Rural communities / rural life Books

Book SynopsisThis history of queer life in the South seeks to debunk the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside the big city. It shows that the nominally conservative institutions of small-town life - home, church, school and workplace - were the very sites where queer sexuality flourished.

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Book SynopsisA look at the range of close relationships between humans and wild and domesticated animals in the Himalayas.

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Book SynopsisArguing that village life is an effect of the modern and the global, this text analyzes everyday and social practices, and suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local.

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Book SynopsisThis volume combines two classic works of anthropology. The Little Community draws on the author's own notable studies of the villages of Tepoztlan and Chan Kom to explore the means by which scientists try to understand human communities. It contains, wrote Margaret Mead, the essence of Robert Redfield's multifaceted contributions to the place of community studies in social science. Peasant Society and Culture outlines a speculative foundation for the emergence of anthropology from the study of isolated primitive tribes.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Downey challenges the ideas that schools are engines of inequality and that schools can be effectively transformed to substantially reduce inequality. Having completed some of the most influential recent work on the topic, he shows that most of the inequalities we observe are rooted in skills children do and do not possess on their very first day of school., and the evidence suggests that For the most part, schools keep differences from getting bigger. Schools can only get you part of the way If you want to have to a more equal opportunity structure for kids. If equality of opportunity is your goal, then you have to invest more heavily in solutions outside rather than inside of schools."--Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This book is a must-read for anyone interested in education equality and policy. How Schools Really Matter offers a much-needed corrective to the assumption that student achievement gaps are the product of woefully inadequate schools and teachers. Downey shows that schools compensate for out of school inequality much more than we give them credit for."--Janice Aurini, University of Waterloo "Downey's book takes on the widely held belief that our public schools are failing our neediest children, most especially children of low-income background. Critics on the left invoke underfunded schools, underqualified and undermotivated teachers, and hyper-segregation; for those on the right, and some on the left, it is the opening for charter schools and vouchers. Wrong, says Downey: our schools, on the whole, lift up poor children, not hold them back, implicating instead inequities experienced over the preschool years and in children's home lives outside of school. Read this important book with an open mind. It could very well change how you--how we all--think about schools and inequality." --Karl Alexander, co-editor of The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss "It's not often that a publication changes the way we think the world works. Communicated in remarkably clear prose, Downey's incisive empirically based analysis reveals that inequality increases significantly when children are out of, not while they are in, school. How School's Really Matter is an eye-opener, as well as a call to action--that is, a more focused endeavor to reduce the large disparities in children's social and physical environments, including those of their early childhood." --William Julius Wilson, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Why We Shouldn’t Be Blaming Schools So Much Chapter 1: The Forgotten 87 Percent Herbert Walberg’s outrageous claim Trying to understand how schools matter when you have an eight-hundred-pound gorilla problem Chapter 2: Chickens, Eggs, and Achievement Gaps When do achievement gaps emerge? Scaling matters Why the early years are so important Relative deprivation matters too Conclusion Chapter 3: One Very Surprising Pattern about Schools Soccer coaches and schools Trying to understand how schools matter Seasonal comparisons What do we learn from the few studies that have collected data seasonally? Conclusion Chapter 4: And Now a Second, Even More Surprising Pattern School achievement, growth, and impact Objections Conclusion Part II: A New Way to Think about Schools and Inequality Chapter 5: More Like Reflectors than Generators Schools generating inequality Two examples of schools reflecting broader society What about those high-flying schools? Underestimating early childhood Conclusion: A diminished role for schools, an enhanced role for early childhood Chapter 6: As Helping More than Hurting Schools as compensatory: The weak form Schools as compensatory: The strong form Conclusion Chapter 7: A Frida Sofia Problem Schools and inequality: Stuck within the traditional framing Our value for limited government Fear of “blaming the victim” Gender and the vulnerability of schools Conclusion Chapter 8: The Costly Assumption Rich guys trying to reduce achievement gaps The never-ending quest to reform schools The great distractor So what should we do? Acknowledgments Appendix A: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Datasets (ECLS-K:1998 and ECLS-K:2010) Appendix B: Limitations of Seasonal Comparison Studies Appendix C: How Should Social Scientists Study Schools and Inequality? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990s the population of rural America actually increased by more than 3 million people. In this work Sonya Salamon explores these rural migrants and the impact they have on small town America.

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Book SynopsisAlthough the death of small town has been predicted for decades, during 1990s population of rural America increased by more than three million people. This book considers these rural newcomers and their impact on social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small-town America.Trade Review"Salamon has written an engaging story that puts a human face on the macro-level shifts affecting the once agrarian rural communities of the American Midwest. Through her stories of six central Illinois 'postagrarian' towns, she deftly illuminates much of the micro-foundation of these shifts in the daily decisions of people." - Ralph B. Brown, Rural History "If you are one of the many millions of Americans who is thinking about 'moving out to the country,' you should read this book first." - William R. Freudenburg, Contexts"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Underlying the country’s red state–blue state polarization is a more profound, and widening, rural-urban split . . . A piercing, unsentimental new book [argues that] understanding it will require setting myths aside and grappling with what the rich and the powerful have done to rural spaces and people. Such demystification, Conn rightly insists, is long overdue." * New Yorker *"An engaging, lively, comprehensive, and provocative study of ‘the Big Empty,’ the area between the Appalachians and the Sierras. Despite its bucolic look, ‘four powerful forces of American modernity’ permeate the Big Empty: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and suburbanization. The so-called ‘lies of the land’ are the easy-to-miss, pervasive effects of these forces—effects that show the existence of an idyllic, real-America America has always been a myth.” * Washington Independent Review of Books *"Conn takes our ideal small town where white Americans cherish hard work and independence from subsidies, along with religious and traditional family values, and shows it to be a nostalgic myth. The Land of Lies is a powerful book . . . but perhaps most importantly, his description of rural America as a hard place to make a living shows that it is a much more complex and interesting space than our myth ever allowed." * Newcity *“[Conn is a] sharp observer who know[s] how myths of apple-pie-baking folk stolidly occupying a quaint-but-enviable moral high ground have been twisted over decades, generations even, to set up all kinds of exploitative exploits by snake-oil salesmen.” * LEO Weekly *"How does a land tell lies? Conn’s premise is that our enduring image of rural America is in large part illusory, also since most people in America, about 75%, now live in urban areas, he theorizes our perception of rural life gets distorted by idealistic visions which don’t correspond to reality." * Dayton Daily News *“Recent attention to rural America and its manifold ills is long overdue, but our understanding has been impeded by misleading generalizations and outright romanticization. The Lies of the Land cuts through such platitudes and describes our small towns and open spaces in all their complexity—showing us that rural America is inextricably bound to the rest of the country, rather than a realm apart." -- Alec MacGillis, author of 'Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon'“When many imagine the American countryside, they think of quiet porches far from the bustling cities. That is not the world you’ll find in this brilliant book. Here, missile silos, factories, and suburban developments are as much a part of the rural landscape as mountaintops, family farms, and dirt roads. For those who’ve lost sight of life beyond the city, Conn offers a fresh perspective on rural America that may help a divided nation find common connection.” -- Bart Elmore, author of 'Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet'“Conn documents rural America as a space that has been militarized, industrialized, corporatized, and suburbanized, sometimes by rural inhabitants themselves. Readers will savor Conn’s upending of so-called rural crises and rural myths.” -- Dolores Hayden, author of 'Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000'Table of ContentsPreface: That Empty Feeling Introduction: Crisis and Myth Part I: Militarized Space Chapter 1: Engineering the Landscape Chapter 2: From Rural Community to Army Town Chapter 3: The Cold War Comes to the UP Postscript: Addicted to the Military Part II: Industrial Spaces Chapter 4: Factories Instead of Farms Chapter 5: Cars in the Cornfields Part III. Rural Inc. Chapter 6: Who’s Afraid of Big? Chapter 7: Chains ’R’ Us Part IV. The Suburbanization of Rural America Chapter 8: Creating Post-rural Space Chapter 9: The Politics of Post-rural Complaint Conclusion: Places vs. Spaces Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe terror unleashed by Soviet power on the Ukrainian countryside in the early 1930s altered every aspect of village life. Based on extensive interviews with villagers throughout Ukraine, The Transformation of Civil Society provides an oral history of the material and cultural destruction sustained in rural Ukraine throughout the Stalinist era.Trade Review“This extraordinary oral history project captures an entire lost civilization: the world of the Ukrainian countryside before collectivization and famine. Using interviews carried out immediately after Ukrainian independence, William Noll describes elements of village life – including courting, wedding, and funeral rituals, Christmas and Easter celebrations, music, and art – that have now nearly disappeared. Published in Ukrainian in 1999, this English translation now makes this unique material accessible to a much wider audience.” Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History

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Book SynopsisThis book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within a richly detailed account of its working at the village level.

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Book SynopsisTo some, the news that rural America still exists may be a surprise. While rural areas have undergone dramatic changes over the years, traditional social problems persist. This volume analyzes trends in rural social work practice and considers the most effective ways to serve rural communities.Trade ReviewThis is a fine basic text or reader for social work students who want to absorb the flavor and needs of practice in the rural US. Choice An important contribution to the literature and should be widely consulted by anyone interested in rural social welfare. Journal of Sociology and Social WelfareTable of ContentsIntroduction (Roger A. Lohmann and Nancy Lohmann) Part I: The Context of Practice 1. Social Work in Rural America: Lessons from the Past and Trends for the Future (Barry L. Locke and Jim Winship) 2. Rural Poverty and Welfare Reform: Challenges and Opportunities (Eleanor H. Blakely and Barry L. Locke) 3. Wired for the Future? The Impact of Information and Telecommunications Technology on Rural Social Work (Norma H. Wasko) 4. The Distribution of Nonprofit Social Service Organizations along the Rural-Urban Continuum (Mark A. Hager, Amy Brimer, and Thomas H. Pollak) 5. The Third Sector in Rural America (Roger A. Lohmann) Part II: Interventions 6. Dual Relationships in Rural Communities (Warren B. Galbreath) 7. Rural Community-Building Strategies (Dennis L. Poole) 8. The Multiple Roles of a Rural Administrator (Nancy Lohmann and Roger A. Lohmann) Part III: Client Populations and Fields of Practice 9. Services for the Chronically Mentally Ill in Rural Areas (Elizabeth Randall) 10. Directions in Rural Mental Health Practice (Elizabeth Randall and Dennis Vance, Jr.) 11. The Health of Rural Minorities (Doris Nicholas) 12. Gay Men and Lesbians in Rural Areas: Acknowledging, Valuing, and Empowering This Stigmatized Invisible People (Chatman Neely) 13. The Role of Religiousness/Spirituality and Social Support on Subjective Well-being Among People Living with HIV/AIDS in Rural Communities (Dong Pil Yoon) 14. Demographic Characteristics of the Rural Elderly (Craig Johnson) Part IV: Education for Practice 15. Social Work Education for Rural Practice (Nancy Lohmann) Epilogue: What is Rural Practice? (Roger A. Lohmann and Nancy Lohmann) List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the “rural voter”—a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns.Trade ReviewIn this important book, two political scientists—rural themselves—set the record straight on the rural voter. Based on a massive voter survey stretching from 1824 to 2020, Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea carefully puzzle over reasons so many rural Americans now despair of the Democratic Party and even see it as the enemy. They add to this a brilliant analysis of Hollywood’s view of rural Americans, shifting from quaint to backward to menacing and beyond. If you live in the city, read this book. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American RightThe thing that stands out the most is the way Jacobs and Shea examine and often dismantle long-standing stereotypes and conventional media narratives with empathy. The data and historical research are rigorous and important, but the nuance and curiosity the authors bring to the table are The Rural Voter’s special sauce. -- Amy Walter, publisher and editor in chief of The Cook Political Report with Amy WalterForget what you think you know about rural politics in the United States. With high-quality data and careful analysis, Jacobs and Shea demonstrate that rural voters are not particularly down-and-out or fired up by religion, racism, conservative media, and ideology. Instead, rural economic and civic struggles, which are not unique, have generated a sense of place-based grievance that reflects rural voters' beliefs about the value of rural life and a linked fate as rural residents. -- Douglas D. Roscoe, author of The Promise of Democratic Equality in the United StatesIt’s a rare book on American politics that has a sense of place. The authors, who hail from rural communities and know their neighbors, show that “geography matters”—but not at all in the ways our stereotyped notions of rural (and urban) tell us. -- Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us ApartThis book contains what surely must be the most comprehensive study of rural voters ever produced. Based largely on a massive new database, Jacobs and Shea’s analyses provide a treasure trove of new findings and along the way modify or overturn a number of popular generalizations about urban versus rural voters. -- Morris P. Fiorina, author of Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political StalemateFor those seeking a comprehensive, thoroughly researched volume about rural voters with original data and insightful analysis, stop looking. The Rural Voter provides an unbiased account of rural voters that does not fall prey to partisan stereotypes. I have little doubt this pathbreaking book will reshape our understanding of a key change in American politics. -- Joanne Connor Green, author of Government and Politics in the Lone Star StateA pioneering work, based on solid evidence, shattering myths about rural voters and insightfully explaining their shift toward Trump support. -- Gerald M. Pomper, author, Ordinary Heroes and American DemocracyTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Two Americas1. Who and What Is Rural America?2. The Deep Roots of the Rural-Urban Divide (1776–1980)3. Manufacturing the Myth of “Real America” (1980–Present)4. Listening to Rural Americans5. Down and Out in Rural America?6. A Wasteland of Alienation?7. Clinging to Their Guns and Religion?8. Irredeemably Racist?9. Radicalized by Fox?10. Pulling It All Together: Finding the Rural Voter11. Bridges Across the Rural-Urban DivideNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisLong a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural heritage play an exceptional role in the perpetuation of these attitudes? Have such outlooks been continuous? J. Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities, Perkins focuses on the experiences and attitudes of rural people themselves as they interacted with government from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century.He uncovers the reasons local disputes and uneven access to government power fostered markedly different reactions by hill people as time went by. Resistance in the earlier period sprang from upland small farmers'' conflicts with capitalist elites who held the local levers of federal power. But as industry and agribusiness displaced family farms after World War II, a conservative cohort of town business elites, local political offiTrade Review"Hillbilly Hellraisers challenges the seemingly uncontroversial claim that antigovernment sentiment has enjoyed exception continuity among rural working-class Americans." --Journal of Appalachian Studies"This is a very good book about the roots of resistance and rebellion in the Arkansas Ozarks in response to federal government attempts to effect social and economic change in the region from the late 19th to the early 21st century. . . . Highly recommended."--OzarksWatch"Hillbilly Hellraisers represents an important contribution to rural history and a valuable narrative of those who struggled to confront the changes that reshaped the region. It's strongest moments derive from the individual stories of those who sought to hold on to their farms and their traditional modes of living."--Arkansas Review "Perkins produces an engaging political history of the communities in the Ozark Mountain region of northwest Arkansas. . . . While steeped in local history, this book also provides insights into how rural people react to federalism. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"This is an important book, one that fills a much-needed historiographic niche, and one that opens the door for further study into the political culture of not only the Arkansas Ozarks, but rural America as a whole."--Elder Mountain: Journal of Ozark Studies"Perkins should earn applause for his spirited, well researched, provocative study." --Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews"Hillbilly Hellraisers would benefit anyone interested in the roots of US rural poverty and our contemporary politics of division." --Missouri Historical Review"Perkins has written a smart, provocative, and important book." --Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era "Perkins writes with verve, humor, and minimal jargon, focusing tightly on his thesis. This insightful addition to the University of Illinois Press's Working Class in American History series makes a welcome contribution to local and regional history." --The Journal of American History "Put Hillbilly Hellraisers on your bookshelf, next to other works about rural radicalism and conservatism." --American Historical Review "Perkins has meticulously researched the development of populism and the resulting defiance of the yeomanry of the Arkansas Ozarks. . . . By avoiding generalities, the author breaks through easy stereotypes to arrive at the specific circumstances that led to the development of the conservative Ozarker mindset." --Kansas History "In an age of deepening political and cultural divisions between the rural and urban sections of the United States, studies that seek to explain the source of rural conservative anti-elite and antigovernment politics are needed more than ever. Perkin's contribution definitely advances our understanding of this phenomenon." --Labor "Hillbilly Hellraisers is an important study because it sheds light on the failures of rural reforms that bred discontent. Perkins's detailed investigations uncover highly localized power dynamics, while his century-long scope reveals the broader evolution of resistance to federal power." --Rural History "Hillbilly Hellraisers is a stunningly original work that manages to clarify the actions of a misunderstood people at the same time that it reasserts complexity into their allegedly simple lives. Blake Perkins reminds us that regional stories have national, even universal, significance, but to truly appreciate that significance we have to first approach the stories of Ozarkers and other regional groups on their own terms and on their own turf. A must-read for anyone studying the Upland South and for those seeking a fuller understanding of the changing nature of antigovernment protest."--Brooks Blevins, author of Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South "Using the Arkansas Ozarks as a case study, J. Blake Perkins sheds new light on the rise of antigovernment conservatism in rural America during the twentieth century. Well written and thoroughly researched, his book is a welcome addition to the study of modern politics."--Bruce E. Stewart, author of Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia

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Book SynopsisA deep account of the long transition towards capitalism and modernity in the rural United StatesTrade Review"Summerhill demonstrates that rural New Yorkers--like Americans as a whole--had a legacy of democratic activism that was at times disrupted or transformed, but never ruptured. I can think of few finer analyses of local politics--a masterful book."--Robert D. Johnston, co-editor of The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America

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Book SynopsisFocuses on social and cultural mechanisms of loyalty to describe the circuits of trust and terror in Ottoman MacedoniaTrade ReviewLoyal Unto Death is a fascinating account of an anti-imperialist struggle that pushes readers to think beyond the nation. It will serve as a powerful resource for both students and scholars embarking on historical ethnography . . . Likewise, the book will be extremely valuable for those working on revolutionary movements in search of strategies to draw out the lived experiences of underground movements. * POLAR *[Keith Brown] takes as his central problem the question of how at the start of the twentieth century the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (MRO) was able to grow so rapidly from a tiny band of conspirators to an organization capable of fielding some 20,000 participants in the Ilinden uprising of 1903. 119.5 * American Historical Review *Loyal unto Death is an innovative work that should inspire debate. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Archival Imagination at Work 1. Terminal Loyalties and Unruly Archives: On Thinking Past the Nation2. The Horizons of the "Peasant": Circuits of Labor and Insurgency3. The Oath and the Curse: Subversions of Christianity4. The Archive and the Account Book: Inscriptions of Terror5. The četa and the jatak: Inversions of Tradition, Conversions of Capital6. Guns for Sale: Feud, Trade, and Solidarity in the Arming of MRO Conclusion: The Archival Imagination and the Teleo-logic of NationAppendix 1. Documents of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Appendix 2. Biographies from the Ilinden Dossier

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Faranak Miraftab's book, Global Heartland, the life of the meatpacker is vividly brought to life. Miraftab studies the lived-realities of meatpacking laborers to understand how the industry has influenced the economic revitalization and social transformation of the small, rural community of Beardstown, Illinois, while arguing that the thriving economy and cultural diversity successes of the area obscure larger narratives about the unequal global ties that enabled these changes. * Antipode *Faranak Miraftab's powerful and, at times, very personal study of the meat-packing industry in Beardstown, Illinois, offers an exemplary analysis of the relational character of place. The book challenges us to think seriously about places that are all too often located at the periphery of mainstream urban theory. * AAG Review of Books *The depth and breadth of this book show it was a decade in the making. Miraftab has carried out a rich multi-sited ethnography to help us understand the transbordering factors and relations that produce and revitalize Beardstown, a meatpacking town in Illinois. * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Beardstown: A Place in the World1. Welcome to Porkopolis2. It All Changed OvernightPart II. Displaced Labor3. "Michoacán's Largest Export is People"4. "Winning the Lotto in Togo"5. Detroit: "The First Third World City of the U.S."Part III. Outsourced Lives6. Global Restructuring of Social ReproductionPart IV. We Wanted Workers, We Got People7. We Wanted Workers8. We Got PeopleConclusion: The Global in my BackyardAppendix 1: Population and Labor TablesAppendix 2: Schedule and Profile of IntervieweesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Faranak Miraftab's book, Global Heartland, the life of the meatpacker is vividly brought to life. Miraftab studies the lived-realities of meatpacking laborers to understand how the industry has influenced the economic revitalization and social transformation of the small, rural community of Beardstown, Illinois, while arguing that the thriving economy and cultural diversity successes of the area obscure larger narratives about the unequal global ties that enabled these changes. * Antipode *Faranak Miraftab's powerful and, at times, very personal study of the meat-packing industry in Beardstown, Illinois, offers an exemplary analysis of the relational character of place. The book challenges us to think seriously about places that are all too often located at the periphery of mainstream urban theory. * AAG Review of Books *The depth and breadth of this book show it was a decade in the making. Miraftab has carried out a rich multi-sited ethnography to help us understand the transbordering factors and relations that produce and revitalize Beardstown, a meatpacking town in Illinois. * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Beardstown: A Place in the World1. Welcome to Porkopolis2. It All Changed OvernightPart II. Displaced Labor3. "Michoacán's Largest Export is People"4. "Winning the Lotto in Togo"5. Detroit: "The First Third World City of the U.S."Part III. Outsourced Lives6. Global Restructuring of Social ReproductionPart IV. We Wanted Workers, We Got People7. We Wanted Workers8. We Got PeopleConclusion: The Global in my BackyardAppendix 1: Population and Labor TablesAppendix 2: Schedule and Profile of IntervieweesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its formslocal, international, legal, familialaffects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.Trade Review"An important and original contribution to scholarship. Transformations on the Ground offers a nuanced and empirically dense account of land issues —a hot and controversial topic both in academic and political discussions. This book adds a particular dimension to the very large body of literature with its specific mix of legal aspects, ethnographic data, and a global framework."—Dr. Andreas Eckert, coeditor of Afrika 1500 - 1900: Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taschenbuch [Africa 1500 - 1900: History and Society] and Director Re-Work Humboldt University Berlin"Botswana is a darling of international donors and regularly praised as an upwardly mobile, prosperous and successful country. At the same time, it is characterized by poverty and exclusion, especially of women. In her insightful case study on land politics, Anne Griffiths effectively contrasts the image of a coherent state against myriad realities and confusion of competences on the ground. Based on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this book masterfully demonstrates how in the realm of land and law, international, national, regional and local domains intersect and overlap, and come into conflict with one another."—Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin"Anne Griffiths' ambitious and original book reveals how the 'global' is always situated in specific places and times through her insightful analysis of how land in Botswana has figured in practices, policy and politics from the standpoints of household, family, village, district, national and international levels. Griffiths' astute use of political and legal history, legal documents, observation of statutory and customary law settings, multi-generational life histories and detailed ethnography enable her to provide a rich and informative account that goes well beyond the mantra of 'the global in the local'. While insisting on foregrounding "the voices, perceptions, and experiences of people's relationships with land", Griffiths shows how these interact with national politics, policies, laws and legal practice and with the effects of international and global agencies and processes to produce inequality and class differences, despite some improvement in gendered patterns of land entitlement. "—Pauline Peters, Faculty Associate, Harvard Kennedy School and Center for African StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionSection I: Historical Dimensions of Land in Botswana: Contemporary Entanglements1. The International Landscape and its Influence on Land in Botswana2. Reframing the Governance of Land3. Institutional Frameworks and GovernanceSection II: The Bottom Up Impact of Land on Diverging Family Lifeworlds and Gender Relations4. Families, Networks and Status5. Transformations on the GroundSection III: Law and Space: Negotiating Legal Plurality in Botswana6. Negotiating Conflict: The Handling of Disputes in the Land Tribunal7. Constructing Legality in the High Court and Court of AppealFinal ReflectionsAppendixBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its forms—local, international, legal, familial—affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.Trade Review"An important and original contribution to scholarship. Transformations on the Ground offers a nuanced and empirically dense account of land issues —a hot and controversial topic both in academic and political discussions. This book adds a particular dimension to the very large body of literature with its specific mix of legal aspects, ethnographic data, and a global framework."—Dr. Andreas Eckert, coeditor of Afrika 1500 - 1900: Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taschenbuch [Africa 1500 - 1900: History and Society] and Director Re-Work Humboldt University Berlin"Botswana is a darling of international donors and regularly praised as an upwardly mobile, prosperous and successful country. At the same time, it is characterized by poverty and exclusion, especially of women. In her insightful case study on land politics, Anne Griffiths effectively contrasts the image of a coherent state against myriad realities and confusion of competences on the ground. Based on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this book masterfully demonstrates how in the realm of land and law, international, national, regional and local domains intersect and overlap, and come into conflict with one another."—Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin"Anne Griffiths' ambitious and original book reveals how the 'global' is always situated in specific places and times through her insightful analysis of how land in Botswana has figured in practices, policy and politics from the standpoints of household, family, village, district, national and international levels. Griffiths' astute use of political and legal history, legal documents, observation of statutory and customary law settings, multi-generational life histories and detailed ethnography enable her to provide a rich and informative account that goes well beyond the mantra of 'the global in the local'. While insisting on foregrounding "the voices, perceptions, and experiences of people's relationships with land", Griffiths shows how these interact with national politics, policies, laws and legal practice and with the effects of international and global agencies and processes to produce inequality and class differences, despite some improvement in gendered patterns of land entitlement. "—Pauline Peters, Faculty Associate, Harvard Kennedy School and Center for African StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionSection I: Historical Dimensions of Land in Botswana: Contemporary Entanglements1. The International Landscape and its Influence on Land in Botswana2. Reframing the Governance of Land3. Institutional Frameworks and GovernanceSection II: The Bottom Up Impact of Land on Diverging Family Lifeworlds and Gender Relations4. Families, Networks and Status5. Transformations on the GroundSection III: Law and Space: Negotiating Legal Plurality in Botswana6. Negotiating Conflict: The Handling of Disputes in the Land Tribunal7. Constructing Legality in the High Court and Court of AppealFinal ReflectionsAppendixBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Outside is a rich, deep, and nuanced ethnographic account of the transformations that migration generates in sending communities in the Tadla plain in central Morocco. -- Lorena Gazzotti * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionTempos of LifeThe Outside InsideWives of ElsewhereBeautiful FuturesThe Gender of the CrossingThe OutsideConclusion: Migration as Life

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Outside is a rich, deep, and nuanced ethnographic account of the transformations that migration generates in sending communities in the Tadla plain in central Morocco. -- Lorena Gazzotti * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionTempos of LifeThe Outside InsideWives of ElsewhereBeautiful FuturesThe Gender of the CrossingThe OutsideConclusion: Migration as Life

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Book SynopsisA contemporary portrait of Indiana's Amish.Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Who Are These People?1. The Old Orders: In the World but Not of It2. Moving to Indiana3. Maintaining the Old Order4. Amish Ethnicity: Pennsylvania Dutch and Swiss5. Community and Family Life6. Amish Schools7. Amish Work: Farm, Factory, Carpentry, and Cottage Industry8. The Amish and Their Neighbors9. A Different Part of the Patchwork: Indiana's Old Order MennonitesAfterword: The Patchwork in the Modern WorldNotesFor Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThe incredible story of David Gaus, who has dedicated his life to bringing modern health care and medicine to rural communities in Ecuador.Trade Review"The book succeeds in helping readers understand the lack of medical care in rural areas—the 'urban bias' of where doctors want to practice—and the unique geographic and social problems that complicate access to health care." —Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati Enquirer, author of A Promise in Haiti"Long Road from Quito: Transforming Health Care in Rural Latin America is well written and captures the attention of the reader; the many examples provide a colorful and vivid narrative that makes this book a page turner. Tony Hiss knows how to tell a story, and the reader gets an excellent in-depth impression of the context based on the vivid descriptions provided." —Clemens Sedmak, author of A Church of the Poor"If you are lucky, a few times in life you will come across a person who is able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. It is even rarer still to find in such a leader a genuine sense of humility and a depth of soul that radiates joy and laughter. I know you will enjoy and be inspired by this story of a modern-day man who is as holy as he is innovative, who is as determined as he is fun, and who is both visionary and focused on the set of eyes before him at any given moment." —Lou Nanni, from the foreword“[David] Gaus’ journey from an accounting undergraduate to a medical doctor hailed as a hero in Ecuador, with hesburgh as inspiration and partner, is recounted in the new book, Long Road from Quito, by journalist Tony Hiss.” —Notre Dame Magazine"Long Road from Quito by Tony Hiss is an extraordinary combination of biography and history . . . an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to community and academic library Contemporary American Biography collections in general, and Latin American Medical History supplemental studies reading lists in particular. . . . With a charming conversational style that's a pleasure to read, Hiss shows . . . Gaus's vision and determination . . . in a story with equal parts interest for Notre Dame readers, health practitioners, medical anthropologists, Latin American students and scholars, and the general public." —John Taylor, Midwest Book Review"[This] narrative has the contents, structure, and timing to engage the reader with the details of the philosophy, biography, and determination of David Gaus, a young accountant who took a charity trip to Quito in 1984. His trip ended up transforming him into a physician for the poor, a hospital builder, and an educator in rural Ecuador." —Choice“Long Road from Quito also depicts a challenge far greater than geographic isolation—namely, how rural populations differ from urban populations in their perception of health and disease. Such insights are essential not just in Ecuador but in much of the world, including industrialized nations.” —American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene"For family physicians with an interest in global health, rural medicine, and tropical disease, plus an appreciation for a well-told story, this book is a great read. Thoroughly entertaining while still conveying a message about how global health can be done well and responsibly, the book gives a sense of hope and energy." —Family Medicine

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Book SynopsisA compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face.Trade Review“This is a timely and important book on a very underresearched and misunderstood topic. As numerous others point out, ‘rural’ America is not just farms and rural areas, and its problems are not all that different in some fundamental ways from urban ones. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in better understanding how global economic changes have affected not only jobs but, crucially, the people who hold them, the places they live, the people they live with. The book will be of interest to academics and nonacademics alike. Policy makers would be particularly well advised to learn from its rich empirical analysis and thoughtful discussion.”—William W. Falk,University of Maryland“This volume is a benchmark on responses to economic change in the United States. The editors have done a masterful job in showcasing a breadth of scholarship, reflected collectively in the contributing authors’ interdisciplinary approaches, attention to an array of family, demographic, and economic outcomes, and concern with theoretical as well as policy-related issues. The chapters combine rigorous analysis and detailed implications for public policy in a lucid manner that will be accessible to a variety of audiences. In confronting and comparing rural responses with those documented in urban settings, the chapters provide an innovative corrective to conventional work in sociology, family studies, demography, economics, and policy studies.”—Linda Lobao,The Ohio State University“While the troubles facing the banking and housing sectors have served as the focal points of our nation’s economic woes, it’s around the kitchen tables of many rural American families where the pain and strain have been profoundly felt. Regrettably, efforts to examine the multifaceted consequences of economic restructuring on family well-being have been virtually absent—until now. Assembling a veritable ‘who’s who’ among social and behavioral scientists, Smith and Tickamyer have guided the development of an impressive research volume that offers important insights into the array of family-related challenges playing in rural America today as a product of national and global economic forces. The value-added aspect of this volume is the attention that it devotes to policy—to the mix of investments and refinements that policy makers must pursue in order to promote the stability and the long-term vitality of families in rural America.”—Lionel J. “Bo” Beaulieu,Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Tables ForewordCynthia “Mil” DuncanAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKristin E. Smith and Ann TickamyerSection 1: Changing Economic Opportunities and Changing Roles1 Rural Economic Restructuring: Implications for Children, Youth, and FamiliesDaniel T. Lichter and Deborah Roempke Graefe 2 Employment Hardship Among Rural MenLeif Jensen and Eric B. Jensen3 Changing Roles: Women and Work in Rural AmericaKristin E. Smith4 Men Without Sawmills: Job Loss and Gender Identity in Rural AmericaJennifer ShermanSection 2: Family Change, Economic Hardship, and Family Adaptive Strategies5 Economic Restructuring and Family Structure Change, 1980 to 2000: A Focus on Female-Headed Families with ChildrenDiane K. McLaughlin and Alisha J. Coleman-Jensen6 Patterns of Family Formation and Dissolution in Rural America and Implications for Well-BeingAnastasia Snyder7 Job Characteristics and Economic Survival Strategies: The Effect of Economic Restructuring and Marital Status in a Rural CountyMargaret K. Nelson8 Economic Hardship, Parenting, and Family Stability in a Cohort of Rural AdolescentsKatherine Jewsbury CongerSection 3: Low-Wage Employment9 Parents’ Work Time in Rural America: The Growth of Irregular SchedulesElaine McCrate10 Low-Wage Employment Among Minority Women in Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Decomposition AnalysisMarlene Lee11 Regional Variation of Women in Low-Wage Work Across Rural CommunitiesCynthia D. Anderson and Chih-Yuan WengSection 4: Work and Family Policy12 Strengthening Rural Communities Through Investment in Youth Education, Employment, and TrainingLiliokanaio Peaslee and Andrew Hahn13 Child Care in Rural AmericaNicole D. Forry and Susan K. Walker14 Health Insurance in Rural AmericaDeborah Roempke Graefe15 Livelihood Practices in the Shadow of Welfare ReformAnn Tickamyer and Debra Henderson16 Poverty, Work, and the Local Environment: TANF and EITCDomenico Parisi, Steven Michael Grice, Guangqing Chi, and Jed PressgroveConclusionsAnn Tickamyer and Kristin E. SmithReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDocuments achievements at both the producer and the consumer ends of commodity chains and assesses prospects for future growthTrade Review". . . an intriguing and informational read for anyone who is involved or interested in the fair trade movement." * Contemporary Sociology *"This volume provides a rich, detailed framework for examining and discussing fair trade and the sustainability it encourages across the developed and developing worlds. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Fair Trade from the Ground Up 2. Fair Trade Coffee in Guatemala 3. How Do Producers Spend the Social Premium? 4. Selling and Buying Fair Trade 5. Fair Trade Activisim in the United States 6. A Fair Trade University 7. Growing Fair Trade Notes References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates that trend, drawing on fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society.Trade Review"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China." -- Xuan Dong * The China Quarterly *"[E]xcellent. . . . [T]his ethnography is a fine depiction of a slice of life in China today. The important issues it handles show the value of having more ethnographies of Chinese secondary schools, including studies of first-tier, vocational, and urban high schools from many parts of the country." -- Andrew B. Kipnis * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization 1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers’ Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization Notes Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China." -- Xuan Dong * The China Quarterly *"[E]xcellent. . . . [T]his ethnography is a fine depiction of a slice of life in China today. The important issues it handles show the value of having more ethnographies of Chinese secondary schools, including studies of first-tier, vocational, and urban high schools from many parts of the country." -- Andrew B. Kipnis * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization 1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers’ Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization Notes Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study of rural Ireland in the 1840s explicates the social, economic and demographic conditions of the era. The author argues that overpopulation and deprivation were inextricably linked to the rapid economic development of rural Ireland that was shaped by British interests.Trade ReviewThe book is a pleasure to read; the analysis is logical, precise and nuanced; the wording, rich textured and apt. It is impossible in this space to report the variety and depth of the insights that pervade O'Neill's book. - Irish Literary Supplement; ""An unrivalled picture of one small part of pre-Famine rural Ireland."" - Mary E. Daly, Irish Historical Studies; ""An important contribution both to Irish history and to the demographic study of peasant societies in general."" - Journal of Social History

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Book SynopsisInsight and guidance on board management - what works and what doesn't in the nonprofit sector Is there really that much difference between nonprofit boards and their for-profit counterparts? Definitely. And this hands-on guide geared specifically to the nonprofit sector explores that difference.Table of ContentsModels of Governance and Leadership. Accountability: A Board's Fiduciary Obligations. Structuring a Board for Maximum Effectiveness. Organizing the Board's Work. The Core Responsibilities of a Nonprofit Board. Building a Cooperative Spirit. Effective Board Meetings. Maintaining Focus on Mission. New Challenges for Nonprofit Boards. Appendices. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisDesigned for fund-raising executives of organizations both large and small, this resource covers initial preparation and 15 areas of fund-raising, as well as discusses the ongoing management of the process. Included are numerous examples, case studies, check lists, and a unique evaluation of the audit environment of nonprofit organizations.Table of ContentsGiving Money to Charity: An American Tradition. Readiness Tests. Pyramids Are Built from the Bottom Up. The Middle Tier: Gifts from Institutions. The Final Tier: Investment Decisions. Management of the Fund Development Process. Appendices. Selected References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis popular dream of "escaping into the countryside" has caused great change in the population structures of Western society in this century.Table of ContentsMigration, Rurality and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree & P. Boyle). Studying Counterurbanisation and the Rural Population Turnaround (T. Champion). Counterurbanisation and Social Class (T. Fielding). Contrasting the Counterurbanisation Experience in European Nations (T. Kontuly). Concentrated Immigration, Restructuring and the 'Selective' Deconcentration of the United States Population (W. Frey & K. Johnson). The Hypothesis of Welfare-Led Migration to Rural Areas: The Australian Case (G. Hugo & M. Bell). Inside Looking Out; Outside Looking in. Different Experiences of Cultural Competence in Rural Lifestyles (P. Cloke, et al.). Indigeneity, Identity and Locality: Perspectives on Swaledale (S. Fielding). Class, Colonisation and Lifestyle Strategies in Gower (P. Cloke, et al.). Middle Class Mobility, Rural Communities and the Politics of Exclusion (J. Murdoch & G. Day). Neo-Tribes, Migration and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree). Counterurbanisation, Fragmentation and the Paradox of the Rural Idyll (M. Gorton, et al.). Planning by Numbers: Migration and Statistical Governance (S. Abram, et al.). Neglected Gender Dimensions of Rural Social Restructuring (J. Agg & M. Phillips). Migration into Rural Communities: Questioning the Language of Counterurbanisation (J. Allen & E. Mooney). Migration into Rural Areas: A Collective Behaviour Framework? (P. Boyle and K. Halfacree). List of Illustrations. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisFresh water in ancient Italy was a limited resource, made all the more precious by the Roman world's reliance on agriculture as its primary source of wealth. This title explores the uses of the law in controlling local water supplies. It investigates numerous issues critical to rural communities and the Roman economy.Trade ReviewGardens and Neighbors will provide an important building block in the growing body of literature on the ways that Roman law, Roman society, and the economic concerns of the Romans jointly functioned in the real world. - Michael Peachin, New York University

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Book SynopsisDescribes and analyzes life in Rampura in the late 1940s. In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, the author gives us insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He also discusses the factors that could and did bias his research.Trade Review"The author has managed to combine successfully the professional approach of an anthropologist with that of a novelist to the description of an Indian village community. . . . Srinivas has made a virtue out of the misfortune of losing all his field notes: The Remembered Village is a piece of art which is bound to become a classic of Indian ethnography." * Times Higher Education *""Few accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book conveys. . . . The work is holistic in the best anthropological manner; the principal aspects of Rampura life are lucidly sketched and the interrelations among them are cogently considered. . . . our collective knowledge and its practical relevance become enhanced." * Economic and Political Weekly *"[Srinivas] has described and analyzed life in Rampura in the late 1940s with charm and insight. His book is enjoyable as well as illuminating. . . . In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, Srinivas gives us valuable insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He tells us how he got established in the village, and describes vividly his living quarters. . . . He describes, at various places throughout the book, his reactions to the villagers and his perceptions of their reactions to him. He freely admits his own negative reactions to certain things and certain behavior. He discusses the factors that could and did bias his research. . . . illuminate[s] both the problems and the rewards of the ethnographer." * Sociology *"The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment." * Asian Student *Table of ContentsFOREWORD PREFACE I How IT ALL BEGAN II THE FIELD SITUATION III THREE IMPORTANT MEN IV THE UNIVERSE OF AGRICULTURE V THE SEXES AND THE HOUSEHOLD VI RELATIONS BETWEEN CASTES VII CLASSES AND FACTIONS VIII THE CHANGING VILLAGE IX THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL RELATIONS X RELIGION XI FAREWELL APPENDICES GLOSSARY INDEX

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Book SynopsisPresents a portrait of Karimpur, an Indian village, as it has changed over a sixty-year period. Using cultural documents such as songs and stories, as well as data on household budgets and farming practices, this title examines what it means to be poor or rich, female or male.

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Book SynopsisExplores the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. This title offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I.

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Book SynopsisFor nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, JuliaChuang follows the trajectories of rural workers, who were once supported by a village welfare state and are now landless. This book provides a view of the undertow of China's economic success, and the periodic crisesa rural fiscal crisis, a runaway urbanizationthat it first created and now must resolve.Trade Review"This book is an outstanding new contribution to the literature on China’s urbanization as well as on socioeconomic development more broadly. Moreover, it is a very engaging read. I would highly recommend it to experts, scholars, as well as students from related disciplinary backgrounds." * Asien: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia *"Chuang’s book is a tour de force in revealing the complexities and interconnections of China’s economic boom, especially the more recent developments occurring in the country’s interior provinces." * Exertions * "Beneath the China Boom is an excellent example of unlocking large-scale social processes through multisited ethnography." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index of Characters 1. China’s Rise 2. A Tale of Two Villages 3. Into the World of Chinese Labor 4. Rural/Urban Dualism 5. Urbanization and the New Rural Economy 6. Paradoxes of Urbanization 7. The Future of Chinese Development Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring into the impossiblemath of Aspen, Colorado,Stuberexplores how middle-class people have found a way to live in thissupergentrified town. Interviewing a range of residents, policymakers, and officials,Stubershows that what resolves the math equation between incomes and home values in Aspen, Coloradothe X-factorthat makes middle-class life possibleis the careful orchestration of diverse class interests within local politics and the community. She explores how this is achieved through a highly regulatory and extractive land use code that provides symbolic and material value to highly affluent investors and part-year residents, as well as less-affluent locals, many of whom benefit from an array of subsidiesincluding an extensive affordable housing programthat redistribute economic resources in ways that make it possible for middle-class residents to live there. Stuberfurther examines how Latinos, who provide much of the service work in Aspen and who tend to live outside the town, fit into the social geography of one of the most unequal places in the country. Overall,Stuberargues that the Aspen's ability to balance the interests of its diverse class constituencies is not a foregone conclusion; rather, it is the result of efforts by local stakeholderscitizens, government, developers, and vacationersto preserve the town's unique feel and value, and keep Aspen, Aspen in all its complex dynamics.Trade Review "Stuber does an excellent job of providing answers." * CHOICE *“Astounding. . . .Aspen and the American Dream is a wonderful book for students of social class and of urban sociology and for anyone who wonders how the material landscape is made.” * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: The Impossible Math of Aspen, Colorado 1. Place-Based Class Cultures 2. Living the "Aspen Dream"? Redefining and Realizing the Good Life 3. Steadying the Pendulum 4. Place-Making and the Construction of "Small-Town Character" 5. "But Does It Deliver Value?": Negotiating Aspen's Land Use Code 6. A Mall at the Base of a Mountain? 7. Buscando el Sueño Americano: Latinos in the Valley Conclusion: The Limits and Possibilities of Place-Making in the Era of Supergentrification Acknowledgments Appendix: Methodology Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisPunishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It demonstrates that our highest imprisonment rates are now in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Jessica Simes argues that mass incarceration should be conceptualized as one of the legacies of U.S. racial residential segregation, but that a focus on large cities has diverted vital scholarly and policy attention away from communities affected most by mass incarceration today. This book presents novel measures for estimating the community-level effects of incarceration using spatial, quantitative, and qualitative methods. This analysis has broad and urgent implications for policy reforms aimed at ameliorating the community effects of mass incarceration and promoting alternatives to the carceral system.Trade Review"Simes’s careful engagement with…data builds to a compelling central argument. . . .Punishing Places contributes to a broader conversation within carceral studies that analyzes domestic policing as warfare." * Public Books *"Punishing Places contributes to a growing literature on the complex relationships between race, crime, and punishment." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Simes’s emphasis on community is a compelling and hopeful one, and a link between sociology and efforts to restore that which mass imprisonment has destroyed." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • A Spatial View of Punishment 2 • The Urban Model 3 • Small Cities and Mass Incarceration 4 • Social Services Beyond the City: Isolation and Regional Inequity 5 • Race and Communities of Pervasive Incarceration 6 • Punishing Places 7 • Beyond Punishing Places: A Research and Reform Agenda Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFirst Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan Trade ReviewWinner of the AAP PSP Award for Archaeology and Anthropology 2005 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Peter Bellwood - 2006 SAA Book Award - The Society for American Archaeology annually awards a prize to honor a recently published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research, and/or is expected to make a substantial contribution to the archaeology of an area. "Do not be misled by the humble title of Bellwood's book ... this volume stands alone in its scope and depth ... No student of anthropology, irrespective of subfield, should leave this book unread. It is and will remain one of the most important anthropological volumes of the 21st century." Choice "This book is a superb advertisement for archaeology as part of a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of how, where, and why our ancestors settled to plough and pasture." Times Higher Education Supplement “Bellwood is not afraid to challenge the established orthodoxy. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking assessment of one of the most important questions in archaeology today.” Peter Bogucki, Princeton University “This wonderful book is a fascinating treasure-house of information about human history since the origins of agriculture. It deserves to be a standard reference for archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists interested in the formation of the modern world.” Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and Steel “A tour de force of historical anthropology. Rarely does one encounter a book with the sweeping historical scope of Peter Bellwood’s convincing worldwide synthesis of agricultural origins and population dispersals.” Patrick Kirch, University of California, Berkeley “Global in its scope, Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers boldly correlates the spreads of early farming with episodes of human population and language dispersal. It offers a powerfully coherent perspective, which challengingly sets one of the great themes of human history in a new and simplified vision.” Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge "Bellwood is a master at summarising complex information... the real strength of this volume is that it will make accessible to students such a wide range of data and interpretations." New Book Chronicle "Unlike many books, Bellwood's represents the cogent unfolding of a complex argument that draws on disparate types of information ... It is certainly the most scholarly, single-authored review of global agricultural origins on the market." Austrlian Archaeology "The book certainly contains a good deal of interesting data and analysis." Anthropology in ActionTable of ContentsDetailed Contents. List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1 The Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis in Perspective. The disciplinary players. Broad perspectives. Some key guiding principles. 2 The Origins and Dispersals of Agriculture: Some Operational Considerations. The significance of agriculture: productivity and population numbers. Why did agriculture develop in the first place?. The significance of agriculture vis-à-vis hunting and gathering. Under what circumstances might hunters and gatherers have adopted agriculture in prehistory?. Group 1: The “niche” hunter-gatherers of Africa and Asia. Group 2: The “unenclosed” hunter-gatherers of Australia, the Andamans and the Americas. Group 3: Hunter-gatherers who descend from former agriculturalists. Why do ethnographic hunter-gatherers have problems with agricultural adoption? A comparative view. To the archaeological record. 3 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest Asia. The domestication of plants in the Fertile Crescent. The hunter-gatherer background in the Levant, 19,000 to 9500 BC. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the increasing dominance of domesticated crops. How did cereal domestication begin in Southwest Asia?. The archaeological record in Southwestern Asia in broader perspective. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. The real turning point in the Neolithic Revolution. 4 Tracking the Spreads of Farming Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Europe and Asia. The spread of the agricultural economy through Europe. Southern and Mediterranean Europe Cyprus, Turkey and Greece. The Balkans. The Mediterranean. The Danubians and the northern Mesolithic. The TRB and the Baltic. The British Isles. Hunters and farmers in prehistoric Europe. Agricultural dispersals from Southwest Asia to the east. Central Asia. The Indian Subcontinent. The domesticated crops of the Indian Subcontinent. Regional trajectories from hunter-gathering to farming in South Asia. The consequences of Mehrgarh. Western India: Balathal to Jorwe. Southern India. The Ganges Basin and Northeastern India. Europe and South Asia in a nutshell. 5 Africa: An Independent Focus of Agricultural Development?. The spread of the Southwest Asian agricultural complex into Egypt. The origins of the native African domesticates. The development and spread of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. 6 The Beginnings of Agriculture in China. Environmental factors and the domestication process in China. The archaeology of early agriculture in China. The archaeological record of the Early Neolithic in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins. Later developments (post 5000 BC) in the Chinese Neolithic. The spread of agriculture south of Zhejiang. 7 The Spread of Agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania. The background to agricultural dispersal in Southeast Asia. Early farmers in Mainland Southeast Asia. Early farmers in Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia. Early farmers in the Pacific. The New Guinea agricultural trajectory and its role in Pacific colonization. 8 Early Agriculture and its Spread in the Americas. Some necessary background. The geography of early agriculture, and general cultural trajectories. Current opinion on agricultural origins in the Americas. The domesticated crops. Maize. The other crops. Early pottery in the Americas. Early farmers in the Americas. The Andes. Amazonia. Middle America (with Mesoamerica). The Southwest. Thank the Lord for the freeway (and the pipeline). Immigrant Mesoamerican farmers in the Southwest?. Independent agricultural origins in the Eastern Woodlands. 9 What Do Language Families Mean for Human Prehistory?. Language families and how they are studied. Issues of phylogeny and reticulation. The identification and phylogenetic study of language families. Introducing the players. How do languages and language families spread?. How do languages change through time?. Macrofamilies, and more on the time factor. Languages in competition - language shift. Languages in competition - contact-induced change. 10 The Spread of Farming: Comparing the Archaeology and the Linguistics. Western and Central Eurasia, and Northern Africa. Indo-European. Indo-European from the Pontic Steppes?. Where did PIE really originate and what can we know about it?. Colin Renfrew’s contribution to the Indo-European Debate. Afroasiatic. Elamite and Dravidian, and the Indo-Aryans. A multidisciplinary scenario for South Asian prehistory. Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Elamo-Dravidian, and the issue of Nostratic. Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa: Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo. Nilo-Saharan. Niger-Congo, with Bantu. East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The Chinese and Mainland Southeast Asian language families. Austronesian. Piecing it together for East Asia. “Altaic”, and some difficult issues. The Trans New Guinea Phylum. The Americas – South and Central. South America. Middle America, Mesoamerica and the Southwest Uto-Aztecan. Eastern North America. Algonguian and Muskogean. Iroquoian, Siouan and Caddoan. Did the first farmers spread their languages?. 11 Genetics, Skeletal Anthropology, and the People Factor. Are there correlations between human biology and language families?. Do genes record history?. Southwest Asia and Europe. South Asia. Africa. East Asia. Southeast Asia and Oceania (mainly Austronesians). The Americas. Did early farmers spread through processes of demic diffusion?. 12 The Nature of Early Agricultural Expansion Homeland, spread and friction zones, plus overshoot. The stages within a process of agricultural genesis and dispersal. Notes. References. Index

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Book SynopsisOffers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in various parts of the world. This book focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, and the northern Andes. It examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture.Trade ReviewWinner of the AAP PSP Award for Archaeology and Anthropology 2005 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Peter Bellwood - 2006 SAA Book Award - The Society for American Archaeology annually awards a prize to honor a recently published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research, and/or is expected to make a substantial contribution to the archaeology of an area. "Do not be misled by the humble title of Bellwood's book ... this volume stands alone in its scope and depth ... No student of anthropology, irrespective of subfield, should leave this book unread. It is and will remain one of the most important anthropological volumes of the 21st century." Choice "This book is a superb advertisement for archaeology as part of a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of how, where, and why our ancestors settled to plough and pasture." Times Higher Education Supplement “Bellwood is not afraid to challenge the established orthodoxy. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking assessment of one of the most important questions in archaeology today.” Peter Bogucki, Princeton University “This wonderful book is a fascinating treasure-house of information about human history since the origins of agriculture. It deserves to be a standard reference for archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists interested in the formation of the modern world.” Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and Steel “A tour de force of historical anthropology. Rarely does one encounter a book with the sweeping historical scope of Peter Bellwood’s convincing worldwide synthesis of agricultural origins and population dispersals.” Patrick Kirch, University of California, Berkeley “Global in its scope, Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers boldly correlates the spreads of early farming with episodes of human population and language dispersal. It offers a powerfully coherent perspective, which challengingly sets one of the great themes of human history in a new and simplified vision.” Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge "Bellwood is a master at summarising complex information... the real strength of this volume is that it will make accessible to students such a wide range of data and interpretations." New Book Chronicle "Unlike many books, Bellwood's represents the cogent unfolding of a complex argument that draws on disparate types of information ... It is certainly the most scholarly, single-authored review of global agricultural origins on the market." Austrlian Archaeology "The book certainly contains a good deal of interesting data and analysis." Anthropology in ActionTable of ContentsList of Figures xii List of Tables xv Preface xvi 1 The Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis in Perspective 1 The Disciplinary Players 3 Broad Perspectives 4 Some Key Guiding Principles 9 2 The Origins and Dispersals of Agriculture: Some Operational Considerations 12 The Significance of Agriculture: Productivity and Population Numbers 14 Why Did Agriculture Develop in the First Place? 19 The Significance of Agriculture vis-à-vis Hunting and Gathering 25 Under What Circumstances Might Hunters and Gatherers Have Adopted Agriculture in Prehistory? 28 Group 1: The “niche” hunter-gatherers of Africa and Asia 31 Group 2: The “unenclosed” hunter-gatherers of Australia, the Andamans, and the Americas 34 Group 3: Hunter-gatherers who descend from former agriculturalists 37 Why Do Ethnographic Hunter-Gatherers Have Problems with Agricultural Adoption? A Comparative View 39 To the Archaeological Record 42 3 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest Asia 44 The Domestication of Plants in the Fertile Crescent 46 The Hunter-Gatherer Background in the Levant, 19,000 to 9500 bc 49 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the Increasing Dominance of Domesticated Crops 54 How Did Cereal Domestication Begin in Southwest Asia? 57 The Archaeological Record in Southwest Asia in Broader Perspective 59 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A 59 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 61 The Real Turning Point in the Neolithic Revolution 65 4 Tracking the Spreads of Farming beyond the Fertile Crescent: Europe and Asia 67 The Spread of the Neolithic Economy through Europe 68 Southern and Mediterranean Europe 71 Cyprus, Turkey, and Greece 71 The Balkans 74 The Mediterranean 74 Temperate and Northern Europe 75 The Danubians and the northern Mesolithic 77 The TRB and the Baltic 80 The British Isles 81 Hunters and farmers in prehistoric Europe 82 Agricultural Dispersals from Southwest Asia to the East 84 Central Asia 84 The Indian Subcontinent 86 The domesticated crops of the Indian subcontinent 87 Regional Trajectories from Hunter-Gathering to Farming in South Asia 89 The consequences of Mehrgarh 89 Western India: Balathal to Jorwe 91 Southern India 92 The Ganges Basin and northeastern India 93 Europe and South Asia in a nutshell 95 5 Africa: An Independent Focus of Agricultural Development? 97 The Spread of the Southwest Asian Agricultural Complex into Egypt 99 The Origins of the Native African Domesticates 103 The Development and Spread of Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa 106 The Appearance of Agriculture in Central and Southern Africa 107 6 The Beginnings of Agriculture in East Asia 111 Environmental Factors and the Domestication Process in China 117 The Archaeology of Early Agriculture in China 119 The Archaeological Record of the Early Neolithic in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins 120 Later Developments (post-5000 bc) in the Chinese Neolithic 122 South of the Yangzi – Hemudu and Majiabang 124 The spread of agriculture south of Zhejiang 125 7 The Spread of Agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania 128 The Background to Agricultural Dispersal in Southeast Asia 130 Early Farmers in Mainland Southeast Asia 131 Early Farmers in Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia 134 Early farmers in the Pacific 141 The New Guinea Agricultural Trajectory and its Role in Pacific Colonization 142 8 Early Agriculture in the Americas 146 Some Necessary Background 148 The Geography of Early Agriculture, and General Cultural Trajectories 150 Current Opinion on Agricultural Origins in the Americas 153 The Domesticated Crops 154 Maize 155 The other crops 157 Early Pottery in the Americas 158 Early Farmers in the Americas 159 The Andes 159 Amazonia 164 Middle America (with Mesoamerica) 165 The Southwest 168 Thank the Lord for the freeway (and the pipeline) 171 Immigrant Mesoamerican farmers in the Southwest? 173 Independent Agricultural Origins in the Eastern Woodlands 174 9 What Do Language Families Mean for Human Prehistory? 180 Language Families and How They Are Studied 181 Issues of Phylogeny and Reticulation 183 The Identification and Phylogenetic Study of Language Families 185 Introducing the Players 189 How Do Languages and Language Families Spread? 190 How Do Languages Change through Time? 193 Macrofamilies, and more on the time factor 195 Languages in Competition – Language Shift 196 Languages in competition – contact-induced change 198 10 The Spread of Farming: Comparing the Archaeology and the Linguistics 200 Western and Central Eurasia, and Northern Africa 201 Indo-European 201 Indo-European from the Pontic steppes? 201 Where did PIE really originate and what can we know about it? 204 Colin Renfrew’s contribution to the Indo-European debate 206 Afroasiatic 207 Elamite and Dravidian, and the Indo-Aryans 210 A multidisciplinary scenario for South Asian prehistory 213 Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Elamo-Dravidian, and the issue of Nostratic 216 Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa: Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo 217 Nilo-Saharan 217 Niger-Congo, with Bantu 218 East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific 222 The Chinese and Mainland Southeast Asian language families 222 Austronesian 227 Piecing it together for East Asia 229 “Altaic,” and some difficult issues 230 The Trans New Guinea Phylum 231 The Americas – South and Central 232 South America 233 Middle America, Mesoamerica, and the Southwest 237 Uto-Aztecan 240 Eastern North America 244 Algonquian and Muskogean 245 Iroquoian, Siouan, and Caddoan 247 Did the First Farmers Spread Their Languages? 250 11 Genetics, Skeletal Anthropology, and the People Factor 252 Are There Correlations between Human Biology and Language Families? 253 Do genes record history? 254 Southwest Asia and Europe 256 South Asia 262 Africa 263 East Asia 264 Southeast Asia and Oceania (mainly Austronesians) 265 The Americas 271 Did Early Farmers Spread through Processes of Demic Diffusion? 272 12 The Nature of Early Agricultural Expansion 273 Homeland, Spread, and Friction Zones, plus Overshoot 274 The Stages within a Process of Agricultural Genesis and Dispersal 277 Notes 280 References 292 Index 350

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