Gammy Chapter 8. New Destinations, New Markets Conclusions: The Future of International Surrogacy Appendix Acknowledgments Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1992 quincentennial of the encounter between the Old and New World resulted in a polarisation of hardened ideological positions on different ideas of America. This text demonstrates that both sides are interested in defending an idea of ""Americanness"".

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays aims to respond to Charles Sellers's ""The Market Revolution"", reflecting upon the historiographic accomplishments initiated by his work, while advancing the argument across a range of fields. It explores the impact of the market on social and economic institutions.

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Book SynopsisContinues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace process and the second intifada.

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Book SynopsisFor six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the city's anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into this historically Polish-Catholic community. No one openly contested Muslims' right to worship in their mosques, but many neighbors framed their resistance around what they regarded as the inappropriate public pronouncement of Islamic presence, an announcement that audibly intruded upon their public space.Throughout U.S. history, complaints about religion as noise have proven useful both for restraining religious dissent and for circumscribing religion's boundaries more generally. At the same time, religious individuals and groups rarely have kept quiet. They have insisted on their right to practice religion out loud, implicitly advancing alternative understandings of religion and itsTrade Review[A]n engaging exploration of religious sound, and the controversies it creates, throughout US history. . . .Religion Out Loudis a tremendous piece of scholarship, rich in archival material and accessibly written. It encourages us to attend to the materiality of religion and it will certainly stand as a notable contribution to the fields of US religious history, religion and law, sound and media studies, and beyond. * Reviews of Religious Research *Weiners engaging writing style, careful explanation of case studies, and important critique of the orthodoxies of religious pluralism will likely make this book appealing to students and scholars for years to come. * Religion in American History *Isaac Weiner recovers a fascinating series of aural disputes and weaves them into 'a political history of religious sound' that argues that competing constructions of 'noise' illumine the extent and limits of America religious pluralism as it has developed over time . . . .Religion Out Loudis an innovative study that generates fresh perspectives on venerable themes, including the shifting shape of Protestant power and the efforts of religious newcomers to find a home in the United States. * The Journal of American History *[A]n innovative study that generates fresh perspectives on venerable themes, including the shifting shape of Protestant power and efforts of religious newcomers to find a home in the United States. Weiner's analysis is theoretically rich. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Isaac Weiner's fascinating book,Religion Out Loud, takes as its starting point that 'religion' consists not simply of systems of substantive content, moral claims, and theological arguments, but rather is fundamentally constituted by the expressive practices that enact such systems, and a recognition that such practices involve, in most cases, acts of public sounding . . . . A valuable and important work. * Anthropological Quarterly *Religion Out Loud is one of the most consistent books in cultural studies. Though the focus of Weiner's book is the United States, the issues around noisy religious practices are universal. Hence, this book is an obligatory reference for scholars and an exemplary academic performance for cultural studies on any region. * 2014 Yearbook for Traditional Music *Weiner has made a great contribution to the debates on public space and religious pluralism, offering a rich history of religious landscapes in the United States. * Material Religion *The impressively young scholar Isaac Weiner uses this inherently public identity of sound to analyse various interpretations of religion and religion's role in shared space . . . . His sonic take on the public role of religion is a refreshing alternative to a number of studies that rush to theological and political conclusions at the detriment of respectable scholarship. * International Journal of Public Theology *Each of these controversies is subjected to careful analysis, and Weiner concludes with a reaffirmation of the significance of sound in religion. This is a valuable study for everyone interested in understanding religion in the US. * Choice *By offering concrete examples of the conflicts, compromises, and challenges of negotiating religious difference in urban spaces, Weiner’s work makes a valuable contribution not only to the anthropology of media, religious studies, and sociolegal critique, but to ethnographically grounded studies of political philosophy and pluralism more broadly—one in which religious “toleration” is less an abstract theory, and more an act of community negotiation. -- Religious Studies ReviewInvestigates the ways in which American law sought to regulate the increasingly pluralistic religious soundscape of American cities. -- Richard Kent Evans * LA Review of Books *Offers a brilliantly researched and intellectually nuanced account of the sounds of religion in the United States and the legal standing of religious noise over time . . . . A fascinating and immensely valuable contribution to the scholarship of sensory studies, public religion, secularism, sonic technologies, and material practice. In sum: a pleasure to read and to ponder. -- Sally M. Promey,Yale UniversityWeiner remakes the religious history of the senses as legal history. The regulation of religious sounds has created a tangle in American jurisprudence, ensnaring everything from the pealing bells of Episcopalians to the loudspeakers of Jehovahs Witnesses to the calls to prayer of immigrant Muslims. With deftness and discerning insight, Weiner reveals the politics involved in defining noisy religion as public nuisance. -- Leigh Eric Schmidt,Washington University in St. LouisReligion Out Loud advances the study of the materiality of religions in a substantial way by showing how important the investigation of sound is for understanding the history of religions in the United States. . . . Fascinating, resourceful, and thoughtful from beginning to end. This book belongs in all kinds of courses because it demonstrates how to do cultural history, study the senses and modernity, and compare religious traditions in the concrete registers of daily life. We will never hear sacred noise in the same way again. -- David Morgan,Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Sounds of Power 1. From Sacred Noise to Public Nuisance 2. Church Bells in the Industrial City Part II: The Sounds of Dissent 3. A New Regulatory Regime 4. Sound Car Religion and the Right to Be Left Alone Part III: The Sounds of Difference 5. A New Constitutional World and the Illusory Ideal of Neutrality 6. Calling Muslims-and Christians-to Pray Conclusion Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisExplores the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first centuryTrade ReviewMissing Bodies is a well-written book that asks scholars of rhetoric productive questions not only about discursive constructs that constrain, expose, or advertise the body, but also the methods through which we gather information about the role of the body in discourse. * Journal of Advanced Composition *Overall the book opened my eyes to the experiences of the missing and what they mean for the rest of us who are visible and can do something about giving them a voice. It also makes me ask more questions about other missing bodies not mentioned, which, I believe, is the fundamental intent of the book. * PsycCritiques *As a commentary on the consequences of neoliberalism, a critique of contemporary Western culture, and a recovery effort o fthe unseen, Missing Bodies is a provocative and thought provoking work that situates our understandings of the bodies that are seen and obscured in new light. -- Erin L. Pullen, Sociology of Health and IllnessThis book is written in a vivid style, endowed with a straightforward and pleasant way of expressing the authors' engaged analysis. -- Claire Beaudevin * Social Anthropology *Missing Bodies focuses our attention on what is not there, and thus brilliantly illuminates just what is! This is a creative, thoughtful, exciting book, a fine contribution to the growing literature on the sociology of the body. -- Barbara Katz Rothman,author of Recreating MotherhoodShows the structural and symbolic processes underlying bodily erasure and exposure; a major accomplishment. -- Nelly Oudshoorn,author of The Male PillTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Bodies We See, and Some That Are Not Here Part I: Innocents 2 Seen but Not Heard: Consequences of Innocence Lost 3 Calculated Losses: Taking the Measure of Infant Mortality Part II: Exposed 4 Biodisaster: "The Greatest Weapon of Mass Destruction on Earth" 5 Fluid Matters: Human Biomonitoring as Gendered Surveillance Part III: Heroes 6 "They Used Me": Manufacturing Heroes in Wartime 7 It Takes Balls: Lance Armstrong and the Triumph of American Masculinity 8 Conclusion: Excavations Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisOutlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earthTrade Review"Campion's Astrology and Cosmologyis an ambitious examination of cosmologies and astrologies from around the world. The diversity of cultures Campion includes is impressive." -- Jacqueline Feke * History of Astronomy *"What is up in the sky has significance in almost every religion, and this book looks at Australia, Oceania, North America, South and Central America, Sub-Sahara Africa, Egypt, China, India, Babylon, Judaism, Classical Greece with Christianity, Islam, and 'Theosophical, New Age, and Pagan Cosmologies.'" -- Gareth J. Medway * The Magonia Blog: Astrology and Religion *""This innovative study presents astrologies and cosmologies - broadly conceived - as counterparts and mirrors of human societies. Unlike most students of astrology, Campion transcends the limitations of the Western tradition to examine the nature and roles of astrological and cosmological concepts in cultures from all continents. His examples provide original insights into how cosmologies shape these cultures' artistic, intellectual, and religious activities." -- Stephen McCluskey,West Virginia University"The book is crammed with information, occasionally punctuated by interpretation or analysis. Over 50 pages of notes and bibliography enable readers to check the author's exactitude for him or herself." -- L. De Danaan * CHOICE *Table of ContentsCosmology and Religion: Measurement and Meaning 2. Astrology: The Celestial Mirror 3. Australia: The Dreaming 4. Oceania: Navigating the Sky 5. North America: The Great Spirit 6. South and Central America: Salvation and Sacrifice 7. Sub-Saharan Africa: Heaven on Earth 8. Egypt: The Solar Society 9. China: The Celestial Offices 10. India: Ancient Traditions and Modern Practice 11. Babylon: Signs in the Sky 12. Judaism: Myth, Magic, and Transcendence 13. Classical Greece: Ascent to the Stars 14. Christianity: Influence and Transcendence 15. Islam: Faith and Reason 16. Theosophical, New Age, and Pagan Cosmologies: Nature and Transformation Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe production of pharmaceuticals is among the most profitable industries on the planet. Drug companies produce chemical substances that can save, extend, or substantially improve the quality of human life. This book deals with growing set of problems for communities around the world.Trade ReviewDietrich presents the story of Nocora (a pseudonym), a municipality in Puerto Rico that has been the recipient of the blessing and curse of having pharmaceutical companies in its backyard. -- I. Glasser * Choice *"Offers a compelling and thought-provoking account of the politics of recognition in Nocorá Puerto Rico, a municipality where the stench of pollution pervades the air, soil, and water. In Nocorá one lives beneath the shadow of one's corporate `neighbors, an imposing complex of pharmaceutical companies that turns a blind eye to the insidious effects of toxic by-products while boasting of their lucrative trade in health elsewhere. Set against the invisibility of chronic suffering, local grassroots activists must always fight to be seen and heard. Here one encounters a lively cast of people who inhabit an environment both tranquil and contaminated. This is a smart and masterful portrayal of the realities of activism and the power of corporate public relations strategies, a convincing ethnography that integrates medical anthropology and political ecology in expert fashion. Every employee of Big Pharma should be required to read this book. -- Lesley A. Sharp,Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard CollegeThe Drug Company Next Dooris ambitious, successful, closely reasoned, vivid, exciting, enormously distressing, and challenging on a political and theoretical level. Dietrichs writing is so good that I would recommend this book for use at any level of anthropological study, from undergraduate all the way up. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *Dietrichs study fruitfully combines the old and the new as a traditional anthropological community study on a cutting-edge topic of profound global significance. * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Key Events Timeline for Nocora's Environmental Health List of Acronyms A Note on Pseudonyms Introduction: Understanding PoliticalEcologies of Risk in Puerto Rico Little by Little 1 The Dose Makes the Poison: How Making Drugs Harms Environments and People Progress 2 In the Beginning Was the Corporation: Progress, Pollution, and the Public Trust Playing Politics 3 The Rituals and Consequences of Community Politics and Dissent "Fresh Minds" on Parade 4 Environmental Justice Is Not Always Just Good Neighbors (A Conversation) 5 The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Problem of "Stakeholders" "Salud te recomienda" 6 Radical Redistributions of Knowledge: A Holistic View of Environmental Health Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWhat is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. This book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last three decades have made new routes to active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult.Trade ReviewLocal Democracy Under Siege argues persuasively that American democracy is at a pivotal moment where the forces of exclusion and the ideology of market rule contest with new forms of political activism and engaged citizenship. Readers will see many of the same issues that North Carolina faces in their own communities and will take away new perspectives on power, race, class, and activism from this cogent and timely analysis. -- Louise Lamphere,Past President of the American Anthropological AssociationA luminous work about everyday citizens that should free up local democratic energies across the land! -- Aihwa Ong,author of Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and SovereigntyDebates about democracy often get stuck at the national scale. But the capacity for ordinary people to shape the conditions of their lives through politics and public speech is often greatest at the local level. This important book opens up anthropological perspectives on how this happens. It situates the challenges of local politics amid the constraints of neoliberalism, but also reports on the creative solutions different communities have developed to the distinctive problems they face. -- Craig Calhoun,President, Social Science Research CouncilThis book opens up the crucial questions of what democracy means in the U.S. today and the ways in which everyday Americans struggle to make themselves heard. Conceptually, methodologically, and theoretically this book realizes the potential for anthropological analysis as a way to understand the dangers of increasing inequality in the contemporary U.S. It is a major contribution. -- Ida Susser,author of Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban NeighborhoodProduces new insights into the ‘makeover’ of local government * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Experimenting with Democracy 2. Landscapes in Transition PART I: LIMITING DEMOCRACY3. Hope, Fear, and Political Autobiography 4. Racial Framing 5. Public Goods for Private Ends: The Redirection of Schooling PART II: GOVERNING UNDER NEOLIBERALISM6. Local Politics and the Contemporary American Scene 7. Imagining Local Futures: Who Sets Priorities for the Present?8. Public Business as Usual PART III: STRUGGLING FOR DEMOCRACY9. Against American Plutocracy: Democratizing Our Communities, One by One 10. Counter Experiments for Democracy: Activism on New Political Terrain 11. It's Up to Us: From Local Politics to a Democratic America? Appendix: Democracy and Political Theory: Why Participatory Democracy? Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisFocuses on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies. This book reveals how moral and sexual panics have become a mainstay of certain kinds of conservative efforts to win elections and gain power in moral, social, and political arenas.Trade ReviewThe authors here provide thorough accounts of contemporary social and sexual issues that dominate social consciousness, media and politics . . . the book offers a modern synopsis of how sex and sexuality continue to be embedded in political, educational and social debates. -- Lindsay Sprague * Social Anthropology *Abortion, AIDS, non marital sex, homosexuality, pornography, contraception, sexual rights, and the rest have posed persistent threats and challenges across the world for some time. & Sex stands as a major political and moral symbol that marks boundaries and shapes change in cultures.Here an outstanding group of social scientists give a firm focus to the culture wars and moral panics that split cultures and speak to persistent and deep divides round the world. The essays in this timely volume provide critical insights to the battle lines that must be overcome for a new world to flourish. -- Ken Plummer,author of Intimate Citizenship: Private Decisions and Public DialoguesNowadays panic seems to be everywherefrom homeland security to economic crisisyet sexual topics seem to prompt the most extreme episodes of fear, loathing, indignation, and overreaction. How do sex panics unfold? How can defenders of sexual rights respond effectively? In this state-of-the-art volume, noted scholars of sexuality take a big step forward in addressing these questions while zooming in on crucial topics such as reproductive rights, sex education, AIDS, same-sex marriage, and the politics of race and empire. -- Steven Epstein,author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of KnowledgeThis is a very important book. If you want to understand the state of sexuality politics in this countryand have a hope of reversing moral panics and public liesyou need to read this book! -- Pepper Schwartz,author of Prime: Adventures and Advice about Sex, Love and the Sensual YearsSmart analysis and crucial advice in a timely academic call to arms. * Between the Lines *Individuals and activist groups committed to the progressive struggle for cultural and sexual freedoms will find smart analysis and crucial advice in a timely academic call to arms. * Gay and Lesbian Times *Moral Panics, Sex Panicsis a valuable interdisciplinary contribution to emotion, media, and gender studies. * H-Net Reviews *In this six-essay collection, with an astute introduction from editor Herdt, social scientists and scholars of sexuality dissect where such loathing for personal freedoms originates, how maniacally it is deployed and whether there is an effective response to the fomented onslaught of anti-woman, anti-gay and anti-sexual moral Puritanism. * Pittsburghs Out *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Moral Panics, Sexual Rights, and Cultural Anger Gilbert Herdt 2. The Religious Right and the Reshaping of Sexuality: Reproductive Rights and Sexuality Education During the Bush Years Diane DiMauro & Carole Joffe 3. Black Sexuality, Indigenous Moral Panics, and Respectability: From Bill Cosby to the Down Low Cathy J. Cohen 4. The "Gay Plague" Revisited: AIDS and its Enduring Moral Panic Gary W. Dowsett 5. Gay Marriage: The Panic and the Right Gilbert Herdt 6. Postcolonial Amnesia: Sexual Moral Panics, Memory and Imperial Power Saskia Eleonora Wieringa 7. Transient Feelings: Sex Panics and the Politics of Emotions Janice M. Irvine Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigating how the particular, and changing, urban contexts of New York City and Amsterdam have shaped immigrant and second generation experiences.Trade Review"This book of well-written essays develops the comparative framework that migration studies so badly needs, illuminating both the features common to the migration experience in New York and Amsterdam and the factors that set these two cities, and their migrants, apart." -- Roger Waldinger,author, Still the Promised City?"Centuries ago, the highly diverse city of Amsterdam not only gave 'New Amsterdam' its name, but also early waves of immigrants. Today, both cities are microcosms of the worlds diversity. How do the unique features of cities affect immigrant incorporation? Moving beyond analyses that focus on immigrants individual characteristics or group differences, the elegant comparisons in this volume highlight how cities distinct economies, social relations, cultural space, and politics affect immigrants and their integration. A fascinating read!" -- Irene Bloemraad,author, Becoming a Citizen"Transatlantic dialogue is highly needed in ethnic and migration studies. When top Amsterdam and New York social scientists engage in it through a systematic comparison between their two cities, the result is fascinating. It is also extremely useful for scholars on both sides of the Atlantic who are interested in understanding better how migration reshapes cities. A wonderful multidisciplinary and collective endeavor!" -- Marco Martiniello,co-editor, Minorities in European Cities"[]New York and Amsterdamoffers a rich understanding of the contexts of immigration in each city." * International Migration Review *"The book instructively delves into differing definitions of race, religion and ethnic politics, of integration versus assimilation. In New York, immigrants and their children are approaching a majority of voting-age citizens. In Amsterdam, noncitizens are allowed to vote in local elections after five years of legal residence in the Netherlands." * New York Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionJan Rath, Nancy Foner, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Rogier van ReekumPart I 1. Immigration History and the Remaking of New YorkNancy Foner 2. To Amsterdam: Migrations Past and Present Leo LucassenPart II 3. Immigrants in New York City's Economy: A Portrait in Full Living ColorDavid Dyssegaard Kallick 4. From Amsterdamned to I Amsterdam: The Amsterdam Economy and Its Impact on the Labor Market Position of Migrants, 1980-2010Robert C. KloostermanPart III 5. Nativism, Racism, and Immigration in New York City Mary C. Waters 6. Governing through Religion in AmsterdamJustus Uitermark, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Jan RathPart IV 7. The Rise of Immigrant Influence in New York City PoliticsJohn Mollenkopf 8. Immigrant Political Engagement and Incorporation in AmsterdamFloris Vermeulen, Laure Michon, and Jean TilliePart V 9. Immigrants, the Arts, and the "Second-Generation Advantage" in New YorkPhilip Kasinitz 10. Immigrant Youths' Contribution to Urban Culture in AmsterdamChristine Delhaye, Sawitri Saharso, and Victor van de VenAbout the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. This book looks at the dynamic relationship between religion, migration, and ethnicity across the US-Mexican border.Trade Review"Sarat offers a fascinating ethnographic examination of the intersection of popular religious practices, Pentecostal faith, and the necessity forced upon individuals in economically challenging circumstances to migrate from Mexico to the United States." * Choice *"Fire in the Canyonwill engage readers at all levels with its accessible prose and memorable life stories. The chapter on Caminata Nocturna should especially interest undergraduate students with its unique perspectives on border crossing. [] Sarat conveys the great dedication to community that persists in this town, despite all the divisions that it facesof religious factionalism, modernization, and, most of all, immigration." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"[T]his study is an important contribution to migration studies, Pentecostal theology and the wider field of religion and the migration experience. While it is about the Mexican migration experience, it has implications for and is a resource for migration on a whole, especially that of the two-thirds world." * Pneuma *"Beautifully illustrates the complex intersections of religion and immigration, where even the successful navigation of the dangerous migrants journey across the U.S. border results not in the 'American dream,' but in continued poverty and marginalization. . . . Religion within the context of immigration is not merely one of 'the things they carry,' but fundamental to the journey, helping migrants to frame their understanding of suffering, to confront life-and-death, and to define their notions of the possible. Yet Sarat suggests that this understanding alone is not enough, arguing that religionmodern Pentecostalism in particularhelps empower people to look beyond simple religious tropes and issues of individual salvation to join collective efforts that seek to address the roots causes of migration and inequality." -- Virginia Garrard-Burnett,The University of Texas at Austin"Through finely woven voices and descriptions of actors and locations in a life drama that transcends geographical and religious borders, Leah Sarats ethnography of the indigenous people of El Alberto . . . offers its readers an opportunity to witness the fantastic capacity of seemingly marginal peoples to selectively appropriate religious and economic impositions in an effort to carve out a future that makes sense to them, and, hopefully their children." -- Ella Schmidt,author of The Dream Fields of Florida: Mexican Farmworkers and the Myth of BelongingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. Fire from Heaven 2. Living Crosses 3. I Lift Up My Eyes to the North Part II 4. Send Us Power 5. To Crush the Devil's Head 6. Shielded by the Blood of Christ Part III 7. The Night Hike 8. The Mexican Dream Conclusion Glossary of Spanish and Hnahnu Terms Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisUnveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving relationship between the U.S. and Latin AmericaTrade ReviewA brilliant and compelling study of the cybermarriage industry. With grace and elegance, Schaeffer provides a new way of thinking. -- Rosa-Linda Fregoso,University of California, Santa CruzSumming Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *This book is a helpful contribution to our understanding about the cybermarriage industry. * INTAMS Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Intimate Investments 1 Enforcing Romantic Love through Immigration Law 2 Conversions of the Self: Mexican Women's Turn from the National to the Foreign 3 Outsourcing the American Dream: Transforming Men's Virtual Fantasies into Social Realities 4 Bodies for Export! The Pliable Economy of Beauty and Passion in Colombia 5 Migrant Critique: Love and the Patriot Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFeeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.Trade ReviewEveryone Eats is anthropology at its best, an exceptional blend of biological and cultural explanation that reveals our relationship with food and eating. Anderson's personal ethnographic experience as a nutritional anthropologist among cultures from around the world will leave the reader with a sense of wonderment about the fundamental human act of eating. Throughout the book Anderson develops a deep social conscience about the problems of overand under-nutritionthat face the world today -- Barrett P. Brenton,Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Food and CultureAnderson's view of the relationship between the biological and the cultural is nicely provocative, and his rich personal fieldwork experiences greatly enliven the pages of Everyone Eats. -- Sidney W. Mintz,author of Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the PastPlenty of cultural insights and background history lend to a survey particularly recommended for college-level students of anthropology and social science. * The Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review *Anderson’s book is a solid introduction to the anthropology of food for students and general readers. It is clear, well-written, spiced with interesting examples, and illustrated with many evocative photographs taken by the author and by Barbara Anderson. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Although intended for the general public and not as a textbook, this book is recommended for higher education, especially advanced courses * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Everyone Eats Introduction to the Second Edition: One More Round 1. Obligatory Omnivores 2. Human Nutritional Needs 3. More Needs Than One 4. The Senses: Taste, Smell, and the Adapted Mind 5. Basics: Environment and Economy 6. Food and Traditional Medicine 7. Food as Pleasure 8. Food Classification and Communication 9. Me, Myself, and the Others: Food as Social Marker 10. Food and Religion 11. Change 12. Foods and Borders: Ethnicities, Cuisines, and Boundary Crossings 13. Feeding the World Appendix: Explaining It All: Nutritional Anthropology and Food Scholarship Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisExamines media representations of bees, such as children's books, films, and consumer culture, bringing to light the reciprocal way in which the bee and our idea of the bee inform one another.Trade Review"The sociology of urban beekeeping occupies most of this entertaining and enjoyable book. Written by two academic sociologists, it betrays a great deal more about the odd ideological fashions, delusions, and pretensions of its human subjects than it does about bees or beekeeping." * Anthrozoos *"Buzz contains some genuinely surprising insights, both in terms of what we learn about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves through bees and in terms of what we learn about bees' behavior and their adaptation to urban living . . .Buzzhelps illustrate what may be the most important sociological warrant for studying animals: they do not merelyreflectthe stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, they shape society's stories." * American Journal of Sociology *"Covering everything from the place of honey in artisanal food shops and health-related goods, to cultural and media images, the authors describe how the bee has manifested as a cultural representation of the natural world and how people respond to it . . . readers with a keen desire to understand how bees fit into society and sustainability will find this text on human/insect relations an intriguing read." * Library Journal *"[A] book valuable in an academic setting." * Publishers Weekly *"For almost as long as I have been working in the field of human-animal studies, I have wanted someone to seriously investigate people's relationships with insects. With Buzz, Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut have made a unique, important, and fascinating addition to the literature. Both authors are talented and observant believers in hands-on research. After reading Buzz, you will forever see bees and those who care for them differently." -- Clinton Sanders,author of Regarding Animals"In this fascinating blend of sociology, ecology, ethnographic research, and personal memoir, the authors range through all of the aspects of the human relationship with the honeybee." -- Nancy Bent * Booklist *"The text lacks the convoluted writing style that often typifies books by social scientists; it is an interesting and highly readable works that offers an intriguing glimpse into the unique culture of beekeeping, a popular and fast-growing urban phenomenon.Buzzwill interest not only general readers, but also students of sociology, natural history/ecology, and entomology, and, of course, anyone with an established or burgeoning passion for beekeeping." -- D.A. Brass * Choice *"Buzz is a fascinating reminder of the interconnections between humans and animals, even in that most urban of environments, New York City. Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut properly remind us that this tiny insect, the humble honeybee, carries much cultural baggage--a source of honeyed food and occasionally the vector of death. As we come to recognize the limits and dangers of environmental change, Buzz reminds us that we should remember not only what bees mean to us humans, but how humans shape bee colonies. The accounts of urban beekeepers and the recent growth of tended hives throughout the boroughs emphasize that the diversity of human interests matches the diversity of nature. Ultimately, as Moore and Kosut recognize in this intrepid and lively tour of beedom, nature is cultural." -- Gary Alan Fine,author of Sticky Reputations: The Politics of Collective Memory in Midcentury America"The authors thoughtfully allude to the euphemism, the story of the birds and the bees, to broaden an assumption we share about a bee. They reveal their behavior and the reasons for it, further elucidating their activity in a way that provides a deeper understanding of their nature and yields an even deeper mystery of their existence. The book makes me feel glad that someone out there cares enough about this humble creature to cast them in a light they deserve. Thanks for the Buzz." * San Francisco Book Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Catching the Buzz Introduction 2. Buzzing for BeesFrom Model Insect to Urban Beekeeping 3. Saving the Bees Colony Collapse Disorder and the Greening of the Bee 4. Being with Bees Intimate Engagements between Humans and Insects 5. Entangling with Bees Sex and Gender 6. Breeding Good Citizens All-American Insects 7. Deploying BeesThe Work of Busy Bees 8. Becoming Bee Centered Beyond BuzzNotesIndex About the Authors

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Book SynopsisShows that the fight over the practices of Wal-Mart can provide us with important insight into the dreams and realities of American capitalismTrade Review"Wal-Mart Wars is a beautifully-written, clear-minded inquiry into one of the most important questions of our time: Do powerful corporate entities operate simply according to value-free conceptions of the marketplace, or can consumers and advocacy groups bring standards of moral worth into the picture? Rebekah Peeples Massengill provides a careful analysis of the grassroots arguments actually being used. This is a brilliant example of cultural sociology at its best" -- Robert Wuthnow,author of Remaking the Heartland: Middle America Since the 1950s"[Rhetoric] always registers the moral foundations of the culture that sponsors it, reflecting, reinforcing, and even reimagining them. This is the terrain of Rebekah Peeples Massengill's perceptive new study of the political contests in the United States over the role and behavior of the giant retailing corporation, Wal-Mart. She wishes to understand the uses made of moral language and categories by disputants on both sides of the Wal-Mart controversies, and, in particular, how these uses differentially relate to moral conceptions of the market. She also argues that the case study illustrates general moralizing processes in public debates about markets in the United States, as in such cases as health care reform, tax reform, and government bailouts of major corporations. Generally, then, it is an examination of how Americans make sense of the 'moral dilemmas of modern capitalism.'" -- Peter Cleary Yeager * Political Science Quarterly *"For years Wal-Mart and its critics have been locked in a high-profile contest to define the meaning and calculate the morality of America's largest private-sector employer. Rebekah Massengill brings a sophisticated understanding of language, culture, and ideology to her deconstruction of the rhetoric and symbolism deployed by the contestants, in the process demonstrating that concepts like family, community, fairness, and citizenship are both highly malleable and explosively political." -- Nelson Lichtenstein ,author of The Retail Revolution"This excellent book will convert those who still think that economy is devoid of meanings, judgments and emotions. Wal-Mart Wars is an important contribution to the growing scholarship on markets and morals, and a must-read for anyone who cares about how and why Americans argue about economic issues" -- Nina Bandelj,author of Economy and State: A Sociological Perspective"Well researched, tightly argued, and accessibly written, Wal-Mart Wars offers insight for everyone." * CHOICE *"Massengill, a lecturer in the department of sociology at Princeton, uses the debate over Wal-Marts policies and economic standing as a way of exploring the moral language used in larger political and economic discussions, such as health care..the book effectively demonstrates the deep intellectual divisions between progressives and conservatives." * Publishers Weekly *"This is first-rate sociology, deftly packaged to offer insight for both academic and popular audiences. Social advocacy groups would do well to look to Massengill's findings for advice on crafting their messages on economic issues." * Library Journal *"In her insightful and finely wrought study, Rebekah Peeples Massengil uses public debate over the virtues and failings of Walmart to examine the moral tensions inherent in modern capitalism. Her analysis offers insights concerning the moral underpinnings of economic discourse, the diffusion of group claims in the public sphere, the rhetorical centrality of the American family in conservative populism, and the shortcomings of progressive advocacy." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsC o n t e n t s Acknowledgments ixPreface xiiiPart 1 Why Should We Care about the Wal -Mart D ebate ?1 Constructing Moral Markets 32 Contextualizing the Wal-Mart Wars 19Part 2 Competing Frameworks for Market Moral ity3 Individuals and Communities 454 Thrift and Benevolence 775 Freedom and Fairness 115Part 3 Market Moral ity in Med ia and P o l itics6 How Wal-Mart Wins the War of Words 1537 Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century 175 Appendix: Methodology 189Notes 195Bibliography 205Index 215About the Author 225

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Book SynopsisShows that the fight over the practices of Wal-Mart can provide us with important insight into the dreams and realities of American capitalismTrade Review"Wal-Mart Wars is a beautifully-written, clear-minded inquiry into one of the most important questions of our time: Do powerful corporate entities operate simply according to value-free conceptions of the marketplace, or can consumers and advocacy groups bring standards of moral worth into the picture? Rebekah Peeples Massengill provides a careful analysis of the grassroots arguments actually being used. This is a brilliant example of cultural sociology at its best" -- Robert Wuthnow,author of Remaking the Heartland: Middle America Since the 1950s"[Rhetoric] always registers the moral foundations of the culture that sponsors it, reflecting, reinforcing, and even reimagining them. This is the terrain of Rebekah Peeples Massengill's perceptive new study of the political contests in the United States over the role and behavior of the giant retailing corporation, Wal-Mart. She wishes to understand the uses made of moral language and categories by disputants on both sides of the Wal-Mart controversies, and, in particular, how these uses differentially relate to moral conceptions of the market. She also argues that the case study illustrates general moralizing processes in public debates about markets in the United States, as in such cases as health care reform, tax reform, and government bailouts of major corporations. Generally, then, it is an examination of how Americans make sense of the 'moral dilemmas of modern capitalism.'" -- Peter Cleary Yeager * Political Science Quarterly *"For years Wal-Mart and its critics have been locked in a high-profile contest to define the meaning and calculate the morality of America's largest private-sector employer. Rebekah Massengill brings a sophisticated understanding of language, culture, and ideology to her deconstruction of the rhetoric and symbolism deployed by the contestants, in the process demonstrating that concepts like family, community, fairness, and citizenship are both highly malleable and explosively political." -- Nelson Lichtenstein ,author of The Retail Revolution"This excellent book will convert those who still think that economy is devoid of meanings, judgments and emotions. Wal-Mart Wars is an important contribution to the growing scholarship on markets and morals, and a must-read for anyone who cares about how and why Americans argue about economic issues" -- Nina Bandelj,author of Economy and State: A Sociological Perspective"Well researched, tightly argued, and accessibly written, Wal-Mart Wars offers insight for everyone." * CHOICE *"Massengill, a lecturer in the department of sociology at Princeton, uses the debate over Wal-Marts policies and economic standing as a way of exploring the moral language used in larger political and economic discussions, such as health care..the book effectively demonstrates the deep intellectual divisions between progressives and conservatives." * Publishers Weekly *"This is first-rate sociology, deftly packaged to offer insight for both academic and popular audiences. Social advocacy groups would do well to look to Massengill's findings for advice on crafting their messages on economic issues." * Library Journal *"In her insightful and finely wrought study, Rebekah Peeples Massengil uses public debate over the virtues and failings of Walmart to examine the moral tensions inherent in modern capitalism. Her analysis offers insights concerning the moral underpinnings of economic discourse, the diffusion of group claims in the public sphere, the rhetorical centrality of the American family in conservative populism, and the shortcomings of progressive advocacy." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsC o n t e n t s Acknowledgments ixPreface xiiiPart 1 Why Should We Care about the Wal -Mart D ebate ?1 Constructing Moral Markets 32 Contextualizing the Wal-Mart Wars 19Part 2 Competing Frameworks for Market Moral ity3 Individuals and Communities 454 Thrift and Benevolence 775 Freedom and Fairness 115Part 3 Market Moral ity in Med ia and P o l itics6 How Wal-Mart Wins the War of Words 1537 Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century 175 Appendix: Methodology 189Notes 195Bibliography 205Index 215About the Author 225

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Book SynopsisSuggests that when analysed in accordance with its political and economic impact, the Gulen Movement should be given credit for playing a significant role in Turkey's rise to global prominenceTrade Review"[T]here's...much to learn from this book about the enigmatic Gülen and his enigmatic movement." -- William Armstrong * Hurriyet Daily News *"A helpful and detailed account of a movement that is defined, if such a thing is possible, by obfuscation" -- Christopher de Bellaigue * The New York Review of Books *"Dr. Hendrick's study is revealing and topical, and provides an objective, critical and balanced assessment of the Gülen movement. Together with Berna Turam's earlier study of the same movement, it distinguishes itself as one of the very few studies of this topic that meets the strictures of nonpartisan academic scholarship." -- Elisabeth Ozdalga * Contemporary Islam *"Essential reading for anyone interested in current political, economic, and religious trends in modern Turkey. This work is by far the best study to date of one of the most important and interesting Islamic movements of our times. A fascinating book." -- Nancy Gallagher,University of California Santa Barbara"Hendrick deserves to be commended for analyzing the Gülen movement in a comprehensive fashion. The book, written in an engaging style, covers diverse issues, ranging from the movement's role in changing the balance of power in the Turkish media to its critics in the American charter school system. This timely book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Gülen movement." -- Ahmet T. Kuru * Middle East Journal *"In a groundbreaking study, Joshua Hendrick provides us with the first comprehensive and dispassionate analysis of the worldwide Gülen movement. Theoretically sophisticated and brimming with unprecedented empirical insight, this volume will be essential reading for students and researchers in contemporary Islamic Studies as well as those seeking to understand the changing nature of social movements under globalization." -- Peter Mandaville,author of Global Political Islam"In this path-breaking ethnography of a modern Islamic movement that is educating millions of students across the globe, Hendrick brilliantly explains the strategies of the Gülenphenomena as an intersection of the spiritual and market-driven needs of his followers. This a definitive study of how Muslim modernity is practiced among aspiring Muslim middle classes, an exceptional achievement because Hendrick avoids the twin pitfalls of demonization and cooption. It will become a classic." -- Paul M. Lubeck,Johns Hopkins University-School of Advanced International Studies"Dr. Hendricks study is revealing and topical, and provides an objective, critical and balanced assessment of the Gülen movement Based as it is on thorough information and colorful descriptions, it is an easy read and thus also speaks to a wider audience inside and outside of academia." * Contemporary Islam *"A valuable study of the Gülen movement, originating in Turkey but spanning theworld, illustrates how it was born out of the social and political climate of modern Turkey but how it integrated Islam and neoliberal globalization to create an ambiguous empire of 'market Islam' including schools, media, and manufacturing." * Anthropology Review Database *"As Joshua Hendrick reminds us in the introduction of his informative new book, in a 2008 online poll Fethullah Gülen was named the most influential public intellectual in the world, despite the fact that most people have never heard of him. Of course, the victory might be the result of dedicated followers voting for him, yet his surprise appearance at the top ofor even onthe list calls for some more exploration of precisely what Gülen and his minions are up to and how a major movement emerged in Turkey and spread around the world. This is precisely what Hendrick give us in the study. [] [A]nthropologists should be grateful to Hendrick for the valuable research and should extend these analyses with further studies of the GM and of other modern social movements, including & Islamic or & Islamist ones, to discover how they blend religion or other aspects of & culture or & tradition with modern capitalist and technological techniques and practices." * Anthropology Review Database *"In light of the political crisis Turkey has been going through in the past year, the publication of Hendricks Gülen could not be timelier. This book examines one of the most controversial figures in the modern Turkish political history, Fethullah Gülen, and his cemaat (community); a well-organized network overseeing schools and educational institutions in more than 100 countries and controlling a global, multi-million dollar operation of & Islamic economy. Hendricks political ethnography provides an outstanding analysis." * Mobilization *"Hendricks work is an important contribution to understanding the ongoing interactions between the contradictory dimensions of globalization and the presence and rise of Islamic movements." * Historian *"This new book is a thoughtful and thorough examination of the formation and expansion of the Gülen movement. In presenting an original account of how this religious social movement was established, the author offers an insightful discussion Gülens origins and workings by focusing on its engagement with capitalism, science, technology, education, and secularism." * The Historian *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments ixNote on Turkish Transliteration xiiiList of Abbreviations xvIntroduction: The World's Most Influential 1Public Intellectual1 Approaching Muslim Politics in Turkey 112 The Political Economy of Muslim Politics in Turkey 353 An Ambiguous Leader 564 Community 895 Education 1236 Degirmenin suyu nereden geliyor? (Where does the 144water for the mill come from?)7 Manufacturing Consent 1748 Strategic Ambiguity and Its Discontents (i.e., the 206Gulen Movement in the United States)Conclusion: The Marketization of Muslim 233Politics in TurkeyNotes 243Bibliography 257Index 271About the Author 276

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs I would expect from two such accomplished editors, this volume is an outstanding contribution. . . . The introduction alone is worth the price of the book. -- Brian Howell,Wheaton CollegeMakes a significant contribution to the literature on Pentecostalism, above all by gathering together the work of such high-quality researchers, and offering a context in which to think across their scholarship in one place. -- John Burdick,Syracuse University[I]t does offer some fresh perspectives and analyses of charismatic Christianity around the world and helps establish the anthropology of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism as a valid and indeed crucial specialty for the modern world, while usefully challenging some tired assumptions about Protestantism, Christianity, or for that matter religion. * Anthropology Review Database *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs I would expect from two such accomplished editors, this volume is an outstanding contribution. . . . The introduction alone is worth the price of the book. -- Brian Howell,Wheaton CollegeMakes a significant contribution to the literature on Pentecostalism, above all by gathering together the work of such high-quality researchers, and offering a context in which to think across their scholarship in one place. -- John Burdick,Syracuse University[I]t does offer some fresh perspectives and analyses of charismatic Christianity around the world and helps establish the anthropology of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism as a valid and indeed crucial specialty for the modern world, while usefully challenging some tired assumptions about Protestantism, Christianity, or for that matter religion. * Anthropology Review Database *

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Book SynopsisA historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities, based on fieldwork in both Miami and Haiti.Trade ReviewCrossing the Water and Keeping the Faith is a compelling sociological analysis of Haitian religion in Florida and offers important interventions into the sociology of religion and migration studies more broadly. * European Association of Social Anthropologists *Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faithsuccessfully locates Catholic, Protestant, and Vodouist religious identities in Haitian Miami and illustrates the diversity of religious places in the diaspora. Rey and Stepicks extensive fieldwork yields vivid anecdotes of faithful persons, sensitive considerations of immigrant struggle and resilience and, to date, the most comprehensive theory of Haitian American religious lives. * Southern Spaces *[A]n informative book that should be read by everyone interested in Haitian immigrant religion. Rey and Stepick have successfully managed to describe and untangle the intricacies of the religious practices of a major immigrant group in the United States. Moreover, they have skillfully removedthe superstitious and evil dimension that is often attached to Haitian religions * Sociology of Religion *Crossing the Waterdemonstrates many strengths and is a valuable contribution to a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the Haitian religion experience on both sides of the water. Its rich ethnographic, historical, and demographic information, along with an apt engagement with and critique of the rational choice and microeconomic theories of religion result in a book that is at once useful to a wide swath of scholars as well as quite and enjoyable read. * Review of Religious Research *Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faithstreatment of Haitian religion will be of value to scholars and students interested in Diaspora religions and sociology/anthropology of religion. * Religious Studies Review *Conjoining historical method with rich ethnographical material, Rey and Stepick offer a holistic view of Haitian religion in Miami. Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faiths treatment of Haitian religion will be of value to scholars and students interested in Diaspora religions and sociology/anthropology of religion. * Religion Studies Review *The authors are not anthropologists but rather professors of religion and of sociology, respectively, and their text does not quite read like anthropology, but I think we can concur that their portraits of three different yet linked Haitian religions, in Haiti and translocally, unified by a religious collusio are valuable to anthropology and suggest paths of research and analysis for the future. -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *A monumental scholarly achievement by two excellent scholars of the three main religions in Haiti and its diaspora: Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou. Because of its breadthcovering all three religions of Haitiand the length of time it coversdecadesno one will be able to teach or write about Haitian and/or Caribbean religion without citing this work. -- Margarita A. Mooney,University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThis outstanding book is the first comprehensive overview of the rise and existing triangular relations between the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Vodou communities among Haitians in Miami, Florida. The authors let their subjects speak and reveal the importance these religious traditions play in Haitians transnational experiences. This volume should be of interest to a general readership and is especially of vital importance to anthropologists, sociologists, theologians and historians of American religion. -- Leslie Desmangles,Trinity CollegeTable of ContentsContentsForeword ixArchbishop Thomas WenskiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: Haitian Religion in Miami 11 The Haitian Catholic Church in Miami: When the Saints Go Sailing In 332 Immigrant Faith and Class Distinctions: Haitian Catholics beyond Little Haiti 593 Feting Haiti's Patron Saint in Little Haiti: The Feast of OurLady of Perpetual Help 834 Vodou in the Magic City: Serving the Spirits across the Sea 1135 Storefront and Transnational Protestantism in Little Haiti: Harvesting the Gospel in the Haitian Church of the Open Door 151Conclusion: Beasts, Gods, and TransnationalTransubstantiation 189Appendices 203Notes 227Bibliography 237Index 253About the Authors 266

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Book SynopsisBeginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s,significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami.Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants inAmerica, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as morerecently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically.Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population ofnative-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one ofthe most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion hasplayed a central role in making all of this happen. Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith is a historical andethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities, based onfieldwork in both Miami and Haiti, as well as extensive archival research.Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, Rey andTrade ReviewCrossing the Water and Keeping the Faith is a compelling sociological analysis of Haitian religion in Florida and offers important interventions into the sociology of religion and migration studies more broadly. * European Association of Social Anthropologists *Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faithsuccessfully locates Catholic, Protestant, and Vodouist religious identities in Haitian Miami and illustrates the diversity of religious places in the diaspora. Rey and Stepicks extensive fieldwork yields vivid anecdotes of faithful persons, sensitive considerations of immigrant struggle and resilience and, to date, the most comprehensive theory of Haitian American religious lives. * Southern Spaces *[A]n informative book that should be read by everyone interested in Haitian immigrant religion. Rey and Stepick have successfully managed to describe and untangle the intricacies of the religious practices of a major immigrant group in the United States. Moreover, they have skillfully removedthe superstitious and evil dimension that is often attached to Haitian religions * Sociology of Religion *Crossing the Waterdemonstrates many strengths and is a valuable contribution to a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the Haitian religion experience on both sides of the water. Its rich ethnographic, historical, and demographic information, along with an apt engagement with and critique of the rational choice and microeconomic theories of religion result in a book that is at once useful to a wide swath of scholars as well as quite and enjoyable read. * Review of Religious Research *Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faithstreatment of Haitian religion will be of value to scholars and students interested in Diaspora religions and sociology/anthropology of religion. * Religious Studies Review *Conjoining historical method with rich ethnographical material, Rey and Stepick offer a holistic view of Haitian religion in Miami. Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faiths treatment of Haitian religion will be of value to scholars and students interested in Diaspora religions and sociology/anthropology of religion. * Religion Studies Review *The authors are not anthropologists but rather professors of religion and of sociology, respectively, and their text does not quite read like anthropology, but I think we can concur that their portraits of three different yet linked Haitian religions, in Haiti and translocally, unified by a religious collusio are valuable to anthropology and suggest paths of research and analysis for the future. -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *A monumental scholarly achievement by two excellent scholars of the three main religions in Haiti and its diaspora: Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou. Because of its breadthcovering all three religions of Haitiand the length of time it coversdecadesno one will be able to teach or write about Haitian and/or Caribbean religion without citing this work. -- Margarita A. Mooney,University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThis outstanding book is the first comprehensive overview of the rise and existing triangular relations between the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Vodou communities among Haitians in Miami, Florida. The authors let their subjects speak and reveal the importance these religious traditions play in Haitians transnational experiences. This volume should be of interest to a general readership and is especially of vital importance to anthropologists, sociologists, theologians and historians of American religion. -- Leslie Desmangles,Trinity CollegeTable of ContentsContentsForeword ixArchbishop Thomas WenskiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: Haitian Religion in Miami 11 The Haitian Catholic Church in Miami: When the Saints Go Sailing In 332 Immigrant Faith and Class Distinctions: Haitian Catholics beyond Little Haiti 593 Feting Haiti's Patron Saint in Little Haiti: The Feast of OurLady of Perpetual Help 834 Vodou in the Magic City: Serving the Spirits across the Sea 1135 Storefront and Transnational Protestantism in Little Haiti: Harvesting the Gospel in the Haitian Church of the Open Door 151Conclusion: Beasts, Gods, and TransnationalTransubstantiation 189Appendices 203Notes 227Bibliography 237Index 253About the Authors 266

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Book SynopsisExplores the complex racial, class, and gender divides in contemporary American citiesTrade Review"This compelling book reveals a disturbing trend towards widening, racialized social class divisions among children growing up in U.S. cities. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in affluent and impoverished areas of Oakland, Tilton maps varied forms of community mobilization around children and youth. Beautifully observed, astutely analyzed, and directly relevant to current debates about ways of restoring a sense of the public good in an era of privatization." -- Barrie Thorne,author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School"Tilton has written a lively, compelling book that calls for a progressive politics of youth which also values human connections and interdependency. Richly rooted in the social geography of Oakland, the ethnography illuminates how youth and their parents struggle against the ways they are pathologized and feared. The book makes a critical contribution to urban studies, criminal justice and anthropological theory and practice." -- Brett Williams,professor of anthropology, American UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Who's Responsible for Kids? Chapter Back in the Day Disciplining Youth and Families in the Flatlands Chapter 2 Trying to Get up the Hill Dangerous Times: Reconstructing Childhood in a Volunteer StateChapter 3 Protecting Children in the Hills Youth in a "Private Estate" in the Oakland Hills Chapter 4 Cruising down the Boulevard Potential Thugs and Gangsters: Youth and the Spatial Politics of Urban DevelopmentChapter 5 What Is "the Power of the Youth"? Conclusion: Hope and Fear Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisImagine yourself without a face - the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. This book examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured.Trade Review"Saving Face offers a persuasive and sociologically rich portrayal of facial disfigurement. Beauty culture depends more upon the 'normal' and unremarkable - rather than the exceptional - face than is usually acknowledged, and Talley offers a fascinating account of how unremarkability is medically, culturally and socially produced. The ethics and politics of reconstructive surgery are not straightforward; Talley gives the subject an admirably nuanced and sensitive treatment." -- Victoria Pitts-Taylor,author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture"Saving Face can be read as an intervention into beauty culture and liberal feminism's championing of it, while also striving to shake up contemporary beliefs about ugliness, disfigurement, and the ways in which more and more people are battling 'social death.'" * PopMatters *"Interested in the question of inequality and gender relations, Talleys most compelling chapter is on a dual analysis of surgeons justifications for facial surgery and various studies concerning transsexuality and bodily gendered expectations." * Sociology of Health and Illness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 About Face 2 Facial Work: Aesthetic Surgery as Lifesaving Work 3 Making Faces: Life Makeovers through Facial Work 4 Not Just Another Pretty Face: The Social Value of Unremarkability 5 Saving Face: Redeeming a Universal Face 6 Facing Off: Debating Facial Work, Constructing a "Vital" Intervention 7 At Face Value Losing Face: A Postscript Appendix: Methods, Methodologies, and Epistemologies Notes References IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisImagine yourself without a face - the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. This book examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured.Trade Review"Saving Face offers a persuasive and sociologically rich portrayal of facial disfigurement. Beauty culture depends more upon the 'normal' and unremarkable - rather than the exceptional - face than is usually acknowledged, and Talley offers a fascinating account of how unremarkability is medically, culturally and socially produced. The ethics and politics of reconstructive surgery are not straightforward; Talley gives the subject an admirably nuanced and sensitive treatment." -- Victoria Pitts-Taylor,author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture"Saving Face can be read as an intervention into beauty culture and liberal feminism's championing of it, while also striving to shake up contemporary beliefs about ugliness, disfigurement, and the ways in which more and more people are battling 'social death.'" * PopMatters *"Interested in the question of inequality and gender relations, Talleys most compelling chapter is on a dual analysis of surgeons justifications for facial surgery and various studies concerning transsexuality and bodily gendered expectations." * Sociology of Health and Illness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 About Face 2 Facial Work: Aesthetic Surgery as Lifesaving Work 3 Making Faces: Life Makeovers through Facial Work 4 Not Just Another Pretty Face: The Social Value of Unremarkability 5 Saving Face: Redeeming a Universal Face 6 Facing Off: Debating Facial Work, Constructing a "Vital" Intervention 7 At Face Value Losing Face: A Postscript Appendix: Methods, Methodologies, and Epistemologies Notes References IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of "Irish" as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day.Trade ReviewJennifer Nugent Duffys impressive ambition is to address often-overlooked differences in perspective among the Irish in America and examine the disagreements that result. Duffys account configures a three-cornered fight featuring Irish American ethnics, an intermediate group of Irish immigrants from the 1950s, and the more recent arrivals of the last thirty years. With salient distinctions that follow up on earlier accounts of immigrant-ethnic tensions in Irish America during the 1990s, the author attributes such antipathies to two superstructural factors: the international rise of neoliberalism and the whiteness-studies notion of Irish American ethnicity as a & race-based tradition. * The Journal of American History *Artfully knitting together the local and the national,Duffy's book is a clear-sighted account of the racial protocols of Irishness. Through ethnographic fieldwork and dexterous theorization, she richly illuminates numerous (sometimes contradictory) dimensions of the experience of being Irish-American and the ideological norms and social practices of one ethnic group's 'race-based tradition.' This book is a significant addition to the literature on Irishness in America. -- Diane Negra,University College DublinDuffy makes excellent use of Irish testimonials gathered from extensive ethnographic fieldwork that she intertwines throughout her book; the result is a compelling narrative.Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- J.M. O'Leary * CHOICE *The basis of Nugent Duffy's book is that she divided the Irish into 'Good Paddies' and 'Bad Paddies' . . . but really finds there is little difference between them. -- Niall O'Dowd * IrishCentral.com *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Who's Your Paddy? Irish Immigrant Generations in Greater New York 1. From City of Hills to City of Vision: The History of Yonkers, New York 2. Good Paddies and Bad Paddies: The Evolution of Irishness as a Race-Based Tradition in the United States 3. Bar Wars: Irish Bar Politics in Neoliberal Ireland and Neoliberal Yonkers 4. They're Just Like Us: Good Paddies and Everyday Irish Racial Expectations 5. Bad Paddies Talk Back 6. Paddy and Paddiette Go to Washington: Race and Transnational Immigration Politics Conclusion: To BelongNotes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisExplores whether public policies' intended effects and actual effect on sex workers' lives match upTrade Review"A rich and deeply insightful collection of ethnographic studies of sex work, taking us from China to Braziland from South Africa to North America. Probing into the complex nexus of structure and agency, exploitation and liberation, it sensitively exposes the need for public policy that is evidence-based and responsive to the lives and experiences of sex-working adults and children. A tremendously valuable and welcome collection for teaching, research, and analysis of contemporary conditions in the global sex trade." -- Kamala Kempadoo,author of Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual LabourTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Sex Work and the Politics of Public Policy Susan Dewey and Patty Kelly 2 International Trends in the Control of Sexual Services Michael Goodyear and Ronald Weitzer 3 Into the Galactic Zone Patty Kelly 4 Sex Work and the State in Contemporary China Tiantian Zheng 5 Smart Sex in the Neoliberal Present Dawn Pankonien 6 On the Boundaries of the Global Margins Susan Dewey 7 The Virtues of Dockside Dalliance Henry Trotter 8 "Their own way of having power" Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki 9 "Hata watufanyeje, kazi itaendelea" Chimaraoke Izugbara 10 Prostitution in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva 11 Prevailing Voices in Debates over Child Prostitution Heather Montgomery 12 Organizational Challenges Facing Male Sex Workers in Brazil's Tourist Zones Gregory Mitchell 13 "What is the use of getting a cow if you can't make any money from it?" Treena Orchard 14 Moral Panic Erica Lorraine Williams References About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the routine activities of epidemiology - grant applications, data collection, representations of research findings, and post-publication discussions of the interpretations and implications of study results, this book shows how social differences of race, social class, and gender are upheld by the scientific community.Trade ReviewIn this cutting-edge book, Janet Shim meticulous unearths the inner logic of epidemiology to show how the familiar categories of race, gender, and class are inserted into medical knowledge in ways that strip them of social significance. Her fascinating interviews reveal a broad gulf between how experts conceive of the causes of health inequalities and how ordinary people caught in webs of social disadvantage understand what makes them sick. Heart-Sick takes a vexing and high-stakes questionWho gets sick and why?and sharply reframes it from a new vantage point. -- Steven Epstein,author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical ResearchJanet Shim has produced a carefully crafted 'big picture' overview of the competing explanations of the incidence of heart disease. This is an important contribution to such disparate fields as epidemiology, the expanding literature in science studies, and sociological theories of race and class that attempt to account for health disparities. -- Troy Duster,author, Backdoor to EugenicsShim made a very important contribution to understanding the culture of science, the diversity of 'knowledges' in a society, and multiplicity and intersectionality of social variables in the real lives of real people that must be included in science. * Anthropology Review *This thought-provoking book will make everyone, and especially sociologists, think deeply about how to assess not only their own & risks but also the research on heart disease. It is a book that not only medical sociologists will find worthwhile, but also practitioners, as well as scholars who study the history of medicine and professions, science and technology, and the epidemiology of health and disease. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Politics of Disease Causation 2. Disciplining Difference: A Selective Contemporary History of Cardiovascular Epidemiology 3. The Contested Meanings and Intersections of Race 4. An Apparent Consensus on Class 5. The Dichotomy of Gender 6. Individualizing "Difference" and the Production of Scientific Credibility Conclusion Appendix: Methodology Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFirst examination of the Emerging Church movementTrade Review"Bielo offers an illuminating, cogently organized interpretation of Emerging Evangelicalism in America as well as a provocative model for linking subjectivity and structure through ethnographic data." * Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions *"Emerging Evangelicalsdemonstrates how understanding particular Christianities as traditions of cultural critique can clarify their fraught relations with 'worldliness' both within and without the church. Accessibly written and relatively compact, the book would be appropriate for undergraduate classes focused on anthropological approaches to Christianity in North America." * American Athropologist *"This enlightening study of postmodern evangelicals illustrates the adaptive capacity and phenomenal resilience of religion in contemporary society, debunking any simple secularist or fundamentalist understanding of religion and modernity." * Anthropology Review *"From [Bielo's] empathetic description...[it's clear] the growth of introspective evangelicals serves as a caution to scholars and commentators not to assume a homogenous evangelical experience. Recommended." * CHOICE *"This book is full of thick description and rich detail. Bielo has a knack for capturing the essence of the people he interacted wth in his 3 year ethnographic journey through Emerging Evangelicalism. The personalities come through in his description of their appearance and clothing, mannerisms and attributes, and in their voices in the text. His descriptions of gatherings and worship ritual are so vivid that at times I found myself transported through his prose back to my own ethnographic research on Emerging congregations." * Review of Religious Research *"Emerging Evangelicalsis a welcome addition to the steadily-growing body of scholarly literature on contemporary American Evangelicals." -- Charlie McCrary * Religion in American History *"Bielo's depiction of & emerging evangelicals shows what can be achieved through the best kind of ethnography. This is a deeply engaging and revealing portrait of Christians' whose lives and religious convictions are shown to be complex and subtle, even as they are often pitched against conservative forms of the faith." -- Simon Coleman,Chancellor Jackman Chaired Professor, University of Toronto"The book is useful for both graduate and upper level seminary students and anthropology major students. It will make a good collection for both seminary and university libraries." -- Ning Zhang * Religious Studies Review *"Bielo offers an illuminating, cogently organized interpretation of Emerging Evangelicalism in America as well as a provocative model for linking subjectivity and structure through ethnographic data. For these reasons, Emerging Evangelicals contains much of value to advanced scholars of Christianity, scholars of American Protestantism most of all. As a generally lucid and energetic treatment of its subject, the book also provides non-specialists such as graduate students with an accessible introduction to many of the leading themes in the anthropology of Christianity." -- Michael J. Boyle * Nova Religio *"This is an engrossing and powerfully observed ethnography with much richness in detailBielo has caught the essence of an intriguing and important variant of postmodern Christianity as it emerges" -- Dominic Martin * Social Anthropology *"Provides a vivid portrait of new-style Christianity that is challenging and revitalizing the pursuit of the Kingdom of God in the 21st century. Bielo brings an astute anthropological sensitivity to this multifaceted movement and provides a clear-eyed perspective on the variety, motivation, and utter sincerity of the people driving it." -- Gerardo Marti,author of A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic ChurchTable of ContentsFigures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Conceptualizing Emerging Evangelicalism 1 Stories of Deconversion 2 Ironies of Faith 3 Ancient-Future I: Experiencing God 4 Ancient-Future II: Everyday Monastics 5 Missional I: Everyday Missionaries 6 Missional II: Kingdom Theologies 7 Church Planting I: A New Work 8 Church Planting II: Sense of Place Conclusion: Dialogic Evangelicalism Appendix References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisPresents an argument for a more complex view of transnational adoption, including stranger adoption, kinship adoption, fostering, and informal circulating children. This book considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other nations which adopt - including sometimes from the US, particularly children of color.Trade ReviewThis comprehensive volume is timely and useful... This volume is sufficiently theoretical and provides useful empirical detail. The books geographic scale is noteworthy, including classic sites for consideration of child circulation, such as Hawaii, and well-know sending countries such as Russia and China. But it also attends to less well-studied areas: Spain, Quebec, Lithuania, Brazil, and Peru. * Choice *This lively collection of seventeen essays is devoted to variations on the theme of international adoption. The essays . . . present a comprehensive overview of a wide range of issues, with thought-provoking contributions on a variety of case studies from sending and receiving countries. -- Giovanna Bacchiddu * Social Anthropology *Certainly the most comprehensive set of essays on international adoption ever assembled, this collection represents but also stretches beyond the recent renaissance in adoption scholarship. Perhaps its greatest innovation is that & international is not just a reference to the circulation of children across borders, but also to the impressive range of geographical, social, and theoretical perspectives proffered by the books authors. They are veteran scholars as well as some fresh new voices. Marre and Briggs provide smart, historically informed editorship, making the book a must-have for humanities and social science scholars interested in kinship, globally stratified reproduction, and gender. -- Sara Dorow,University of AlbertaA powerful and intelligent volume. Its attention to inequalities associated with class, race, sexuality, nation, and globalization, as well as its serious engagement of cultural ideas about kinship, make it a critical resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and others interested in adoption in the contemporary era. -- Teresa Toguchi Swartz,University of MinnesotaIt is a breath of fresh air to have an international group of scholars finally weigh in on the movement of children between nations for the purpose of adoption. This important book, including perspectives from both sending and receiving countries, illustrates the ‘two-ness’ of transnational family-making. -- Ellen Herman,author of Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United StatesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Circulation of ChildrenPart I Defining Reproduction: Law, Strangers, Family, Kin Part II Perspectives from Sending Countries Part III Experiences in Receiving Countries About the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDiscusses how godless societies can be moral, happy and freeTrade Review"The book succeeds in documenting how the conditions of a liberal social welfare state promote contentment." * Choice *"While never presuming to offer a strictly generalizable snapshot, by focusing his attention on what are probably the least religious countries in the world (2), his provocative and engagingly written book is very effective in helping readers to examine numerous assumptions concerning the place of religion in the modern world... The real strength of this book is that, by challenging widespread analytical assumptions, it presents us with more complexity and with more nuanced questions regarding the nexus of the religious and the secular in contemporary life. To quote a famous Dane on this very point, There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. If, as Horatio should have done, we are to heed these words in terms of expanding the frameworks of our accordingly, it will be due in good measure to paying attention to thoughtful and creative books like this one. In my estimation, not to do so would be, well, a tragedy." * Sociology of Religion *"Society Without God" offers a unique perspective on the active debate regarding the necessity of religion . . . By turning to one of the most secular societies in the world, Scandanavia, Phil Zuckerman offers an empirically grounded account of a successful society where people are happy and content and help their neighbors without believing in God. The book is fluently written and highly illuminating. It offers an accessible entry to important questions in the study of religion and secularism." -- Michael Pagis * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Society without God is both a sociological analysis of irreligion and Zuckermans apologia pro vita sua. He wants us to know that, contrary to the deeply held beliefs of some Americans, a society without god can be a good society and an irreligious person can be a moral person, too. To his credit, Zuckerman provides enough nuance and detail to allow a skeptic like me to see what Peter Berger called & signals of transcendence in the society without god he portrays. Along with the volumes engaging writing style, this makes it ideal for classroom use. I know my students will enjoy reading and discussing Society without God." -- David Yamane,author of The Catholic Church in State Politics"[Zuckerman] tells of a magical land where life expectancy is high and infant mortality low, where wealth is spread and genders live in equity, where happy, fish-fed citizens score high in every quality-of-life index: economic competitiveness, healthcare, environmental protection, lack of corruption, educational investment, technological literacy . . . well, you get the idea. Zuckerman (who has explored the sociology of religion in two previous books) has managed to show what nonbelief looks like when its & normal, regular, mainstream, common. And hes gone at least partway to proving the central thesis of his book: & Religious faithwhile admittedly widespreadis not natural or innate to the human condition. Nor is religion a necessary ingredient for a healthy, peaceful, prosperous, and . . . deeply good society." -- Louis Bayard * Salon.com *"Most Americans are convinced that faith in God is the foundation of civil society. Society Without God reveals this to be nothing more than a well-subscribed, and strangely American, delusion. Even atheists living in the United States will be astonished to discover how unencumbered by religion most Danes and Swedes currently are. This glimpse of an alternate, secular reality is at once humbling and profoundly inspiring and it comes not a moment too soon. Zuckermans research is truly indispensable." -- Sam Harris * New York Times *"Puts to rest the belief that you need God in order to be a moral person, that irreligious societies are wracked by social problems, and that godless people are unhappy and unmoored. . . . In the case of Scandinavia: God may be dead, but Swedes and Danes lead rich, full lives. Society Without God is a colorful, provocative book that makes an original contribution to debates about atheism and religiosity. Ideal for classroom use, it will get students thinking about their own lives and choices." -- Arlene Stein,author of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture"Despite this books weighty topic, with its conversational writing style, Society Without God is amazingly readable, even fun. It presents rigorous arguments that are deceptively simple to understand, but that are, when you think about them more deeply, quite transformative." * PopMatters *"In an anecdotal and eminently readable manner, Zuckerman offers a novel idea within the study of religious sociology." * Library Journal *"His reporting of previously published material is invaluable to persons not previously familiar with such information." * Humanism Ireland *"Much that he found will surprise many people, as it did him." * The New York Times *"For those interested in the burgeoning field of secular studies or for those curious about a world much different from the devout U.S.this book will offer some compelling reading." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Society without God 2 Jens, Anne, and Christian 3 Fear of Death and the Meaning of Life4 Lene, Sonny, and Gitte 5 Being Secular 6 Why? 7 Dorthe, Laura, and Johanne 8 Cultural Religion 9 Back to the USA Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn rich ethnographic detail, Border Humanitarians explores the narratives of Burmese activists in exile who rely on transnational political and social networks to respond to gender violence among the hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working precariously on the Thai border with Myanmar.

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Book SynopsisIn rich ethnographic detail, Border Humanitarians explores the narratives of Burmese activists in exile who rely on transnational political and social networks to respond to gender violence among the hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working precariously on the Thai border with Myanmar.

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