Anthropology Books
University of Arizona Press Silent Violence
£28.46
University of Arizona Press Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes First Peoples New Directions in Indigenous Studies
£21.56
University of Arizona Press The Occult Life of Things
£24.71
University of Arizona Press The Nature of Spectacle
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£24.71
The University of Arizona Press Early Tahiti As the Explorers Saw It 17671797 Century Collection
Book SynopsisFor thirty years before the coming of the European missionaries, European explorers were able to observe Tahitian society as it had existed for centuries. Now Edwin Ferdon, Polynesian archaeologist and veteran of Thor Heyerdah's expedition to Easter Island, has interwoven their records to show us in fascinating detail what that society was like.
£32.21
University of Arizona Press Barger Gulch
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£66.50
University of Minnesota Press Hybrid Cultures Strategies for Entering and
Book SynopsisExamines the threats to Latin American cultural identity in a global marketplace - now with a new introduction!Table of ContentsContents Introduction Foreword Renato Rosaldo Entrance From Utopias to the Market Latin American Contradictions: Modernism without Modernization? Artists, Middlemen, and the Public: To Innovate or to Democratize? The Future of the Past The Staging of the Popular The Popular and Popularity: From Political to Theatrical Representation Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers Exit Bibliography Index
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Claiming Others
Book SynopsisHow transracial adoption and its history changes the way we see family, nation, and race.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Transracial Adoption and the Reproduction of Personhood I. On the Borders of Kinship 1. Competing Logics of Possession: Unredeemed Captives in the 1820s 2. Unmanageable Attachments: Slavery, Abolition, and the Transformation of Kinship 3. The Character of Race: Individuation and the Institutionalization of Adoption II. Between Rights and Needs 4. The Right to Belong: Legal Norms, Cultural Origins, and Adoptee Identity 5. Resisting Recognition: Narrating Transracial Adoptees as Subjects 6: Making Family "Look Like Real": Transracial Adoption and the Challenge to Family Formation Acknowledgments Notes Index
£19.79
The University of Alabama Press Explorations into Highland New Guinea 193035
Book SynopsisThis is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit - not of honour and glory, but of excitement and riches - by Michael Leahy. Together with his brothers and friends, he explored the unknown interior of New Guinea, seeking gold and making contact with the aborigines of the interior mountains.
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press The Fabric of Resistance
Book SynopsisDocuments the impact of Spanish colonial institutions of labour on identity and social cohesion in Peru. Through archaeological and historical lines of evidence, Di Hu examines the long-term social conditions that enabled the large-scale rebellions in the late Spanish colonial period in Peru.Trade Review“The Fabric of Resistance breaks new ground in our understanding of the revolutions that occurred throughout the Andes in the late 18th century. With a deft and skillful interweaving of archaeology and historical anthropology, Hu demonstrates how the so-called “weapons of the weak”—the everyday acts of resistance to oppression—are not pale, ineffectual shadows of the violent rebellions that command the attention of historians. The author opens a window into the world of ordinary people in one village in the colonial Andes, revealing their travails, their resistance to colonial exploitation, and the stories that they would tell. Lively and engaging, this insightful study will be talked about for many years to come.”—Sabine Hyland, author of Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity
£44.20
University of Alabama Press A Century of Jewish Life In Dixie The Birmingham
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£27.16
The University of Alabama Press Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley
Book SynopsisProvides a vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term Woodland. This volume represents an important step toward establishing terminology and taxa that are appropriate to interpreting cultural diversity in the region. It addresses the issues in the context of the Middle Ohio Valley Woodland Period research.
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press thenatureofanancientmayacityresourcesinteractionandpoweratblue
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of a unique Maya site offering the architectural features. This work reveals what daily Maya life was like.Trade ReviewClearly written, substantive, and well-organized, this volume is a summary of the most important aspects of the research and is designed to alert the discipline to the major discoveries and interpretations. - David Freidel, Southern Methodist University
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Song of the Tides A Novel Fire Ant Books
Book SynopsisBeginning with their battle against the forces of Ponce de Leon, the Calusa Indians of southwest Florida entered a dark period of European invasion and native resistance, which changed the nature and course of life on the North American continent. This work is set during Spanish entrada into southwest Florida and their encounters with the Calusa.Trade ReviewA very well-written, moving and captivating tale that is based substantially on the existing documentation about 16th-century Spanish contact with the Calusa Indians and incorporates a broad range of information from both ethnohistorical and archaeological sources to create a narrative that, although fictional, provides the reader with a substantially factual understanding of the Calusa and their world. I found myself drawn into the characters. - John E. Worth, author of Struggle for the Georgia Coast and The Timucua Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida
£21.56
The University of Alabama Press Holocene Huntergatherers of the Lower Ohio River
Book SynopsisAddresses the approximately 7,000 years of the prehistory of eastern North America, termed the Archaic Period by archaeologists. This title focuses on a 380-mile section of the Lower Ohio River Valley, an area rife with temporary and long-term Archaic sites. It covers the duration of the Holocene and offers a compendium of knowledge of the era.
£30.56
LUP - University of Georgia Press InsideOutside
Book SynopsisBeginning with a high schooler mesmerized by a stay on the Navajo and Hopi reservations and running through the founding of a university department and the aftermath of a decision to forego permanent academic affiliations, Richard Price’s story is told with humour and insight into the workings of academic politics from the 1960s to the present.
£999.99
Ohio University Press Forests of Gold
Book SynopsisForests of Gold is a collection of essays on the peoples of Ghana with particular reference to the most powerful of all their kingdoms: Asante.Trade Review“Wilks’ writing here is as informed, engaged and questing as ever.” * African Affairs *“Wilks is willing to take risks, and even make mistakes, for the sake of opening discussion and expanding knowledge…Forests of Gold is impressive history. One comes away awed at the level of historical reconstruction Wilks has accomplished, demonstrating a level of analysis that has not been achieved regarding almost any other precolonial African state, and which has been achieved here because of Wilks’s forty years of commitment, sensitivity, integrity, and belief in the profession of history and the history of African peoples.” * The International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Wilks’ contribution to our understanding of the history of Asante and that of other Akan-speaking peoples is incalculable. It is evident not only in his own work but in that of the published research of the many talented students he has directed during a long, fruitful career.” * Journal of African History *
£25.19
Ohio University Press The Emergence of the Moundbuilders
Book SynopsisNative American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded history. Societies of the Hocking River Valley in southeastern Ohio, part of the Ohio River Valley, created a tribal organization beginning about 2000 bc.EditedTrade Review“This work’s anthropological perspective goes beyond more traditional treatments of prehistory. The focus on the tribal level of socio-political organization is particularly noteworthy. The result is an updated and very useful treatment of Hocking Valley prehistory.”
£62.90
Ohio University Press Trafficking in Slaverys Wake
Book SynopsisWomen and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and children has changed from the aftermath of the “end of slavery” in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present.TheTrade Review“This is a paradigm-shifting volume…a ground-breaking book with potential to change not only academic theory but also legal practice on the enslavement and trafficking of African women and children.” * Slavery & Abolition *“Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake provides much-needed historical context and conceptualization of the problem of trafficking, with specific attention to its impact on the continent of Africa.…[It is] a highly readable, richly researched, and interdisciplinary set of chapters, appropriate for college students and policy-makers alike.…A great strength…is that it deconstructs categories and historicizes processes while also suggesting solutions to the problem of human trafficking.” * Journal of Global History *“Human trafficking, a central human rights concern of the 21st century, is a phenomenon with deep historical roots…. Based on a wide range of written and oral sources, (Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake) gives special prominence to the voices of women and children. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Each of the chapters in Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake could stand as a solo article. However, the beauty of the collection is that the pieces say much more when grouped than they would as stand-alones. Patterns emerge. Continuities and discontinuities over time become apparent. Moreover, the contributors have clearly challenged each other to think in new ways.”“[This] book’s impact on me…was as a jolt to our collective complacency. …Chapter authors, their expertise spanning medical anthropology, sociology, history, law, political science, human rights, gender, and migration have achieved a laudable, multidisciplinary reference of historical cases. [Although it focuses] on Africa… this volume is a generic resource for historical background and contemporary anti-trafficking efforts everywhere.” * Journal of Human Trafficking *“(Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake) contributes to human trafficking scholarship by analyzing it, not as a new phenomenon, but as a modern iteration of slavery…. The volume’s easy readability makes it a valuable pedagogical tool at both the graduate and undergraduate level. And while each chapter of the volume provides unique insight into the human rights issue, the essays’ diverse approaches and source material contribute even more to human trafficking scholarship collectively.” * World History Connected *“This cohesive and empirically rich volume is an important addition to our understanding of the nature and texture of the lives of trafficked and enslaved women and children, and of the legal, cultural, and intellectual lineages that produced what today constitutes a ‘humanitarian crisis‘ of trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“In colonial and contemporary contexts, international multidisciplinary scholars and human rights activists examine the causes of enslavement and international policy responses. Includes maps of Africa, country-specific statistics, and harrowing case studies.” * Book News *Table of Contents* Introduction. Contextualizing Trafficking in Women and Children in Africa Benjamin N. Lawrance and Richard L. Roberts*Part I:Trafficking in Colonial Africa*1. Trafficking and Reenslavement The Social Vulnerability of Women and Children in Nineteenth-Century East Africa Elisabeth McMahon*2. "Without the Slave Trade, No Recruitment" From Slave Trading to "Migrant Recruitment" in the Lower Congo, 1830-90 Jelmer Vos*3. The End of Slavery, "Crises" over Trafficking, and the Colonial State in the French Soudan Richard L. Roberts*4. "Under the Guise of Guardianship and Marriage" Mobilizing Juvenile and Female Labor in the Aftermath of Slavery in Kayes, French Soudan, 1900-1939 Marie Rodet*5. Sex Trafficking, Prostitution, and the Law in Colonial British West Africa, 1911-43 Carina Ray*6. Islamic Law and Trafficking in Women and Children in the Indian Ocean World Bernard K. Freamon*Part II: Contemporary Antitrafficking in Africa and Beyond*7. Trafficking and Human Exploitation in International Law, with Special Reference to Women and Children in Africa Jean Allain*8. Documenting Child Slavery with Personal Testimony The Origins of Antitrafficking NGOs and Contemporary Neo-abolitionism Benjamin N. Lawrance*9. Child-Trafficking Policymaking between Africa and Europe Margaret Akullo*10. The Story of Elsie A Case Study of Trafficking in Contemporary South Africa Susan Kreston*11. Ranking States Tracking the State Effect in West African Antitrafficking Campaigns Liza Stuart Buchbinder* Afterword. The Paradox of Women, Children, and Slavery Kevin Bales and Jody Sarich* Selected Bibliography* Notes on Contributors* Index
£25.19
Ohio University Press Global Health in Africa
Book SynopsisGlobal Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts, and nutritional and virological research.Trade Review“An immensely valuable collection…Global Health in Africa should inspire a new generation of local historians to locate the medical in African histories.” * Social History of Medicine *“For anyone looking for a book to assign to undergraduates, or to recommend to students who are interested in the field of global health, the collection edited by Giles-Vernick and Webb, Global Health in Africa, is [an] obvious choice.” * African Studies Review *“Taken as a collective, the essays offer other lessons to those interested in African public and global health. The most striking theme across the volume are the ways in which health interventions can unintentionally contribute to ill health and create tense relationships with medical practitioners.… A second theme is how individual rights are frequently imperiled by mass campaigns, particularly ones where the line between cure and prevention is blurred.… The collection makes the case well for including historical perspectives in approaching global health, but it also demonstrates how including a global health frame can contribute to histories of disease, health and healing in Africa.” * H-Net *“The distinctive contribution of the work is its explicit historical orientation…. Importantly, the historical perspective…highlights the long-term continuities, unquestioned assumptions and moral ambiguities that characterize global health initiatives in Africa. The breadth and depth of the contributions ensures that the book comes a long way in achieving its objective to contribute to the development of a new field of global health history.” * Comparativ *“This volume illustrates very well that the current day applicability of the core concepts of global health [have] need of the serious critical historical and cultural examination that this volume (and no others that I know of) now provides in its richest and most useful form.”“[Global Health in Africa] demonstrates that Africa’s global health history is rich, important, and under-researched. The strength of this book lies in the breadth and depth of the studies presented in one volume.”“Provides a variety of case studies from different parts of the continent and different historical periods.… The cumulative effect of the chapters impresses on the reader the scope of the experimentation that has been done and that continues to be done on African bodies.”
£25.19
Ohio University Press Preaching Prevention BornAgain Christianity and
Book SynopsisPreaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to “abstain and be faithful” as a primary prevention strategy in Africa.Trade Review“A fascinating, fresh, original ethnography of born-again Christians in Kampala, Uganda.”“Boyd examines in particular the experiences of Ugandan born-again Christians promoting abstinence and faithfulness programs … PEPFAR spent $278 million [there] in 2014, which was equal to about three-fourths of what the Ugandan government spent on health overall that same year. In other words, Boyd is studying the critical player in public health provision in Uganda. Boyd’s book seems particularly relevant for the newly created LGBT Rapid Response Fund, as it includes a chapter about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.” * Washington Post online *“[A] robust contribution to AIDS discourse in Africa.” * African Studies Quarterly *“This book, in general, is a very fine analysis of Ugandan attitudes to sexual practice, in the light of the AIDS prevention campaign. It is thorough and illuminating. … The book is superb as a sociological/anthropological account of born-again Christianity. … I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it for its penetrating analysis and insight.” * Journal of Church and State *“Boyd places Christian concerns about HIV/AIDS transmission and same-sex unions in Uganda in an ethnographic and historical perspective that will richly enhance discussions of rights and accountability.”
£56.95
Ohio University Press Preaching Prevention
Book SynopsisPreaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to “abstain and be faithful” as a primary prevention strategy in Africa.Trade Review“A fascinating, fresh, original ethnography of born-again Christians in Kampala, Uganda.”“Boyd examines in particular the experiences of Ugandan born-again Christians promoting abstinence and faithfulness programs … PEPFAR spent $278 million [there] in 2014, which was equal to about three-fourths of what the Ugandan government spent on health overall that same year. In other words, Boyd is studying the critical player in public health provision in Uganda. Boyd’s book seems particularly relevant for the newly created LGBT Rapid Response Fund, as it includes a chapter about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.” * Washington Post online *“[A] robust contribution to AIDS discourse in Africa.” * African Studies Quarterly *“This book, in general, is a very fine analysis of Ugandan attitudes to sexual practice, in the light of the AIDS prevention campaign. It is thorough and illuminating. … The book is superb as a sociological/anthropological account of born-again Christianity. … I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it for its penetrating analysis and insight.” * Journal of Church and State *“Boyd places Christian concerns about HIV/AIDS transmission and same-sex unions in Uganda in an ethnographic and historical perspective that will richly enhance discussions of rights and accountability.”
£25.19
Ohio University Press We Do Not Have Borders Greater Somalia and the
Book SynopsisThough often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country.Trade Review“From Weitzberg’s finely detailed discussion of several stages of the Somalis’ history in northern Kenya emerges the picture of a local mode of interaction across boundaries through kinship ties that have legitimacy and functionality of their own, notwithstanding the expectations and impositions of the different national governments…[i]t is a marvelous example of how historical research that combines archival material with fieldwork can shed light on contemporary events.” * H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online *“Particularly refreshing [is] how Weitzberg challenges scholarly conventions by using oral poetry to offer insights into how ‘rank-and-file nomadic people’ see and shape their identity as Somalis.…Her examination of Kenyan Somali identity urges us to reflect on what we think we know about citizenship and belonging more broadly. Her work is a much-needed contribution in this contemporary moment, when people in corridors of power are deciding who is a foreigner and who has rights to move freely in this world.” * The Washington Post online *“[Weitzberg’s] insights into competing definitions of belonging in the region are significant, and push us to critically reflect on the complex relationships between people and territorial boundaries.…A thought-provoking call for scholars to complicate their understandings of the nation state, belonging, ethnicity, and mobility, and productively reimagines epistemological approaches to oral sources.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“At its core, (We Do Not Have Borders) is a study of voices: of memory and storytelling, of fragments and contradictions…. These voices punctuate political histories and provide a lens into the everyday idioms, experiences, and reflections of Somalis in Kenya. Weitzberg’s use of poetry is particularly evocative and effective, highlighting the voices of women and temporal fluidity.” * American Historical Review *“[The] eye for a wider picture is a major strength of this book. However, perhaps its greatest strength is in the quality and sensitivity of its historiography…We Do Not Have Borders is a crucial book that demonstrates the central role of Somalis within Kenyan history, one that is highly relevant for contemporary debates on nations, borders, and belonging. I very much recommend it.” * African Studies Review *“At a time when Kenyan politics is ever more xenophobic, when thousands of Somalis are being rounded up, incarcerated, and screened as enemies of the state, this book could not be more timely. It is meaningful for all interested in the historical configuration of African politics, and should be read widely by historians, political scientists, and policymakers.”
£56.10
Duke University Press Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia
Book SynopsisDemonstrating an impatience with social science models of knowledge, this title features contributors who show that binary categories focused on during the Cold War are no longer central to the project of history writing. It is suitable for students and scholars of Asian studies, postcolonial studies, and anthropology.
£89.10
MD - Duke University Press Arguing Sainthood
Book SynopsisExamines the competing forces behind the formation of a modern western subjectivity in the context of Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan.Trade Review“Arguing Sainthood can and should be used in courses on modernity, postcolonialism, the Middle East, South Asia, and in other courses—cultural studies, religion—where Lacanian ideas are not unfamiliar.”—Michael M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“This is an important book, one that is significant for the discourses of Pakistani modernity and the dilemmas it creates, the internal differentiations in Pakistani society, and the historical forces that brought them about.”—Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University
£25.19
Duke University Press Arguing Sainthood
Book SynopsisExamines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan, and their relation to the westernising influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. This book is of interest to scholars of Islamic studies, postcolonial studies, and anthropology.Trade Review“Arguing Sainthood can and should be used in courses on modernity, postcolonialism, the Middle East, South Asia, and in other courses—cultural studies, religion—where Lacanian ideas are not unfamiliar.”—Michael M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“This is an important book, one that is significant for the discourses of Pakistani modernity and the dilemmas it creates, the internal differentiations in Pakistani society, and the historical forces that brought them about.”—Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University
£80.10
Duke University Press Written in Stone
Book SynopsisIs it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capital? Is it possible for America to honour General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review"[W]ell-written, thought-provoking. . . . A legal scholar, Levinson quite naturally turns to the law for answers. His discussions of whether the Constitution (specifically the First and Fourteenth amendments) ‘speaks with enough clarity to invalidate the display of the Confederate battle flag or the raising of certain monuments’ is painstaking, yet clear enough for the average non-lawyer to read. And his conclusion, that the courts are (or should be) ‘quite limited in their actual power when what is at stake is the politics of cultural meaning,’ seems to me to be the right one." - The Washington Post"In Written in Stone, Sanford Levinson suggests that rather than addressing the greatest challenge facing our multicultural society—namely, how to fashion ‘unum out of the pluribus of American society’—our efforts at achieving reconciliation seem to have produced increasingly polarized pockets of unums." - The American Prospect“In Written in Stone, Levinson bravely confronts another article of constitutional faith, freedom of speech. Instead of the conventional examination of an individual’s right to speak without the interference from government, however, he looks at what protections the Bill of Rights provides for government-sanctioned speech.” - Peter Blake, Times Literary Supplement“A profound and engrossing meditation on historical memory and national commemoration. It is so skillfully composed and illustrated with such striking examples that I read it in a single sitting, like a murder mystery—except that the question here is not ‘who done it’ but ‘how do we reckon with what was done?’”—Michael Walzer, author of On Toleration“Much has been written about the controversy over public presentations of history, but rarely has the question of how to memorialize our past received the thoughtful, incisive, and fair-minded analysis provided by Sanford Levinson.”—Eric Foner, author of The Story of American Freedom“Sanford Levinson has written a wonderfully wise and informed essay on the issue of how we commemorate the past when the past keeps on changing.”—Nathan Glazer, author of We Are All Multiculturalists Now“This remarkable book addresses an issue as old as civilization and as topical as this morning’s newspaper. No reader of Levinson’s cultivated, nuanced, and balanced narrative will ever view a public monument in quite the same way.”—Norman Dorsen; President, ACLU, 1976–1991“[W]onderfully provocative and gracefully written. . . .” -- Edward T. Linenthal * Law and Social Inquiry *“Levinson has written a fascinating reflection on the transmission of cultural meaning through the use of public space. His book is both thought provoking and well written. . . . Levinson succeeds in immersing the reader in the difficult questions posed by monuments in a multicultural society—and their intractability.” -- Benjamin Means * Michigan Law Review *"[T]his book is potentially a marvelous teaching assignment: brief, eminently readable, intensely interesting, and chock full of highly debatable issues whose ideal solutions are murkier than the Great Dismal Swamp. It can be used successfully in a whole array of introductory courses —and probably will." * American Studies *“In Written in Stone, Levinson bravely confronts another article of constitutional faith, freedom of speech. Instead of the conventional examination of an individual’s right to speak without the interference from government, however, he looks at what protections the Bill of Rights provides for government-sanctioned speech.” -- Peter Blake * TLS *"[W]ell-written, thought-provoking. . . . A legal scholar, Levinson quite naturally turns to the law for answers. His discussions of whether the Constitution (specifically the First and Fourteenth amendments) ‘speaks with enough clarity to invalidate the display of the Confederate battle flag or the raising of certain monuments’ is painstaking, yet clear enough for the average non-lawyer to read. And his conclusion, that the courts are (or should be) ‘quite limited in their actual power when what is at stake is the politics of cultural meaning,’ seems to me to be the right one." * Washington Post *"In Written in Stone, Sanford Levinson suggests that rather than addressing the greatest challenge facing our multicultural society—namely, how to fashion ‘unum out of the pluribus of American society’—our efforts at achieving reconciliation seem to have produced increasingly polarized pockets of unums." * American Prospect *
£84.15
Duke University Press Written in Stone
Book SynopsisIs it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capital? Is it possible for America to honour General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review"[W]ell-written, thought-provoking. . . . A legal scholar, Levinson quite naturally turns to the law for answers. His discussions of whether the Constitution (specifically the First and Fourteenth amendments) ‘speaks with enough clarity to invalidate the display of the Confederate battle flag or the raising of certain monuments’ is painstaking, yet clear enough for the average non-lawyer to read. And his conclusion, that the courts are (or should be) ‘quite limited in their actual power when what is at stake is the politics of cultural meaning,’ seems to me to be the right one." - The Washington Post"In Written in Stone, Sanford Levinson suggests that rather than addressing the greatest challenge facing our multicultural society—namely, how to fashion ‘unum out of the pluribus of American society’—our efforts at achieving reconciliation seem to have produced increasingly polarized pockets of unums." - The American Prospect“In Written in Stone, Levinson bravely confronts another article of constitutional faith, freedom of speech. Instead of the conventional examination of an individual’s right to speak without the interference from government, however, he looks at what protections the Bill of Rights provides for government-sanctioned speech.” - Peter Blake, Times Literary Supplement“A profound and engrossing meditation on historical memory and national commemoration. It is so skillfully composed and illustrated with such striking examples that I read it in a single sitting, like a murder mystery—except that the question here is not ‘who done it’ but ‘how do we reckon with what was done?’”—Michael Walzer, author of On Toleration“Much has been written about the controversy over public presentations of history, but rarely has the question of how to memorialize our past received the thoughtful, incisive, and fair-minded analysis provided by Sanford Levinson.”—Eric Foner, author of The Story of American Freedom“Sanford Levinson has written a wonderfully wise and informed essay on the issue of how we commemorate the past when the past keeps on changing.”—Nathan Glazer, author of We Are All Multiculturalists Now“This remarkable book addresses an issue as old as civilization and as topical as this morning’s newspaper. No reader of Levinson’s cultivated, nuanced, and balanced narrative will ever view a public monument in quite the same way.”—Norman Dorsen; President, ACLU, 1976–1991“[W]onderfully provocative and gracefully written. . . .” -- Edward T. Linenthal * Law and Social Inquiry *“Levinson has written a fascinating reflection on the transmission of cultural meaning through the use of public space. His book is both thought provoking and well written. . . . Levinson succeeds in immersing the reader in the difficult questions posed by monuments in a multicultural society—and their intractability.” -- Benjamin Means * Michigan Law Review *"[T]his book is potentially a marvelous teaching assignment: brief, eminently readable, intensely interesting, and chock full of highly debatable issues whose ideal solutions are murkier than the Great Dismal Swamp. It can be used successfully in a whole array of introductory courses —and probably will." * American Studies *“In Written in Stone, Levinson bravely confronts another article of constitutional faith, freedom of speech. Instead of the conventional examination of an individual’s right to speak without the interference from government, however, he looks at what protections the Bill of Rights provides for government-sanctioned speech.” -- Peter Blake * TLS *"[W]ell-written, thought-provoking. . . . A legal scholar, Levinson quite naturally turns to the law for answers. His discussions of whether the Constitution (specifically the First and Fourteenth amendments) ‘speaks with enough clarity to invalidate the display of the Confederate battle flag or the raising of certain monuments’ is painstaking, yet clear enough for the average non-lawyer to read. And his conclusion, that the courts are (or should be) ‘quite limited in their actual power when what is at stake is the politics of cultural meaning,’ seems to me to be the right one." * Washington Post *"In Written in Stone, Sanford Levinson suggests that rather than addressing the greatest challenge facing our multicultural society—namely, how to fashion ‘unum out of the pluribus of American society’—our efforts at achieving reconciliation seem to have produced increasingly polarized pockets of unums." * American Prospect *
£21.59
Duke University Press Crude Chronicles
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in EcuadorTrade Review“Crude Chronicles seamlessly weaves the compelling richness of an exceptional ethnographic account with the power of a story well told. By chronicling the history of the ongoing contest that has characterized the politics of petroleum in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Sawyer brilliantly illustrates the imbricated process by which indigenous and neoliberal geophraphies are configured and reconfigured in the process of making nature, nation, and citizens. Crude Chronicles will surely become a key reference point in future debates about the cultural politics of nature.”—Peter Brosius, University of Georgia"Crude Chronicles is a splendid example of fine-grained ethnography. It illustrates in many ways why this approach continues to be the hallmark of anthropology. The best feature of the book is the lovingly detailed descriptions and close-to-the-ground analysis of dialogue and events. It will be mandatory reading for Latin Americanists interested in social movements, especially the indigenous and environmentalist movements, and of course, students of Ecuadorian politics.”—Jean E. Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xi A Note on Names xii Opening 1 I NATIONAL NARRATIVES 1. Amazonian Imaginaries 27 2. Crude Excesses 57 II. PETROLEUM POLITICS 3. Neoliberal Ironies 91 4. Corporate Antipolitics 118 III. RACED RELATITIES 5. Contested Terrain 149 6. Liberal Legal-Scapes 182 Closing: A Plurinational Space 211 Notes 225 Acronyms 251 Glossary 253 Bibliography 255 Index 277
£25.19
MD - Duke University Press In Darkness and Secrecy
Book SynopsisEthnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorceryTrade Review“The great merit of this volume is that it amply documents the wide variety of ideas and practices that can be classified as shamanistic in Amazonia and, in so doing, establishes that dark shamanism is an essential element of the worldviews and moral philosophies of peoples of this region.”—David Maybury-Lewis, Harvard University“In Darkness and Secrecy takes sectors of Amazonian ethnography to a new level of productive and provocative excellence.”—Norman Whitten, University of IllinoisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dark Shamanism / Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright 1 The Order of Dark Shamans among the Warao / Johannes Wilbert 21 Dark Shamans and the Shamanic State: Sorcery and Witchcraft as Political Process in Guyana and the Venezuelan Amazon / Silvia Vidal and Neil L. Whitehead 51 The Wicked and the Wise Men: Witches and Prophets in the History of the Northwest Amazon / Robin Wright 82 Sorcery Beliefs, Transmissions of Shamanic Knowledge, and Therapeutic Practice among the Desana of the Upper Rio Negro Region, Brazil / Dominique Buchillet 109 The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath / George Mentore 132 A Blend of Blood and Tobacco: Shamans and Jaguars among the Parakana of Eastern Amazonia / Carlos Fausto 157 The Wars Within: Xinguano Witchcraft and Balance of Power / Michael Heckenberger 179 Siblings and Sorcerers: The Paradox of Kinship among the Kulina / Donald Pollock 202 Being Alone amid Others: Sorcery and Morality among the Arara, Carib, Brazil / Marnio Teixeira-Pinto 215 Sorcery and Shamanism in Cashinahua Discourse and Praxis, Purus River, Brazil / Elsje Lagrou 244 The Enemy Within: Child Sorcery, Revolution, and the Evils of Modernization in Eastern Peru / Fernando Santos-Granero 272 Commentary / E. Jean Langdon 306 Afterword: Substances, Powers, Cosmos, and History / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart 314 Contributors 321 Index 324
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Duke University Press Abalone Tales
Book SynopsisFor Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state's coast has remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. This book examines the cultural, social, and economic importance of abalone among the California Indian tribes.Trade Review“Abalone Tales shimmers like the mother of pearl in a California Indian necklace. Out from the shadows of the old colonial tradition, the book fulfills the overdue promise of a new collaborative anthropology. It accomplishes this with remarkable intimacy and intelligence, and in so doing gives us new ways of thinking about ethnography, Native America, and the global politics of indigeneity today.”—Orin Starn, author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian“Abalone Tales is a fine example of collaborative ethnography. It adds immeasurably to ongoing conversations among anthropologists and other social scientists about the still-emergent possibilities for producing dialogic, collaborative, and ethically responsible ethnographies.”—Luke Eric Lassiter, Marshall University Graduate CollegeTable of ContentsAbout the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Abalone? The Making of a Collaborative Research Project 1 I. Artifact, Narrative, Genocide 1. The Old Abalone Necklaces and the Possibility of a Muwekma Ohlone Cultural Patrimony 9 2. Abalone Woman Attends the Wiyot Reawakening 50 II. The "Meaning" of Abalone: Two Different Abalone Projects 3. Florence Silvia and the Legacy of John Boston: Responsibility at the Intersection of Friendship and Ethnography 62 4. Reflections on the Iridescent One 84 III. Cultural Revivification and the Species Extinction 5. Cultural Revivification in the Hoopa Valley 109 6. Extinction Narratives and Pristine Moments: Evaluating the Decline of Abalone 137 Conclusion: Horizons of Collaborative Research 161 Notes 173 Bibliography 179 Index 193
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Duke University Press Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Book Synopsis In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy''s initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. They argue that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projecTrade Review"Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated, original, unromantic, and challenging account of feminist reproductive politics in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s, both in its national context and as it helped to shape international development programs and strategies. Teasing out the racial politics and embedded features of white privilege that many other scholars and activists have neglected, Michelle Murphy forges a very distinctive trajectory."—Maureen McNeil, author of Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology"Ambitious, thought-provoking, and utterly compelling, Seizing the Means of Reproduction reworks the history of modern feminism as 'technoscientific counter-conduct.' Michelle Murphy convincingly locates the politics of sex and reproduction at the junction where specific technologies—the plastic speculum, the Pap smear, manual suction abortion—collide with the global trajectories of political economy."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"Brava! A sorely needed retheorizing of the movement of reproduction to the center of twentieth-century biopolitics and the consequences for the politicization of life. Attending to the disunity of feminisms, Michelle Murphy follows a panoply of appropriations and inventions that transformed sexed living being and the facts of life from the personal to the transnational. Feminist biopolitics—alternate forms of becoming and conditions of possibility—have revisioned the world. The book I truly wish I had written."—Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.“By politicizing the technologies, protocols, and processes feminist health activists developed to empower women, Murphy demonstrates that the “control” of reproduction was fashioned with (not simply by) technoscience as a practical and pivotal feature of feminist politics. Seizing the Means of Reproduction is a must read for those interested in feminism, women’s health, the body, and medical sociology.” -- Gayle Sulik * Gender & Society *“Reading of the book occurs at multiple levels – it is a fascinating account of the women’s self-help movement of the time; it is also a thought provoking analysis of ‘necropolitics’ with particular reference to the issues of race in the US. Finally, it situates the women’s health movement within the broader global context –where the practices, if not the protocols, were implicated globally in the policies around reproduction that were inserted into other countries in the form of US Aid. This is a challenging but extremely worthwhile read.” -- Karen Willis * Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health *“An indispensable reading for feminist technoscience seminars and a valuable source for gender studies as well as reproductive technologies classes.” -- Habibe Burcu Baba * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the entanglements between health feminism and biomedicalization in the late twentieth century.” -- Wendy Kline * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Murphy’s work not only makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how reproductive technologies have been politically, socially, culturally and racially transformed and maneuvered since the 1970s, but it also elegantly, and intricately, conveys how the ‘economy of reproduction’ functions in both the developed and developing worlds, especially in the age of genetic engineering, cloning, sex-selection, and continuing contraceptive battles.” -- Tanfer Emin Tunc * American Studies *“Seizing the Means of Reproduction is an important contribution to scholarship that takes reproduction seriously as a site of power, cultural production, and consumption. . . . Readers will find it an engaging read and highly relevant to new and enduring questions within STS, the history of medicine, medical anthropology and sociology, and feminist studies on gender, health and technoscience. It will also speak strongly to communities of activists and users interested in understanding and creating “better versions of technoscience and feminism” at home and abroad.” -- Margaret E. MacDonald * Somatosphere *“Murphy’s balanced and detailed examination of the shifts in the tactics and investments of the women’s self-help health movement is a crucial resource in understanding how the presence and absence of different types of feminist politics shape reproductive health landscapes.” -- Claire McKinney * Women's Studies Quarterly *"[Murphy] demonstrates the significance of the success, failure and co-optation of the feminist self help movement, the links between Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, bioethics and transnational flows of knowledge, and the unexpected associations between feminism and technoscience, sex, class and race. Ultimately, this book should encouracge scholars of medicine, feminism , women's history and sexuality to make broader local-to-global connections when researching reproduction." -- Christabelle Sethna * Social History of Medicine *“Throughout the book, Murphy’s insights are eloquently encapsulated in the conceptual terms and frameworks that she coins or adopts. . . . Seizing the Means of Reproduction promises to be a rewarding read for feminist technoscience studies scholars, as well as historians of the women’s movement, reproductive health, and global biopolitics.” -- Chikako Takeshita * Isis *“The events that Murphy writes about are more than three decades old, yet it is startling to realize just how relevant these questions are today. Much of the activism explored in Seizing the Means of Reproduction arose, at least in part, out of a desire to put reproductive healthcare decision-making in the hands of those most affected by it: women themselves. But, as the current social and political climate around women’s rights, gender and reproduction makes clear, these issues continue to incite controversy and judgment today. And this knowledge adds a surprising poignancy . . . to Seizing the Means of Reproduction. . . .” -- Sarah Erdreich * Lilith *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction: Feminism in/as Biopolitics 1 1. Assembling Protocol Feminism 25 2. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity 68 3. Pap Smears, Cervical Cancer, and Scales 102 4. Traveling Technology and a Device for Not Performing Abortions 150 Conclusion: Living the Contradiction 177 Notes 183 Bibliography 219 Index 247
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Duke University Press Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Book Synopsis In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy''s initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the technologies, practices, protocols, and processes—developed by feminist health activists. They argue that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projecTrade Review"Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated, original, unromantic, and challenging account of feminist reproductive politics in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s, both in its national context and as it helped to shape international development programs and strategies. Teasing out the racial politics and embedded features of white privilege that many other scholars and activists have neglected, Michelle Murphy forges a very distinctive trajectory."—Maureen McNeil, author of Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology"Ambitious, thought-provoking, and utterly compelling, Seizing the Means of Reproduction reworks the history of modern feminism as 'technoscientific counter-conduct.' Michelle Murphy convincingly locates the politics of sex and reproduction at the junction where specific technologies—the plastic speculum, the Pap smear, manual suction abortion—collide with the global trajectories of political economy."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"Brava! A sorely needed retheorizing of the movement of reproduction to the center of twentieth-century biopolitics and the consequences for the politicization of life. Attending to the disunity of feminisms, Michelle Murphy follows a panoply of appropriations and inventions that transformed sexed living being and the facts of life from the personal to the transnational. Feminist biopolitics—alternate forms of becoming and conditions of possibility—have revisioned the world. The book I truly wish I had written."—Adele E. Clarke, coeditor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.“By politicizing the technologies, protocols, and processes feminist health activists developed to empower women, Murphy demonstrates that the “control” of reproduction was fashioned with (not simply by) technoscience as a practical and pivotal feature of feminist politics. Seizing the Means of Reproduction is a must read for those interested in feminism, women’s health, the body, and medical sociology.” -- Gayle Sulik * Gender & Society *“Reading of the book occurs at multiple levels – it is a fascinating account of the women’s self-help movement of the time; it is also a thought provoking analysis of ‘necropolitics’ with particular reference to the issues of race in the US. Finally, it situates the women’s health movement within the broader global context –where the practices, if not the protocols, were implicated globally in the policies around reproduction that were inserted into other countries in the form of US Aid. This is a challenging but extremely worthwhile read.” -- Karen Willis * Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health *“An indispensable reading for feminist technoscience seminars and a valuable source for gender studies as well as reproductive technologies classes.” -- Habibe Burcu Baba * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the entanglements between health feminism and biomedicalization in the late twentieth century.” -- Wendy Kline * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“Murphy’s work not only makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how reproductive technologies have been politically, socially, culturally and racially transformed and maneuvered since the 1970s, but it also elegantly, and intricately, conveys how the ‘economy of reproduction’ functions in both the developed and developing worlds, especially in the age of genetic engineering, cloning, sex-selection, and continuing contraceptive battles.” -- Tanfer Emin Tunc * American Studies *“Seizing the Means of Reproduction is an important contribution to scholarship that takes reproduction seriously as a site of power, cultural production, and consumption. . . . Readers will find it an engaging read and highly relevant to new and enduring questions within STS, the history of medicine, medical anthropology and sociology, and feminist studies on gender, health and technoscience. It will also speak strongly to communities of activists and users interested in understanding and creating “better versions of technoscience and feminism” at home and abroad.” -- Margaret E. MacDonald * Somatosphere *“Murphy’s balanced and detailed examination of the shifts in the tactics and investments of the women’s self-help health movement is a crucial resource in understanding how the presence and absence of different types of feminist politics shape reproductive health landscapes.” -- Claire McKinney * Women's Studies Quarterly *"[Murphy] demonstrates the significance of the success, failure and co-optation of the feminist self help movement, the links between Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, bioethics and transnational flows of knowledge, and the unexpected associations between feminism and technoscience, sex, class and race. Ultimately, this book should encouracge scholars of medicine, feminism , women's history and sexuality to make broader local-to-global connections when researching reproduction." -- Christabelle Sethna * Social History of Medicine *“Throughout the book, Murphy’s insights are eloquently encapsulated in the conceptual terms and frameworks that she coins or adopts. . . . Seizing the Means of Reproduction promises to be a rewarding read for feminist technoscience studies scholars, as well as historians of the women’s movement, reproductive health, and global biopolitics.” -- Chikako Takeshita * Isis *“The events that Murphy writes about are more than three decades old, yet it is startling to realize just how relevant these questions are today. Much of the activism explored in Seizing the Means of Reproduction arose, at least in part, out of a desire to put reproductive healthcare decision-making in the hands of those most affected by it: women themselves. But, as the current social and political climate around women’s rights, gender and reproduction makes clear, these issues continue to incite controversy and judgment today. And this knowledge adds a surprising poignancy . . . to Seizing the Means of Reproduction. . . .” -- Sarah Erdreich * Lilith *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction: Feminism in/as Biopolitics 1 1. Assembling Protocol Feminism 25 2. Immodest Witnessing, Affective Economies, and Objectivity 68 3. Pap Smears, Cervical Cancer, and Scales 102 4. Traveling Technology and a Device for Not Performing Abortions 150 Conclusion: Living the Contradiction 177 Notes 183 Bibliography 219 Index 247
£19.79
Duke University Press Freedom Time
Book SynopsisProviding a reading of Aime Césaire and Leopold Senghor as political thinkers, Gary Wilder explains how these eminent anti-colonial thinkers, poets and political leaders sought to remake France by advocating for colonial self-determination and fuller racial and cultural integration within the French empire.Trade Review"Freedom Time is an important book. It is also exceptionally scholarly and extremely readable. Such qualities rarely inhere in a single text. And they are rarely bundled into an analysis so passionate and timely that excavates past attempts at human emancipation in order to reveal new pathways into modernization." -- Massimiliano Tomba * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"Rich, dense, and meticulously researched, Gary Wilder’s book offers nuanced critical reflections on the alternative landscapes of freedom proposed by Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor." -- Kaiama L. Glover * French Studies *"There is an important message here ... for a broad audience, and I sincerely hope that it reaches beyond French Studies, postcolonial, or colonial historical studies. Wilder observes that Césaire, Sédar and their contemporaries in black Caribbean and African thought ‘are rarely included in general considerations of interwar philosophy or postwar social theory’ (9). What Freedom Time does most convincingly is to demonstrate that the social theory studied in European universities is weaker for this omission and that serious engagement with these thinkers is long overdue." -- Lucy Mayblin * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"[A] thoughtful and challenging work on the often maligned Negritude thinkers, poets, and politicians Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor." -- Brett A. Berliner * Callaloo *"[A] tremendous achievement in scope and originality. Readers who wish to think about the nation-state from a deeply historical and theoretically sophisticated perspective will be richly rewarded." -- Anuja Bose * Africa Today *"Freedom Time is an engaging book that combines cultural anthropology, political theory and postcolonial theory and offers the reader a detailed intellectual history of Leopold Senghor and Aimé Césaire between 1945 and 1960." -- Frank Gerits * European Review of History *"Gary Wilder’s Freedom Time constitutes an exciting and significant contribution to the field of nation and nationalism study in that he challenges the claim that decolonisation and self-determination can, and should, only lead to one form of state sovereignty: the nation-state." -- Kristin Hissong * Nations and Nationalism *"Wilder provides us with a provocative retelling of the intellectual and political vision of two luminaries of the 20th century, and he does a great service by recasting our attention to these two authors to provoke reflection on the condition of nationhood and sovereignty in the 21st century. The text is always engaging and at times possesses a lyricism that echoes the poetics of Césaire and Senghor.... This book is a welcome addition, providing a substantial contribution to the field of francophone intellectual history." -- Michael Lambert * Anthropological Quarterly *"Freedom Time is a dynamic treatise deftly upholding the Fanonian and Wynterian imperatives to navigate ongoing processes of decolonization and becoming Human betwixt and between the allure of emancipations masking as freedom." -- Neil Roberts * Theory & Event *"Freedom Time is an impressive, inspiring, necessary work. . . . Wilder's lucid, sensitively textured and impressively well-researched book allows us to rethink the meaning of decolonisation and the conceptual nexus surrounding it." -- Deborah Walker-Morrison * Cultural Studies Review *"Wilder’s reading of Senghor and Césaire is subtle and engaging, and challenges the idea that they were cynical – or naive." -- Musab Younis * London Review of Books *Table of ContentsIndex 373 Preface ix Acknowledgments xv 1. Unthinking France, Rethinking Decolonization 1 2. Situating Cesaire: Antillean Awakening and Global Redemption 17 3. Situating Senghor: African Hospitality and Human Solidarity 49 4. Freedom, Time, Territory 74 5. Departmentalization and the Spirit of Schoelcher 106 6. Federalism and the Future of France 133 7. Antillean Autonomy and the Legacy of Louverture 167 8. African Socialism and the Fate of the World 206 9. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy 241 Chronology 261 Notes 275 Works Cited 333
£80.75
University of Pittsburgh Press Wars in the Midst of Peace
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays assembles a diverse array of approaches to the problems of ethnic conflict, with researchers and scholars using pure theory, comparative case studies, and aggregate data analysis to approach the complex questions facing today's leaders.
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press Imagination Beyond Nation
Book SynopsisThis innovative collection features studies of iconography in Mexico, telenovelas in Venezuela, drama in Chile, cinema in Brazil, comic strips and tango in Argentina, and ceramics in Peru. From the studies of these popular arts the idea of nationality in Latin America is revealed to be a problematic, divided one, worthy of further study.
£43.00
Fordham University Press Force
Book SynopsisThis book reconceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the eighteenth century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment.Trade Review"Continental philosophers working in the area of aesthetics will find this book to be of great interest. Menke's study is brief, but compelling and highly learned-- a welcome addition to the scholarship. . Recommended." -Choice "Force is an outstanding study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of modern aesthetics and an important and original contribution to contemporary debates about the fate of modernity, philosophy, and the arts." -- -Paola Marrati The Johns Hopkins University "Menke forcefully makes the point that with the emergence of aesthetics in the eighteenth century, philosophy, and its understanding of itself, underwent a radical change." -- -Rodolphe Gasche University of Buffalo, SUNY
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Fordham University Press Levels of Organic Life and the Human
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword from the Helmuth Plessner Society | vii Translator’s Preface and Acknowledgments | ix Preface to the First Edition (1928) | xv Preface to the Second Edition (1965) | xix Introduction | xxxvii J. M. Bernstein 1. Aim and Scope of the Study | 1 The Development of Intuitionist Lebensphilosophie in Opposition to Experience, 3 • Lebensphilosophie and the Theory of the Humanities, 11 • Working Plan for the Foundation of a Philosophy of the Human, 22 2. The Cartesian Objection and the Nature of the Problem | 34 Extension vs. Interiority and the Problem of Appearance, 34 • Appearance as Originating in Interiority, 38 • The Prior Givenness of Interiority and the Forward Displacement of Myself: The Proposition of Immanence 41 • Extension as Outer World; Interiority as Inner World, 46 • The Proposition of Representation and the Element of Sensation, 51 • The Inaccessibility of Other I’s according to the Principle of Sensualism, 55 • The Need for a Revision of the Cartesian Dichotomy in the Interest of a Science of Life, 58 • A Methodological Reformulation of the Opening Question, 64 3. The Thesis | 75 The Question, 75 • The Dual Aspect in the Appearance of Ordinary Perceptual Things, 76 • Against the Misinterpretation of This Analysis: A Closer Focus on the Subject Matter, 81 • The Dual Aspect of Living Perceptual Things: Köhler contra Driesch, 84 • How Is Dual Aspectivity Possible? The Nature of the Boundary, 93 • The Task of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 99 • Definitions of Life, 104 • Nature and Object of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 110 4. The Modes of Being of Vitality | 115 Essential Characteristics Indicating Vitality, 115 • The Positionality of Living Being and Its Spacelikeness, 118 • Living Being as Process and Type; the Dynamic Character of the Living Form; the Individuality of the Living Thing, 123 • Living Process as Development, 129 • The Curve of Development: Aging and Death, 137 • The Individual Living Thing as a System, 144 • The Self-Regulation of the Individual Living Thing and the Harmonious Equipotentiality of Its Parts, 149 • Individual Living Things as Organized: The Dual Meaning of Organs, 154 • The Temporality of Living Being, 159 • The Positional Union of Space and Time and the Natural Place, 168 5. The Organizational Modes of Living Being: Plants and Animals | 172 The Circle of Life, 172 • Assimilation—Dissimilation, 182 • Adaptedness and Adaptation, 186 • Reproduction, Heredity, Selection, 196 • The Open Form of Organization of the Plant, 202 • The Closed Form of Organization of the Animal, 209 6. The Sphere of the Animal | 219 The Positionality of the Closed Form: Centrality and Frontality, 219 • The Coordination of Stimulus and Response in the Case of an Inoperative Subject (Decentralized Type of Organization), 227 • The Coordination of Stimulus and Response by a Subject (Centralized Type of Organization), 231 • The Animal’s Surrounding Field Organized into Complex Qualities and Things, 242 • Intelligence, 252 • Memory, 257 • Memory as the Unity of Residue and Anticipation, 262 7. The Sphere of the Human | 267 The Positionality of the Excentric Form: “I” and Personhood, 267 • Outer World, Inner World, Shared World, 272 • The Fundamental Laws of Anthropology: The Law of Natural Artificiality, 287 • The Law of Mediated Immediacy: Immanence and Expressivity, 298 • The Law of the Utopian Standpoint: Nullity and Transcendence, 316 Appendix | 323 Glossary | 337 Notes | 345 Index | 359
£102.60
University of Hawai'i Press Dance of Life Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia
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£25.56
University of Hawai'i Press Japanese Culture 4th Pa Studies of the
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Japanese history and culture. This fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the 47 ronin, and mass culture in contemporary times.Trade ReviewThough many books on Japanese culture have appeared in recent years, none has yet matched Varley's for the combined breadth and depth of detail and for his skill at conjuring up the zeitgeist of each period of Japanese history.- New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies;""This is a masterpiece of much in little space. It neatly surveys over 2,000 years of the arts, religion, and cultural peculiarities (e.g., the tea ceremony) of one of the most cultivated of nations. It leaves virtually no major individual, religious sect, genre and style of visual art, form of literary expression, variety of theater, or influence of extra-Japanese origin unconsidered. It nonetheless admirably retains its focus, ignoring the temptation to relate history that doesn't impinge on cultural developments. What's more, Varley writes superbly lucid prose. . . . A superior one-volume introduction to Japanese culture.""- Booklist
£20.76
University of Hawai'i Press Pacific Diaspora Island Peoples in the United
Book SynopsisPacific Islander Americans constitute one of the United States' least understood ethnic groups and are given many stereotypes. This work brings together the individual and community histories of Pacific Islands peoples in the US.
£24.61
University of Hawai'i Press Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Book SynopsisThis volume taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. Here, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings.Trade ReviewAn important and fascinating volume for experts on other world regions who plan to include Japan in their multi-sited research projects. - Kay B. Warren, Harvard University
£27.16
University of Hawai'i Press The Anxieties of Mobility Migration and Tourism
Book SynopsisSince the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. This book explores the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam.
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University of Hawaii Press Drinking Smoke The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania
Book SynopsisDespite its enormous toll on human health, tobacco has been largely neglected by anthropologists. Drinking Smoke combines an exhaustive search of historical materials on the introduction and spread of tobacco in the Pacific with extensive anthropological accounts of the ways Islanders have incorporated this substance into their lives.
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University of Hawai'i Press Colonialism Maasina Rule and the Originsof
Book SynopsisThis book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the islandâs first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the bookâs heart is a political movement known as Maasina Rule, which dominated political affairs in the southeastern Solomons for many years after World War II. The movementâs ideology, kastom, was grounded in the determination that only Malaitans themselves could properly chart their future through application of Malaitan sensibilities and methods, free from British interference. Kastom promoted a radical transformation of Malaitan lives by sweeping social engineering projects and alternative governing and legal structures. When the government tried to suppress Maasina Rule through force, its followers brought colonial administration on the island to a halt for several years through a labour strike and mass
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University of Hawai'i Press At Home and in the Field Ethnographic Encounters
Book SynopsisCrossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork.
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University of Hawai'i Press Diaspora and Identity
Book SynopsisBased on her research in Brazil and Japan, Mieko Nishida challenges the essentialized categories of the Japanese in Brazil and Brazilians in Japan, with special emphasis on gender. Nishida deftly argues that Japanese Brazilian identity has never been static. Rather it is about being and becoming, a process of identity in motion.
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University of Hawai'i Press Ancient Ryukyu
Book SynopsisExplores 30,000 years of human occupation in the Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human presence in the region up to AD 1609 and the emergence of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It focuses on the unique geopolitical position of the islands, their environment, and the many human communities whose historical activities can be discerned.
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