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Book Synopsis\u0022Now everybody loves Puerto Rican culture,\u0022 says a Puerto Rican schoolteacher and festival organizer, \u0022but that's exactly the problem.\u0022 Thus begins this major examination of cultural nationalism as a political construct involving party ideologies, corporate economic goals, and grassroots cultural groups. Author Arlene Davila focuses on the Institute for Puerto Rican Culture, the government institution charged with defining authenticated views of national identity since the 1950s, and on popular festival organizers to illuminate contestations over appropriate representations of culture in the increasingly mass-mediated context of contemporary Puerto Rico. She examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a \u0022unifying\u0022 Hispanic heritage, and the ways in which grassroots organizations challenge and reconfigure definitions of national identity through their own activities and representations. Davila pays particular attention to the increasing prominence of corporate sponsorship in determining what is distinguished as authentic \u0022Puerto Rican culture\u0022 and discusses the politicization of culture as a discourse to debate and legitimize conflicting claims from selling commercial product to advocating divergent status options for the island. In so doing, Davila illuminates the prospects for cultural identities in an increasingly transnational context by showing the growth of cultural nationalism to be intrinsically connected to forms of political action directed to the realm of culture and cultural politics. This in-depth examination also makes clear that despite contemporary concerns with \u0022authenticity,\u0022 commercialism is an inescapable aspect of all cultural expression on the island.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Making and Marketing National Identities Chapter I Securing the Nation through Politics Chapter II The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the Building Blocks of Nationality Chapter III From the Center to the Centros: Cultural Politics from Below Chapter IV Just One More Festival: New Actors in Caone's Cultural Politics Chapter V Culture, Politics, and Corporate Sponsorship Chapter VI Contesting the Nation, Contesting Identities Conclusion Cassettes, Posters, and Bumper Stickers Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe authors employ the techniques of oral history to penetrate the nether world of the drug user, giving us an engrossing portrait of life in the drug subculture during the 'classic' era of strict narcotic control.Trade ReviewPraise for the previous edition of Addicts Who Survived:"This study has much to say to a general audience, as well as those involved in drug control." —Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisHandedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct, extent of lateralization varies. All known populations of living human beings apparently favor the right hand, motorically, culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is, neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.) are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right; explaining this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental causal variables. To tackle these questions and advance our knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in this Annals volume come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics, neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and psychiatry. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal.Table of Contentsv Introduction to The Evolution of Human Handedness William C. McGrew, Wulf Schiefenhövel, and Linda F. Marchant Comparative 1 Handedness is more than laterality: lessons from chimpanzees Linda F. Marchant and William C. McGrew 9 Laterality in the gestural communication of wild chimpanzees Catherine Hobaiter and Richard W. Byrne 17 Neuroanatomical asymmetries and handedness in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): a case for continuity in the evolution of hemispheric specialization William D. Hopkins Substrates 36 The protocadherin 11X/Y (PCDH11X/Y) gene pair as determinant of cerebral asymmetry in modern Homo sapiens Thomas H. Priddle and Timothy J. Crow 48 Multilocus genetic models of handedness closely resemble single-locus models in explaining family data and are compatible with genome-wide association studies J.C. McManus, Angus Davison, and John A. L. Armour 59 Laterality and the evolution of the prefronto-cerebellar system in anthropoids Jeroen B. Smaers, James Steele, Charleen R. Case, and Katrin Amunts Human evolution 70 Primate laterality and the biology and evolution of human handedness: a review and synthesis W. Tecumseh Fitch and Stephanie N. Braccini 86 Skeletal evidence for variable patterns of handedness in chimpanzees, human hunter-gatherers, and recent British populations Jay T. Stock, Meghan K. Shirley, Lauren A. Sarringhaus, Tom G. Davies, and Colin N. Shaw 100 The fighting hypothesis in combat: how well does the fighting hypothesis explain human left-handed minorities? Ton G.G. Groothuis, I.C. McManus, Sara M. Schaafsma, and Reint H. Geuze 110 The fighting hypothesis as an evolutionary explanation for the handedness polymorphism in humans: where are we? Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond Modern Humans 114 The nature and nurture of human infant hand preference Jacqueline Fagard 124 Laterality of handgrip strength: age- and physical training-related changes in Lithuanian schoolchildren and conscripts Janina Tutkuviene and Wulf Schiefenhövel 135 Biased semantics for right and left in 50 Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages Wulf Schiefenhövel

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Book SynopsisThe work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Many of the basic data were gathered by members of the seminar and the theoretical framework presented here was initially developed in the context of the seminar discussions. Much has been discovered since 1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons, and something, albeit less, can now also be said with some confidence regarding the constraining effects of these language-independent processes of color perception and conceptualization on the direction of evolution of basic color term lexicons.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The data, hypothesis, and general findings; 2. Evolution of basic color terms; 3. The data; 4. Summary of results and some speculations; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Appendix IV; Notes; References Cited; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of new essays suggests ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.Trade Review"Steve Redhead's book is a collection of pieces that show 'popular cultural studies' (as he calls it) at their most lucid and at the same time their most frustrating. The collection maps the shift form subculture- fairly rigid oppositional groups responding to dominant cultural trends-to clubcultures which are apparently more diverse, fragmentary and consumerist. This shift is framed within the move from 'moralistic individualism to hedonistic individualism'. as such the book maps Redhead's unique blend of socio-legal critique, demonstrating the centrality of the popular in the regulation and legitimation of society." Bookends 1998. "Combining a thoughtful assessment of the intellectual roots of cultural studies with an impassioned inquiry into its future directions, this original and intellectually vibrant collection of essays is an important intervention in the field. By rigorously insisting on the importance of questions about social structure and social process to cultural studies’ past, the authors of these essays demonstrate how a more socially oriented approach can revivify the tradition and strengthen its capacity fir practical and political intervention in the future. A ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the work that cultural studies can do." – Janice Radway, Duke University "In this exciting collection, Long has drawn together scholars whose work represents the potential shared concerns and characteristics of sociology and cultural studies: that of responding to changes in the world and maintaining a sense of a project for a more egalitarian society. It will be of interest to sociologists and cultural studies scholars and students alike as a set of invigorating challenges to both fields." – Ann Gray, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Engaging Sociology and Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Social Change: Elizabeth Long (Rice University). Part I: Thinking Through Memory and Tradition:. 1. Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies: Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany). 2. Reading Architecture in the Holocaust Museum: A Method and an Empirical Illustration: Magali Sarfatti Larson (Temple University). 3. Subject Crises and Subject Work: Repositioning DuBois: Jon Cruz (University of California, Santa Barbara). 4. Conserving Cultural Studies: Andres Goodwin and Janet Wolff (University of San Francisco and University of Rochester). Part II: Reframing Popular Forms and Usages:. 5. Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego). 6. Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Tricia Rose (New York University). 7. Situating Television in Everyday Life: Reformulating a Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Television Use: Ron Lembo (Amherst College). 8. Facing Up to What's Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory: George Lipsitz. Part III: Relating Cultural Processes and Social Inequality:. 9. Colliding Moralities Between Black and White Workers: Michele Lamont (Princeton University). 10. The Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Best-Selling 'Gurus' of Appropriate Child-rearing: Sharon Hays (University of Virginia). 11. Mexican American Youth and the Politics of Caring: Angela Valenzuela (Rice University). 12. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics: Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz). Part IV: Engaging Disciplinarity and Other Politics of Knowledge:. 13. The Social Construction of "Social Cunstruction": Notes on "Teddy Bear Patriarchy": Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego). 14. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others: George Marcus (Rice University). 15. The Men We Left Behind Us, or Reading Our Br(others): Narratives Around and About Feminism from White, Leftwing, Academic Men: Judith Newton and Judith Stacey (University of California at Davis and University of Southern California). 16. Re-Inventing Cultural Studies: Remembering for the Best Version: Richard Johnson (Nottingham Trent University). 17. Whither Cultural Studies?: Ellen Messer-Davidow (University of Minnesota). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of new essays suggests ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.Trade Review"Steve Redhead's book is a collection of pieces that show 'popular cultural studies' (as he calls it) at their most lucid and at the same time their most frustrating. The collection maps the shift form subculture- fairly rigid oppositional groups responding to dominant cultural trends-to clubcultures which are apparently more diverse, fragmentary and consumerist. This shift is framed within the move from 'moralistic individualism to hedonistic individualism'. as such the book maps Redhead's unique blend of socio-legal critique, demonstrating the centrality of the popular in the regulation and legitimation of society." Bookends 1998. "Combining a thoughtful assessment of the intellectual roots of cultural studies with an impassioned inquiry into its future directions, this original and intellectually vibrant collection of essays is an important intervention in the field. By rigorously insisting on the importance of questions about social structure and social process to cultural studies’ past, the authors of these essays demonstrate how a more socially oriented approach can revivify the tradition and strengthen its capacity fir practical and political intervention in the future. A ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the work that cultural studies can do." – Janice Radway, Duke University "In this exciting collection, Long has drawn together scholars whose work represents the potential shared concerns and characteristics of sociology and cultural studies: that of responding to changes in the world and maintaining a sense of a project for a more egalitarian society. It will be of interest to sociologists and cultural studies scholars and students alike as a set of invigorating challenges to both fields." – Ann Gray, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Engaging Sociology and Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Social Change: Elizabeth Long (Rice University). Part I: Thinking Through Memory and Tradition:. 1. Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies: Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany). 2. Reading Architecture in the Holocaust Museum: A Method and an Empirical Illustration: Magali Sarfatti Larson (Temple University). 3. Subject Crises and Subject Work: Repositioning DuBois: Jon Cruz (University of California, Santa Barbara). 4. Conserving Cultural Studies: Andres Goodwin and Janet Wolff (University of San Francisco and University of Rochester). Part II: Reframing Popular Forms and Usages:. 5. Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego). 6. Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Tricia Rose (New York University). 7. Situating Television in Everyday Life: Reformulating a Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Television Use: Ron Lembo (Amherst College). 8. Facing Up to What's Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory: George Lipsitz. Part III: Relating Cultural Processes and Social Inequality:. 9. Colliding Moralities Between Black and White Workers: Michele Lamont (Princeton University). 10. The Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Best-Selling 'Gurus' of Appropriate Child-rearing: Sharon Hays (University of Virginia). 11. Mexican American Youth and the Politics of Caring: Angela Valenzuela (Rice University). 12. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics: Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz). Part IV: Engaging Disciplinarity and Other Politics of Knowledge:. 13. The Social Construction of "Social Cunstruction": Notes on "Teddy Bear Patriarchy": Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego). 14. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others: George Marcus (Rice University). 15. The Men We Left Behind Us, or Reading Our Br(others): Narratives Around and About Feminism from White, Leftwing, Academic Men: Judith Newton and Judith Stacey (University of California at Davis and University of Southern California). 16. Re-Inventing Cultural Studies: Remembering for the Best Version: Richard Johnson (Nottingham Trent University). 17. Whither Cultural Studies?: Ellen Messer-Davidow (University of Minnesota). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first account of the Lapita peoples, the common ancestor of the Polynesians, Micronesians, and Austronesian-speaking Melanesians who over the last 4000 years colonized the islands of the Pacific, including New Zealand and territories as far afield as Fiji and Hawaii. Its purpose is to provide answers to some of the most puzzling archaeological and anthropological questions: who were the Lapita peoples? what was their history? how were they able to travel such great distances? and why did they do so? Recent discoveries (several by the author of this book) have begun at last to yield a coherent picture of these elusive peoples. Professor Kirch takes the reader back many thousands of years to the earliest evidence of the Lapita peoples. He describes the research itself and conveys the excitement of the first discoveries of Lapita settlements, tools and pottery. He then traces the remarkable cultural development and spread of the Lapita peoples across the unoccupied islands of Eastern Melanesia, Micronesia and Western Polynesia. He shows how they became the progenitors of the Polynesian and Austronesian-speaking Melanesian peoples. The author describes Lapita sites, communities and landscapes, the development of their decorated ceramics, and their shell-tool industry. He reveals the means by which they accomplished such prodigious voyages and explains why they undertook them. He illustrates his account with specially drawn maps and with a wide range of photographs, many published for the first time. Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, anthropology, biology and linguistics, and written in clear, non-specialized language, this is an outstanding book of great importance to the history of South-East Asia and the Pacific.Trade Review"This book marvellously conveys the excitement of an entire generation of the Lapita research but at the same time presents a comprehensive account of what this research has revealed about the " community culture" associated with the Lapita ... an excellent and informative read. (Asian Studies Association of Australia)Table of ContentsPlates. Figures. Maps. Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. 2. Old Melanesia. 3. The Lapita Dispersal. 4. Lapita in Linguistics and Biological Perspective. 5. Lapita Pottery and the "Community of Culture". 6. Between Land and Sea: Houses, Settlements, and Society. 7. Lapita Economy and the Ecology of Islands. 8. Systems of Exchange. 9. Epilogue: The Lapita Legacy. Appendix: Gazetteer of Major Lapital Sites. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Dictionary of Anthropology is designed to become the standard reference guide to the discipline of social and cultural anthropology. Its core consists of substantial analytical articles focusing on key anthropological concepts, theories and methodologies.Trade Review"A bargain, the dictionary is a handy ready-reference source and should be particularly useful to students" Joyce Ogburn, Old Dominion University "The Barfield work will probably be of greatest value to people in related fields or to beginning teachers of anthropology who may need a quick fix on central ideas or people." Philip K. Bock, University of New MexicoTable of ContentsPreface. How to Use the Dictionary. List of Contributors. Dictionary Entries A-Z. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe Origins of Human Society traces the development of human culture from its origins over 2 million years ago to the emergence of literate civilization. In addition to a global coverage of prehistoric life, the book pays specific attention to the origins and dispersal of anatomically-modern humans, the development of symbolic expression, the transition from mobile foraging bands to sedentary households, early agriculture and its consequences, the emergence of social differentiation and hereditary ranking, and the prehistoric roots of ancient states and empires. The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.Trade Review"Bogucki has succeeded admirably in his attempt to review the most up-to-date findings and interpretive issues in world prehistory ... This book will enlarge and modify our understanding of prehistory." Journal of World History Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. A Note on Dating. 1. The Gateway to Human Prehistory. 2. The Earliest Human Societies. 3. The Human Diaspora. 4. After the Ice Age. 5. Seeds for Civilization. 6. Pathways to Inequality. 7. Elites and Commoners. 8. Early States and Chiefdoms in the Shadow of States. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective.Trade Review"Technology and Social Agency is the most provocative and significant book on the relationship between the material world and the human condition to appear in anthropology since Leslie A. White's The Evolution of Culture (1959). Unlike its polemic predecessor, however, Technology and Social Agency avoids instrumental determinism and establishes the challenging alternative of technology as a total social fact centered around individual human beings in meaningful communities of cultural practice. In reaffirming the human and social dimensions of all technological practice and technique, Marcia-Anne Dobres establishes instead the role of material items in all social discourse and social reproduction. As a poetic manifesto for technology and human action Technology and Social Agency will be a flash point of intelligent debate of these issues for the next decade, and perhaps beyond." Professor John Edward Clark, Brigham Young University. "The true value of this book is that it has brought together a wide range of previous work on technolgy. It is a well-referenced discussion of a significant trend in technological studies, an area of study to which Dobres herself has made a major contribution. I hope Dobres will continue to make a significant contribution to these debates." Bill Sillar, University College London, for Antiquity 2003 "I found the book a thorougly researched and well-argued example of an inter-disciplinary approach, bringing together ideas from phenomenological philosphy,the sociology of technology and science and from material culture debates within British and American Anthropology ... a well informed work that is both highly innovative and challenging." Cambridge AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Of Black Boxes and Matters Material: The State of Things. 2. Deconstructing the Black Box: Some Philosophical and Historical Reflections on the Logos Tekhne. 3. Prying Open the Black Box: Philosophical Insights on Technology and Being. 4. A Synoptic Approach to Technology: Conceptual Contours of a Practice Framework. 5. Social Agency and Practice: The Heart and Soul of Technology. 6. Engendering the Chaine Operatoire: Methodological Issues. 7. A Future for Technology's Pasts. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective.Trade Review"Technology and Social Agency is the most provocative and significant book on the relationship between the material world and the human condition to appear in anthropology since Leslie A. White's The Evolution of Culture (1959). Unlike its polemic predecessor, however, Technology and Social Agency avoids instrumental determinism and establishes the challenging alternative of technology as a total social fact centered around individual human beings in meaningful communities of cultural practice. In reaffirming the human and social dimensions of all technological practice and technique, Marcia-Anne Dobres establishes instead the role of material items in all social discourse and social reproduction. As a poetic manifesto for technology and human action Technology and Social Agency will be a flash point of intelligent debate of these issues for the next decade, and perhaps beyond." Professor John Edward Clark, Brigham Young University. "The true value of this book is that it has brought together a wide range of previous work on technolgy. It is a well-referenced discussion of a significant trend in technological studies, an area of study to which Dobres herself has made a major contribution. I hope Dobres will continue to make a significant contribution to these debates." Bill Sillar, University College London, for Antiquity 2003 "I found the book a thorougly researched and well-argued example of an inter-disciplinary approach, bringing together ideas from phenomenological philosphy,the sociology of technology and science and from material culture debates within British and American Anthropology ... a well informed work that is both highly innovative and challenging." Cambridge AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Of Black Boxes and Matters Material: The State of Things. 2. Deconstructing the Black Box: Some Philosophical and Historical Reflections on the Logos Tekhne. 3. Prying Open the Black Box: Philosophical Insights on Technology and Being. 4. A Synoptic Approach to Technology: Conceptual Contours of a Practice Framework. 5. Social Agency and Practice: The Heart and Soul of Technology. 6. Engendering the Chaine Operatoire: Methodological Issues. 7. A Future for Technology's Pasts. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of the body is one of the most recent, and hotly contested areas of inquiry among philosophers today.Trade Review"It may be the most comprehensive and impressive collection to date." Dorothea Olkowski, University to Denver "The volume provides an excellent survey of theories of the body that have been advanced during the Nineties" Lieke van der Scheer, Ethical Perspectives 5Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Situating the Body: Donn Welton. Part I: Contested Constructions:. 1. Sex and Gender. Man and Woman: Rom Harré. 2. Gender and Performance. Selections from Gender Trouble: Judith Butler. 3. Power, Practice, and the Body. "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture: Susan Bordo. 4. The Question of Materiality. Material Bodies: Susan Heckman;. Selection from Bodies that Matter: Judith Butler;. Bringing Body to Theory: Susan Bordo. 5. Renaturalization Theory. Renaturalizing the Body (with the Help of Merleau-Ponty): Carol Bigwood. Part II: Constitutional Matrices:. 6. Lived Body. A Tale of Two Bodies: the Cartesian Corpse and the Lived Body: Drew Leder. 7. Body Image and Body Schema. Body Image and Body Schema in a Deafferented Subject: Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Cole. 8. Natural Powers and Animate Form. Corporeal Archetypes and Power: Preliminary Clarifications and Considerations of Sex: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. 9. Affectivity and Eros. Affectivity, Eros and the Body: Donn Welton. 10. Habitualities. The Ghost of Embodiment: on Bodily Habitudes and Schemata: Edward Casey. Part III: The Flesh of Culture:. 11. Biblical Roots. Biblical Bodies: Donn Welton. 12. Situated Bodies. Throwing like a Girl: Iris Young;. Pregnant Embodiment: Iris Young;. "Throwing like a Girl": Twenty Years Later: Iris Young. 13. Slender Bodies. Reading the Slender Body: Susan Bordo. 14. Regimented Bodies. Male Bodies and the "White Terror": Klaus Theweleit. 15. Sculpted Bodies. Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies: Katherine Pauly Morgan. 16. Virtual Bodies. Bodies, Virtual Bodies and Technology: Don Ihde. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis unique collection of the writings of Rudolf Klein - historian, journalist, political scientist and policy analyst - represents the products of his career as an observer of politics and society over the last four decades.Trade Review"Original voices are rare. Rudolf Klein has been a startling and important explicator of health policy and social services. His is still the most original voice in chronicling and critiquing the politics of the British health service. His forays into other systems, notably the U.S. system, have been equally provocative. Why do we have the systems we have? Why can we not agree on one way of organizing services and stick with it? Read Rudolf Klein and see." – Rosemary StevensTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements.. Part I. Spectator Sports. 1. The Gargoyle Theatre. 2. London Opera. 3. A View from the Terrace. 4. Chelsea Knock Down Ambitious Arsenal. 5. Television. 6. Soccer and Society. 7. Chelsea Cover Up Their Weak Spots. 8. Left, Right & Other Stereotypes. 9. Ministering to Britain. 10. Crumbling the Barricades. 11. Orthodox Unconventionality. 12. Inequality and Politics.. Part II. Government Observed. 13. Shame and Prejudice. 14. The £6,000,000,000 Question. 15. Egoists of the World. 16. Planners Who Leap into the Dark. 17. Callaghan’s Dilemma: to Tax or Not to Tax. 18. New Deal for Incomes. 19. Labour Moves Closer to Tories on Welfare. 20. What is Wrong With Housing. 21. Jay as Wilson’s Secret Weapon. 22. A Man for All Classes. 23. Controlling THEM. 24. You Won’t Read This …. 25. Curbing Whitehall. 26. Saving Labour’s First-born. 27. The Message is McLuhan. 28. The Doers and the Done-to. 29. Masters Into Managers. 30. Participation v. Efficiency. 31. Barbara’s Strike Cure. 32. How to Live with Cannabis. 33. Who Should Run Our Schools?. 34. What is the Difference?. 35. The Wilson Era.. Part III. From Public to Social Policy. 36. The Management of Britain. 37. Growth and Its Enemies. 38. The Stalemate Society. 39. The Politics of Public Expenditure: American Theory and British Practice. 40. Universities in the Market Place. 41. The Welfare State: A Self-Inflicted Crisis?. 42. The Social Policy Man: Priest or Pragmatist?. 43. Edwin Chadwick 1800-90. 44. O’Goffe’s Tale, Or, What Can We Learn From the Success of the Capitalist Welfare States?. Part IV. The Politics of Health Care. 45. N.H.S Reorganisation: the Politics of the Second Best. 46. Ideology, Class and the National Health Service. 47. Models of Man and Models of Policy: Reflections on Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Ten Years Later. 48. Health Care in the Age of Disillusionment. 49. The NHS and the Theatre of Inadequacy. 50. Acceptable Inequalities. 51. From Status to Contract: The Transformation of the British Medical Profession. 52. The State and the Profession: The Politics of the Double Bed. 53. Risks and Benefits of Comparative Studies: Notes from Another Shore. 54. Rationing in Action – Dimensions of Rationing: Who Should Do What?. 55. The Goals of Health Policy: Church or Garage?. 56. Labour’s Health Policy: A Retreat from Ideology.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals. The way in which humans articulate identities, social hierarchies, and their inversions through relations with animals has been a fruitful topic in anthropological and historical investigations for the last several years. The contributors to this volume call attention to the symbolic meanings of animals, from the casting of first-year students as goats in medieval universities to the representation of vermin as greedy thieves in early modern England. But the essays in this volume are also concerned with the more material and bodily aspects of animal-human relations, like eating regulations, aggression, and transplanting of animal organs into human beings [xenotransplantation]. Modern biologists have increasingly problematized the human-animal boundary. Researchers have challenged the supposedly unique ability of humans to use language. Chimpanzees and gorillas, it has been argued, have learned to communicate using American Sign Language. In addition, some scientists regard the sophistication of modes of communication in species like dolphins and songbirds as undermining the view of humans as uniquely capable of complex expressions. As studies of nonhuman primates threaten to compromise the long-held assumption that only humans possess self-awareness. The question becomes: How can one firmly differentiate human beings from other animals? Contributors include Piers Beirne, Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., Mary E. Fissell, Paul H. Freedman, Ruth Mazo Karras, Susan E. Lederer, Rob Meens, John H. Murrin, James A. Serpell, and H. Peter Steeves. Angela N. H. Creager andWilliam Chester Jordan are Associates of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University.Trade ReviewThe Animal/Human Boundary will stand as a model for how research from different historical perspectives can be brought together in a coherent, valuable whole. * ANTHROZOOS, 2004 *Table of ContentsEating Animals in the Early Middle Ages: Classifying the Animal World and Building Group Ideentities Rob MeensRob Meens The Representation of Medieval Peasants as Bestial and as Human Paul Freedman Separating the Men from the Goats: Masculinity, Civilization, and Identity Formation in the Medieval University Ruth Mazo KarrasRuth Mazo Karras Imagining Vermin in Early Modern England Mary E. Fissell "Things Fearful to Name": Bestiality in Early America John M. Murrin Guardian Spirits or Demonic Pets: The Concept of the Witch's Familiar in Early Modern England, 1530-1712. James A. SerpellJames A. Serpell On the Sexual Assault of Animals: A Sociological View Piers Beirne The Familiar Other and Feral Selves: Life at the Human/Animal Boundary H. Peter SteevesH. Peter Steeves The Founders of Ethology and the Problem of Human Aggression: A Study in Ethology's Ecologies Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. Animal Parts/Human Bodies: Organic Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century America Susan E. LedererSusan E. Lederer

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Book SynopsisExamines the changing political and social strategies of contemporary young people around the globeTrade Review"Telling Young Lives provides us with thirteen in depth portraits of young people around the globe, as they navigate their way through homelessness, precarious labor, ethnic conflict, religious persecutions and simple everyday challenges of growing up. Told in rich, often lyrical detail, and through the voices of these young people themselves, each narrative is supplemented with suggested additional scholarly readings. Telling Young Lives provides the reader with a compelling introduction into the politics of everyday life as shaped and experienced by contemporary young people. A great read."—Sue Ruddick, Associate Professor of Geography, University of TorontoTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Saka: Growing Up in the Indian Himalayas 3. "All My Life, I've Bounced Around": A Portrait of Blacc 4. Vusi Majola: "Walking Until the Shoes Is Finsihed" 5. Young, White, Male, and Working Class: A Portrait of Richard 6. Young, Male, Scottish, and Muslim: A Portrait of Kabir 7. Politics, Lifestyle, and Identity: The Story of Sven, Eastern Germany 8. "Each and Every Single Story About Me…There's Like a Huge Twist to It": Growing Up at Risk in the United States —A A Portrait of Mike 9. Zilho's Journeys: Displacement and Return in Bosnia-Herzegovina 10. Rocks: A Portrait of Mohammed 11. From Footballs to Fixer: Suresh and the New Politicians in North India 12. Telling Nala's Story: Negotiating the Global Agendas and Local Politics of Maasai Development in Tanzania 13. Darkest Whiteness: Race, Class, and Culture in Global Times: A Portrait of Helena 14. Young, Deaf, and Lesbian: A Portrait of Susannah 15. Afterword: Global Portraits and Local Snapshots About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEver since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humans—bipedal apes, actually—first emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed, as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe and finally the New World.Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveries—Mary Leakey’s Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johanson’s Lucy in 1974, and most recently Martin Pickford’s Millennium Man, to name just a few—experts in genetics were looking at the human species from a very different angle. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick first saw the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that humans share 98.7% of their genes with the great apes—that in fact genetically we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas. And most recently the entire human genome has been mapped—we now know where each of the genes on the chromosomes that make up DNA is located on the double helix.In Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves, two of the world’s foremost scientists, geneticist Rob DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, show how research into the human genome confirms what fossil bones have told us about human origins. This unprecedented integration of the fossil and genomic records provides the most complete understanding possible of humanity’s place in nature, its emergence from the rest of the living world, and the evolutionary processes that have molded human populations to be what they are today.Human Origins serves as a companion volume to the American Museum of Natural History’s new permanent exhibit, as well as standing alone as an accessible overview of recent insights into what it means to be human.Trade Review. . . an authoritative and fun publication that will be accessible to anyone with even the faintest recollection of high school biology or any curiosity whatsoever about how we came to be the way we are. - The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Book SynopsisThe end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that distinguish later Native American prehistoric societies. Using localized studies and broad regional syntheses, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of adaptations to the dynamic and changing environmental and cultural landscapes that occurred between the Pleistocene and early portion of the Holocene. The authors' research areas range from Northern Mexico to Alaska and across the continent to the American Northeast, synthesizing the copious available evidence from well-known and recent excavations.With its methodologically and geographically diverse approach, From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America provides an overview of the present state of knowledge regarding this crucial transformative period in Native North America. It offers a large-scale synthesis of human adaptation, reflects the range of ideas and concepts in current archaeological theoretical approaches, and acts as a springboard for future explanations and models of prehistoric change. Trade Review"The authors make a compelling case that a marked change in artifact types is a result of population shifts in the Pacific Northwest...well-organized and well-written...a welcome summary of data on the Paleoindian and Archaic in Sonora, Mexico...an excellent summary of recent data on the Late Pleistocene through Early Holocene developments in central Texas..."--David Carlson, associate professor of Anthropology|"...a highly useful compendium of authoritative regional overviews of changing human adaptions across the Pleistocene-Holocene transition...a much needed review of the varieties of responses of regional populations to the varied environmental changes across North America...important and useful contribution...an important addition to the literature...not aware of any competing book that covers this ground as well..."--Bradley T. Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society|"I highly recommend this collection...this book provided new updates and interpretations...this publication will make a timely and important contribution to the Paleoindian studies of this region and North America in general...will be heavily used by researchers...and by many more from outside the region."--Kurt W. Carr, Ph.D, Senior Curator of Archaeology for the State Museum of Pennsylvania, former chief of the Division of Archaeology and Protectiong for Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office

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Book SynopsisFremont is a culture (ca. 300-1300 A.D.) first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the area. Initially thought to be a simple socio-political system, recent reassessments of the Fremont assume a more complex society. This volume places Fremont rock art studies in this contemporary context. Author Steven Simms offers an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview using the principles of analogy and current archaeological evidence. Simms takes readers on a trip back in time by describing what a typical Fremont hamlet or residential area might have looked like a thousand years ago, including the inhabitants' daily activities. Fran\u00e7ois Gohier's captivating photographs of Fremont art and artifacts offer an engaging complement to Simms's text, aiding us in our understanding of the lives of these ancient people.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Traces of Fremont: Introduction My Messages How Can We Know? Fremont Archaeology Life at a Fremont Hamlet Tempos of Life and Landscape The Kinship of Farming Surplus, Storage, Power, and Display A Population Dynamic Fremont Big Villages Fremont Dispersed Communities Fremont Corporate Groups? Power and Leadership Landscape and the Fremont Culture Fremont Origins The Fremont Frontier Fremont Rock Art The Roots of Fremont Rock Art Fremont Rock Art: Themes, Unity, and Variation Rock Art and Fremont Society Traces of Fremont: Postscript Photograph Credits Notes References About the Authors

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Book SynopsisEastern North America has one of the largest inventories of Paleoindian sites anywhere in the Americas. Despite this rich record of early human settlement during the late Pleistocene, there are few widely published reports or summaries of Paleoindian research in the region. The contributors to this volume present more than four decades of Early Paleoindian research in eastern North America, including previously unpublished site reports and updates on recent research. Their work helps create a more cohesive picture of the early human occupation of North America. This data-rich volume provides specific information on artifacts and basic site descriptions which will allow for more thorough comparisons of eastern fluted point sites. Divided into four sections— chronology and environment, reinvestigations of classic sites, new sites and perspectives, and synthesis and conclusions— the volume will encourage further consideration of the sites included and their role in shaping our understanding of huntergatherer lifeways during the late Pleistocene. In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition is a must read for scholars of Paleoindian archaeology and those generally interested in the prehistory of North America.Trade Review“Over 40 years in the making, this hefty volume provides an invaluable compilation of data and interpretations. Older classic sites as well as more recent discoveries are brought together in a useful contemporary synthesis which brings eastern Paleoindian research into mainstream North American studies.”—Albert C. Goodyear, Institute of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of South Carolina “This book would have very little competition from existing works and be much in demand amongst the large potential readership that works in this field.”—Christopher J. Ellis, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada “This book significantly advances our understanding of human populations in the eastern North America during the late Pleistocene. Collectively, the site studies and synthetic chapters provide new insights on eastern Paleoindian adaptations to the changing environments these people encountered at the end of Ice Age. Such research offers a timely human perspective from the past as we contemplate abrupt climate change today.”—Jonathan Lothrop, Curator of Archaeology, New York State Museum “Provides a valuable compendium of Paleoindian sites and data, including several previously unreported or under-reported sites. This volume will serve as an important reference and data source, not just for Paleoindian researchers, but also for archaeologists with broader interests in North American prehistory.”—Canadian Journal of ArchaeologyTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceIntroduction - Joseph A. M. GingerichPart I. Paleoindian Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Considerations1. Paleoindian Chronology and the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition - D. Shane Miller and Joseph A. M. Gingerich2. Paleoindian Environment and Subsistence Paradigm Case from New England to Virginia and Ohio. - Lucinda J. McWeeney3. Reconstructing the Pleistocene Environment of the Greater Southeast - Jessi J. HalliganPart II. Reinvestigations of Classic Sites4. A Report on the 2008 Field Investigations at the Shoop Site (36da20) - Kurt W. Carr, J. M. Adovasio, and Frank J. Vento5. Spatial Organization at Bull Brook - Brian S. Robinson and Jennifer C. Ort6. Fifty Years of Discovery at Plenge: Rethinking the Importance of New JerseyÍs Largest Paleoindian Site - Joseph A. M. Gingerich7. The Wells Creek Site: Results of a Reanalysis - Jesse Tune8. The Flint Run Complex: A Quarry Related Paleoindian Complex in the Great Valley of Northern Virginia - Kurt Carr, R. Michael Stewart, Dennis Stanford, and Michael Frank9. Revisiting Shawnee-Minisink - Joseph A. M. GingerichPart III. New Sites and Perspectives10. Paleoindian Toolstone Provisioning and Settlement Organization at the Higgins Site, 18AN489 - John C. Blong11. Topper Site, South Carolina: An Overview of the Clovis Lithic Assemblage from the Topper Hillside - Ashley Smallwood, D. Shane Miller, and Doug Sain12. TennesseeÍs Paleoindian Record: The Cumberland and Lower Tennessee River Watersheds - John R. Broster, Mark Norton, D. Shane Miller, Jesse W. Tune, Jon D. Baker13. Endscrapers, Use-wear and Early Paleoindians in Eastern North America - Thomas LoebelPart IV. Observations on the Early Paleoindian Settlement of Eastern North America14. The Search for Pre-Clovis in Eastern North America: A Critical Evaluation of the Evidence - Stuart Fiedel15. The Weight and Meaning of Eastern Paleoindian Research - Gary Haynes16. Paleoindian Archaeology in Eastern North America: Current Approaches and Future Directions - David G. AndersonList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAlthough most ceramic studies describe vessel production and use, the causes and rates of pottery discard are often neglected in archaeological studies. Michael Shott presents analytical methods for determining pottery use life and demonstrates why use life should not be overlooked. Over a five-year period Shott inventoried the household pottery of about twenty-five homes in five towns in Michoacán, Mexico, recording age and types of use. He also looked at a subsample on a monthly basis over two years to estimate the magnitude of early vessel failure that would go unnoticed in an annual census. His analysis of about 900 vessels clearly shows that context does not explain use life, but vessel size does. Bigger pots last longer. Consulting other ethnoarchaeological sources for comparison and cross-cultural perspectives, Shott shows that his results can be applied to other archaeological datasets for determining numbers of original whole vessels as well as site occupation span.Trade Review“I found this to be an exceptionally clearly formulated and presented study and was highly impressed with the author’s rigor in carrying it out. As he points out, this is hard and inglorious work that needs to be done if we are to understand the archaeological record.” —J. Theodore PeÑa, professor of Roman archaeology, University of California, Berkeley, and director, Pompeii Artifact Life History Project, Pompeii, Italy “Michael J. Shott is an eminent authority on cultural formation processes. This data-rich ethnoarchaeological study of MichoacÁn domestic ceramics sheds new light on quantitative transformations from systemic context to archaeological context. Shott’s empirically grounded and well-qualified generalizations provide archaeologists who study ceramic assemblages worldwide with essential analytical tools. This spectacular book, Shott’s labor of love, is truly a magnum opus.” —Michael Brian Schiffer, author of Archaeology’s Footprints in the Modern World

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Book SynopsisNorth America's Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey recounts the story of a group of researchers, naturalists, adventurers, cooks, immigrants, and scientifically curious teenagers who came together in the late 1930s to embark upon a Series of ambitious expeditions never before, or since, attempted. Their mission: to piece together the broken shards of the Channel Islands' history and evolution. California's eight Channel Islands, sometimes called 'North America's Galapagos' each support unique ecosystems with varied flora and fauna and differing human histories. The thirty-three men and women who set out to explore the islands hoped to make numerous discoveries that would go down in history along with their Names. More than eighty years ago, a lack of funds and dearth of qualified personnel dogged the pre-WWII expeditions, but it was only after America entered the war and the researchers were stranded on one of the islands that the survey was aborted, their work left for future scientists to complete. This untold saga of adventure, discovery, and goals abandoned is juxtaposed against the fresh successes of a new generation of Channel Island scholars. Engagingly written, North America's Galapagos illuminates the scientific process and reveals remarkable modern discoveries that are rewriting archaeological textbooks and unraveling the answer to the age-old question: how and when were the Americas populated? Anyone interested in the work conducted behind closed museum doors will want to read this book, so will history buffs, environmentalists, scientists, and general readers curious about our world.Trade Review“A timely, well written, and outstanding book that is sure to be of interest to archaeologists, biologists, museum professionals, and the general public. Both engaging and readable, Laverty explores an important museum collecting expedition and challenges us to think about the importance of museum collections to science and society.”- Torben C. Rick, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History“Conveys an interesting story not only about the history of the Natural History Museum and the Channel Islands Biological Survey, but also on the development of the scientific process from early exploration through today. Many of the scientists featured here loom large in their disciplines and this book brings these people to the attention of the general reader.” — Amy Gusick, curator of anthropology, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County

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Book SynopsisThe Lacandon Maya are a small-scale forest society currently on the brink of extinction. Small groups of Northern Lacandon escaped evangelization by dispersing into the jungle, moving from the Guatemalan Petén to Chiapas in southern Mexico during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Several groups maintained their traditional religion until the late twentieth century. Their cult of incense burners, based on the veneration of Maya ruins and funerary caves and the deities these effigy censers represented, remained free of any Christian influence. Some ceremonies were vestiges of more complex rituals believed to date back to pre-Columbian times. In this volume, Didier Boremanse explores Lacandon beliefs and traditions he observed during the many months of fieldwork he did, spanning four decades. Throughout the book Boremanse makes Lacandon values and worldviews accessible to readers from western cultures. Rituals are described and explained with extracts of the celebrants’ prayers that were tape-recorded, transcribed, and translated. Other elements of religious oral tradition are included, including incantations, chants, and the myths and beliefs that sustain the rites. Boremanse also discusses how larger social change influences religious change, both through economic means and outside influences. Most of the myths retold in this book have never been published in English. Photographs show rites that are no longer performed and shrines that no longer exist.Trade ReviewBuilds on more than a century of ethnographic research and is written by one of the last ethnographers who could do so, as the ritual practice described has disappeared. It also complements the author's previous published research and provides a synthesis of all work done on Lacandon myth and ritual.” —Charles Andrew Hofling, author of the Lacandon Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary“The detailed cultural information and explanations make this book so important and so different from similar works on Maya myths and folktales. The author’s knowledge of Lacandon culture and his insights on their myths and religion are truly admirable. His descriptions and analyses are nuanced and complete." — Joel Palka, professor of anthropology and department head, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Book SynopsisEvery day, millions of people around the world sit down to a meal that includes meat. This book explores several questions as it examines the use of animals as food: How did the domestication and production of livestock animals emerge and why? How did current modes of raising and slaughtering animals for human consumption develop, and what are their consequences? What can be done to mitigate and even reverse the impacts of animal production?With insight into the historical, cultural, political, legal, and economic processes that shape our use of animals as food, Fitzgerald provides a holistic picture and explicates the connections in the supply chain that are obscured in the current mode of food production. Bridging the distance in animal agriculture between production, processing, consumption, and their associated impacts, this analysis envisions ways of redressing the negative effects of the use of animals as food.It details how consumption levels and practices have changed as the relationship between production, processing, and consumption has shifted. Due to the wide-ranging questions addressed in this book, the author draws on many fields of inquiry, including sociology, (critical) animal studies, history, economics, law, political science, anthropology, criminology, environmental science, geography, philosophy, and animal science.

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Book SynopsisAlthough women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Life, Giving Death, Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations.Examining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death seeks to explain why, in constructing their master theories, our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity. In the spirit of Freud’s Totem and Taboo, Scubla constructs an anthropology that posits a common source for family and religion. His wide-ranging study explores how rituals unite violence and the sacred and intertwine the giving of death and the giving of life.

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Book SynopsisAlmost from the day of its accidental discovery along the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State in July 1996, the ancient skeleton of Kennewick Man has garnered significant attention from scientific and Native American communities as well as public media outlets. This volume represents a collaboration among physical and forensic anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists, and geochemists, among others, and presents the results of the scientific study of this remarkable find. Scholars address a range of topics, from basic aspects of osteological analysis to advanced research focused on Kennewick Man’s origins and his relationships to other populations. Interdisciplinary studies, comprehensive data collection and preservation, and applications of technology are all critical to telling Kennewick Man’s story.Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton is written for a discerning professional audience, yet the absorbing story of the remains, their discovery, their curation history, and the extensive amount of detail that skilled scientists have been able to glean from them will appeal to interested and informed general readers. These bones lay silent for nearly nine thousand years, but now, with the aid of dedicated researchers, they can speak about the life of one of the earliest human occupants of North America.

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Book SynopsisThirteen millennia ago, in a small creek valley in western South Dakota, two mammoths perished. The mammoths, an adult and a juvenile, likely a cow and calf pair, died at the edge of an ancient pond.The Lange/Ferguson site is the earliest dated archaeological site in South Dakota and one of the few North American sites that provides evidence of a Clovis-period mammoth butchering event. In addition to the preserved remains of the two mammoths, the site yielded diagnostic Clovis weaponry—three Clovis projectile points recovered in context and stratigraphically associated with the mammoth bonebed—and flaked bone tools. The site offers a rare snapshot in time detailing early Paleoindian interactions with now-extinct megafauna nearly 13,000 years ago.In Clovis Mammoth Butchery: The Lange/Ferguson Site and Associated Bone Tool Technology, L. Adrien Hannus provides a comprehensive look at one of the few New World Clovis-era sites with in-place buried deposits exhibiting evidence for an expedient bone tool technology. Multidisciplinary investigations include paleoenvironmental and geochronological reconstructions—pollen and phytoliths, geology and geomorphology, diatoms and ostracodes, mollusks, and vertebrate paleontology—as well as taphonomic evaluations and a microwear analysis of the chipped stone tools.Clovis Mammoth Butchery offers readers a rare glimpse into a singular moment in prehistory that captures human interaction with extinct animals during a rapidly changing world for which there is no modern comparison. This book shares great insight into hunting and procurement strategies used by big game hunters during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the oldest modern human settlement in Europe, the archaeological site at DolnÍ Věstonice–Pavlov, located in the rolling, forested plains just north of the Danube River, has yielded a treasure trove of Ice Age artifacts since its first excavation in 1924. The earliest people who lived here some 26,000 years ago produced tools crafted from stone and bone and carved elaborate animal and human figurines fashioned of mammoth ivory and sculptures of fired clay, including the famous 'Venus of DolnÍ Věstonice,' one of the oldest known ceramic artifacts in the world. Interestingly, novelist Jean M. Auel took much of the inspiration for her popular novel, Clan of the Cave Bear, from the discoveries at DolnÍ Věstonice–Pavlov.Richly illustrated throughout, including beautiful color renderings of scenes from Paleolithic life suggested by Svoboda's research, this first English translation of DolnÍ Věstonice-Pavlov: Explaining Paleolithic Settlements in Central Europe is sure to provide not only vital information for scholars, researchers, and students but also insightful and thought-provoking background for interested general readers.Trade ReviewThis collection of sites is the richest complex known from the Paleolithic . . . It also boasts the world's oldest ceramics, evidence of textiles, and human fingerprints. . . . JiřÍ Svoboda has written a book that does justice to these crucially important sites." - Erik Trinkhaus, editor (most recently) of The People of Palomas

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize The “abandonment” of Mesa Verde and the formation of the Rio Grande Pueblos represent two classic events in North American prehistory. Yet, despite a century of research, no consensus has been reached on precisely how, or even if, these two events were related. In this landmark study, Scott Ortman proposes a novel and compelling solution to this problem through an investigation of the genetic, linguistic, and cultural heritage of the Tewa Pueblo people of New Mexico.Integrating data and methods from human biology, linguistics, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, Ortman shows that a striking social transformation took place as Mesa Verde people moved to the Rio Grande, such that the resulting ancestral Tewa culture was a unique hybrid of ideas and practices from various sources. While addressing several long-standing questions in American archaeology, Winds from the North also serves as a methodological guidebook, including new approaches to integrating archaeology and language based on cognitive science research. As such, it will be of interest to researchers throughout the social and human sciences.Table of Contents Foreword by Porter Swentzell Acknowledgments 1. The Puzzle of Tewa Origins 2. Inheritance and Ethnic Groups 3. Population and Movement 4. Population History of the Tewa Basin 5. Biological Variation and Tewa Ancestry 6. The Tewa Language in Kiowa-Tanoan Context 7. Homelands and Dating of Kiowa-Tanoan Subgroups 8. Place-Names, Place-Lore, and Oral Tradition 9. Metaphors, Language, and Archaeology 10. Mesa Verde Metaphors in the Tewa Language 11. Immigration, Population Movement, and Material Culture 12. The End of Mesa Verde Society 13. The Archaeology of Tewa Origins 14. Population Movement, Social Movements, and Ethnogenesis Appendix A. Kiowa-Tanoan Reconstructions Appendix B. Archaeological Dating of Kiowa-Tanoan Terms Appendix C. Correlation of Site Numbers with Tewa Names Appendix D. Correlation of Kiowa-Tanoan Speech Communities with Archaeological Complexes References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisDescribing the nature and meaning of artifact spatial patterning can be highly subjective, yet many patterns can be quantified to create general models that are comparable across time periods and geographic space. The authors employ various techniques in this endeavor, including large sample sizes, model-driven analyses of the ethnographic record, bone and lithic refitting, and a careful consideration of artifact attributes that elucidate spatial patterning. Such detailed analyses allow archaeologists to better interpret site formation processes and address large-scale anthropological questions. This volume includes studies that span archaeological and ethnographic contexts, from highly mobile Paleoindian foragers to semi-sedentary preagriculturalists of the Epipaleolithic and modern pastoralists in Mongolia. The authors hold that commonalities in human behavior lead to similar patterns in the organization and maintenance of space by people. They present a series of ideas and approaches to make it easier to recognize universals in human behaviors, which allow archaeologists to better compare intrasite spatial patterns. The book creates a baseline for new intrasite spatial analyses in the twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisHistorical archaeologists explore landscapes in the American West through many lenses, including culture contact, colonialism, labor, migration, and identity. This volume sets landscape at the center of analysis, examining space (a geographic location) and place (the lived experience of a locale) in their myriad permutations. Divided into three thematic sections—the West as space, the West as community, and the West today—the book pulls together case studies from across the American West and incorporates multivocal contributions and perspectives from archaeology, anthropology, Indigenous studies, history, Latinx studies, geography, and material culture studies. Contributors tackle questions of how historical archaeologists theoretically and methodologically define the West, conveying the historical, mythological, and physical manifestations of placemaking. They confront issues of community and how diverse ethnic, racial, gendered, labor-based, and other demographic populations expressed their identities on and in the Western landscape. Authors also address the continued creation and re-creation of the West today, exploring the impact of the past on people in the present and its influence on modern conceptions of the American West.

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Book SynopsisThe record of human impact on world environments is undeniable; scholarship has shown that the ecosystems we live in today are structured by human behavior. Equally undeniable is the fact that events such as war, disaster, disease, or economic decay have, at various times throughout history, led to the human abandonment of particular environments. What happens to a human-structured environment when the way people use it suddenly changes? In Questioning Rebound, authors Emily Lena Jones and Jacob L. Fisher explore the archaeological record of a time when the human footprint on the land abruptly shifted: the period immediately following European contact in the Americas. During this time of disease-driven mortality, genocide, incarceration, and forced labor of Indigenous peoples, American landscapes changed in fundamental ways, producing short-lived ecosystems that later became the basis of myths about the American environments.Questioning Rebound explores the record and the causes of environmental change during the post-Columbian period, featuring case studies throughout the Americas. While both the record for and the apparent causes of the changes in the human footprint vary, the record of post- Columbian environmental change consistently reflects the environmental impacts of past social upheaval.Trade ReviewQuestioning Rebound considers the environmental implications of rebound through an excellent assortment of case studies and reviews from various regions across the Americas. This book makes an important contribution to the field and relates well to other scholarship regarding Americanist archaeology as a whole."—Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, University of GeorgiaTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1. Questioning Rebound: Placing the Protohistoric in the Context of Anthropogenic Environmental Change Jacob L. Fisher and Emily Lena Jones 2. The “Pristine Myth,” Post-Columbian Environmental Rebound, and Multicausality Emily Lena Jones 3. Apocalypse Then: Searching for Faunal Rebound in the Post-Contact West Indies Christina M. Giovas 4. Animales Salvaje y DomÉsticos: The Environmental Consequences of Spanish Colonization in the Maya Region Asia Alsgaard and Emily Lena Jones 5. Late Holocene Environmental Rebound in Northwest Patagonia: Zooarchaeological, Stable Isotope, Radiocarbon, and Ancient DNA Evidence Gustavo Neme, Cinthia Abbona, Adolfo Gil, Clara Otaola, Jeff A. Johnson, Lisa Nagaoka, and Steve Wolverton 6. Rebound of Fire Regimes in the Dry Forests and Woodlands of the Southwest U.S.A., AD1200–1900 Christopher I. Roos, Thomas W. Swetnam, and Matthew J. Liebmann 7. The Evidence for Wildlife Irruptions in Protohistoric California Jacob L. Fisher 8. Ecological Shifts and Anthropogenic Burning in Central California, AD1250–2000 Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson 9. Environmental Rebound and the Disruption of Indigenous Land Management following European Colonization of Southern New England Elic M. Weitzel 10. Disease, Social Injustice, and Historical Ecology: Reflections on Archaeology and Environmental Rebounds Torben Rick References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a far-ranging conversation on the topic of Hohokam platform mounds in the history of the southern Arizona desert, exploring why they were built, how they were used, and what they meant in the lives of the farmers who built them. Vapaki brings together diverse theoretical approaches, a mix of big-picture and tightly focused perspectives, coverage of the variation in mounds that provides depth for specialists, breadth for those working in other areas and on other topics, and a rich corpus of research ideas and theoretical perspectives. Contributors grapple with questions about platform mounds, including the social, political, ideological, symbolic, and adaptive factors that contributed to their development, spread, and eventual cessation. The differing perspectives presented here about what motivated Ancestral O’Odham populations of the Hohokam Period to build these monuments, whether as displays of status, identity, political ability, membership in regional networks, and as architectural models of the cosmological order, offer insights to researchers studying monumental architecture in other contexts. O’Odham knowledge of the history and uses of mounds is combined with archaeological data to understand the place of platform mounds in the lives of the Ancestors and as a continuing presence among their modern descendants.Trade Review “An exceptional collection of essays relating to the origin, spread, function, purpose, and demise of these prominent architectural features at villages across the larger Hohokam cultural area or sphere of influence in the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries."—T. Kathleen Henderson, Desert Archaeology"This volume makes a significant contribution by successfully uniting a diverse mix of works under the umbrella of understanding Hohokam-area platform mounds. Although the only thing that unites some of these chapters is the topic of platform mounds, that approach works well here; there ought to be something in this volume for everyone."—Karen Schollmeyer, Archaeology SouthwestTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface: Vapaki of the Ancestors by Chris Loendorf and Barnaby V. Lewis Acknowledgments Editors’ Note Part I: Introduction 1. Platform Mounds of the Sonoran Desert by Glen E. Rice, Arleyn W. Simon, Chris Loendorf, Carla R. Van West, and Jeffrey S. Dean Part II: A Context for the Study of Platform Mounds 2. Platform Mounds and Ethnographic Analogy Revisited: Defining the Functional Universe by Mark D. Elson 3. West Mexican Connections and Classic Period Hohokam Platform Mounds by Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish 4. Contextualizing Platform Mounds by Carla R. Van West and Jeffrey S. Dean 5. Akimel O’Odham Traditional Knowledge Regarding Platform Mounds by Linda Morgan, Barnaby V. Lewis, and Chris Loendorf Part III: Development of Platform Mounds 6. The Gatlin Site Platform Mound by David E. Doyel 7. What We Know and What We Wished We Knew about Hohokam Platform Mounds by David R. Abbott 8. When is a Platform Mound: A Focus on Diversity and Function by Richard Ciolek-Torello Part IV: Platform Mounds at a Local Scale 9. Platform Mound Communities along the Middle Gila River by M. Kyle Woodson, Chris Loendorf, and Brian Medchill 10. A Monument for Memory: The Pueblo Grande Platform Mound by Todd W. Bostwick, Douglas R. Mitchell, Laurene Montero, and Christian E. Downum 11. Social Organization and Leadership Strategies among Tonto Basin Platform Mound Communities by Arleyn W. Simon and Owen Lindauer 12. Mounds, Mounding, and Polychrome Pottery: Roosevelt Red Ware and Platform Mounds in the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona by Katherine A. Dungan Part V: Platform Mounds on a Regional Scale 13. Anarchic Social Movements as an Explanation for Rapid Change: A Case Study from the Hohokam World, AD 1200–1450 by Lewis Borck and Jeffery J. Clark 14. Monuments, Costly Signaling, and Replicative Fitness during the Hohokam Era by Glen E. Rice, Christopher N. Watkins, Erica O’Neil, and Erik Steinbach Part VI: Conclusion 15. Unfinished Work at Platform Mounds by Glen E. Rice and Chris Loendorf References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisKilling the Model Minority Stereotype comprehensively explores the complex permutations of the Asian model minority myth, exposing the ways in which stereotypes of Asian/Americans operate in the service of racism. Chapters include counter-narratives, critical analyses, and transnational perspectives. This volume connects to overarching projects of decolonization, which social justice educators and practitioners will find useful for understanding how the model minority myth functions to uphold white supremacy and how complicity has a damaging impact in its perpetuation. The book adds a timely contribution to the model minority discourse.

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Book SynopsisKilling the Model Minority Stereotype comprehensively explores the complex permutations of the Asian model minority myth, exposing the ways in which stereotypes of Asian/Americans operate in the service of racism. Chapters include counter-narratives, critical analyses, and transnational perspectives. This volume connects to overarching projects of decolonization, which social justice educators and practitioners will find useful for understanding how the model minority myth functions to uphold white supremacy and how complicity has a damaging impact in its perpetuation. The book adds a timely contribution to the model minority discourse.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Ivan Roksandic and an international team of researchers trace population movement throughout the Caribbean, specifically to Cuba. Through analysis of early agriculture, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, dietary patterns, and more, they present a new theory of mainland migration to Cuba and the Greater Antilles. The researchers tackle the complex early history of the region, deciphering patterns of migration, the interactions between island inhabitants, and the fate of indigenous groups after European contact. The multidisciplinary approach includes contributions from archaeology, physical anthropology, environmental archaeology, paleobotany, linguistics, and ethnohistory.Adding to ongoing debates concerning migration and colonization, this volume examines the importance of landscape and seascape in shaping human experience; the role that contact and interaction between different groups play in building identity; and the contribution of native groups to the biological and cultural identity of post-contact and modern societies.Trade Review“Changes the conversation about Cuban archaeology as a whole, presenting groundbreaking data and interpretations that will be useful for prehistoric and historical archaeologists working the region.”—Samuel M. Wilson, author of The Archaeology of the Caribbean

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of village societies out of hunter-gatherer groups profoundly transformed social relations in every part of the world where such communities formed. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, this volume explores the development of villages in eastern North America from the Late Archaic period to the eighteenth century. Sites analyzed here include the Kolomoki village in Georgia, Mississippian communities in Tennessee, palisaded villages in the Appalachian Highlands of Virginia, and Iroquoian settlements in New York and Ontario. Contributors use rich data sets and contemporary social theory to describe what these villages looked like, what their rules and cultural norms were, what it meant to be a villager, what cosmological beliefs and ritual systems were held at these sites, and how villages connected with each other in regional networks. They focus on how power dynamics played out at the local level and among interacting communities. Highlighting the similarities and differences in the histories of village formation in the region, these essays trace the processes of negotiation, cooperation, and competition that arose as part of village life and changed societies. This volume shows how studying these village communities helps archaeologists better understand the forces behind human cultural change.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together experts in archaeology and bioarchaeology to examine continuity and change in ancient Arabian mortuary practices. While most previous investigations have been limited geographically to Egypt and the Levant, this volume focuses on the lesser-studied southeastern Arabian Peninsula, showing what death and burial can reveal about the lifestyles of the region’s prehistoric communities.In case studies from Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain, contributors explore the transition from the earliest to the most complex mortuary monuments in the Bronze Age. They also look at broader changes in mortuary rituals from the Neolithic period through the late Pre-Islamic period, and they discuss sites that illustrate more nuanced shifts in burial practices between the Hafit and Umm an-Nar cultures. Specific topics include animal offerings, communal tombs, and ancient mobility and subsistence strategies. By using skeletal remains as a rich source of scientific data that complements studies of burial context, this volume represents an important turning point for mortuary research in the region. Its novel interdisciplinary and international perspective provides a synthesis of new ideas and interpretations that will guide future archaeological research in Arabia and beyond.

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Book SynopsisThis volume uses archaeological and historical evidence to reconstruct daily life at Betty's Hope plantation on the island of Antigua, one of the largest sugar plantations in the Caribbean. It demonstrates the rich information that multidisciplinary studies can provide about the effects of sugarcane agriculture on the region and its people.Drawing on ten years of research at the 300-year-old site, these essays uncover the plantation's inner workings as well as its connections to broader historical developments in the Atlantic World. Excavations at the Great House reveal similarities to other British colonial sites, and the detailed records of the plantation owners describe their involvement in the slave trade. Artifacts uncovered from slave quarters—ceramic game tokens, repurposed bottle glass, and musket balls converted to fishing weights—speak to the agency of slaves in the face of difficult living conditions. Contributors also use documentary records and soil analysis to demonstrate how three centuries of sugarcane monocropping caused soil degradation that still affects the island.Today tourism has long surpassed sugar as Antigua's primary economic driver. Looking at visitor exhibits and new technologies for exploring and interpreting the site, the volume discusses best practices in cultural heritage management at Betty's Hope and other locations that are home to contested historical narratives of a colonial past. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen SeriesTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. Introduction — Georgia L. Fox 2. The Great House — Georgia L. Fox 3. Food Provisioning at Betty's Hope Planation, 1780s-1850s — Geneviève Godbout 4. Not Much Ado about Mollusks: Zooarchaeological Analysis of Mollusks at Betty's Hope Plantation in Antigua, West Indies — Alexis Ohman 5. Agriculture at Betty's Hope — Georgia L. Fox 6. "Primed with Flip And Toddy:" The Globalized Material Culture of Rum Production at Betty's Hope — Charlotte Goudge 7. The Landscape Legacies of Sugar and Rum: An Historical-Ecological Perspective from Betty's Hope — Suzanna M. Pratt, E. Christian Wells, and Anthony R. Tricarico 8. Barbuda and the Provisioning of the Codrington Estates on Antigua — Jennifer L. Anderson 9. Beyond the Plantation: the Codringtons, Betty's Hope, and the Defense of Antigua, 1670-1714 — Christopher R. Waters 10. Reconstructing a History of Plantation Spaces at Betty's Hope — Cory Look 11. Enslaved Life at Betty's Hope — Georgia L. Fox 12. "Choicest of the Cargoe:" Antigua, The Codringtons, and the Slave Trade, c. 1672-1808 — James F. Dator 13. Chemical Sourcing of Afro-Antiguan Wares from Betty's Hope Plantation: A Comparative Analysis — Benjamin Kirby 14. Using UAVs to Manage Archaeological Heritage: A Multi-Scale Analysis Approach — Erin Friedman, Cory Look, and Matthew Brown 15. The Restoration of the Betty's Hope North Windmill, Antigua, West Indies — Reginald Murphy 16. A Scenic Route to Interpretation: The Betty's Hope Visitors Center Exhibition as Cultural Heritage Management — Amanda Kramp List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisRepresenting current and emerging methods and theory, this volume introduces new avenues for exploring how prehistoric and historic communities provided healthcare for their sick, injured, and disabled members. It adjusts and expands the bioarchaeology of care framework, a way of analyzing caregiving in the past designed for individual case studies of human skeletal remains, to detect and examine care at the population level. Covering a range of time from the Archaic period to the present, contributors discuss community settings including British hospitals and nursing homes, a shell burial mound site in Alabama, and the Mississippi State Asylum. These essays offer insights into the care given to children and those with reduced mobility, the social burden of healthcare, practices of euthanasia, and the relationship between care for the mentally ill and structural violence. A necessary extension to our understanding of the complexities of caregiving in the past, Bioarchaeology of Care through Population-Level Analyses shows that it is important to recognize the impact of disease or disability on both the individuals affected and their broader communities. Contributors demonstrate that flexibility in bioarchaeological modeling and methodology can result in robust and nuanced scholarship on caregiving in the past and the societies that provided that care.Trade Review“Provides unique and useful models that demonstrate how inferences can be made about Communities of Care in samples ranging in size from several dozen to several thousand. Authors weave together diverse lines of evidence—osteological, archaeological, ethnographic, clinical—in their historical and cultural contexts. Sophisticated analytical tools and theoretical frameworks position this book at the cutting edge of bioarchaeological research and illustrate the cultural relativity of care, caregiving, and healthcare in the past and present, and in Western and non-Western contexts.”—Alexis Boutin, coeditor of Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East: Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology

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Book SynopsisKey topics and basic laboratory training for beginning studentsThis versatile laboratory manual is designed to support introductory undergraduate courses in forensic anthropology. Usable for both in-person and online classes and suitable to accompany any textbook or for use on its own as a text-lab manual hybrid, it provides basic training for beginner students in relevant methods of biological profile estimation and trauma assessment for use in medico-legal death investigations. Structured in a standard format for classes and existing texts, this manual offers a unique emphasis on lab exercises that align with general studies requirements and basic science competency. Each chapter begins with learning goals and an introductory section that outlines the topics to be covered. The discussion then leads students through the material, including periodic learning checks built into the structure of the chapter, followed by end-of-chapter exercises. Through clear explanations of fundamental principles, the complete medico-legal context is covered with respect to forensic anthropology. Basic information on bone biology, human osteology, and rules of evidence are also presented.Alongside its substantive text discussion of key topics, this manual’s exercises can be used in in-person laboratory classes while its learning checks can be completed by online students without access to skeletal material or casts. This book offers the necessary content to teach forensic anthropology regardless of the experience or location of students or the resources of specific colleges and universities.

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Book SynopsisFrom early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob Zuma, funerals of big men in Cameroon, youth cultures of consumption in Niger and South Africa, queer consumption in Cape Town, middle-class food consumption in Durban and the consumption of luxury handcrafted beads, this collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts and historical moments.In 1899, Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase ‘conspicuous consumption’ to describe status-seeking in the obscenely unequal world of late-nineteenth century America. Many of the aspects he described in The Theory of the Leisure Class are still evident in our world today. While Veblen’s crude denunciation of material extravagance finds echoes in media exposés about the lifestyles of the rich worldwide, it is particularly recognisable in reporting on Africa. Here, images of conspicuous consumption have long circulated in local and global media as indictments of political corruption and signs of moral depravity.The essays in Conspicuous Consumption in Africa put Veblen’s concept under robust critical scrutiny, drawing on theorists like Mbembe, Guyer and Bayart by way of critique or addition. They delve into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, generational, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices, textures and relations. The authors resist the trap of easy moralisation, pointing to more complex ethical and political registers of analysis and judgement. This volume shows how central and revealing conspicuous consumption can be to fathoming the history of Africa’s projects of modernity, and their global lineages and legacies. In its grounded, up-close case studies, it is likely to feed into current public debates on the nature and future of African societies – South African society in particular.Trade ReviewThis fascinating, nuanced and persuasive volume combines sophisticated theoretical expositions with a high level of empirical inquiry. Taken together, the essays provide an important entry into the study of consumption in Africa, and indeed make a serious intervention into current socio-political concerns. — Robert Ross, Professor of African History Emeritus, Leiden University, the Netherlands. This volume offers a summary of the relevance of consumption as a terrain of meaningmaking to South African public debates. It will convince readers that much more is going on with consuming practices than the media sometimes solicits. In particular, it brings attention to an abiding tension in discussions around `consumption’: normative expectations of societal values entailed in such phenomenon as `conspicuous consumption’ are set against the symbolic practices illustrated through the performative, visual presentation of status (and claims and counterclaims to it). — Bridget Kenny, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Chapter 1 Thinking with Veblen: Case Studies from Africa’s Past and Present - Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk Chapter 2 Changes in the Order of Things: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Cape Town – Deborah Posel Chapter 3 Conspicuously Public: Gendered Histories of Sartorial and Social Success in Urban Togo – Nina Sylvanus Chapter 4 Etienne Rousseau, Broedertwis and the Politics of Consumption within Afrikanerdom – Stephen Sparks Chapter 5 Recycling Consumption: Political Power and Elite Wealth in Angola – Claudia Gastrow Chapter 6 Chiluba’s Trunks: Consumption, Excess and the Body Politic in Zambia – Karen Tranberg Hansen Chapter 7 Jacob Zuma’s Shamelessness: Conspicuous Consumption, Politics and Religion – Ilana van Wyk Chapter 8 Precarious ‘Bigness’: A ‘Big Man’, his Women and his Funeral in Cameroon – Rogers Orock Chapter 9 Young Men of Leisure? Youth, Conspicuous Consumption and the Performativity of Dress in Niger – Adeline Masquelier Chapter 10 Booty on Fire: Looking at Izikhothane with Thorstein Veblen – Jabulani G Mnisi Chapter 11 Conspicuous Queer Consumption: Emulation and Honour in the Pink Map – Bradley Rink Chapter 12 The Politics and Moral Economy of Middle-Class Consumption in South Africa – Sophie Chevalier Chapter 13 Marigold Beads: Who Needs Diamonds?! – Joni Brenner and Pamila Gupta Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn this quirky and surprising history, Alan Krell addresses the absurd and abject, the banal and the nastily subversive, and the romantic and fetishistic, as he describes the appearance of the foot in literature, photography, art, sport and film. Discover the gothic tales of French writer Theophile Gautier, the disturbing photographs of Jacques-Andre Boiffard and the religious paintings by Giotto, Tintoretto and Caravaggio that exalt the foot. Marvel at the sporting exploits of elite runners such as Abebe Bikila and Zola Budd, and the surprising representation of the foot in films such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). Presenting new images and ideas of the foot in a tantalizing way, The Mummy's Foot and the Big Toe is for all those with an interest in the humanities, languages, social sciences and anthropology.Trade Review`Alan Krell's observations and commentary are worthy of the array of literature and art he discusses - creative, imaginative, incisive. He picks up where notables such as Theophile Gautier, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin left off, exploring the cultural implications of what we do about feet: from fetishizing them, to binding them, to racing with them shoeless, to perceiving their nakedness as innocence.' - Professor Richard Shiff, The University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking collection introduces readers to the fascinating research field of political anthropology. The chapters engage in major theoretical and methodological debates to provide interpretive frames, analytical tools and ethnographic illustrations for culturally based interpretations of political phenomena, revealing the intersection between anthropology, culture, politics and international relations. Theoretical tools such as liminality, sacrifice, mimesis, ethics, trickster and interpretation of meaning provide understanding of key challenges in a globalised world. These include war zones, revolutions, migration, securitization, territorial borders, climate change and ethno-religious violence. The contributing authors focus on the ethnographies of power, political culture and forms of cultural intimacy in informal networks. Using self-critical and reflexive approaches, they show that disciplinary boundaries have been reshaped by changing meanings of power, including reconfigurations of state and sovereignty. With reflections on the potential and limits of political anthropology, this Handbook explores the art of understanding human interaction within political frameworks in a globalising world. Offering a unique reference resource in the area with exceptional cross-disciplinary research, this Handbook will suit political, social and cultural anthropologists as well as scholars in comparative political analysis and social theory. Students and researchers of politics, anthropology and international relations will also benefit from the key methodological tools explaining the challenges and consequences of globalisation.Contributors include: S. Coleman, J.-P. Daloz, G. de Anna, H. Donnan, T.H. Eriksen, R. Farneti, M. Fog Olwig, J. Gledhill, J. Gould, S. Haugbølle, A. Horvath, C. Illies, J. Kubik, N. Long, M. Mälksoo, K. Martin, M. Moodie, M. Nuijten, P. Rabinow, M. Rasaratnam, P. Raman, E. Ranta, A. Sanchez, D. Sausdal, A. Stavrianakis, F. Stepputat, A. Szakolczai, B. Thomassen, H. Vigh, H. WydraTrade Review'This wide-ranging collection challenges disciplinary boundaries to demonstrate the relevance of political anthropology to both old and new audiences. It offers refreshing takes on core anthropological themes and links classical theory to the quintessential questions of political life today in a compelling manner useful to diverse scholars, students, and practitioners.' --Sara Shneiderman, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the promise of political anthropology Harald Wydra and Bjørn Thomassen PART I OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS 1. Recovering the classical foundations of political anthropology Arpad Szakolczai 2. On the mimetic turn in the social sciences Roberto Farneti 3. Charisma/trickster: on the twofold nature of power Agnes Horvath 4. Contemporary political stakes: after-lives of the modern Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis 5. Political anthropology: biology, culture, and ethics Gabriele De Anna and Christian Illies 6. Cultural intimacy and the politics of civility Michael Herzfeld PART II ANTHRO-POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 7. Politics and the permanence of the sacred Paul Dumouchel 8. Anthropology and the enigma of the state Finn Stepputat and Monique Nuijten 9. Liminality and the politics of the transitional Maria Mälksoo 10. The anthropology of political revolutions Bjørn Thomassen 11. Comparative political analysis and the interpretation of meaning Jean-Pascal Daloz 12. Anthropology and political ideology Sune Haugbolle 13. Post-neoliberalism? Keir Martin 14. The political and the religious: on the making of virtuous politics Simon Coleman PART III ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE POLITICAL 15. The politics of development: anthropological perspectives Jeremy Gould and Eija Ranta 16. Ethnographies of power Jan Kubik 17. Postdemocracy and a politics of prefiguration Nicholas J. Long 18. Feminist theory and reproduction Megan Moodie 19. New war zones or evolving modes of insurgency warfare? Morten Bøås 20. The political anthropology of borders and territory: European perspectives Hastings Donnan, Bjørn Thomassen and Harald Wydra 21. The politics of movement and migration Parvathi Raman PART IV PROCESSES 22. Security, securitization, desecuritization: how security produces insecurity John Gledhill 23. Nature, politics, and climate change Mette Fog Olwig 24. The fall and rise of class Andrew Sanchez 25. The politics of ethno-religious violence Madurika Rasaratnam 26. The anthropology of crime Henrik Vigh and David Sausdal 27. Globalization Thomas Hylland Eriksen Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together analyses from across the social sciences to develop an interdisciplinary approach to understanding spiritualities and neoliberalism. It traces the lived experience of social actors as they engage with new and alternative spiritualities in neoliberal contexts. An international group of authors in anthropology, sociology, religious studies, political science, critical management studies explore the contemporary flourishing of subjectivities centred on a variety of spiritual practices and imaginaries. The book analyses the social and organisational mechanisms that underlie the generation of 'enterprising' and 'competitive' subjectivities engaged in transforming inner selves and social environments in accordance with prevailing neoliberal economic rationalities. Contributions draw on a wide range of empirical settings around the world to discuss the role of subjectivities in organizations. The purpose of the book is to provide specific insights into how neoliberalism is resisted, contested or reproduced through a transformative ethic of spiritual self-realization. Researchers, academics and Masters level students in a range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, and organization studies will find this book relevant reading. Contributors include: I. Abraham, E. Bell, L. Cortois, S. Gog, A.-R. Kaupinnen, J.D. LoRusso, D. Miller, K. Navazhylava, A. Peticca-Harris, G. Shanahan, A. Simionca, S. Taylor, K. Valaskivi, T. Vine, A. YankellevichTrade Review'This carefully crafted book takes on a very complex and multifaceted phenomenon. As a project of genuine interdisciplinary work, it shows how serious intellectual resources can be mobilised to investigate complicated empirical material, often too simplistically marked ''spirituality in organisations''. Examples familiar to all receive nuanced conceptual treatment so that both cases and analyses become valuable exercises in excellent social science. Looking forward to using it in thinking through contemporary work, management and culture, as well as in teaching.' --Bogdan Costea, Lancaster University, UK'This volume provides a sophisticated look at the varieties of spirituality under capitalism, combining sociological perspectives on religion with a critical engagement on the topic. Flanked on its sides by an organizational spirituality literature that too-often treats spirituality unquestioningly, and a critical literature that reduces it to ideological and instrumental uses, this volume presents nuanced essays that take seriously the lived experiences of organizational members, while never losing sight of the social and political stakes of spirituality within a capitalist society.' --Gazi Islam, Grenoble Ecole de Management, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Towards Radical Subjects: Workplace Spirituality as Neoliberal Governance in American Business James Dennis LoRusso 2. Running to stay in the same place? Personal development work and the production of neoliberal subjectivity among Israel’s “last republican generation” Ariel Yankellevich 3. Expressive Individualism in the New Spirit of Capitalism: Mindfulness and Outdoor Management Development Liza Cortois 4. A ‘Juggly Mummy’s’ life history of teaching yoga: Embodied postfeminism and neoliberal spirituality Amanda Peticca-Harris, Kseniya Navazhylava, Genevieve Shanahan 5. The commodification of re-sacralised work in the neoliberal era Tom Vine 6. Enchanted gardeners in urban food gardens: A case study of Khayelitsha, Cape Town Darlene Miller 7. Citizens for Ghana and the Kingdom: Christian Personal Development in Accra Anna-Riikka Kauppinen 8. Religion after Work: Christianity, Morality, and Serious Leisure Ibrahim Abraham 9. The contemporary faith of innovationism Katja Valaskivi Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Expertly navigating the interdisciplinary field of economic anthropology, Peter D. Little illustrates how an anthropological perspective can deepen understandings of customary and global markets; different types of money; diversified livelihoods of the poor; gendered and racialized labor; climate change and other global issues. By questioning common dichotomies, such as the informal versus formal sectors and customary versus modern institutions, the book uncovers those hidden connections, power relations, and economic actors and processes that underpin real economies throughout the world.Key Features: Highlights the significance of neglected and unwaged economic activities Focuses on the role of social trust in both low- and high-income economies Covers in depth how decisions in financial institutions are impacted by cultural factors Critically analyzes seminal literature in economic anthropology and related disciplines This erudite Advanced Introduction is an indispensable resource for academics, researchers, and students in economics and finance, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, anthropology, development studies, international and global studies, and cultural and social economy studies.Trade Review‘This volume offers an insightful analysis and synthesis of the breadth of contemporary Economic Anthropology. It’s a valuable exploration of the current state of the field, incorporating recent literature and adding voices often left out, thus demonstrating the diversity of economic thought in anthropology and inspiring fresh insights. It is a clear and comprehensive introduction to the field for students, an excellent and concise refresher for those already familiar.’ -- Lisa Cliggett, University of Kentucky, US‘In this concise volume, Peter Little has renewed the field of economic anthropology. Classic topics meet the urgency of today’s economies. From street vending to global value chains, agrarian labor to the gig economy, Little explains ideas and debates essential for understanding how diverse peoples create careers, value, and earnings. It is an excellent guide for contemporary analysis of working lives and economic power.’ -- Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US‘Without neglecting the classics, Peter Little has written an introduction to economic anthropology that tackles the present moment of global capitalism head on. Over a vast range of topics, he juxtaposes ethnographic analysis of the “real economy” with ethical sensitivity. I particularly appreciated the attention paid to informality and trust, global value chains, digital financialization, and to the very language in which people’s economic activities are described and thereby constituted.’ -- Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction to economic anthropology: history, theory, and concepts 2 Labor and work 3 Exchange, trade, and markets 4 Culture and consumption 5 Informality 6 Money, credit, and debt 7 Real-world challenges 8 Concluding remarks on economic anthropology Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Expertly navigating the interdisciplinary field of economic anthropology, Peter D. Little illustrates how an anthropological perspective can deepen understandings of customary and global markets; different types of money; diversified livelihoods of the poor; gendered and racialized labor; climate change and other global issues. By questioning common dichotomies, such as the informal versus formal sectors and customary versus modern institutions, the book uncovers those hidden connections, power relations, and economic actors and processes that underpin real economies throughout the world.Key Features: Highlights the significance of neglected and unwaged economic activities Focuses on the role of social trust in both low- and high-income economies Covers in depth how decisions in financial institutions are impacted by cultural factors Critically analyzes seminal literature in economic anthropology and related disciplines This erudite Advanced Introduction is an indispensable resource for academics, researchers, and students in economics and finance, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, anthropology, development studies, international and global studies, and cultural and social economy studies.Trade Review‘This volume offers an insightful analysis and synthesis of the breadth of contemporary Economic Anthropology. It’s a valuable exploration of the current state of the field, incorporating recent literature and adding voices often left out, thus demonstrating the diversity of economic thought in anthropology and inspiring fresh insights. It is a clear and comprehensive introduction to the field for students, an excellent and concise refresher for those already familiar.’ -- Lisa Cliggett, University of Kentucky, US‘In this concise volume, Peter Little has renewed the field of economic anthropology. Classic topics meet the urgency of today’s economies. From street vending to global value chains, agrarian labor to the gig economy, Little explains ideas and debates essential for understanding how diverse peoples create careers, value, and earnings. It is an excellent guide for contemporary analysis of working lives and economic power.’ -- Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US‘Without neglecting the classics, Peter Little has written an introduction to economic anthropology that tackles the present moment of global capitalism head on. Over a vast range of topics, he juxtaposes ethnographic analysis of the “real economy” with ethical sensitivity. I particularly appreciated the attention paid to informality and trust, global value chains, digital financialization, and to the very language in which people’s economic activities are described and thereby constituted.’ -- Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction to economic anthropology: history, theory, and concepts 2 Labor and work 3 Exchange, trade, and markets 4 Culture and consumption 5 Informality 6 Money, credit, and debt 7 Real-world challenges 8 Concluding remarks on economic anthropology Index

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