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Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western alternative spiritual life. Now, that Westernized version of Daoism is going full circle, traveling back from America and Europe to influence Daoism in China. Dream Trippers draws on more than a decade of ethnographic work with Daoist monks and Western seekers to trace the spread of Westernized Daoism in contemporary China. David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler take us into the daily life of the monastic community atop the mountain of Huashan and explore its relationship to the socialist state. They follow the international circuit of Daoist energy tourism, which connects a number of sites throughout China, and examine the controversies around Western scholars who become practitioners and promoters of Daoism. Throughout are lively portrayals of encounters among the book's various characters Chinese hermits and monks, Western seekers, and scholar-practitioners as they interact with each other in obtuse, often humor

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Book SynopsisIn Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks as an entry point to a wide-ranging study of the concept of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens with an account of the generation of urban men who came of age on the heels of the era of structural adjustment, a diverse cohort with great dreams of building, moving, and belonging, but frustratingly few opportunities for doing so. From there, she moves to a close study of taxi drivers and state workers, and shows how bottlenecks physical and institutional affect both. The third section of the book covers a seemingly stalled state effort to solve housing problems by building large numbers of concrete houses, while the fourth takes up the thousands of migrants who annually attempt, often with tragic results, to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats in search of new opportunities. The resulting book offers a remarkable portrait of contemporary Senegal, the constraints and hopes of its urban citizens, and a means of theorizing mobility and its impossibilities far beyond the African continent.

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Book SynopsisEthno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate images as sexually potent African men to attract these women, sometimes for a night, in other cases for long-term relationships. George Paul Meiu uses his deep familiarity with the communities these men come from to explore the long-term effects of markets of ethnic culture and sexuality on a wide range of aspects of life in rural Kenya, including kinship, ritual, gender, intimate affection, and conceptions of aging. What happens to these communities when young men return with such surprising wealth? And how do they use it to improve their social standing locally? Answering these questions, Ethno-erotic Economies offers a complex look at how intimacy and ethnicity come together to shape the pa

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Book SynopsisMichael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted. In How Lifeworlds Work, Jackson draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa to highlight the dynamic quality of human relationships and reinvigorate the study of kinship and ritual. How, he asks, do we manage the perpetual process of accommodation between social norms and personal emotions, impulses, and desires? How are these two dimensions of lived reality joined, and how are the dual imperatives of individual expression and collective viability managed? Drawing on the pragmatist tradition, psychology, and phenomenology, Jackson offers an unforgettable, beautifully written account of how we make, unmake, and remake, our lifeworlds.

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Book SynopsisAs policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it is also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the work and role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through its usual approach through interviews and statistics? And how does the study of law enforcement enlighten the practice of ethnography in general? Can such inquiry into policing enrich our understanding of the epistemological and ethical challenges of this method? Beyond these questions of crucial interest for both criminology and the social sciences, Writing the World of Policing provides a timely discussion of one of the most problematic institutions in contemporary societies.

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Book SynopsisIn 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. The project was a vast undertaking, and the decades since its 1990 completion have seen it mired in controversy. Constellations of Inequality tells that story, offering a uniquely insightful ethnography of Brazil's inequality politics. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among descendants of escaped slaves, failures and military-civilian conflict in the launch program, and international intrigue. Throughout, he illuminates inequality and political consciousness. How people conceptualize and act upon the unequal conditions in which they find themselves, he shows, is as much a cultural and historical matter a material one. Deftly broadening our understanding of STS, economic issues,

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Book SynopsisIn 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with displacement. The project was a vast undertaking, and the decades since its 1990 completion have seen it mired in controversy. Constellations of Inequality tells that story, offering a uniquely insightful ethnography of Brazil's inequality politics. Sean T. Mitchell analyzes conflicts over land, ethnoracial identity, mobilization among descendants of escaped slaves, failures and military-civilian conflict in the launch program, and international intrigue. Throughout, he illuminates inequality and political consciousness. How people conceptualize and act upon the unequal conditions in which they find themselves, he shows, is as much a cultural and historical matter a material one. Deftly broadening our understanding of STS, economic issues,

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Book SynopsisOne of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of cultural psychology to consider that question, addressing the complex issues that underpin the interconnections between culture and the human mind. The contributors to Universalism without Uniformity make two fundamental points: first, that as humans we are motivated to find meaning in everything around us; and, second, that the cultural worlds we live in are constituted by our involvement in them. Therefore, we exist as human beings specifically because we interpret and make sense of the events and experiences of our lives and we do so using the meanings and resources we draw from the cultural worlds that we have created through our thoughts and actions. Offering empirically driven research that takes psychological diversity seriously, Universalism without Uniformity breaks new ground in the inte

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Book SynopsisOne of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of cultural psychology to consider that question, addressing the complex issues that underpin the interconnections between culture and the human mind. The contributors to Universalism without Uniformity make two fundamental points: first, that as humans we are motivated to find meaning in everything around us; and, second, that the cultural worlds we live in are constituted by our involvement in them. Therefore, we exist as human beings specifically because we interpret and make sense of the events and experiences of our lives and we do so using the meanings and resources we draw from the cultural worlds that we have created through our thoughts and actions. Offering empirically driven research that takes psychological diversity seriously, Universalism without Uniformity breaks new ground in the inte

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Book SynopsisMere decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of those migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods often knock-offs or copies of high-end branded items to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became such a center of low-end globalization and shows what we can learn from that experience similar transformations elsewhere in the world. Through detailed ethnographic portraits, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality, reputation, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How, he asks, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups Chinese and Sub-Saharan Africans that don't share a common language, culture, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their statu

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Book SynopsisYoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought over by the first slaves and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa's Chain, Andrew Apter locates that culture, both spatially and analytically, and offers a Yoruba-focused perspective on rethinking African heritage in Black Atlantic Studies. Focusing on Yoruba history and culture in Nigeria, Apter applies a generative model of cultural revision that allows him to identify formative Yoruba influences without resorting to the idea that culture and tradition are fixed. Apter shows how the association of African gods with Catholic saints can be seen as strategy of empowerment, explores historical locations of Yoruba gender ideologies and their manifestation and change in the Atlantic world, and more. He concludes with a rousing call for a return to Africa in studies of the Black Atlantic, resurrecting a critical notion of culture that allows us to go beyond the mirror of Africa that the West invented.

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Book SynopsisJeannette Mirsky has here drawn from Sir Aurel Stein's books and articles as well as from his letters and unpublished archival materials to produce a definitive biography of this archaeological explorer, geographer, historical topographer, and linguist.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This powerful book will be of particular importance to those working in museum and tribal settings, but is highly appropriate for anyone interested in cultural heritage and the legal efforts to manage claims for Native patrimony. Essential."--Choice "Colwell ably and sensitively tells the often conflict-ridden story of how and why museums in the US relinquished their hold over this material. . . . Colwell finds himself squarely in the middle of each quandary: a practising anthropologist who works alongside Native Americans every day and is sensitive to their cultural dynamics. Colwell's account favours the Native American perspective--a sensible approach for a book aimed at scientifically literate readers who may lean the other way. Readers will come away with a deeper appreciation of Native American cultural imperatives and the complexity of the situation."--New Scientist "A careful and intelligent chronicle of the battle over Indian artifacts and the study of Indian culture."--Wall Street Journal "Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work. . . . Colwell's book raises provocative questions about who owns the past, and is surely an important work for curators--or anyone--interested in America's treatment of its cultural legacy."--Publishers Weekly "Without ever descending into sensationalistic tones, the author exposes delicate facts about massacres, beliefs, desecrations, and illegal activities, deploying evidence with a measured distance that is difficult to argue against. Native American voices are given plenty of space to support their cases. They emerge as strong and determined and this is what the author wants us to perceive as a way to sensitise the public to the deep ethical implications that these, like many other cases, present us with. . . [Colwell] explicitly make[s] the theme of objects' agency and personhood the core of [his] most poignant arguments about repatriation, ethics, and conservation."--Transmotion "In this beautifully written meditation on the vexed relationship between museums and Native American communities, Colwell reveals as never before the human dimensions of our recent struggles over repatriation. Important, necessary reading for all those who grapple with the essential question of how best to respect and honor the past."--Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits breaks new ground. Colwell's dual roles of museum curator and human rights advocate offers a narrative of personal growth and professional practice that couples a humanist's sensitivities with a historian's insistence on primary documentary sources. The resulting breath of fresh air contributes mightily to still-controversial conversations about American reburial and repatriation. The message sounds loud and clear: Twenty-first century museums can indeed stand tall in addressing their own complex histories. Why do some still feel obliged to cover up past performance, to lock out qualified researchers from their archives and to sugar-coat their past in the hopes that nobody will notice?" --David H. Thomas, author of Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity "A lightly written, insider's account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America's culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell. His is indeed an insider's account--just not from the sidelines. He too has been on the battlefield." --Spectator "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits uses the story of one museum to show how Native American symbols of identity and ceremony and ancestral bones were initially appropriated as objects of cultural patrimony, but recently have become part of a complicated struggle of ownership. As Colwell profoundly shows, the emotional price paid by everyone involved--Native American, archaeologist, and museum curator--is never small." --Larry J. Zimmerman, author of The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits is a sobering peek into the controversy that surrounds tribal artifacts and human remains found in museums throughout the United States. His eloquent narration details several unique cases of repatriation. . . . Colwell has a unique perspective. He provides the reader with a firsthand look at the repatriation process, sympathetically including tribal perspectives--something that few museum directors have sought to do when writing on this subject in the past."--Science

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Jacobs tells the story of how the cultural relics of northwest China were collected, dispersed, and sometimes destroyed, in a new and refreshingly nonjudgmental way. Drawing on insights from literature on similar processes in the ailing Ottoman Empire as well as on primary sources in English, French, and Chinese, he narrates this story in granular detail and with a keen sense of the motives of the individual actors on both the Western and Chinese side of the story. Clearly the result of a very meticulously researched project, The Compensations of Plunder is a well-crafted and tremendously enjoyable read.” * Pär Cassel, University of Michigan *"This revisionist work challenges Chinese nationalist discourse of how China lost its treasure during the turn of the 20th century to reevaluate the rational historical actors—Western archaeologists who went on expeditions in Xinjiang—through a new explanatory framework: the compensations of plunder." -- G. Li * Choice *"This beautifully written and theoretically sophisticated study focuses on Western expeditions to Xinjiang and the Dunhuang region from 1900 to 1930, particularly those of Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot... The Compensations of Plunder also speaks to the politics of the Chinese frontier, Western culturalism and racism, and the development of Chinese archaeology." * Journal of Asian Studies *"The Compensations of Plunder makes an important intervention in studies of the Silk Roads, cultural heritage preservation, and modern Chinese history. It lays the groundwork for further thinking about the intersection between empires, nation-states, and cultural heritage in ways that complicate and augment our understanding of the troubled history of twentieth-century collecting." * Journal of Chinese History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sahibs in the Desert 2. Accumulating Culture 3. Gentlemen of Empire 4. The Priceless Nation 5. Rise of the Apprentices 6. Foreign Devils Begone Conclusion Acknowledgments Glossary of Chinese Characters Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Jacobs tells the story of how the cultural relics of northwest China were collected, dispersed, and sometimes destroyed, in a new and refreshingly nonjudgmental way. Drawing on insights from literature on similar processes in the ailing Ottoman Empire as well as on primary sources in English, French, and Chinese, he narrates this story in granular detail and with a keen sense of the motives of the individual actors on both the Western and Chinese side of the story. Clearly the result of a very meticulously researched project, The Compensations of Plunder is a well-crafted and tremendously enjoyable read.” * Pär Cassel, University of Michigan *"This revisionist work challenges Chinese nationalist discourse of how China lost its treasure during the turn of the 20th century to reevaluate the rational historical actors—Western archaeologists who went on expeditions in Xinjiang—through a new explanatory framework: the compensations of plunder." -- G. Li * Choice *"This beautifully written and theoretically sophisticated study focuses on Western expeditions to Xinjiang and the Dunhuang region from 1900 to 1930, particularly those of Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot... The Compensations of Plunder also speaks to the politics of the Chinese frontier, Western culturalism and racism, and the development of Chinese archaeology." * Journal of Asian Studies *"The Compensations of Plunder makes an important intervention in studies of the Silk Roads, cultural heritage preservation, and modern Chinese history. It lays the groundwork for further thinking about the intersection between empires, nation-states, and cultural heritage in ways that complicate and augment our understanding of the troubled history of twentieth-century collecting." * Journal of Chinese History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sahibs in the Desert 2. Accumulating Culture 3. Gentlemen of Empire 4. The Priceless Nation 5. Rise of the Apprentices 6. Foreign Devils Begone Conclusion Acknowledgments Glossary of Chinese Characters Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArgentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 20012002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic currency devaluation, the largest sovereign default in world history, and the flight of foreign capital. Protests and street blockades punctuated a moment of profound political uncertainty, epitomized by the rapid succession of five presidents in four months. Since then, Argentina has fought economic fires on every front, from inflation to the cost of utilities and depressed industrial output. When things clearly aren't working, when the constant churning of booms and busts makes life almost unlivable, how does our deeply compromised order come to seem so inescapable? How does critique come to seem so blunt, even as crisis after crisis appears on the horizon? What are the lived effects of that sense of inescapability? Anthropologist Sarah Muir offers a cogent meditation on the limits of criTrade Review"By looking at the discursive practices through which members of the Argentine middle class construct and interpret the crisis and its aftermath, Muir shows how a semiotic, language-focused approach can help us to ask new questions regarding social upheaval and its consequences in communities worldwide... a needed challenge to overly optimistic approaches that fail to account for the realities of how people interact with crisis in their day-to-day lives." * Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *"Routine Crisis offers a novel approach in anthropological studies of crisis. Muir tracks the production and productive capacity of disillusion, and in doing so challenges political anthropologists to focus not only on the possibility of new beginnings, but also on the lived experience of endings. Thematically, Routine Crisis will be of interest to anyone involved in studies of crisis, corruption, or Argentina. The book deserves a broader readership, however, due to Muir’s compelling writing, the way she renders the often-complex tools of linguistic anthropology easily comprehensible, and her impressive capacity as an ethnographer to untangle the messy, often seemingly contradictory ways in which her interlocutors express the experience of disillusion." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Argentina’s economic crisis of 2001–02 led its government to unpeg the peso from the US dollar, impoverishing millions. Successive governments sought remedies with varying degrees of success. Muir arrived in Buenos Aires in 2003 and spent several years conducting ethnographic research on the reactions of the self-described middle class to the financial collapse. The result is a compelling analysis of her informants’ 'crisis talk,' their disillusionment and loss of faith in the future. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Routine Crisis is a sophisticated, well-written, and thought-provoking book that makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on late-capitalist temporality, crisis, and critique, not to mention Argentina." * Anthropological Quarterly *“In this lucid and challenging ethnography, Muir opens a window into the historical sensibility of inevitable and recurrent crisis and its consequences for the imagination of alternative futures. This book does nothing less than demand we reframe history itself—disallowing comfortable beginnings and endings—and linger in the routines of crisis, querying its aftermaths, and forgoing our obsolete utopias.” * Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine *“Routine Crisis is a stunning ethnography of the tumultuous lives of Argentineans in economic crisis. Muir’s analytical acumen shines through in her semiotically-informed ‘listening’ to what she calls ‘crisis talk’. She deftly shows us how the linguistic and cultural form of crisis talk produces a normalcy of crisis out of the perennial predicament of political economy in Argentina. This is a must-read book on not only how the Global South lives, but also on how ethnography is enriched by the methods of linguistic anthropology.” * Miyako Inoue, Stanford University *

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Book SynopsisArgentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 20012002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic currency devaluation, the largest sovereign default in world history, and the flight of foreign capital. Protests and street blockades punctuated a moment of profound political uncertainty, epitomized by the rapid succession of five presidents in four months. Since then, Argentina has fought economic fires on every front, from inflation to the cost of utilities and depressed industrial output. When things clearly aren't working, when the constant churning of booms and busts makes life almost unlivable, how does our deeply compromised order come to seem so inescapable? How does critique come to seem so blunt, even as crisis after crisis appears on the horizon? What are the lived effects of that sense of inescapability? Anthropologist Sarah Muir offers a cogent meditation on the limits of critique at this historical moment, drawing on deep experience in Argentina but reflecting on a truly global condition. If we feel things are being upended in a manner that is ongoing, tumultuous, and harmful, what would we need to doand what would we need to give upto usher in a revitalized critique for today's world? Routine Crisis is an original provocation and a challenge to think beyond the limits of exhaustion and reimagine a form of criticism for the twenty-first century.Trade Review"By looking at the discursive practices through which members of the Argentine middle class construct and interpret the crisis and its aftermath, Muir shows how a semiotic, language-focused approach can help us to ask new questions regarding social upheaval and its consequences in communities worldwide... a needed challenge to overly optimistic approaches that fail to account for the realities of how people interact with crisis in their day-to-day lives." * Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *"Routine Crisis offers a novel approach in anthropological studies of crisis. Muir tracks the production and productive capacity of disillusion, and in doing so challenges political anthropologists to focus not only on the possibility of new beginnings, but also on the lived experience of endings. Thematically, Routine Crisis will be of interest to anyone involved in studies of crisis, corruption, or Argentina. The book deserves a broader readership, however, due to Muir’s compelling writing, the way she renders the often-complex tools of linguistic anthropology easily comprehensible, and her impressive capacity as an ethnographer to untangle the messy, often seemingly contradictory ways in which her interlocutors express the experience of disillusion." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Argentina’s economic crisis of 2001–02 led its government to unpeg the peso from the US dollar, impoverishing millions. Successive governments sought remedies with varying degrees of success. Muir arrived in Buenos Aires in 2003 and spent several years conducting ethnographic research on the reactions of the self-described middle class to the financial collapse. The result is a compelling analysis of her informants’ 'crisis talk,' their disillusionment and loss of faith in the future. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Routine Crisis is a sophisticated, well-written, and thought-provoking book that makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on late-capitalist temporality, crisis, and critique, not to mention Argentina." * Anthropological Quarterly *“In this lucid and challenging ethnography, Muir opens a window into the historical sensibility of inevitable and recurrent crisis and its consequences for the imagination of alternative futures. This book does nothing less than demand we reframe history itself—disallowing comfortable beginnings and endings—and linger in the routines of crisis, querying its aftermaths, and forgoing our obsolete utopias.” * Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine *“Routine Crisis is a stunning ethnography of the tumultuous lives of Argentineans in economic crisis. Muir’s analytical acumen shines through in her semiotically-informed ‘listening’ to what she calls ‘crisis talk’. She deftly shows us how the linguistic and cultural form of crisis talk produces a normalcy of crisis out of the perennial predicament of political economy in Argentina. This is a must-read book on not only how the Global South lives, but also on how ethnography is enriched by the methods of linguistic anthropology.” * Miyako Inoue, Stanford University *

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Book SynopsisBig catstigers, leopards, and lionsthat make prey of humans are commonly known as man-eaters. Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become crooked. Building upon fifteen years of research in India, this groundbreaking work moves beyond both colonial and conservationist accounts to place crooked cats at the center of the question of how we are to comprehend a planet in crisis. There are many theories on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans, with the ecological collapse emerging as a central explanatory factor. Yet, uncertainty over the precise cause of crookedness persists. Crooked Cats explores in vivid detail the many lived complexities that arise from this absence of certain knowledge to offer startling new insights into both the governance of nonhuman animals and their intimate entanglements with humans. Through creative ethnographic storytelling, Crooked Cats illuminates the Anthropocene in three critical waTrade Review“In this captivating book, Mathur offers a sensitive examination of ordinary ethical struggle with cruelties and injustices spawned by human domination of the earth. She writes gripping stories of big cats, mostly from within the villages and towns of Himalayan north India, to bridge the different ways in which the global climate crisis has been imagined, understood, and explained. This is precisely the bridge that must be crossed to reach solutions that are locally meaningful and globally just.” * K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University *“At a time when scholarship is highlighting the phenomenon of extinction, Mathur offers an important intervention that redirects attention from this accelerating absence by focusing instead on imaginatively constituted interactions between humans and animals under threat. Introducing many innovative, intriguing, and witty concepts, Crooked Cats is a distinctive contribution to the ongoing and ever-evolving conversation about human-animal conflict and coexistence.” * Kath Weston, University of Virginia *"While Mathur focuses on personal experience of an unusual occurrence, her persuasive arguments, with supporting resources and notes, successfully connect the observed phenomena to issues of interest to many... Highly recommended." * Choice *"Nayanika Mathur’s Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene is a hard-hitting argument by a political scientist about the cultural (both human and leopard) and institutional ways in which big cats, particularly leopards, cohabit with humans in India. The book is a fascinating look at the political ecology of human-eating big cats and the responses of humans from the relatively powerless to the more powerful as mediated through governmental bureaucracy." * Oryx *Table of ContentsPrologue: Of Two Reigns of Terror Introduction: The Beastly Tale of the Leopard of Gopeshwar 1. Crooked Becomings 2. Murderous Looks 3. The Cute Killer 4. A Petition to Kill 5. The Leopard of Rudraprayag versus Shere Khan 6. Big Cats in the City 7. Entrapment 8. Three Beastly Tales to Conclude Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating look at the concept of the generic and its role in making meaning in the world. From off-brand products to elevator music, the generic is discarded as the copy, the knockoff, and the old. In The Copy Generic, anthropologist Scott MacLochlainn insists that more than the waste from the culture machine, the generic is a universal social tool, allowing us to move through the world with necessary blueprints, templates, and frames of reference. It is the baseline and background, a category that orders and values different types of specificity yet remains inherently nonspecific in itself. Across arenas as diverse as city planning, social media, ethnonationalism, and religion, the generic points to spaces in which knowledge is both overproduced and desperately lacking. Moving through ethnographic and historical settings in the Philippines, Europe, and the United States, MacLochlainn reveals how the concept of the generic is crucial to understanding how things repeat, circulaTrade Review“It seems fitting that this wildly imaginative book should defy easy classification. Is it a major work of social theory, offering a sweeping model of cultural circulation, or an exquisite ethnographic monograph, lavishly detailing Christian Filipino worldmaking? Most importantly, MacLochlainn demonstrates that without the generic, any such questions of classification are not just unanswerable, but unthinkable.” -- Graham M. Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“Innovative in its form, lucid in its prose, The Copy Generic explains and refuses the tendency to denigrate the generic as inauthentic, barren, or simply irrelevant. Instead, MacLochlainn brilliantly draws out what so many overlook: that is the social and semiotic generativity of the generic." -- E. Summerson Carr, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating look at the concept of the generic and its role in making meaning in the world. From off-brand products to elevator music, the generic is discarded as the copy, the knockoff, and the old. In The Copy Generic, anthropologist Scott MacLochlainn insists that more than the waste from the culture machine, the generic is a universal social tool, allowing us to move through the world with necessary blueprints, templates, and frames of reference. It is the baseline and background, a category that orders and values different types of specificity yet remains inherently nonspecific in itself. Across arenas as diverse as city planning, social media, ethnonationalism, and religion, the generic points to spaces in which knowledge is both overproduced and desperately lacking. Moving through ethnographic and historical settings in the Philippines, Europe, and the United States, MacLochlainn reveals how the concept of the generic is crucial to understanding how things repeat, circulaTrade Review“It seems fitting that this wildly imaginative book should defy easy classification. Is it a major work of social theory, offering a sweeping model of cultural circulation, or an exquisite ethnographic monograph, lavishly detailing Christian Filipino worldmaking? Most importantly, MacLochlainn demonstrates that without the generic, any such questions of classification are not just unanswerable, but unthinkable.” -- Graham M. Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“Innovative in its form, lucid in its prose, The Copy Generic explains and refuses the tendency to denigrate the generic as inauthentic, barren, or simply irrelevant. Instead, MacLochlainn brilliantly draws out what so many overlook: that is the social and semiotic generativity of the generic." -- E. Summerson Carr, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisThrough an ethnographic study inside Japan's Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials. Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, the grave of the graves (o-haka no haka) houses acres of unwanted headstonesthe material remains of Japan's discarded death rites. In the past, the Japanese dead became venerated ancestors through sustained ritual offerings at graves and at butsudan, Buddhist altars installed inside the home. But in twenty-first-century Japan, this intergenerational system of care is rapidly collapsing. In noisy carpentry studios, flashy funeral-goods showrooms, neglected cemeteries, and cramped kitchens where women prepare memorial feasts, Hannah Gould analyzes the lifecycle of butsudan, illuminating how they are made, circulate through religious and funerary economies, mediate intimate exchanges between the living and the dead, andas the population ages, famTrade Review“From graves for abandoned gravestones to the craft and care by which workers tend to butsudan still today, this book is an electrifying read. Ethnographically intimate, analytically astute, and refreshingly clear, When Death Falls Apart brilliantly tracks both the challenges and attachments to necro-care as once practiced and getting recrafted today.” * Anne Allison, author of Being Dead Otherwise *“When Death Falls Apart is well-crafted and thoughtful, and it significantly advances scholarship on death studies. At the same time, Gould’s excellent study is a model for rich anthropological description of particular people, places, and objects that challenge the reader to think about other places, other deaths, and other bodies.” * S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, author of A History of Religion in 5½ Objects *Table of ContentsTextual Conventions Introduction: The Stuff of Death and the Death of Stuff 1. Crafting 2. Retail 3. Practice 4. Disposal 5. Remaking Conclusion: When Death Falls Apart Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically. In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changedand changed usduring the pandemic. She argues that the unprecedented organizational challenges of the pandemic forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes about work and to think more deeply about how values clash in the workplace. These changes also led us as workers to engage more with the contracts that bind us as we rethought when and how we allow others to tell us what to do. Based on over two hundred interviews, Gershon's book reveals how negotiating these tensions during the pandemic made the workplace into a laboratory for democratic livingthe key place where Americans are learning how to develop effective political strategies and think about the common good. Exploring the explicit and unspoken ways we are governed (and govern others) at work, this accessible book shows

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Book SynopsisA surprising look at the meaningful social changes in Jordan as lived and navigated by educated women. Jordan has witnessed tremendous societal transformation in its relatively short history. Today it has one of the most highly educated populations in the region, and women have outnumbered and outperformed their male counterparts for more than a decade. Yet, despite their education and professional status, many women still struggle to build a secure future and a life befitting of their aspirations. In Working Women in Jordan anthropologist Fida J. Adely turns to college-educated women in Jordan who migrate from rural provinces to Amman for employment opportunities. Building on twelve years of ethnographic research and extensive interviews with dozens of women, as well as some of their family members, Adely analyzes the effects of developments such as expanded educational opportunities, urbanization, privatization, and the restructuring of the labor market on women's life trajec

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Book SynopsisAt the confluence of the Illinois, the Missouri, and the Mississippi Rivers lies the American Bottom, a broad floodplain that prehistoric peoples inhabited for millennia. Precisely how did they live? What were their ties to the natural world around them? In this study, based upon some six years of intensive archeological and geological research at Labras Lake in St. Clair County, Illinois, Richard W. Yerkes interprets a wealth of important new data in a stimulating and original fashion. With a fine-tuned control of the data, Yerkes challenges prevailing theories based on simple classifications of stone tools according to shape or on simple models of diffuse and focal economies. He views environment as a dynamic factor in economic and cultural life, rather than as merely a backdrop to it. Using incident light microscopy, he examines wear patterns on stone tools to determine what activities were performed during each period the site was inhabitedthe Late Archaic, the Late Woodland, and the Mississippian. As he documents environmental change at Labras Lake, he analyzes plant and animal remains in context to explore diet and seasonal patterns of subsistence and settlement. The result is a more accurate and detailed picture than ever before what prehistoric life on the Mississippi floodplain was like. Yerkes shows how to assess the duration and size of occupations and how to determine where and when true permanent settlements arose. What others call sedentary encampments he reveals as sequences of small residental occupations for a narrow range of activities during shorter, seasonal periods. His contribution to the study of the development of sedentism is potentially far-reaching and will interest many North American anthropologists and archeologists.

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Book SynopsisThe Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.Trade Review“[The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination] provides a rare opportunity to hear the views of a specialist from another discipline, that of film studies, and to enjoy the author’s extensive knowledge of 19th- and 20th century art and literature, the ‘modern imagination’ referred to in the title. Solecki’s detailed analysis in each chapter is laser-focused on the artist or writer’s engagement with the Etruscan world, and there are lengthy and enjoyable quotations presented to illustrate this. The annotated catalogue of ‘Etruscan sightings’ with which the book ends is an incredibly valuable resource for those interested in Etruscan reception studies.” Minerva Magazine"A virtuosic investigation into the long disappearance and gradual rediscovery of a civilization given up for lost. The elusive strangeness of the Etruscans, in Solecki’s telling, relative to the all too familiar accounts of the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome, has given them a special power to fascinate and stimulate the inquisitive modern mind.” Literary Review of Canada

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Book SynopsisThe first book to approach the Cretaceous extinction-the period during which dinosaurs disappeared from Earth-from the perspective of the fossil record.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on an impoverished city on the periphery of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, Gill examines the ways in which neoliberal policies reorder social relations among poor men and women-and between them and the state.Table of Contents1. Introduction 1 Ruptures 2. City of the Future 3. Adjusting Poverty 4. Miners and the Politics of Revanchism 5. School Discipline 6. The Military and Daily Life 2 Reconfigurations 7. Power Lines 8. Global Connections 9. El Alto, the State, and the Capitalist Imperium

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the Lahu society in Southwest China where practical gender equality has become the byproduct of a potent ideology of gender unity, vividly expressed by the proverb, "chopsticks only work in pairs."Trade ReviewThis book is delightfully readable and as the same time thought-provoking, full of lively and sensitive ethnography...Finely written. -- Hayami Yoko Asian Folklore Studies A very powerful ethnography. -- Charles F. McKhann AnthroposTable of Contents1. INTRODUCTION Is There Any Gender-Egalitarian Society on Earth? The Lahu People Fieldwork Sites Project Development and Methods The Structure of the Book Part I: MYTHOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY 2. "EVERYTHING COMES IN PAIRS": A DYADIC WORLDVIEW "Both One and Two": Pairs as Dyads Twin-Dyads in Origin Myths Blending Femininity and Masculinity in Gendered Ideals The Preeminence of Dyads Conclusion 3. HUSBAND-WIFE DYADS IN THE LIFE CYCLE Wedding as the Rite of Passage to Adulthood The Joint Journey of Married Couples in Life The Reunion of Accomplished Couples in Afterlife Marginalizing Lone Souls Conclusion Part II: Joint Gender Roles 4."HUSBAND AND WIFE DO IT TOGETHER": UNIFYING GENDER IN LABOR Procreation Ideologies Pregnancy and Childbirth Child Rearing "Work Hard to Eat" Conclusion 5. "MALE-FEMALE CO-HEADS": UNIFYING GENDER IN LEADERSHIP "Male-Female Masters of the Household" Dyadic Leadership in Village and Village Cluster Conclusion Part III: Structure and anti-Structure 6. UNIFYING GENDER IN KINSHIP AND INTERHOUSEHOLD ORGANIZATION Dyadic Ego in Kinship Terminology Household Co-heads and Inter-household Interactions Conclusion 7. THE DISFUNCTION AND COLLAPSE OF GENDER DYADS: DIVORCE, ELOPEPMENT, AND LOVE-PACT SUICIDE Major Threats to Husband-Wife Dyads The Collapse of Marriages Conclusion 8. CONCLUSION: RETHINKING GENDER EQUALITY Gender Equality as Social Reality The Cultural Particularity of Gender Equality The Diversity of Gender Equality REFERENCES CITED

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Book SynopsisA compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries.Trade ReviewA powerfully poetic contribution not just to anthropological knowledge but also to our comprehension of the human condition. -- Paul Stoller, West Chester University Jackson's prose shows how for anthropology, thinking must take place in the most unlikely of circumstances: in the very midst of life's tumultuous course, through the very expression of its confounding vicissitudes. -- Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins University Harmattan is a remarkable inquiry into the intricate interweave between fact and fantasy, anthropological observation and imaginative fiction. In venturing ever further into the text, the reader is deliriously caught, like the book's narrators, in a multichambered realm of storytelling where life, death, friendship, and the elusiveness of truth are the most critical terms of existence. -- Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College Michael Jackson's fascinating new book travels the geographical, psychological, and political borderland of social life and 'the more' that lies beyond. Harmattan's characters are unforgettable: Ezekiel, surviving the civil war in Sierra Leone and migrating to the North and the halls of the British Library; Tom, an anthropologist's alter, making the reverse journey to the uncanny tranquility of Ezekiel's post-civil-war-ravaged village, Cosmega; the woman who was not undone by the wreckage; a Kuranko shaman finding his power and overcoming his fear; and an ethnographer encountering himself, or herself, as another, on the borderland where being is both lost and found. In the literary tradition of Calvino and Pessoa, Conrad and Tutuola, but also Victor Turner and Levi-Strauss, Harmattan is a much-needed contribution toward the regeneration of anthropological thinking and writing. -- Stefania Pandolfo, UC Berkeley A slim but thoughtful rendering of an exotic locale that recalls The Quiet American. Kirkus Reviews Beautifully written. Anthropological QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Limitrophes Show and Tell A Place in the Bush Allegories of the Wilderness Within and Without Limits The Top Five Regrets of the Dying Life Is Elsewhere Dark Soundings On Not Being Rule Governed Confronting One's Demons Renata Sentiments Limitrophes The Faraway Tree What Lies Beneath Schrodinger's Cat Notes 2. Harmattan Stories Happen Thousands Bay Persona Non Grata Tom Lannon's Story Cosmega Sangbamba Ezekiel's Story Petra's Letter No Condition Is Permanent The School Morowa Night After Fieldwork Mistral

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Book SynopsisBuried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts.Trade ReviewWhat a fascinating and inspiring book! Exploring thousands of years of New York City’s ecological, material, and social history, Buried Beneath the City shows us not only what we can learn from the material leavings of the past but also how archaeologists work to make sense of this evidence. -- Elizabeth Blackmar, coauthor of The Park and the People: A History of Central ParkThis beautiful book demonstrates how much is available to recover from beneath our feet in New York City. The authors guide us sure-handedly through the pre-twentieth century collision of cultures that still affects our world today. -- Leslie M. Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863Buried Beneath the City unearths a new vista, the remains of the days before Europeans arrived and of lost quotidian life since. Take a revealing self-guided underground expedition through material evidence that sheds light on the periods and people neglected by the documentary record. -- Sam Roberts, author of A History of New York in 101 ObjectsThis is a terrific book, one well worthy of reading. Writing a book accessible to all readers, the authors present the complexities and the unique contributions of archaeological excavation and thorough research on the recovered artifacts to our understanding of the panorama of human occupation of a living city. I applaud the authors for their success. -- Martha Zierden, coauthor of Charleston: An Archeology of Life in a Coastal CommunityTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Indigenous Peoples Before the City2. Dutch Beginnings, 1624–16643. The British Colonial City and the Nascent Republic, 1664–18004. Growing Pains, 1800–18405. Development of the Modern City, 1840–1898ConclusionAppendix A: The New York City Landmarks and Historic Districts Discussed in the BookAppendix B: Archaeological Sites Within New York City Discussed in the BookAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisGeared toward a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook offers a concise and lucid presentation of the core biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. This seventh edition of the leading text for introductory courses on dinosaurs has been revised throughout based on recent fossil discoveries and the latest research.Trade ReviewLucas brings four decades of experience in vertebrate paleontology to this logical and thorough treatment of dinosaurs. A challenging—and rewarding—text for students. -- Lawrence H. Tanner, professor of environmental science systems and director of the Center for the Study of Environmental Change, Le Moyne CollegeI don't think that you can produce a better book than what Lucas has written. It has been well proved over many years, and this thoroughly updated edition meets the demands of the rapidly evolving science. -- Sherwood W. Wise Jr., professor emeritus of geological sciences, Florida State UniversityThis book is the best available introduction to dinosaurs for college students, as earlier editions have been. -- John Cisne, professor emeritus of earth and atmospheric sciences, Cornell UniversityDinosaurs is a concise, well-written, and profusely illustrated introduction to this ever-fascinating subject. It is ideally suited for college-level courses. -- Hans-Dieter Sues, senior research geologist and curator of vertebrate paleontology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, coauthor of Triassic Life on Land: The Great TransitionConcise and lucid. This seventh edition of the leading text for introductory courses on dinosaurs incorporates comprehensive updates based on the latest research. * Birdbooker Report *Table of ContentsList of Boxed ReadingsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Evolution, Phylogeny, and Classification3. Fossils, Sedimentary Environments, and Geologic Time4. The Origin of Dinosaurs5. Theropods6. Sauropodomorphs7. Ornithopods8. Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurs9. Ceratopsians and Pachycephalosaurs10. The Dinosaurian World11. Dinosaur Hunters12. Dinosaur Trace Fossils13. Dinosaur Biology and Behavior14. Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs?15. Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds16. The Extinction of Dinosaurs17. Dinosaurs in the Public EyeAppendix: A Primer of Dinosaur AnatomyGlossaryA Dinosaur DictionaryIndex

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Book SynopsisChronicles the precarious reigns of King Akhenaten's successors and the political and legal reforms of King Horemheb, who succeeded to the throne after the passing of the last members of the royal family.Trade Review"In 1906, Breasted, America's first noted Egyptologist, published this series in which he presents a history of the golden age of Egypt gleaned from its records, many of which he was the first scholar to be allowed to study. This edition, the first in paperback, offers a new introduction by historian Peter A. Piccione, who places Breasted's work in a modern context. A solid series for academic libraries and priced so that public libraries also can afford them." -- "Classic Returns," Library Journal "The republication of this seminal work after nearly a century, by the University of Illinois, is as welcome as it is unexpected." -- Josef Wegner, OdysseyTable of Contentsv. 1. The first through the seventeenth dynasties -- v. 2. The eighteenth dynasty -- v. 3. The nineteenth dynasty -- v. 4. The twentieth to the twenty-sixth dynasties -- v. 5. Supplementary bibliographies and indices.

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Book SynopsisOffers information on the people, places, and inscriptions of ancient Egypt. This title covers such indices as the kings and queens, temples and geographical locations, divine names, and titles and ranks encompassed by three thousand years of Egyptian history. It includes indices of Egyptian, Hebrew, and Arabic terms mentioned in the texts.Trade Review"In 1906, Breasted, America's first noted Egyptologist, published this series in which he presents a history of the golden age of Egypt gleaned from its records, many of which he was the first scholar to be allowed to study. This edition, the first in paperback, offers a new introduction by historian Peter A. Piccione, who places Breasted's work in a modern context. A solid series for academic libraries and priced so that public libraries also can afford them." -- "Classic Returns," Library Journal"The republication of this seminal work after nearly a century, by the University of Illinois, is as welcome as it is unexpected." -- Josef Wegner, OdysseyTable of Contentsv. 1. The first through the seventeenth dynasties -- v. 2. The eighteenth dynasty -- v. 3. The nineteenth dynasty -- v. 4. The twentieth to the twenty-sixth dynasties -- v. 5. Supplementary bibliographies and indices.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on everyday rituals, this book includes essays that look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms.Trade ReviewThis book marks an important advance in research on the archaeology of the black Atlantic; that is, the archaeological study of contacts, parallelisms, and ruptures that marked Old and New World communities during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface1. On the Materiality of Black Atlantic Rituals / Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders2. Reconstructing the Archaeology of Movement in Northern Ghana: Insights into Past Ritual Posture and Performance / Timothy Insoll and Benjamin W. Kankpeyeng 3. Sacred Vorticies of the African Atlantic World: Materiality of the Accumulative Aesthetic in the Hueda Kingdom, 1650-1727 / Neil Norman4. Cowries and Rituals of Self-Realization in the Yoruba Region, West Africa, ca. 1600–1860 / Akinwumi Ogundiran5. Spiritual Vibrations of Historic Kormantse and the Search for African Identity Diaspora Identity and Freedom / E. Kofi Agorsah6. Rituals of Iron in the Black Atlantic World / Candice Goucher7. Transatlantic Meanings: African Rituals and Material Culture from the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean / Pablo F. Gómez8. "Instruments of Obeah": The Significance of Ritual Objects in the Jamaican Legal System, 1760 to Present / Danielle Boaz9. Charms and Spiritual Practitioners: Negotiating Power Dynamics in an Enslaved African Community in Jamaica / Paula Saunders10. Mundane or Spiritual? – The Interpretation of Glass Bottle Containers Found on Two Sites of the African Diaspora / Matthew Reeves11. Ritual Bundle in Colonial Annapolis / Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf and Amanda Tang 12. Dexterous Creation: Material Manifestations of Instrumental Symbolism in the Americas / Christopher C. Fennell13. Ritualized Figuration in Special African-American Yards / Grey Gundaker14. "I Cry 'I Am' For All to Hear Me": The Informal Cemetery in Central Georgia / Hugh B. Matternes and Staci Richey15. Spatial and Material Transformations in Commemoration on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands / Helen C. Blouet16. "As Above, So Below": Ritual and Commemoration in African-American Archaeological Contexts in the Northern United States / Cheryl J. LaRoche17. Cape Coast Castle and Rituals of Memory / Brempong Osei-TutuBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDealing with the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic, this title highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans. It presents a picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade.Trade ReviewShould be required reading for Africanist archaeologists and students of African American and diasporic archaeology. . . . Highly recommended.January 2009 * Choice *. . . an excellent book . . . .This is an important and readable work that represents a milestone in a holistic approach to Africa and its Diasporas in the Atlantic world.July 28, 2009 (online) * African Archaeology Review *A breakthrough volume in the study of the material culture of the slave trade. . . [P]resents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became entangled with the creation of the modern world. * Assn for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora ASWAD *For those who want to expand their knowledge of African religion, this is an important addition to a growing series of probing studies.Volume 52 - 2011 * The Journal of African History *Ogundiran and Falola's collection charts a powerful and ambitious starting point for a truly transatlantic diasporan archaeology. 2010, 44 (2) * Historical Archaeology *[T]he true value of this book perhaps lies in its ability to acquaint very different readerships with a wealth of sources and research with which they may hitherto have been unfamiliar with. Volume 12, Issue 1, Fall 2010 * African Studies Quarterly *. . . this volume is an important contribution to understanding the diverse and global extent of African experiences and cultural transformations, as well as demonstrates the important role of Africa in the creation of the modern world. . . . all archaeologists and historians working in the Africana world should, not only read this book, but engage the findings presented here in their own work. . . .September 2009 -- Paula V. Saunders * African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter *. . . this book is remarkably successful. It is equally useful for specialists in later African archaeology and for archaeologists of the African Diaspora. Furthermore, . . . [it] provides an excellent introduction to the state of research on the subject, and is appropriate for anyone wishing to develop an understanding of the big issues in the archaeology of the African Diaspora.Vol. 44.2 August 2009 -- Kenneth G. Kelly * University of South Carolina *A rich perspective on the archaeology of African life in the Atlantic world. . . . The volume will be widely appreciated by readers wishing to learn about an exciting area of archaeological research. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *[The editors] skilfully articulate the importance of integrating the African Atlantic and the African Diaspora within a single analytical framework . . . Common to most of these papers is a breadth of vision that encompasses the archaeological record and relevant history, ethnographic and palaeoclimatic data in ways that highlight the complexity of the processes taking place in Atlantic Africa from (indeed, before) the fifteenth century.2008 * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsContentsPrefacePart 1. Introduction1. Pathways in the Archaeology of Transatlantic Africa Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola Part 2. Atlantic Africa2. Entangled Lives: The Archaeology of Daily Life in the Gold Coast Hinterlands, AD 1400-1900 Ann Brower Stahl3. Living in the Shadow of the Atlantic World: History and Material Life in a Yoruba-Edo Hinterland, ca. 1600-1750 Akinwumi Ogundiran4. Dahomey and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeology and Political Order on the Bight of Benin J. Cameron Monroe5. Enslavement in the Middle Senegal Valley: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives Alioune Déme and Ndeye Sokhna Guèye6. The Landscape and Society of Northern Yorubaland during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade Aribidesi Usman7. The Collapse of Coastal City-States of East Africa Chapurukha M. Kusimba8. Ghana's "Slave Castles," Tourism, and the Social Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade Brempong Osei-TutuPart 3. African Diaspora9. BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Representation in the Americas Christopher C. Fennell10. "In This Here Place": Interpreting Enslaved Homeplaces Whitney L. Battle-Baptiste11. Bringing the Out Kitchen In? The Experiential Landscapes of Black and White New England Alexandra A. Chan12. African Metallurgy in the Atlantic World Candice L. Goucher13. Between Urban and Rural: Organization and Distribution of Local Pottery in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica Mark W. Hauser14. Allies, Adversaries, and Kin in the African Seminole Communities of Florida: Archaeology at Pilaklikaha Terrance Weik15. Scars of Brutality: Archaeology of the Maroons in the Caribbean E. Kofi Agorsah16. The Archaeological Study of the African Diaspora in Brazil Pedro P. Funari17. The Vanishing People: Archaeology of the African Population in Buenos Aires Daniel Schávelzon18. Maritime Archaeology and the African Diaspora Fred L. McGhee19. Archaeology of the African Meeting House on Nantucket Mary C. Beaudry and Ellen P. Berkland20. Practicing African American Archaeology in the Atlantic World Anna S. Agbe-DaviesReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFor more than a century, the Lower East Side of New York City has been recognised and scrutinised as having been the largest and most vibrant immigrant Jewish neighbourhood in America when East European Jews flocked to American shores. This book explores the dynamics of Lower East Side memory.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction — Remembering the Lower East Side: A Conversation Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. WengerPart 1. The Dynamics of Remembrance1. On the Onomastics of the Lower East Side, or How the Lower East Side Got Its Name Moses Rischin2. Photographing the Lower East Side: A Century's Work Deborah Dash Moore and David Lobenstine3. Beyond Place and Ethnicity: The Uses of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Paula Hyman4. The Ghetto Girl and the Erasure of Memory Riv-Ellen Prell5. Constructions of Memory: The Synagogues of the Lower East Side David Kaufman6. The One-Way Window: Public Schools on the Lower East Side Stephan Brumberg7. Recreating Recreations on the Jewish Lower East Side: Restaurants, Cabarets, Cafes and Coffeehouses in the 1930s Suzanne WassermanPart 2. Contemporary Recollections8. Turfing the Slum: New York City's Tenement Museum and the Poltics of Heritage Jack Kugelmass9. "Send a salami to your boy in the army": Sites of Jewish Memory and Identity at Lower East Side Restaurants Eve Jochnowitz10. Tripping down Memory Lane: Walking Tours on the Jewish Lower East Side Seth Kamil11. The Lower East Side in the Memory of New York Jewish Intellectuals: A Filmmaker's Experience Joseph Dorman12. Performing Memory: "The Matzoh Factory" on the Lower East Side Aviva Weintraub13. Translating Abraham Cahan, Teaching the Lower East Side: A View from Italy Mario MaffiContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisCultural property and its stewardship have long been concerns of museums, archaeologists, art historians, and nations, but recently the legal and political consequences of collecting antiquities have also attracted broad media attention. This has been the result, in part, of several high-profile trials, as well as demands by various governments for the return of antiquities to their countries of origin. These circumstances call out for public discussion that moves beyond the rather clear-cut moral response to looting, to consider the implications of buying, selling, and exhibiting antiquities. To whom should they belong? What constitutes legal ownership of antiquities? What laws govern their importation into the United States, for instance? What circumstances, if any, demand the return of those antiquities to their countries of origin? Is there a consensus among archaeologists and museum directors about these issues? These and other pertinent issues are addressed in thTrade Review“Robin Rhodes' new volume presents a rich collection of essays with multiple perspectives on ethical questions surrounding the ownership of cultural property and the acquisition of antiquities. Directors of large and small museums, lawyers specialized in U.S. and international law, art historians, curators, and field archaeologists address these topics from their own points of view. The result is as rewarding as it is timely.” —Mary Sturgeon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill". . . one simple unseemly truth: collecting antiquities promotes the destruction of world heritage. I was fascinated by these chapters, and Rhodes has done archaeology a service in publishing this book. The elegant arguments of the archaeologists deserve a wide readership, particularly among Americancollectors. Until they understand what devastation they unwittingly promote, we can only weep for our stolen history." —Jack Davis, Director, American School of Classical Studies at Athens ". . . a welcome addition to an ever burgeoning bibliography on the ethics and legal issues in the antiquities trade. There are many essays here that are up-to-date and easily accessible to any interested reader, because they are largely written in the conversational style with which they were delivered. Many viewpoints are expressed and several essays show how the ground is shifting as museums re-write policies to take into account new legal realities, especially internationally, while archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and legal professionals show an increasingly more sophisticated understanding of the many dimensions of illicit excavation and the acquisition of illicit property." —James C. Wright, Bryn Mawr College“Presented by a distinguished group of archaeologists, art historians, museum directors, and professors of law, the essays discuss the ethical and practical issues that concern how antiquities come into museums, addressing in particular international laws against looting and purchasing looted goods, and the issues that archaeologists, museum directors, and historians face when studying goods acquired without provenance.” —Book News“This work addresses the collection and the trade of licit and illicit antiquities in museums, and also the role of academics in documenting the looting of archaeological sites and the trade in antiquities. . . . [It] serves to clarify distinct positions and reminds readers that understanding multiple viewpoints is vital in fostering more public involvement in museums’ practices.” —caareviews.org (CollegeArtAssociation)

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Book SynopsisProposes new interpretations of some of the most famous extant Paleolithic art and artifacts. Barry Cooper demonstrates the political significance of the earliest expressions of human existence and is among the first to argue that political life began 25,000 years before the Greeks.Trade Review“Paleolithic Politics is a thorough, philosophically astute, cross-disciplinary engagement of a political scientist with scientists and scholars of the Paleolithic concerning phenomena that have remained both compelling and deeply puzzling.” —Thomas Heilke, author of The Primacy of Persons in Politics“Barry Cooper’s Paleolithic Politics is far and away the best general introduction to Upper Paleolithic art I’ve come across. Cooper lifts the detailed discussion at the level both of description and of the plethora of carefully assessed theories into a rich philosophical anthropology drawn from Bernard Lonergan, Max Scheler, Hans Jonas, and especially Eric Voegelin.” —Brendan Purcell, author of From Big Bang to Big Mystery“A refreshingly candid, insightful, well-informed, and well-balanced account by a political scientist ‘outsider’ of the good, the bad, and the useless scholars who have endeavored to make sense of the beautiful but enigmatic imagery of the last Ice Age.” —Paul G. Bahn, author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art"The great worth of Cooper’s book is to raise the bar on any politics that would aim to cast off the past in hopes of a great leap forward. The paleolithic is more than a choice for wellness gurus, it stands as a challenge to ponder whether human consciousness is rooted to our place in the cosmos." —Law & Liberty"Barry Cooper’s Paleolithic Politics is a thoughtful and thorough account of the Paleolithic period that brings unique insight into cave art and what it may mean for its authors and for us. " —VoegelinView

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Book SynopsisThis innovative archaeological study of diet and cooking technology sheds light on ancient cuisine.Ancient cuisine is one of the hot topics in today's archaeology. This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology and cooking. Susan Kooiman examines precontact Indigenous pottery from the Cloudman site on Drummond Island on the far eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula to investigate both how pottery technology, pottery use, diet, and cooking habits change over time and how these changes relate to hypothesized transitions in subsistence, settlement, and social patterns among Indigenous pottery-making groups in this area.Kooiman demonstrates that ceramic technology and cooking techniques evolved to facilitate new subsistence and processing needs. Her interpretations of past cuisine and culinary identities are further supported and enhanced through comparisons with ethnographic Trade Review“The issue of subsistence practices and how they change through time has dominated the literature of the Northern Great Lakes region for generations. Kooiman’s book sheds new light on these age-old questions. By focusing on pottery function and use-alteration analysis she provides a great deal of clarification on ancient cuisine as it changed through time.” —James Skibo, author of Understanding Pottery Function"The northern Great Lakes and the region north of it clearly experienced a long history of occupation by various groups of Indigenous peoples over several millennia. Kooiman debates the possibility that the selection of food was connected to the identity of a specific group of occupants. Her tactic of taking 'an integrated theoretical framework' structuring specific methodological and analytical techniques in a specific sequence is to be applauded." —H-EnvironmentTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Environmental and Cultural History of the Northern Great Lakes 3. Cuisine and Pottery Technology in the Northern Great Lakes 4. Pottery and Cuisine: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 5. Pottery Taxonomy, Chronology, and Occupational History of the Cloudman Site 6. Pottery Function 7. Diet and Cuisine at the Cloudman Site 8. Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Accounts of Diet and Cooking 9. Culinary and Technological Tradition and Change at the Cloudman Site

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The issue of subsistence practices and how they change through time has dominated the literature of the Northern Great Lakes region for generations. Kooiman’s book sheds new light on these age-old questions. By focusing on pottery function and use-alteration analysis she provides a great deal of clarification on ancient cuisine as it changed through time.” —James Skibo, author of Understanding Pottery Function"The northern Great Lakes and the region north of it clearly experienced a long history of occupation by various groups of Indigenous peoples over several millennia. Kooiman debates the possibility that the selection of food was connected to the identity of a specific group of occupants. Her tactic of taking 'an integrated theoretical framework' structuring specific methodological and analytical techniques in a specific sequence is to be applauded." —H-EnvironmentTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Environmental and Cultural History of the Northern Great Lakes 3. Cuisine and Pottery Technology in the Northern Great Lakes 4. Pottery and Cuisine: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 5. Pottery Taxonomy, Chronology, and Occupational History of the Cloudman Site 6. Pottery Function 7. Diet and Cuisine at the Cloudman Site 8. Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Accounts of Diet and Cooking 9. Culinary and Technological Tradition and Change at the Cloudman Site

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