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This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the best book ever written about the cultural meaning of burial, our need to remember the dead (hence our need for history), and the deeper than etymological link between the human and the humus.\" - Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement; \"A guide to the care of self (and society) through an analysis of the care for the dead, written in a manner that is inimitable, provocative and intellectually compelling.\" - Publishers Weekly; \"A significant and learned treatise on something that should concern all of us.\" - Jack Matthews, Washington Times; \"A penetrating look into the realm of the dead.\" - Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times Book Review; \"Harrison... has a rare poetic intelligence that does not shrink from speculative immensity.... In a kind of literary seance, the voices of the dead - poets like Swinburne and Homer, writers like Conrad and Joyce, philosophers like Vico and Heidegger - shape the text.... By the end one begins to think differently about the living as well as the dead.\" - Edward Rothstein, New York Times; \"A daring and ambitious book.... The subject is one in which the reader participates, and it will not end as long as there is someone to ponder it.\" - W. S. 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Ideal for anyone interested in history and local traditions of medicine in China.\" * Choice Connect *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGathering Medicines\u003c\/i\u003e offers an immensely valuable and sensitive account of health and medical practices in regions that have rarely been explored in academic literature.\" * Asian Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eGathering Medicines\u003c\/i\u003e, Farquhar and Lai offer a remarkably wide range of observations and reflections on the anthropology and history of medicine as a living social practice in southern China. They weave into their discussion a fascinating array of life histories and object narratives, a rich assortment of institutional sites and both textual and nonliterate practices, and an abundance of self-critical reflections on methodology and meaning. This is a major, pathbreaking piece of scholarship, indicative of the highest-quality research and analysis.” * David Arnold, University of Warwick *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGathering Medicines\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnography of epistemology at its best. Unpacking words and things, collecting and feeling plants, the authors thread relentlessly through depth and density to craft their book, a multidimensional object at its core.” * Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis *\u003cbr\u003e“Experienced anthropologists Farquhar and Lai have written a philosophically sophisticated ethnography of today’s China caught in the act of constructing ‘minority nationality medicines,’ a set of complex, always changing, social, and epistemological things.” * Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 Institution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 Bodies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Plants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Encounters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions, and Then Some . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: The Emphasis on “Three Ways and Two Roads” in Zhuang Medicine and Pharmacy\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732920054103,"sku":"9780226763651","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226763651.jpg?v=1719998950"},{"product_id":"django-generations-hearing-ethnorace-citizenship-and-jazz-manouche-in-france-9780226811000","title":"Django Generations  Hearing Ethnorace Citizenship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDjango Generations\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profound analysis of how Manouche Romanies navigate French denials of race and racism through what Siv B. Lie calls ‘ambivalent essentialism’—the set of incompatible qualities ascribed by and to this ethnicized and racialized group whose most famous ancestor is the guitarist Django Reinhardt. Drawing on deep ethnographic and historical research, Lie brilliantly develops a semiotic framework that both explicates the development and negotiation of local identities in jazz manouche and their connection to much broader processes of managing marginalization and the exigencies of capitalism.”” -- Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e“A necessary addition for ethnomusicologists and scholars of Romani music, \u003ci\u003eDjango Generations\u003c\/i\u003e is aptly named because it gives voice to groups of Romani musicians who are forging contemporary identities in modern contexts while acknowledging past histories and cultural roots.” -- Adriana Helbig, University of Pittsburgh\u003cbr\u003e“In this book, Siv B. Lie explores the paradoxes of jazz manouche’s history and its relationship to the Manouche community without taking sides in the complex debates between musicians, institutions, and the industry. \u003ci\u003eDjango Generations\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of considerable intellectual sophistication.” -- Andy Fry, King’s College London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Terminology \u003cbr\u003e List of Figures   \u003cbr\u003e Introduction   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Making Jazz Manouche \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Cultural Activism’s Living Legacies \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Generic Ontologies and the Stakes of Refusal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: The Sound of Feeling \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: Heritage Stories \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: Glossary \u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: List of Formal Interviews \u003cbr\u003e Notes                                                                                                                                      \u003cbr\u003e References   \u003cbr\u003e Index ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732922511703,"sku":"9780226811000","price":25.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226811000.jpg?v=1719998963"},{"product_id":"dangerous-fun-the-social-lives-of-big-wave-surfers-9780226815442","title":"Dangerous Fun The Social Lives of Big Wave","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Its theoretical merits in the ritual interactionist paradigm . . . make the book a must read for any sociologist interested in explaining the seductions of risk taking and the fun in danger—in leisure worlds, individual pleasures, and social life.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Symbolic Interaction *\u003cbr\u003e“Deftly explains big wave surfing’s embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and status hierarchies. The end result is a highly persuasive treatise on the role of emotions, risk-taking, and social collaboration in the pursuit of fun—an essential (if academically undervalued) aspect of human existence. And, beyond his serious engagement with sociological theory. . . . [T]he text is equally filled with humor and beauty. . . . Corte’s analysis represents a significant step in better understanding the complexities of what fun is and how people can find it in myriad ways.” * Social Forces *\u003cbr\u003e“Ugo Corte presents an outstanding ethnographic account of big wave surfing. Not only because of the quality of the research but also because of the literary quality of the whole piece. The book achieves an excellent balance between scholar discussion and adventure chronicle that would appeal both to academics and surf aficionados. . . . I would consider Corte’s book as one of the best ethnographic studies of sport so far.\" * Sociología del Deporte *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ugo Corte has done impressive fieldwork, including interviews, trying out big wave surfing himself, and\u003cbr\u003e hanging out with big wave surfers on the Hawaiian Islands, to capture the ‘memory of a community’ . . . Corte has written a well-researched and fascinating book that will be important to small-group research in cultural sociology.\" * Cultural Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating. . . [and] helpful for scholars looking for social scientific methods to study ritualized and group-based athletes whose practices are deeply entangled with the natural world. Corte’s \u003ci\u003eDangerous Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to the sociological understanding of such social phenomena.\" * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDangerous Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is bound to be recognized as an essential contribution to the ethnography of risk and the sociology of emotions. Part-memoir, part-history, and part-theory, Corte brilliantly describes why men and women in the Hawaiian surfing world are willing to put themselves in jeopardy in search of a high that is simultaneously personal and communal. Not since Matthew Desmond’s\u003ci\u003e On the Fireline\u003c\/i\u003e have we had such a powerful account of the intersection of pleasure and danger. One need not have straddled a surfboard to appreciate that a commitment to sociality allows for the profound attraction of controlled peril.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Dangerous Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark in the sociology of sport, showing how fear is converted into excitement and fun. Big wave surfing is a team sport: waiting for the wave far off-shore, calling alarms of dangerous waves, circulating narratives of near-death disasters that are the turning point to dropping out or becoming a big-wave surfer.  One has to seek out high danger in the presence of a like-minded group to get hooked on this kind of emotional\/ physiological transformation. Corte’s book is a fundamental theory of risk-taking of all kinds, even addiction.” -- Randall Collins, author of Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory\u003cbr\u003e\"The North Shore of O‘ahu is the Vatican of surfing: small in area but densely packed with lore, power, secrets, and great waves. Ugo Corte goes straight to the heart of one of its abiding mysteries–the subculture within the subculture–the exceptional people who ride very big waves. He illuminates surfers’ mentality, diversity, self-expression, social bonds and rituals with dramatic narrative and extensive interviews all in an analytic framework.\" -- William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days\u003cbr\u003e\"Corte’s important book will have crossover\u003cbr\u003e appeal not only between academic\u003cbr\u003e fields like sociology and psychology, but\u003cbr\u003e between academics and non-academics,\u003cbr\u003e especially surfers who are intellectually curious.\u003cbr\u003e This is because \u003ci\u003eDangerous Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is an\u003cbr\u003e engaging participant-observation ethnography\u003cbr\u003e written in a style that fits in with the\u003cbr\u003e best of the classic ethnographic works in\u003cbr\u003e the field of sociology. The reader is immediately\u003cbr\u003e drawn into the book because the characters\u003cbr\u003e are so interesting and because Corte\u003cbr\u003e does a great job explaining the feeling of\u003cbr\u003e the thrill found in big wave surfing.\" * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: From Northern Europe to the North Shore of Oahu\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 From Land to Water\u003cbr\u003e 2 Beyond the Boil\u003cbr\u003e 3 Fun and Community\u003cbr\u003e 4 Failing to Succeed, Failing to Become\u003cbr\u003e 5 Reciprocal Influence\u003cbr\u003e 6 From Adventure to Entertainment and toward Sport\u003cbr\u003e 7 One Last Ride\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Gone but Here, yet Barely in Sight\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732923265367,"sku":"9780226815442","price":72.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226815442.jpg?v=1719998963"},{"product_id":"dangerous-fun-9780226820453","title":"Dangerous Fun","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thrilling ethnography of big wave surfing in Hawaii that explores the sociology of fun. Straight from the beaches of Hawaii comes an exciting new ethnography of a community of big-wave surfers. Oahu's Waimea Bay attracts the world's best big wave surfersmen and women whocome to test their physical strength, courage, style, knowledge of the water, and love of the ocean. Sociologist Ugo Corte sees their fun as the outcome of social interaction within a community. Bothas participant and observer, heexamines how mentors, novices, and peers interact to create episodes of collective fun in a dangerous setting; how they push one another's limits, nourish a lifestyle, advance the sport and, in some cases, make a living based on their passion for the sport.  InDangerous Fun,Corte traces how surfers earn and maintain a reputation within the field, and how, as innovations are introduced, and as they progress, establish themselves and age, they modify their strategies for maximizing performance \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Its theoretical merits in the ritual interactionist paradigm . . . make the book a must read for any sociologist interested in explaining the seductions of risk taking and the fun in danger—in leisure worlds, individual pleasures, and social life.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Symbolic Interaction *\u003cbr\u003e“Deftly explains big wave surfing’s embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and status hierarchies. The end result is a highly persuasive treatise on the role of emotions, risk-taking, and social collaboration in the pursuit of fun—an essential (if academically undervalued) aspect of human existence. And, beyond his serious engagement with sociological theory. . . . [T]he text is equally filled with humor and beauty. . . . Corte’s analysis represents a significant step in better understanding the complexities of what fun is and how people can find it in myriad ways.” * Social Forces *\u003cbr\u003e“Ugo Corte presents an outstanding ethnographic account of big wave surfing. Not only because of the quality of the research but also because of the literary quality of the whole piece. The book achieves an excellent balance between scholar discussion and adventure chronicle that would appeal both to academics and surf aficionados. . . . I would consider Corte’s book as one of the best ethnographic studies of sport so far.\" * Sociología del Deporte *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ugo Corte has done impressive fieldwork, including interviews, trying out big wave surfing himself, and\u003cbr\u003e hanging out with big wave surfers on the Hawaiian Islands, to capture the ‘memory of a community’ . . . Corte has written a well-researched and fascinating book that will be important to small-group research in cultural sociology.\" * Cultural Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating. . . [and] helpful for scholars looking for social scientific methods to study ritualized and group-based athletes whose practices are deeply entangled with the natural world. Corte’s \u003ci\u003eDangerous Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to the sociological understanding of such social phenomena.\" * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDangerous Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is bound to be recognized as an essential contribution to the ethnography of risk and the sociology of emotions. Part-memoir, part-history, and part-theory, Corte brilliantly describes why men and women in the Hawaiian surfing world are willing to put themselves in jeopardy in search of a high that is simultaneously personal and communal. Not since Matthew Desmond’s\u003ci\u003e On the Fireline\u003c\/i\u003e have we had such a powerful account of the intersection of pleasure and danger. One need not have straddled a surfboard to appreciate that a commitment to sociality allows for the profound attraction of controlled peril.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Dangerous Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark in the sociology of sport, showing how fear is converted into excitement and fun. Big wave surfing is a team sport: waiting for the wave far off-shore, calling alarms of dangerous waves, circulating narratives of near-death disasters that are the turning point to dropping out or becoming a big-wave surfer.  One has to seek out high danger in the presence of a like-minded group to get hooked on this kind of emotional\/ physiological transformation. Corte’s book is a fundamental theory of risk-taking of all kinds, even addiction.” -- Randall Collins, author of Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory\u003cbr\u003e\"The North Shore of O‘ahu is the Vatican of surfing: small in area but densely packed with lore, power, secrets, and great waves. Ugo Corte goes straight to the heart of one of its abiding mysteries–the subculture within the subculture–the exceptional people who ride very big waves. He illuminates surfers’ mentality, diversity, self-expression, social bonds and rituals with dramatic narrative and extensive interviews all in an analytic framework.\" -- William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days\u003cbr\u003e\"Corte’s important book will have crossover\u003cbr\u003e appeal not only between academic\u003cbr\u003e fields like sociology and psychology, but\u003cbr\u003e between academics and non-academics,\u003cbr\u003e especially surfers who are intellectually curious.\u003cbr\u003e This is because \u003ci\u003eDangerous Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is an\u003cbr\u003e engaging participant-observation ethnography\u003cbr\u003e written in a style that fits in with the\u003cbr\u003e best of the classic ethnographic works in\u003cbr\u003e the field of sociology. The reader is immediately\u003cbr\u003e drawn into the book because the characters\u003cbr\u003e are so interesting and because Corte\u003cbr\u003e does a great job explaining the feeling of\u003cbr\u003e the thrill found in big wave surfing.\" * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: From Northern Europe to the North Shore of Oahu\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 From Land to Water\u003cbr\u003e 2 Beyond the Boil\u003cbr\u003e 3 Fun and Community\u003cbr\u003e 4 Failing to Succeed, Failing to Become\u003cbr\u003e 5 Reciprocal Influence\u003cbr\u003e 6 From Adventure to Entertainment and toward Sport\u003cbr\u003e 7 One Last Ride\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Gone but Here, yet Barely in Sight\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732927459671,"sku":"9780226820453","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226820453.jpg?v=1719998983"},{"product_id":"working-the-difference-science-spirit-and-the-spread-of-motivational-interviewing-9780226827629","title":"Working the Difference Science Spirit and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWorking the Difference\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force in the study of language and culture and an acute analysis of the compulsive force of contradictions at the heart of American normative ideals. 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Her elucidation of ideological and rhetorical strategies for the neutralization of difference is a highly illuminating contribution to the understanding of scalar dynamics in the dissemination of innovation.” -- Richard Bauman, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e“In this fascinating study, Carr explains how motivational interviewing is transforming fields like social work by changing how professionals talk to their clients. An accomplished scholar of expertise as an interactional process—as something done rather than owned—Carr shows how MI adopters relearn how to speak even while dancing around the idea that MI requires expertise to perform. This exemplary study brings paradox and contradiction to the fore, revealing how invocations of science coexist with appeals to faith in the rhetoric of professionalism today.” -- Steven Epstein, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e\"This beautifully written, incisive book maps the hidden structures of Motivational Interviewing (MI), a method now so widespread in the American helping professions it is practically the water we swim in. Carr’s attention to linguistic detail captures the paradoxes and enchantments of MI, from its carefully cultivated naturalism to the verbal nudges that coax interlocutors to 'talk themselves into change.' 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