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Johns Hopkins University Press The Collectors of Lost Souls
Book SynopsisThis riveting account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause and cure. Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineWinner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of ScienceWinner, General History Award, New South Wales Premier's History AwardsWhen whites first encountered the Fore people in the isolated highlands of colonial New Guinea during the 1940s and 1950s, they found a people in the grip of a bizarre epidemic. Women and children succumbed to muscle weakness, uncontrollable tremors, and lack of coordination, until death inevitably supervened. Facing extinction, the Fore attributed their unique and terrifying affliction to a particularly malign form of sorcery. In The Collectors of Lost Souls, Warwick Anderson tells the story of the resilience of the Fore through this devastating plague, their transformation into modern people,Table of ContentsPreface to the Updated EditionIntroduction. The Disease Europeans Catch from KuruChapter 1. Stranger RelationsChapter 2. Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man Chapter 3. A Contemptuous Tenderness Chapter 4. The Scientist and His Magic Chapter 5. Hearts of Darkness Chapter 6. Specimen Days Chapter 7. We Were Their People Chapter 8. Stumbling along the Tortuous Road Conclusion. Dénouement Was a Bit Difficult AfterwordAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press Lazy Crazy and Disgusting Stigma and the Undoing
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis engaging book . . . fills a significant gap in the literature by providing a wake-up call to scholars and practitioners unfamiliar with the topic. And it reminds me that we should all be working together to avoid any unintended consequences of promoting health.—NatureLazy, Crazy, and Disgusting is an impeccably researched, collaborative, thought-provoking, and boundary-breaking book that should be required reading for anyone interested in public health, medicine, and anthropology.—Medical Anthropology QuarterlyBrewis and Wutich provide a very useful primer on stigma, which gives a succinct explanation of what stigma is in relation to global health, its different forms, and how stigmatization intersects with other population-level and individual-level effects. As an important topic for students of medicine, global health, and ethics, Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting would be a useful recommended text.—The Lancet: Diabetes and EndocrinologyBrewis and Wutich's book offers a rigorous analysis of how public global health efforts can create and reinforce stigma . . . This book is recommended for anyone with a general interest in global public health, [and for] undergraduate and postgraduate students from health-related disciplines including medical sociology. This book should be considered by health practitioners, scholars and public health professionals when designing and implementing health-related interventions.—Sociology of Health and IllnessThe global perspective and illuminating detail in Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting bring the social, cultural and structural elements of stigma into focus for the reader . . . This text is both academic and accessible, making it an engrossing read for those interested in medicine and public health, anthropology and sociology. I would argue it is also incredibly relevant to those who experience, resist or perpetuate stigma: each and every one of us.—OrganizationThe book provides an accessible, synthetic, and critical examination of the health effects of shame and stigma, one that was already long overdue when the book was published in 2019. That was before the onset of the current pandemic. The topic is of even more pressing concern now, when the public's health depends so much on the behavior of individuals.—American ScientistThe best thing about this book is that it is relatable on personal, institutional, and global levels. The book provides a timely contribution to the state of global health, especially the process of stigmatizing people with infectious disease.—Teaching SociologyThis is a social justice–informed and critically important book for students, scholars, professionals, and policy makers in public health, medical anthropology, health-related social work, and health justice.—Affilia: Journal of Women and Social WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. DisgustingChapter 1. Dealing with Defecation Chapter 2. Dirty Things, Disgusting PeopleChapter 3. Dirty and DisempoweredPart II. LazyChapter 4. Fat, Bad, and EverywhereChapter 5. The Tyranny of Weight JudgmentChapter 6. World War OPart III. CrazyChapter 7. Once Crazy, Always CrazyChapter 8. The Myth of the Destigmatized SocietyChapter 9. Completely DepressingConclusion. What We Can DoAppendix. Stigma: A Brief PrimerNotesIndex
£18.45
Temple University Press,U.S. Pushing for Midwives
Book SynopsisA history of the re-emergence of midwifery in AmericaTrade Review"In her beautifully rendered study of midwifery in Virginia, Craven shows how the rhetoric of 'consumer choice'-a shibboleth of those promoting reproductive rights for women-excludes large segments of the childbearing population. In the best tradition of anthropology, she unpacks an irony, illustrating how our social and economic environment can simultaneously celebrate and constrain women's choices. Great stuff." -Raymond De Vries, Professor, Bioethics/Sociology/Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan and author of A Pleasing Birth: Midwifery and Maternity Care in the Netherlands "Craven makes a convincing case for her claim that a continued commitment to expanding reproductive justice is dependent on finding ways to see, and then to ameliorate, the race and class prejudices that lurk, thinly veiled, below the surface of the push for midwives. The most important contribution of this book is the author's sophisticated and nuanced historical discussion of factors that have shaped struggles over reproductive healthcare in the Unites States." - American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Research and Activism Introduction: Pushing for Midwives 1 Histories of Struggle 2 The Birth of Consumer Activism for Midwives 3 Midwives in Virginia 4 Mothers in the Legislature 5 "I'm Not Really Politically Active, but ..." 6 Divisive Strategies Epilogue: Beyond Consumer Rights Notes Bibliography Index
£61.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Pushing for Midwives
Book SynopsisA history of the re-emergence of midwifery in AmericaTrade Review"In her beautifully rendered study of midwifery in Virginia, Craven shows how the rhetoric of 'consumer choice'-a shibboleth of those promoting reproductive rights for women-excludes large segments of the childbearing population. In the best tradition of anthropology, she unpacks an irony, illustrating how our social and economic environment can simultaneously celebrate and constrain women's choices. Great stuff." -Raymond De Vries, Professor, Bioethics/Sociology/Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan and author of A Pleasing Birth: Midwifery and Maternity Care in the Netherlands "Craven makes a convincing case for her claim that a continued commitment to expanding reproductive justice is dependent on finding ways to see, and then to ameliorate, the race and class prejudices that lurk, thinly veiled, below the surface of the push for midwives. The most important contribution of this book is the author's sophisticated and nuanced historical discussion of factors that have shaped struggles over reproductive healthcare in the Unites States." - American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Research and Activism Introduction: Pushing for Midwives 1 Histories of Struggle 2 The Birth of Consumer Activism for Midwives 3 Midwives in Virginia 4 Mothers in the Legislature 5 "I'm Not Really Politically Active, but ..." 6 Divisive Strategies Epilogue: Beyond Consumer Rights Notes Bibliography Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. My Culture My Color My Self
Book SynopsisAn authentic picture of culture among young adults of colourTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: My Culture, My Color, My SelfIntroduction: Cultural Leadership: The Audacity in the Ordinary1 There’s No Place like Home: An Ethic of Cultural Love2 A Half-Full Glass of Family Bonds3 A Politic of Survival4 Education, Culture, and Freedom5 Art, Land, and Spirit6 Cultural Heritage Still Matters7 The House That Struggle Built: A Portrait of CultureEpilogueAppendix: Research MethodsNotesReferencesIndex
£56.95
Temple University Press,U.S. My Culture My Color My Self
Book SynopsisAn authentic picture of culture among young adults of colourTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: My Culture, My Color, My SelfIntroduction: Cultural Leadership: The Audacity in the Ordinary1 There’s No Place like Home: An Ethic of Cultural Love2 A Half-Full Glass of Family Bonds3 A Politic of Survival4 Education, Culture, and Freedom5 Art, Land, and Spirit6 Cultural Heritage Still Matters7 The House That Struggle Built: A Portrait of CultureEpilogueAppendix: Research MethodsNotesReferencesIndex
£18.89
Temple University Press,U.S. Contemporary Social Constructionism
Book SynopsisProvides a critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. This book traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 What is Social Constructionism? 2 The Philosophical Foundations of Social Constructionism 3 Social Constructionism Contra Deconstructionism and Postmodernism 4 Social Constructionism and the Body 5 The Social Construction of Self-Knowledge 6 The Social Construction of Social Problems 7 The Way Forward for Social Constructionism Notes References Index
£37.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Contemporary Social Constructionism
Book SynopsisIn Contemporary Social Constructionism, Darin Weinberg provides a detailed, critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. Weinberg traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences. Contemporary Social Constructionism illuminates how constructionist social science developed in relation to positivism, critical and hermeneutic philosophy, and feminism and then goes on to distinguish the concept from postmodernism and deconstructionism. In addition, Weinberg shows how social constructionists have contributed to our understanding of biology, the body, self-knowledge, and social problems. The result is a contemporary statement of social constructionism that shores up its scientific veracity and demonstrates its analytic power, promise, and influence. The book concludes with a look toward the futurTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 What is Social Constructionism? 2 The Philosophical Foundations of Social Constructionism 3 Social Constructionism Contra Deconstructionism and Postmodernism 4 Social Constructionism and the Body 5 The Social Construction of Self-Knowledge 6 The Social Construction of Social Problems 7 The Way Forward for Social Constructionism Notes References Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality
Book SynopsisEthnographies of Youth and Temporality use youth as a prism to understand time and its subjective experience.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Time Objectified • Martin Demant Frederiksen and Anne Line Dalsgård 1. Waiting for the start: Flexibility and the Question of Convergence • Jennifer Johnson-Hanks 2. Stunted Future: Buryong among Young Men in Manila • Steffen Jensen 3. Aske’s Dead Time: An Exploration of the Qualities of Time among Left-Radical Activists in Denmark • Stine Krøijer 4. Heterochronic Atmospheres: Affect, Materiality, and Youth in Depression • Martin Demant Frederiksen 5. Standing Apart: On Time, Affect, and Discernment in Nordeste, Brazil • Anne Line Dalsgård 6. Certificates for the Future: Geographical Mobility and Educational Trajectories among Nepalese Youth • Karen Valentin 7. The normativity of Boredom: Communication Media Use among Romanian Teenagers • Razvan Nicolescu 8. Making a Name: Young Musicians in Uganda Working on the Future • Lotte Meinert and Nanna Schneidermann Afterword • Michael G. Flaherty Contributors Index
£64.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography
Book SynopsisExperiences that mirror work-family dilemmas that all employed parents face.Trade Review"Even though the stories presented in this book revolve around ethnographic research, quantitative and qualitative researchers alike will be able to relate to the discussion of work and family balance. Covering issues from the visibility of the pregnant body when in the field, to bringing children to your study, to how a researcher copes with continuing their research in the face of tragedy, this book will keep the reader engaged through its narratives and reflections on the topic of balancing work and family in research... Researchers across disciplines and methods in the social sciences will find this book an interesting reflection on their own work and family balance in their research." - Contemporary Sociology "This edited collection poses several questions for and about the practice of ethnography for the study of families and work... A useful text for collections on qualitative research methods or sociology of family. Summing Up: Recommended." - ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments I Parenting and Fieldwork: Introduction 1. Work and Home (Im)Balance: Finding Synergy through Ethnographic Fieldwork • Joanna Dreby and Tamara Mose Brown 2. Theorizing the Field: Beyond Blurred Boundaries and into the Thick of Things • Barbara Katz Rothman II Experiences of the Expecting 3. Sociological Pregnancy: On Gestating Research, Writing, and Offspring • Erynn Masi de Casanova 4. Emerging Breasts, Bellies, and Bodies of Knowledge: How Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Matter in Fieldwork • Jennifer A. Reich III Managing Mothers 5. The Intimate Ties between Work and Home • Joanna Dreby 6. Motherhood and Transformation in the Field: Reflections on Positionality, Meaning, and Trust • Leah Schmalzbauer 7. Parents and Children, Research and Family, Life and Loss: Living the Questions of Doing Ethnography • Chris Bobel IV Tentative Fathering 8. Passing as a Parent: Playground Fieldwork in the Shadow of the World Trade Center • Gregory Smithsimon 9. Making Up for Lost Time: My Son, My Fieldwork, My Life • Randol Contreras 10. Kids Change Everything: How Becoming a Dad Transformed My Fieldwork (and Findings) • Charles Aiden Downy V Challenging Children 11. Fourteen Months, Four Countries, and Three Kids: Tales from the Field • Tanya Golash-Boza with Raymi Boza, Soraya Boza, and Tatiana Boza 12. Reflections on Ethnographic Childhoods • Steven J. Gold 13. “Just Don’t Take Notes at Any of My Games or Do Anything Weird”: Ethnography and Mothering across Adolescence • Sherri Grasmuck Contributors Index
£64.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography
Book SynopsisExperiences that mirror work-family dilemmas that all employed parents face.Trade Review"Even though the stories presented in this book revolve around ethnographic research, quantitative and qualitative researchers alike will be able to relate to the discussion of work and family balance. Covering issues from the visibility of the pregnant body when in the field, to bringing children to your study, to how a researcher copes with continuing their research in the face of tragedy, this book will keep the reader engaged through its narratives and reflections on the topic of balancing work and family in research... Researchers across disciplines and methods in the social sciences will find this book an interesting reflection on their own work and family balance in their research." - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments I Parenting and Fieldwork: Introduction 1. Work and Home (Im)Balance: Finding Synergy through Ethnographic Fieldwork • Joanna Dreby and Tamara Mose Brown 2. Theorizing the Field: Beyond Blurred Boundaries and into the Thick of Things • Barbara Katz Rothman II Experiences of the Expecting 3. Sociological Pregnancy: On Gestating Research, Writing, and Offspring • Erynn Masi de Casanova 4. Emerging Breasts, Bellies, and Bodies of Knowledge: How Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Matter in Fieldwork • Jennifer A. Reich III Managing Mothers 5. The Intimate Ties between Work and Home • Joanna Dreby 6. Motherhood and Transformation in the Field: Reflections on Positionality, Meaning, and Trust • Leah Schmalzbauer 7. Parents and Children, Research and Family, Life and Loss: Living the Questions of Doing Ethnography • Chris Bobel IV Tentative Fathering 8. Passing as a Parent: Playground Fieldwork in the Shadow of the World Trade Center • Gregory Smithsimon 9. Making Up for Lost Time: My Son, My Fieldwork, My Life • Randol Contreras 10. Kids Change Everything: How Becoming a Dad Transformed My Fieldwork (and Findings) • Charles Aiden Downy V Challenging Children 11. Fourteen Months, Four Countries, and Three Kids: Tales from the Field • Tanya Golash-Boza with Raymi Boza, Soraya Boza, and Tatiana Boza 12. Reflections on Ethnographic Childhoods • Steven J. Gold 13. “Just Don’t Take Notes at Any of My Games or Do Anything Weird”: Ethnography and Mothering across Adolescence • Sherri Grasmuck Contributors Index
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. Ghostly Encounters
Book SynopsisIn the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling. I am startled but not afraid. Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me.Dennis Waskul writes these linesabout his first-hand experience with the supernaturalin the introduction to his beguiling book Ghostly Encounters. Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 midwestern Americans, the Waskuls' book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings in everyday life. The authors explore how uncanny happenings become ghosts, and the reasons people struggle with or against a will to believe. They present the variety and character of hauntings and ghostly encounters, outcomes of people telling haunted legends, and the nested consequences of ghostly experiences. Through these stories, Ghostly Encounters seeks to understand the persistence of uncanny experiences and beliefs in gTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 The Trouble with Ghosts2 Ghostly Reason3 Ghostly Topology4 Ghostly Legends5 Ghostly SpeculationsAppendix: Methods and DataReferencesIndex
£44.10
Temple University Press,U.S. We Shall Not Be MovedNo nos moveran
Book SynopsisThe activist anthem We Shall Not Be Moved expresses resolve in the face of adversity; it helps members of social movements persevere in their struggles to build a better world. The exact origins of the song are unknown, but it appears to have begun as a Protestant revival song sung by rural whites and African slaves in the southeastern United States in the early nineteenth century. The song was subsequently adopted by U.S. labor and civil rights activists, students and workers opposing the Franco dictatorship in Spain, and by Chilean supporters of that country's socialist government in the early 1970s.In his fascinating biography, We Shall Not Be Moved, David Spener details the history and the role the song has played in each of the movements in which it has been sung. He analyzes its dissemination, function, and meaning through a number of different sociological and anthropological lenses to explore how songs can serve as an invaluable resource to participants in movements for social Trade Review“We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán is the fascinating history of a famous song of struggle. Through his exploration of how floating bridges were constructed between distant communities to support and defend social justice in a variety of political contexts, Spener has made a significant contribution to the anthropology of music.”—Joaquina Labajo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid “We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán is an intriguing and inspiring book. The story of the evolution of ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’ illuminates the significance of songs as a resource in social movements. This story teaches us a great deal about how major movements in the United States, in Spain, and in Latin America not only made history but also made culture. But there is more: This book uncovers the international structures of communication and shared identity that help constitute processes of globalization from below.”—Richard Flacks, University of California, Santa Barbara Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI: HISTORY OF A SONG OF STRUGGLE 1. A Song, Socialism, and the 1973 Military Coup in Chile 2. "I Shall Not Be Moved" in the U.S. South: Blacks and Whites, Slavery and Spirituals 3. From Worship to Work: A Spiritual Is Adopted by the U.S. Labor Movement and the Left 4. From Union Song to Freedom Song: Civil Rights Activists Sing an Old Tune for a New Cause 5. From English in the U.S. South to Spanish in the U.S. Southwest: "We Shall Not Be Moved" Becomes "No nos moverán" 6. Across the Atlantic to SpainII: MOVEMENTS AND MEANINGS 7. Social Movement: A Song's Journey across Time and Space 8. Translation and Transcendence in the Travels of a SongConclusion: An Internationalist Culture of the Singing Left in the Twentieth CenturyCoda Appendix: Note on Methods and Sourcesy Notes References Index
£56.10
Temple University Press,U.S. We Shall Not Be MovedNo nos moveran
Book SynopsisThe activist anthem We Shall Not Be Moved expresses resolve in the face of adversity; it helps members of social movements persevere in their struggles to build a better world. The exact origins of the song are unknown, but it appears to have begun as a Protestant revival song sung by rural whites and African slaves in the southeastern United States in the early nineteenth century. The song was subsequently adopted by U.S. labor and civil rights activists, students and workers opposing the Franco dictatorship in Spain, and by Chilean supporters of that country's socialist government in the early 1970s.In his fascinating biography, We Shall Not Be Moved, David Spener details the history and the role the song has played in each of the movements in which it has been sung. He analyzes its dissemination, function, and meaning through a number of different sociological and anthropological lenses to explore how songs can serve as an invaluable resource to participants in movements for social Trade Review“We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán is the fascinating history of a famous song of struggle. Through his exploration of how floating bridges were constructed between distant communities to support and defend social justice in a variety of political contexts, Spener has made a significant contribution to the anthropology of music.”—Joaquina Labajo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid “We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán is an intriguing and inspiring book. The story of the evolution of ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’ illuminates the significance of songs as a resource in social movements. This story teaches us a great deal about how major movements in the United States, in Spain, and in Latin America not only made history but also made culture. But there is more: This book uncovers the international structures of communication and shared identity that help constitute processes of globalization from below.”—Richard Flacks, University of California, Santa Barbara Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI: HISTORY OF A SONG OF STRUGGLE 1. A Song, Socialism, and the 1973 Military Coup in Chile 2. "I Shall Not Be Moved" in the U.S. South: Blacks and Whites, Slavery and Spirituals 3. From Worship to Work: A Spiritual Is Adopted by the U.S. Labor Movement and the Left 4. From Union Song to Freedom Song: Civil Rights Activists Sing an Old Tune for a New Cause 5. From English in the U.S. South to Spanish in the U.S. Southwest: "We Shall Not Be Moved" Becomes "No nos moverán" 6. Across the Atlantic to SpainII: MOVEMENTS AND MEANINGS 7. Social Movement: A Song's Journey across Time and Space 8. Translation and Transcendence in the Travels of a SongConclusion: An Internationalist Culture of the Singing Left in the Twentieth CenturyCoda Appendix: Note on Methods and Sourcesy Notes References Index
£18.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Solidarity Care
Book SynopsisThe members of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organizationimmigrant women of color employed as nannies, caregivers, and housekeepers in New York Cityformed to fight for dignity and respect and to bring meaningful change to their work. Alana Lee Glaser examines the process of how these domestic workers organized against precarity, isolation, and exploitation to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. Solidarity & Careexamines the political mobilization of diverse care workers who joined together and supported one another through education, protests, lobbying, and storytelling. Domestic work activists used narrative and emotional appeals to build a coalition of religious communities, employers of domestic workers, labor union members, and politicians to first pass and then to enforce the new law. Through oral history interviews, as well as ethnographic observation during DWU meetings Trade Review“Solidarity & Care exemplifies the best of feminist research and scholarship. Emerging out of her long tenure volunteering with the worker-organizers of New York’s Domestic Workers United, Glaser’s organizational history centers the narratives of women workers around the unsustainable structure of the industry that motivated their legal campaigns and ultimately resulted in the passage of the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights. Their frank insights enliven the work of organizing by compelling readers to not only listen to, but also stand with them.”—Julietta Hua, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, and author of Trafficking Women’s Human Rights“Solidarity & Care gives texture to the complexities of activism among domestic workers in New York. Alana Lee Glaser has elaborated on what we know about Domestic Workers United by giving voice to domestic workers of various cultures and showing readers not only how the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights was established, but how the fight for equal rights continued after it was passed. This vivid ethnography presents the desperate need for solidarity between community members, workers, and employers for better working conditions and a sense of communal citizenship."—Tamara Mose, Professor of Sociology and author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community"One group doing such 'prefigurative' work is Domestic Workers United (DWU) in New York, as Alana Lee Glaser emphasizes in Solidarity & Care. Glaser—who does an exemplary job defining her terms throughout the book and thus offers a remarkably accessible study—uses an ethnographic method to show how the DWU established the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in New York State. Because she spent multiple years with the DWU, she is able to tell the longer story of a policy victory: how it relied on an 'emotional community' where workers shared stories and taught one another how to advocate for better treatment, starting with knowing their rights as employees."—Public Books"Anthropology professor Alana Lee Glaser has written this exemplary ethnography of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization and their tremendous efforts to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. All royalties go directly to the Domestic Workers United."—Ms.
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Solidarity Care
Book SynopsisThe members of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization—immigrant women of color employed as nannies, caregivers, and housekeepers in New York City—formed to fight for dignity and respect and to “bring meaningful change” to their work. Alana Lee Glaser examines the process of how these domestic workers organized against precarity, isolation, and exploitation to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. Solidarity & Careexamines the political mobilization of diverse care workers who joined together and supported one another through education, protests, lobbying, and storytelling. Domestic work activists used narrative and emotional appeals to build a coalition of religious communities, employers of domestic workers, labor union members, and politicians to first pass and then to enforce the new law. Through oral history interviews, as Trade Review“Solidarity & Care exemplifies the best of feminist research and scholarship. Emerging out of her long tenure volunteering with the worker-organizers of New York’s Domestic Workers United, Glaser’s organizational history centers the narratives of women workers around the unsustainable structure of the industry that motivated their legal campaigns and ultimately resulted in the passage of the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights. Their frank insights enliven the work of organizing by compelling readers to not only listen to, but also stand with them.”—Julietta Hua, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, and author of Trafficking Women’s Human Rights“Solidarity & Care gives texture to the complexities of activism among domestic workers in New York. Alana Lee Glaser has elaborated on what we know about Domestic Workers United by giving voice to domestic workers of various cultures and showing readers not only how the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights was established, but how the fight for equal rights continued after it was passed. This vivid ethnography presents the desperate need for solidarity between community members, workers, and employers for better working conditions and a sense of communal citizenship."—Tamara Mose, Professor of Sociology and author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community"One group doing such 'prefigurative' work is Domestic Workers United (DWU) in New York, as Alana Lee Glaser emphasizes in Solidarity & Care. Glaser—who does an exemplary job defining her terms throughout the book and thus offers a remarkably accessible study—uses an ethnographic method to show how the DWU established the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in New York State. Because she spent multiple years with the DWU, she is able to tell the longer story of a policy victory: how it relied on an 'emotional community' where workers shared stories and taught one another how to advocate for better treatment, starting with knowing their rights as employees."—Public Books"Anthropology professor Alana Lee Glaser has written this exemplary ethnography of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization and their tremendous efforts to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. All royalties go directly to the Domestic Workers United."—Ms.
£18.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Regarding Animals
Book SynopsisWinner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1997The first edition of Regarding Animals provided insight into the history and practice of how human beings construct animals, and how we construct ourselves and others in relation to them. Considerable progress in how society regards animals has occurred since that time. However, shelters continue to euthanize companion animals, extinction rates climb, and wildlife management pits human interests against those of animals.This revised and updated edition of Regarding Animals includes four new chapters, examining how relationships with pets help homeless people to construct positive personal identities; how adolescents who engage in or witness animal abuse understand their acts; how veterinary technicians experience both satisfaction and contamination in their jobs; and how animals are represented in mass mediaboth traditional editorial media and social media platforms. The authors illustrate hTrade Review"[The] authors broaden their approach to animal studies (sometimes called anthrozoology) by including updated references, in addition to adding chapters not present in their earlier book.... Among the topics discussed: how pet ownership contributes to positive self-identity; the experience of veterinary technicians; and how animal stories 'sell newspapers.'... [T]he editors have admirably extended its range of perspectives to include philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and law. The book sheds light on the perennial paradox of what makes it possible for humans to 'shower animals with affection' but also to maltreat or kill them.... This updated work cites an outstanding range of book and journal references, demonstrating the depth of this newly burgeoning field of study.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"With the incredible development of human-animal studies since 1996, a second edition [of this book] was not only needed but welcome. The overall approach of the authors is appealing due to its thorough and skillful application of symbolic interactionism and its associated methods of empirical investigation to help us understand other animals and our relationships with them, and, in that process, understand ourselves."—Journal of Animal Ethics
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Regarding Animals
Book SynopsisWinner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1997The first edition of Regarding Animals provided insight into the history and practice of how human beings construct animals, and how we construct ourselves and others in relation to them. Considerable progress in how society regards animals has occurred since that time. However, shelters continue to euthanize companion animals, extinction rates climb, and wildlife “management” pits human interests against those of animals.This revised and updated edition of Regarding Animals includes four new chapters, examining how relationships with pets help homeless people to construct positive personal identities; how adolescents who engage in or witness animal abuse understand their acts; how veterinary technicians experience both satisfaction and contamination in their jobs; and how animals are represented in mass media—both traditional editTrade Review"[The] authors broaden their approach to animal studies (sometimes called anthrozoology) by including updated references, in addition to adding chapters not present in their earlier book.... Among the topics discussed: how pet ownership contributes to positive self-identity; the experience of veterinary technicians; and how animal stories 'sell newspapers.'... [T]he editors have admirably extended its range of perspectives to include philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and law. The book sheds light on the perennial paradox of what makes it possible for humans to 'shower animals with affection' but also to maltreat or kill them.... This updated work cites an outstanding range of book and journal references, demonstrating the depth of this newly burgeoning field of study.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"With the incredible development of human-animal studies since 1996, a second edition [of this book] was not only needed but welcome. The overall approach of the authors is appealing due to its thorough and skillful application of symbolic interactionism and its associated methods of empirical investigation to help us understand other animals and our relationships with them, and, in that process, understand ourselves."—Journal of Animal Ethics
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Becoming Women
Book SynopsisBecoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search for identity in an image-oriented world. That search is told through the experiences of a group of women who came of age in the wake of second and third wave feminism, featuring voices from marginalized and misrepresented groups.Trade Review'The concepts are clearly defined, allowing the reader to keep pace with the wealth of ideas and subjects discussed... This work significantly demonstrates the autonomy and agency of Women in creating their own embodiment in a society that pushes for a strict standard of how women should look and act.' -- Ashley Crouch Journal of Religion and Culture vol 26:1-2:2016 'Finally we have sophisticated feminist disability work that moves beyond social construction of gender and disability... Highly recommended.' -- P.A. Murphy Choice Magazine vol 52:01:2014 'Becoming Women is a rare gem for disability studies that grounds complex theory within the personal narratives of women with disabilities... The book highlights the need for cultural change in viewing disabled bodies, particularly within medicalized caregiving settings.' -- Kaley Roosen Canadian Journal of Disability Studies vol 3:03:2014Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Searching for Identity in Image Culture 1 In the Shadow of Difference 2 In a Girl's Body 3 Invisible in Full View 4 The Student Body 5 Puberty as Sexual Spectacle 6 A Body That Looks, and Feels, Like a Woman 7 In the Mirror of Beauty Culture Conclusion: Out of the Shadows Appendix A: Participant Profiles Appendix B: Interview Guide and Advertising Flyer References Index
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University of Toronto Press Human Expeditions
Book SynopsisIn its 2007 obituary of Bruce Trigger (1937–2006), the Times of London referred to the Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist as “Canada’s leading prehistorian” and “one of the most influential archaeologists of his time.” Trained at Yale University and a faculty member at McGill University for more than forty years, he was best known for his History of Archaeological Thought, which the Times called “monumental.” Trigger inspired scholars all over the world through his questioning of assumptions and his engagement with social and political causes. Human Expeditions pays tribute to Trigger’s immense legacy by bringing together cutting edge work from internationally recognized and emerging researchers inspired by his example. Covering the length and breadth of Trigger’s wide-ranging interests – from Egyptology to the history of archaeological theory to North American aboriginal cultures &ndashTrade Review'Human Expeditions' heartfelt testimonials to the life and work of Bruce Trigger highlight the diversity of his research and its impact on scholarship. More importantly, these contributions reflect how Trigger as a colleague, teacher, and mentor reached out and touched so many other scholars.' -- Randall H. McGuire European Journal of Archaeology vol 17:04:2014Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Contributors Acknowledgements Bruce Trigger: Citizen Scholar - Stephen Chrisomalis (Wayne State University) and Andre Costopoulos (McGill University) 1. Possible Locations of the Land of Punt and Recent Archaeological and Textual Evidence from the Pharaonic Harbor at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt - Kathryn A. Bard (Boston University) and Rodolfo Fattovich (University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient) 2. The Impact of Blackness on the Formation of Classics - Martin Bernal (Cornell University) 3. "Slaves" and Slave-raiding on the Northern Plains and Rupert's Land - Alice Beck Kehoe (Marquette University) 4. Contextualising the Phenomenology of Landscape - John Bintliff (Leiden University) 5. The Independence of Ethnoarchaeology - Jerimy J. Cunningham (University of Lethbridge) 6. Experiments and Their Application to Lithic Archaeology: An Experimental Essay - Harry Lerner (University of Western Ontario) 7. The History of Archaeology as a Field: From Marginality to Recognition - Oscar Moro Abadia (Memorial University) 8. Cultural Continuity and Archaeological Practice in the Indian Context - Neha Gupta (McGill University) 9. A Citation Analysis of the Works Included in Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space and Form - Jennifer Bracewell (McGill University) 10. Bruce Trigger: "A Second International Marxist"? - Thomas C. Patterson (University of California, Riverside) 11. Bruce Trigger and the Philosophical Matrix of Scientific Research - Mario Bunge (McGill University) 12. What are the Bases of Domain Specificity? - Jerome Rousseau (McGill University) 13. Age, Equality, and Inequality: A New Model for Social Evolution - Csilla Dallos (St. Thomas University) 14. Figurative Activity in an Evolutionary Perspective - Leo S. Klejn (European University at Saint Petersburg) References Notes
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University of Toronto Press Looking Back Moving Forward
Book SynopsisHow do Ghanaian Pentecostals resolve the contradictions of their own faith while remaining faithful to their religious identity? Bringing together the anthropology of Christianity and the anthropology of ethics, Girish Daswani’s Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the compromises with the past that members of Ghana’s Church of Pentecost make in order to remain committed Christians.Even as church members embrace the break with the past that comes from being “born-again,” many are less concerned with the boundaries of Christian practice than with interpersonal questions – the continuity of suffering after conversion, the causes of unhealthy relationships, the changes brought about by migration – and how to deal with them. By paying ethnographic attention to the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the GhanaiaTrade Review'An excellent contribution to the study of migrant faith, this book also has much to say about spirituality and religious practice more broadly defined.' -- Philip Jenkins Christian Century 2 October 2016 'With its vivid ethnography, Looking Back, Moving Forward offers an intimate portrait of the everyday lives of Ghanaian Pentecostals, both in Ghana and in London.' -- Anna Strhan Marginalia Review of Books - January 2016Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Rupture and Continuity 2. Uncertainties and Dilemmas 3. Prophets and Prayer 4. Individuality and Dividuality 5. Kinship and Migration 6. African Christians in London 7. Citizens of Heaven Conclusion: The Future Will Fight Against You
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University of Toronto Press Articulating Dinosaurs
Book SynopsisAn original and illuminating study of science, culture, and museums, Articulating Dinosaurs is a remarkable look at not just how we visualize the prehistoric past, but how we make it palpable it our everyday lives.Trade Review'It's about time such inventiveness was studied so seriously!... Highly recommended. All levels/libraries' -- A.F. Roberts Choice Magazine vol 54:07:2017Table of Contents1 / Can there Really be an Anthropology of Dinosaurs? Part One / Animating the Tyrant Kingdoms 2 / Materializing Mesozoic Time/Space 3 / Land of the Fear, Home of the Bravado 4 / Animating Tyrannosaurus rex, Modelling the Perfect Race 5 / Politics/Natures: All the Way Down 6/ Vestiges of the Lost World: Recirculating the Tyrant Nexus 7 / Phantasmatics in the Systematics of Life Part Two / Articulating the Good Mother Lizard 8 / Articulating Maiasaura peeblesorum 9 / "A Real Sense of a Dynamic Process" 10 / A Really Big Jurassic Place 11 / Need to Say, Need to Know 12 / The Difference a Lab can Make 13 / A Perfect Time for Raising a Family 14 / Technotheatrical Natures 15 / Mirabile dictu! 16 / "Just Trying to Be a Scientist"
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MY - University of Toronto Press From New Peoples to New Nations Aspects of Metis
Book SynopsisFrom New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years.Trade Review'Ens and Sawchuck have written the most comprehensive and balanced view of M tis history to date, which will provide much-needed context for all who seek to better understand who the M tis are and the centuries of struggle they have faced... Highly recommended.' -- B.F.R. Edwards Choice Magazine vol 54:02:2016 'From New Nations to New Peoples offers an important update to M tis history and historiography... Ens and Sawchuck's novel approach to the topic allows them to convincingly posit that M tis ethno-genesis is perpetual and continues to the present day via "dialogical processes". -- milie Pigeon Labour/Le Travail vol 78:2016 'As a result of its diligent research and unique analytical perspective, From New Peoples to New Nations will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in historical and contemporary M tis identities.' -- Gabrielle Legault BC Studies winter 2016/17Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis Chapter One: Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity Chapter Two: Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Metissage in the 18th and 19th Centuries Part II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Metis Nation to 1930 Chapter Three: Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Metis Nation, 1811-1849 Chapter Four: Louis Riel and the Religion of Metis Nationalism, 1869-1885 Chapter Five: L'Union Nationale Metisse Saint-Joseph, A.H. Tremaudan, and the Reimagining of the Metis Nation, 1910-1930s Part III: Government Policy and Metis Status in the 19th Century Chapter Six: The Manitoba Act and the Creation of Metis Status Chapter Seven: Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Metis Scrip as Policy and Self Ascription Chapter Eight: Indian Treaty versus Metis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities Chapter Nine: The United States/Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Metis 1870-1900 Part IV: Economic Marginalization and the Metis Political Response 1896-1960s Chapter Ten: St. Paul des Metis Colony 1896-1909: Identity as Pathology Chapter Eleven: Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Metis Betterment Act of 1938 Chapter Twelve: The Liberals, the CCF, and the Metis of Saskatchewan, 1935-1964 Chapter Thirteen: Social Science and the Metis, 1950-1970 Part V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Metis Identities Chapter Fourteen: A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965-2000 Chapter Fifteen: Reformulated Identities, 1965-2013 Chapter Sixteen: The Metis of Ontario Chapter Seventeen: The Metis of the Northwest Territories Chapter Eighteen: Ethnic Symbolism: Re-interpreting and Recreating the Past Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Rocking the Boat
Book SynopsisSilvia Bermúdez’s fascinating study reveals how Spanish popular music, produced between 1980 and 2013, was the first cultural site to engage in critical debate about ethnicity and race in relation to the immigration patterns that have been changing the social landscape of Spanish society since the late 1970s. In Rocking the Boat, Bermúdez examines the lyrics of songs by both renowned and up and coming artists to illuminate how these new migrants challenged Spain’s notions of homogeneity, boundaries, accommodation, and incorporation. Bermúdez observes that immigration has had such a significant influence on Spanish society that the tattered boats, seen to this day on the shores of Spain and throughout the Mediterranean Sea, have become inverted emblems of the ships that were once symbols of great power and economic development. Rocking the Boat is a nuanced account of how populTrade Review"Silvia Bermúdez’s latest book Rocking the Boat offers a timely look into how musical narratives produced in Spain serve as cultural responses to legislative measures to secure entry into Europe, and portray the experiences of transnational migrants from the early 1980s to 2011… Bermúdez’s thorough close reading and clear prose make Rocking the Boat a good selection for undergraduate seminars and graduate course syllabi, and Hispanists and music specialists will also appreciate her multidisciplinary approach." -- Angela Acosta, The Ohio State University * EuropeNow *"The ambition of the monograph should be applauded." -- Stuart Green, University of Leeds * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Beyond its usefulness in the classroom this trailblazing monograph will undoubtedly appeal to scholars across the disciplines and lead to new modes of inquiry." -- Anna C. Tybinko, Duke University * Hispanófila *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Permissions Introduction 1. The Roaring 1980s: From La Movida to Racial Naming, Slavery, and Muslims in the Catalan Maresme 2. The 1990s, Take One: Fortress Europe, Racism, Apologies, and Contestation 3. The 1990s, Take Two: The Racial Profiling of Black and Maghrebi Migrant Subject 4. Twenty-First Century Musical Landscapes in Spain: From Ska and Musica mestiza to Singing, Chilling and Rapping against Racism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Paleopathology
Book SynopsisA Companion to Paleopathology offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of disease processes in the human skeleton.Trade Review“The book charts developing maturity reflecting the excellent work of the early pioneers but emphasising the bigger questions which research today facilitates such as how and why diseases develop, determining their frequency in the past and identifying how humans respond under different conditions and circumstances. Such questions have relevance for understanding diseases and their trajectories in contemporary populations.” (Chromatographia, 1 August 2013) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi List of Tables xvii Notes on Contributors xix Acknowledgements xxviii 1 Introduction: The Scope of Paleopathology 1 Anne L. Grauer Part I Approaches, Perspectives and Issues 15 2 Ethics and Issues in the Use of Human Skeletal Remains in Paleopathology 17 Patricia M. Lambert 3 Evolutionary Thought in Paleopathology and the Rise of the Biocultural Approach 34 Molly K. Zuckerman, Bethany L. Turner, and George J. Armelagos 4 The Bioarchaeological Approach to Paleopathology 58 Michele R. Buzon 5 The Molecular Biological Approach in Paleopathology 76 James H. Gosman 6 The Ecological Approach: Understanding Past Diet and the Relationship Between Diet and Disease 97 M. Anne Katzenberg 7 An Epidemiological Approach to Paleopathology 114 Jesper L. Boldsen and George R. Milner 8 The Promise, the Problems, and the Future of DNA Analysis in Paleopathology Studies 133 Mark Spigelman, Dong Hoon Shin, and Gila Kahila Bar Gal 9 The Analysis and Interpretation of Mummifi ed Remains 152 Michael R. Zimmerman 10 The Study of Parasites Through Time: Archaeoparasitology and Paleoparasitology 170 Katharina Dittmar, Adauto Araújo, and Karl J. Reinhard 11 More Than Just Mad Cows: Exploring Human–Animal Relationships Through Animal Paleopathology 191 Beth Upex and Keith Dobney 12 How Does The History of Paleopathology Predict its Future? 214 Mary Lucas Powell and Della Collins Cook Part II Methods and Techniques of Inquiry 225 13 A Knowledge of Bone at the Cellular (Histological) Level is Essential to Paleopathology 227 Bruce D. Ragsdale and Larisa M. Lehmer 14 Differential Diagnosis and Issues in Disease Classifi cation 250 Donald J. Ortner 15 Estimating Age and Sex from the Skeleton, a Paleopathological Perspective 268 George R. Milner and Jesper L. Boldsen 16 The Relationship Between Paleopathology and the Clinical Sciences 285 Simon Mays 17 Integrating Historical Sources with Paleopathology 310 Piers D. Mitchell 18 Fundamentals of Paleoimaging Techniques: Bridging the Gap Between Physicists and Paleopathologists 324 Johann Wanek, Christina Papageorgopoulou, and Frank Rühli 19 Data and Data Analysis Issues in Paleopathology 339 Ann L.W. Stodder Part III Diseases of the Past: Current Understandings and Controversies 357 20 Trauma 359 Margaret A. Judd and Rebecca Redfern 21 Developmental Disorders in the Skeleton 380 Ethne Barnes 22 Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases 401 Tomasz Kozłowski and Henryk W. Witas 23 Tumors: Problems of Differential Diagnosis in Paleopathology 420 Don Brothwell 24 Re-Emerging Infections: Developments in Bioarchaeological Contributions to Understanding Tuberculosis Today 434 Charlotte Roberts 25 Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) 458 Niels Lynnerup and Jesper Boldsen 26 Treponematosis: Past, Present, and Future 472 Della Collins Cook and Mary Lucas Powell 27 Nonspecifi c Infection in Paleopathology: Interpreting Periosteal Reactions 492 Darlene A. Weston 28 Joint Disease 513 Tony Waldron 29 Bioarchaeology's Holy Grail: The Reconstruction of Activity 531 Robert Jurmain, Francisca Alves Cardoso, Charlotte Henderson, and Sébastien Villotte 30 Oral Health in Past Populations: Context, Concepts and Controversies 553 John R. Lukacs Index 582
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Perspectives on Africa
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, GovernaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments x List of Maps xiv List of Figures xv List of Plates xvii List of Tables xviii Introduction: Africa in Perspective 1 Part I: Representation and Discourse 19 Introduction 21 1 Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination 31 Jean and John Comaroff 2 The Meaning of Our Work 44 Cheikh Anta Diop 3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48 Kwame Anthony Appiah 4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55 V. Y. Mudimbe Part II: From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61 Introduction 63 5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 6 The Illusion of Tribe 83 Aidan W. Southall 7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95 Leroy Vail Part III: Economics as a Cultural System 109 Introduction 111 8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123 Mary Douglas 9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139 Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930–83 151 Sharon Hutchinson Part IV: Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167 Introduction 169 11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175 Colin M. Turnbull 12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184 Roy Richard Grinker 13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200 Edwin N. Wilmsen 14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219 Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee Part V: Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237 Introduction 239 15 Conversations on Rain-making 245 David Livingstone 16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257 Peter Winch 18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270 Ralph A. Austen Part VI: Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283 Introduction 285 19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291 Marcel Griaule 20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302 Paulin J. Hountondji 21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314 Igor Kopytoff Part VII: Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323 Introduction 325 22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afi kpo Igbo 335 Simon Ottenberg 23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348 Olu Oguibe 24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354 Kelly M. Askew 25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372 Bayo Holsey Part VIII: Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379 Introduction 381 26 The Economics of Polygamy 389 Ester Boserup 27 “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399 Judith Van Allen 28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic 411 Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala Part IX: Europe in Africa: Colonization 423 Introduction 425 29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431 Frederick D. Lugard 30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439 Walter Rodney 31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450 Terence Ranger 32 Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary 462 Ngugi wa Thiong’o Part X: Nations and Nationalism 471 Introduction 473 33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477 Léopold Sédar Senghor 34 On National Culture 484 Frantz Fanon 35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498 Bruce J. Berman 36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d’Ivoire 514 Christopher B. Steiner Part XI: Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521 Introduction 523 37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531 Max Gluckman 38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543 Paul Richards 39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555 Christopher C. Taylor 40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569 Stephen Lubkemann Part XII: Development, Governance, and Globalization 583 Introduction 585 41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595 James Ferguson 42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609 Peter Uvin 43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616 Daniel Jordan Smith 44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629 Jean-François Bayart 45 “Govern Yourselves!” Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644 Harry G. West 46 Nuer-American Passages 660 Dianna Shandy Index 671
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Bioarchaeology
Book Synopsis* Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variation * Offers a wide array of research on past populations around the globe * Explains the central features of bioarchaeological research by key researchers and established experts around the world .Trade Review“Furthermore, despite the technical nature of many of the contributions, the overall concepts are generally presented in an organized and clear format that would not at all preclude their use in advanced undergraduate seminars.” (American Journal Physical Anthropology, 14 March 2014) "In the first instance the book is dedicated to scientists and students of Archaeology, biological Anthropology, and Palaeopathology as well as to other scientists interested in social and biological variations of man by permanent changes of the environment." (HOMO Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 2011) Social Bioarchaeology makes an excellent reference for this subfield, and stresses the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach at a time perhaps when anthropology needs it most." (Social Bioarchaeology, 12 April 2011)Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. Notes on Contributors. Series Editors' Preface. 1 Building a Social Bioarchaeology (Sabrina C. Agarwal and Bonnie A. Glencross). Part I Materials and Meaning: The Nature of Skeletal Samples. 2 The Origins of Biocultural Dimensions in Bioarchaeology (Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos). 3 Partnerships, Pitfalls, and Ethical Concerns in International Bioarchaeology (Bethany L. Turner and Valerie A. Andrushko). 4 The Formation of Mortuary Deposits: Implications for Understanding Mortuary Behavior of Past Populations (Estella Weiss-Krejci). 5 Representativeness and Bias in Archaeological Skeletal Samples (Mary Jackes). Part II Social Identity: Bioarchaeology of Sex, Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability. 6 Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeological Research: Theory, Method, and Interpretation (Sandra E. Hollimon). 7 Population Migration, Variation, and Identity: An Islamic Population in Iberia (Sonia Zakrzewski). 8 Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York: A Bioarchaeological Study of the New York African Burial Ground (Autumn R. Barrett and Michael L. Blakey). 9 The Bioarchaeology of Leprosy and Tuberculosis: A Comparative Study of Perceptions, Stigma, Diagnosis, and Treatment (Charlotte Roberts). Part III Growth and Aging: The Life Course of Health and Disease. 10 Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of Age (Joanna Sofaer). 11 It is Not Carved in Bone: Development and Plasticity of the Aged Skeleton (Sabrina C. Agarwal and Patrick Beauchesne). 12 The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Children and Childhood (Siân E. Halcrow and Nancy Tayles). 13 Moving from the Canary in the Coalmine: Modeling Childhood in Bahrain (Judith Littleton). 14 Skeletal Injury Across the Life Course: Towards Understanding Social Agency (Bonnie A. Glencross). 15 Diet and Dental Health through the Life Course in Roman Italy (Tracy L. Prowse). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Anthropology off the Shelf
Book SynopsisIn Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books. First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the discipline follow the tradition of the writers on writing genre to reflect on all aspects of the writing process Contributors are high-profile in anthropology and many have a strong presence outside the field, in popular culture Unique in its format: short essays, revealing and straightforward in content and writing style Trade Review“The essays are both provocative and provoking, compelling and edgy. Whether this thrust in anthropology or in academia in general will continue, books like this are required to keep the intellectual energy within the academy vital and engaged. Indispensible reading across disciplines. Summing Up: Essential.” (CHOICE, October 2009) "This wonderful collection of essays explores an essential question: how do we tell an untold story? The answers will inspire any anthropologist-writer with the nerve to take a shot." –David Kushner, author of Levittown and Masters of Doom "This book should be on many of our must read lists! Its provocative contents should inspire anthropologists and other social scientists to think more courageously about what it can mean—both for us and our potentially expanded and diversified audiences—if more of us “come out” asserting identities as writers. This collection makes a compelling argument that anthropological writing needn't be confined to conventional "academese," which seriously limits our public reach and social impact." –Faye V. Harrison, Professor of Anthropology and Director of African American Studies, University of Florida, Author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age "Turning research into stories that matter to all of us is an art scholars too rarely aspire to, let alone master. The anthropologists in this collection tell the tale of that challenge with inspiring passion, showing in the telling what gifted writers they have become." –Trevor Brown, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University Bloomington "It's inspiring to see behind the curtain of anthropologists, some of the world's most influential storytellers, read of their insecurities, passion, and a sense of mission one essayist says is the human responsibility "to creatively offer something to the world."" –Keith Woods, Dean, The Poynter InstituteTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Notes on Contributors. Foreword (Cheryl Mwaria). 1. Introduction: The Writer in the Anthropologist (Maria D. Vesperi and Alisse Waterston). Part I: Conceptions. 2. Speaking Truth to Power with Books (Howard Zinn). 3. Remember When Writing Was Fun? Why Academics Should Go On a Low Syllable, Active Voice Diet (Karen Brodkin). 4. The Bard (Carolyn Nordstrom). 5. Saggin' and Braggin' (Lee D. Baker). 6. Stories for Readers: A Few Observations from Outside the Academy (Andrew Barnes). Part II: Creations. 7. Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Rage (Alisse Waterston). 8. Write‑ous Indignation: Black Girls, Dilemmas of Cultural Domination and the Struggle to Speak the Skin We Are In (Signithia Fordham). 9. Writing Truth to Power: Racism as Statecraft (Arthur K. Spears). 10. Remembering Octavia (Sharon Ball). 11. Believing in Anthropology as Literature (Ruth Behar). Part III: Receptions. 12. Walking in Zora's Shoes or "Seek[ing] Out de Inside Meanin' of Words": The Intersections of Anthropology, Ethnography, Identity, and Writing (Irma McClaurin). 13. Off the Shelf and Into Oblivion? (Catherine Kingfisher). 14. "Don't Use Your Data as a Pillow" (S. Eben Kirksey). 15. The Trope of the Pith Helmet: America's Anthropology, Anthropology's America (Micaela di Leonardo). 16. The Book that Wrote Me (Roger Sanjek). 17. Fighting Words (Paul Farmer). 18. Taking Chances (Maria D. Vesperi). Index.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Indians of North Carolina Letter from the
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The University of North Carolina Press Excavating the Lost Colony Mystery
Book SynopsisThe fate of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1587 Lost Colony' on Roanoke Island has been one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of European settlement in North America. While some of the Lost Colony's mysteries may never be solved, readers will enjoy this accessible account of efforts to reconstruct events more than four centuries ago.
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University of Texas Press Workers from the North
Book Synopsis International migration between countries in Latin America became increasingly important during the twentieth century, but for a long time it was the subject of only limited research. Scott Whiteford sets the Argentina-Bolivia experience in historical perspective by examining the macrolevel factors that influenced social change in both countries and brought streams of migration into Argentina. Seasonal labor, the expansion of capitalist agriculture, international migration, and urbanization are central topics in this in-depth study of Bolivian migrants in Northwest Argentina. Whiteford’s vivid portrayal of the lives and working conditions of the migrants is based on two years of research during which he lived with the workers on a sugar plantation and, after the harvest, accompanied them to other farms and to the city of Salta in their search for more work. He traces the development of plantation agriculture in Northwest Argentina and the processes by which the plantaTable of Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. Historical Context of Bolivian Migration to Argentina 3. Sugar Production and Seasonal Labor: Labor-Control Mechanisms 4. Recruiters, Canecutters, and the Work Camp 5. Working in the Fields, the Union, and Postharvest Planning 6. The Multiple Faces of the Labor Reserve 7. Urbanization and Seasonal Migration 8. The Search for Security 9. Different Perspectives of the City 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Maya Bonesetters
Book SynopsisThe first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.Trade Review[A] well-written, well-researched ethnograpy of bonesetting among Guatemalan Maya…Recommended. * CHOICE *[Maya Bonesetters] is an important document of an often overlooked Indigenous healing practice that will be of interest to scholars and students of medical anthropology, Mesoamerica, and anyone with an interest in contemporary health care challenges in Latin America. * Journal of Anthropological Research *[Maya Bonesetters] adds rich detail to our understanding of the accommodations that Indigenous healers often make to the challenge of biomedicine, how they will accept and integrate into their practice new ideas, new terminology, new medicines, and even new technology...This is a strong work presenting ideas about the contemporary context of Indigenous medicine that approaches the topic from the angle of empiricism and pragmatism. As a contribution to the anthropology of healing it is invaluable. Scholars of the Maya will find great value here as Hinojosa takes the reader into the villages and therapeutic spaces of pain and suffering that are relatively undocumented. * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *Maya Bonesetters should appeal to anthropologists and those in the disciplines of natural medicine, indigenous healers like curanderas, and individuals with traditional healing in their ancestral memories...This is a fascinating book for use by anthropologists focused on the Americas, and is a resource for those in other disciplines, sociology, psychology, with an interest in natural healing and its connection to social and mental health...Without a doubt, this is a highly absorbing book. * Journal of Global South Studies *The most important contribution of this book is its focus on a healing tradition that has not received the academic attention it deserves...In his convincing discussion of the injustice of this omission, Hinojosa restores the bonesetters to a valued position in Mesoamerican ethnology and medical anthropology in general...this study represents an advance in recognition of indigenous healing knowledge and techniques. As indigenous knowledge is increasingly valued, the bonesetters and their skills in diagnosing injuries, massaging muscles and restoring movement will be more widely accepted, not only in Guatemala but around the world. This book is more than a first approximation to this healing tradition and the changes it is facing in its coexistence with biomedicine; it is also a tribute to this important area of humanity’s knowledge. * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Bonesetting over Time Chapter 2. Empirical Forms of Maya Bonesetting Chapter 3. Sacred Forms of Maya Bonesetting Chapter 4. Challenges and Changes in the Injury Landscape Conclusion Appendix. Traditional Medicine and Bonesetting: Integration and Lessons Notes References Index
£66.60
University of Texas Press Maya Bonesetters
Book SynopsisThe first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.Trade Review[A] well-written, well-researched ethnograpy of bonesetting among Guatemalan Maya…Recommended. * CHOICE *[Maya Bonesetters] is an important document of an often overlooked Indigenous healing practice that will be of interest to scholars and students of medical anthropology, Mesoamerica, and anyone with an interest in contemporary health care challenges in Latin America. * Journal of Anthropological Research *[Maya Bonesetters] adds rich detail to our understanding of the accommodations that Indigenous healers often make to the challenge of biomedicine, how they will accept and integrate into their practice new ideas, new terminology, new medicines, and even new technology...This is a strong work presenting ideas about the contemporary context of Indigenous medicine that approaches the topic from the angle of empiricism and pragmatism. As a contribution to the anthropology of healing it is invaluable. Scholars of the Maya will find great value here as Hinojosa takes the reader into the villages and therapeutic spaces of pain and suffering that are relatively undocumented. * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *Maya Bonesetters should appeal to anthropologists and those in the disciplines of natural medicine, indigenous healers like curanderas, and individuals with traditional healing in their ancestral memories...This is a fascinating book for use by anthropologists focused on the Americas, and is a resource for those in other disciplines, sociology, psychology, with an interest in natural healing and its connection to social and mental health...Without a doubt, this is a highly absorbing book. * Journal of Global South Studies *The most important contribution of this book is its focus on a healing tradition that has not received the academic attention it deserves...In his convincing discussion of the injustice of this omission, Hinojosa restores the bonesetters to a valued position in Mesoamerican ethnology and medical anthropology in general...this study represents an advance in recognition of indigenous healing knowledge and techniques. As indigenous knowledge is increasingly valued, the bonesetters and their skills in diagnosing injuries, massaging muscles and restoring movement will be more widely accepted, not only in Guatemala but around the world. This book is more than a first approximation to this healing tradition and the changes it is facing in its coexistence with biomedicine; it is also a tribute to this important area of humanity’s knowledge. * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Bonesetting over Time Chapter 2. Empirical Forms of Maya Bonesetting Chapter 3. Sacred Forms of Maya Bonesetting Chapter 4. Challenges and Changes in the Injury Landscape Conclusion Appendix. Traditional Medicine and Bonesetting: Integration and Lessons Notes References Index
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Duke University Press Rock Water Life
Book SynopsisLesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa's history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.Trade Review“In Rock | Water | Life, Lesley Green identifies questions and materials where new ways of Earth governance and African well-being are acutely at stake: wounded contemporary soils, which bind multispecies human and nonhuman worlds; cement, one the planet's biggest contributors to global warming; carbon, which both joins and threatens Gaian critters and their ecologies and economies; and oil and uranium. Each materiality is rooted in geophysical complexities and in sub-Saharan African thought and cosmologies. Green's book is important to anyone who cares about the centrality of African environmental matters in their situated complexity. Green searches powerfully for decolonizing ways to live on a damaged planet. Haunted by ongoing colonial practices, this necessary book is also full of openings for what can and must still be crafted together, differently.” -- Donna J. Haraway“So many writings on the ecological crisis remain grounded in the opposition between ‘the pragmatic cold analytical eye’ and ‘the romantic warm emotional heart,’ unaware that this binary is at the very heart of the crisis they are analyzing. This book is driven by a fresh participatory ethics that leaves this binary behind to introduce a caring relation that is analytically sharp and an affective engagement that is systematically incisive.” -- Ghassan Hage, author of * Is Racism an Environmental Threat? *"A thoughtful text on the intersections of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa. . . . [Green] provides a complex, nuanced contribution to the fields of environmental and decolonial studies. Highly recommended. Graduate students and faculty. General readers." -- J. Werner * Choice *“Lesley Green’s fascinating, timely, and lucidly argued Rock |Water |Life…is urgently needed and should be required reading for all environmental managers in South Africa and beyond.” -- Jules Skotnes-Brown * Journal of Southern African Studies *"Lesley Green provides a richly layered response ot the growing outrage in South Africa against inherited colonial regimes of knowledge and its socioecological ravages. The book is a passionate manifesto of how decolonising one's claims to supreme knowledge is profoundly tied to one's material politics, indeed, how one relates to rock, water, and life." -- Chandana Anusha * Contributions to Indian Sociology *“Poetic and complex, Rock/Water/Life evidences a love of South Africa’s environments and peoples. . . . As much political manifesto as scholarship, it calls upon us to rethink the questions we ask and create a more just ecopolitical system.” -- Cathy Skidmore-Hess * Journal of Global South Studies *“Rock | Water | Life is a foray into the past armed with anti-colonial theorists and science and technology studies scholars as her way finders. . . . Green urgently searches for the tools that would allow for a new relationship with nature.” -- Emily Brownell * African Studies Review *“The appearance of Rock | Water | Life is to be welcomed as South Africa confronts environmental and other challenges on an unprecedented scale.” -- Jane Carruthers * Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa *“Lesley Green’s Rock | Water | Life is a remarkable text, and one that can be read in many ways. It is at once a deeply personal reflection on a planet in crisis, and a scholarly call to new ways of thinking. . . . Green herself is so conscious of what it at stake.” -- Jess Auerbach * Postcolonial Studies *“[Rock | Water | Life] makes utterly clear the crises we face (and already experience), if we do not undertake to step out of the mental prisons and all too real gulags bequeathed to us by modernity and colonialism. It is a compelling read, but the compulsion is not simply rhetorical just as the location is not simply South Africa—it is profoundly ethical wherever we are settled.” -- Graham Ward * South African Journal of Science *"Green proposes an integrative way forward to deal with the misapplication of science. The book’s refreshing perspective includes drawing on important African postcolonial thinkers to encourage imaginative approaches to toxic landscapes. . . . The book includes important work on naming the racial divide in South African ecological issues, and the traumatic histories that led to this situation." -- Ruth Sacks * H-SAfrica, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword. Isabelle Stengers xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Different Questions, Different Answers 1 Part I | Pasts Present 23 1 | Rock. Cape Town's Natures: ||Hu-!gais, Heerengracht, Hoerikwaggo™ 25 2 | Water. Fracking the Karoo: /Kə'ru/kə-ROO; from a Khoikhoi Word, Possibly Garo—"Desert" 60 Part II | Present Futures 77 3 | Life. #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Namaqualand Plant Medicine: On Asking Cosmopolitical Qeustions 81 4 | Rock. "Resistance Is Fertile!": On Being Sons and Daughters of Soil 106 Part III | Futures Imperfect 133 5 | Life. What Is It to Be a Baboon When "Baboon!" Is a National Insult? 138 6 | Water. Ocean Regime Shift 171 Coda. Composing Ecopolitics 201 Notes 233 Bibliography 269 Index 291
£25.19
New York University Press Gulen
Book SynopsisThe Hizmet (Service) Movement of Fethullah Gulen is Turkey's most influential Islamic identity community. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey and the US, the author examines the Gulen Movement's role in Turkey's recent rise, as well as its strategic relationship with Turkey's Justice and Development Party-led government.Trade 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
£22.79
New York University Press Islam Is a Foreign Country
Book SynopsisInvestigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age.Trade ReviewA moving and incisive account of Muslim immigrant experiences in the United States.It reveals a dimension of American life seldom genuinely understood.No one will think of American Islam in the same way after reading this book. -- Saba Mahmood,author of Politics of PietyA powerful, lyrical, and boldly rendered book, bringing to life the journey of knowledge seekers. Grewal decenters, blurs, and puts back together a number of scholarly fields to tell a story of Muslims traveling the world for an Islamic education. This profound and compelling ethnography shows that amidst all of the talk of radicalism and terrorism, there is a far more human endeavor herethe search for ethical truths and a better world, no matter how messy and contradictory. -- Junaid Rana,author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian DiasporaEnergetic and insightful, critical as well as empathetic, Grewal provides a rich map of the discursive counterpoints between different geographies of imagination as they are mapped and remapped in the lives and bodies of men and women who translate Islam in their lived practices today. A must read for anyone wishing to understand how religious knowledge in Islam is manufactured in a readable as well as enjoyable manner. -- Ebrahim Moosa,Professor of Religion & Islamic Studies, Duke UniversityGrewal provides readers with useful information about the media, educational organizations, and institutions of political and moral authority. * CHOICE *[] Grewals innovative focus on student travelers makes for a fascinating andinsightful look at U.S. Muslims today. The distinctive subject matter and accessiblewriting style will attract readers outside anthropology and beyond academia, andthrough considering debates about authority and authenticity in the search for Islamicknowledge, Grewal engages with an area of great interest in the anthropology of Islam. * American Anthropologist *Grewal's book is beautifully written, with textured ethnographic vignettes and a clear theoretical analysis. * American Journal of Islamic Social Science *This book provides a window into Muslim American debates around religious authority and identity. Its vast subject matter, timeliness, and fluidity are sure to leave readers wanting more; not in the sense of having been deprived, but out of a desire to explore the expansive subject that Grewal has opened up for us.This book is a valuable contribution to the study of Muslim Americans and will be of great interest to scholars of Islam and Americanists alike. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *A genuinely fascinating and thought-provoking book. * Times Literary Supplement *[T]his book offers some original social history of the Muslim community in America and particularly the unique role of the African-American influence of shaping American Islam. [Grewal]skillfully weaves together her ethnographic accounts, staying loyal to her anthropological training but pulling in American history, Middle Eastern Studies, classical Islamic texts, as well as considerations of race, ethnicity, and gender. * Sociology of Islam *Zareena GrewalsIslam Is a Foreign Countryoffers a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship on American Islam by illuminating the motivations and pedagogies of American Muslims who seek Islamic knowledge overseas in Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. * Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Unmapping the Muslim World Part I: The Roots and Routes of Islam in America 1 Islam Is a Foreign Country: Mapping the Global Crisis of Authority 2 Islamic Utopias, American Dystopia: Muslim Moral Geographies after the Great Migration 3 Imaginary Homelands, American Dreams: Sunni Moral Geographies after 1965 Part II: Tradition Bound 4 Retrieving Tradition: Pedagogical Forms and Secular Reforms 5 Choosing Tradition: Women Student-Travelers between Resistance and Submission 6 Transmitting Tradition: The Constraints of Crisis 7 Muslim Reformers and the American Media: The Exceptional Umma and Its Emergent Moral Geography Epilogue: American Muslims and the Place of Dissent Notes IndexAbout the Author
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New York University Press In Darfur
Book SynopsisA merchant's remarkable travel account of an African kingdomMu?ammad al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tunisi set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He followed the Forty Days Road, was reunited with his father, and eventually took over the management of the considerable estates granted to his father by the sultan of Darfur.In Darfur is al-Tunisi's remarkable account of his ten-year sojourn in this independent state, featuring descriptions of the geography of the region, the customs of Darfur's petty kings, court life and the clothing of its rulers, marriage customs, eunuchs, illnesses, food, hunting, animals, currencies, plants, magic, divination, and dances. In Darfur combines literature, history, ethnography, linguistics, and travel aTrade ReviewIn Darfur offers an interesting glimpse of a (still) neglected part of Africa, and a surprising wealth of information. * The Complete Review *As edited, translated, and presented by Davies, al-Tūnisī’s account is not only a rich primary source for the early nineteenth-century history of Darfur but also a literary gem marking Egypt’s dynamic and innovative intellectual history at mid-century. * Journal of the American Oriental Society *The translation is most readable and fluent, yet it also follows the text closely. The arrangement of Arabic and English side by side makes it extremely valuable for research, particularly for the historian, the Arabist, and for teaching purposes on the whole. If a reader with knowledge of Arabic is interested, s/he is able to consult the Arabic with ease ... This is the first published and complete English translation. * African Studies Review *
£12.99
New York University Press Inequalities of Aging
Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical AnthropologyThe troubling dynamic of the American home care industry where increased independence for the elderly conflicts with the well being of caregivers Paid home care is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States, and millions of Americans rely on these workers to help them remain at home as they grow older. However, the industry is rife with contradictions. The United States spends a fortune on medical care, yet devotes comparatively few resources on improving wages, thus placing home care providers in the ranks of the working poor. As a result, the work that enables some older Americans to live independently generates profound social inequalities. Inequalities of Aging explores the ways in which these inequalities play out on the ground as workers, who are disproportionately women of color and immigrants, earn poverty-level wages and oftenTrade ReviewThis book is a gripping, vivid, thought-provoking ethnographic exploration of home care providers and the older adults they serve. Buch (Univ. of Iowa) is at her best when describing and illustrating the incompatibility of two equally valuable social goals: providing affordable home care to aging people who want desperately to live independently in their own communities and ensuring a sufficient standard of living and economic independence for workers (most of whom are immigrants and women of color) providing that care. This rich sociological analysis pays careful attention to broad themes of race and gender inequality and advances the novel concept of generative labor, which refers to everyday practices through which individuals make and sustain life and at the same time generate and reproduce systematic, intersecting forms of structural inequality … This engaging, theoretically sophisticated read will enrich courses on social inequalities, aging, labor, ethnographic methods, and gender. * Choice *Inequalities of Aging is a brilliantly told story of precarious and unequal lives. Page by page we witness the haunting moral engagements of those bound together, care workers and older adults, and the pretense of independence that care workers bestow on those they care for. This inspired ethnography captures, close up, the mysterious nature of human relationships and places them in the context of tenacious social policies that devalue and underpay the care workforce. -- Carol Stack, author of Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South and All Our KinBrilliant, illuminating, and wrenching, Buchs extraordinary ethnography offers an intimate account of how the fate of older adults and the working poor who care for them are bound together, in a society that devalues both aging and care and is obsessed with independence. Penetrating and provocative, Inequalities of Aging makes a major contribution to the anthropology and sociology of aging, care work, and social inequality. -- Sarah Lamb, author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes and Successful Aging as a Contemporary ObsessionAcompelling examination of homecare that looks at both workers and elders experiences. Homecare is a growing industry with profound impacts on the lives of older people and low income workers. This accessible ethnographic account shows how the cultural commitment to independence for older adults generates dependency and inequality in the lives of homecare workers. I look forward to teaching this book and talking about the issues it raises with my students. -- Jessica Mulligan, Providence CollegeElana Buch provides an outstanding and timely critical examination of the sociopolitical realities of aging and care in the US. By engaging similarly with the intricacies of the lives of older adults, paid home care workers, and home care agencies in Chicago, Buch sheds new light on care exchanges in elderly home care. * Anthropology & Aging *Elana Buch’s critical and thoughtful analysis of the American home care system highlights the ways in which older adults try to simultaneously maintain their independent identities and generate new relations with the home care workers who assist them with assigned tasks. * Somatosphere *Buch does an excellent job in immersing the reader in the lived experiences of the workers and their clients, and the relations that develop through the course of their daily care. * Ageing & Society *The book provides a vivid portrait of the intimate but fraught and often precarious relationships that constitute paid home care in the United States, and it makes important contributions to advancing the state of several discussions in our field: about the meaning and experience of sickness and aging; about the political-economic and cultural context of care practices and access to care; and about the critical analysis of health-related policies. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
£23.74
New York University Press Clarity Cut and Culture
Book SynopsisDraws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De Beers campaign that promised romance, status, and glamour to anyone who bought a diamond to show that this thematic pool is just one resource among many that diamond owners draw upon to engage with their own stones.Trade ReviewWere this book simply a portrayal of the diamond business, it would have been outstanding. It is far more. It is an innovative study of a commodity that must be as unique as the relationship it celebrates and memorializes. It challenges many of the basic assumptions of marketing by describing the consumers paradoxical responses to its strategies. A truly remarkable book. -- Vincent Crapanzano,Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology, CUNY Graduate CenterA fascinating study of the absolutely powerful but ambiguous symbolism attached to diamonds: value, romanticism, permanence, devotion, and shining are part of the instantly recognized language for diamonds, but it is an ambiguous and evocative vocabulary. The ethnographic stories in Falls account emphasize that we have become comfortable with consuming these ambiguous signs. Even people disinterested in diamonds seem persistently curious about and perhaps even silently obedient to a rock cast as a symbol of love, heritage, and permanence. -- Paul R. Mullins,Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisFalls delivers an intriguing and insightful foray into multiple ways in which diamonds acquire and deploy deep, cultural meaning and thus maintain their economic heft. Through social and semiotic analyses of this most sought after gem, Clarity, Cut, and Culture illustrates the interlacing practices and multifaceted interpretations that play out in the arenas of commerce, romance, politics and status. -- Daniel Thomas Cook,author of The Commodification of ChildhoodFall's research indicates the breadth and depth of the penetration of diamonds among American consumers. * Public Books *[The] book tells the story of the remarkable rise of the modern diamond industry, which proceeded via a series of gold-rush-like crazes that began in India, peaking there in the late 1600s before shifting to Brazil. . . . As the titleClarity, Cut, and Culturesuggests, Ms. Falls book spends considerable time on the production and marketing of finished stones, taking readers inside Manhattans famous Diamond Row, on 47thStreet, for example. There, in tightly policed cutting schools, students work in blue-carpeted rooms under special fluorescent lights practicing their craft that is, after providing a credit card to guarantee payment for the loss of any stone they handle. * Wall Street Journal *In Clarity, Cut, and Culture, Susan Falls tackles a critical question about modernity andmeaning: Why, when marketers spend billions of dollars cloaking their products withpositive meanings, do people buy them even when they say they are not influenced bywhat the marketer is trying to do? * American Anthropologist *In this excellent, new contribution to research on the diamond industry, consumer behavior, and the social lives of things, Susan Falls addresses the & many meanings of diamonds While Clarity, Cut, and Culture certainly addresses what diamonds mean to various consumers, its most important contributions lie in its detailed accounting of how people make things like diamonds meaningful. * Anthropological Quarterly *SCAD anthropology professor Dr. Susan Falls has spent the past decade researching these most precious stones and parsing their value. But along with exploring their economic and anecdotal worth in her book,Clarity, Cut and Culture,Falls also examines diamonds through the lens of semiotics, the study of meaning. * Connect Savannah *A prime and important message is how this highly symbolic rock can stand for, contain, and reference diverse, sometimes conflicting, messages. Falls devotes chapters to the history and manufacture of diamonds and the levels of meanings diamonds signify about emotions, love, continuity, relationship, status, and prestige. An absorbing chapter concerns how traditional meanings of diamonds have been riffed on and subverted in bling. Chapters & From Rock to Gem and & Valuing Diamonds stand out as accessible and strong. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *[]Clarity, Cut, and Cultureis a helpful and detailed study of & the many meanings of diamonds in the society. It could be useful to scholars of culture studies, American studies, popular culture studies, sociology, and related disciplines, and those interested in the symbolic influence of diamonds and their historical use and meanings. * Journal of Popular Culture *[Falls] interviews experts and ordinary people about their relationships to diamonds, and finds a perfect case of the contradictory and random nature of our preferences. Women who consider expensive rings signs of being 'owned'nevertheless covet them. Men who think mining diamonds in Africa causes unconscionable misery nevertheless want to give them to women. Pretty much everyone seems to understand that the industry is corrupt and that diamonds prices are unrelated to their supposed scarcity, yet they still cherish the stones as heirlooms and tokens of love. * Pacific Standard *Falls discusses how the industry should be talking about its product, why the hip-hop community embraced bling, and why even people who have mixed feelings about diamonds will buy them anyway. * JCK Magazine *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface: The Emptiness of Diamond Acknowledgments Introduction: Little Rocks 1. From Rock to Gem 2. Valuing Diamonds 3. A Diamond Is Forever 4. Diamonds and Emotions 5. Diamonds and Bling 6. Diamonds and Performance Conclusion: The Fullness of Diamonds Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£52.70
New York University Press Inequalities of Aging
Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical AnthropologyThe troubling dynamic of the American home care industry where increased independence for the elderly conflicts with the well being of caregivers Paid home care is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States, and millions of Americans rely on these workers to help them remain at home as they grow older. However, the industry is rife with contradictions. The United States spends a fortune on medical care, yet devotes comparatively few resources on improving wages, thus placing home care providers in the ranks of the working poor. As a result, the work that enables some older Americans to live independently generates profound social inequalities. Inequalities of Aging explores the ways in which these inequalities play out on the ground as workers, who are disproportionately women of color and immigrants, earn poverty-level wages and oftenTrade ReviewThis book is a gripping, vivid, thought-provoking ethnographic exploration of home care providers and the older adults they serve. Buch (Univ. of Iowa) is at her best when describing and illustrating the incompatibility of two equally valuable social goals: providing affordable home care to aging people who want desperately to live independently in their own communities and ensuring a sufficient standard of living and economic independence for workers (most of whom are immigrants and women of color) providing that care. This rich sociological analysis pays careful attention to broad themes of race and gender inequality and advances the novel concept of generative labor, which refers to everyday practices through which individuals make and sustain life and at the same time generate and reproduce systematic, intersecting forms of structural inequality … This engaging, theoretically sophisticated read will enrich courses on social inequalities, aging, labor, ethnographic methods, and gender. * Choice *Inequalities of Aging is a brilliantly told story of precarious and unequal lives. Page by page we witness the haunting moral engagements of those bound together, care workers and older adults, and the pretense of independence that care workers bestow on those they care for. This inspired ethnography captures, close up, the mysterious nature of human relationships and places them in the context of tenacious social policies that devalue and underpay the care workforce. -- Carol Stack, author of Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South and All Our KinBrilliant, illuminating, and wrenching, Buchs extraordinary ethnography offers an intimate account of how the fate of older adults and the working poor who care for them are bound together, in a society that devalues both aging and care and is obsessed with independence. Penetrating and provocative, Inequalities of Aging makes a major contribution to the anthropology and sociology of aging, care work, and social inequality. -- Sarah Lamb, author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes and Successful Aging as a Contemporary ObsessionAcompelling examination of homecare that looks at both workers and elders experiences. Homecare is a growing industry with profound impacts on the lives of older people and low income workers. This accessible ethnographic account shows how the cultural commitment to independence for older adults generates dependency and inequality in the lives of homecare workers. I look forward to teaching this book and talking about the issues it raises with my students. -- Jessica Mulligan, Providence CollegeElana Buch provides an outstanding and timely critical examination of the sociopolitical realities of aging and care in the US. By engaging similarly with the intricacies of the lives of older adults, paid home care workers, and home care agencies in Chicago, Buch sheds new light on care exchanges in elderly home care. * Anthropology & Aging *Elana Buch’s critical and thoughtful analysis of the American home care system highlights the ways in which older adults try to simultaneously maintain their independent identities and generate new relations with the home care workers who assist them with assigned tasks. * Somatosphere *Buch does an excellent job in immersing the reader in the lived experiences of the workers and their clients, and the relations that develop through the course of their daily care. * Ageing & Society *The book provides a vivid portrait of the intimate but fraught and often precarious relationships that constitute paid home care in the United States, and it makes important contributions to advancing the state of several discussions in our field: about the meaning and experience of sickness and aging; about the political-economic and cultural context of care practices and access to care; and about the critical analysis of health-related policies. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
£66.60
New York University Press The Movement for Reproductive Justice
Book Synopsis2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineShows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence changePatricia Zavella experienced firsthand the trials and judgments imposed on a working professional mother of color: her own commitment to academia was questioned during her pregnancy, as she was shamed for having children too young. And when she finally achieved her professorship, she felt out of place as one of the few female faculty members with children. These experiences sparked Zavella's interest in the movement for reproductive justice. In this book, she draws on five years of ethnographic research to explore collaborations among women of color engaged in reproductive justice activism. While there are numerous organizations focused on reproductive justice, most are racially specific, such as the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and Black Women for Wellness. Yet Trade ReviewThoroughly researched and clearly organized, the book provides an ethnographic view of how women of color engage in social activism through reproductive justice organizations ... A well-appreciated addition to the literature on RJ. * Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine *Intersectionality is a popular concept, but this terrific study of the practical uses of an intersectional approach to organizing for social change goes far beyond the usual invocations of the term, actually illuminating its strengths and challenges ... Exhaustively researched, beautifully detailed, and theoretically powerful. * Choice *After an illustrious career, Zavella has written what reads like a magnum opus in this social movement ethnography. The Movement for Reproductive Justice captures the struggles of women of color for the human right of health care with dignity and full bodily autonomy. With this exemplary piece of feminist activist research, Zavella makes a monumental contribution to the study of social movements led by women of color. * Mobilization *
£22.49
New York University Press The Shaming State
Book SynopsisWINNER, 2024 Jock Young Criminological Imagination Book Award, given by the Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice of American Society of CriminologyA riveting indictment of a government that fails to help citizens in need of aid, protection, andhumanityThe Shaming State argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinquished its duties of care toward its citizens. Sara Salman describes a government that withholds care in times of need and instead shames the very citizens it claims to serve, both poor and middle class. She argues that the state does so by emphasizing personal responsibility, thus tacitly blaming the needy for relying on state programs. This blame is pervasive in the American cultural imagination, existing in political discourse and internalized by Americans. This book explores how shaming is exhibited by state and political institutions by showing the ways in which the state withholds care, and how people who need that care are humiliTrade Review"The Shaming State offers a brilliant ethnographic analysis of how the supposedly compassionate welfare state produced just the opposite of its explicitly stated intentions. Focusing on problems faced by immigrants in Michigan and by people traumatized by Hurricane Sandy in New York City, Sara Salman shows similarities and differences in the two U.S. cases while calling for a genuinely more caring approach to public policies and governmental assistance. Scholars, policymakers, and activists will learn much from this detailed, insightful, and beautifully written study." * Lynn S. Chancer, author of After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution *"In moments of acute need and social vulnerability arising from displacement and persecution, how does the state respond in aid to groups in need? Salman examines with rigor, humanity, and beautiful prose how two seemingly dissimilar groups experience cultural notions of worthiness, precarity, suspicion, and responsibility. As the book centers the psychology of shame and moral worth, readers learn how government bureaucracies communicate deservingness to groups and in so doing the limits of a caring state and the American Dream." * Lauren Duquette-Rury, author of Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico *"This is an intriguing, timely, and insightful book that examines how care is administered and vulnerability is mitigated in the US. Or not administered or mitigated because of longstanding hostility to such assistance from whichever political party is in office. Instead, these aspects of American society have made it a shaming state." * John Pratt, author of Law, Insecurity and Risk Control: Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt *
£66.60
New York University Press Therapeutic Inequalities
£23.55
New York University Press Buzz
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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New York University Press The Movement for Reproductive Justice
Book Synopsis2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineShows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence changePatricia Zavella experienced firsthand the trials and judgments imposed on a working professional mother of color: her own commitment to academia was questioned during her pregnancy, as she was shamed for having children too young. And when she finally achieved her professorship, she felt out of place as one of the few female faculty members with children. These experiences sparked Zavella's interest in the movement for reproductive justice. In this book, she draws on five years of ethnographic research to explore collaborations among women of color engaged in reproductive justice activism. While there are numerous organizations focused on reproductive justice, most are racially specific, such as the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and Black Women for Wellness. Yet Trade ReviewThoroughly researched and clearly organized, the book provides an ethnographic view of how women of color engage in social activism through reproductive justice organizations ... A well-appreciated addition to the literature on RJ. * Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine *Intersectionality is a popular concept, but this terrific study of the practical uses of an intersectional approach to organizing for social change goes far beyond the usual invocations of the term, actually illuminating its strengths and challenges ... Exhaustively researched, beautifully detailed, and theoretically powerful. * Choice *After an illustrious career, Zavella has written what reads like a magnum opus in this social movement ethnography. The Movement for Reproductive Justice captures the struggles of women of color for the human right of health care with dignity and full bodily autonomy. With this exemplary piece of feminist activist research, Zavella makes a monumental contribution to the study of social movements led by women of color. * Mobilization *
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New York University Press Keywords for Disability Studies
Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, post-traumatic stress, and questions about the beginning and end of life.Each of the 60 essays in Keywords for Disability Studies focuses on a distinct critical concept, including ethics, medicalization, performance, reproduction, identity, and stigma, among others. Although the essays recognize that disability is often used as an umbrella term, the contributors to the volume avoid treating individual disabilities as keywords, and instead interrogate concepts that encompass different components of the social and bodily experience of disability. The essays apTrade ReviewAccessible and versatile,Keywords for Disability Studiescapaciously welcomes both newcomers and veterans of the field. * Symploke *No mere inventory,Keywords for Disability Studiesis an invaluable conceptual mapping of the field. With entries that combine succinctness with clarity, the volume as a whole effectively synthesizes ongoing debates and evolving ideas to make this a most welcome addition to the field of disability studies. -- Ato Quayson,author of Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of RepresentationThe entries are a brief but comprehensive take on some of the concepts found within disability studies. Coherent, direct, and informative,Keywords for Disability Studieswill undoubtedly generate questions and provide valuable resources for students and scholars alike in nearly any discipline for the foreseeable future. * Medical Humanities *Keywords for Disability Studies is an important primer featuring over 60 short essays on key concepts within an interdisciplinary field, destined for syllabi and bookshelves both within and outside of academia. * Cultural Studies *Keywords for Disability Studiesdeftly demonstrates how disability may act as a conjuncture (like race) that opens cultural studies to new and crucial means of making sense of economic and cultural contexts, and deploying that knowledge politically. Its interdisciplinarity, broad-ranging perspectives, and deeply enacted connection to material politics ought to make this an exciting and illuminating read for those interested in cultural studies, disability, or both. In this intersection, there is the potential for the best kind of acculturation, a mutually transformative and progressive growth. * Cultural Studies *Table of ContentsContents 1 Disability Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin 5 2 Ability Fiona Kumari Campbell 12 3 Access Bess Williamson 14 4 Accident Jill C. Anderson 17 5 Accommodation Elizabeth F. Emens 18 6 Activism Denise M. Nepveux 21 7 Aesthetics Michael Davidson 26 8 Affect Lisa Cartwright 30 9 Aging Kathleen Woodward 33 10 Blindness D. A. Caeton 34 11 Citizenship Allison Carey 37 12 Cognition Ralph James Savarese 40 13 Communication Carol Padden 43 14 Crip Victoria Ann Lewis 46 15 Deafness Douglas C. Baynton 48 16 Deformity Helen Deutsch 52 17 Dependency Eva Feder Kittay 54 18 Design Christina Cogdell 59 19 Diversity Lennard J. Davis 61 20 Education Margaret Price 64 21 Embodiment Abby Wilkerson 67 22 Ethics Rebecca Garden 70 23 Eugenics Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 74 24 Euthanasia Harold Braswell 79 25 Family Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp 81 26 Fat Kathleen LeBesco 84 27 Freak Leonard Cassuto 85 28 Gender Kim Q. Hall 89 29 Genetics David Wasserman 92 30 History Susan Burch and Kim E. Nielsen 95
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New York University Press Fire in the Canyon
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. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage.Trade ReviewSarat 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 AustinThrough 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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New York University Press Water
Book SynopsisAn intellectual history of America's water management philosophyHumans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy. For many, this brazen water grab and the social inequalities it produces reflect the lack of a coherent philosophy connecting people to the planet. Challenging this view, Jeremy Schmidt shows how water was made a resource that linked geology, politics, and culture to American institutions. Understanding the global spread and evolution of this philosophy is now key to addressing inequalities that exist on a geological scale. Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity details the remarkable intellectual history of America's water management philosophy. It shows how this philosophy shaped early twentieth-century conservation in the United States, influenced American internationalTrade Review"Watermakes a strong and compelling case that we have accepted for far too long the perspective that water can be constructed only, or primarily, as a resource." * Environmental History *"[An] ambitious, deeply researched, and thoughtful work of interdisciplinary scholarship. . . establishes fascinating connections between seeming dead ends in American intellectual history and todays global socioenvironmental concerns." * Journal of American History *"I heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the nexus between ideas and water, writ large. It is an impressive and incisive look into the minds of those who control a substance that is essential to all forms of life." * American Historical Review *"Wide-ranging and incisive . . . Drawing on diverse conceptual traditions, including anthropology, geography, geology, environmental history and political philosophy, Schmidt traces the co-evolution of water management and American liberalism. . . . I found Schmidts book to be challenging, stimulating and instructive, and I am sure it will quickly become core reading for anyone interested in water and society." * Water Alternatives *"In showing how water resources are far from a neutral category, this well researched and enlightening book is an important read for understanding how we perceive water today." * LSE Review of Books *"Using history and the connection between humanity and geology, this title offers readers a unique viewpoint on and an in-depth understanding of water management." * Choice *"This is an important book on an important subject." * Catholic Library World *"Rather than focusing on the mundane, mirco-level materials that shape water, Schmidt looks at the thoughts, values, and, most of all, the philosophy behind water management... Ultimately, Schmidt asks readers to rethink water’s role as a “neutral category” and realize this resource is used to reinforce broader ways of thinking and being in the world." -- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics"Humans both consume too much water and fail to benefit from it equitably. Geographer Jeremy Schmidt’s multidisciplinary study shows how historical US approaches to water management have gained global reach, leading to problematic biases." -- Nature"Jeremy Schmidt’s Water examines how these water worlds are conceived by anthropological theory. A bold and remarkable book, it offers a profound reassessment of central tenets within the anthropology of water… The book is an intellectual history, but it hews closer to science and technology studies than history of science in its philosophical concerns and theoretical ambition. It is required reading for anthropologists of water, as well as geographers, conservationists, and others interested in the management of water resources." -- PoLar Online"Water is a philosophy of water that intellectually challenges the reader on many levels. Its core chapters present a fresh history of ideas in the disciplines of geology, anthropology, and others that have shaped modern water thought in the U.S. and beyond, from the late-19th century culture of Washington DC civic scholars WJ McGee and J.W. Powell to the pragmatism of 20th century water management and 21st century global water agendas for the Anthropocene. It frames and critically challenges that account with perspectives from Wittgenstein and others as a liberal philosophy of water that has become so widespread as to become what Schmidt calls 'normal water.' His searching critique is not just about the philosophy of water, it contributes to that philosophy in its ideas and methods." -- James L. Wescoat, Jr. ,Aga Khan Professor, MIT"This sweeping, inter-disciplinary book is brilliant, refreshing and bold. It asks two fundamental questions in which we should all be interested: where have the ideas of water as a 'resource' to be 'managed' for the good of society or the nation come from? And how have they driven world-wide economic development that has not infrequently done more harm than good? The answers might surprise you (spoiler alert: anthropology and philosophy had a lot to do with the formation of this paradigm). This book is perhaps most imaginative in the ways it aims to disrupt a way of thinking that has dominated the anthropocene for far too long." -- Steven C. Caton,Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
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