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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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Book SynopsisThe impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth In the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young peoplethose who migrate as well as those who are affected by the migration of others. A primary focus of the volume is to understand how children and youth encounter, move through, or are outside of a range of legal processes, including border enforcement, immigration detention, federal custody, courts, and state processes of categorization. Even if young people do not directly interact with state immigration systemsbecause they are U.S. citizens or have avoided detentionthey are nonetheless deeply affected by the reach of the government in its many forms. Contributors privilege the voicesTrade Review"Illegal Encounters examines the experiences of young migrants, bringing critical social, cultural, and legal perspectives to issues as current as todays headlines. The collection of scholars is superb, and includes authors who themselves migrated to the U.S. as children. Rarely does an edited volume result in such integrated and coherent chapters to produce an instant classic that challenges what we think we know about the migration experience. Illegal Encounters is a must read for anyone interested in how young people manage the perilous journey across borders and the U.S. legal system." -- Leo R. Chavez,author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation"Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio have assembled a powerful and heart-wrenching collection of essays that elucidate the myriad ways young peoples lives are shaped, and often devastated, by the immigration laws and enforcement practices of the United States. This volume brings together the voices of leading immigration scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by our punitive immigration laws. This assemblage of gripping narratives will be a valuable read for anyone wishing to know more about how immigration laws affect youth, and consequently, the future of this nation. Those who teach courses on immigration, race, ethnicity, children and youth, as well as justice will find this volume to be a compelling addition to their course." -- Tanya Golash-Boza,University of California, Merced"Shines much needed light on the effects of US immigration policy on young migrants in the United States… Illegal Encounters establishes critical terrain for further scholarship and advocacy." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

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Book SynopsisEvery day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention. The author examines the world of the fast-growing elder care industry.Trade Review"Labors of Love is without parallel in the nursing home literature. No other ethnographer has written in such a finely detailed way about the worlds of nursing home managers. In this book, Jason Rodriquez spells out in riveting detail how nursing home managers respond to a system that incentivizes dependence and incapacity rather than independence and restorative care, how they must put on a show" for state inspectors that does not and cannot reflect the reality of normal day-to-day operations, and how the current regulatory framework actively discourages authentic emotional relationships between caregivers and recipients. Labors of Love will change the terms of the national debate about nursing homes." -- Steven Lopez,author of Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement"Full of rich and absorbing material, this well-written and sensitively drawn ethnographic study provides important insights into the conflicts, contradictions, and constraints involved in the operation of nursing homes and the care work that takes place in them. A valuable and welcome addition to the literature on emotional labor, workplace organization, and long-term care." -- Nancy Foner,author of The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home"[Rodriquez] describes the conflicts, constraints, and competition between nursing home caregivers and administration, as well as the reality of a government bureaucracy (Medicare/Medicaid) that defines client care, encourages fraud, and creates a scenario in which cost outweighs client care...[A] well-written, interesting book." * Choice *"Labors of Loveis accessible and appropriate for a range of student and scholarly audiences. Rodriquez is a reflexive ethnographer who is relatable and human in his narrative." * Contemporary Sociology *"Labors of Love is a compelling indictment of the contemporary nursing home industry. Might morals and markets ever be aligned more humanely in the nursing home industry? Perhaps it would be easier to search for a fountain of youth." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Locating Nursing Home Care Work 1 1 Making the Most of Medicaid 21 2 Staging the Inspections 37 3 Documenting Conflict 57 4 The Costs of Doing Business 77 5 Feeding Residents on a Starving Budget 101 6 The Uses of Emotions 115 7 Making Sense of Death and Abuse at Work 139 8 Connecting Quality of Life and Quality of Work 155 Appendix: From the Poorhouse to the Skilled Nursing Facility 169 Notes 175 References 185 Index 197 About the Author 207

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Book SynopsisInterviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hopThis groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, Muslim Cool. Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslimdisplayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersectionTrade ReviewMuslim Coolcelebrates the spiritual grounding of hip hop and tries to tease apart its complex relationships with race and religion. * The Atlantic *A skilled ethnographer, [Su'ad Abdul Khabeer] combines her poet's ear and thorough research in prose that flips the script on the anti-Black, anti-Muslim sentiment. * Ebony *AbdulKhabeer explores the rich relationship of hip-hop to Islam in her fascinating new work,Muslim Cool. * Foreword Reviews *Where Chance injects spirituality into hip-hop, Muslim Cool injects hip-hop into spirituality. And in doing so, as Abdul-Khabeers Muslim Cool-hunting presents, its expanding the ways in which black history, culture, and politics get expressed, re-defined, and redeployed into new contexts. * Popmatters *A must read for any student of anthropology, religion, migration, or urban studies. * Choice *Khabeers study explores how young African American Muslim women and men who embrace Muslim cool use hip-hop styles of dress, music, dance, and spoken-word performance to assert their Muslim bona fides. In so doing, they are arguing against the anti-black biases of the dominant Middle Eastern and South Asian immigrant Muslim community in the United States. But theyre also arguing for their sense of belonging in the American national community that is normed as white even as it claims to be post-racial and multicultural. * Christian Century Review *Because the text stays so close to her teachers words and theorizations while working through complex questions regarding power and religious and racial identity, it is accessible to both everyday readers and scholarly circles alike. * Religious Studies Review *The book in sum is an admirable approach to the circulation of Blackness, which few have taken up in the context of Muslims in the United States. * Sociology of Religion *Muslim Cool discusses much-neglected topics in the field of Islam in America; Khabeer's discussion of Muslim masculinity in the United States, for instance, is a contribution to a shockingly small bibliography on the topic. * Mashriq Mahjar Journal *An intense and novel anthropological approach to the development of the relationship between African American Muslimsthe original American face of Islamand immigrant Muslims and their children. An absolute must-read. -- Aminah Beverly McCloud,DePaul UniversityMuslim Coolbrilliantly spotlights how Black Muslim youth construct and perform identities that embody indigenous forms of Black cultural production. Equally important, the text shows how these constructions are used to reimagine, reshape, and resist hegemonic and often anti-Black conceptions of Muslim identity. With masterful ethnographic detail, Abdul Khabeer offers a subtle and rich analysis of the complex relationships between race, religion, and state power. This book is a desperately needed intervention within Anthropology, Africana Studies, and Islamic Studies. -- Marc Lamont Hill,author of Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of IdentityIn times when both Islam and Hip Hop have been constructed as threats to American civilization by some, Muslim Cool presents a much-needed, rigorous analysis backed by rich, ethnographic detail to present a far more nuanced and intriguing storya story that is central to understanding current U.S. racial, religious, and political landscapes. Through Khabeers groundbreaking research and carefully crafted narrative and argumentation, we discover the journeys of young Muslims who find, through Hip Hop, a way of being Muslim that helps them challenge anti-Black racism in their everyday lives and interactions with systemic inequalities. Muslim Cool is, as dead prez once rapped, bigger than Hip Hopit is a must-read for anyone interested in race, religion and culture in contemporary America. -- H. Samy Alim,author of Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture

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Book SynopsisClean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygieneWhen Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him clean and articulate, he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have been managed. In the wake of the civil war, as the nation encountered emancipation, mass immigration, and the growth of an urbanized society, Americans began to conflate the ideas of race and waste. Certain immigrant groups took on waste management labor, such as Jews and scrap metal recycling, fostering connections between the socially marginalizeTrade Review"[E]nlightening." * Publishers Weekly *"Traces the always shifting, always intertwined definitions of whiteness and cleanliness from the Civil War to the present day." * Pacific Standard *"[A] valuable history of environmental racism in the United States...Essential reading for those interested in social justice and environmental issues." * Library Journal *"Zimring shows that American notions of clean environments and healthy landscapes are the products of a racist past." * Journal of American History *"Zimring provides a well-researched, compelling, and engaging history of environmental racism, and it stands unquestionably as a book that can offer a much-needed historical weight to contemporary scholarly debates and explorations of race and environment across disciplines." * Journal of Family Strength *"Those interested in theories of public health as they relate to race and racial constructs in US history would be wise to consult this important work." * Journal of American Culture *"Zimrings provocative book will compel future historians to take the role of garbage and waste seriously when seeking to explain some of the most pernicious social injustices of our time." * Indiana Magazine of History *"This is an innovative, important and thought-provoking book that deserves a wide readership." * Environment and History *"Zimring offers a clearly written overview of environmental racism in the US." * Choice Connect *"What an innovative study! In Clean and White, Carl Zimring addresses an age-old critique of racism that posits white as clean and good and black as dirty and bad. In so doing, he elevates the discussion by demonstrating the cultural roots of this nefarious comparison within the context of environmental racism. Those interested in both questions of race and modern environmentalism will benefit from reading this book." -- Martin V. Melosi,author of The Sanitary City"Offers a significant and startling new perspective on United States history, revealing the many ways in which ideals of cleanliness, notions of environmental propriety, and definitions of whiteness have been interwoven for centuries, to devastating effect. With deft prose and thoroughly researched arguments, Zimring unravels some of the previously overlooked origins of deeply rooted American racism, and in the process shows how these have come to justify economic, social, and political discrimination against people of color. It is an important original analysis, and it brings much needed insight to our ongoing national debate about race and justice." -- Robin Nagle,author of Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York"Acomprehensive, brisk, and provocative explorationof environmental racism from the founding of therepublic until the 1960s." * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisPresents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well as offering practical tools for solving environmental problems. Haenn, Wilk, and Harnish pose the most urgent questions of environmental protection: How are environmental problems mediated by cultural values? What are the environmental effects of urbanization? When do environmentalists' goals and actions conflict with those of indigenous peoples? How can we assess the impact of environmentally correct businesses? They also cover the fundamental topics of population growth, large scale development, biodiversity conservation, sustainable environmental management, indigenous groups, consumptioTrade Review"The Environment in Anthropology reads like a 'Greatest Hits' of environmental anthropology in recent years. I have taught many of these authors and concepts due to their engaging tone and critical edge; it is empowering to have them all collected here, in a volume structured for conceptual and chronological clarity, without foreclosing on the creativity of this field, still so much under construction. This volume stands as an assemblage of excellent work that invites further contributions. It showcases the range of epistemic approaches and contexts from which what we might call new environmental anthropology is currently emerging." -- Rebecca Hardin,University of Michigan"Provides the theoretical refinements and ethnographic illustrations necessary for students to grasp the local and the global complexities of environmental anthropology in the 21st century. This text is pedagogically sophisticated, facilitating cognitive development by engaging students in a cultural critique of dominant Western ideologies and institutions and challenging them to consider their individual options for not only a sustainable future, but a more meaningful life." -- Barbara J. Dilly,Creighton University

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how Latino men recover from gang life through involvement in urban, faith-based organizations.Trade Review"His scholarly, thoughtful approach provides an infusion of spirituality and masculinity as essential variables from which each gang member may reach toward enlightenment, and a foundation on which one may build citizenship. Flores quite accurately identifies and discusses the critical variable of the historic treatment, interpretation, and labeling of Hispanics and their relationship to economic limitations and class creation, which is so glaring in Los Angeles. The author explains that within the barrio communities, the lawlessness that seems to have become one of the most resilient defining characterizations is the result of male resistance and struggle for respect and status. The redirecting of that masculinity and respected identity in the community, in concert with a spirituality based effort to escape gang life, is the essence of this well-developed work. Strongly encouraged for sociology and social work collections.Summing up: Highly recommended." -- R.M. Seklecki * Choice *"God's Gangsis studiously steeped in a wide range of sociological discourses and will be of interest to scholars of religion with secondary interests in urban sociology, immigration, gender performance, embodiment, and the interwoven phenomena of recovery and mass incarceration." * Sociology of Religion *"Los Angeles, with its dubious title as the 'gang capital' of the U.S., has a much-studied history of gangsparticularly Latino gangsthat stretches back to the Great Depression. Flores contributes to this history in an important way with his focus on disengagement from gangs, what he terms 'gang recovery,' an area of gang research that has exploded in just the last 5 years . . . .God's Gangsinjects some much-needed thick description into an evolving literature, contributing to a growing chorus of contemporary Latino youth and gang ethnographies in the U.S., and in doing so, shines a light on accomplishing masculinity and immigrant assimilation in theU.S." * Crime, Law, and Social Change *"Flores's work should be commended for bringing urban ministries and gang recovery to the fore of gang, immigration, religion, gender, and criminal justice scholarship. Flores's fresh analysis of embodied masculinity makes a particularly strong contribution to research on urban poverty and crime." * American Journal of Sociology *"With 152,000 documented gang members in Los Angeles, understanding how to address and facilitate the integration of former gang members into society is crucial, timely, and much needed. This books documentary efforts make a strong contribution to conceptualizing how small, intimate, personally caring organizations based in faith traditions, can transform lives, cultures, and societies." * Journal of Jesuit Studies *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Latino Crime Threat: A Century of Race, Marginality, and Public Policy in Los Angeles 2. Into the Underclass or Out of the Barrio? Immigrant Integration in Latino Los Angeles 3. Recovery from Gang Life: Two Models of Faith and Reintegration 4. Reformed Barrio Masculinity: Eight Cases of Recovery from Gang Life 5. Masculinity and the Podium: Discourse in Gang Recovery 6. From Shaved to Saved: Embodied Gang Recovery Conclusion Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThings become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the production of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamonds in understanding selves and social relationships? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"Were 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 Center"A 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, Indianapolis"Falls 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 Childhood"Fall'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

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Book SynopsisAn essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americansthe people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged Americans was tenuous at best. Due to a variety of legal and political maneuvers, Mexican Americans were largely confined to a second class status. How did this categorization occur, and what are the implications for modern Mexican Americans?Manifest Destinies fills a gap in American racial history by linking westward expansion to slavery and the Civil War. In so doing, Laura E Gómez demonstrates how white supremacy structured a racial hierarchy in which Mexican Americans were situated relative to Native Americans and African Americans alike. Steeped in conversations Trade Review"In a wonderfully rendered account of New Mexicos early history, Laura Gómez offers an original interpretation of colonialism and a distinctive portrayal of how racism works. The particulars of 19th century New Mexico illuminate everything from Donald Trumps White Nationalism to Barack Obamas record-shattering deportation numbers. Gómez manages, at once, to explore subtle variations and contradictions within racial categories without obscuring the murderous hate at the heart of the racism that still centrally defines life in the United States." -- Gerald P. López,author of Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law Practice"Laura Gómezs Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race is an important study that has changed our notions of Latinos in the United States, firmly placing them within its racial tapestry. Given the continued growth of this group and its participation in the political life of the nation (e.g. the Castro Brothers, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz), this second edition allows us to ponder the prospects of Mexican Americans and other Latinos and thus is both timely and necessary." -- Ernesto Chávez,author of The US War with Mexico: A Brief History with Documents"Manifest Destinies is as compelling now as it was in its first edition a decade ago and if anything even more timely. Expertly combining critical race theory, sociology, politics, ethnic studies, and military history, Gómezdramatizes both the peculiarities of the New Mexican case and its deep importance to understanding the nations racial history." -- David Roediger ,author of How Race Survived U.S. History"Adding significant evidence since the first edition, Gomez makes a convincing argument about the influence of annexation on the invention of the Mexican race. She demonstrates how the social and legal construction of the Mexican race are inextricably tied to westward expansion and the ideology of manifest destiny." -- Sociological Inquiry

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Book SynopsisSuitable for all levels/libraries, this book explores the human side of immigration.Trade Review"Boehm crafts an enthralling piece of feminist, anthropological writing that weaves the human side of immigration into her scholarship." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Boehm's monograph is a poignant ethnographic account of displacement and resilience among Mexican transnationals who feel that they are 'neither from here nor from there.' It's also a critical review of current US border enforcement policies which exacerbate illegality and precariousness among migrants." * Border Criminologies *"[A] wonderful book that demonstrates that combining interviews with participant observationand doing it wellcan produce multiple benefits....There is a lot to learn from this timely book, and it should be read widely. I particularly recommend it to anyone interested in immigrant families, immigration law, citizenship, and families in general, but its appeal should go beyond academia. This book would be ideal for helping politicians and pundits to understand that political decisions regarding immigration law have broad and deep consequences, often beyond the territory in which laws are enacted." -- Cecilia Menjivar * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Fortuitously published just as the U.S enters new discussions about what to do with the legal status (and, thus, lives) of the very undocumented Mexicans she studied. Hopefully policymakers will read it and hear voices not likely to be at the negotiating tables. It is precisely this type of serious yet humane and deeply human scholarship that might change a few minds." -- Sarah J. Mahler * International Migration Review *"Intimate Migrationsexplores the human side of immigration, vividly portraying everyday lives on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border. Drawing on interviews and field work in Albuquerque and the small rancho of San Marcos in San Luis Potosi, Boehm outlines the sharp differences between male and female migration. Young men follow in the footsteps of their fathers, brothers, and uncles and migrate to become adults and providers, while women and children remain in the rancho or migrate much later, often to care for households of male kin rather than to enter the work force. These gender differences are in turn shaped by the potency and reach of U.S. policy that constructs 'illegal' and 'legal' persons, constrains movement, conveys citizenship, and allows for family reunification- policies that fall unevenly on kin networks. A moving panorama of how these contradictions play out in personal lives." -- Louise Lamphere,University of New Mexico"With an ethnographers eye for detail, Boehm shows us the hopes, dreams, frustrations, tensions, divisions, and enduring qualities of lives among families connected and split by the U.S.-Mexico border.Intimate Migrations puts a human face on the reasons why people migrate, changing gender relations, and how children experience these dynamic and fluid processes, all of which are subject to increasingly restrictionist U.S. immigration laws. . . . A must read for anyone interested in understanding our complex, transnational world." -- Leo Chavez,University of California, Irvine"Recommended for all levels/libraries." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: De Ambos Lados / From Both Sides 1 Placing Intimate Migrations Part I. Transborder Families 2 Mitad Alla, Mitad Aqui/Half There, Half Here 3 Family "Reunification" Part II. Gendered Migrations 4 !Ya Soy Hombre y Mujer!/Now I Am a Man and a Woman! 5 Gendered Borderlands Part III. Children on the Move 6 Por Mis Hijos/For My Children 7 Here-Not Here Conclusion: Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla/ From Neither Here Nor There Postscript: Caught Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth In the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young peoplethose who migrate as well as those who are affected by the migration of others. A primary focus of the volume is to understand how children and youth encounter, move through, or are outside of a range of legal processes, including border enforcement, immigration detention, federal custody, courts, and state processes of categorization. Even if young people do not directly interact with state immigration systemsbecause they are U.S. citizens or have avoided detentionthey are nonetheless deeply affected by the reach of the government in its many forms. Contributors privilege the voicesTrade ReviewIllegal Encounters examines the experiences of young migrants, bringing critical social, cultural, and legal perspectives to issues as current as todays headlines. The collection of scholars is superb, and includes authors who themselves migrated to the U.S. as children. Rarely does an edited volume result in such integrated and coherent chapters to produce an instant classic that challenges what we think we know about the migration experience. Illegal Encounters is a must read for anyone interested in how young people manage the perilous journey across borders and the U.S. legal system. -- Leo R. Chavez,author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the NationDeborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio have assembled a powerful and heart-wrenching collection of essays that elucidate the myriad ways young peoples lives are shaped, and often devastated, by the immigration laws and enforcement practices of the United States. This volume brings together the voices of leading immigration scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by our punitive immigration laws. This assemblage of gripping narratives will be a valuable read for anyone wishing to know more about how immigration laws affect youth, and consequently, the future of this nation. Those who teach courses on immigration, race, ethnicity, children and youth, as well as justice will find this volume to be a compelling addition to their course. -- Tanya Golash-Boza,University of California, MercedShines much needed light on the effects of US immigration policy on young migrants in the United States… Illegal Encounters establishes critical terrain for further scholarship and advocacy. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

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Book SynopsisAn essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americansthe people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged Americans was tenuous at best. Due to a variety of legal and political maneuvers, Mexican Americans were largely confined to a second class status. How did this categorization occur, and what are the implications for modern Mexican Americans?Manifest Destinies fills a gap in American racial history by linking westward expansion to slavery and the Civil War. In so doing, Laura E Gómez demonstrates how white supremacy structured a racial hierarchy in which Mexican Americans were situated relative to Native Americans and African Americans alike. Steeped in conversations Trade Review"In a wonderfully rendered account of New Mexicos early history, Laura Gómez offers an original interpretation of colonialism and a distinctive portrayal of how racism works. The particulars of 19th century New Mexico illuminate everything from Donald Trumps White Nationalism to Barack Obamas record-shattering deportation numbers. Gómez manages, at once, to explore subtle variations and contradictions within racial categories without obscuring the murderous hate at the heart of the racism that still centrally defines life in the United States." -- Gerald P. López,author of Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law Practice"Laura Gómezs Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race is an important study that has changed our notions of Latinos in the United States, firmly placing them within its racial tapestry. Given the continued growth of this group and its participation in the political life of the nation (e.g. the Castro Brothers, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz), this second edition allows us to ponder the prospects of Mexican Americans and other Latinos and thus is both timely and necessary." -- Ernesto Chávez,author of The US War with Mexico: A Brief History with Documents"Manifest Destinies is as compelling now as it was in its first edition a decade ago and if anything even more timely. Expertly combining critical race theory, sociology, politics, ethnic studies, and military history, Gómezdramatizes both the peculiarities of the New Mexican case and its deep importance to understanding the nations racial history." -- David Roediger ,author of How Race Survived U.S. History"Adding significant evidence since the first edition, Gomez makes a convincing argument about the influence of annexation on the invention of the Mexican race. She demonstrates how the social and legal construction of the Mexican race are inextricably tied to westward expansion and the ideology of manifest destiny." -- Sociological Inquiry

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Book SynopsisProvides a detailed look at how war affects human life and health far beyond the battlefield Since 2010, a team of activists, social scientists, and physicians have monitored the lives lost as a result of the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through an initiative called the Costs of War Project. Unlike most studies of war casualties, this research looks beyond lives lost in violence to consider those who have died as a result of illness, injuries, and malnutrition that would not have occurred had the war not taken place. Incredibly, the Cost of War Project has found that, of the more than 1,000,000 lives lost in the recent US wars, a minimum of 800,000 died not from violence, but from indirect causes. War and Health offers a critical examination of these indirect casualties, examining health outcomes on the battlefield and elsewherein hospitals, homes, and refugee campsboth during combat and in the years following, as communities struggle to live normal Trade ReviewConveys the impacts of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on health, both in the countries where they are being waged and in the U.S. -- Janelle TaylorClearly and powerfully conveys the complex and multifaceted impacts of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on health, both in the countries where they are being waged and in the U.S. -- Janelle Taylor,University of WashingtonReveals the often unseen effects of those wars both at home and abroad ranging from fractured families, strained caregivers, increased cancer rates to mistrust of health workers, demolished infrastructure and military suicides. * Military Times *Some of the most thought-provoking scholarship on the relationship between war and health that exists in any discipline today. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technologyFrom legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the past twenty-five years, anthropologists have studied how new forms of law have reshaped important questions of citizenship, biotechnology, and rights movements, among many others. Meanwhile, the rise of international law and transitional justice has posed new ethical and intellectual challenges to anthropologists. Anthropology and Law provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of law in the post-Cold War era. Mark Goodale introduces the central problems of the field and builds on the legacy of its intellectual history, while a foreword by Sally Engle Merry highlights the challenges of using the law to seek justice on an international scale. The book's chapters cover a range of intersecting aTrade ReviewMark Goodale has written a comprehensive account that encompasses most of what legal anthropology has brought to the academic fore since the early 1990s. That in itself is an important achievement, because such an overview has not yet been given in the form of a book — and such books consolidate sub-disciplines in the eye of the academic community. But Mark Goodale has aspired for more than just a solid overview. His book is a plea for the relevance of the anthropological investigation of law not as an end in itself, but to enable the discipline to contribute — empirically grounded in the analysis of living legal pluralism — to a theory of the relationship of cosmopolitanism and the rule of law in globalized capitalism. As such, Goodale argues for an anthropology of law that is at the heart of the discipline. The fact that he argues his case well, makes this book an important read for anthropologists as well as for all those interested in the law. -- Zeitschrift für RechtssoziologieAn updated introduction and overview of the field of legal anthropology is long overdue and Anthropology and Law will be welcome in many quarters. Goodale has done a service to the discipline and his volume is likely to become a classic text, required reading in a variety of courses, and a touchstone for years to come. -- Rosemary Coombe,Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture, York University, Toronto, CanadaBy offering a personal account of the interdisciplinary nexus of anthropology and law, Goodale offers something more than an overview of a sub-discipline. He provides insight into (and through) a personal quest for knowledge, premised on breaking down the boundaries that regularly divide disciplines, realms of practice, and schools of thought. Goodale offers intellectual history, social theory, and politico-legal analysis in an accessible overview of a field that, in his hands, returns to the most ambitious questions of our time, the place of law in social development, political transition, protection of the dispossessed and marginalized, and, the ultimate anthropological question, how identity is shaped, how law influences who we are and how we belong. -- Ronald Niezen,Department of Anthropology and Faculty of Law, McGill UniversityIn Anthropology and Law, Mark Goodale elucidates how anthropology detaches the concept of law from its western moorings and takes a global perspective on the various ways that societies resolve disputes, enforce social norms, regulate power and authority and articulate ideas of the person. Goodales sparkling prose and brilliant analysis of the history and most recent developments in legal anthropology will appeal to experts and students alike. -- Richard Ashby Wilson,Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of ConnecticutMark Goodale uses a global palette to paint a vivid and accessible account of what contemporary anthropologists have to say about law as meaning, regulation and identity. If, as might be expected, his discussion of human and cultural rights is particularly convincing, the overall thesis of the path to legal cosmopolitanism and beyond is a stimulating contribution in its own right. -- David Nelken,Professor of Comparative & Transnational Law in Context, King's College LondonMark Goodales Anthropology and Law is a bold, exhilarating excursion into what he calls the 'new legal anthropology,' a largely post-Cold War anthropology much broader in scope, much more historically situated in contemporary world-making, much more theoretically agile, than its classical" predecessor/s. While it is self-confessedly idiosyncratic in its coverage and its readings of the capacious literatures that it addresses, it provokes us to think of law, anthropologically, from fresh and freshly critical angles. This is a gem of a book to think and teach with not surprising, perhaps, since it had its inspirational fons et origo in a masters thesis on the history and theory of legal anthropology written by Mark Goodale in the same (ghostly?) chair in the British Library from which, it is said, Marx wrote Das Kapital. -- John Comaroff,Hugh K. Foster Professor of Anthropology, African and African American Studies, Harvard UniversityMark Goodale's Anthropology and Law is simultaneously an introduction to the field and a sophisticated exploration of recent developments in legal anthropology that is sure to spark interest among experts in the area. It combines an erudite review of the history of the field with a creative and thoughtful synthesis that inventively maps emerging scholarship. -- Elizabeth Mertz,Senior Research Faculty, American Bar FoundationAnthropology and Law presents a much needed recent history of the field, focusing on its shifting contours and concerns in a post-Cold War era. It shows how tensions and debates amongst scholars have fueled theoretical innovation and moved research forward in productive ways. Rich in illustrative case studies and encompassing in theoretical depth and breadth, the book shows the importance of grounded real-world ethnographic scholarship to better understand the legal complexities of our current age. -- Eve Darian-Smith,author of Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary ApproachesThis is an impressive and original achievement in terms of the synthesis and programmatic outlook it provides. * Sociologus *

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Book SynopsisBased on a Wenner-Gren international workshop, held at the Royal Ontario Museum, this book addresses the complexity of human-mineral engagements through ethnographic case studies and anthropological reflections on different people and the minerals they deem precious.'Trade Review"Collectively, the processes of mineral valuation and circulation of precious minerals illustrate that ‘preciousness’ should be defined relative to complex and dynamic cultural, political-economic, and semiotic value systems. Compelling, thoughtful analyses of affect and materiality." -- C. C. Kolb, independent scholar * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Engaging Precious Minerals Andrew Walsh, Elizabeth Ferry, and Annabel Vallard Part One: Engaging Mineral Sources Introduction to Part One: Scrappers, Miners, and Hunters Susan D. Gillespie 1. "Check Out That Gold-Plated Board!" Scrapping Cellphones and Electronics in North America Joshua A. Bell 2. What Is "Artisanal" about "Artisanal Mining"? Reflections from Madagascar’s Sapphire Trade Andrew Walsh 3. The Value and Social Lives of Alpine Crystals Gilles Raveneau Part Two: Mineral Connections Introduction to Part Two: Making Preciousness: Distinction and Refraction Elizabeth Ferry 4. When Stones Become Gems: Valuations of Minerals in Thailand Annabel Vallard 5. Transparent Minerals and Opaque Diamond Sources Filipe Calvão 6. Gold, Ontological Difference, and Object Agency Les W. Field Afterword: Facets of Preciousness Andrew Walsh, Elizabeth Ferry, and Annabel Vallard Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has not been systematically assessed.In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, scholars from a wide range of disciplines come together to explore what is at stake regarding portrayals of Islam(s) and Muslims in academic scholarship. Given the centrality of representations of Canadian Muslims in current public policy and public imaginaries, which effects how all Canadians experience religious diversity, this analysis of knowledge production comes at a crucial time.Table of ContentsPreface Amir Hussain Acknowledgments General Introduction: Producing Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Melanie Adrian Section 1: Examining Knowledge Production on Islam Epistemologies of the “Muslim Question” in Europe: On the Politics of Knowledge Production in a Minefield Schirin Amir-Moazami Research Funding and the Production of Knowledge about Islam: The Case of SSHRC Aaron W. Hughes Creating Ecologies of Knowledge as a MENA Scholar in North America: An Interview with Dr. Lara Deeb Sahver Kuzucuoglu The Study of Islam(s) and Western Academia: An Interview with Anver Emon Rehan Sayeed Section 2: Charting the Study of Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Who Are “Muslims in Canada”? An Analysis of the Qualitative Literature from 1997 to 2017 Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Lori G. Beaman Studying Muslim Minorities in Canada: Pitfalls Facing Researchers Attempting to Turn a Racialized Category into a Category of Analysis Paul Eid Time for a “Hijab Ban”? The Hypervisibility of Veiling in Scholarship on Islam in North America Sadaf Ahmed Expressions of Sufism in Canada Meena Sharify-Funk and Jason Idriss Sparkes Unpacking Media Coverage, Islam, and Ismaili Muslims in Canada: An Interview with Karim H. Karim Mehmet Ali Basak The Relational Approach to Integration in Canada: An Interview with Abdie Kazemipur Sara Hamed Section 3: Positioning Selves Researching One’s Own Community: Reflections from Montreal, Canada Hicham Tiflati and Abdelaziz Djaout Cooking Up Research: Positionality and the Knowledge Production of Islam(s) Rachel Brown Fieldworking While Veiled: Autoethnography of a Brown + Muslim + Female Researcher in Quebec Roshan Arah Jahangeer The Interplay of Identity in Ethnographic Conversations: The Grammar of Recognition in Conversion Narratives Géraldine Mossière On Critical Muslim Studies, Anti-Islamophobia, and Canadian Islamic Schools: An Interview with Jasmin Zine Mehmet Ali Basak Section 4: Future Trends Mixed-Methods and Comparative Approaches to Studying Muslim Immigrant Women in Canada Catherine Holtmann Influencing the Public Imaginary: The Case of a Montreal Islamic School Melanie Adrian 2(b) or Not 2(b): The Expressive Value of the Niqab Natasha Bakht Gendering Everyday Islam, Border-Crossings, and the Production of “Alternative Knowledge” Parin Dossa Dancing between Academia and Activism: An Interview with Katherine Bullock Sara Hamed List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn order to understand positionality as it relates to research, it is important to learn how to identify and reflect on how knowledge is produced and reproduced. Research across Borders introduces key concepts and methods to understand and critically analyze research in academic books and journals, as well as in media, government reports, and anywhere else information is found. This book addresses the opportunities and challenges of undertaking research in international, cross-border, and cross-cultural contexts. Specifically designed for students studying interdisciplinary or international programs on topics such as human rights, conflict studies, international relations, global development, and migration, Research across Borders provides the methodological, ethical, and epistemological foundations for understanding research across different disciplines. Whether students are gathering information from secondary sources or conducting primary research, ResearcTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Preparing to Learn and Unlearn 1. Why Research across Borders? 2. How Is Knowledge Disciplined? The Opportunities and Challenges of Research across Disciplines and Epistemologies 3. Ethics, Power, and Positionality 4. Designing a Research Project across Borders 5. Measurement across Borders 6. Case Studies in Global Context 7. Sampling, Access, and Representation across Borders 8. Interviewing across Borders 9. Ethnographic Approaches across Borders: Observation, Participant Observation, Netnography, and “Hanging Out” 10. Participatory Research in International, Cross-Cultural Contexts 11. Analyzing Text and Images in Cross-Border Research 12. Presenting Research Findings across Borders: Reach, Responsibility, and Representation Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Algonquian folklore, the wetiko is a cannibal monster or spirit that possesses a person, rendering them monstrous. In The Wetiko Legal Principles, Hadley Friedland explores how the concept of a wetiko can be used to address the unspeakable happenings that endanger the lives of many Indigenous children. Friedland critically analyses Cree and Anishinabek stories and oral histories alongside current academic and legal literature to find solutions to the frightening rates of intimate violence and child victimization in Indigenous communities. She applies common-law legal analysis to these Indigenous stories and creates a framework for analysing stories in terms of the legal principles that they contain. The author reveals similarities in thinking and theorizing around the dynamics of wetikos and offenders in cases of child sexual victimization. Friedland’s respectful, strength-based, trauma-informed approach builds on the work of John Trade Review"The Wetiko Legal Principles is a timely and interesting book that addresses prevalent issues in Indigenous communities, such as child victimization and violence, in a unique fashion by mixing narrative and legal analysis." -- Evan Best * Saskatchewan Law Review, vol 82 *Table of ContentsStory #1: Sweet Dirt Chapter 1: Introduction and Methodology Chapter 2: The Wetiko as a Legal Concept or Category Chapter 3: Understanding the Dynamics: The Wetiko and Child Victimization Chapter 4: The Wetiko Legal Principles Chapter 5: Future Directions in Wetiko Law Story #2: Beyond Sweet Dirt Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIsland in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members'' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the fuTrade Review"It is clear that Lambek’s way of relating to ‘his’ islanders – giving full scope to emotions and mutual efforts toward understanding – and his special talent in relating such small-scale events to wide philosophical horizons have produced another beautiful book, opening up new perspectives on time and how people – both anthropologists but also ‘their’ people – can deal with time." -- Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam * Anthropologica *Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword by Michael Jackson Note on Orthography Glossary Preface Part One: Prelude 1 Introduction: The Presence of History 2 Village Life: Kinship, Community, and Islam, 1975 and After 3 Founding the Villages, before 1975 Part Two: Exchange, Celebration, Ceremony, through 1995 4 Citizenship and Sociality: Practising Equality, 1975–1976 5 Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System, 1975–1985 6 Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte, 1975–1995 Part Three: Dancing to the Music of Time, through 2001 7 Choking on the Qur’an and Other Consuming Parables, 1975–1992 8 Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Postmodern Colony, to 1995 9 The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-dansant, to 2001 10 On the Move, through 2001 Part Four: Contingent Conviviality, through 2015 11 Marriage and Moral Horizons, 2015 12 Present Horizons, 2015 13 Summation: Mariam’s Mirror Acknowledgments Notes References Credits Index

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Book SynopsisIn order to understand positionality as it relates to research, it is important to learn how to identify and reflect on how knowledge is produced and reproduced. Research across Borders introduces key concepts and methods to understand and critically analyze research in academic books and journals, as well as in media, government reports, and anywhere else information is found. This book addresses the opportunities and challenges of undertaking research in international, cross-border, and cross-cultural contexts. Specifically designed for students studying interdisciplinary or international programs on topics such as human rights, conflict studies, international relations, global development, and migration, Research across Borders provides the methodological, ethical, and epistemological foundations for understanding research across different disciplines. Whether students are gathering information from secondary sources or conducting primary research, ResearcTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Preparing to Learn and Unlearn 1. Why Research across Borders? 2. How Is Knowledge Disciplined? The Opportunities and Challenges of Research across Disciplines and Epistemologies 3. Ethics, Power, and Positionality 4. Designing a Research Project across Borders 5. Measurement across Borders 6. Case Studies in Global Context 7. Sampling, Access, and Representation across Borders 8. Interviewing across Borders 9. Ethnographic Approaches across Borders: Observation, Participant Observation, Netnography, and “Hanging Out” 10. Participatory Research in International, Cross-Cultural Contexts 11. Analyzing Text and Images in Cross-Border Research 12. Presenting Research Findings across Borders: Reach, Responsibility, and Representation Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has not been systematically assessed. In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, scholars from a wide range of disciplines come together to explore what is at stake regarding portrayals of Islam(s) and Muslims in academic scholarship. Given the centrality of representations of Canadian Muslims in current public policy and public imaginaries, which effects how all Canadians experience religious diversity, this analysis of knowledge production comes at a crucial time.Table of ContentsPreface Amir Hussain Acknowledgments General Introduction: Producing Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Melanie Adrian Section 1: Examining Knowledge Production on Islam Epistemologies of the “Muslim Question” in Europe: On the Politics of Knowledge Production in a Minefield Schirin Amir-Moazami Research Funding and the Production of Knowledge about Islam: The Case of SSHRC Aaron W. Hughes Creating Ecologies of Knowledge as a MENA Scholar in North America: An Interview with Dr. Lara Deeb Sahver Kuzucuoglu The Study of Islam(s) and Western Academia: An Interview with Anver Emon Rehan Sayeed Section 2: Charting the Study of Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Who Are “Muslims in Canada”? An Analysis of the Qualitative Literature from 1997 to 2017 Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Lori G. Beaman Studying Muslim Minorities in Canada: Pitfalls Facing Researchers Attempting to Turn a Racialized Category into a Category of Analysis Paul Eid Time for a “Hijab Ban”? The Hypervisibility of Veiling in Scholarship on Islam in North America Sadaf Ahmed Expressions of Sufism in Canada Meena Sharify-Funk and Jason Idriss Sparkes Unpacking Media Coverage, Islam, and Ismaili Muslims in Canada: An Interview with Karim H. Karim Mehmet Ali Basak The Relational Approach to Integration in Canada: An Interview with Abdie Kazemipur Sara Hamed Section 3: Positioning Selves Researching One’s Own Community: Reflections from Montreal, Canada Hicham Tiflati and Abdelaziz Djaout Cooking Up Research: Positionality and the Knowledge Production of Islam(s) Rachel Brown Fieldworking While Veiled: Autoethnography of a Brown + Muslim + Female Researcher in Quebec Roshan Arah Jahangeer The Interplay of Identity in Ethnographic Conversations: The Grammar of Recognition in Conversion Narratives Géraldine Mossière On Critical Muslim Studies, Anti-Islamophobia, and Canadian Islamic Schools: An Interview with Jasmin Zine Mehmet Ali Basak Section 4: Future Trends Mixed-Methods and Comparative Approaches to Studying Muslim Immigrant Women in Canada Catherine Holtmann Influencing the Public Imaginary: The Case of a Montreal Islamic School Melanie Adrian 2(b) or Not 2(b): The Expressive Value of the Niqab Natasha Bakht Gendering Everyday Islam, Border-Crossings, and the Production of “Alternative Knowledge” Parin Dossa Dancing between Academia and Activism: An Interview with Katherine Bullock Sara Hamed List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and birth, reproduction in Vanuatu continues to exceed bureaucratic economization through Ni-Vanuatu insistence on Indigenous relationalities. Through her examination of how reproduction is made public, Alexandra Widmer demonstrates how population sciences have naturalized a focus on women’s fertility and privileged issues of wage labour over women’s land access and broader social relations of reproduction. Widmer draws on oral histories with retired village midwives and massage healers on the changes to care for pregnancy and birth, as well as ethnographic research in a village outside the capital of Port Vila. Locating the Pacific Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Map of the Pacific Ocean and Vanuatu Map of South Efate Map of Port Vila Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. “The Shortage of Women Is the Cause of These Courts”: Imbalanced Sex Ratios, Native Courts, and Marriage Disputes Made Public, 1910–1950 2. “The Nurses Looked Out for Us!”: Hospital Births, Relational Infrastructures, and Public Concerns, 1950–1970 3. “It Will Help Planning for the Future”: Making Men’s and Women’s “Subsistence” Public Knowledge in the First Census, 1966–1967 4. “I Just Wanted to Be Invisible”: “Young Mothers” from Global Discourse to Village Experience, 2010–2020 5. “Well-Being for Melanesia”: Alternative Indicators, Massage Healers, and Reciprocal Relationships, 2010–2020 Epilogue: Relations of Reproduction and Survival in the Anthropocene Appendix 1: Population Size from 1850 to 2020 Appendix 2: Overview of Biomedical Health Services in Vanuatu in 1954 Works Cited

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Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and birth, reproduction in Vanuatu continues to exceed bureaucratic economization through Ni-Vanuatu insistence on Indigenous relationalities. Through her examination of how reproduction is made public, Alexandra Widmer demonstrates how population sciences have naturalized a focus on women’s fertility and privileged issues of wage labour over women’s land access and broader social relations of reproduction. Widmer draws on oral histories with retired village midwives and massage healers on the changes to care for pregnancy and birth, as well as ethnographic research in a village outside the capital of Port Vila. Locating the Pacific Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Map of the Pacific Ocean and Vanuatu Map of South Efate Map of Port Vila Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. “The Shortage of Women Is the Cause of These Courts”: Imbalanced Sex Ratios, Native Courts, and Marriage Disputes Made Public, 1910–1950 2. “The Nurses Looked Out for Us!”: Hospital Births, Relational Infrastructures, and Public Concerns, 1950–1970 3. “It Will Help Planning for the Future”: Making Men’s and Women’s “Subsistence” Public Knowledge in the First Census, 1966–1967 4. “I Just Wanted to Be Invisible”: “Young Mothers” from Global Discourse to Village Experience, 2010–2020 5. “Well-Being for Melanesia”: Alternative Indicators, Massage Healers, and Reciprocal Relationships, 2010–2020 Epilogue: Relations of Reproduction and Survival in the Anthropocene Appendix 1: Population Size from 1850 to 2020 Appendix 2: Overview of Biomedical Health Services in Vanuatu in 1954 Works Cited

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Book SynopsisIn 1958 the Canadian Political Science Association established a committee to look into ways and means of improving statistical research in the Social Sciences in Canada. One of the ways in which the committee thought this could be done was by establishing an annual forum where papers could be presented and discussed. The papers given at the first in 1960 have already appeared, and the second volume contains six of the ten papers given at Sir George Williams University, Montreal, in 1961. The papers are diverse alike in subject and statistical method, but most are concerned with recent population and labour movements.The papers are: "Regional Aspects of Labour Mobility in Canada, 1956-1959" by H.F. Greenway and G.W. Wheatley; "The Flow of Migration among the Provinces of Canada, 1951-1961" by Yoshiko Kasashara; "La Détermination des zones agricoles sous-marginates" by Gérald Fortin; "Some Calculations Relating to Trends and Fluctuations in the Post-War Canadian Labour Market"

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Book SynopsisThis is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated, because of the lack of field work or because the materials on them had not been analysed and published. Levin has reviewed the old materials, gathered and analysed hitherto unpublished ones, and personally surveyed many of the peoples as a member of the Russian Northeastern Expedition. He makes use of all the data of physical anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, and linguistics on the peoples he describes and has thus provided a definitive work on a nearly forgotten segment of mankind inhabiting an extensive territory.Volume III in the series Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America and under

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Book SynopsisThis collection of translations from articles by Russian scholars continues the valuable contribution to Western knowledge of the anthropology of the North which is being made under the sponsorship of the Arctic Institute of North America. The subjects treated include: "The Ethnic Affiliation of the Population in the Northwest of the Yakut A.S.S.R." (with related papers); "Ancient Petroglyphs and Modern Decorative Art in the Amur Region"; "Contributions to the History of the Buryat People"; "On the Origin of the Kirgiz People"; "The Origins and Ethnic Composition of the Koybals"; "Volga-Oka Place Names and Some Problems of the Ethnogenesis of the Finno-Urgic Peoples of the Nganasans," nomadic hunters of tundra and forest like many of the other tribes studied. Volume II in the series Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources.

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Book SynopsisAddressing important and timely topics, including global climate change and the #MeToo movement, Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology is a fresh and contemporary textbook designed to engage students in the world surrounding them. The book offers a sustained focus on language, food, and sustainability in an inclusive format that is sensitive to issues of gender, sexuality, and race. Integrating personal stories from her own fieldwork, the author brings her passion for transformative learning to students in a way that is both timely and thought-provoking. Beautifully illustrated with over sixty full-color images, including comics and maps, the text brings concepts to life in a way sure to resonate with undergraduate readers. Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology is supplemented by a full suite of instructor and student supports that can be accessed at lensofculturalanthropology.com. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Boxes Acknowledgments About the Author Preface Note to Instructors Note to Students 1. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Learning Objectives Introduction: The Lens of Cultural Anthropology? The Culture Concept The Field of Anthropology Frameworks A Brief History of Anthropological Thought Anthropology and Colonialism The Importance of Cultural Anthropology Today Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 2. Studying Contemporary Culture Learning Objectives Introduction: Studying Culture What Are the Parts of Culture? Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism Cultural Adaptation and Maladaptation The Functions of Culture Child Rearing Fieldwork Methods and Ethics Applied Anthropology Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 3. Race and Ethnicity Learning Objectives Introduction: Is Race Real? Human Race Is Not Biological Biocultural Connections: Prejudice and Health History of the Race Concept Defining Ethnicity The Privilege of Fair Skin Discrimination Based on Caste Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 4. Language Learning Objectives Introduction: Language and Culture Definition of Language Language Origins Language and Communication: Signs and Symbols What Does a Linguistic Anthropologist Do? Communication beyond Words Ethnolinguistics Language Use in the Digital Age Language Loss Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 5. Food Learning Objectives Introduction: Food-Getting Practices Adaptive Strategies: Food Foragers and Food Producers Food Foragers Food Producers: Horticulturalists Food Producers: Pastoralists Food Producers: Industrialism Globalization of Food The Human Diet Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 6. Economic Resources Learning Objectives Introduction: Who Gets What and How? What Drives Economic Decisions? Production: Making the Things People Need and Want Distribution: How People Get the Things They Need and Want Consumption: How People Use the Things They Need and Want Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 7. Marriage and Family Learning Objectives Introduction: Marriage and Family Defining Marriage Spouses: How Many and Who Is Eligible? Family Residence Patterns Marriage as Economic Exchange Kinship Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 8. Gender and Sexuality Learning Objectives Introduction: Social Roles Based on Sex and Gender Defining Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Sexual Identity Masculine and Feminine Gender Identity Gendered Body Modifications Gendered Speech Gender Inequality Gendered Occupations Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 9. Politics and Power Learning Objectives Introduction: Politics and Power Power, Authority, and Prestige Social Controls and Conflict Resolution Types of Political Organization Social Inequality Violence and War Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 10. Supernaturalism Learning Objectives Introduction: Religion as a Symbolic System Defining Religion Reasons for Supernatural Belief Systems Sacred Roles Religious Practitioners Religious Resistance Supernatural Beliefs and Cultural Expression Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 11. Illness and Healing Learning Objectives Introduction: Studying Concepts of Illness and Healing Understanding Illness Cultural Concepts of Healing Health Inequality Disability Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions 12. Anthropology and Sustainability Learning Objectives Introduction: Anthropology and Sustainability History of Human-Environment Issues Defining Sustainability Anthropological Approaches to Sustainability Studies Issues in Sustainability Studies How Can Anthropologists Help? Summary Review Questions Discussion Questions Glossary References Index

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Book Synopsis From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential decree. Nationhood meant cultural as well as political independence, and the museum was expected to become a repository of national objects whose stories would provide the nation with an identity and teach its people to become citizens. Miruna Achim reconstructs the early years of the museum as an emerging object shaped by the logic and goals of historical actors who soon found themselves debating the origin of American civilizations, the nature of the American races, and the rightful ownership of antiquities. Achim also brings to life an array of fascinating characters—antiquarians, naturalists, artists, commercial agents, bureaucrats, diplomats, priests, Trade Review"This significant new study by Achim . . . analyzes the early history of the National Museum of Mexico, extending understanding of how Mexico centralized its role in debates about the development of precontact American civilizations. Achim is particularly good at analyzing how the underfunded museum was a place of active object transactions, not simply a government-supported institution that demonstrated to other nations that the modernity of a recently independent Mexico was a marker of its international status."—N. J. Parezo, Choice"From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico is a valuable addition. . . . Achim provides an engrossing account of the conflicted and contingent process through which the National Museum's early curators laid the foundations of what would evolve into one of the world's foremost museums."—Seonaid Valiant, Hispanic American Historical Review“A riveting read. Based on meticulous research and full of astute observations, this study interrogates the uncertain and fragile beginnings of one of the world’s most acclaimed museums. Miruna Achim addresses fundamental questions focused on the construction of cultural and political authority and legitimacy. It is an extraordinary achievement.”—Susan Deans-Smith, author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico “A truly outstanding contribution to the field that engages with the institution’s complex and multilayered dimensions, facets, interactions, and relations by weaving a fascinating tapestry encompassing both the private and the public. This is a rigorously researched piece of scholarship of the highest caliber.”—Will Fowler, author of Independent Mexico: The “Pronunciamiento” in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858 Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Uses of a National Museum 1. Genealogies 2. Measures of Worth 3. Collecting the Ruins of Palenque 4. Modes of Display 5. José Fernando Ramírez, Keeper of the Archive 6. Whose Museum? Epilogue: The Invention of Mexican Antiquities Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focused on researchers often known as the Boasians, The History of Anthropology reveals the theoretical schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the anthropology and ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell’s fifty-year career entails seminal writings in the history of anthropology’s four fields: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Edward Sapir, Daniel Brinton, Mary Haas, Franz Boas, Leonard Bloomfield, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stanley Newman, and A. Irving Hallowell, as well as the professionalization of anthropoloTrade Review"This work is relevant today as a history of linguistics in Boas's era of American anthropology, with segments on Sapir and his colleagues."—A. B. Kehoe, Choice"Regna Darnell has provided us with a key source for the documentation and analysis of the development of American anthropology. This is an important, nay, an excellent volume."—Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, Journal of Folklore Research“A profound understanding of the Boasian bedrock by a living legend in the history of anthropology. Against breaking with the past, Regna Darnell dialogues with Americanist ancestors from Powell to Hallowell and projects her own lifetime achievements—and metamorphoses—as historian of the discipline into the future.”—Christine Laurière and Frederico Delgado Rosa, directors of BEROSE: International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Editorial Method Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist 2. The Professionalization of American Anthropology: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge 3. The Development of American Folklore Scholarship, 1880–1920 4. The Emergence of Academic Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania 5. Documenting Disciplinary History 6. Franz Boas’s Legacy of “Useful Knowledge”: The APS Archives and the Future of Americanist Anthropology 7. Franz Boas: Scientist and Public Intellectual 8. Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist Text Tradition 9. The Emergence of Edward Sapir’s Mature Thought 10. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield’s Central Algonquian, and Sapir’s Distant Genetic Relationships 11. Camelot at Yale: The Construction and Dismantling of the Sapirian Synthesis, 1931–1939 12. Benedictine Visionings of Southwestern Cultural Diversity: Beyond Relativism 13. Benjamin Lee Whorf and the Boasian Foundations of Contemporary Ethnolinguistics 14. Mary R. Haas and the First Yale School of Linguistics 15. Stanley Newman and the Sapir School of Linguistics 16. Hallowell’s “Bear Ceremonialism” and the Emergence of Boasian Anthropology 17. Franz Boas and the Development of Physical Anthropology in North America Index

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Book SynopsisIn The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focused on researchers often known as the Boasians, The History of Anthropology reveals the theoretical schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the anthropology and ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell’s fifty-year career entails seminal writings in the history of anthropology’s four fields: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Edward Sapir, Daniel Brinton, Mary Haas, Franz Boas, Leonard Bloomfield, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stanley Newman, and A. Irving Hallowell, as well as the professionalization of anthropoloTrade Review"This work is relevant today as a history of linguistics in Boas's era of American anthropology, with segments on Sapir and his colleagues."—A. B. Kehoe, Choice"Regna Darnell has provided us with a key source for the documentation and analysis of the development of American anthropology. This is an important, nay, an excellent volume."—Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, Journal of Folklore Research“A profound understanding of the Boasian bedrock by a living legend in the history of anthropology. Against breaking with the past, Regna Darnell dialogues with Americanist ancestors from Powell to Hallowell and projects her own lifetime achievements—and metamorphoses—as historian of the discipline into the future.”—Christine Laurière and Frederico Delgado Rosa, directors of BEROSE: International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Editorial Method Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist 2. The Professionalization of American Anthropology: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge 3. The Development of American Folklore Scholarship, 1880–1920 4. The Emergence of Academic Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania 5. Documenting Disciplinary History 6. Franz Boas’s Legacy of “Useful Knowledge”: The APS Archives and the Future of Americanist Anthropology 7. Franz Boas: Scientist and Public Intellectual 8. Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist Text Tradition 9. The Emergence of Edward Sapir’s Mature Thought 10. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield’s Central Algonquian, and Sapir’s Distant Genetic Relationships 11. Camelot at Yale: The Construction and Dismantling of the Sapirian Synthesis, 1931–1939 12. Benedictine Visionings of Southwestern Cultural Diversity: Beyond Relativism 13. Benjamin Lee Whorf and the Boasian Foundations of Contemporary Ethnolinguistics 14. Mary R. Haas and the First Yale School of Linguistics 15. Stanley Newman and the Sapir School of Linguistics 16. Hallowell’s “Bear Ceremonialism” and the Emergence of Boasian Anthropology 17. Franz Boas and the Development of Physical Anthropology in North America Index

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Book SynopsisFrancio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist, he is a keen observer by honed habit. Simultaneously memoir and astute exploration, this book charts Guadeloupe's coming of age and adulthood in a Dutch world and movingly makes a global contribution to the understanding of anti-Black racism.

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Book SynopsisBy focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in worldtown, not in a second Chinatown. Drawing on interviews with members of a hundred households, Chen brings out telling aspects of demography, immigration experience, family life, and gender roles, and then turns to vivid, humanistic portraits of three families. Chen also describes the organizational life of the Chinese in Queens with a lively account of the power struggles and social interactions that occur within religious, sports, social service, and business groups and with the outside world.Trade ReviewChinatown No More is an informative addition to the urban, immigrant, and ethnic community literature. -- Sharon M. Lee * Contemporary Sociology *Chen's readable ethnography brings together his insights as both participant in and observer of an extraordinarily significant segment of America's changing ethnic landscape. Teachers from advanced high school onward should welcome this excellent introduction to Taiwan immigrants in Flushing, Queens. Academic specialists focusing on ethnic relations, on the complexities of class in the United States, or on the 'overseas Chinese' will also find Chen's study informative and thought provoking. -- Hill Gates * American Ethnologist *

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Book SynopsisHow have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundary established by Great Britain and France at the turn of the century.

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Book SynopsisIn The Frontier Effect, Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region''s violent history and unruly contemporary condition is the absence of the state. Although he takes this locally oft-repeated claim seriously, he demonstrates that Urabá is more than a case of Hobbesian political disorder.Through his insightful exploration of war, paramilitary organizations, grassroots support and resistance, and drug-related violence, Ballvé argues that Urabá, rather than existing in statelessness, has actually been an intense and persistent site of state-building projects. Indeed, these projects have thrust together an unlikely gathering of guerilla groups, drug-trafficking paramilitaries, military strategists, technocratic planners, local politicians, and development experts each seeking to give concrete coherence to the inherently unwieldy abstraction of the state in a space in which it supposedly does not exist. By untangling this odd mix, BalTrade ReviewThe Frontier Effect is beautifully written, grounding a complex argument in a carefully crafted narrative. This book crosses disciplinary divides in geography, anthropology, history, and political science. Scholars interested in conflict and peace studies, political economy, and development should absolutely read and teach this book. * The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Teo Ballvé provides an expansive, historical, and ethnographic analysis of diverse examples of state formation in the northwestern region of Colombia known as Urabá. The Frontier Effect is an engaging and sophisticated contribution to existing critical geographical scholarship concerning the social production of territory, land grabbing, and the political economy of conflict. [T]he text awards readers with an innovative and original analysis of the country's historical and ongoing conflict. * Human Geography *Overall, Ballvé offers outstanding research that will catch the attention of scholars interested in analysing the territorial contradictions of the relative stability of Colombia's democracy and the different forms and stages of the country's protracted political violence. * The Journal of Peasant Studies *The Frontier Effect will remain a vital guide to Colombia's ongoing yet fragile transition away from internal conflict, as well as to the nature of informal and formal politics in the contemporary world. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Producing the Frontier 2. Turf Wars in Colombia's Red Corner 3. The Paramilitary War of Position 4. Paramilitary Populism: In Defense of the Region 5. The Masquerades of Grassroots Development 6. The Postconflict Interregnum Uraba: A Sea of Opportunities?

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Book SynopsisIn To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh''s iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women''s empowerment. The book offers new ethnographic approaches that reincorporate relational economics into the study of social enterprise. It details the tactics, dilemmas, compromises, aspirations, and unexpected possibilities that digital social enterprise opens up for women entrepreneurs, and reveals the implications of policy models promoting women''s empowerment: the failure of focusing on individual autonomy and independence.While describing the historical and incomplete transition of Bangladesh''s development models from their roots in a patronage-based moral economy to a market-based social-enterprise arrangement, Huang concludes that market-driven interventions fail to grasp the sociopolitical and cultural contexts in which poverty and gender inequality are embTrade ReviewTo Be an Entrepreneur is an important, though academic, read. Both fascinating and disturbing, it is a cautionary tale on how not to do international development. * The Marketplace Magazine *To Be an Entrepreneur offers a nuanced assessment of disruption in development through careful ethnographic attention. In her ethnography, Huang's attention to these young women works to undo some of this erasure by focusing on their rich and complex lives and words. * The Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disruptive Development in Bangladesh iAgent Megh's Story 1. Women's Work: The Arena of Disruption 2. Digital Technology: The Problems of (and Solutions to) Connectivity iAgent Deepti's Story 3. The Making and Unmaking of Entrepreneurs 4. A Diversified Basket of Services iAgent Ayrin's Story 5. Middle-Class Projects and the Development Moral Economy 6. The Ambiguous Figures of Social Enterprise

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an excellent book on the shifts in the provision of food and nutrients in the global aid industry. On an Empty Stomach is both engaging and well written. The book makes us wiser, and deserves to be read by a wide audience. * Public Anthropologist *The exceptional range of material treated in this modern history, alongside Scott-Smith's unfailingly sharp analytical lens, render this an essential primer on efforts to feed the hungry in the modern world. * Gastronomica *[A]n interesting and, in many respects, revealing book.Scott-Smith is an evocative and clear writer, and his perspective is refreshing. * Technology and Culture *[T]he clear-cut framework proposed by Scott-Smith reflects an equilibrated and mindful attitude toward historical narrative. On an Empty Stomach is a book that commands attention in a field of study that has only recently started to develop and gain relevance. By proving himself able to bridge anthropology and history, but also driven by a sincere will to increase awareness among humanitarian nutritionists of the genealogy of their field of work, Tom Scott-Smith has written a convincing book, able to captivate a curious reader. * H-Soz-Kult *A lively, readable text. On an Empty Stomach is well written, meticulously detailed, teachable, and engaging. Grounded in close attention to the technologies and knowledges through which humanitarian food is delivered, it will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners concerned with humanitarianism, development, nutrition, and health. * Isis Book Review *Scott-Smith's On an Empty Stomach is a very important contribution to both socio-cultural anthropology and history concerning food relief. This mature study reveals a complex web of circumstances, discoveries, innovations, individual agencies and collective ideologies which shaped the current forms of food relief and approach to human diet Heartily recommended * Anthropological Journal of European Cultures *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Humanitarian Approaches to Hunger 1. From the Classical Soup Kitchen to the Irish Famine 2. Justus Liebig and the Rise of Nutritional Science 3. Governing the Diet in Victorian Institutions 4. Colonialism and Communal Strength 5. Social Nutrition at the League of Nations 6. Military Feeding during World War II 7. The Medicalization of Hunger and the Postwar Period 8. High Modernism and the Development Decade 9. Low Modernism after Biafra 10. Small-Scale Devices and the Low Modernist Legacy Conclusion: On an Empty Stomach

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Book SynopsisIn Uncertainty by Design Limor Samimian-Darash presents cases of the use of scenario technology in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing scenario narratives and practices at the National Emergency Management Authority in Israel, the World Health Organization''s Regional Office for Europe, and the World Energy Council. Humankind has long struggled with the uncertainty of the future, with how to foresee the future, imagine alternatives, or prepare for and guard against undesirable eventualities. Scenarioor scenario planningemerged in recent decades to become a widespread means through which states, large corporations, and local organizations imagine and prepare for the future. The scenario technology cases examined in Uncertainty by Design provide a useful lens through which to view contemporary efforts to engage in an overall journey of discovering the future, along with the modality of goveTable of ContentsIntroduction: Uncertainty, Scenarios, and the Future 1. Chronicity: The Problematization of Scenario Thinking 2. Narrative-Building: Imagining Plausible Futures 3. Exercising: Practicing the Unexpected 4. Subjectivation: Embracing Uncertainty 5. Simulations: Possibilities and Responses 6. Scenarios, Temporality, and Uncertainty Conclusions and Critical Limitations Epilogue: Scenarios and the Dynamics between Science and Imagination

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Book SynopsisIn Uncertainty by Design Limor Samimian-Darash presents cases of the use of scenario technology in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing scenario narratives and practices at the National Emergency Management Authority in Israel, the World Health Organization''s Regional Office for Europe, and the World Energy Council. Humankind has long struggled with the uncertainty of the future, with how to foresee the future, imagine alternatives, or prepare for and guard against undesirable eventualities. Scenarioor scenario planningemerged in recent decades to become a widespread means through which states, large corporations, and local organizations imagine and prepare for the future. The scenario technology cases examined in Uncertainty by Design provide a useful lens through which to view contemporary efforts to engage in an overall journey of discovering the future, along with the modality of goveTable of ContentsIntroduction: Uncertainty, Scenarios, and the Future 1. Chronicity: The Problematization of Scenario Thinking 2. Narrative-Building: Imagining Plausible Futures 3. Exercising: Practicing the Unexpected 4. Subjectivation: Embracing Uncertainty 5. Simulations: Possibilities and Responses 6. Scenarios, Temporality, and Uncertainty Conclusions and Critical Limitations Epilogue: Scenarios and the Dynamics between Science and Imagination

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics in Manila 2. Intimacy, Policing, and Violent Politics in Bagong Silang 3. Police Violence and Corruption in the War on Drugsand Before 4. The Violent Production of Urban Divides 5. Community Activism: From New Birth to the War on Drugs 6. Fraternity Denied 7. The War on Drugs and Beyond: Leaving Bagong Silang

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Book SynopsisCommunal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal examine how the war on drugs folded itself into communal and intimate spheres in one Manila neighborhood, Bagong Silang. Police killings have been regular occurrences since the birth of Bagong Silang. Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics shows that although the drug war was introduced from the outside, it fit into and perpetuated already existing gendered and generational structures. In Bagong Silang, the war on drugs implicated local structures of authority, including a justice system that had always been deeply integrated into communal relations. The ways in which the war on drugs transformed these intimate relations between the state and its citizens, and between neighbors, may turn out to be the most lasting impact of Duterte''s infamously violent policies.Table of Contents1. Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics in Manila 2. Intimacy, Policing, and Violent Politics in Bagong Silang 3. Police Violence and Corruption in the War on Drugsand Before 4. The Violent Production of Urban Divides 5. Community Activism: From New Birth to the War on Drugs 6. Fraternity Denied 7. The War on Drugs and Beyond: Leaving Bagong Silang

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Book SynopsisSounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing together chapters on the merging of Batak musical preferences and popular music aesthetics; the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a Balinese rock band; the burgeoning underground noise scene; the growing interest in kroncong in the United States; and what is included and excluded on Indonesian media, editors Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller expand the scope of Indonesian music studies. Essays analyzing the perception of decline among gamelan musicians in Central Java; changes in performing arts patronage in Bali; how gamelan communities form between Bali and North America; and reflecting on the refusion of American mathcore and Balinese gamelan offer new perspectives on more familiar topics.Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music calls for a new paradigm in popular music studies, grapples with the imperative to decolonTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller Part I: Musical Communities 1. Harmonic Egalitarianism in Toba Palm Wine Stands and Studios, by Julia Byl 2. The Evolution of Performing Arts Patronage in Bali, Indonesia, by I Nyoman Catra 3. Beyond the Banjar: Community, Education, and Gamelan in North America, by Elizabeth A. Clendinning 4. Decline and Promise: Observations from a Present-Day Pangrawit, by Darsono Hadiraharjo and Maho A. Ishiguro Part II: Music, Religion, and Civil Society 5. Singing "Naked" Verses: Interactive Intimacies and Islamic Moralities in Saluang Performances in West Sumatra, by Jennifer Fraser 6. From Texts to Invocation: Wayang Puppet Play from the North Coast of Java, by Sumarsam 7. The Politicization of Religious Melody in the Indonesian Culture Wars of 2017, by Anne K. Rasmussen Part III: Popular Musics and Media 8. The Vernacular Cosmopolitanism of an Indonesian Rock Band: Navicula's Creative and Activist Pathways, by Rebekah E. Moore 9. Keroncong in the United States, by Danis Sugiyanto 10. Reformasi-Era Popular Music Studies: Reflections of an Anti-Anti-Essentialist, by Jeremy Wallach 11. Indonesian Regional Music on VCD: Inclusion, Exclusion, Fusion, by Philip Yampolsky Part IV: Sound Beyond and As Music 12. A Radical Story of Noise Music from Indonesia, by Dimitri della Faille and Cedrik Fermont 13. Audible Knowledge: Exploring Sound in Indonesian Musik Kontemporer, by Christopher J. Miller Part V: Music, Gender, and Sexuality 14. "Even Stronger Yet!": Gender and Embodiment in Balinese Youth Arja, by Bethany J. Collier 15. A Prolegomenon to Female Rampak Kendang (Choreographed Group Drumming) in West Java, by Henry Spiller 16. Approaching the Magnetic Power of Femaleness through Cross-Gender Dance Performance in Malang, East Java, by Christina Sunardi Part VI: Perspectives from Practice 17. Nines on Teaching Beginning Gamelan, by Jody Diamond 18. "Fix Your Face": Performing Attitudes Between Mathcore and Beleganjur, by I Putu Tangkas Hiranmayena 19. Wanbayaning: Voicing a Transcultural Islamic Feminist Exegesis, by Jessica Kenney Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Enveloped Care Interlude 1: The Circulating Chocolate Box 1. From Bribes to Copayments: Transforming Health Care in Lithuania Interlude 2: The Surprise 2. Being Caught: Envelopes and Illness Interlude 3: Of Envelopes and Greedy Doctors 3. "I Am a Doctor": Caught in Ambivalence 4. Collective Care: Relations of Obligation Epilogue: From Litai to Euros

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2024 BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) Women''s Forum.Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa Klumbyte investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor. Broom was multidirectionalit both facilitated Communist Party agendas and expressed opposition toward the Soviet regime. Official satire and humor in Soviet Lithuania increasingly created dystopian visions of Soviet modernity and were a forum for critical ideas and nationalist sentiments that were mobilized in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Authoritarian LauTrade ReviewThis book—a historical ethnography of Soviet Lithuania's satire magazine The Broom—is an insightful reading produced thirty years after the state discipline of Soviet socialism was replaced by the self-discipline of Lithuanian nationalism. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Authoritarian Laughter 1. Banality of Soviet Power 2. Political Intimacy 3. The Soviet Predicament 4. Censorial Indistinction 5. Political Aesthetics 6. Multidirectional Laughter 7. Satirical Justice 8. Soviet Dystopia Post Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian Laughter Conclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2024 BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) Women''s Forum.Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa Klumbyte investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor. Broom was multidirectionalit both facilitated Communist Party agendas and expressed opposition toward the Soviet regime. Official satire and humor in Soviet Lithuania increasingly created dystopian visions of Soviet modernity and were a forum for critical ideas and nationalist sentiments that were mobilized in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Authoritarian LauTrade ReviewThis book—a historical ethnography of Soviet Lithuania's satire magazine The Broom—is an insightful reading produced thirty years after the state discipline of Soviet socialism was replaced by the self-discipline of Lithuanian nationalism. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Authoritarian Laughter 1. Banality of Soviet Power 2. Political Intimacy 3. The Soviet Predicament 4. Censorial Indistinction 5. Political Aesthetics 6. Multidirectional Laughter 7. Satirical Justice 8. Soviet Dystopia Post Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian Laughter Conclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma

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Book SynopsisOne China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People''s Republic of China pointed over a thousand missiles across the Taiwan Strait, it sent millions of tourists in the same direction with the encouragement of Taiwan''s politicians and businesspeople. Contrary to the PRC''s efforts to use tourism to incorporate Taiwan into an imaginary One China, tourism aggravated tensions between the two polities, polarized Taiwanese society, and pushed Taiwanese popular sentiment farther toward support for national self-determination. Consequently, Taiwan was performed as a part of China for Chinese group tourists versus experienced as a place of everyday life. Taiwan''s national identity grew increasingly plural, such that not just one or two, but many Taiwans coexisted, even as it faced an existential military threat. Ian Rowen''s treatment of tourism as a political technology provides a new theoretical lens for sTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. How Taiwan Became an Exceptional Territory 2. The Rise of Cross-Strait Travel and Tourism 3. Taiwan as Tourist Heterotopia 4. Circling Taiwan, Chinese Tour-Group Style 5. The Varieties of Independent Tourist Experience 6. Waves of Tourists, Waves of Protest, and the End of "One China" Epilogue

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Funeral Industry and the Making of Market Subjects 1. Civil Governance 2. Market Governance 3. The Fragile Middle Part 2: Death Ritual and Pluralist Subjectivity 4. Individualism, Interrupted 5. Dying Socialist in "Capitalist" Shanghai 6. Dying Religious in a Socialist Ritual 7. Pluralism, Interrupted Conclusion

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Book SynopsisGoverning Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into modern citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promoting a market-oriented and individualistic ethos. However, things have not gone as planned.Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about the funerals she witnessed and the life stories of two kinds of funeral workers: state workers who are quasi-government officials and semilegal private funeral brokers. She shows that end-of-life commemoration in urban China today is characterized by the resilience of social conventions and not a shift toward market economy individualization. Rather than seeing a rise of indTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Funeral Industry and the Making of Market Subjects 1. Civil Governance 2. Market Governance 3. The Fragile Middle Part 2: Death Ritual and Pluralist Subjectivity 4. Individualism, Interrupted 5. Dying Socialist in "Capitalist" Shanghai 6. Dying Religious in a Socialist Ritual 7. Pluralism, Interrupted Conclusion

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