Cultural studies: customs and traditions Books
University of Toronto Press Deeply Rooted in the Present
Book SynopsisAsking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage readers to make connections between the case study at hand, their own heritage, and heritage-making efforts in other parts of the world.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Slavery, Quilombos, and Land 2. From Enslavement to Quilombolas 3. Quilombola Identity Conclusion Further Reading Supplementary Exercises References Index
£41.40
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Jumping the Broom The Surprising Multicultural
Book SynopsisIn this history of a unique tradition, Tyler Parry untangles the history of the ""broomstick wedding"". Popularly associated with African American culture, Parry traces the ritual's origins to marginalized groups in the British Isles and explores how it influenced the marriage traditions of different communities on both sides of the Atlantic.
£25.46
Duke University Press Experimental Practice
Book SynopsisIn Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, these “alterontologies”—which Papadopoulos examines in a variety of contexts, from AIDS activism and the financialization of life to hacker communities and neuroscience—form the basis of ways of life that would embrace the more-than-social interdependence of the human and nonhuman worlds. Speaking to a matrix of concerns about politics and justice, social movements, matter and ontology, everyday practice, technoscience, the production of knowledge, and the human and nonhuman, Papadopoulos suggests that the develTrade Review"Offering a mix of keen insights . . . Experimental Practice is a book that will be valuable to academics who share the author's questions and frame of reference." -- DJ Mattingly * Choice *"Excellent. . . . Experimental Futures pulls together in endlessly inspiring fashion many concepts and ideas that have been to the forefront of engaged scholarship in geography." -- Patrick Bresnihan * Antipode *"Experimental Practice is a thorough and practical account of how matter matters, and how we can bring the non-human or more-than-human world into our political calculus and convincingly sets out a case for experimental practices." -- Nicholas Beuret * Sociological Review *"The range of case studies that is presented – from AIDS activism, to HSBC advertising campaigns, to the Struggle for Calais – helps to ground Papadopoulos’s theoretical arguments, and to moderate some of the creative licence that comes from his writing of ‘social science fiction.' . . . Consistently and provocatively argues for a reimagination of socio-political organisation and justice in/and the world." -- Orlando Woods * Social & Cultural Geography *"Experimental Practice takes a step forward in challenging the 'social' in Social Movement Studies by exploring the long ignored post-human entanglements of social movements. This original lens provides an important insight for scholars concerned with emancipatory struggles by foregrounding the interdependence of social-movements with their environment, and thus reconceptualizing political autonomy as the ability to remain open and to engage in transformative connections with a multiplicity of human and non-human actors." -- Álvaro Ramírez March * Social Movement Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Decolonial Politics of Matter 11 Part I. Movements 2. Biofinancialization as Terraformation 27 3. Ontological Organizing 49 Part II. History Remix 4. Activist Materialism 79 5. Insurgent Posthumanism 94 Part III. Alterontologies 6. Brain Matter 117 7. Compositional Technoscience 138 8. Crafting Ontologies 160 Acknowledgments 209 Notes 211 References 257 Index 323
£98.60
Duke University Press Experimental Practice
Book SynopsisIn Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, these “alterontologies”—which Papadopoulos examines in a variety of contexts, from AIDS activism and the financialization of life to hacker communities and neuroscience—form the basis of ways of life that would embrace the more-than-social interdependence of the human and nonhuman worlds. Speaking to a matrix of concerns about politics and justice, social movements, matter and ontology, everyday practice, technoscience, the production of knowledge, and the human and nonhuman, Papadopoulos suggests that the develTrade Review"Offering a mix of keen insights . . . Experimental Practice is a book that will be valuable to academics who share the author's questions and frame of reference." -- DJ Mattingly * Choice *"Excellent. . . . Experimental Futures pulls together in endlessly inspiring fashion many concepts and ideas that have been to the forefront of engaged scholarship in geography." -- Patrick Bresnihan * Antipode *"Experimental Practice is a thorough and practical account of how matter matters, and how we can bring the non-human or more-than-human world into our political calculus and convincingly sets out a case for experimental practices." -- Nicholas Beuret * Sociological Review *"The range of case studies that is presented – from AIDS activism, to HSBC advertising campaigns, to the Struggle for Calais – helps to ground Papadopoulos’s theoretical arguments, and to moderate some of the creative licence that comes from his writing of ‘social science fiction.' . . . Consistently and provocatively argues for a reimagination of socio-political organisation and justice in/and the world." -- Orlando Woods * Social & Cultural Geography *"Experimental Practice takes a step forward in challenging the 'social' in Social Movement Studies by exploring the long ignored post-human entanglements of social movements. This original lens provides an important insight for scholars concerned with emancipatory struggles by foregrounding the interdependence of social-movements with their environment, and thus reconceptualizing political autonomy as the ability to remain open and to engage in transformative connections with a multiplicity of human and non-human actors." -- Álvaro Ramírez March * Social Movement Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Decolonial Politics of Matter 11 Part I. Movements 2. Biofinancialization as Terraformation 27 3. Ontological Organizing 49 Part II. History Remix 4. Activist Materialism 79 5. Insurgent Posthumanism 94 Part III. Alterontologies 6. Brain Matter 117 7. Compositional Technoscience 138 8. Crafting Ontologies 160 Acknowledgments 209 Notes 211 References 257 Index 323
£25.19
Duke University Press Coca Yes Cocaine No
Book SynopsisThomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party, showing how the realities of international politics hindered MAS leader Evo Morales from scaling up the party's form of grassroots democracy to the national level.Trade Review"By combining ethnographic insight with structural analysis, the book makes an important methodological contribution, one that demands a closer dialogue between the fields of critical anthropology and global political economy. ... Coca Yes, Cocaine No is a terrific success that will prove indispensable for critical-minded students and researchers of contemporary Latin American politics and society." -- Manuel Larrabure * American Journal of Sociology *"In this vivid ethnographic account, Grisaffi shows how Bolivian coca growers grew from a criminalized union to a strong social movement with a vernacular vision of 'radical democracy.' ... A fascinating case study [that] shows that the conditions for realization of alternative democracies locally are always linked to broader political economic forces." -- Amy Kennemore and Nancy Postero * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Grisaffi’s book is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Bolivian politics." -- Miguel Centellas * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“Thomas Grisaffi’s engaging ethnography argues that in the Chapare region of Bolivia, the cocalero (coca growers) union has developed an innovative form of grassroots democracy. Coca Yes, Cocaine No achieves the rare feat of speaking meaningfully to both undergraduate readers and scholars (of Latin American studies, anthropology, social movements, and political theorists) and I expect it will be adopted widely for undergraduate and graduate courses.” -- Miriam Shakow * Mobilization *“Coca Yes, Cocaine No is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relations between local and national forms of governance and democracy, and particularly for anyone who wishes to understand democracy in Bolivia during Morales’ presidency.” -- Jonathan Alderman * Journal of Latin American Studies *“In addition to the quality of his writing and clarity of his argument, the judicious and continuous integration of primary data makes this book captivating and vivid. Through ethnographic vignettes and detailed descriptions of the relationships between the author and the actors of his research, Grisaffi manages to bring the atmosphere of the Chapare region to life for the reader…. This study [is] a significant contribution to the fields of Latin American Studies and drug politics—a topic of keen importance, which can shed light on other relevant issues, such as the depenalization and legalization of cannabis use in countries such as Uruguay and the USA.” -- Patrick Naef * Journal of Anthropological Research *“This complex and interesting book makes a very important contribution to scholarship on grassroots democracy, indigenous movements, the war on drugs in the Americas and Latin American politics.” -- Waskar T. Ari-Chachaki * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: To Lead by Obeying 1 1. The Rise of the Coca Unions 27 2. The Lowest Rung of the Cocaine Trade 58 3. Self-Governing in the Chapare 84 4. From Class to Ethnicity 109 5. Community Coca Control 128 6. The Unions and Local Government 150 7. The Coca Union's Radio Station 173 Conclusion 192 Notes 203 References 215 Index 249
£98.60
Duke University Press The Hundreds
Book SynopsisThe Hundredscomposed of pieces one hundred or multiples of one hundred words longis Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart's collaborative experimental writing project in which they strive toward sensing and capturing the resonances that operate at the ordinary level of everyday experience.Trade Review"In Berlant and Stewart’s hands, affect theory provides a way of understanding the sensations and resignations of the present, the normalized exhaustion that comes with life in the new economy. It is a way of framing uniquely modern questions." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"The seemingly arbitrary parameters Berlant and Stewart put in place act out an illuminating thought experiment for the reader. . . . A haunting and thought-provoking read that asks readers to slow down and take stock of what is in front of them." -- Julia Shiota * Ploughshares *"A roving adventure in critical prose. . . . Berlant and Stewart eschew a literary focal point for a broadly questioning spirit. . . . The point is not to 'track thing into their secret lairs,' or to place them in the 'so-called big picture,' rather, it is to look again, and encourage the reader look again too." -- Michael Caines * TLS *"The Hundreds is playful and loose, it roams and discovers, only to drift elsewhere, but it works: it grounds theory, makes it real." -- Casey Dawson and Christopher Schaberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Hundreds focalizes an intrinsic desire to explore the world’s simplicities as the foundation for the potentiality of the extraordinary. Berlant and Stewart show that, indeed, ordinary life is ordinary and transformative, containing so many possibilities for thinking about who we are in the world, really." -- Matt Morgenstern * Cleveland Review of Books *"The Hundreds, by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant and anthropologist Kathleen Stewart, is at once a bold thought experiment and a radical exploration of reflexive ethnographic writing. . . . The Hundreds is a must read for scholars interested in affect as another register of human experience that exists alongside the psychological and phenomenological." -- Asha L. Abeyasekera * Feminism & Psychology *"As compositions, the hundreds illuminate and obscure, defamiliarize and refamiliarize, reflect and refract (tip of the cap to Volosinov 1973) both their authors and the cultural artifacts that appear in them, and offer a way of archiving cultural moments in ways that acknowledge, even foreground, their affective power." -- Seth Kahn * Anthropological Quarterly *"A speculative and seductive book. . . . The Hundreds asks us to pay attention to the capacious and crucial smallness of our everyday, to slow down and dial in to the richness and frustrations of ordinary encounters as a grounding and creative political practice." -- Elisabeth R. Anker * Theory & Event *
£70.55
Duke University Press Coca Yes Cocaine No
Book SynopsisThomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party, showing how the realities of international politics hindered MAS leader Evo Morales from scaling up the party's form of grassroots democracy to the national level.Trade Review"By combining ethnographic insight with structural analysis, the book makes an important methodological contribution, one that demands a closer dialogue between the fields of critical anthropology and global political economy. ... Coca Yes, Cocaine No is a terrific success that will prove indispensable for critical-minded students and researchers of contemporary Latin American politics and society." -- Manuel Larrabure * American Journal of Sociology *"In this vivid ethnographic account, Grisaffi shows how Bolivian coca growers grew from a criminalized union to a strong social movement with a vernacular vision of 'radical democracy.' ... A fascinating case study [that] shows that the conditions for realization of alternative democracies locally are always linked to broader political economic forces." -- Amy Kennemore and Nancy Postero * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Grisaffi’s book is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Bolivian politics." -- Miguel Centellas * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“Thomas Grisaffi’s engaging ethnography argues that in the Chapare region of Bolivia, the cocalero (coca growers) union has developed an innovative form of grassroots democracy. Coca Yes, Cocaine No achieves the rare feat of speaking meaningfully to both undergraduate readers and scholars (of Latin American studies, anthropology, social movements, and political theorists) and I expect it will be adopted widely for undergraduate and graduate courses.” -- Miriam Shakow * Mobilization *“Coca Yes, Cocaine No is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relations between local and national forms of governance and democracy, and particularly for anyone who wishes to understand democracy in Bolivia during Morales’ presidency.” -- Jonathan Alderman * Journal of Latin American Studies *“In addition to the quality of his writing and clarity of his argument, the judicious and continuous integration of primary data makes this book captivating and vivid. Through ethnographic vignettes and detailed descriptions of the relationships between the author and the actors of his research, Grisaffi manages to bring the atmosphere of the Chapare region to life for the reader…. This study [is] a significant contribution to the fields of Latin American Studies and drug politics—a topic of keen importance, which can shed light on other relevant issues, such as the depenalization and legalization of cannabis use in countries such as Uruguay and the USA.” -- Patrick Naef * Journal of Anthropological Research *“This complex and interesting book makes a very important contribution to scholarship on grassroots democracy, indigenous movements, the war on drugs in the Americas and Latin American politics.” -- Waskar T. Ari-Chachaki * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: To Lead by Obeying 1 1. The Rise of the Coca Unions 27 2. The Lowest Rung of the Cocaine Trade 58 3. Self-Governing in the Chapare 84 4. From Class to Ethnicity 109 5. Community Coca Control 128 6. The Unions and Local Government 150 7. The Coca Union's Radio Station 173 Conclusion 192 Notes 203 References 215 Index 249
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Wise Words of the Yupik People
Book SynopsisThe Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska were among the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup'ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup'ik People documents their qanruyutait (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life.Trade Review“Significant and timely. . . . Wise Words of the Yup’ik People and Yup’ik Words of Wisdom together honor the richness of oral tradition among Alaska Natives while addressing a broader audience of the next generation of Yup’ik people, scholars of various disciplines, and policymakers alike.”—Andrea D. Robertson, Pacific Northwest Quarterly “This book will prove to be an important resource for scholars in the future, as well as an excellent record of Yup’ik oral culture.”—Polar Record“Valuable. . . . These texts are important vehicles for both the preservation and use of Yup’ik traditional knowledge for self-determination.”—CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction to the New Bison Books Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Yup’ik Transcription and Translation List of Yup’ik Contributors Elders Spoke and Young People Listened A Powerful Mind Boys Are Like Puppies, Ears Are Eyes, and Women Are Death Parents and Children Men and Women Those Who Are Rich in Relatives: Extended Family Relations Tuqluucaraq: The Way of Addressing One’s Relatives The World Contains No Others, Only Persons: Yup’ik Views of Self and Other Qanrucunailnguut: Those Who Do Not Listen and Adhere Eyagyarat: Abstinence Practices Making the Past Present: The Desertion of the Qasgi Notes Glossary References Index Map. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press Wise Words of the Yupik People
Book SynopsisThe Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska were among the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup'ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup'ik People documents their qanruyutait (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life.Trade Review“Significant and timely. . . . Wise Words of the Yup’ik People and Yup’ik Words of Wisdom together honor the richness of oral tradition among Alaska Natives while addressing a broader audience of the next generation of Yup’ik people, scholars of various disciplines, and policymakers alike.”—Andrea D. Robertson, Pacific Northwest Quarterly “This book will prove to be an important resource for scholars in the future, as well as an excellent record of Yup’ik oral culture.”—Polar Record“Valuable. . . . These texts are important vehicles for both the preservation and use of Yup’ik traditional knowledge for self-determination.”—CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction to the New Bison Books Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Yup’ik Transcription and Translation List of Yup’ik Contributors Elders Spoke and Young People Listened A Powerful Mind Boys Are Like Puppies, Ears Are Eyes, and Women Are Death Parents and Children Men and Women Those Who Are Rich in Relatives: Extended Family Relations Tuqluucaraq: The Way of Addressing One’s Relatives The World Contains No Others, Only Persons: Yup’ik Views of Self and Other Qanrucunailnguut: Those Who Do Not Listen and Adhere Eyagyarat: Abstinence Practices Making the Past Present: The Desertion of the Qasgi Notes Glossary References Index Map. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region
£21.59
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Walking Raddy The Baby Dolls of New Orleans
Book SynopsisDraws on interviews, theoretical perspectives, archival material, and historical assessments to describe women's cultural performances that take place on the streets of New Orleans. Contributors recount the history and contemporary resurgence of the Baby Dolls while delving into the larger cultural meaning of the phenomenon.
£28.45
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Practice of Folklore Essays toward a Theory
Book SynopsisDespite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, often characterized as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore, author Simon Bronner works with theories of cultural practice to explain the social and psychological need for tradition in everyday life.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Carnival in Alabama
Book SynopsisLooks not only at the people who participated in Mardi Gras organisations divided by race, gender, and/or sexual orientation, but also investigates the experience of ‘marked bodies’ outside of these organisations, or people involved in Carnival through their labour or as audiences (or publics) of the spectacle.
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Carnival in Alabama
Book SynopsisLooks not only at the people who participated in Mardi Gras organisations divided by race, gender, and/or sexual orientation, but also investigates the experience of ‘marked bodies’ outside of these organisations, or people involved in Carnival through their labour or as audiences (or publics) of the spectacle.
£23.70
Stanford University Press K-pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia
Book Synopsis1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of K-pop. In K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the meteoric ascent of Korean popular music in relation to the rise of personal technology and social media, situating a feverish cross-media partnership within the Korean historical context and broader questions about what it means to be "live" and "alive." Based on in-depth interviews with K-pop industry personnel, media experts, critics, and fans, as well as archival research, K-pop Live explores how the industry has managed the tough sell of live music in a marketplace in which virtually everything is available online. Teasing out digital media's courtship of "liveness" in the production and consumption of K-pop, Kim investigates the nuances of the affective mode in which human subjects interact with one another in the digital age. Observing performances online, in concert, and even through the use of holographic performers, Kim offers readers a step-by-step guide through the K-pop industry's variegated efforts to diversify media platforms as a way of reaching a wider global network of music consumers. In an era when digital technology inserts itself into nearly all social relationships, Kim reveals how "what is live" becomes a question of how we exist as increasingly mediated subjects, fragmented and isolated by technological wonders while also longing for a sense of belonging and being alive through an interactive mode of exchange we often call "live." Trade Review"Suk-Young Kim's intimate and detailed ethnography showcases the strategic, interlocking exchanges among producers, directors, performers, fans, and studios in Seoul and beyond. Kim captures both the small moments of curated, performed liveness and their layered, highly mediatized production contexts. A glittering glimpse into a pure realization of late capitalism, and perhaps into our collective future, K-pop Live uncovers why K-pop is the global cultural phenomenon." -- Carol Vernallis * author of Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema *"K-pop Live is essential reading for all interested in popular culture in general and K-pop in particular. Suk-Young Kim provides accessible and lively insights into the complexities of the artistry and the commerce, the manufactured and the impromptu, the virtual and the somatic, and the local and the global that propel the production, dissemination, consumption, and reproduction of Korean popular music today." -- Hyung-Gu Lynn * University of British Columbia *"K-pop idols are sweeping the world, and K-pop Live is the book you need to understand this incredible phenomenon. From the music videos to a futuristic fan museum, Suk-Young Kim reveals the ways idols are transforming how we think about musicians and fandom. An excellent read and great for all levels of coursework." -- Ian Condry * Massachusetts Institute of Technology *"[The] ultimate "star" of the book seems to be Kim's witty and contemplative prose that takes on another extended definition of liveness as "liveliness" through a dexterous weaving of critical theory and original arguments. The book's delivery on the paradoxical performance industry of K-pop—simultaneously glamorous and coveted, yet cutthroat and hypercommercial—satisfies the critical lacuna of K-pop scholarship from a performance studies perspective. With its well-organized index and extensive list of references, K-pop Live...is a welcome companion for educators of performance studies, media and visual culture, and Korean studies alike." -- So-Rim Lee * The Drama Review *"Kim explores the possibility that the origin of the success of K-pop may be significantly attributed to the heung (feeling of excitement) of Korean traditional music....I am most impressed by [her] intimate, cautious, and critical participant observation. Her close attachment to the performances and activities as if she were a 'K-pop maniac' in her early twenties adds heung to the experience of the reading of the book." -- Gil-Soo Han * Cross-Currents *"This study is informative, insightful, thought-provoking, and entertaining. It mediates the key scenes of K-pop with a sense of liveness for the reader; as if we were there with the author." -- Nikki J.Y. Lee * Pacific Affairs *"Suk-Young Kim's K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance offers an accessible, in-depth perspective on K-pop...[T]his book encourages its readers to be more alert to their various senses and more inquisitive about the range of experiences such multimedia engagements can create, much like the heung excited by K-pop's multi-sensory appeal." -- Walter Byongsok Chon * Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Historicizing K-pop chapter abstractChapter 1 explores K-pop as an ideological and technological playing field where the forces of a rapidly changing media environment, a neoliberal marketplace, and the consequent desires to make and break various social networks interact. As K-pop has become increasingly visible around the world in the past ten years or so, the South Korean government has been trying to forge a meaningful partnership with the K-pop industry. By situating such a move in its historical trajectory, this chapter shows K-pop as a dynamic force that has been shaped equally by top-down and bottom-up movements, namely industry-led paradigm shifts in media technology and users' creative ways of employing that technology. 2K-pop from Live Television to Social Media chapter abstractChapter 2 presents the unique production and consumption modes of K-pop in relation to the medium of television. The history of television reveals this platform's inherent link to the format of live theater, especially the live broadcasting model. Two examples of K-pop-related TV shows explored in this chapter—the top-of-the-chart show Music Core and an English-language live chat show, After School Club—encourage real-time participation by viewers that opens a new dimension of TV liveness in the digital era. Defining this dimension as simultaneous production and consumption of music rather than improvised and unrehearsed performance, this chapter challenges the purist notion of "live." The two case studies present contrapuntal visions of how domestic and foreign fans exercise ownership over K-pop by using various digital platforms and show how TV channels optimize their visibility by transposing TV media content onto social networks. 3Simulating Liveness in K-pop Music Videos chapter abstractChapter 3 examines K-pop music videos as a central medium articulating the dynamics between liveness and mediatization. Music videos' primary platforms, YouTube and Vevo, generally replay recorded performances and are not conceived as primary venues for live performances. At most, music videos can only simulate the vestiges of live performances that have already happened. A comparative analysis of two examples of K-pop music videos—"Twinkle" by TaeTiSeo, a subunit of the representative K-pop girl group Girls' Generation, and "Who You?" by G-Dragon, leader of the boy band BIGBANG—shows the tremendous investment in the notion of live performance in K-pop as a way of forging the genre's artistic authenticity. Also illuminated is the significance of invoking various performing arts traditions, such as revues, Broadway-style musicals, Hollywood musicals, and performance art, to make K-pop music videos more approachable for a global audience. 4Hologram Stars Greet Live Audiences chapter abstractChapter 4 explores the emerging interface between digital technology and live performances. Two key players in the K-pop industry, YG Entertainment and SM Entertainment, have invested heavily in creating infinitely reproducible and exportable K-pop shows featuring their top stars in holographic form. With a subsidy from and in partnership with the South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT (Information and Communications Technology), and Future Planning (Mirae changjo gwahakpu), a government unit deeply committed to Korea's national branding campaign, both companies have actively sought opportunities to present their hologram works in foreign markets that the actual stars have difficulty reaching through traditional live tours. By comparing YG Entertainment's hologram concert with SM Entertainment's hologram musical, the chapter investigates how live performance can be realized without live performers but only with live spectators. 5Live K-pop Concerts and Their Digital Doubles chapter abstractChapter 5 looks into live K-pop tours overseas, an increasingly common mode of global circulation. While the case studies in this chapter exhibit the most conventional and purest notion of liveness (copresence of performer and spectator), they nonetheless provide examples of how live concerts cannot exist without digitally augmented audiovisual effects. The chapter also explores how live K-pop tours are promoted by digital campaigns carried out on social media and in online music stores, making it impossible to separate the live event from its digital counterpart. By comparing and contrasting BIGBANG's Made tour in seventy cities across four continents with CJ Entertainment and Music's KCON, a multiday K-pop festival and convention hosted in Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and the United States, I analyze these events' different strategies to attract Korean and global audiences while incidentally participating in a campaign to enhance the nation's soft power. Conclusion chapter abstractBy showcasing my ethnographic fieldwork at KCON Paris 2016, the Conclusion reiterates how K-pop is a kaleidoscopic cultural scene whose ongoing popularity is sustained not only by the calculating forces of neoliberalism but also by the sincere desire to build a global community through shared interest. It also points to the affective power of K-pop that transcends the genre's commercialization. Introduction chapter abstractThe introduction presents multifaceted definitions of K-pop and raises the question of why it is significant to investigate the liveness of K-pop. As a multimedia performance, K-pop's authentic liveness emanates not only from the performance of live music but also from the impactful bodily presentation of its performers. The notion of liveness is explored from technological, ideological, and affective angles with an eye toward bringing out the uniquely Korean dimension of liveness—heung. Liveness here is not limited to real-time broadcasting or the copresence of performers and spectators; more profoundly, it is about the authentic rapport built around various actors involved in the making of the K-pop scene.
£86.40
Stanford University Press Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a "rights-holder" and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities. Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how universal human rights are understood, practiced, negotiated, and challenged in concert and in conflict with Indigenous rights. Moving between communities, government, regional NGOs, and international UN forums, Sarah E. Holcombe addresses how the notion of rights plays out within the distinctive and ambivalent sociopolitical context of Australia, and focusing specifically on Indigenous women and their experiences of violence. Can the secular modern rights-bearer accommodate the ideals of the relational, spiritual Anangu person? Engaging in a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the local Pintupi-Luritja vernacular and observing various Indigenous interactions with law enforcement and domestic violence outreach programs, Holcombe offers new insights into our understanding of how the global rights discourse is circulated and understood within Indigenous cultures. She reveals how, in the postcolonial Australian context, human rights are double-edged: they enforce assimilation to a neoliberal social order at the same time that they empower and enfranchise the Indigenous citizen as a political actor. Remote Freedoms writes Australia's Indigenous peoples into the international debate on localizing rights in multicultural terms.Trade Review"A vibrant, thoughtful analysis of the political and gendered experiences of indigenous rights, human rights, and citizenship among aboriginal communities in Australia. Remote Freedoms draws on Holcombe's years of research to offer accessible, nuanced engagements with anthropological theories of personhood, translation, politics, and justice." -- Dorothy L. Hodgson * Rutgers University *"Australia has an ambivalent approach to human rights, especially regarding Aboriginal peoples. This highly-readable book brings a fresh perspective. Contrasting legal and rights approaches, Holcombe examines how Aboriginal women experiencing violence resist victimhood, but have few alternatives to change their circumstances. The national political context which frames the focus on Central Australia makes it all the more compelling." -- Gaynor Macdonald * University of Sydney *"Holcombe's achievement is to make it clearer to outsiders what is at stake as Anangu dialogue, among themselves and with outsiders, about experiments in reconciling human rights principles and vernacular notions of social justice." -- Timothy Rowse * Oceania *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Indigenous Rights as Human Rights in Central Australia chapter abstractThis chapter provides a brief history of human rights and how the discourse of human rights is understood in law and policy within the Australian state. Australia's ambivalent relationship with human rights is examined, providing a backdrop to the lack of ethnographic treatments of human rights. Tracing the ethnographic focus on land rights as a form of cultural rights, it then lays the foundation for understanding how broader human rights concerns have been decoupled from Indigenous rights. Exploring the parameters for recognition of Indigenous human rights, this chapter interrogates the normative principles embodied within the human rights discourse. Considering how an Anangu person becomes a "human-rights holder," the chapter unpacks the elements that specify this type of personhood. The tensions between culture and human rights are explored via the key tenets of a human-rights-based ontology, enabling a discussion of human rights culture in relation to Anangu cultures. 1The Act of Translation: Emancipatory Potential and Apocryphal Revelations chapter abstractThis chapter examines concepts of rights that arise as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is translated into the local vernacular of Pintupi-Luritja. The semantic properties of English and possible equivalent Anangu concepts are juxtaposed in the translation context, and the limitations and possibilities of the universal human rights discourse are reimagined. This chapter then sets up the core challenges and possibilities of the local uptake of this discourse. Interrogating the assumptions embedded in the Declaration is also to interrogate the foundations of the secular modern person. Can this rights bearer accommodate the ideals of the relational spiritual Anangu person? The anthropological literature on this relational or sociocentric person is discussed. Revisiting this early ethnographic subject is essential if we are to reconsider this distinction in terms of a continuum, rather than a dichotomy and thus also to encourage a local dialogue with human rights. 2Engendering Social and Cultural Rights chapter abstractThis chapter explores the relationality of gender and forming and becoming an Anangu "woman" or "man." The family is one of these core sites and one of the most contested sites within the realm women's human rights. The gendered sociality of work practices are explored as sites that reinforce the status quo of gendered roles and responsibilities. This chapter also begins the discussion on women's rights as human rights by recalling the history between early feminism and the Indigenous civil rights movement within Australia. This discussion enables a consideration of the tensions between collectivist and individualist approaches to women's rights as it actively works through the idea that universal concepts, such as women's human rights, can take hold only when they are encountered within local and particular contexts. By exploring where the principles of human rights are operating in several NGOs the work of human rights is revealed. 3"Stop Whinging and Get on with It": The Shifting Contours of Gender Equality (and Equity) chapter abstractThis chapter examines the contested contours of complementarity and equality through the lens of gender by exploring how gender as a relational practice is manifest in a range of social contexts that assert gender segregation. The social ramifications of the ceremonial practices of "men's business" are explored as a paradigmatic location for making gender. Likewise, the Aboriginal English term "women's business" captures a range of practices to include female sexuality and reproductive rights. This chapter begins to specify a regional and local perspective as mediated through notions of gender complementarity, rather than equality. Although the applicability of feminism is challenged, there is a range of indicators of social transformation where these social practices of gender segregation are being modified and adapted, notably in the changing relations of reproduction. The chapter also examines the social and ontological structures that mediate violence and that have become known as "family violence." 4"Women Go to the Clinic, and Men Go to Jail": The Gendered Indigenized Subject of Legal Rights chapter abstractThis chapter explores the intersections among legal rights, local perceptions of social justice, and gender violence. Spousal or intimate partner violence exposes multiple sites of articulation with formal rights via the legal system at the same time as revealing Anangu responsibilities in customary terms. Anangu women's interactions with and responses to the legal system, including the police, reflect contradictory and competing discourses between family and the state system. The formal legal system representing Aboriginal people has instrumentalized women as the "victims" and men as the "perpetrators" through the extensive range of mandatory reporting and sentencing laws. This chapter specifically elaborates the ways in which rights that entail some specification of suffering, injury, or inequality compel an identity defined by subordination. Seeking to explain Anangu women's lack of compliance with pressing charges against violent spouses, the chapter considers whether mandatory reporting and mandatory sentencing reduce the suffering of victims. 5Therapy Culture and the Intentional Subject chapter abstractThis chapter examines therapeutic interventions, including the Cross Borders Indigenous Family Violence Program and the Women's Shelter outreach service. These programs and services aim, respectively, to change the status of the "perpetrator" to an empathizer and to alter the subjectivity of clients from a "victim" to an actor. Exploring these methods and approaches, the chapter analyzes the ways in which this new Aboriginal self is inscribed as the inner subjectivities of the participants/clients are managed. As these therapeutic technologies aim to foster the responsibilization discourse they must first question and dismantle the sociocentric structures of feeling that guide Anangu decision making. These programs and services closely follow the framework and concepts that underpin human rights. The role these therapeutic technologies plays in the production of individuals' "freedom to choose" and freedom to associate offers insight into the incremental transformation of Anangu subjects into human rights holders. 6Civil and Political Rights: Is There Space for an Aboriginal Politics? chapter abstractThis chapter explores the ways in which citizenship has become the mechanism for neoliberal reform. How do the tensions in human rights as political entailments play out between the regulatory dimensions of citizenship and its emancipatory promise? The behavioral norms that this citizen has to comply with are explored in terms of rights as entailments as these unfold via the responsibilization discourse and ubiquitous working of the good governance project. This chapter ultimately asks: What are the terms for an efficacious Aboriginal politics with and against the state, and is there room to expand the political imagination to incorporate alternative terms and modalities? In the course of the case study discussion on governance, a pluralist approach is articulated as this concept is specified as "good enough" or as "effective and legitimate." It has come to incorporate the foundational dimensions of a multicultural and a self-consciously "incomplete" human rights. 7International Human Rights Forums and (East Coast) Indigenous Activism chapter abstractThe penultimate chapter returns to the sites where human rights and Indigenous human rights took their shape and continue to evolve—the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and Geneva. In discussing the soft advocacy within the UNPFII, its other roles as educatory and emancipatory through further development of the second wave Indigenism are elaborated, along with the performative aspects of these UN sites as a "public audit ritual." The multivalent concept of "good governance" is also located here. Although the methodology of this chapter has telescopic tendencies, it is also a reflection of the issues that confound the possibilities for the mobilization of this discourse to remote central Australia. A key question explored is whether and how the Indigenous human rights discourse, at this international level, circulates to remote central Australia, where arguably it is most needed. Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the dimensions of human rights that underpin a diverse range of government policies, approaches, and programs in very remote central Australia. Many of these dimensions are the acknowledged public goods of accountability, representation and gender equity. For Anangu citizens the entailments of citizenship are dual edged. Whether explicit or tacit, there has been an increasing coupling of rights and duties. By exploring this discourse, the relationship between what constitutes a [human] right and what constitutes a person was revealed. This book agitates for alternative understandings of human dignity and more porous human rights that are less dependent on liberal definitions of humanity. Yet, the moral language and social justice potential of human rights has much to offer Anangu. The conclusion locates local practices that intersect with and explicitly draw from human rights norms to reveal what it takes for sociomoral normative practices to change.
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Stanford University Press Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical
Book SynopsisCervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it. Doctors and public health officials regard promiscuity and poor hygiene—coded indicators for low class, low culture, and bad morals—as risk factors for the disease. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted in two oncology hospitals in Caracas, Marked Women is an ethnography of women's experiences with cervical cancer, the doctors and nurses who treat them, and the public health officials and administrators who set up intervention programs to combat the disease. Rebecca G. Martínez contextualizes patient-doctor interactions within a historical arc of Venezuelan nationalism, modernity, neoliberalism, and Chavismo to understand the scientific, social, and political discourses surrounding the disease. The women, marked as deviant for their sexual transgressions, are not only characterized as engaging in unhygienic, uncultured, and promiscuous behaviors, but also become embodiments of these very behaviors. Ultimately, Marked Women explores how epidemiological risk is a socially, culturally, and historically embedded process—and how this enables cervical cancer to stigmatize women as socially marginal, burdens on society, and threats to the "health" of the modern nation.Trade Review"Marked Women provides insights that only an extended ethnographic engagement can offer. Rebecca Martínez captures the consistent and yet changing political landscape of poverty, class, and race that frames Venezuelan women's lives and health. A must read for anyone interested in Latin America, medical anthropology, neoliberalism, and the social determinants of health."—Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation"Marked Women is richly detailed and lucidly written. Rebecca Martínez masterfully develops her arguments with honesty and great compassion, situating her analyses at the intersections of disease, sexuality, morality, and citizenship. Her insights into the disparate power dynamics responsible for the persistent stigmatizing of cervical cancer in Venezuela provide new, much-needed perspectives on this tragic global health phenomenon."—Carole H. Browner, University of California, Los Angeles"Rebecca Martínez's remarkable ethnographic eye and ear discern how pathologies of public health infrastructures and professional socialization inscribe gender and class stereotypes not only on bodies but on popular perceptions of poor women and the cervical cancers that too often kill them."—Clara Mantini-Briggs, co-author of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare"In this excellent work of feminist medical anthropology, Martínez (women's and gender studies, Univ. of Missouri) focuses on the ways neoliberalism has affected health care in Venezuela....The transcriptions of the patients' responses are informative, disturbing, and often upsetting, but their articulation of their feelings draws readers into their narratives. They are not just ethnographic material but real women with real lives. The book is appropriate for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in gender studies, anthropology, and Latin American studies."—H. Aquino, CHOICE"Martínez presents an ethnography of cervical cancer that powerfully analyses biomedical and public health practice first in the neoliberal context of the 1990s and then in the socialism of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro...This reader very much hopes that Martínez continues her work, particularly at this historical moment of intense political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela."––Tita Chico, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Caracas, Venezuela: On Arrival 1. Hospitals, Patients, and Doctors 2. The Ambiguities of Risk: Morality, Hygiene, and the "Other" 3. Targeting Women: Bodies out of "Control," Public Health, and the Body Politic 4. The Hospital Encounter: Bodies Marked, Mended, and Manipulated 5. Women's Agency and Resilience: "They Way I Want to Be Treated" Epilogue: From Neoliberalism to Chávez
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Stanford University Press K-pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia
Book Synopsis1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of K-pop. In K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the meteoric ascent of Korean popular music in relation to the rise of personal technology and social media, situating a feverish cross-media partnership within the Korean historical context and broader questions about what it means to be "live" and "alive." Based on in-depth interviews with K-pop industry personnel, media experts, critics, and fans, as well as archival research, K-pop Live explores how the industry has managed the tough sell of live music in a marketplace in which virtually everything is available online. Teasing out digital media's courtship of "liveness" in the production and consumption of K-pop, Kim investigates the nuances of the affective mode in which human subjects interact with one another in the digital age. Observing performances online, in concert, and even through the use of holographic performers, Kim offers readers a step-by-step guide through the K-pop industry's variegated efforts to diversify media platforms as a way of reaching a wider global network of music consumers. In an era when digital technology inserts itself into nearly all social relationships, Kim reveals how "what is live" becomes a question of how we exist as increasingly mediated subjects, fragmented and isolated by technological wonders while also longing for a sense of belonging and being alive through an interactive mode of exchange we often call "live." Trade Review"Suk-Young Kim's intimate and detailed ethnography showcases the strategic, interlocking exchanges among producers, directors, performers, fans, and studios in Seoul and beyond. Kim captures both the small moments of curated, performed liveness and their layered, highly mediatized production contexts. A glittering glimpse into a pure realization of late capitalism, and perhaps into our collective future, K-pop Live uncovers why K-pop is the global cultural phenomenon." -- Carol Vernallis * author of Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema *"K-pop Live is essential reading for all interested in popular culture in general and K-pop in particular. Suk-Young Kim provides accessible and lively insights into the complexities of the artistry and the commerce, the manufactured and the impromptu, the virtual and the somatic, and the local and the global that propel the production, dissemination, consumption, and reproduction of Korean popular music today." -- Hyung-Gu Lynn * University of British Columbia *"K-pop idols are sweeping the world, and K-pop Live is the book you need to understand this incredible phenomenon. From the music videos to a futuristic fan museum, Suk-Young Kim reveals the ways idols are transforming how we think about musicians and fandom. An excellent read and great for all levels of coursework." -- Ian Condry * Massachusetts Institute of Technology *"[The] ultimate "star" of the book seems to be Kim's witty and contemplative prose that takes on another extended definition of liveness as "liveliness" through a dexterous weaving of critical theory and original arguments. The book's delivery on the paradoxical performance industry of K-pop—simultaneously glamorous and coveted, yet cutthroat and hypercommercial—satisfies the critical lacuna of K-pop scholarship from a performance studies perspective. With its well-organized index and extensive list of references, K-pop Live...is a welcome companion for educators of performance studies, media and visual culture, and Korean studies alike." -- So-Rim Lee * The Drama Review *"Kim explores the possibility that the origin of the success of K-pop may be significantly attributed to the heung (feeling of excitement) of Korean traditional music....I am most impressed by [her] intimate, cautious, and critical participant observation. Her close attachment to the performances and activities as if she were a 'K-pop maniac' in her early twenties adds heung to the experience of the reading of the book." -- Gil-Soo Han * Cross-Currents *"This study is informative, insightful, thought-provoking, and entertaining. It mediates the key scenes of K-pop with a sense of liveness for the reader; as if we were there with the author." -- Nikki J.Y. Lee * Pacific Affairs *"Suk-Young Kim's K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance offers an accessible, in-depth perspective on K-pop...[T]his book encourages its readers to be more alert to their various senses and more inquisitive about the range of experiences such multimedia engagements can create, much like the heung excited by K-pop's multi-sensory appeal." -- Walter Byongsok Chon * Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Historicizing K-pop chapter abstractChapter 1 explores K-pop as an ideological and technological playing field where the forces of a rapidly changing media environment, a neoliberal marketplace, and the consequent desires to make and break various social networks interact. As K-pop has become increasingly visible around the world in the past ten years or so, the South Korean government has been trying to forge a meaningful partnership with the K-pop industry. By situating such a move in its historical trajectory, this chapter shows K-pop as a dynamic force that has been shaped equally by top-down and bottom-up movements, namely industry-led paradigm shifts in media technology and users' creative ways of employing that technology. 2K-pop from Live Television to Social Media chapter abstractChapter 2 presents the unique production and consumption modes of K-pop in relation to the medium of television. The history of television reveals this platform's inherent link to the format of live theater, especially the live broadcasting model. Two examples of K-pop-related TV shows explored in this chapter—the top-of-the-chart show Music Core and an English-language live chat show, After School Club—encourage real-time participation by viewers that opens a new dimension of TV liveness in the digital era. Defining this dimension as simultaneous production and consumption of music rather than improvised and unrehearsed performance, this chapter challenges the purist notion of "live." The two case studies present contrapuntal visions of how domestic and foreign fans exercise ownership over K-pop by using various digital platforms and show how TV channels optimize their visibility by transposing TV media content onto social networks. 3Simulating Liveness in K-pop Music Videos chapter abstractChapter 3 examines K-pop music videos as a central medium articulating the dynamics between liveness and mediatization. Music videos' primary platforms, YouTube and Vevo, generally replay recorded performances and are not conceived as primary venues for live performances. At most, music videos can only simulate the vestiges of live performances that have already happened. A comparative analysis of two examples of K-pop music videos—"Twinkle" by TaeTiSeo, a subunit of the representative K-pop girl group Girls' Generation, and "Who You?" by G-Dragon, leader of the boy band BIGBANG—shows the tremendous investment in the notion of live performance in K-pop as a way of forging the genre's artistic authenticity. Also illuminated is the significance of invoking various performing arts traditions, such as revues, Broadway-style musicals, Hollywood musicals, and performance art, to make K-pop music videos more approachable for a global audience. 4Hologram Stars Greet Live Audiences chapter abstractChapter 4 explores the emerging interface between digital technology and live performances. Two key players in the K-pop industry, YG Entertainment and SM Entertainment, have invested heavily in creating infinitely reproducible and exportable K-pop shows featuring their top stars in holographic form. With a subsidy from and in partnership with the South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT (Information and Communications Technology), and Future Planning (Mirae changjo gwahakpu), a government unit deeply committed to Korea's national branding campaign, both companies have actively sought opportunities to present their hologram works in foreign markets that the actual stars have difficulty reaching through traditional live tours. By comparing YG Entertainment's hologram concert with SM Entertainment's hologram musical, the chapter investigates how live performance can be realized without live performers but only with live spectators. 5Live K-pop Concerts and Their Digital Doubles chapter abstractChapter 5 looks into live K-pop tours overseas, an increasingly common mode of global circulation. While the case studies in this chapter exhibit the most conventional and purest notion of liveness (copresence of performer and spectator), they nonetheless provide examples of how live concerts cannot exist without digitally augmented audiovisual effects. The chapter also explores how live K-pop tours are promoted by digital campaigns carried out on social media and in online music stores, making it impossible to separate the live event from its digital counterpart. By comparing and contrasting BIGBANG's Made tour in seventy cities across four continents with CJ Entertainment and Music's KCON, a multiday K-pop festival and convention hosted in Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and the United States, I analyze these events' different strategies to attract Korean and global audiences while incidentally participating in a campaign to enhance the nation's soft power. Conclusion chapter abstractBy showcasing my ethnographic fieldwork at KCON Paris 2016, the Conclusion reiterates how K-pop is a kaleidoscopic cultural scene whose ongoing popularity is sustained not only by the calculating forces of neoliberalism but also by the sincere desire to build a global community through shared interest. It also points to the affective power of K-pop that transcends the genre's commercialization. Introduction chapter abstractThe introduction presents multifaceted definitions of K-pop and raises the question of why it is significant to investigate the liveness of K-pop. As a multimedia performance, K-pop's authentic liveness emanates not only from the performance of live music but also from the impactful bodily presentation of its performers. The notion of liveness is explored from technological, ideological, and affective angles with an eye toward bringing out the uniquely Korean dimension of liveness—heung. Liveness here is not limited to real-time broadcasting or the copresence of performers and spectators; more profoundly, it is about the authentic rapport built around various actors involved in the making of the K-pop scene.
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Stanford University Press Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of
Book SynopsisThe Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebrities and other notable public figures participated in human rights campaigns to combat violence in the region. But how do local activists and those throughout the Sudanese diaspora in the United States situate their own notions of rights, nationalism, and identity? Based on interviews with Sudanese social actors, activists, and their allies in the United States, the Sudan, and online, Branding Humanity traces the global story of violence and the remaking of Sudanese identities. Amal Hassan Fadlalla examines how activists contest, reshape, and reclaim the stories of violence emerging from the Sudan and their identities as migrants. Fadlalla charts the clash and friction of the master-narratives and counter-narratives circulated and mobilized by competing social and political actors negotiating social exclusion and inclusion through their own identity politics and predicament of exile. In exploring the varied and individual experiences of Sudanese activists and allies, Branding Humanity helps us see beyond the oft-monolithic international branding of conflict. Fadlalla asks readers to consider how national and transnational debates about violence circulate, shape, and re-territorialize ethnic identities, disrupt meanings of national belonging, and rearticulate notions of solidarity and global affiliations. Trade Review"Branding Humanity is a powerful ethnography of the interplay between humanitarianism and nationalism, where white celebrity cultures, Christian and Muslim humanitarians, racialized diasporas, and translocal actors connect and communicate around and across the imaginaries of Sudan and 'Save Darfur' campaigns. Amal Fadlalla's careful and passionate book should be read by all those interested in the operations of power and empire, and of belonging and citizenship in this new century." -- Inderpal Grewal * Yale University *"This fascinating book shows how stories of ethnic suffering and sexual violence powerfully shaped public understanding of the conflicts in Darfur and South Sudan. These narratives simplified complex situations and mobilized 'affective violence,' fitting the violence into humanitarian frameworks of suffering victims but ignoring other critical actors, such as transnational Sudanese secularist activists. Branding Humanity provides valuable insight into the way human rights crises are made visible to global publics." -- Sally Engle Merry * New York University *"Conceptually locating affective violence at the center of...humanitarian campaigns allows Fadlalla to make several important observations about transnational politics....Branding Humanity contains extraordinary detail concerning the many movements, organizations, events and activists involved in transnational Sudanese politics." -- Mark Drury * PoLAR *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Violence Narratives and the Cultural Politics of Identity chapter abstractThe introduction lays out the theoretical, historical, ethnographic, and methodological framework of the book. It situates the production and circulation of violence narratives and the alliances, performances, and publics they engender in transnational theories that invoke the flexibility of citizenship, identities, and global flows of people, ideas, and capital. It further suggests a framework that incorporates competing models of transnationalities to reflect a hardening of social boundaries and a politics of exclusion and dispossession in the post–Cold War era. 1Performing Humanity: Suffering and the Making of Global Citizens chapter abstractChapter One focuses on the transnational alliances created during the conflict between Northern and Southern Sudan and shows how these alliances were performed in different sites and transnational forums to imagine a southern national identity tied to religious suffering, compassion, and a neoliberal understanding of ethno-gendered humanity. Such alliances countered the rising tide of transnational Islamic solidarities and their liberation rhetoric at the end of the Cold War. The early wave of alliances in the 1990s, and the later solidarities that followed before the country's separation on July 9, 2011, manifests the role of faith-based groups in redefining Sudan's ethnic identities and debating the country's place in the emerging moral orders of Pan-Islamism and pan-humanitarianism. These different processes and mobilizations provided the fertile ground and marked the "right time" for the separation of the country into two nations. 2Humanitarian Publics: Celebrities, Solidarities, and Students chapter abstractChapter Two traces the ways in which human rights and humanitarian cultural politics have proliferated in the era of celebrity activism and transnational alliances for the Sudan. It considers the case of the Darfur conflict as a "second wave" in the development of these alliances, one that both diverged from and intersected with activism for South Sudan. This second wave of alliances also brings to light the role of celebrity activism in educating a new generation of American student activists, allies, and role models. The chapter provides many counter-narratives to contrast with the predominant narrative of celebrity humanitarianism and shows how celebrity mobilization informed activists' aspirations and constrained their spaces for struggles in various ways. It examines celebrity activism as another site of transnational alliances and protests, an extension of a humanitarian public, and a creative way of performing humanity, affective violence, and the right to development. 3Diaspora as Counter-Response: Citizenship Rights and the Suffering of Ghurba chapter abstractChapter Three presents an alternative humanist narrative grounded in the idea of "diaspora publics" and the reassertion of national and transnational citizenship rights in exile. It problematizes the construction of a rigid "Northern Sudanese" identity by considering the voices of seculars, Muslims, and non-Muslims who dream of national unity, diversity, and inclusion, and whose national and transnational aspirations are constrained by the hegemonic narratives of pan-humanitarianism and Pan-Islamism. The work of these overshadowed communities, alliances, and social networks has helped to offset the impact of exclusion in the aftermath of 9/11, the escalation of the Sudanese conflicts, and the country's subsequent division. By presenting these counter-narratives and different ways of organizing, the chapter emphasizes that the humanitarian model of global citizenship leaves no room for the variety of experiences that depict national and transnational visions of rights, humanity, and belonging. 4Contested Borders of Inhumanity: Refuge and the Production and Circulation of Violence Narratives chapter abstractChapter Four introduces the concept of "audiopolitics" to explain how the circulation and production of violence narratives serve as an effective medium through which the transnational humanitarian audience is mobilized to listen, respond, and act. The chapter shows how this form of narration has been facilitated by the emergence of the Sudanese cyberpublic media that connect Sudanese transnational actors, and their allies, in various diaspora locales. It positions this circulation of stories of violence within the expanding moral politics of rights and humanitarianism and the counter-responses they engender, such as Sudanese nafir practices of solidarity and social care. The chapter thereby proposes a different reading of violence narratives that situates the root causes of violence in political history and in competing structures of feelings and moral claims of national and transnational affinities. 5Toward an Inclusive Humanist Future: Borders, Bodies, and Funerals chapter abstractThe book's conclusion describes the historical moments after the South Sudan referendum and division. It also explains why narratives of ethno-gendered violence—similar to those used to describe the conflicts in the Sudan before the division—have yet to emerge. In the clash of visions among Islamists, secularists, and human rights and humanitarian activists over the identity of the Sudan, the meanings of place and the parameters of belonging have all been challenged. To this end, the conclusion emphasizes the importance of a transnational/trans-relational approach that captures the wide spectrum of ethno-gendered and embodied discourses and practices, their visibilities and invisibilities, across time and space.
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Stanford University Press Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical
Book SynopsisCervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it. Doctors and public health officials regard promiscuity and poor hygiene—coded indicators for low class, low culture, and bad morals—as risk factors for the disease. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted in two oncology hospitals in Caracas, Marked Women is an ethnography of women's experiences with cervical cancer, the doctors and nurses who treat them, and the public health officials and administrators who set up intervention programs to combat the disease. Rebecca G. Martínez contextualizes patient-doctor interactions within a historical arc of Venezuelan nationalism, modernity, neoliberalism, and Chavismo to understand the scientific, social, and political discourses surrounding the disease. The women, marked as deviant for their sexual transgressions, are not only characterized as engaging in unhygienic, uncultured, and promiscuous behaviors, but also become embodiments of these very behaviors. Ultimately, Marked Women explores how epidemiological risk is a socially, culturally, and historically embedded process—and how this enables cervical cancer to stigmatize women as socially marginal, burdens on society, and threats to the "health" of the modern nation.Trade Review"Marked Women provides insights that only an extended ethnographic engagement can offer. Rebecca Martínez captures the consistent and yet changing political landscape of poverty, class, and race that frames Venezuelan women's lives and health. A must read for anyone interested in Latin America, medical anthropology, neoliberalism, and the social determinants of health."—Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation"Marked Women is richly detailed and lucidly written. Rebecca Martínez masterfully develops her arguments with honesty and great compassion, situating her analyses at the intersections of disease, sexuality, morality, and citizenship. Her insights into the disparate power dynamics responsible for the persistent stigmatizing of cervical cancer in Venezuela provide new, much-needed perspectives on this tragic global health phenomenon."—Carole H. Browner, University of California, Los Angeles"Rebecca Martínez's remarkable ethnographic eye and ear discern how pathologies of public health infrastructures and professional socialization inscribe gender and class stereotypes not only on bodies but on popular perceptions of poor women and the cervical cancers that too often kill them."—Clara Mantini-Briggs, co-author of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare"In this excellent work of feminist medical anthropology, Martínez (women's and gender studies, Univ. of Missouri) focuses on the ways neoliberalism has affected health care in Venezuela....The transcriptions of the patients' responses are informative, disturbing, and often upsetting, but their articulation of their feelings draws readers into their narratives. They are not just ethnographic material but real women with real lives. The book is appropriate for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in gender studies, anthropology, and Latin American studies."—H. Aquino, CHOICE"Martínez presents an ethnography of cervical cancer that powerfully analyses biomedical and public health practice first in the neoliberal context of the 1990s and then in the socialism of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro...This reader very much hopes that Martínez continues her work, particularly at this historical moment of intense political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela."––Tita Chico, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Caracas, Venezuela: On Arrival 1. Hospitals, Patients, and Doctors 2. The Ambiguities of Risk: Morality, Hygiene, and the "Other" 3. Targeting Women: Bodies out of "Control," Public Health, and the Body Politic 4. The Hospital Encounter: Bodies Marked, Mended, and Manipulated 5. Women's Agency and Resilience: "They Way I Want to Be Treated" Epilogue: From Neoliberalism to Chávez
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Stanford University Press Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a "rights-holder" and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities. Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how universal human rights are understood, practiced, negotiated, and challenged in concert and in conflict with Indigenous rights. Moving between communities, government, regional NGOs, and international UN forums, Sarah E. Holcombe addresses how the notion of rights plays out within the distinctive and ambivalent sociopolitical context of Australia, and focusing specifically on Indigenous women and their experiences of violence. Can the secular modern rights-bearer accommodate the ideals of the relational, spiritual Anangu person? Engaging in a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the local Pintupi-Luritja vernacular and observing various Indigenous interactions with law enforcement and domestic violence outreach programs, Holcombe offers new insights into our understanding of how the global rights discourse is circulated and understood within Indigenous cultures. She reveals how, in the postcolonial Australian context, human rights are double-edged: they enforce assimilation to a neoliberal social order at the same time that they empower and enfranchise the Indigenous citizen as a political actor. Remote Freedoms writes Australia's Indigenous peoples into the international debate on localizing rights in multicultural terms.Trade Review"A vibrant, thoughtful analysis of the political and gendered experiences of indigenous rights, human rights, and citizenship among aboriginal communities in Australia. Remote Freedoms draws on Holcombe's years of research to offer accessible, nuanced engagements with anthropological theories of personhood, translation, politics, and justice." -- Dorothy L. Hodgson * Rutgers University *"Australia has an ambivalent approach to human rights, especially regarding Aboriginal peoples. This highly-readable book brings a fresh perspective. Contrasting legal and rights approaches, Holcombe examines how Aboriginal women experiencing violence resist victimhood, but have few alternatives to change their circumstances. The national political context which frames the focus on Central Australia makes it all the more compelling." -- Gaynor Macdonald * University of Sydney *"Holcombe's achievement is to make it clearer to outsiders what is at stake as Anangu dialogue, among themselves and with outsiders, about experiments in reconciling human rights principles and vernacular notions of social justice." -- Timothy Rowse * Oceania *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Indigenous Rights as Human Rights in Central Australia chapter abstractThis chapter provides a brief history of human rights and how the discourse of human rights is understood in law and policy within the Australian state. Australia's ambivalent relationship with human rights is examined, providing a backdrop to the lack of ethnographic treatments of human rights. Tracing the ethnographic focus on land rights as a form of cultural rights, it then lays the foundation for understanding how broader human rights concerns have been decoupled from Indigenous rights. Exploring the parameters for recognition of Indigenous human rights, this chapter interrogates the normative principles embodied within the human rights discourse. Considering how an Anangu person becomes a "human-rights holder," the chapter unpacks the elements that specify this type of personhood. The tensions between culture and human rights are explored via the key tenets of a human-rights-based ontology, enabling a discussion of human rights culture in relation to Anangu cultures. 1The Act of Translation: Emancipatory Potential and Apocryphal Revelations chapter abstractThis chapter examines concepts of rights that arise as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is translated into the local vernacular of Pintupi-Luritja. The semantic properties of English and possible equivalent Anangu concepts are juxtaposed in the translation context, and the limitations and possibilities of the universal human rights discourse are reimagined. This chapter then sets up the core challenges and possibilities of the local uptake of this discourse. Interrogating the assumptions embedded in the Declaration is also to interrogate the foundations of the secular modern person. Can this rights bearer accommodate the ideals of the relational spiritual Anangu person? The anthropological literature on this relational or sociocentric person is discussed. Revisiting this early ethnographic subject is essential if we are to reconsider this distinction in terms of a continuum, rather than a dichotomy and thus also to encourage a local dialogue with human rights. 2Engendering Social and Cultural Rights chapter abstractThis chapter explores the relationality of gender and forming and becoming an Anangu "woman" or "man." The family is one of these core sites and one of the most contested sites within the realm women's human rights. The gendered sociality of work practices are explored as sites that reinforce the status quo of gendered roles and responsibilities. This chapter also begins the discussion on women's rights as human rights by recalling the history between early feminism and the Indigenous civil rights movement within Australia. This discussion enables a consideration of the tensions between collectivist and individualist approaches to women's rights as it actively works through the idea that universal concepts, such as women's human rights, can take hold only when they are encountered within local and particular contexts. By exploring where the principles of human rights are operating in several NGOs the work of human rights is revealed. 3"Stop Whinging and Get on with It": The Shifting Contours of Gender Equality (and Equity) chapter abstractThis chapter examines the contested contours of complementarity and equality through the lens of gender by exploring how gender as a relational practice is manifest in a range of social contexts that assert gender segregation. The social ramifications of the ceremonial practices of "men's business" are explored as a paradigmatic location for making gender. Likewise, the Aboriginal English term "women's business" captures a range of practices to include female sexuality and reproductive rights. This chapter begins to specify a regional and local perspective as mediated through notions of gender complementarity, rather than equality. Although the applicability of feminism is challenged, there is a range of indicators of social transformation where these social practices of gender segregation are being modified and adapted, notably in the changing relations of reproduction. The chapter also examines the social and ontological structures that mediate violence and that have become known as "family violence." 4"Women Go to the Clinic, and Men Go to Jail": The Gendered Indigenized Subject of Legal Rights chapter abstractThis chapter explores the intersections among legal rights, local perceptions of social justice, and gender violence. Spousal or intimate partner violence exposes multiple sites of articulation with formal rights via the legal system at the same time as revealing Anangu responsibilities in customary terms. Anangu women's interactions with and responses to the legal system, including the police, reflect contradictory and competing discourses between family and the state system. The formal legal system representing Aboriginal people has instrumentalized women as the "victims" and men as the "perpetrators" through the extensive range of mandatory reporting and sentencing laws. This chapter specifically elaborates the ways in which rights that entail some specification of suffering, injury, or inequality compel an identity defined by subordination. Seeking to explain Anangu women's lack of compliance with pressing charges against violent spouses, the chapter considers whether mandatory reporting and mandatory sentencing reduce the suffering of victims. 5Therapy Culture and the Intentional Subject chapter abstractThis chapter examines therapeutic interventions, including the Cross Borders Indigenous Family Violence Program and the Women's Shelter outreach service. These programs and services aim, respectively, to change the status of the "perpetrator" to an empathizer and to alter the subjectivity of clients from a "victim" to an actor. Exploring these methods and approaches, the chapter analyzes the ways in which this new Aboriginal self is inscribed as the inner subjectivities of the participants/clients are managed. As these therapeutic technologies aim to foster the responsibilization discourse they must first question and dismantle the sociocentric structures of feeling that guide Anangu decision making. These programs and services closely follow the framework and concepts that underpin human rights. The role these therapeutic technologies plays in the production of individuals' "freedom to choose" and freedom to associate offers insight into the incremental transformation of Anangu subjects into human rights holders. 6Civil and Political Rights: Is There Space for an Aboriginal Politics? chapter abstractThis chapter explores the ways in which citizenship has become the mechanism for neoliberal reform. How do the tensions in human rights as political entailments play out between the regulatory dimensions of citizenship and its emancipatory promise? The behavioral norms that this citizen has to comply with are explored in terms of rights as entailments as these unfold via the responsibilization discourse and ubiquitous working of the good governance project. This chapter ultimately asks: What are the terms for an efficacious Aboriginal politics with and against the state, and is there room to expand the political imagination to incorporate alternative terms and modalities? In the course of the case study discussion on governance, a pluralist approach is articulated as this concept is specified as "good enough" or as "effective and legitimate." It has come to incorporate the foundational dimensions of a multicultural and a self-consciously "incomplete" human rights. 7International Human Rights Forums and (East Coast) Indigenous Activism chapter abstractThe penultimate chapter returns to the sites where human rights and Indigenous human rights took their shape and continue to evolve—the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and Geneva. In discussing the soft advocacy within the UNPFII, its other roles as educatory and emancipatory through further development of the second wave Indigenism are elaborated, along with the performative aspects of these UN sites as a "public audit ritual." The multivalent concept of "good governance" is also located here. Although the methodology of this chapter has telescopic tendencies, it is also a reflection of the issues that confound the possibilities for the mobilization of this discourse to remote central Australia. A key question explored is whether and how the Indigenous human rights discourse, at this international level, circulates to remote central Australia, where arguably it is most needed. Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the dimensions of human rights that underpin a diverse range of government policies, approaches, and programs in very remote central Australia. Many of these dimensions are the acknowledged public goods of accountability, representation and gender equity. For Anangu citizens the entailments of citizenship are dual edged. Whether explicit or tacit, there has been an increasing coupling of rights and duties. By exploring this discourse, the relationship between what constitutes a [human] right and what constitutes a person was revealed. This book agitates for alternative understandings of human dignity and more porous human rights that are less dependent on liberal definitions of humanity. Yet, the moral language and social justice potential of human rights has much to offer Anangu. The conclusion locates local practices that intersect with and explicitly draw from human rights norms to reveal what it takes for sociomoral normative practices to change.
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Stanford University Press Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of
Book SynopsisThe Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebrities and other notable public figures participated in human rights campaigns to combat violence in the region. But how do local activists and those throughout the Sudanese diaspora in the United States situate their own notions of rights, nationalism, and identity? Based on interviews with Sudanese social actors, activists, and their allies in the United States, the Sudan, and online, Branding Humanity traces the global story of violence and the remaking of Sudanese identities. Amal Hassan Fadlalla examines how activists contest, reshape, and reclaim the stories of violence emerging from the Sudan and their identities as migrants. Fadlalla charts the clash and friction of the master-narratives and counter-narratives circulated and mobilized by competing social and political actors negotiating social exclusion and inclusion through their own identity politics and predicament of exile. In exploring the varied and individual experiences of Sudanese activists and allies, Branding Humanity helps us see beyond the oft-monolithic international branding of conflict. Fadlalla asks readers to consider how national and transnational debates about violence circulate, shape, and re-territorialize ethnic identities, disrupt meanings of national belonging, and rearticulate notions of solidarity and global affiliations. Trade Review"Branding Humanity is a powerful ethnography of the interplay between humanitarianism and nationalism, where white celebrity cultures, Christian and Muslim humanitarians, racialized diasporas, and translocal actors connect and communicate around and across the imaginaries of Sudan and 'Save Darfur' campaigns. Amal Fadlalla's careful and passionate book should be read by all those interested in the operations of power and empire, and of belonging and citizenship in this new century." -- Inderpal Grewal * Yale University *"This fascinating book shows how stories of ethnic suffering and sexual violence powerfully shaped public understanding of the conflicts in Darfur and South Sudan. These narratives simplified complex situations and mobilized 'affective violence,' fitting the violence into humanitarian frameworks of suffering victims but ignoring other critical actors, such as transnational Sudanese secularist activists. Branding Humanity provides valuable insight into the way human rights crises are made visible to global publics." -- Sally Engle Merry * New York University *"Conceptually locating affective violence at the center of...humanitarian campaigns allows Fadlalla to make several important observations about transnational politics....Branding Humanity contains extraordinary detail concerning the many movements, organizations, events and activists involved in transnational Sudanese politics." -- Mark Drury * PoLAR *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Violence Narratives and the Cultural Politics of Identity chapter abstractThe introduction lays out the theoretical, historical, ethnographic, and methodological framework of the book. It situates the production and circulation of violence narratives and the alliances, performances, and publics they engender in transnational theories that invoke the flexibility of citizenship, identities, and global flows of people, ideas, and capital. It further suggests a framework that incorporates competing models of transnationalities to reflect a hardening of social boundaries and a politics of exclusion and dispossession in the post–Cold War era. 1Performing Humanity: Suffering and the Making of Global Citizens chapter abstractChapter One focuses on the transnational alliances created during the conflict between Northern and Southern Sudan and shows how these alliances were performed in different sites and transnational forums to imagine a southern national identity tied to religious suffering, compassion, and a neoliberal understanding of ethno-gendered humanity. Such alliances countered the rising tide of transnational Islamic solidarities and their liberation rhetoric at the end of the Cold War. The early wave of alliances in the 1990s, and the later solidarities that followed before the country's separation on July 9, 2011, manifests the role of faith-based groups in redefining Sudan's ethnic identities and debating the country's place in the emerging moral orders of Pan-Islamism and pan-humanitarianism. These different processes and mobilizations provided the fertile ground and marked the "right time" for the separation of the country into two nations. 2Humanitarian Publics: Celebrities, Solidarities, and Students chapter abstractChapter Two traces the ways in which human rights and humanitarian cultural politics have proliferated in the era of celebrity activism and transnational alliances for the Sudan. It considers the case of the Darfur conflict as a "second wave" in the development of these alliances, one that both diverged from and intersected with activism for South Sudan. This second wave of alliances also brings to light the role of celebrity activism in educating a new generation of American student activists, allies, and role models. The chapter provides many counter-narratives to contrast with the predominant narrative of celebrity humanitarianism and shows how celebrity mobilization informed activists' aspirations and constrained their spaces for struggles in various ways. It examines celebrity activism as another site of transnational alliances and protests, an extension of a humanitarian public, and a creative way of performing humanity, affective violence, and the right to development. 3Diaspora as Counter-Response: Citizenship Rights and the Suffering of Ghurba chapter abstractChapter Three presents an alternative humanist narrative grounded in the idea of "diaspora publics" and the reassertion of national and transnational citizenship rights in exile. It problematizes the construction of a rigid "Northern Sudanese" identity by considering the voices of seculars, Muslims, and non-Muslims who dream of national unity, diversity, and inclusion, and whose national and transnational aspirations are constrained by the hegemonic narratives of pan-humanitarianism and Pan-Islamism. The work of these overshadowed communities, alliances, and social networks has helped to offset the impact of exclusion in the aftermath of 9/11, the escalation of the Sudanese conflicts, and the country's subsequent division. By presenting these counter-narratives and different ways of organizing, the chapter emphasizes that the humanitarian model of global citizenship leaves no room for the variety of experiences that depict national and transnational visions of rights, humanity, and belonging. 4Contested Borders of Inhumanity: Refuge and the Production and Circulation of Violence Narratives chapter abstractChapter Four introduces the concept of "audiopolitics" to explain how the circulation and production of violence narratives serve as an effective medium through which the transnational humanitarian audience is mobilized to listen, respond, and act. The chapter shows how this form of narration has been facilitated by the emergence of the Sudanese cyberpublic media that connect Sudanese transnational actors, and their allies, in various diaspora locales. It positions this circulation of stories of violence within the expanding moral politics of rights and humanitarianism and the counter-responses they engender, such as Sudanese nafir practices of solidarity and social care. The chapter thereby proposes a different reading of violence narratives that situates the root causes of violence in political history and in competing structures of feelings and moral claims of national and transnational affinities. 5Toward an Inclusive Humanist Future: Borders, Bodies, and Funerals chapter abstractThe book's conclusion describes the historical moments after the South Sudan referendum and division. It also explains why narratives of ethno-gendered violence—similar to those used to describe the conflicts in the Sudan before the division—have yet to emerge. In the clash of visions among Islamists, secularists, and human rights and humanitarian activists over the identity of the Sudan, the meanings of place and the parameters of belonging have all been challenged. To this end, the conclusion emphasizes the importance of a transnational/trans-relational approach that captures the wide spectrum of ethno-gendered and embodied discourses and practices, their visibilities and invisibilities, across time and space.
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Stanford University Press From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and
Book SynopsisFrom Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist liberalism. Anthropology as a discipline and the American project share a common origin: their very foundations are built upon white supremacy, and both are still reckoning with their racist legacies. In this groundbreaking intellectual history of anti-racism within twentieth-century cultural anthropology, Mark Anderson starts with the legacy of Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict and continues through the post-war and Black Power movement to the birth of the Black Studies discipline, exploring the problem "America" represents for liberal anti-racism. Anderson shows how cultural anthropology contributed to liberal American discourses on race that simultaneously bolstered and denied white domination. From Boas to Black Power provides a major rethinking of anthropological anti-racism as a project that, in step with the American racial liberalism it helped create, paradoxically maintained white American hegemony. Anthropologists influenced by radical political movements of the 1960s offered the first sustained challenge to that project, calling attention to the racial contradictions of American liberalism reflected in anthropology. Their critiques remain relevant for the discipline and the nation.Trade Review"From Boas to Black Power thoughtfully examines the contradictions and tensions of anthropology's last 100 years. Using Boasian interventions on race and culture as a valuable starting point, this important book explains how thinking about race/racism in anthropology (and in the wider public culture) pivots on various assumptions about liberalism that link race to American identity in ways that haunt the country as much as ever these days." -- John L. Jackson, Jr. * University of Pennsylvania *"This is an important intervention in the history of U.S. anthropology, particularly the history of anthropological debates on race, racism, and the intellectual impact of Black Power as a social movement. Mark Anderson's interrogation of the liberal anti-racism associated largely with Boasians seriously engages the critiques and alternative scholarship of William Willis, Diane Lewis, Charles & Betty Lou Valentine, and St. Clair Drake, who belonged to an earlier decolonizing generation that cleared the ground for later critical anti-racist projects. This insightful analysis un-silences significant aspects of anthropology's past and illuminates how dominant liberal modalities of anti-racism—regardless of intention—sustain the epistemic, cultural, and structural power of white supremacy, an obstacle to justice, well-being, and liberation." -- Faye V. Harrison * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *"What [Anderson] selects is essential, informative, and critical. His significant contribution to the history of anthropology and American liberalism is the way he combines his razor-sharp analysis of text and context and paradox and contradiction." -- Lee D. Baker * Transforming Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue: The Custom of the Country chapter abstractThe Prologue uses a discussion between anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer James Baldwin, recorded in A Rap on Race, to foreshadow core themes of the book: the anthropology of race and racism and its legacies; Black Power; anti-racist liberalism and its contradictions; and challenges to anti-racist liberalism that emerged in the 1960s. Introduction chapter abstractThe Introduction provides an overview of the main arguments of the book and the theoretical perspectives informing the analysis. It discusses how the book differs from previous scholarship by focusing on the historical relationship between anthropology, U.S. liberalism, and the creation of liberal anti-racism, as developed in the first half of the twentieth century and challenged in the late 1960s. A discussion of the contradictions of liberal anti-racism, and how to think about them, is at the heart of this chapter. 1The Anti-Racist Liberal Americanism of Boasian Anthropology chapter abstractChapter 1 develops an account of the Boasian intervention on race within the context of racial stratification in the U.S. and the development of anthropology as an academic discipline in the early twentieth century. The Boasians were part of larger intellectual networks striving to reinvent understandings of America and U.S. culture along liberal and socialist principles in the post–World War I era, a moment of intense American nativism directed against both peoples of color and southern and eastern European immigrants. The chapter discusses the principal Boasian contributions to anti-racist thought, focusing on how they critiqued scientific racism, reconceptualized racial classification, and promoted the culture concept. It also compares Boasian approaches to race and culture with that of Harlem Renaissance intellectuals, who sought to carve out a space for the recognition of a distinctive African American culture and identity in ways that departed from the Boasian orientation toward assimilation. 2Franz Boas, Miscegenation, and the White Problem chapter abstractChapter 2 analyzes an under-examined paradox in the thought of Franz Boas, one of the most important anti-racist intellectuals of the twentieth century. Why did Boas contend that the ultimate solution to the "Negro problem" involved sexual relations between white men and African American women? The chapter develops a close reading of his discussions of race relations in the U.S. and argues that Boas' thought was driven by a deeply pessimistic assessment of the possibility of the liberalization of American whites. This assessment provided the potential grounds for a critical analysis of American liberalism and white supremacy. Boas, however, ultimately embraced a vision of American belonging that tacitly confirmed the whiteness of America. The chapter concludes with a comparison of Boas' reflections on miscegenation to those of Harlem Renaissance intellectual George Schuyler to explore the contradictions in Boas' thought on the political economy of interracial sex and marriage. 3Ruth Benedict, "American" Culture, and the Color Line chapter abstractChapter 3 examines Ruth Benedict's writings on race and racism. Benedict was a student and colleague of Boas and one of the most famous anthropologists of the twentieth century. The chapter provides a close reading of Race: Science and Politics (1940) and related essays and popular works. It details how Benedict built on the Boasian intervention by providing a cultural history of racism and suggesting solutions consistent with New Deal economic and social reforms. It then shows how she drew on the model of European immigrant assimilation to assess the condition of non-whites, ultimately representing racism in the U.S. as an aberration from American culture, a problem in the nation rather than of the nation. She instructed (white) Americans how to reconcile the existence of racism in America with a faith in America as a liberal racial democracy, erasing the constitutive power of whiteness in the U.S. body politic. 4Post–World War II Anthropology and the Social Life of Race and Racism chapter abstractThis chapter provides an account of anthropological engagements with race and racism in the post–World War II era. It identifies key developments in U.S. anthropology in the context of formal decolonization abroad, domestic civil rights mobilization, and the ascendance of the U.S. as the preeminent global power. It also examines the institutional expansion and transformation of the discipline as it confronted challenges to racial exclusion in the civil rights era, paying particular attention to the situation of Black anthropologists within a white-dominant academy. Finally, the chapter discusses anthropological engagements with race as a social phenomenon and challenges the standard scholarly view that cultural anthropologists abandoned the analysis of race and racism. 5Charles Wagley, Marvin Harris, and the Comparative Study of Race chapter abstractChapter 5 examines the work of anthropologists Charles Wagley and Marvin Harris, who developed comparative analysis of racial classification in the Americas in the 1950s and early 1960s. This work was initiated through a project on race relations in Brazil sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This project sought to understand the "harmonious" race relations perceived as characteristic of Brazil. However, Wagley and Harris provided ethnographic evidence of racial prejudice in Brazil. They developed comparative accounts of racial classification systems and "social race" that had the potential for generating a structural, materialist account of white-dominant racisms across the Americas. This potential, however, went unrealized. Harris and Wagley relied on an understanding of racism that equated racial discrimination with "caste" segregation, a model that led them to downplay racism in Latin America and the power of whiteness in the U.S. 6Black Studies and the Reinvention of Anthropology chapter abstractChapter 6 explores the heretofore unexamined relationship between the turbulent politics of the 1960s, a sense of crisis in anthropology, efforts to decolonize anthropology, and critiques of racial liberalism. The chapter begins with an account of the crisis and self-critical turn in anthropology, focusing on Black Studies critiques of the academy and U.S. liberalism and their effects on the discipline. It proceeds to analyze the writings of three neglected figures, African American anthropologists William Willis and Diane Lewis and white anthropologist Charles Valentine. Read together, these scholars challenged anthropology's self-image as a progressive, anti-racist discipline, promoting expansive understandings of racism as a structural phenomenon that anticipated later critiques of the culture concept as a successor to biological racism. They also demanded a reckoning with American liberalism—and the anthropology that nurtured it—as a paradoxical project of racial inclusion that left the normalization of whiteness intact. Conclusion: Anti-Racism, Liberalism, and Anthropology in the Age of Trump chapter abstractThe conclusion reflects on the lessons of the book for the present. In an era marked by the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, there is an enormous temptation to defend liberal anti-racism as the unfulfilled promise of America; to link the promotion of the values of racial freedom, equality, and justice to national identity, heritage, and culture; to reclaim the nation from a resurgence of overt white supremacist nationalism. The conclusion draws on the book's account of anthropological anti-racism and its critics to identify some of the problems associated with that orientation and reflects on why the election of Trump came as a shock to many liberals. It then provides an account of the enduring whiteness of anthropology and the enduring need to decolonize the discipline and the nation.
£79.20
Stanford University Press From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and
Book SynopsisFrom Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist liberalism. Anthropology as a discipline and the American project share a common origin: their very foundations are built upon white supremacy, and both are still reckoning with their racist legacies. In this groundbreaking intellectual history of anti-racism within twentieth-century cultural anthropology, Mark Anderson starts with the legacy of Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict and continues through the post-war and Black Power movement to the birth of the Black Studies discipline, exploring the problem "America" represents for liberal anti-racism. Anderson shows how cultural anthropology contributed to liberal American discourses on race that simultaneously bolstered and denied white domination. From Boas to Black Power provides a major rethinking of anthropological anti-racism as a project that, in step with the American racial liberalism it helped create, paradoxically maintained white American hegemony. Anthropologists influenced by radical political movements of the 1960s offered the first sustained challenge to that project, calling attention to the racial contradictions of American liberalism reflected in anthropology. Their critiques remain relevant for the discipline and the nation.Trade Review"From Boas to Black Power thoughtfully examines the contradictions and tensions of anthropology's last 100 years. Using Boasian interventions on race and culture as a valuable starting point, this important book explains how thinking about race/racism in anthropology (and in the wider public culture) pivots on various assumptions about liberalism that link race to American identity in ways that haunt the country as much as ever these days." -- John L. Jackson, Jr. * University of Pennsylvania *"This is an important intervention in the history of U.S. anthropology, particularly the history of anthropological debates on race, racism, and the intellectual impact of Black Power as a social movement. Mark Anderson's interrogation of the liberal anti-racism associated largely with Boasians seriously engages the critiques and alternative scholarship of William Willis, Diane Lewis, Charles & Betty Lou Valentine, and St. Clair Drake, who belonged to an earlier decolonizing generation that cleared the ground for later critical anti-racist projects. This insightful analysis un-silences significant aspects of anthropology's past and illuminates how dominant liberal modalities of anti-racism—regardless of intention—sustain the epistemic, cultural, and structural power of white supremacy, an obstacle to justice, well-being, and liberation." -- Faye V. Harrison * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *"What [Anderson] selects is essential, informative, and critical. His significant contribution to the history of anthropology and American liberalism is the way he combines his razor-sharp analysis of text and context and paradox and contradiction." -- Lee D. Baker * Transforming Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue: The Custom of the Country chapter abstractThe Prologue uses a discussion between anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer James Baldwin, recorded in A Rap on Race, to foreshadow core themes of the book: the anthropology of race and racism and its legacies; Black Power; anti-racist liberalism and its contradictions; and challenges to anti-racist liberalism that emerged in the 1960s. Introduction chapter abstractThe Introduction provides an overview of the main arguments of the book and the theoretical perspectives informing the analysis. It discusses how the book differs from previous scholarship by focusing on the historical relationship between anthropology, U.S. liberalism, and the creation of liberal anti-racism, as developed in the first half of the twentieth century and challenged in the late 1960s. A discussion of the contradictions of liberal anti-racism, and how to think about them, is at the heart of this chapter. 1The Anti-Racist Liberal Americanism of Boasian Anthropology chapter abstractChapter 1 develops an account of the Boasian intervention on race within the context of racial stratification in the U.S. and the development of anthropology as an academic discipline in the early twentieth century. The Boasians were part of larger intellectual networks striving to reinvent understandings of America and U.S. culture along liberal and socialist principles in the post–World War I era, a moment of intense American nativism directed against both peoples of color and southern and eastern European immigrants. The chapter discusses the principal Boasian contributions to anti-racist thought, focusing on how they critiqued scientific racism, reconceptualized racial classification, and promoted the culture concept. It also compares Boasian approaches to race and culture with that of Harlem Renaissance intellectuals, who sought to carve out a space for the recognition of a distinctive African American culture and identity in ways that departed from the Boasian orientation toward assimilation. 2Franz Boas, Miscegenation, and the White Problem chapter abstractChapter 2 analyzes an under-examined paradox in the thought of Franz Boas, one of the most important anti-racist intellectuals of the twentieth century. Why did Boas contend that the ultimate solution to the "Negro problem" involved sexual relations between white men and African American women? The chapter develops a close reading of his discussions of race relations in the U.S. and argues that Boas' thought was driven by a deeply pessimistic assessment of the possibility of the liberalization of American whites. This assessment provided the potential grounds for a critical analysis of American liberalism and white supremacy. Boas, however, ultimately embraced a vision of American belonging that tacitly confirmed the whiteness of America. The chapter concludes with a comparison of Boas' reflections on miscegenation to those of Harlem Renaissance intellectual George Schuyler to explore the contradictions in Boas' thought on the political economy of interracial sex and marriage. 3Ruth Benedict, "American" Culture, and the Color Line chapter abstractChapter 3 examines Ruth Benedict's writings on race and racism. Benedict was a student and colleague of Boas and one of the most famous anthropologists of the twentieth century. The chapter provides a close reading of Race: Science and Politics (1940) and related essays and popular works. It details how Benedict built on the Boasian intervention by providing a cultural history of racism and suggesting solutions consistent with New Deal economic and social reforms. It then shows how she drew on the model of European immigrant assimilation to assess the condition of non-whites, ultimately representing racism in the U.S. as an aberration from American culture, a problem in the nation rather than of the nation. She instructed (white) Americans how to reconcile the existence of racism in America with a faith in America as a liberal racial democracy, erasing the constitutive power of whiteness in the U.S. body politic. 4Post–World War II Anthropology and the Social Life of Race and Racism chapter abstractThis chapter provides an account of anthropological engagements with race and racism in the post–World War II era. It identifies key developments in U.S. anthropology in the context of formal decolonization abroad, domestic civil rights mobilization, and the ascendance of the U.S. as the preeminent global power. It also examines the institutional expansion and transformation of the discipline as it confronted challenges to racial exclusion in the civil rights era, paying particular attention to the situation of Black anthropologists within a white-dominant academy. Finally, the chapter discusses anthropological engagements with race as a social phenomenon and challenges the standard scholarly view that cultural anthropologists abandoned the analysis of race and racism. 5Charles Wagley, Marvin Harris, and the Comparative Study of Race chapter abstractChapter 5 examines the work of anthropologists Charles Wagley and Marvin Harris, who developed comparative analysis of racial classification in the Americas in the 1950s and early 1960s. This work was initiated through a project on race relations in Brazil sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This project sought to understand the "harmonious" race relations perceived as characteristic of Brazil. However, Wagley and Harris provided ethnographic evidence of racial prejudice in Brazil. They developed comparative accounts of racial classification systems and "social race" that had the potential for generating a structural, materialist account of white-dominant racisms across the Americas. This potential, however, went unrealized. Harris and Wagley relied on an understanding of racism that equated racial discrimination with "caste" segregation, a model that led them to downplay racism in Latin America and the power of whiteness in the U.S. 6Black Studies and the Reinvention of Anthropology chapter abstractChapter 6 explores the heretofore unexamined relationship between the turbulent politics of the 1960s, a sense of crisis in anthropology, efforts to decolonize anthropology, and critiques of racial liberalism. The chapter begins with an account of the crisis and self-critical turn in anthropology, focusing on Black Studies critiques of the academy and U.S. liberalism and their effects on the discipline. It proceeds to analyze the writings of three neglected figures, African American anthropologists William Willis and Diane Lewis and white anthropologist Charles Valentine. Read together, these scholars challenged anthropology's self-image as a progressive, anti-racist discipline, promoting expansive understandings of racism as a structural phenomenon that anticipated later critiques of the culture concept as a successor to biological racism. They also demanded a reckoning with American liberalism—and the anthropology that nurtured it—as a paradoxical project of racial inclusion that left the normalization of whiteness intact. Conclusion: Anti-Racism, Liberalism, and Anthropology in the Age of Trump chapter abstractThe conclusion reflects on the lessons of the book for the present. In an era marked by the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, there is an enormous temptation to defend liberal anti-racism as the unfulfilled promise of America; to link the promotion of the values of racial freedom, equality, and justice to national identity, heritage, and culture; to reclaim the nation from a resurgence of overt white supremacist nationalism. The conclusion draws on the book's account of anthropological anti-racism and its critics to identify some of the problems associated with that orientation and reflects on why the election of Trump came as a shock to many liberals. It then provides an account of the enduring whiteness of anthropology and the enduring need to decolonize the discipline and the nation.
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Canadian Scholars Between the Worlds: Readings in Contemporary
Book SynopsisNeopaganism is the fastest growing new religion in the West. Between the World: Readings in Contemporary Neopaganism provides an engaging and well-rounded introduction to this often misunderstood spiritual tradition.This provocative new volume breaks away from the negative doomsday cult focus of existing books on new religious movements and provides a clear focus on feminist spirituality, women and religion, and goddess worship. It offers a spiritual context for paganism and introduces the ""language"" of paganism and earth religions. This book examines contemporary paganism — not just the ""streams"" from the 1970s and 1980s, but also the increasingly important ""streams"" of Druidry and Heathenry.For the first time ever, this book unites essential readings by leading academics and well-known practitioners from all over the world, including Canada. It features the work of Starhawk, Ronald Hutton, Michael York, Graham Harvey, Helen A. Berger, and Wendy Griffith, alongside contemporary Canadian scholars including Lucie Marie-Mai DuFresne, Lori G. Beaman, and Barbara Jane Davy.Trade ReviewThis is a very important anthology to publish. No other anthology addresses Canadian Paganism to this extent. This volume certainly reflects the need to address the growing popularity of Paganism as a new religious movement in Canada."" - Chris Klassen, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityTable of Contents Introduction Part I: The Voices That Inspired Chapter 1: Charge of the Goddess - Doreen Valiente Chapter 2: Sacred Narratives - Starhawk Chapter 3: I Am a Pagan - Selena Fox Chapter 4: A Religion without Converts - Margot Adler Chapter 5: Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections - Carol P. Christ Part II: Introduction to Nature or Earth Religions Chapter 6: We Cast Our Circles Where the Earth Mother Meets the Sky Father - Sarah Pike Chapter 7: Definitions and Expressions of Nature Religion in Shamanic Traditions and Contemporary Paganism - Barbara Jane Davy Chapter 8: Paganism as a World Religion - Michael York Part III: Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft Chapter 9: Druidry - Graham Harvey Chapter 10: To the Tribe Let There Be Children Born - Helen A. Berger Chapter 11: Wicked Witches of the West: Exploring Court Treatments of Wicca as a Religion - Lori G. Beaman Chapter 12: In Defence of Magic: Philosophical and Theological Rationalization - Tanya Luhrmann Chapter 13: Witch Wars: Factors Contributing to Conflict in Canadian Witchcraft Communities - Sian Ried Chapter 14: Constructing Identity and Divinity: Creating Community in an Elder Religion within a Postmodern World - Jenny Blain Chapter 15: Weaving a Tangled Web? Pagan Ethics and Issues of History, ""Race,"" and Ethnicity in Pagan Identity - Ann-Marie Gallagher Part IV: Feminist Spirituality and Goddess Worship Chapter 16: Mother and Goddess: The Ideological Force of Symbols - Lucie Marie-Mai DuFresne Chapter 17: The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity - Wendy Griffin Chapter 18: Finding a Goddess - Ronald Hutton Chapter 19: The Roots of Feminist Spirituality - Cynthia Eller Chapter 20: The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witchcraft - Chris Klassen
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Purdue University Press Dogs and Cats in South Korea: Itinerant Commodities
Book SynopsisDogs and Cats in South Korea: Itinerant Commodities shows that though dogs and cats are consumed in the millions each year, they are recipients of both cruelty and care in a very unique way compared to other animal species in South Korean society. The anti-imperialist and postcolonial stances associated with the consumption of dogs and cats in South Korea are oversimplistic. Stereotypes by societies that do not eat these animals overshadow the various ways in which South Korean citizens interact with them, including companionship. In fact, many dogs and cats go from companion to livestock, and from livestock to companion, demonstrating that the relationships with these creatures are not only complex, but also fluid. The trajectories of the lives of dogs and cats are never linear. In that sense, individual dogs and cats in South Korea are itinerant animals navigating an exchange system based on culture, economics, and politics. With nuance and cultural understanding, Dugnoille tells the complicated stories of these animals in South Korea, as well as the humans who commoditize and singularize them.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dead Commodities Walking: Itinerancies of Dogs and Cats at South Korea's Largest Meat Market 2. "New Women," "New Mothers": Gender Ideology in South Korean Animal Advocacy 3. Transspecies Nationalism: Inclusion of Nonhuman Animals in Ideologies of Korean Ethnic Nationalism 4. Postmortem Itinerancy: The Deaths of Dogs and Cats in Postcolonial Conditions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Purdue University Press Dogs and Cats in South Korea: Itinerant Commodities
Book SynopsisDogs and Cats in South Korea: Itinerant Commodities shows that though dogs and cats are consumed in the millions each year, they are recipients of both cruelty and care in a very unique way compared to other animal species in South Korean society. The anti-imperialist and postcolonial stances associated with the consumption of dogs and cats in South Korea are oversimplistic. Stereotypes by societies that do not eat these animals overshadow the various ways in which South Korean citizens interact with them, including companionship. In fact, many dogs and cats go from companion to livestock, and from livestock to companion, demonstrating that the relationships with these creatures are not only complex, but also fluid. The trajectories of the lives of dogs and cats are never linear. In that sense, individual dogs and cats in South Korea are itinerant animals navigating an exchange system based on culture, economics, and politics. With nuance and cultural understanding, Dugnoille tells the complicated stories of these animals in South Korea, as well as the humans who commoditize and singularize them.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dead Commodities Walking: Itinerancies of Dogs and Cats at South Korea's Largest Meat Market 2. "New Women," "New Mothers": Gender Ideology in South Korean Animal Advocacy 3. Transspecies Nationalism: Inclusion of Nonhuman Animals in Ideologies of Korean Ethnic Nationalism 4. Postmortem Itinerancy: The Deaths of Dogs and Cats in Postcolonial Conditions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Tennessee Press Native Intoxicants of North America
Book SynopsisThough scholarship on intoxicants in regions like Asia, Africa, Mesoamerica, and South America is plentiful, Native Intoxicants of North America represents the first foray into a study of prehistoric intoxicants throughout North America specifically. In this study, Sean Rafferty fills significant gaps in existing research with a focus on native cultures of North America and holistic coverage of intoxicants by type. Importantly, Rafferty anchors his investigation in an easily overlooked question: why did early humans use intoxicants in the first place?Rafferty begins by discussing the origins of intoxicants and their role in rituals, medicine, and recreation. Subsequent chapters turn to specific intoxicants-hallucinogens, stimulants, alcohol, and tobacco-making ample use of illustrations across disciplines, weaving a tapestry of culture, ritual, medicine, botany, artifact, and history. All the while, Rafferty explores the societal significance of narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens on prehistoric North American cultures.While Native Intoxicants of North America focuses specifically on Native cultures, the author's analysis provides the foundation for a valuable broader discussion: that in a world where few human behaviors are universal, experiencing altered states of consciousness is one that transcends culture and time.
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University of Massachusetts Press Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next
Book SynopsisThe year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation policy and practice in the United States. The act established the National Register of Historic Places, a national system of state preservation offices and local commissions, set up federal partnerships between states and tribes, and led to the formation of the standards for preservation and rehabilitation of historic structures. This book marks its fiftieth anniversary by collecting fifty new and provocative essays that chart the future of preservation.The commentators include leading preservation professionals, historians, writers, activists, journalists, architects, and urbanists. The essays offer a distinct vision for the future and address related questions, including, Who is a preservationist? What should be preserved? Why? How? What stories do we tell in preservation? How does preservation contribute to the financial, environmental, social, and cultural well-being of communities? And if the “arc of the moral universe . . . bends towards justice,” how can preservation be a tool for achieving a more just society and world?Trade ReviewI see this book as being a requirement in the library of any preservation professional. It certainly will become an instant textbook for the many preservation programs across the country—at both the undergraduate and the graduate level.""—Anthony C. Wood, author of Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks
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University of Massachusetts Press American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory
Book SynopsisThe gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier’s bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics have long played a role in memorializing the American past, acting as physical reminders of hard-won battles, mass tragedies, and political triumphs. Surveying the expanse of U.S. history, American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory shows how these objects have articulated glory, courage, and national greatness as well as horror, defeat, and oppression. While relics mostly signified heroism in the nation’s early years, increasingly, they have acquired a new purpose—commemorating victimhood. The atrocious artifacts of lynching and the looted remains of Native American graves were later transformed into shameful things, exposing ongoing racial violence and advancing calls for equality and civil rights. Matthew Dennis pursues this history of fraught public objects and assesses the emergence of new venues of memorialization, such as virtual and digital spaces. Through it all, relics continue to fundamentally ground and shape U.S. public memory in its uncertain present and future.Trade Review “In prose that is scholarly, compelling, and an absolute joy to read, Dennis clearly demonstrates how relics function as a special kind of object in American culture. American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory stands to be one of the most important histories of material culture and commemoration in decades.”—Sarah J. Purcell, author of Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America “Dennis deftly draws upon an impressive range of scholarship from museum studies, historic preservation, and public history to explore the many ways that Americans have invested memory and meaning in relics, collected and cherished or abhorred them, and used them to promote desired outcomes from consensus to violence.”—Alea Henle, author of Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States
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University of Massachusetts Press American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory
Book SynopsisThe gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier’s bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics have long played a role in memorializing the American past, acting as physical reminders of hard-won battles, mass tragedies, and political triumphs. Surveying the expanse of U.S. history, American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory shows how these objects have articulated glory, courage, and national greatness as well as horror, defeat, and oppression. While relics mostly signified heroism in the nation’s early years, increasingly, they have acquired a new purpose—commemorating victimhood. The atrocious artifacts of lynching and the looted remains of Native American graves were later transformed into shameful things, exposing ongoing racial violence and advancing calls for equality and civil rights. Matthew Dennis pursues this history of fraught public objects and assesses the emergence of new venues of memorialization, such as virtual and digital spaces. Through it all, relics continue to fundamentally ground and shape U.S. public memory in its uncertain present and future.Trade Review “In prose that is scholarly, compelling, and an absolute joy to read, Dennis clearly demonstrates how relics function as a special kind of object in American culture. American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory stands to be one of the most important histories of material culture and commemoration in decades.”—Sarah J. Purcell, author of Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America “Dennis deftly draws upon an impressive range of scholarship from museum studies, historic preservation, and public history to explore the many ways that Americans have invested memory and meaning in relics, collected and cherished or abhorred them, and used them to promote desired outcomes from consensus to violence.”—Alea Henle, author of Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States
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Shikaakwa Press LLC Dancing for Our Tribe: Potawatomi Tradition in
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and
Book SynopsisThe toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, racisms.Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate, national, and casual communities of users. The tours focus on the lives of a monument to an unnamed Indigenous scout, the National War Memorial, Enclave: the Women’s Monument, and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights. Two of the tours offer analyses of the ambivalent representations of women and Indigeneity in Ottawa’s statue landscape.Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: 1: Gichi Zibi Omaami Winini Anishinaabe 2: The Upside-down Astrolabe Tour 3: The Agora Tour 4: The Poppy Tour 5: The Mica Tour 6: Laura Secord’s Tour 7: The Placard Tour Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Canadian Scholars Strong Helpers' Teachings: The Value of
Book SynopsisThe thoroughly updated third edition of Strong Helpers' Teachings skillfully illustrates the importance of Indigenous knowledges in the human services. Making space for the voices of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, practitioners, and service users, Cyndy Baskin's text models possible pathways toward relationship building and allyship.With practical examples and case studies, Baskin places Indigenous perspectives at the centre of the social work disciplines and covers topics such as spirituality, research, justice, and healing. Robust updates include new chapters on decolonization and reconciliation, as well as expanded content on holistic healing implementation, skill building, land-based practice, and child welfare.With concise theoretical content, illustrative practical applications, rich pedagogical features, and a focus on centering Indigenous worldviews, knowledge, and helping practices, this text is foundational for educators, practitioners, and students of human services, social work, child and youth care, and more.Table of Contents Author Biography AcknowledgementsChapter One: Starting at the Beginning Chapter Two: The Self Is Always First in the Circle Chapter Three: When Bad Things Happen to Those Who Do the Helping Chapter Four: Current Theories and Models of Social Work as Seen through an Indigenous Lens Chapter Five: Centring All Helping Approaches Chapter Six: From an Ethical Place Chapter Seven: Holistic or Wholistic Approach Chapter Eight: The Answers Are in the Community Chapter Nine: Spirituality: The Core of Indigenous Worldviews Chapter Ten: Mental Health as Connected to the Whole Chapter Eleven: Healing Justice Chapter Twelve: Coming In: Two-Spirit Identity Chapter Thirteen: Caring for Families, Caring for Children Chapter Fourteen: The Power of Pedagogy Chapter Fifteen: Taking Back Research Chapter Sixteen: We Are All Related Chapter Seventeen: So You Wanna Be an… Ally? Accomplice? Co-Conspirator? Chapter Eighteen: Self-Determination and Reconciliation: The Next Seven Generations Chapter Nineteen: The End of the World as We Know ItReferences
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University of Calgary Press The Tensions Between Culture and Human Rights:
Book SynopsisCultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tension Between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use.Drawing on Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work as antidotes to colonial power and dehumanization, this collection challenges cultural practices that violate human rights, and the dichotomous and taken-for-granted assumptions in the cultural representations between the West and the Rest of the world. Engaging critically with cultural traditions while affirming Indigenous knowledge and practices, it is unafraid to deal frankly with uncomfortable truths. Each chapter explores a specific aspect of African cultural norms and practices and their impacts on human rights and human dignity, paying special attention to the intersections of politics, economics, race, class, gender, and cultural expression.Going beyond analysis, this collection offers a range of practical approaches to understanding and intervention rooted in emancipatory social work. It offers a pathway to develop critical reflexivity and to reframe epistemologies for education and practice. This is essential reading not only for students and practitioners of social work, but for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of African cultures and practices.
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University of Calgary Press The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights:
Book SynopsisCultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use.Drawing on Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work as antidotes to colonial power and dehumanization, this collection challenges cultural practices that violate human rights, and the dichotomous and taken-for-granted assumptions in the cultural representations between the West and the Rest of the world. Engaging critically with cultural traditions while affirming Indigenous knowledge and practices, it is unafraid to deal frankly with uncomfortable truths. Each chapter explores a specific aspect of African cultural norms and practices and their impacts on human rights and human dignity, paying special attention to the intersections of politics, economics, race, class, gender, and cultural expression.Going beyond analysis, this collection offers a range of practical approaches to understanding and intervention rooted in emancipatory social work. It offers a pathway to develop critical reflexivity and to reframe epistemologies for education and practice. This is essential reading not only for students and practitioners of social work, but for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of African cultures and practices.Table of Contents Introduction: Culture, Human Rights, and Social Work: Colonialism, Eurocentricism, and AfrocentricityVishanthie Sewpaul and Linda Kreitzer Disrupting Popular Discourses on Ilobolo: The Role of Emancipatory Social Work in Engendering Human Rights and Social Justice Vishanthie Sewpaul, Manqoba Victor Mdamba, and Boitumelo Seepamore Nigerian Marital Cultural Practices and Implications for Human RightsAugusta Olaore, Julie Drolet, and Israel Olaore Socio-Cultural Constructions of Intensive Mothering and Othermothering: Domestic Workers' Experiences of Distance Parenting and their Conceptualization of Motherhood Boitumelo Seepamore & Vishanthie Sewpaul Misrecognition of the Rights of People with Epilepsy in Zimbabwe: A Social Justice Perspective Jacob Mugumbate and Mel Gray Harmful Cultural Practices against Women and Girls in Ghana: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work Alice Boateng and Cynthia Sottie The Intersection of Culture, Religion (Islam) and Women's Human Rights in Ethiopia: Private Lives in Focus Yania Seid-Mekiye and Linda Kreitzer The Implications of a Patriarchal Culture for Women's Access to "Formal" Human Rights in South Africa: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Survivors Shahana Rosool Child Marriage among the Apostolic Sects in Zimbabwe: Implications for Social Work Practice Munyaradzi Muchacha, Abel Blessing Matsika, and Tatenda Nhapi "Everybody Knows This, If You Want to Go to School then You Must Be Prepared to Work": Children's Rights and the Role of Social Work in Ghana Ziblim Abukari Human Rights and Medicalization of FGM/C in Sudan Paul Bukuluki Cultural Dimensions of HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of Alur and Tieng Adhola Cultural Institutions in Uganda Paul Bukuluki, Ronald Mukuye, Ronald Luwangula, Nnyombi Aloysious, Juliana Naumo, and Eunice Tumwebaze When National Law and Culture Coalesce: Challenges for Children's Rights in Botswana with Specific Reference to Corporal Punishment Poloko Nuggert Ntshwarang and Vishanthie Sewpaul Conclusion: Emancipatory Social Work, Ubuntu and Afrocentricity: Antidotes to Human Rights Violations Vishanthie Sewpaul and Linda Kreitzer List of Contributors Index
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Unisa Press Names Fashioned by Gender: Stitched Perceptions
Book SynopsisNames are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact that all human beings have names. Names Fashioned by Gender is a collection of essays on onomastics – a linguistics field of study focusing on the origin, form, history and use of proper names.The study of naming potentially provides significant evidence about the role of gender in the assimilation and/or enculturation processes as personal names evoke insight into the construction of gender and personhood in African societies. The book takes intellectual course from the idea that how names are viewed and used is heavily context-dependent and gendered. It demonstrates that personal names are narratives derived from different contexts within various cultures and circumstances subsequently imposing different identities on name bearers. Through persuasive essays, this book elucidates that naming is an activity that needs to be conducted cautiously because names tend to determine the destiny and character of an individual. Unfortunately, names are sometimes given without considering the consequences of ascribing names to people. This book asserts that females continue to be named according to gender stereotypes, therefore, evidently perpetuating women oppression. Sometimes, circumstances around one's birth may be used to name the child, including time, month, emotions, and weather among others. Music is also used to describe and denigrate the characters of women. Moreover, westernisation, colonisation, Christianity, patriarchy and African traditions influence African naming patterns. Interrogating positions and attitudes of the larger society, what transpires from the discussion about this scholarly work is that personal names form and reflect ideas held about personal identities, children's well-being and underlying perceptions held by the public about boys versus girls and men relative to women.
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Liverpool University Press Studia Hibernica Vol. 44
Book SynopsisFounded in 1961, Studia Hibernica is devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore and place names, and related subjects. Its aim is to present the research of scholars in these fields of Irish studies and so to bring them within easy reach of each other and the wider public. It endeavours to provide in each issue a proportion of articles, such as surveys of periods or theme in history or literature, which will be of general interest. A long review section is a special feature of the journal and all new publications within its scope are there reviewed by competent authorities.
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CABI Publishing Tourism, Tradition and Culture: A Reflection on
Book SynopsisDavid Harrison has contributed to the academic study of tourism over the last 30 years. This book brings together a collection of his published material that reflects the role played by tourism in 'development', both in societies emerging from Western colonialism and in societies previously part of the Soviet system. The overarching theme looks at how, promoted as a tool for development, tourism can lead to conflict between competing elites, but can also empower groups previously subject to constraint by traditional authorities. Tradition is intensely manipulatable and always reflects power relations. Such pressure on tradition is but one aspect of tourism's wider social impacts. This includes changes in economic and social structure, which, for many, constitute social problems that need to be addressed. At the same time, 'sustainability', though apparently a worthy aim, can be a problematic concept, especially when applied to 'traditional' cultures, and may conflict with such ideals as egalitarianism.Table of Contents1: Essaying Tourism: Reflections on three decades of international tourism 2: Tourism, Capitalism and Tradition. 3: Tradition, Modernity and Tourism in Swaziland 4: Tourism and Prostitution: Sleeping with the Enemy? The Case of Swaziland, 5: Tourism and Less Developed Countries: Key Issues. 6: 'Sustainability and Tourism: Reflections from a Muddy Pool. 7: Learning from the Old South by the New South? The Case of Tourism. 8: The World Comes to Fiji: Who Communicates What, and to Whom? 9: Islands, Image and Tourism. 10: Tourism in Pacific Islands. 11: Contested Narratives in the Domain of World Heritage 12: Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-based Tourism and the Private Sector (with Stephen Schipani). 13: Pro-poor Tourism: A Critique. 14: Cocoa, Conservation and Tourism: Grande Riviere, Trinidad,. 15: Tourism Culture(s): The Hospitality Dimension (with Peter Lugosi) 16: 'Towards Developing a Framework for Analysing Tourism Phenomena: A Discussion. 17: Tourism and Development: From Development Theory to Globalisation. 18: Looking East but Learning from the West: Mass Tourism and Emerging Nations. 19: Mass Tourism in a Small World (with Richard Sharpley) 20: Tourism, Mobilities and Paradigm 21: Anthropologists, Development and Tourism: Networks, Encounters and Shadows of a Colonial Past. 22: Looking Ahead
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Liverpool University Press Studia Hibernica Vol. 46
Book SynopsisFounded in 1961, Studia Hibernica is devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore and place names, and related subjects. Its aim is to present the research of scholars in these fields of Irish studies and so to bring them within easy reach of each other and the wider public. It endeavours to provide in each issue a proportion of articles, such as surveys of periods or theme in history or literature, which will be of general interest. A long review section is a special feature of the journal and all new publications within its scope are there reviewed by competent authorities.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd English Medieval Alabasters: with a catalogue of
Book SynopsisFrancis Cheetham's classic survey of English medieval alabasters includes a richly illustrated catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum's unparalleled collection. English alabasters represent a unique contribution to medieval art. Less sophisticated, perhaps, than other contemporary forms of religious art, they were a neglected area of study until this volume was first published in 1984. Stories from the New Testament and The Golden Legend were the most favoured subjects, and the numerous examples that survive in churches and museums throughout Europe attest to their wide and enduring appeal. FrancisCheetham examines here all aspects of their production and demonstrates how the panels and altarpieces can aid our understanding of life and devotional practice in medieval times. At the heart of this fascinating study is arichly illustrated catalogue of the 260 examples in the collection of London's Victoria and Albert Museum: a collection "so comprehensive that it would be possible to write a survey of the subject almost without recourse to pieces elsewhere," as Sir Roy Strong notes in his Foreword. Their division into subject categories is an invaluable aid to identification and classification. The late Francis Cheetham was an acknowledged expert on medieval English alabasters, and this reissue of his classic work will be welcomed by historians, art historians, collectors and dealers alike, taking its place alongside his Alabaster Images of Medieval England which was published by the Boydell Press in 2003.Trade ReviewCovers all the main aspects of the genre and may be seen still as the definitive work on the subject. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY *A standard reference work on the subject. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *Remains the standard book on the subject. [...] The great significance of this catalogue lies in the typology [the author] established. * THE ART NEWSPAPER *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in
Book SynopsisDiscussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet,display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display and do so in a waywhich avoids jargon and overly technical language. Among the themes are family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. The media include monumental effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts, jewels, plate, seals and coins. Contributors: MAURICE KEEN, DAVID CROUCH, PETER COSS, CAROLINE SHENTON, ADRIAN AILES, FRÉDÉRIQUE LACHAUD, MARIAN CAMPBELL, BRIAN and MOIRA GITTOS, NIGEL SAUL, FIONN PILBROW, CAROLINE BARRON and JOHN WATTS.Trade ReviewHere is a world once largely the property of antiquarians brought together once again, properly valued and appreciated, and reintegrated into our picture of medieval society. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsThe historian, lineage and heraldry, 1050 - 1250, David Crouch; knighthood, heraldry and social exclusion in Edwardian England, Peter Coss; Edward III and the symbol of the Leopard, Caroline Shenton; heraldry in medieval England - symbols of politics and propaganda, Adrian Ailes; dress and social status in England before the sumptuary laws, Frederique Lachaud; medieval founders' relics - royal and Episcopal patronage at Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Marian Campbell; motivation and choice - the selection of medieval secular effigies, Brian and Moira Gittos; bold as brass - secular display in English medieval brasses, Nigel Saul; the knights of the bath - dubbing to knighthood in Lancastrian and Yorkist England, Fionn Pilbrow; chivalry, pageantry and merchant culture in medieval London, Caroline Barron; looking for the state in later medieval England, John L. Watts.
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York Medieval Press Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the
Book SynopsisA wide variety of texts (from chronicles to Chaucer) studied for evidence of medieval attitudes towards the processes of change as they affected individuals at all points of their lives. Rites of passage is a term and concept more used than considered. Here, for the first time, its implications are applied and tested in the field of medieval studies: medievalists from a range of disciplines consider the varioustheoretical models - folklorist, anthropological, psychoanalytical - that can be used to analyse cultures of transition in the history and literature of fourteenth-century Europe. Ranging over a wide variety of texts, from chronicles to romances, from priests' manuals to courtesy books, from state records to the writings of Chaucer, Gower and Froissart, the contributors identify and analyse medieval attitudes to the process of change in lifecycle, status,gender and power. A substantive introduction by Miri Rubin draws together the ideas and materials discussed in the book to illustrate the relevance and importance of anthropology to the study of medieval culture. Contributors: JOEL BURDEN, PATRICIA CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS, JANE GILBERT, SARAH KAY, MARK ORMROD, HELEN PHILLIPS, MIRI RUBIN, SHARON WELLS. NICOLA F. McDONALD is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, the late W.M ORMROD was Professor of Medieval History, University of York.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rites of Passage - Miri Rubin Re-writing a Rite of Passage: The Peculiar Funeral of Edward II - Joel Burden Coming to Kingship: Boy Kings and the Passage to Power in Fourteenth-Century England - W. Mark Ormrod Boy/Man into Clerk/Priest: The Making of the Late Medieval Clergy - P H Cullum Manners Maketh Man: Living, Dining and Becoming a Man in the Later Middle Ages - Sharon Wells Rites of Passage in French and English Romances - Helen Phillips Becoming Woman in Chaucer: `On ne naît pas femme, on le meurt' - Jane Gilbert John Gower's Fear of Flying: Transitional Masculinities in the Confessio Amantis - `Le moment de conclure': Initiation as Retrospection in Froissart's Dits amoureux - H S Kay
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El peligro de la historia única / The Danger of a
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TusQuets Viaje a Francia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mega Events Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship
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Cambridge University Press Socialization and Socioemotional Development in Chinese Children
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