Anthropology Books

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 SynopsisThe difficult and sensitive issue of how museums and other repositories should treat human remains in their possession is here addressed through a number of important case studies. How to care for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in the United Kingdom, providing a baseline for understanding the scope and nature of human remains collections and the practices related to their care. The introduction sets UnitedKingdom practices within an international context, while subsequent chapters, all written by leading experts, cover a wide range of topics through key case studies: legislation and ethical obligations; issues of both long-term andshort-term care; differing perspectives associated with human remains collections in different parts of the United Kingdom; a comparison of attitudes and approaches in large institutions and small museums; the creative use of redundant churches; and challenges facing research/teaching laboratories and collections resulting from recent archaeological excavations. Myra Giesen is Lecturer at the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University. Contributors: Myra Giesen, Liz White, Hedley Swain, Charlotte Woodhead, Kirsty McCarrison, Victoria Park, Jennifer Sharp, Mark A. Hall, Rebecca Redfern, Jelena Bekvalac, Gillian Scott, Simon Mays, Charlotte Roberts, Jacqueline I. McKinley, Mike Parker Pearson, Mike Pitts, Duncan Sayer, Margaret Clegg.Trade ReviewA comprehensive overview for the professional. * BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Human Remains Curation in the United Kingdom - Myra Giesen International Perspectives towards Human Remains Curation - Myra Giesen and Liz White Dealings with the Dead: A Personal Consideration of the Ongoing Human Remains Debate - Hedley Swain Care, Custody and Display of Human Remains: Legal and Ethical Obligations - Charlotte Woodhead The Impact and Effectiveness of the Human Tissue Act 2004 and the Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums in England - Liz White Dead and Forgotten?: Some Observations on Human Remains Documentation in the UK - Myra Giesen and Kirsty McCarrison and Victoria Park Tethering Time and Tide? Human Remains Guidance and Legislation for Scottish Museums - Jennifer Sharp Tethering Time and Tide? Human Remains Guidance and Legislation for Scottish Museums - Mark A. Hall The Quick and the Deid: A Scottish Perspective on Caring for Human Remains at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery - Mark A. Hall Museum of London: An Overview of Policies and Practice - Rebecca Redfern and Jelena Bekvalac Curating Human Remains in a Regional Museum: Policy and Practice at the Great North Museum: Hancock - Gillian Scott Curation of Human Remains at St Peter's Church, Barton-Upon-Humber, England - Simon Mays Archaeological Human Remains and Laboratories: Attaining Acceptable Standards for Curating Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research - Charlotte Roberts 'No Room at the Inn' ... Contract Archaeology and the Storage of Human Remains - Jacqueline McKinley Changes in Policy for Excavating Human Remains in England and Wales - Michael G Parker Pearson and Mike Pitts and Duncan Sayer Conclusions and Ways Forward - Margaret Clegg Appendix I:DCMS Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museum Appendix II: MGS Guidelines for the Care of Human Remains in Scottish Museum Collections

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Book SynopsisTrials by ordeal, a judicial practice in which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to a painful task, have taken place from ancient Mesopotamia until the present day. This volume focuses on a special type of ordeal by fire called the bishah ceremony, which originated in Bedouin societies and continues to be practiced in Egypt today. In Bedouin and Arab rural societies, when somebody suspects another person of theft, property damage, murder, manslaughter, illicit sexual relations, rape, or witchcraft, and there are no witness to the crime, this individual can request the suspect or suspects to accompany him to the mubasha', a Bedouin notable who conducts the ordeal by fire. The bisha'h ceremony was previously performed in Jordan and in Saudi Arabia as well as in Egypt. In Jordan, the late King Hussein banned the ordeal by fire in 1976. In Saudi Arabia, the mubasha' died in the late 1980s, without leaving a successor. Today, in Egypt, near Ismaliyya, a mubasha' continues to practice the ceremonial ordeal in which the suspect licks a ladle that is heated to between 600-900 degrees Celsius. If the suspect's tongue blisters, they are deemed guilty. If the tongue is clear, they are declared innocent. The author observed 169 of such ordeals, many of which are documented and illustrated in this volume. People who take part in the bisha'h ceremony not only come from various regions in Egypt, but also from other North African countries, and from several Middle Eastern countries, including the Gulf States. Most of the cases involve rural peasants rather than Bedouin, but there are also instances where city dwellers take part in the ordeal.

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Book SynopsisThe authors provide a comprehensive picture of burial, mourning rituals, commemoration practices and veneration of the dead among the Negev Bedouin. A primary emphasis is the pivotal linkages between the living and the dead embodied in the intermediary role of healers, sorcerers, seers and other arbitrators between heaven and earth, who supplicate -- publicly and privately -- at the gravesite of chosen awliyah (deceased saints). This book brings together integrated findings of three scholars, based on decades of field work that combine close to 65 years of scrutiny. It maps out the locations and particularities of venerated tombs, the identity of the occupants and their individual abilities vis-a-vis the Almighty. Attitudes, beliefs and customs surrounding each gravesite, when combined on a longitudinal scale, reveal changes over time in beliefs and practices in grave worship and burial, mourning and condolence customs. Analysis of the data reveals that the dynamic of grave worship among the Negev Bedouin throws light on ancient traditions in a complex relationship with mainstream Islamic doctrine and the impact of modernity on Bedouin conduct and belief. The authors' observations and interviews with practitioners about their beliefs are compared and augmented with references that exist in the professional literature, including grave worship elsewhere in the Arab world. The Charm of Graves is essential reading for anthropologists, scholars of the sociology of religion, and students of Islam at university and popular levels. The topic has received only marginal attention in existing anthropological works and has been keenly awaited.

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Book SynopsisKnown as the land of the mountains, Dagestan lies immediately north of the Caucasus Mountains, and stretches for approximately 250 miles along the west shore of the Caspian Sea. With its mountainous terrain making travel and communication difficult, Daghestan is still largely tribal. Despite over a century of Tsarist control followed by seventy years of repressive Soviet rule, there are still 32 distinct ethnic groups in Daghestan, each with its own language, making it unquestionably the most complex of the Caucasian republics. Shamanic practices are still prevalent in this country, where one of the ten lost tribes of Israel can be found, and in which the stories of the elders provide the people with evidence of who their ancient ancestors were and where their roots lie. In Daghestan, as in the neighbouring countries of Georgia, Chechnya, and Azerbaijan, these roots lie in shamanism. This book, one of only a handful available in English on the country, contains the texts of some of these stories as well as commentaries on them.Trade Review"Michael Berman does a valuable service in that he reminds us of the rich and variegated religious-cultural heritage of the Daghestani peoples. For rendering otherwise dispersed source materials readily accessible in a single volume, this book is to be congratulated. Dr Andrew Dawson, Lancaster University, UK"

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Book SynopsisBorders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which includethe Horn and Eastern Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeabilitybut consequentiality of the borders. DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.Trade ReviewThe book bears the stamp of unmistakable originality in the nine constituent substantive essays on the various strategies by which borderland communities...explore and exploit the border in their diverse contexts and situations not just to survive but even to flourish economically, socially, culturally and politically. * AFRICA REVIEW OF BOOKS *A rich and focused volume [which] opens up a crucial debate that nobody interested in African political and social issues can ignore. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *This insightful new book looks at borders and borderlands from a quite different perspective. In a series of fascinating case-studies, it provides insights into the experience of people living in the borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan. [...] For those seeking to engage with the politics of the Horn of Africa, it is essential to grasp the extraordinary complexity of identity and identity choices. This collection of case-studies, creatively combining the insights of social anthropologists, political scientists and historians, makes a real contribution to such an understanding. * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsPreface by Gunther Schlee - Günther Schlee Preface by the Editors State Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne More State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje Feyissa Making Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu Adugna The Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. Smidt Trans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed Yasin People & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil Hoehne The Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric Barnes The Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee Cassanelli Magendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula Wekesa Can Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca Declich Conclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham

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Book SynopsisExamines the commodification of land rights and the effect of international licences for resource extraction on the pastoral communities of Sudan. Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of all kinds. Professor Peter Woodward, University of Reading "A timely contribution to an important set of debates ... tackles questions emerging from discussions about modernisation, urbanisation and globalisation from an explicitly local angle with regards to Sudan." Dr Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford Sudan experiences one of the most severe fissures between society and territory in Africa. Not only were its international borders redrawn when South Sudan separated in 2011, but conflicts continue to erupt over access to land: territorial claims are challenged by local and international actors; borders are contested; contracts governing the privatization of resources are contentious; and the legal entitlements to agricultural land are disputed. Under these new dynamics of land grabbing and resource extraction, fundamental relationships between people and land are being disrupted: while land has become a global commodity, for millions it still serves as a crucial reference for identity-formation and constitutes their most important source of livelihood. This book seeks to disentangle the emerging relationships between people and land in Sudan. The first part focuses on the spatial impact of resource-extracting economies: foreign agricultural land acquisitions; Chinese investments in oil production; and competition between artisanal and industrial gold mining. Detailed ethnographic case studies in the second part, from Darfur, South Kordofan, Red Sea State, Kassala, Blue Nile, and Khartoum State, show how rural people experience "their" land vis-à-vis the latest wave of privatization and commercialization of land rights. Jörg Gertel is Professor of Economic Geography at Leipzig University; Richard Rottenburg is Chair of Anthropology at the University of Halle; Sandra Calkins is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in HalleTrade ReviewAn excellent account of the problems.each of the ten chapters are well researched by authors. * SUDAN STUDIES *All the contributions offer rich empirical and theoretical insights into understanding the complex and volatile dynamics of land-related contestations in Sudan. The strong theoretical harmony between the chapters makes the value of the book a strong and illuminating collection of pieces. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsDisrupting territories: commodification and its consequences by Jörg Gertel, Richard Rottenburg and Sandra Calkins Agricultural Investment through Land Grabbing in Sudan by Siddiq Umbadda Territories of gold mining: international investment and artisanal extraction in Sudan by Sandra Calkins and Enrico Ille Oil, Water and Agriculture: Chinese impact on Sudanese land use by Janka Linke Nomad-sedentary relations in the context of dynamic land rights in Darfur: from complementarity to conflict by Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil Sedentary-nomadic relations in a shared territory: post-conflict dynamics in the Nuba mountains, Sudan by Guma Kunda Komey Entangled land and identity: Beja history and institutions by Sara Pantuliano Gaining an access to land: everyday negotiations and ethnic politics of Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan by Sandra Calkins Hausa and Fulbe on the Blue Nile: land conflict between farmers and herders by Elhadi Ibrahim Osman and Günther Schlee A central marginality: the invisibilization of urban pastoralists in Khartoum state by Barbara Casciarri

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Book SynopsisA much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge. Understanding local knowledge has become a central academic project among those interested in Africa and developing countries. In South Africa, land reform is gathering pace and African people hold an increasing proportion of thelivestock in the country. Animal health has become a central issue for rural development. Yet African veterinary medical knowledge remains largely unrecorded. This book seeks to fill that gap. It captures for the first time the diversity, as well as the limits, of a major sphere of local knowledge. Beinart and Brown argue that African approaches to animal health rest largely in environmental and nutritional explanations. They explore the widespread use of plants as well as biomedicines for healing. While rural populations remain concerned about supernatural threats, and many men think that women can harm their cattle, the authors challenge current ideas on the modernisation of witchcraft. They examine more ambient forms of supernatural danger expressed in little-known concepts such as mohato and umkhondo. They take the reader into the homesteads and kraals of rural black South Africans and engage with a key rural concern - vividly reporting the ideas of livestock owners. This is groundbreaking research which will have important implications for analyses of local knowledge more generally as well as effectivestate interventions and animal treatments in South Africa. William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford; Karen Brown is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University PressTrade ReviewThis work is an important and timely intervention.[and] should thus be of wide interest to scholars and policy makers alike. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *African Local Knowledge is an important book. Its wider arguments are engaging and should encourage a rethinking of older, binary oppositions between 'science' and 'tradition' in other regions of African pastoral production where patterns of grazing management have also changed and where these ideas now seem equally outdated. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *'a path-breaking view of South African animal disease and remedies where African owners are concerned. Focusing on local veterinary knowledge and therapeutics by African owners in such depth through 200 interviews in five areas is innovative and opens up an original field of knowledge and practice.' - -- Professor Anne Digby, Oxford Brookes UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: African Local Knowledge and Veterinary Pluralism Ticks, Tick-borne Diseases and the Limits of Local Knowledge 'The Grave of the Cow is in the Stomach': Environment and Nutrition in the Explanation and Prevention of Livestock Diseases Transhumance, Animal Diseases and Environment Plants and Drugs: Medicating Livestock Medicinal Plants: Their Selection and their Properties Animal Health and Ideas of the Supernatural Gender, Space and the Supernatural Conclusion

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Book SynopsisInterrogates the narratives of "land grabbing" and "agricultural investment" through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy. Africa has been at the centre of a "land grab" in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for "green" energy, and cheap land and water rights. But such land is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mean for Africa? In what ways are rural people's lives and livelihoods being transformed as a result? And who will control its land and agricultural futures? The case studies explore the processes through which land deals are being made; the implications for agrarian structure, rural livelihoods and food security; and the historical context of changing land uses, revealing that these land grabs may resonate with, even resurrect, forms of large-scale production associated with the colonial and early independence eras. The book depicts the striking diversity of deals and dealers: white Zimbabwean farmers in northern Nigeria,Dutch and American joint ventures in Ghana, an Indian agricultural company in Ethiopia's hinterland, European investors in Kenya's drylands and a Canadian biofuel company on its coast, South African sugar agribusiness in Tanzania's southern growth corridor, in Malawi's "Greenbelt" and in southern Mozambique, and white South African farmers venturing onto former state farms in the Congo. Ruth Hall is Associate Professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and Director of the ESRC STEPS Centre; Dzodzi Tsikata is Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, Legon.Trade ReviewThis collection of essays is the finest to be published on the broad debates of land grabbing in Africa. It covers empirically rich and diverse case studies. These are framed in an introduction of immense analytical heft that should be read by everyone who thinks they know what is often called in short hand the land grab in Africa. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *[T]here has been a great need for the detailed case study approach and the kind of integrated, informed assessment presented in this collection. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *This anthology provides up to date political economy perspectives of large-scale cases of land acquisitions in eight African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa). . . . [C]ompelling but not altogether comforting reading. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *The most historically grounded, lucid and nuanced understanding to date of the complex political economy of the contemporary rush for land in Africa. - Prof Adebayo Olukoshi, former Executive Secretary, United Nations Institute for Development and former director of * CODESRIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Contexts and Consequences of Africa's Land Rush - Ruth Hall and Ian Scoones and Dzodzi Tsikata State, Land and Agricultural Commercialisation in Kwara State, Nigeria - Joseph Ariyo and Michael Mortimore Recent Transnational Land Deals and the Local Agrarian Economy in Ghana - Dzodzi Tsikata and Joseph Yaro Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia: Implications for Agricultural Transformation and Livelihood Security - Maru Shete Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia: Implications for Agricultural Transformation and Livelihood Security - Marcel Rutten Land Deals and Pastoralist Livelihoods in Laikipia County, Kenya - John Letai Land Deals in the Tana Delta, Kenya - Abdirizak Nunow The State and Foreign Capital in Agricultural Commercialisation: The Case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company - Emmanuel Sulle The State and Foreign Capital in Agricultural Commercialisation: The Case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company - Rebecca Smalley Trapped between the Farm Input Subsidy Programme and Green Belt Initiative: Malawi's Contemporary Agrarian Political Economy - Blessings Chinsinga Trapped between the Farm Input Subsidy Programme and Green Belt Initiative: Malawi's Contemporary Agrarian Political Economy - Michael Chasukwa Agrarian Struggles in Mozambique: Insights from Sugarcane Plantations - Gaynor Paradza and Emmanuel Sulle South African Commercial Farmers in the Congo - Ruth Hall and Ward Anseeuw and Gaynor Paradza

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Book SynopsisBorders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit them through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which include the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeability but consequentiality of the borders. Dereje Feyissa is Africa Research Director at the International Law and Policy Institute and Adjunct Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Markus Virgil Hoehne is a Lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology at Leipzig University.Trade ReviewI would recommend reading the book to anyone who is interesting in understanding the human interactions that revolve around borders. * LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS BLOG *A rich and focused volume [which] opens up a crucial debate that nobody interested in African political and social issues can ignore. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *This insightful new book looks at borders and borderlands from a quite different perspective. In a series of fascinating case-studies, it provides insights into the experience of people living in the borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan. [...] For those seeking to engage with the politics of the Horn of Africa, it is essential to grasp the extraordinary complexity of identity and identity choices. This collection of case-studies, creatively combining the insights of social anthropologists, political scientists and historians, makes a real contribution to such an understanding. * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsPreface by Gunther Schlee - Günther Schlee Preface by the Editors State Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne More State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje Feyissa Making Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu Adugna The Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. Smidt Trans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed Yasin People & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil Hoehne The Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric Barnes The Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee Cassanelli Magendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula Wekesa Can Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca Declich Conclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham

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Book SynopsisTraces Kabylia's history through French occupation, the Algerian war of independence, and the political turmoil that followed. Kabylia is a Berber-speaking, densely populated mountainous region east of Algiers, that has played an important part in Algerian pre- and post-independence politics, and continues to be troublesome to central government. But 'Kabylia' is also an ideal, shaped and shared by a variety of intellectual trends both in Algeria and in France. Kabylia was seen by sociologically minded nineteenth-century French authors as a model of primitive democracy and became central to their debates about good government, the nature of 'race', nationhood, and the social bond. These qualities have by now largely been appropriated by Kabyles themselves, and have become central to Kabyle self-images discussed on numerous websites run by Kabyle emigrants in France as much as by local parties and associations in Kabylia itself. Central to this image is the Kabyles' attachment to their home villages. But what exactly makes a village a village? And how can this emphasis on communal autonomy be articulated within a modern nation-state? These are the questions this book tries to answer through an in-depth case study of one particular village, analysing the contemporary debates that animate it, and tracing its history through the French conquest and occupation, the Algerian war of independence, and the political turmoil, including the challenge of Islamist politics, that followed independence. The 'village', as much as Kabylia as a whole, emerges as a place made by its internal contradictions, and that can only be understood with reference to the position it occupies within the various intellectual, political, economic and cultural 'world-systems' of which it is part. Judith Scheele is a Research Fellow at Magdalen College, OxfordTrade ReviewA very fine study [and] a nuanced history and critique of the colonial sources, archival and published, so critical to her principal argument. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *An utterly compelling political ethnography of Algeria. [...] Village Matters is social anthropology at its very best, successfully deploying ethnographic and archival methodologies to present a complex picture of a local social world, while questioning fundamental assumptions that have for too long hamstrung the discipline into the mere description of the local. Beyond its contribution to the study of Algeria, Scheele provides a compelling model for understanding the politics of community writ large. * JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE *[An] outstanding ethnography. [...] This compelling ethnography is as critical to understanding modern Algeria as Alistair Horne's historical A Savage War of Peace. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Massinissah's children The republic of martyrs Shifting centres The theft of history The centres of the world Speaking in the name of the village Conclusion

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Book SynopsisReligion was a central concern for two of the founding fathers of sociology -Weber and Durkheim- and two other pioneers of modern sociology - Marx and Freud- also made important contributions to our understanding of the role of the supernatural in social life. These two volumes of significant writings in the sociology of religion begin with statements of major theoretical positions. Parsons, Bellah, Berger and Luckmann are represented here, as are modern writers in the rational choice school. The changing place of religion has been a major concern for sociologists and the selections include 17 central texts in the debate over secularization. Other areas covered are the forms of religious organization; the nature of conversion, recruitment and commitment; new religious movements; religion and politics; and the links between religion, magic and rationality.Table of ContentsVolume I: Part I theories of religion; Part II Secularization. Volume II: Part I Church, sect, denomination; Part II Religion, magic and rationality; Part III Conversion, recruitment and commitment; Part IV New religious movements; Part V Religion and politics.

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Book SynopsisThe Sociology of the Sciences represents one of the most vivid fields in the social sciences today. From a former subfield of sociology, social studies of science and technology (STS) have transformed into a transdisciplinary field of research in its own right - reflecting the still growing dynamics of techno-science in modern societies.The two volume set, The Sociology of the Sciences, is an attempt to map out the broad range of contemporary studies covered in this transdisciplinary research field. The ten sections in the two volumes include selected articles from the most relevant areas of contemporary social studies of science, ranging from studies of scientific knowledge to science policy issues, from the gender-related questions in science to the relations between science and the public.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: 1. Classical Accounts: From a Sociology of Knowledge to a Sociology of the Sciences 2. Scientific Communities between Collaboration and Competition 3. Gendered Science and Technology 4. Sociologies of Scientific Knowledge: The Lab and Beyond 5. Representational Practices in Science • Volume II: 1. Communicating with the Public 2. Understanding Technology 3. The Public Policy of Science 4. Institutionalised Practices and Organizational Interfaces of Research 5. Sociology and Social Studies of the Sciences: Towards a Postmodern Synthesis?

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Book SynopsisThis new authoritative two-volume set contains a selection of the most important articles and papers spanning over 30 years on the sociology of development. It is divided under 14 succinct headings covering the main areas of the field, including: Antecedents, Modernization Theory, Dependency, the Global Economy, the Urban and the Rural, Gender and Ethnicity, Environment and Sustainable Development.The first volume features a comprehensive collection by authors whose work has shaped academic thought and public policy on the economic development of third world nations. Contemporary scholarship on economic development is explored in the second volume which addresses today's major research issues: class, gender, ethnic and race inequality, the informal economy, population growth, migration, worker remittances, politics and the state, planning and development, and the state and sustainable development.The editors do not limit their selection of articles on the sociology of development to just one country - papers are included on Africa, Latin America, China, Mexico as well as more general articles on the developing world. The editors have also written an introduction to accompany the piece, explaining their selection of articles chosen.Table of ContentsPart I Antecedents. Part II Modernization theory. Part III Dependency. Part IV World systems. Part V The global economy. Part VI The post-development debate.

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Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Medicine is a collection of essays and research findings representing the work of medical sociologists in several different countries which focus on current ideas, concepts and issues in medical sociology. The selections provide a contemporary overview of the field in the following areas: sociological theory and health, social factors and disease, social demography, social stress, health and illness behaviour, alternative forms of medicine, health professions and occupations, hospitals, and health care delivery and social change.Although many of the papers are written by medical sociologists in Great Britain and North America, the work of their counterparts in Germany, France, Singapore and Japan is also included. The articles provide both an overview and international focus on the relationship between health and society.Trade Review'Cockerham has been very successful . . . as he has brought together a range of articles which demonstrate the richness and diversity of research and theory currently within medical sociology. Overall, this book will be a valuable resource to those working in the area . . . it does offer an accessible and interesting overview of many key issues and debates within medical sociology. It furthermore familiarises the reader with the range of theories and methods used in this sub-discipline and illustrates the importance of comparative work. The real strength of the book appears to be its ability to interest readers from varied perspectives and thus provide them with an opportunity to consider how they might contribute themselves to the development of the field.' -- Kathy Kendall, Reviewing SociologyTable of ContentsPart 1 Sociological theory and health: the sociological relevance of chronic illness, Uta Gerhardt; Max Weber, formal rationality and health lifestyles, William C. Cockerham et al; a critical theory of medical discourse - ideology, social control and the processing of social context in medical encounters, Howard Waitzkin; ageing, status politics and sociological theory, Bryan S. Turner. Part 2 Social factors and disease: socioeconomic status and health - how education, income and occupation contribute to risk facts for cardiovascular disease, Marilyn A. Winkleby et al; acculturation and symptoms - a comparative study of reported health symptoms in three Samoan communities, Joel M. Hanna and Maureen H. Fitzgerald; depression among the homeless, Mark La Gory et al; uncertainty and the lives of persons with AIDS, Rose Weitz; migrant labour and sexually transmitted disease, AIDS in Africa, Charles W. Hunt; HIV transmission through social and geographical networks in Uganda, Christine Obbo. Part 3 Social demography: the patterning of health by social position in contemporary Britain - directions for sociological research, Sally Macintyre; chronic illness over the life course - class inequalities among men and women in Britain, Sara Arber; the effects of women's employment - personal control and sex differences in mental health, Sarah Rosenfield. Part 4 Social stress: the sociological study of stress, Leonard I. Pearlin; low status control, high effort at work and ischaemic heart disease - prospective evidence from blue-collar men, Johannes Siegrist et al. Part 5 Health behaviour: the image of health - variations in perception by social class in a French population, A. d'Houtaud and Mark G. Field; social stratification and health lifestyles in two systems of health care delivery - a comparison of the United States and West Germany, Cockerham, William C. et al; fitness and the postmodern self, Barry Glassner. Part 6 Illness behaviour: reshaping of self - a pendular reconstruction of self and identity among adults with traumatic spinal cord injury, Karen K. Yoshida; life mirrors work mirrors text mirrors life..., Marianne A. Paget; self-care - Japan and the US compared, Marie R. Haug et al. Part 7 Alternative medicine. Part 8 Health professions and occupations. Part 9 Hospitals. Part 10 Health care delivery and social change. (Part contents)

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Book SynopsisAccording to Joseph Schumpeter, ‘economic sociology’ is an area of interest to both economists and sociologists. Economic sociology is generally considered to have been invented towards the end of the nineteeth century when it quickly became both popular and successful. Its goal -- then as now -- is to analyse economic institutions from a sociological perspective. During 1930-1980 interest waned; but during the last 10 to 15 years there has been something of a renaissance in this field, especially associated with what is called New Economic Sociology. This volume contains many of the classic articles in economic sociology, both from the early period (especially Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter) and from the current generation (such as Mark Granovetter and Viviana Zelizer).Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Early Contributions Part II: New Economic Sociology Index

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Book SynopsisThese volumes contain a spread of influential articles on economic issues arising in all aspects of the cultural sector - the performing and creative arts, (including the art market); the heritage industry (museums and monuments) and the media industry (film, TV, recording etc.). Cultural economics, including in this term the economics of the arts, has developed steadily over the last thirty years, with a literature that is theoretical, empirical and institutional. Some of the most prominent economists have written on subjects in this field - Coase, Baumol, Peacock, Robbins, Scitovsky, West and it is now being developed by their successors, of whom Frey and Throsby are the best established.Trade Review'Ruth Towse's new Edward Elgar set is indispensable - it runs two volumes, covers nearly 1400 pages, and reproduces most of the seminal articles in cultural economics. Towse's selection of articles deserves an A+. . . . they are a must for any cultural economist.' -- Tyler Cowen, Journal of Cultural Economics 'These two volumes should prove very useful to students and others wishing to become acquainted with the defining papers and main themes of Cultural Economics.'– Martin Ricketts, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: Overture Part II: Tastes and Taste Formation Part III: Demand Studies Part IV: Supply: The Performing Arts Part V: Supply: Museums and the Heritage Part VI: Supply: The Media Industries Part VII: The Art Market • Volume II: Part I: Economic History of the Arts Part II: Artists’ Labour Markets Part III: Baumol’s Cost Disease Part IV: Non-Profit Organizations in the Arts Part V: Public Subsidy for the Arts: Why? Theoretical Arguments Part VI: Public Subsidy for the Arts: How Much? Part VII: Public Subsidy for the Arts: How? Means to Achieve the Ends Part VIII: Economic Impact of the Arts

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Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Race and Ethnicity is a comprehensive collection of the most significant articles to appear in this field. It presents the major ideas and approaches in this branch of sociology and covers the main themes in European debates as well as race-related questions in North America.Topics covered are: theories of racial and ethnicity division including rational choice, sociobiology and class approaches; the sociology of race, nationalism and colonialism; migration and ethnicity; the nature and causes of prejudice and racial discrimination; inter-ethnic conflict; racialisation and ethnic identity; race and social class in urban areas; multiculturalism and the problem of the political integration of immigrants.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Malcolm Cross PART I THEORIES OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVISION 1. Max Weber (1922/1978), ‘Race Relations’ 2. John Rex (1980), ‘The Theory of Race Relations – A Weberian Approach’ 3. Stuart Hall (1980), ‘Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance’ 4. Edna Bonacich (1980), ‘Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race’ 5. Michael Banton (1991), ‘The Race Relations Problematic’ 6. Michael Banton (1994), ‘Modelling Ethnic and National Relations’ 7. M.G. Smith (1985), ‘Race and Ethnic Relations as Matters of Rational Choice’ 8. Stanford M. Lyman (1991), ‘Civilization, Culture, and Color: Changing Foundations of Robert E. Park’s Sociology of Race Relations’ 9. J. Milton Yinger (1983), ‘Ethnicity and Social Change: The Interaction of Structural, Cultural, and Personality Factors’ 10. Pierre L. van den Berghe (1978), ‘Race and Ethnicity: A Sociobiological Perspective’ 11. Iris Klein (1985), ‘Three Models of Explaining Ethnic Strife: Sociobiology, Neo-Marxism, and Rational Choice’ PART II RACISM, NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM 12. Anthony D. Smith (1988), ‘The Myth of the “Modern Nation” and the Myths of Nations’ 13. Daniele Conversi (1995), ‘Reassessing Current Theories of Nationalism: Nationalism as Boundary Maintenance and Creation’ 14. Robert Miles (1993), ‘The Articulation of Racism and Nationalism: Reflections on European History’ 15. Fred W. Riggs (1994), ‘Ethnonationalism, Industrialism, and the Modern State’ 16. Nira Yuval-Davis (1993), ‘Gender and Nation’ 17. Peter Hill (1993), ‘National Minorities in Europe’ 18. André Liebich (1995), ‘Nations, States, Minorities: Why is Eastern Europe Different?’ 19. Jakob Rosel (1995), ‘Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict’ 20. John Solomos (1986), ‘Trends in the Political Analysis of Racism’ PART III MIGRATION AND ETHNICITY 21. Aristide R. Zolberg (1991), ‘Bounded States in a Global Market: The Uses of International Labor Migrations’ 22. Robin Cohen (1991), ‘East–West and European Migration in a Global Context’ 23. Robert Miles (1990), ‘Whatever Happened to the Sociology of Migration?’ 24. Bhikhu Parekh (1994), ‘Three Theories of Immigration’ 25. Mary C. Waters and Karl Eschbach (1995), ‘Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States’ 26. Anthony H. Richmond (1990), ‘Race Relations and Immigration: A Comparative Perspective’ 27. Roger Waldinger (1989), ‘Immigration and Urban Change’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in volume I PART I PREJUDICE AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 1. Herbert Blumer (1958), ‘Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position’ 2. Andreas Wimmer (1997), ‘Explaining Xenophobia and Racism: A Critical Review of Current Research Approaches’ 3. Patricia G. Devine (1989), ‘Stereotypes and Prejudice: Their Automatic and Controlled Components’ 4. Herbert J. Gans (1979), ‘Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America’ 5. Russell H. Weigel and Paul W. Howes (1985), ‘Conceptions of Racial Prejudice: Symbolic Racism Reconsidered’ 6. Gerrard Kleinpenning and Louk Hagendoorn (1993), ‘Forms of Racism and the Cumulative Dimension of Ethnic Attitudes’ 7. Louk Hagendoorn (1993), ‘Ethnic Categorization and Outgroup Exclusion: Cultural Values and Social Stereotypes in the Construction of Ethnic Hierarchies’ 8. Martin Patchen (1995), ‘Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Ethnic Outgroups: How Are They Linked?’ 9. Paul M. Sniderman, Thomas Piazza, Philip E. Tetlock and Ann Kendrick (1991), ‘The New Racism’ 10. Michael Banton (1992), ‘The Nature and Causes of Racism and Racial Discrimination’ 11. Frank Bovenkerk, Robert Miles and Gilles Verbunt (1991), ‘Comparative Studies of Migration and Exclusion on the Grounds of “Race” and Ethnic Background in Western Europe: A Critical Appraisal’ 12. Tariq Modood (1994), ‘Political Blackness and British Asians’ 13. Joe R. Feagin (1991), ‘The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places’ 14. Dietrich Thränhardt (1995), ‘The Political Uses of Xenophobia in England, France and Germany’ PART II INTERETHNIC CONFLICT 15. Robin M. Williams, Jr. (1994), ‘The Sociology of Ethnic Conflicts: Comparative International Perspectives’ 16. Richard H. Shultz, Jr. (1995), ‘State Disintegration and Ethnic Conflict: A Framework for Analysis’ 17. David Carment (1993), ‘The International Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict: Concepts, Indicators, and Theory’ 18. A.N. Yamskov (1991), ‘Ethnic Conflict in the Transcausasus: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh’ 19. Valery Stepanov (2000), ‘Ethnic Tensions and Separatism in Russia’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in volume I PART I RACIALISATION AND ETHNIC IDENTITY 1. Fredrick Barth (1969), ‘Introduction’ 2. William L. Yancey, Eugene P. Ericksen and Richard N. Juliani (1976), ‘Emergent Ethnicity: A Review and Reformulation’ 3. Joane Nagel (1994), ‘Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture’ 4. Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan (1975), ‘Introduction’ 5. Stuart Hall (1992), ‘New Ethnicities’ 6. George A. De Vos (1995), ‘Ethnic Pluralism: Conflict and Accommodation: The Role of Ethnicity in Social History’ 7. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1991), ‘The Cultural Contexts of Ethnic Differences’ 8. John Rex (1995), ‘Ethnic Identity and the Nation State: The Political Sociology of Multi-Cultural Societies’ 9. Sarah Bélanger and Maurice Pinard (1991), ‘Ethnic Movements and the Competition Model: Some Missing Links’ 10. Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Dana Collins (1993), ‘Racism and Feminism: An Analysis of the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Hearings’ PART II RACE, SOCIAL CLASS AND THE CITY 11. W.G. Runciman (1972), ‘Race and Social Stratification’ 12. Thomas F. Pettigrew (1981), ‘Race and Class in the 1980s: An Interactive View’ 13. William Julius Wilson (1989), ‘The Underclass: Issues, Perspectives, and Public Policy’ 14. Douglas S. Massey (1990), ‘American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass’ 15. Barbara Schmitter Heisler (1991), ‘A Comparative Perspective on the Underclass: Questions of Urban Poverty, Race, and Citizenship’ 16. Malcolm Cross and Roger Waldinger (1992), ‘Migrants, Minorities, and the Ethnic Division of Labor’ 17. Martin N. Marger (1989), ‘Factors of Structural Pluralism in Multiethnic Societies: A Comparative Case Study’ 18. Mirjana Morokvasic (1993), ‘"In and Out" of the Labour Market: Immigrant and Minority Women in Europe’ 19. Malcolm Cross (1995), ‘“Race”, Class Formation and Political Interests: A Comparison of Amsterdam and London’ PART III MULTICULTURALISM, CITIZENSHIP AND THE POLICY DEBATE 20. Tomas Hammar (1985), ‘Dual Citizenship and Political Integration’ 21. Rainer Bauböck (1994), ‘Changing the Boundaries of Citizenship: The Inclusion of Immigrants in Democratic Polities’ 22. Maxim Silverman (1991), ‘Citizenship and the Nation-State in France’ 23. William Safran (1991), ‘Ethnicity and Pluralism: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives’ 24. Stephen Castles (1995), ‘How Nation-States Respond to Immigration and Ethnic Diversity’ 25. Marco Martiniello (1995), ‘European Citizenship, European Identity and Migrants: Towards the Post-National State?’ 26. Robert D. Manning (1995), ‘Multiculturalism in the United States: Clashing Concepts, Changing Demographics, and Competing Cultures’ 27. Joseph Hraba (1992), ‘Citizenship and Ethnicity: The American Case’ 28. Jeremy Hein (1993), ‘Ethnic Pluralism and the Disunited States of North America and Western Europe’ 29. John Rex (1992), ‘Ethnic Mobilization in a Multicultural Society’ 30. John Rex (1994), ‘The Second Project of Ethnicity: Transnational Migrant Communities and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Multicultural Societies’ 31. John Edwards (1995), ‘The Nature and Varieties of Affirmative Action’ 32. Sarah Spencer (1994), ‘The Implications of Immigration Policy for Race Relations’ 33. Paul Gilroy (1990), ‘The End of Anti-Racism’ 34. Stanford M. Lyman (1992), ‘The Assimilation-Pluralism Debate: Toward a Postmodern Resolution of the American Ethnoracial Dilemma’ 35. Stephen Castles (1993), ‘Migrations and Minorities in Europe. Perspectives for the 1990s: Eleven Hypotheses’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative two volume collection presents both the classic articles and the most important recent literature which are essential for an understanding of the sociology of knowledge. Topics covered in Volume I include the intellectual precursors and emergence of the sociology of knowledge; the classical sociology of knowledge; and the sociology of knowledge dispute. Volume II focuses on more contemporary sociologies of knowledge and the future of the debate.Trade Review'Volker Meja and Nico Stehr's end-of-the-millennium selection of 60 articles dealing with the history, contemporary state, and future prospects of the sociology of knowledge presents a reliable reference source not only for those especially interested in this field of sociology, but also for those interested in social conditions of genesis and changes of cognitive content of human everyday, religious, philosophical, artistic, scientific, and other beliefs. Meja and Stehr's collection can be regarded as the most comprehensive indicator of the present state of theory and research in the field of the sociology of knowledge compiled so far.'Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Intellectual Precursers of Sociology of Knowledge 1. Francis Bacon (1620), ‘On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man’ 2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1844/1932), ‘Concerning the Production of Consciousness’ 3. Karl Marx (1867), ‘The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof’ 4. Auguste Comte (1875-77), ‘From Metaphysics to Positivist Science’ 5. Friedrich Nietzsche (1873), ‘On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense’ 6. Vilfredo Pareto (1916), ‘Mind and Society’ 7. Sigmund Freud (1901/1927), ‘Projection and Wish-fulfillment’ Part II: The Emergence of Sociology of Knowledge 8. Emile Durkheim (1902-1914), ‘Sociology of Knowledge’ 9. Maurice Halbwachs (1925), ‘The Social Frameworks of Memory’ 10. Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1910), ‘The Retreat from Prelogical Mentality and the Progress Toward Logical Thought’ 11. Max Weber (1904-1905), ‘Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism’ 12. Georg Lukács (1923), ‘Class Consciousness’ 13. John Dewey (1938), ‘Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry’ 14. Georg Herbert Mead (1922), ‘A Behaviorist Account of the Significant Symbol’ Part III: The Classical Sociology of Knowledge 15. Max Scheler (1926), ‘The Sociology of Knowledge: Formal and Material Problems’ 16. Karl Mannheim (1925), ‘The Problem of a Sociology of Knowledge’ 17. Karl Mannheim (1926), ‘The Ideological and Sociological Interpretation of Intellectual Phenomena’ 18. Karl Mannheim (1931), ‘The Sociology of Knowledge’ Part IV: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute 19. Karl Mannheim (1928), ‘Competition as a Cultural Phenomenon’ 20. Karl Mannheim (1929), ‘Ideology and Utopia’ 21. Hannah Arendt (1929), ‘Philosophy and Sociology’ 22. Ernst Grünwald (1934), ‘The Sociology of Knowledge and Epistemology’ 23. Herbert Marcuse (1929), ‘The Sociological Method and the Problem of Truth’ 24. Max Horkheimer (1930), ‘A New Concept of Ideology?’ 25. Helmuth Plessner (1931-32), ‘The Conception of Ideology and its Vicissitudes’ 26. Hans Speier (1938), ‘The Social Determination of Ideas’ 27. Theodor W. Adorno (1953), ‘The Sociology of Knowledge and its Consciousness’ 28. Karl Popper (1962), ‘The Sociology of Knowledge’ 29. Martin Jay (1974), ‘The Frankfurt School’s Critique of Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge’ Name Index Volume II: Part V: The Classical Sociology of Knowledge Revisited 1. Arthur Child (1941), ‘The Theoretical Possibility of the Sociology of Knowledge’ 2. Robert K. Merton (1945), ‘The Sociology of Knowledge’ 3. C. Wright Mills (1940), ‘Methodological Consequences of the Sociology of Knowledge’ 4. Talcott Parsons (1959), ‘An Approach to the Sociology of Knowledge’ 5. Kurt H. Wolff (1959), ‘The Sociology of Knowledge and Sociological Theory’ 6. Georges Gurvitch (1966), ‘Types and Forms of Knowledge’ 7. Werner Stark (1960), ‘The Conservative Tradition in the Sociology of Knowledge’ 8. Florian Znaniecki (1940), ‘Sociology and Theory of Knowledge’ Part VI: Contemporary Sociologies of Knowledge 9. Norbert Elias (1971), ‘Sociology of Knowledge: New Perspectives Part 1’ 10. Norbert Elias (1971), ‘Sociology of Knowledge: New Perspectives Part 2’ 11. Barry Barnes and David Bloor (1982), ‘Relativism, Rationalism and the Sociology of Knowledge’ 12. Ulrich Beck (1992), ‘Modern Society as a Risk Society’ 13. Peter Berger (1966), ‘Identity as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge’ 14. Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann (1966), ‘Introduction: The Problem of the Sociology of Knowledge’ 15. David Bloor (1981), ‘Durkheim and Mauss Revisited: Classification and Sociology of Knowledge’ 16. David Bloor (1976), ‘The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge’ 17. Michel Foucault (1969), ‘Science and Knowledge’ 18. Clifford Geertz (1973), ‘Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture’ 19. Jürgen Habermas (1968), ‘Technology and Science as Ideology'’ 20. Sandra Harding (1986), ‘The Social Structure of Science: Complaints and Disorders’ 21. Karin Knorr-Certina (1984), ‘The Fabrication of Facts: Toward a Microsociology of Scientific Knowledge’ 22. Thomas Kuhn (1962), ‘The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions’ 23. Michael Mulkay (1981), ‘Knowledge and Utility: Implications for the Sociology of Knowledge’ 24. Barry Schwartz (1981), ‘Conclusion’ 25. Dorothy E. Smith (1990), ‘Women’s Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology’ 26. Nico Stehr (1994), ‘The Texture of Knowledge Societies’ 27. Janet Wolff (1975), ‘The Sociology of Art and the Concept of World-view’ Part VII: Prospects 28. Dick Pels (1996), ‘Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge: Toward a New Agenda’ 29. Volker Meja and Nico Stehr (1988), ‘Social Science, Epistemology, and the Problem of Relativism’ 30. Harvey Goldman (1994), ‘From Social Theory to Sociology of Knowledge and Back: Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Intellectual Knowledge Production’ 31. Ann Swidler and Jorge Arditi (1994), ‘The New Sociology of Knowledge’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisEconomic anthropologists carry out research in all parts of the globe, producing ethnographic studies, cross-cultural comparisons and theoretical works. They explore how growing markets, new technologies and expanding capital affect marginalised people or the control of wealth between genders. The empirical studies of economic anthropologists are based on participation and observation and provide an information bank for testing formal theories. Their findings often challenge prevailing concepts of modern economics, because much of their collected information falls outside accepted paradigms or schemes. In this important collection, Stephen Gudeman has selected a range of seminal papers which highlight differences and convergence between anthropologists and economists, and which trace the major developments in economic anthropology from 1922 to the present day. The articles draw on the anthropological notions of culture and context, and examine economic processes such as production, exchange and consumption, and the application of theories, such as Marxist, institutionalist and neoclassical explanations, to field data.This authoritative volume will be an essential reference source for both economists and anthropologists.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Stephen Gudeman Part I: Theories 1. Manning Nash (1961), ‘The Social Context of Economic Choice in a Small Society’ 2. Stuart Plattner (1989), ‘Economic Behavior in Markets’ 3. Allen Johnson (1980), ‘The Limits of Formalism in Agricultural Decision Research’ 4. Maurice Godelier (1978), ‘Infrastructures, Societies, and History’ 5. Michael Taussig (1977), ‘The Genesis of Capitalism Amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil’s Labor and the Baptism of Money’ 6. Marshall D. Sahlins (1965), ‘On the Sociology of Primitive Exchange’ 7. Jonathan Parry (1986), ‘The Gift, the Indian Gift and the “Indian Gift”’ 8. Stephen Gudeman (1986), ‘Physiocracy: a Natural Economics’ 9. Stephen Gudeman and Alberto Rivera (1990), ‘The House’ 10. Nurit Bird-David (1992), ‘Beyond “The Original Affluent Society”: A Culturalist Reformulation’ Part II: Processes: Production 11. Fredrik Barth (1964), ‘Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia’ 12. Paul and Laura Bohannan (1968), ‘Farms and Produce (Yiagh)’ 13. Paul and Laura Bohannan (1968), ‘Land Rights: Social Relations in Terrestrial Space’ 14. Clifford Geertz (1972), ‘The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco’ 15. E.R. Leach (1960), ‘The Sinhalese of the Dry Zone of Northern Ceylon’ 16. Stephen Gudeman (1986), ‘Rice and Sugar: Local Models of Change’ Part III: Processes: Exchange 17. Bronislaw Malinowski (1922/1961), ‘The Essentials of the Kula’ 18. Keith Hart (1986), ‘Heads or Tails? Two Sides of the Coin’ 19. Caroline Humphrey (1985), ‘Barter and Economic Disintegration’ 20. Maurice Godelier (1977), ‘“Salt Money” and the Circulation of Commodities among the Baruya of New Guinea’ 21. Igor Kopytoff (1986), ‘The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process’ Part IV: Processes: Spheres of Exchange 22. Paul Bohannan (1955), ‘Some Principles of Exchange and Investment among the Tiv’ 23. Fredrik Barth (1967), ‘Economic Spheres in Darfur’ Part V: Processes: Markets 24. Sidney W. Mintz (1961), ‘Pratik: Haitian Personal Economic Relationships’ 25. Alfred Gell (1982), ‘The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market’ Part VI: Processes: Consumption 26. Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood (1978), ‘Separate Economic Spheres in Ethnography’ 27. Mary Beth Mills (1997), ‘Contesting the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migration, and Consumption in Thailand’

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative collection brings together the most significant papers by leading scholars in an increasingly important area of study. Social scientists and political analysts are becoming more and more aware of the importance of long-maintained or newly embellished links between post-migration communities and the societies from which they originate. Closely tied to this field is a renewed interest in 'diasporas' or globally dispersed groups whose collective experiences often draw on deep historical roots in more than one place.The articles selected for this volume represent key contemporary theories, comparative research and case studies. Contributors are drawn from the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, economics, cultural studies, political science and history. Migration, Diaporas and Transnationalism will be a valuable resource for students and professional researchers who have an interest in migration, globalization, ethnic relations, culture and identity.Trade Review'. . . this book is a valuable resource which has collected together an important range of contributions, many of which may not be easy to track down for the individual scholar.' -- Claire Dwyer, Progress in Human Geography'. . . this collection is a fine overview of contributions to an interesting and promising new research field, and it will be a good resource for professional scholars and especially for students in the field.' -- Boris Slijper, Journal of International Migration and IntegrationTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Reappraising Contemporary Migration 1. Harvey M. Choldin (1973), ‘Kinship Networks in the Migration Process’ 2. James T. Fawcett (1989), ‘Networks, Linkages, and Migration Systems’ 3. Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch and Cristina Blanc-Szanton (1992), ‘Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration’ 4. Panos Hatzipanayotou (1991), ‘International Migration and Remittances in a Two-Country Temporary Equilibrium Model’ 5. Charles B. Keely and Bao Nga Tran (1989), ‘Remittances from Labor Migration: Evaluations, Performance and Implications’ 6. Johanna Lessinger (1992), ‘Nonresident-Indian Investment and India’s Drive for Industrial Modernization’ 7. Aihwa Ong (1996), ‘Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States’ 8. Roger Rouse (1991), ‘Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism’ 9. Barbara Schmitter Heisler (1985), ‘Sending Countries and the Politics of Emigration and Destination’ 10. Charles W. Stahl and Fred Arnold (1986), ‘Overseas Workers’ Remittances in Asian Development’ Part II: Old and New Meanings of Diaspora 11. John A. Armstrong (1976), ‘Mobilized and Proletarian Diasporas’ 12. James Clifford (1994), ‘Diasporas’ 13. Robin Cohen (1995), ‘Rethinking “Babylon”: Iconclastic Conceptions of the Diasporic Experience’ 14. Robin Cohen (1996), ‘Diasporas and the Nation-State: From Victims to Challengers’ 15. Paul Gilroy (1991), ‘It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At. . .: The Dialectics of Diasporic Identification’ 16. Paul Gilroy (1994), ‘Diaspora’ 17. Stuart Hall (1990), ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ 18. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1994), ‘Spaces of Dispersal’ 19. David D. Laitin (1995), ‘Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Nationality in the Post-Soviet Diaspora’ 20. Richard Marienstras (1989), ‘On the Notion of Diaspora’ 21. William Safran (1991), ‘Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return’ 22. Gabriel Sheffer (1986), ‘A New Field of Study: Modern Diasporas in International Politics’ 23. Gabriel Sheffer (1995), ‘The Emergence of New Ethno-National Diasporas’ 24. Ninian Smart (1987), ‘The Importance of Diasporas’ 25. Elliott P. Skinner (1993), ‘The Dialectic between Diasporas and Homelands’ Part III: Transnationalism: ‘Globalization From Below’ 26. Arjun Appadurai (1991), ‘Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology’ 27. A. Appadurai and C. Breckonridge (1989), ‘Editors’ Comment: On Moving Targets’ 28. Katy Gardner (1993), ‘Desh-bidesh: Sylheti Images of Home and Away’ 29. Akhil Gupta (1992), ‘The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism’ 30. M. Kearney (1995), ‘The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism’ 31. Michael Kearney (1991), ‘Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire’ 32. Orlando Patterson (1975), ‘Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance: A Theoretical Framework and Caribbean Case Study’ 33. Yossi Shain (1995), ‘Multicultural Foreign Policy’ 34. John F. Stack, Jr. (1981), ‘Ethnic Groups as Emerging Transnational Actors’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisIn this work, the author examines the history of European representations of non-European peoples, using as his base four case studies and a wide range of source material, including paintings, medals, murals, frescoes, monuments, engravings and contemporary photographs.

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Book SynopsisA number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study. It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Profile of Professor Tobias List of participants Foreword Justice Edwin Cameron Address Bernard Malauzat Keynote address Phillip V. Tobias Searching for common ground in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and genetics Francesco d’Errico and Lucinda R. Backwell The history of a special relationship: prehistoric terminology and lithic technology between the French and South African research traditions Nathan Schlanger Essential attributes of any technologically competent animal Charles K. Brain Significant tools and signifying monkeys: the question of body techniques and elementary actions on matter among apes and early hominids Frédéric Joulian Tools and brains: which came first? Phillip V. Tobias Environmental changes and hominid evolution: what the vegetation tells us Marion K. Bamford Implications of the presence of African ape-like teeth in the Miocene of Kenya Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut Dawn of hominids: understanding the ape-hominid dichotomy Brigitte Senut The impact of new excavations from the Cradle of Humankind on our understanding of the evolution of hominins and their cultures Lee R. Berger Stone Age signatures in northernmost South Africa: early archaeology in the Mapungubwe National Park and vicinity Kathleen Kuman, Ryan Gibbon, Helen Kempson, Geeske Langejans,Joel Le Baron, Luca Pollarolo and Morris Sutton Vertebral column, bipedalism and freedom of the hands Dominique Gommery Characterising early Homo: cladistic, morphological and metrical analyses of the original Plio-Pleistocene specimens Sandrine Prat Early Homo, ‘robust’ australopithecines and stone tools at Kromdraai, South Africa Francis Thackeray and José Braga The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid cultural traditions Lucinda Backwell and Francesco d’Errico Contribution of genetics to the study of human origins Himla Soodyall and Trefor Jenkins An overview of the patterns of behavioural change in Africa and Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene Nicholas J. Conard From the tropics to the colder climates: contrasting faunal exploitation adaptations of modern humans and Neanderthals Curtis W. Marean New neighbours: interaction and image-making during the West European Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition David Lewis-Williams Late Mousterian lithic technology: its implications for the pace of the emergence of behavioural modernity and the relationship between behavioural modernity and biological modernity Marie Soressi Exploring and quantifying technological differences between the MSA I, MSA II and Howieson’s Poort at Klasies River Sarah Wurz Stratigraphic integrity of the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave Christopher Henshilwood Testing and demonstrating the stratigraphic integrity of artefacts from MSA deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa Zenobia Jacobs From tool to symbol: the behavioural context of intentionally marked ostrich eggshell from Diepkloof, Western Cape John Parkington, Cedric Poggenpoel, Jean-Philippe Rigaud and Pierre-Jean Texier Chronology of the Howieson’s Poort and Still Bay techno-complexes: assessment and new data from luminescence Chantal Tribolo, Norbert Mercier and Hélène Valladas Subsistence strategies in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu Cave: the microscopic evidence from stone tool residues Bonny S. Williamson Speaking with beads: the evolutionary significance of personal ornaments Marian Vanhaeren Personal names index Subject index

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Book SynopsisThe 'Cradle of Humankind' (COH), bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province in South Africa, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of early human habitation have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played in the development of modern humans.""A Search for Origins"" aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a non-specialist audience. A number of general accounts have been written which have concentrated on the palaeontological discoveries made there. No systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines has, however, been published about the wider history of the COH and surrounding areas.In particular, no overview spanning the evolution of early plant and animal life, human development, and recent and colonial history as reflected in discoveries linked to the COH, has been attempted.This edited volume frames the scientific advances that have been made in the COH against the intellectual and political background out of which they emerged. It places the COH within a recognisable South African context, which renders it a great deal more meaningful for both South African visitors and international tourists.The multi-disciplinary approach - from a wide range of specialists based in South Africa and the United Kingdom - is innovative and ground-breaking.Table of ContentsForeword Phillip Tobias; Part 1; Introduction Philip Bonner Africa is seldom what it seems; Chapter 1 Saul Dubow The South Africanisation of Science (working title); Part 2; Introduction Trefor Jenkins Fossils and genes: A new anthropology of evolution; Chapter 2 Kevin Kuykendall/Goran Strkalj A history of South African palaeoanthropology; Chapter 3 Kevin Kuykendall Fossil hominids of the Cradle of Humankind; Chapter 4 Himla Soodyall/Trefor Jenkins Unravelling the history of modern humans in southern Africa: The contribution of genetic studies; Chapter 5 Marion Bamford Fossil plants from the Cradle of Humankind; Part 3; Introduction Amanda Esterhuysen The Emerging Stone Age; Chapter 6 Amanda Esterhuysen The Earlier Stone Age; Chapter 7 Lynn Wadley The Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age; Chapter 8 David Pearce Rock engravings in the Magaliesberg Valley; Part 4; Introduction Philip Bonner The myth of the vacant land; Chapter 9 Tom Huffman The Early Iron Age at Broederstroom and around the Cradle of Humankind; Chapter 10 Simon Hall Tswana history in the Bankenveld; Chapter 11 Jane Carruthers Early Boer republics: Changing political forces in the Cradle of Humankind, 1830s to 1890s; Part 5; Introduction Philip Bonner The racial paradox - Sterkfontein, Smuts and segregation; Chapter 12 Philip Bonner The legacy of gold; Chapter 13 Phillip V. Tobias The story of Sterkfontein, 1895-1947; Chapter 14 Vincent Carruthers The Anglo-Boer War in the Cradle of Humankind; Chapter 15 Tim Clynick White South Africa's 'weak sons': Poor whites and the Hartebeespoort Dam; Epilogue Bonner/ Esterhuysen.

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Book SynopsisThe Arab countries and the Arab Middle East have been projected as homogeneous and united social and political entities. Yet beneath the surface, ethnic tensions and conflicts simmer. Some of these conflicts are well known and the issues arising therefrom are part of the regular diet of news. Other tensions involving ethnic minorities and ethnic diasporas are less well known. But they are no less problematic for regional actors. Particularly so since they are not only influenced by global developments, but they also significantly influence political, economic, cultural and ideological regional and intrastate developments. The purpose of this book is to highlight the factors, forces, and circumstances that affect inter-communal relations in the region, and point toward strategies and circumstances that promote or hinder coexistence and integration, or antagonism. By studying diasporas in the Middle East in terms of their significant regional factors in relation to the Middle Eastern diaspora worldwide, this book makes an important and unique contribution to linking the study of Middle Eastern diasporas to the general new field of diasporic studies.Trade Review"In these timely essays, historian Ma'oz and political scientist Sheffer help to fill a significant gap in knowledge about Middle Eastern minorities and diasporas. Highly recommended." -- Choice.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Moshe Ma'oz and Gabriel Sheffer; Middle Eastern Minorities: Between Integration and conflict -- An Overview; National Self-Determination in the Middle East and North Africa; The Impact of Religion and Regime on Ethnic Conflict in the Middle East; Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Sudan since Independence; The Elite Minority: Educated Sudanese and their Role in the State; The Christians in Israel: Aspects of Integration and the Search for Identity in a Minority within a Minority; Contested Identities: Berbers, 'Berberism', and the State in North Africa; Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Iraq; Middle Eastern Diasporas -- An Overview; The Muslim Diaspora in the West; Lebanon: State, Diaspora and the Question of Political Stability; Chechen Identity, Culture, and Citizenship in Jordan; Territorial versus Personal Autonomy; Contributors; Index.

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Book Synopsis"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I've never seen it." Mafiosi have often reacted this way to questions from journalists and law enforcement. Social scientists who study the Mafia usually try to pin down what it "really is," thus fusing their work with their object. In Mafiacraft, Deborah Puccio-Den undertakes a new form of ethnographic inquiry that focuses not on answering "What is the Mafia?" but on the ontological, moral, and political effects of posing the question itself. Her starting point is that Mafia is not a readily nameable social fact but a problem of thought produced by the absence of words. Puccio-Den approaches covert activities using a model of "Mafiacraft," which inverts the logic of witchcraft. If witchcraft revolves on the lethal power of speech, Mafiacraft depends on the deadly strength of silence. How do we write an ethnography of phenomena that cannot be named? Puccio-Den approaches this task with a fascinating anthropology of silence, breaking new ground for the study of the world’s most famous criminal organization.Trade Review"This book is brimming with ideas and original turns. The author sets out to follow the work (hence Mafia-craft) required to answer the impossible question of what the Mafia is. Her intimate account of anti-Mafia activities helps to bring out the Mafia's everyday realities for Sicilians. Yet Puccio-Den's ambition also reaches out much further. Revisiting the very notion of Mafia as a problem for the knowledge of social realities, she opens up new perspectives for a political anthropology of silence." -- Peter Geschiere, author of Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust and The Perils of Belonging"Mafiacraft is an exciting exploration of how the Mafia came to be visualized, objectified, characterized as a kind of network, legally inscribed, prosecuted, and collectively rejected in the social world. Tracing Mafia through the consolidation of anti-Mafia, it follows how a muted group comes to the surface of representation by way of sources ranging from legal prosecution to photography, the emergence of popular religious cults, and the publication of hagiographies." -- Claudio Lomnitz, author of Death and the Idea of Mexico"Following Mary Douglas, Mafiacraft shows how anti-Mafia activism is a "system for accountability"; unlike witchcraft, it works to render visible the vices and devices of the Mafia in a social body inhabited by silence. This is an excellent contribution to anthropological debates in a variety of recent areas of attention, including the anthropology of Europe and the broader focus on ontology, memory, and the perception of social phenomena as contested fields of action." -- Rogers Orock, co-editor with Wale Adebanyi of Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa

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Book SynopsisThe boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge. On the one hand, "life" and "death" may be redefined as partial or contingent ("brain death"), or reconstituted altogether ("virtual" or "artificial life"). On the other hand, the finality and "reality" of death resists such classifications. This volume reflects a growing international concern about issues such as organ transplantation, new reproductive and genetic technologies and embryo research, and the necessity of cross-cultural comparison. The political economy of body parts, organ and tissue "harvesting," bio-prospecting, and the patenting of life-forms are explored herein, as well as governance and regulation in cloning, organ transplantation, tissue engineering, and artificial life systems procedures.

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Book Synopsis"NAPA Bulletin" is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. Features include: peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology; dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods; and, most editions available for course adoption.Table of Contents1. Tourism, Tourists, and Anthropologists at Work (Tim Wallace). 2. Can the Anthropology of Tourism Make Us Better Travelers? (Erve Chambers). 3. Generating Theory, Tourism, and "World Heritage" in Indonesia: Ethical Quandaries for Anthropologists in an Era of Tourist Maniad (Kathleen M. Adams). 4. Archaeological Tourism: Looking for Answers along Mexico's Maya Riviera (Cameron Walker). 5. Enhancing Community-based Tourism Development and Conservation in the Western Caribbean (Susan C. Stonich). 6. Between Pure and Applied Research: Experimental Ethnography in a Transcultural Tourist Art World (Quetzil E. Castaneda). 7. Anthropological Angst and the Tourist Encounter (William A. Douglass, Julie Lacy). 8. An Anthro-planning Approach to Local Heritage Tourism: Case Studies from Appalachia (Mary B. Lalone). 9. Applied Anthropology and Heritage Tourism Planning: Working for the Western Erie Canal Heritage Corridor Planning Commission (Amanda Mason). 10. Hosts and Hosts: The Anthropology of Community-based Ecotourism in the Peruvian Amazon (Amanda Stronza). 11. Keeping the People in the Parks: A Case Study from Guatemala (Tim Wallace, Daniela N. Diamente). 12. More than Nature: Anthropologists as Interpreters of Culture for Nature-based Tours (Palma Ingles). 13. The Traveling Seminar: an Experiment in Cross-cultural Tourism and Education in Taiwan (David Blundell). 14. Anthropologists in the Tourism Workplace (Valene L. Smith). Biosketches of the Authors.

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Book SynopsisWhat do we know about race today? Is it surprising that after a hundred years of debate and inquiry by anthropologists, the answer not only remains uncertain but the very question is so fraught? In part, this reflects the deep investments modern societies have made in the concept of race. We can hardly know it objectively when it comprises a pervasive aspect of our identities and social landscapes, determining advantage and disadvantage in a thoroughgoing manner. Yet know it we do—perhaps mistakenly, haphazardly, or too informally, but knowledge claims about race permeate everyday life in the United States. In addition, what we understand or assume about race changes as our practices of knowledge production also change. Until recently, a consensus held among social scientists—predicated, in part, upon findings by geneticists in the 1970s about the structure of human genetic variability—that “race is socially constructed.” In the early 2000s, following the successful sequencing of the human genome, a series of counter-claims challenging the social construction consensus was formulated by some geneticists who sought to support the role of genes in explaining race. This volume arises out of the fracturing of that consensus and the attendant recognition that asserting a constructionist stance is no longer a tenable or sufficient response to the surge of knowledge claims about race.Contributors: Ron Eglash, Clarence C. Gravlee, John Hartigan, Linda M. Hunt, Kuzawa W. Kuzawa, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Jeffrey C. Long, Pamela L. Sankar, Zaneta M. Thayer, Nicole Truesdell

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Book SynopsisIn the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific. The Anthropology of Expeditions draws together contributions from anthropologists and historians of science to explore the role of these journeys in natural history and anthropology between approximately 1890 and 1930. By examining collected materials as well as museum and archive records, the contributors to this volume shed light on the complex social life and intimate work practices of the researchers involved in these expeditions. At the same time, the contributors also demonstrate the methodological challenges and rewards of studying these legacies and provide new insights for the history of collecting, history of anthropology, and histories of expeditions. Offering fascinating insights into the nature of expeditions and the human relationships that shaped them, The Anthropology of Expeditions sets a new standard for the field.

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Book SynopsisIn Latin America, as early as 1975 testimony given under oath by anthropologists has been applied in the civil law systems in a number of Latin American countries. Called peritajes antropológicos culturales, this testimony can come in the form of written affidavits and/or oral testimony. These experts build bridges of intercultural dialogue, which overcome language and cultural barriers that have historically limited equal access to justice for indigenous and ethnic people all over the word. Culture as Judicial Evidence in Latin America summarizes the current state of this work in six countries: Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay, and lays out the challenges and dilemmas involved in the creation and use of cultural expert testimony. Organized into three sections, the book advances a framework for the use of cultural evidence, and presents readers with nine case studies based on trials in six individual countries. These countries have implemented legal reform, constitutional amendments and the adoption of international legislation to create the legal frameworks that enable this new form of legal evidence to be admissible in Latin American courts. The contributing authors are cultural anthropologists with vast experience researching the impact of cultural expert witness testimony. A forward-looking final section examines the dilemmas and challenges of this work that remain to be solved. Trade ReviewCulture as Judicial Evidence is the first anthropological study of expert witness testimony about cultural matters in Latin American legal contexts. This fine volume provides valuable insights into ethnographic interventions concerning life and death matters involving human rights abuses, migration, political freedoms, indigenous rights, and gender identities. * Howard Campbell, University of Texas-El Paso *A brilliant, nuanced guide to cultural expertise in Latin American civil law systems. Rodriguez and the contributors ask crucial questions about the state (mis)management of cultural diversity and access to justice across a continent where anthropological experts must transcend their roles in court cases to promote social transformation. * Ellen Moodie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *This fascinating and ground-breaking collection introduces readers to the diverse uses of anthropological expert testimony in Latin American civil law systems. Rich case studies are framed by surveys of the national legal contexts, and assessments of the dilemmas that arise when presenting cultural arguments in judicial proceedings. * Professor Anthony Good, University of Edinburgh, UK. *

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Book SynopsisThis exciting new anthology gathers together Puerto Rican folktales that were passed down orally for generations before finally being transcribed beginning in 1914 by the team of famous anthropologist Franz Boas. These charming tales give readers a window into the imaginations and aspirations of Puerto Rico’s peasants, the Jíbaro. Some stories provide a distinctive Caribbean twist on classic tales including “Snow White” and “Cinderella.” Others fictionalize the lives of local historical figures, such as infamous pirate Roberto Cofresí, rendered here as a Robin Hood figure who subverts the colonial social order. The collection also introduces such beloved local characters as Cucarachita Martina, the kind cockroach who falls in love with Ratoncito Pérez, her devoted mouse husband who brings her delicious food. Including a fresh English translation of each folktale as well as the original Spanish version, the collection also contains an introduction from literary historian Rafael Ocasio that highlights the historical importance of these tales and the Jíbaro cultural values they impart. These vibrant, funny, and poignant stories will give readers unique insights into Puerto Rico’s rich cultural heritage. Esta nueva y emocionante antología reúne cuentos populares puertorriqueños que fueron transmitidos oralmente durante generaciones antes de ser finalmente transcritos comenzando en 1914 por el equipo del famoso antropólogo Franz Boas. Estos encantadores cuentos ofrecen a los lectores un vistazo a la imaginación y las aspiraciones de los jíbaros, los campesinos de Puerto Rico. Algunas historias brindan un distintivo toque caribeño a cuentos clásicos como "Blanca Nieves" y "Cenicienta". Otros ficcionalizan la vida de personajes históricos locales, como el famoso pirata Roberto Cofresí, representado como una figura al estilo de Robin Hood, quien subvierte el orden social colonial. La colección también presenta personajes locales tan queridos como Cucarachita Martina, la amable cucaracha que se enamora de Ratoncito Pérez, su devoto esposo ratón que le trae deliciosa comida. Incluyendo una nueva traducción al inglés de estos cuentos populares, así como las versiones originales en español, la colección también contiene una introducción del historiador literario Rafael Ocasio, quien destaca la importancia histórica de estos cuentos y los valores culturales del jíbaro que éstos imparten en los relatos. Estas historias vibrantes, divertidas y conmovedoras brindarán a los lectores una visión única de la rica herencia cultural de Puerto Rico.Introducción en español (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/03154419/Ocasio_Cuentos_Intro_Espan%CC%83ol.pdf)Rafael Ocasio will discussing his book, 'Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico / Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico' at Biblioteca Juvenil de Mayagüez in Puerto Rico (https://youtu.be/o6Tub094EoI)Trade Review"Rafael Ocasio’s unique bilingual anthology, Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico, is a treasure of delectable and profound tales collected at the beginning of the twentieth century. Moreover, Ocasio’s comprehensive introduction and notes about the history of these tales fills a gap in our understanding of the unusual contribution made by Puerto Rican peasants to the island’s cultural tradition. In short, this is a significant and remarkable book that will bring joy to readers." -- Jack Zipes * translator and editor of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First *"Esta excepcional antología bilingüe por Rafael Ocasio, Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico, es un tesoro de sabrosos e intensos cuentos recopilados a principios del siglo XX. Además, la amplia introducción de Ocasio y sus notas sobre la historia de estos cuentos llenan un vacío sobre nuestra comprensión de la inusual contribución realizada por los campesinos puertorriqueños a la tradición cultural de la isla. En resumen, este es un libro significativo y extraordinario que llenará de alegría a sus lectores." -- Jack Zipes * traductor y editor, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edit *"The tales collected in this volume highlight Jibaro ingenuity, courage, and resilience while illuminating Puerto Rican traditions and values that contextualize the time in which they were collected. Like the jewels excavated by the legendary pirate Contreras, these folk stories are still 'very pretty and very valuable,' and they demand to be shared." -- Lorraine M. López * author of Rituals of Movement in the Writing of Judith Ortiz Cofer *"Los cuentos recogidos en este volumen resaltan el ingenio, el coraje y la resiliencia del jíbaro, al tiempo que iluminan las tradiciones y valores puertorriqueños que contextualizan el tiempo en que fueron recogidos. Al igual que las joyas excavadas por el legendario pirata Contreras, estas historias populares siguen siendo 'muy bonitas y muy valiosas,' y exigen ser compartidas." -- Lorraine M. López * autora de Rituals of Movement in the Writing of Judith Ortiz Cofer *"Presentan Libro Sobre Los Cuentos Folklóricos de Puerto Rico" * Periodico Vision de Mayaguez *Highlighted as the author of Folk Tales from the Hills of Puerto Rico/Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico * CARICON 2021 Magazine *"Popular Puerto Rican folklore to be shared in the Caribbean, North and Latin America." * Caribbean Magazine *"Greyhound Grad Publishes Two Books Focused on Puerto Rican Folklore," by Desiree Cooper * Eastern New Mexico University *"Mapping Puerto Rico Through Folklore," an interview with Rafael Ocasio * The Caribbean Science Fiction Network *Podcast and interview, “Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico”, Mirada Científica. Episodo Desinformación – Narrativas * Mirada Científica podcast *"Bilingual folklore book sheds light on Puerto Rican cultural identity," by John McPhaul * The San Juan Daily Star *Historias 157 - Rural Folktales and Empire in Puerto Rico with Rafa Ocasio * Historias podcast *Table of ContentsA Note on the Stories Introduction 1 Jíbaro Readaptations of Fairy Tales: Snow White and la Cenizosa (Cinderella) Blanca Nieves / Snow White Blanca Nieves (1) / Snow White (1) Blanca Nieves (2) / Snow White (2) Blanca Flor / White Flower La Cenizosa / Cinderella María, la Ceninoza / María, Cinderella Rosa, la Cenizosa / Rosa, Cinderella Rosita, la Cenicienta / Rosita, Cinderella 2 Rescuing Encantados El príncipe clavel / The Carnation Prince El príncipe becerro / The Calf Prince Las tres rosas de Alejandría / The Three Roses of Alexandria Los siete cuervos / The Seven Crows El caballo misterioso / The Mysterious Horse El caballito negro / The Little Black Horse El padre y los tres hijos / The Father and the Three Sons El caballo de siete colores / The Horse of Seven Colors 3 Fantastic and Impossible Quests La flor del olivar / The Flower of the Olive Grove La joven y la serpiente / The Maiden and the Serpent Los tres trajes / The Three Dresses 4 Juan Bobo: A Deceiving TricksterJuan manda la cerda a misa / Juan Bobo Sends the Pig to Mass Juan mata la vaca / Juan Kills the Cow Juan Bobo se muere cuando el burro se tire tres pedos / Juan Bobo Dies When the Donkey Farts Three Times Juan y los objetos mágicos / Juan and the Magical Objects La olla que calienta el agua sin fuego / The Pot That Heats Water without Fire El conejo que llama a su amo / The Rabbit That Calls His Master El pito que resucita / The Whistle That Brings People Back to Life Juan y los ladrones / Juan and the Thieves 5 Beware of Strangers Los niños perdidos / The Lost Children Los niños huérfanos (1) / The Orphaned Children (1) Los niños huérfanos (2) / The Orphaned Children (2) La mata de ají / The Pepper Plant 6 El Pirata Cofresí: A National Hero and Other Notable BanditsEl niño Cofresí / The Boy Cofresí Cofresí defiende su honor / Cofresí Defends His Honor Cofresí en el palacio misterioso / Cofresí in the Mysterious Palace Recordando a Cofresí / Remembering Cofresí Contreras / Contreras 7 Brief Stories and Anecdotes Dios, el rico y el pobre / God, the Rich Man, and the Poor Man El carbonero / The Charcoal Maker La mala esposa / The Bad Wife La vieja miserable / The Miserable Old Woman Juan sabe más que el rey / Juan Knows More Than the King Juanito, el Hijo de la Burra / Juanito, the Son of the Donkey La Cucarachita Martina / Martina, the Charming Cockroach Arañita Martina y Ratoncito Pérez / Arañita Martina and Ratoncito Pérez Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a strong case for the inclusion of Indigenous Elders’ cultural knowledge in the delivery of inclusive education for learners who are members of minority communities. It is relevant to curriculum developers, teachers, policy makers and institutions that engage in the education of Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other minority students. This book provides opportunities for exploring the decolonization of educational approaches. It promotes the synthesis of multiple types of knowledge and ways of knowing by making a case for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous Elders as teachers in learning spaces. The book is of interest to educators, students, and researchers of Indigenous knowledge and decolonizing education. Additionally, it is important for educational policy makers, especially those engaged in looking for strategic solutions to bridging educational disparities and gaps for Indigenous, Black, Latinx and other minority learners.Table of ContentsChapter 1: ARTICULATING THE EPISTEMIC CHALLENGE In this chapter, we articulate the epistemic challenge and how one responds to the challenge. We take up the assertion that, “We are all entitled to a “degree of self-centrism”. However, the question is not whether non-dominant thinking [bodies of knowledge] “can reach a self-consciousness and evident neutrality”, but rather, engaging such knowledge as intellectual resistance & subversion for the main purpose of “offering alternative [complementary or contradictory] visions of reality more rooted in the lived experiences” of African peoples (Dabeshi, 2014; pp. 3-4). Chapter 2: INDIGENEITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF DECOLONIAL EDUCATION Chapter 2 will examine counter-hegemonic knowledge production in the [Western] academy and the responsibilities of Black/Indigenous/racialized scholars coming to know and producing knowing to challenge the particularly of Western science knowledge that masquerades as universal knowledge in academia. We engage the chapter from a stance examining the coloniality of knowledge in academia, finding ways to centre Indigenous and African Elders’ cultural knowledge systems in the academy as a way to disrupt Euro-colonial hegemonic knowledging. We ask: how do we challenge the ‘grammar of coloniality’ of Western knowledge and affirm the possibilities of a re-imagining of “new geographies” & cartographies of knowledge (Raghuram, 2017) as varied and intersecting ontologies & epistemologies that inform our human condition as “learning experiences, research and knowledge generation” practices (see Lebakeng 2010; p. 28, citing Teffo, 2002)? We take up the Mignolo and others conceptualization of ‘decoloniality’ drawing convergences and divergences with anti-colonial education highlighting how the claim of Indigeneity complicate such discussions in multiple geo-spaces. Chapter 3: WHERE WE ARE COMING FROM? In this chapter, we develop a case for where we are coming from and interrogate, noting and highlighting some issues and questions: a) Knowledge exclusions/coloniality of ‘science [e.g., what constitutes knowledge? the ‘science’/Indigenous binary? etc.]. b) Is there a place for ‘bodily ways of knowing’ in the academy [in the search for episteme in dialogue]? c) Primitivizing the ‘Other’ [e.g., the genealogies of Black/African intellectual thought]. d) The resistance to claims of Black/African Indigeneity. e) Redefining Indigenous/Indigeneity & the relationship to the question of the Land [i.e., decolonization is also about resisting ‘imperial consciousness’]. f) Taking up Elders’ cultural knowledges as pedagogies of social liberation? g) African Elders’ knowledge as ‘sub-intern’of place/site/location & source of Indigenous cosmologies & episteme, consisting of “worldsenses” [Oyewumi, 1977] & “new geographies of knowledge” [Raghuram, 2017]. h) The ‘rhetoric’ and ‘myth’ of modernity - schooling & education deny the power of Elders’ cultural knowledges as decolonial difference. Chapter 4: ASKING QUESTIONS In this chapter, we identify some key probing questions that guide the objectives of this book: a) How do we come to understand African Elders’ cultural knowledge as Indigenous epistemology? b) What specific Elders’ teachings relating to community, social responsibility, environment, Land, social justice, equity, youth leadership, respect, and mutual interdependence can be identified pointing to the implications for youth schooling and education (including educational policy)? c) What are the pedagogic, instructional and communicative challenges of Elders’ cultural knowledge; for classroom teaching? d) In what ways do African Elders’ cultural knowledge & Indigenous approaches enhance Black/African youth educational success? Chapter 5: RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS In Chapter 5, examine the major concepts of: a) Elders b) Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and flesh out any challenges in their re-conceptualizations Chapter 6: BLACK/AFRICAN INDIGENEITY In Chapter 6, we respond to the following: a) The Question of Indigeneity b) Elders’ Cultural Knowledges as speaking to African Indigeneity c) Diasporic and transnational contexts Chapter 7. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF AFRICAN ELDERS In chapter 7, we offer examples of Epistemologies of African Elders that highlight their understandings of: a) African worldview, centeredness a) Epistemic colonialisms: hegemonies, binaries, hierarchies b) Elders cultural knowledges - Ontological and epistemological foundations, worldview foundations c) Multicentricity: Knowledge Production and ways of Knowing d) Teachings of the land e) Placed-based epistemologies f) Conceptions of land – site of knowledge g) Embodied epistemologies h) Intuition and Holisticness i) Transmission and orality j) Situatedness k) Spirituality l) Decolonial, anti-colonial and subversive Chapter 8 AFRICAN ELDERS’ INDIGENOUS STORY TELLING AS DECOLONIAL PEDAGOGIES In this chapter we apply a decolonial framework to center Elders’ story-telling as decolonial pedagogy: a) Decolonial Pedagogies- Nature and Context b) Story Telling as Pedagogy c) Language and Orality d) Memory, Intuition, e) Circularity f) Intuition and Holisticness g) Situatedness h) Spirituality i) Intergenerational Chapter 9 ISSUES/CHALLENGES IN THE STUDY OF ELDERS’ CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE In this chapter, we engage some issues and challenges in the study of Elders’ cultural knowledge: a) Language b) Orality c) Appropriation d) Systemic and institutional racism e) Nature and context of Indigenous knowledges – place based, localized, worldviews f) Issues of knowledge, power, identity, subjectivity, history and politics in knowledge production g) Culture and Knowledge appropriation h) Subjectivity and Institutional resistance i) Complicities and Implications j) Locality and multiplicity of Indigenous knowledges – whose knowledge? Hegemony? k) Education, globalization and internationalization l) Gender, sexuality, disability issues m) Contexts: political, social, economic Chapter 10: Practical Implications for School Curriculum The chapter focuses on practical strategies for centring Elder’s cultural knowledges in school curriculum. Working from the understanding conveyed in preceding chapters that affirm that Black/African inclusion in conversations on Indigeneity and education in Canada, and also, bearing in mind the variant cultural diversities between Turtle Island Indigenous/Aboriginal/First Nations students and Black Diasporic students, we suggest practical ways Canadian and North American educational programming can be rooted in Indigenous pedagogies such as Land-based education. The goal is show how concrete strategies can be put in place in schools to apply to such knowledge to Black/African, Indigenous, colonized and racialized students to enhance educational outcomes for all. We will provide some exemplars/case studies of how this is being done in some educational settings and sites. Chapter 11. CONCLUSION: POSSIBILITIES OF NEW EDUCATIONAL FUTURITY In conclusion we offer possibilities for new educational futurities rooted in Indigenous Elders’ cultural knowledges: a) Invoking Indigenousness consciousness, re-awakening, resurgent b) Subversion of colonial hierarchies c) Reclaiming discursive and definitional power and authority d) Indigenousness as point of reference, starting point e) Acknowledging all forms of resistance, resisting from where you are f) Engaging politics of refusal g) Reclaiming language and orality h) Communities of resistance i) Risk taking, resilience, subjective and collective forms of resistance

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Book SynopsisThis book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change. Table of ContentsIntroduction I. MIGRANTS, PLACE-MAKING, AND CLAIMS TO THE CITY Chapter 1. Peripheral Citizenship: Immigration and City-Making in Santiago, Chile Chapter 2. Spaces of Social Reproduction and Emergent Change in Small Town America Chapter 3. Practice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile Chapter 4. The Free Trade Zone and the Ethnic Restaurant: South Asian Emergent Space in a Chilean City of Labor Migrants II. RELIGION, URBAN INNOVATION, AND URBAN SPIRITUAL GEOGRPAHIES Chapter 5. “God Loves Taxi Drivers”: Christian Publics and Emergent Spaces in Shanghai, China Chapter 6. The Good Tree Institute (GTI): Muslim Self-Making and Place-Making in Metropolitan Phoenix Chapter 7. Building Community Centers in Living Rooms: Piety Movements, Domestic Space, and Women in Islamabad, Pakistan III. POPULAR CULTURE, LIFESTYLES, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AND INFRASTRUCTURES Chapter 8. $5 Gets you Soup, Bread and a Vote: Microgranting Dinners for Transforming Detroit Chapter 9. Belonging through Bohemia: Maintaining Queer Space and Possibility in Teresina, Brazil Chapter 10. Sustainability, Green Businesses and Alternative Economies in Stuttgart, Germany Chapter 11. "Punk rock DIY belly feeding”: ephemerality in authentic space-making in Barcelona and Vancouver Chapter 12. You Can’t Fight City Hall? Philadelphia’s Advocates for the Homeless and Community Activists Engage in the Battle of Love Park Chapter 13. Never-ending Beginnings: Spaces of Infrastructural Labor in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors – both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices – demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a lens through which to generate rich insights into professionals’ and lay people’s intimate encounters with policy. Authors look closely at core policy debates in the history of global maternal health across six different continents, including: Women’s use of misoprostol for abortion in Burkina Faso The place of traditional birth attendants in global maternal health Donor-driven maternal health programs in Tanzania Efforts to integrate qualitative evidence in WHO maternal and child health policy-making Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health will engage readers interested in critical conversations about global health policy today. The broad range of foci makes it a valuable resource for teaching in medical anthropology, anthropology of reproduction, and interdisciplinary global health programs. The book will also find readership amongst critical public health scholars, health policy and systems researchers, and global public health practitioners. Table of ContentsForeword Craig Janes Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Lauren J. Wallace, Margaret E. Macdonald & Katerini T. Storeng Part I. Implementation Disconnects and Policy Rhetoric Chapter 2. Baby (not so) Friendly: Implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in Serbia Ljiljana Pantović Chapter 3. The Promise and Neglect of Follow-up Care in Obstetric Fistula Treatment in Uganda Bonnie Ruder & Alice Aturo Emasu Chapter 4. The Domestication of Misoprostol for Abortion in Burkina Faso: Interactions Between Caregivers, Drug Vendors and Women Seydou Drabo Chapter 5. The ‘Sustainability Doctrine’ in Donor-driven Maternal Health Programs in Tanzania Meredith G. Marten Part II. Policy Ambivalence Chapter 6. The Place of Traditional Birth Attendants in Global Maternal Health: Policy Retreat, Ambivalence, and Return Margaret E. MacDonald Chapter 7. Conflicted Reproductive Governance: The Co-existence of Rights-Based Approaches and Coercion in India’s Family Planning Policies Maya Unnithan Part III. Contesting Authoritative Knowledge and Practice Chapter 8. Regulating Midwives: Foreclosing Alternatives in the Policy-making Process in West Java, Indonesia Priscilla Anne Magrath Part IV. The Rise of Evidence and its Uses Chapter 9. Making Space for Qualitative Evidence in Global Maternal and Child Health Policy-making Christopher J. Colvin Chapter 10. The International Childbirth Initiative: An Applied Anthropologist’s Account of Developing Global Guidelines Robbie Davis-Floyd Chapter 11. Selling Beautiful Births: The Use of Evidence by Brazil’s Humanised Birth Movement Lucy Irvine

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Book SynopsisThe second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology. The first part of the book includes updated analyses of important concepts and tools for community intervention. It discusses the importance of centrally involving community members in all phases of community development activities. Part II includes several completely new chapters and focuses on projects in a number of countries -- the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, the Philippines and France. It covers topics such as establishing human rights cities; involving and empowering local communities; research in communities; the healthy cities movement; and climate change. This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination and Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), women in prison, and gender factors in climate risk. The appendices include profiles of outstanding practitioners and scholar-practitioners over the last 100 years. This edition includes contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners in clinical sociology and is of interest to sociologists, social policy makers, social workers, and sustainability researchers. The first edition of this book received the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the Clinical Sociology Division of the International Sociological Association.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to the Volume.Part I: The Basics of Community Practice.Chapter 2: Essentials of Community Intervention.Chapter 3: Research for the Community.Chapter 4: The Researcher’s Mark: What Researchers Bring to Communities, and What May or May Not be Left Behind When Their Work is Done.Part II: Selected Applications.Chapter 5: Community Development and Empowerment: A Clinical Sociology Perspective.Chapter 6: The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement: The Global Diffusion of Local Initiatives.Chapter 7: Cultural Encounters: A Research-Intervention Approach for Working with Immigrants in the Community.Chapter 8: Coeducation in the Popular/Neighbourhood Districts of Marseille.Chapter 9: Economic Interventions in Communities: The Québec Case.Chapter 10: Communities for CEDAW: Initiating Change on the Local Level.Chapter 11: Women and Prison: The Symbolic Recognition of Knowledge.Chapter 12: Gender, Power and Climate Risk Assessment for Community Resilience.Chapter 13: A Clinical Sociologist on City Council: Intervention in Local Politics.Chapter 14: Human Rights Cities.Chapter 15: Participatory Interventions in the Community: Social Vulnerabilities, Life History and Transgenerationality in Brazil.Chapter 16: Involving Residents in the Design of Urban Renewal Projects based upon a Generative Analysis of Social Processes.Chapter 17: Riding Off into the Sunset? Establishing an Inclusive Post-Apartheid South African Community.

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Book SynopsisThis book applies a multi-disciplinary lens to examine obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that results from prolonged, obstructed labor. While obstetric fistula can be prevented with emergency obstetric care, it continues to occur primarily in resource-limited settings. In this volume, specialists in the anthropological, psychological, public health, and biomedical disciplines, as well as health policy experts and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations discuss a scoping overview on obstetric fistula, including prevention, treatment, and reducing stigma for survivors. This comprehensive resource is useful in understanding the risk factors, epidemiology, and social, psychological, and medical effects of obstetric fistula.Topics explored include: A Human Rights Approach Toward Eradicating Obstetric Fistula Obstetric Fistula: A Case of Miscommunication – Social Experiences of Women with Obstetric Fistula Classification of Female Genital Tract Fistulas Training and Capacity-Building in the Provision of Fistula Treatment Services Designing Preventive Strategies for Obstetric Fistula Sexual Function in Women with Obstetric Fistula Social and Reproductive Health of Women After Obstetric Fistula Repair Making the Case for Holistic Fistula Care Addressing Mental Health in Obstetric Fistula Patients Physical Therapy for Women with Obstetric Fistula A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa is designed for professional use by NGOs, international aid organizations, governmental and multilateral agencies, healthcare providers, public health specialists, anthropologists, and others who aim to improve maternal health across the globe. Although the book’s geographic focus is Africa, it may serve as a useful resource for individuals who aim to address obstetric fistula in other settings. The book may also be used as an educational tool in courses/programs that focus on Global Health, Maternal and Child Health, Epidemiology, Medical Anthropology, Gender/Women's Studies, Obstetrics, Global Medicine, Nursing, and Midwifery.Table of ContentsForeword Hon. Edna Adan Ismail Acknowledgements Part I. Obstetric Fistula Chapter 1. Introduction to Obstetric Fistula: A Multidisciplinary Approach to a Preventable Childbirth Tragedy Bonnie Ruder, Laura Briggs Drew, and David A. Schwartz Chapter 2. A Human Rights Approach Toward Eradicating Obstetric Fistula: Expanding Data Collection, Prevention, Treatment, and Continuing Support for Women and Girls Who Have Been Neglected Laura Briggs Drew Chapter 3. Archaeological Basis for Obstetrical Fistula: A Condition that Is as Ancient as Human Themselves David A. Schwartz Chapter 4. Obstetric Fistula in Context L. Lewis Wall Chapter 5. Co-occurrence of Obstetric Fistula and Stillbirth in Sub-Saharan Africa Karen D. Cowgill Chapter 6. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa: Public Health, Sociological and Medical Perspectives Tina Lavender, Sabina Wakasiaka and Weston Khisa Chapter 7. Women Who Lose Their Lives While Giving Life: Exploring Obstetric Fistula as a Public Health Problem in Kenya Kathomi Gatwiri Part II: Perspectives and Experiences from Women and Girls with Obstetric Fistula Chapter 8. Obstetric Fistula: A Case of Miscommunication – Social Experiences of Women with Obstetric Fistula Marielle E. Meurice, Saifuddin Ahmed, and René Génadry Chapter 9. The Experience of Childbirth and Obstetric Fistula: Perspectives of Women in Northern Ghana F. Beryl Pilkington, Prudence Mwini-Nyaledzigbor, and Alice Abokai Agana Chapter 10. The Experiences of Women Living with Obstetric Fistula in Burkina Faso: From Delivery to Social Reinsertion Marie-Eve Paré, Julie Désalliers, Laurence Bernard, Salam Kouraogo, and Jacques Corcos Chapter 11. Girls’ and Women’s Social Experiences with Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania: A Public Health Problem Stella Masala Mpanda and Lilian Teddy Mselle Chapter 12. Physical, Psychological and Social Assessments of Fistula Recovery Among Women in Nigeria and Uganda Beth S. Phillips, Justus K. Barageine, Dorothy N. Ononokpono, and Alison M. El Ayadi Chapter 13. Socioeconomic and Healthcare Causes of Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania: Perspectives from the Affected Women Lilian Teddy Mselle and Stella Masala Mpanda Chapter 14. Health-Seeking Behavior Among Women with Obstetric Fistula in Ethiopia Jordann Loehr, Heather Lytle, and Mulat Adefris Part III. Fistula Treatment, Management, and Models of Care Chapter 15. Classification of Female Genital Tract Fistulas Judith T. Goh and Hannah G. Krause Chapter 16. Surgical Treatment for Obstetric Fistula: Not an Easy Option Andrew Browning Chapter 17. Obstetric Vesicovaginal Fistula: Development of a Predictive Score of Failed Surgical Repair Joseph B. Nsambi, Olivier Mukuku, Propser L. Kakudji, Jean-Baptiste S.Z. Kakoma Chapter 18. Training and Capacity-Building in the Provision of Fistula Treatment Services: The FIGO Fistula Surgery Training Initiative Gillian Slinger and Lilli Trautvetter Chapter 19. Medical and Surgical Challenges and Opportunities for Treatment at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Sierra Leone Ennet Banda Chipungu Chapter 20. Comparing Three Models of Fistula Care Among Five Facilities in Nigeria and Uganda Pooja Sripad, Caroline Johnson, Vandana Tripathi, and Charlotte E. Warren Chapter 21. Obstetric Fistula in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Neglected Care of Young Women in Rural Areas Joseph B. Nsambi, Olivier Mukuku and Jean-Baptiste S.Z. Kakoma Chapter 22. Therapeutic Management of Obstetric Fistula: Learning from Implementation of Insertable Devices to Improve the Health and Well-Being of Women and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Nessa Ryan and Ann E. Kurth Chapter 23. The Aberdeen Women’s Centre: Providing Care for Girls and Women with Fistula and Other Conditions in Sierra Leone Ivy Kalama Part IV: Beyond Surgery—Preventing Obstetric Fistula and Addressing Its Many Consequences Chapter 24. Height and External Measurement of Pelvic Diameters to Predict Obstetric Fistula in Congolese Women: A Case-control Study Joseph B. Nsambi, Olivier Mukuku, Xavier K. Kinenkinda, Propser L. Kakudji, Robert Andrianne, Jean-Baptiste S.Z. Kakoma Chapter 25. Designing Preventive Strategies for Obstetric Fistula: Evidence from a Survey Conducted Among Rural and Urban Women in Burkina Faso Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas Chapter 26. Sexual Function in Women with Obstetric Fistula Rachel Pope Chapter 27. Social and Reproductive Health of Women After Obstetric Fistula Repair: Insights from Guinea Alexandre Delamou Chapter 28. Urinary Incontinence Following Obstetric Fistula Surgery Hannah G. Krause and Judith T. Goh Chapter 29. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Northern Ghana: “Not Counted Among Women” Kimberly Jarvis, Helen Vallianatos, Solina Richter, and Priscilla N. Boakye Chapter 30. Making the Case for Holistic Fistula Care: Implementation of a Model Reintegration Program in Uganda Bonnie Ruder and Alice Emasu Chapter 31. Addressing Mental Health in Obstetric Fistula Patients: Filling the Void Meghan Beddow and Mary J. Stokes Chapter 32. Physical Therapy for Women with Obstetric Fistula Theresa Spitznagle Chapter 33. Comprehensive Pelvic Floor Health: Beyond the “Hole” in the Wall Rahel Nardos and Laura Jacobson

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Book SynopsisThis handbook offers epistemologically and ontologically important personal accounts of academic and professional researchers having long-term intensive, comprehensive and ethnographic fieldwork in various social settings and versatile regional contexts across the globe. The accounts are cross-disciplinary including anthropology, sociology, geography, political sciences, gender studies, forestry and environmental studies, economics, and international relations. They are also trans-regional, covering the globe including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. The book offers a comprehensive portrait of multifaceted challenges that social researchers experience while doing fieldwork in various social settings. The accounts provide both challenges of doing fieldwork in the 21st century and the ways how to address/redress them in the field by complying with the codes of ethics, and the politics of fieldwork. Readers will benefit from the handbook by understanding methodological issues from both disciplinary relevance and regional specificity across time and spaces.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Methodological issues in social research: Experience from the 21st century Nasir Uddin Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh Part-One: Fieldwork in Challenging Social Settings 2. An active partner in disgraceful context: research, surveillance and risk in the Chittagong Hill Tracts Maggie O’Brien Department of Law, University of Warwick, UK 3. Researching Garo Death Rites (reprint with revision) Erik De Maaker Department of Anthropology, the University of Leiden, the Netherlands 4. Negotiating the tyrannies of fieldwork in Africa: A Nigerian experience Adebayo Adewusi Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria 5. Trial by fire: Reflections on fieldwork in Nagaland, Northeast India Debojyoti Das Department of Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK Part-Two: Field, Relations, and Emotion 6. Encounters in the field: The influence of emotions on data Anuradha Sen Mookerjee The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 7. Developing relationships over many years: Under investigated but important types of qualitative Research Ian G. Baird Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 8. Sick in the Field: Illness and inter-being encounters in anthropological fieldwork Olea Morris Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Hungary Part-Three: Bio-Ethics, Fieldwork Practices, and Ground Reality 9. At the organ bazaar of Bangladesh: In search of kidney sellers (reprint with revision) Monir Moniruzzaman Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, USA 10. “Can we talk about surrogacy?” Legal precariousness and the perils of qualitative research in the biomedical Context Pragna Paramita Mondal Narajole Raj College, West Bengal, India & Women’s Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta 11. Qualitative ‘fieldwork’ in health geographic research: self-reports from Bangladesh Alak Paul Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh 12. Adolescent drug abuse in Connecticut private high schools: Zero tolerance, contextual peer Influence, and deterrence effectiveness. Minjune Song Independent scholar living in Connecticut, USA 13. Researchers’ dilemmas and challenges in qualitative fieldwork with climate-vulnerable communities Masud-Al-Kamal, S. M. Monirul Hassan Department of Sociology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh & Nasir Uddin, Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh Part-Four: Gendered Fieldwork and Gender in Social Research 14. Risks and challenges in fieldwork on gender-based violence: Identity, social taboo and culture Nahid Rezwana, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 15. Rethinking ethnographic research as ‘gendered and en-casted labour’: Reflections from researching caste and partition-induced forced-migration in a non-metropolitan city of West Bengal Ekata Bakshi The Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India 16. Photovoice as a method for women’s empowerment in domestic violence: a reflexive account Zuriatunfadzliah Sahdan Department of Geography and Environment, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia 17. Working with opposite gender: Experience of doing fieldwork among rural women in Bangladesh Main Uddin Department of Anthropology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Part-Five: Theoretical and Epistemic Challenges in the Field 18. Between an activist and academic: Contested (re)positioning in refugee research Nasir Uddin Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh 19. Moving research methods to the field: Challenges and Lessons learned across African contexts Deo-Gracias HOUNDOLO International Institute of Social Studies-Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands 20. Entry, access, bans and returns: Reflections on positionality in field research on Central Asia’s ethnic minorities Matteo Fumagalli, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK. 21. Doing ethnography on sexuality among Young Men in Dhaka, Bangladesh: How Has Reflexivity Helped? Sayed Md Saikh Imtiaz Department of Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Part-Six: Nativity, participants selection and challenges in archival research 22. A native anthropologist’s positionality of being insider/outsider: A reflective account of doing ethnographic research in Nepal Kapil Dahal Department of Anthropology, The Central Tribhuvan University, Nepal 23. Recruitment of participants from vulnerable groups for social research: Challenges and solutions Melati Nungsari Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston, USA. 24. Navigating Archival Readings of Rural Technology Sanjukta Ghosh South Asia Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London Conclusion 25. Challenges of social research: Way forward Alak Paul Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

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Book SynopsisThis volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact, allowing each writer's perspectives and stories to grow, in tandem with the pandemic itself, over the course of the book. Leaving behind the trope of the lonely anthropologist, these authors come together to form a collective of ethnographers to ask important questions, such as: What does it mean to live and write amid an unfolding and unstoppable global health and economic crisis? What are the intensities of the everyday? How do the isolated find connection in the face of catastrophe? Such first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many, such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various writings—spun from diverse situations and global locations—proceed within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying times. A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1. First WavePart 2. Second WavePart 3. Images for the New YearPart 4. CalculationsPostscript

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region.The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier linguistic landscapes before significant language spreads ousted former patterns of linguistic diversity. This framework combines toponymic evidence with the analysis of substrate contact effects, and, in some cases, extralinguistic evidence, to create an integrated if incomplete of extinct and undocumented languages. In an authoritative exploration of case studies, concerning Aymara in parts of Southern Peru, Cañar in Ecuador, and Chacha in Northern Peru, the book shows how the identities of lost languages and earlier linguistic panoramas can be reconstructed.Table of Contents1. Linguistic stratigraphy, or how to recover traces of lost languages2. The Central Andean linguistic landscape through time and the Quechuan language family2.1. The ever-changing cultural and linguistic landscapes of the Central Andes2.2. Quechua today2.3. The classification of Quechua2.4. The Quechua expansion2.5. The non-Quechua linguistic diversity3. Evidence and methods for investigating substratal languages3.1. Introduction3.2. Toponyms and anthroponyms3.3 Substrate influence3.4 Substrate vocabulary3.5. Extralinguistic evidence3.6. Summary4. The Aymara presence in Southern Peru4.1. Introduction4.2. Toponymy4.3. Substrate effects4.4. Substrate vocabulary4.5. Perspectives from outside linguistics4.6. Summary5. The Barbacoan languages and the southern Ecuadorian highlands5.1. Introduction5.2. Toponymy5.2.1. Characteristic toponymy of Cañar and Azuay5.2.2. Continuous northward extensions of Cañar and Azuay toponymic endings5.2.3. Noncontinuous northward extensions of Cañar and Azuay toponymic endings to the Ecuadorian-Colombian border5.2.4. Northward extensions of phonological characteristics of Cañar and Azuay toponyms5.3. Substrate effects5.4. Substrate vocabulary5.5. Summary6. Chachapoyas6.1. Introduction6.2. Toponymy6.3. Substrate effects6.4. Substrate vocabulary6.5. Perspectives from outside linguistics6.6. Summary7. Synopsis and conclusionReferences

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Book Synopsis ‘Well-being’ is a contemporary term used by people around the globe to address how comfortable their lives are. The notion is considered significant to business management. Nevertheless, is well-being significant to Chinese family business? In response to this inquiry, this book demystifies the notion from a critical lens. It examines well-being in a Chinese family business context of Hong Kong. This book consists of an archaeological and anthropological examination. The first part of the analysis draws from Foucault’s (1979) Archaeology of Knowledge to examine the discursive (trans)formation of well-being. The second part is an ethnography that focuses on a Chinese perspective regarding the everydayness of life. In light of the recent social movements, this book not only offers an insight into the core values of Hong Kongers, but also dissects various layers of meaning in these values. Hopefully, this book can lift up the voices of Hong Kongers, who was once marginalised in the discourse of well-being.

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