Social and cultural anthropology Books
University of Minnesota Press On the Run in Siberia
Book SynopsisA hair-raising tale of idealism, political corruption, shamanism, and survival in the Siberian wildernessTrade Review"Driven by a courageous humanitarian vision and a thirst for scientific knowledge, Rane Willerslev endures starvation, bears, arrest warrants, and the curse of an angry lover. This beautifully written account of hardship, determination, and discovery is a testament to the author’s honesty and humanity, and gives a fascinating insight into the work of a leading anthropologist." —Piers Vitebsky, author of The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia"[Willerslev’s] account is a fascinating study of this remote pocket of ethnic Yakuts, who adhere tenaciously to an ancient language and livelihood despite the existential challenges." —Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsGlossary of Non-English WordsGallery of CharactersOne Last, Feeble Attempt The Fur Project1. Shalugin, Leader of the Yukaghirs2. A Post-Soviet Nightmare3. Sable Furs for SaleOn the Run in the Wilderness4. Out of Range 5. Soft Gold6. Starvation and Desperation7. In the Yukaghirs’ Camp8. A Long-Awaited FriendBack to the Village9. The Curse10. Land of Shadows11. Screwed12. The Way BackA Leap in TimeAppendixes: Surviving in SiberiaA. Using the Leghold TrapB. Yukaghir IdolsC. Netting Fish in SiberiaD. Finding Your Way in the TaigaE. How to Track and Shoot a MooseNotesList of Photographs
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University of Minnesota Press The Changs Next Door to the Díazes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What sets The Changs Next Door to the Díazes apart is Wendy Cheng’s attention to the ways in which the demographic shifts over the last 40 years have made their way into the everyday lives of West San Gabriel Valley residents. Cheng has made a compelling case for the placeness of this part of the San Gabriel Valley." —James Kyung-Jin Lee, University of California, Irvine “Unpacks the innovative ways racial identity is shaped by place in the San Gabriel Valley... Delivers an in-depth portrait of race and place in the SGV.” —KCET - LA Letters
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University of Minnesota Press The Dance That Makes You Vanish Cultural
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Women’s bodies, dancing bodies: in this haunting book, they lead us to political terror and its erasure in safely contained cultural performance. The ghosts of dancers killed in state-sponsored anti-communist frenzy shimmer before us, their movements precisely replicated by their state-cleansed replacements. Memoir here winds in and out of cultural critique; we are led up to that vanishing point where power and violence tear their way into the heart." —Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global ConnectionTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dancing on the Mass Grave1. To Remember Differently: Paradoxical Statehood and Preserved Value2. What Is Left: The Fabricated and the Illicit3. Historicizing Violence: Memory and the Transmission of the Aesthetic4. Staging Alliances: Cambodia as Cultural Mirror5.Violence and Mobility: Autoethnography of Coming and GoingNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Pregnant on Arrival
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEithne Luibhéid exquisitely details how the Irish became embroiled in a politics over the sexuality and reproduction of mainly African refugees, leading to the controversial referendum denying birthright citizenship. Pregnant on Arrival is the story of a nation of emigrants that suddenly finding itself a nation of immigrants, with a wealth of insights for anyone interested in how the law constructs the ‘illegal alien’ and renders pregnant mothers and their babies as threats to the nation.—Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the NationPregnant on Arrival makes an enormous, essential contribution in demonstrating how women’s bodies and their sexuality become central to immigration controls. By bringing the question of queerness to bear on the ‘threat’ of pregnant asylum seekers in Ireland, Luibhéid charts how a queer migration framework that simultaneously attends to geopolitics, nation-building, gender, and race, can shed light on the sexual politics of determining who is a legitimate immigrant, asylum seeker, and neoliberal subject worthy of citizenship.—Monisha Das Gupta, author of Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States Table of ContentsContentsA Note on TerminologyIntroduction1. Shifting Boundaries through Discourses of Childbearing2. Counternarratives of Migration Law and Childbearing3. Baby Gives Birth to Parents: Direct Provision and Subject Formation4. The “Right to Life of the Unborn” and Migration Controls5. Reproductive Futurism and the Temporality of Migration Control6. From Childbearing to Multiple Sexuality and Migration StrugglesConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Agitating Images
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The archival turn has had a sobering effect on recent attempts to grapple with the histories of photography but for the best studies––like Craig Campbell’s––the archive itself is part of the historical problem: its internal mechanisms, its effects of power, its production of truth and its techniques of forgetting and erasure––all effects that, as Campbell shows in this highly original work of excavation and disruption, can never be entirely secured against the arbitrariness and disfunction of the archival machine and the troubling liability of archival photographs to slip and slide out of place." —John Tagg, Binghamton University"Pathbreaking, provocative, and illuminating."—CHOICE"[An] interesting and well-written study."—American Historical Review"Campbell’s project is an unabashedly original contribution to the intersecting fields of anthropology, media theory, and Russian/Soviet history, providing us with a stimulating and deep reevaluation of each field as well as the very status of the image itself."—Slavic and East European JournalTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: In the Archives of the Cultural BaseThe Years Are Like CenturiesDangerous CommunicationsConclusion: Ethics of Presence and the (De)generative ImageNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Black Women against the Land Grab
Book SynopsisFocusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil’s city center, Black Women against the Land Grab explores how black women’s views on development have radicalized local communities to demand justice and social change. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry describes the key role of local women activists in the citywide movement for land and housing rights. Trade Review"Black Women against the Land Grab makes a unique and overdue contribution to our understanding of social movements in Brazil. In a bold intervention from the tendency to ignore women’s participation in struggles for land rights and access to basic resources, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry paints women as the categorical leaders in resisting ‘development’ plans that amount to expelling poor, black communities from their historical homes. Her long-term involvement with the Gamboa de Baixo community in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and unabashed advocacy for their cause, results in an electrifying ethnography that showcases the wry humor and perceptive analyses of grassroot community activists." —Sarah Hautzinger, author of Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil"Black Women against the Land Grab is an excellent treatment of the production of racialized space in Brazil. This book will be a useful contribution to future scholarship concerning anti-racist resistance and struggles for land and water across the black diaspora."—Anthropological Quarterly"Obligatory reading for anybody interested in racism, grassroots politics, and the exclusionary effects of urban renewal."—Antipode"Essential."—CHOICE"Stimulating and well-researched."—Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology"A real contribution to both social change and social justice research."—Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"This book is of central importance for those in the social sciences and humanities that are interested in the role of women in grassroots organizations."—Journal of Latin American Geography "An invaluable contribution."—Cultural Geographies"A detailed and moving book."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"Black Women against the Land Grab contains an enjoyable ethnography, and will be useful to scholars interested in the intersections between race and gentrification in Latin America."—Luso-Brazilian Review"An example of an empirical investigation conducted by a committed activist, a feature that provides the book with intensity and engagement from the author."—Political Studies Review"Keisha-Khan Perry’s intimate look at the grassroots struggles of black women for urban land rights in Salvador, Bahia, is an important reminder of the need to examine the relationships between material need, personal identity, and political action."—The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History"Suitable for students of gender politics, Africana and cultural studies, and readers interested in land rights and land distribution."—Bulletin of Latin American Research"Keisha-Khan Perry’s brilliant ethnography reveals not only the complexity of Brazil’s young democracy but also the interconnections among conceptions of gender, race, community, and 'development.'"—Transforming Anthropology"Well written, well organized, and accessible . . . a welcome read for both Brazilian specialists and a general public who may be interested in understanding why the World Cup and Olympic protests started in Brazil’s favelas (slums)."—Contemporary Sociology"Throughout Black Women against the Land Grab, Perry provides thorough explanations of both the history and current state of the land rights conflict in Salvador, which clearly come from her background as a social scientist with theoretical interests in black feminism, critical race theory, and urban studies. She explores various examples of the intersectionality of race, gender, and class within the context of the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood organization’s activities and, as a participant-observer, offers a unique perspective that combines detailed, firsthand accounts of the conflict with the contextualization of social scientific theories."—The Oral History Review"It is written in an accessible and engaging style and aptly contributes to intersectional analysis of race, gender, and class."—Humanity and SocietyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Diasporic Blackness and Afro-Brazilian Agency1. Engendering the Grassroots2. The Gendered Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion3. The Black Movement’s Foot Soldiers4. Violent Policing and Disposing Urban Landscapes5. “The Women Gather Crying”: Everyday Violence and Community6. Politics Is a Women’s ThingConclusion. Above the Asphalt: From the Margins to the Center of Black Diaspora PoliticsBibliography
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University of Minnesota Press Sexuality in School
Book SynopsisJen Gilbert investigates the breakdowns, clashes, and controversies that flare up when sexuality enters spaces of schooling. She draws attention to the explosive but also compelling force of erotic life in teaching and learning, illustrating how the most intimate of our experiences can come to shape how we see and act in the world.Trade Review"Sexuality in School is an excellent contribution to youth studies and sexuality studies, and provides a fine link between queer theory and educational studies, as well. Jen Gilbert’s use of psychoanalytic theory gives us challenging ways to grapple with and revel in the difficulties of education, the subjects of sexuality, and the uncertainties of youth and age. Her work shows that these difficulties pervade teaching and can invite educators to try to understand the challenges of desire, hospitality, and possibility. By combining her fine theoretical analysis of controversies (a term she problematizes nicely) and her intricate discussion of the relationships of desire that structure learning, Gilbert gives us a way to explore education in general, but also to more fully understand the particularities of youth and sexuality." —Cris Mayo, author of LGBTQ Youth & Education: Policies & Practices"An intriguing, provocative, and forward-thinking book."—CHOICE"A refreshing and progressive look at the transformative possibilities of sexuality in school... Anyone who teaches sexuality, or has contemplated doing so, would also benefit from Sexuality in Schools for the wisdom and sense of connection it generates."—Sex Roles: A Journal of ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Queer Provocations1. Backward and Forward: Narrating the Queer Child2. There Is No Such Thing as an Adolescent: Sex Education as Taking a Risk3. Histories of Misery: It Gets Better and the Promise of Pedagogy4. Thinking in Sex Education: Between Prohibition and Desire5. Education as Hospitality: Toward a Reluctant ManifestoAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Fashioning the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A thought-provoking volume that offers key insights into the interconnections among culture, literature, and fashion."—CHOICE"Fashioning the Nineteenth Century proves to be a remarkable instrument to refine our knowledge of narrative worlds whose territories are inhabited also by fashion as part of the common humanistic heritage."—Fashion TheoryTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsClothing, Dress, Fashion: An ArcadeIntroduction: Fashioning a CenturyCristina Giorcelli1. Psychoanalytic Views of Cross-Dressing and TransvestismBianca Iaccarino Idelson2. Our Job Is to Create Beauty: A Personal Memoir of La PerlaAnna Masotti3. Modernity Clothing: Birthing the Modern Atlantic/Birthing the Modern RepublicCarroll Smith-Rosenberg4. Garment of the Unseen: The Philosophy of Clothes in Carlyle and EmersonGiuseppe Nori5. An Emblem of All the Rest: Wearing the Widow’s Cap in Victorian LiteratureDagni Bredesen6. Clothing the Marmorean Flock: Sartorial Historicism and The Marble FaunBruno Monfort7. FlorenceBeryl Korot8. Accessories to the Crime in What Maisie KnewClair Hughes9. Costume and Form: D’Annunzio and Mutable AppearancesMarta Savini10. Shawls Redefine Womanhood in American Literature, 1850s-1920sAnna Scacchi11. A Lovely Little Coffee-Colored Dress: Education, Female Identity, and Dress at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyCarmela Covato12. Gender and Power: Dressing “Charlie”Cristina Giorcelli13. Imaginative Habits: Fantasies of Undressing in The AmbassadorsAgnès Derail-ImbertCoda: Seen and ObscenePaula RabinowitzContributors
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University of Minnesota Press Cairo Pop
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ignored by scholars and disdained by the local intelligentsia as fluff, Egyptian pop (shababiyya) videos are streamed nonstop on local satellite television and loved by millions throughout the Middle East. Daniel J. Gilman’s is the first serious scholarly account of Egyptian pop, and it is a tour de force. Based on interviews with Cairo fans, he manages to convince us of shababiyya’s significance, explain its position in the music hierarchy, and explain why young listeners so appreciate its ‘sincerity’ and its modernity. An essential read." —Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas"An erudite examination of the interplay among pop culture, society and national identity."—George de Stefano, Pop Matters"Gilman succeeds in taking on a huge task, parsing out at an exceptional level the relationships found between a variety of musical styles and their fan bases. Indeed, by querying “What is Egyptian music?” he is in truth raising a far greater question, namely: “What is Egypt?” (p. 127)."—Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online"This book’s timeliness and relevance to contemporary Egyptian social and political forces make it an essential read for anthropologists, folklorists, and ethnomusicologists interested in the contemporary Middle East."—EthnomusicologyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and PseudonymsIntroduction: Good Music, Bad Music, and Youth Music1. “My Patience Is Short”: Youth Talk about Grandpa’s Music2. “Oh, My Brown-skinned Darling”: Sex, Music, and Egyptian-ness3. “The Hardest Thing to Say”: Taxonomies of Aesthetics4. “A Poem Befitting of Her”: Ambiguity and Sincerity in Revolutionary Pop CultureEpilogue: On the Counter-RevolutionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Loving Animals
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLoving Animals should be read by everyone who is concerned about the ethics of our relationship with animals. It provides a philosophical middle ground between extreme views on each side of the animal rights issue.—Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us HumanWe live in a messy and imperfect world, as Kathy Rudy puts it, where it's often difficult to always do the ‘right’ thing for nonhuman animals or, in some cases, even know what the ‘right’ decision is. People who truly love animals come to the table with different views because of our complicated, ambiguous, and frustrating relationships with other beings. Loving Animals is a wide-ranging and challenging book that deserves a broad readership. Dr. Rudy reviews different schools of thought and argues convincingly that sacredness, spirituality, and love must be central themes in animal advocacy. The work of love allows us to work together and move forward even in the harshest of times. I agree. Read this book and share it widely and I'm sure numerous animals will thank us for doing this.—Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of AnimalsIn Loving Animals, Kathy Rudy offers a refreshing new perspective on animal advocacy that is intellectually coherent, emotionally satisfying, and beautifully written. Some of Rudy’s conclusions regarding how we should treat the animals in our lives are radical, and yet they make perfect sense. This book is a treat for both head and heart, and parts of it will spin your head around.—Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About AnimalsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: A Change of Heart1. What’s behind Animal Advocacy?2. The Love of a Dog: Of Pets and Puppy Mills, Mixed-Breeds and Shelters3. The Animal on Your Plate: Farmers, Vegans, and Locavores4. Where the Wild Things Ought to Be: Sanctuaries, Zoos, and Exotic Pets5. From Object to Subject: Animals in Scientific Research6. Clothing Ourselves in Stories of Love: Affect and Animal AdvocacyConclusion: Trouble in the PackAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Under Bright Lights Gay Manila and the Global
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Under Bright Lights is a sophisticated, energetic, and highly engaging meditation on the practices of world-making undertaken by what Bobby Benedicto describes as contemporary privileged gay men in Manila." —Martin Joseph Ponce, author of Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading"Benedicto’s deep ethnographic engagement, careful conceptual argument, and lucid prose make this book a critically important contribution and a truly enjoyable read."—Environmental and Planning D: Society and Space"A landmark offering and a marvelous achievement."—American AnthropologistTable of ContentsContentsPrologue: City of ContradictionsIntroduction: Making a Scene1. Automobility and the Gay Cityscape2. Elsewhere, between Palawan and the Global City3. The Specter of Kabaklaan4. Transnational Transit and the Circuits of Privilege5. White Noise and the Shock of Racial ShameCoda: Nowhere to GoAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Global Gangs Street Violence across the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This volume must be appreciated not simply for the breadth of cases that it features but also for the collective work of its authors in refashioning a century of theory that relegated the gang to oddball status." —Sudhir Venkatesh, from the AfterwordTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gangs in a Global Comparative PerspectiveDennis Rodgers and Jennifer M. HazenPart I. Gang Formation and Transformation1. Intimate Connections: Gangs and the Political Economy of Urbanization in South AfricaSteffen Jensen2. Cholo! The Migratory Origins of Chicano Gangs in Los AngelesJames Diego Vigil3. Capitalizing on Change: Gangs, Ideology, and the Transition to a Liberal Economy in the Russian FederationAlexander Salagaev and Rustem Safin4. Of Marginality and “Little Emperors”: The Changing Reality of Chinese Youth GangsLening Zhang5. From Black Jackets to Zulus: Social Imagination, Myth, and Reality Concerning French GangsMarwan Mohammed6. Maras and the Politics of Violence in El SalvadorJosé Miguel CruzPart II. Problematizing Gangs7. Youth Gangs and Otherwise in IndonesiaLoren Ryter8. “Playing the Game”: Gang/Militia Logics in War-Torn Sierra LeoneMats Utas9. “For Your Safety”: Child Vigilante Squads and Neo-Gangsterism in Urban IndiaAtreyee Sen10. “We Are the True Blood of the Mau Mau”: The Mungiki Movement in KenyaJacob Rasmussen11. Gang Politics in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEnrique Desmond Arias12. “Hecho en Mexico”: Gangs, Identities, and the Politics of Public SecurityGareth A. JonesAfterword: The Inevitable GangSudhir VenkateshContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Tongzhi Living
Book SynopsisThe first study of its kind, Tongzhi Living offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in northeast China and shows that their attempts to practice both conformity and rebellion paradoxically undercut the goals they aspire to reach.Trade Review"Tongzhi Living is ethnographically rich, beautifully written, and poignantly descriptive of many social spaces in urban China. Through the lens of tongzhi struggles, desires, and community organizing, we witness people working against marginalization, silence, and invisibility."—Ralph Litzinger, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: A Walk in the Park 1. A Cultural History of Same-Sex Desire in China2. Popular Perceptions of Homosexuality in Postsocialist China3. The 1s and the 0s: Defining, Socializing, and Disciplining Gender Roles in the Tongzhi Community4. The Normal Postsocialist Subject: Class, Wealth, and Money Boys5. Organizing against HIV in China6. Embracing the Heterosexual Norm: The Double Lives of Tongzhi7. Safe Sex among Men: Condoms, Promiscuity, and HIVConclusion: Maybe Not Marriage: A Future Free of the ClosetAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press HIV Exceptionalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A keenly observed case study."—Foreign Affairs"HIV Exceptionalism will be a fine addition to both institutional and personal libraries, offering insights for global health and development scholars, and particularly for HIV/AIDS researchers."—African Studies Review"Through fine-grained accounts describing how individuals navigated new structures, new relationships, and new expectations that came along with being beneficiaries of global HIV funding, Benton reveals that jagged edges and uncomfortable truths about broader global-local health encounters. This book tells a compelling story about an entire society adapting to a sudden infusion of donor money for a disease that, in this particular context, barely existed."—Anthropological Quarterly"Benton recovers numerous silences and opens a conversation foregrounding the unarticulated moral epistemologies people struggle with."—Journal of African History"Benton adeptly dissects the psychological and practical effects of the well-meaning but often overbearing world of development. HIV Exceptionalism is strongly argued and impressively researched."—The Lancet"This book serves as a critical call to those in the public health field to be wary of health programming that so imbalances comprehensive healthcare services in an effort to target a health problem that is perceived as exceptional, emergent and urgent."—Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: HIV Exceptionalism in Sierra Leone: Christiana’s StoryPart I. The Exceptional Life of HIV in Sierra Leone1. The HIV Industry in Postwar Sierra Leone2. Exceptional Life, Exceptional Suffering: Enumerating HIV’s TruthsPart II. Becoming HIV-Positive3. The Imperative to Talk: Disclosure and Its Preoccupations4. Positive Living: Hierarchies of Visibility, Vulnerability, and Self-ReliancePart III. HIV and Governance5. For Love of Country: Model Citizens, Good Governance, and the Nationalization of HIVConclusion: The Future of HIV ExceptionalismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Bamako Sounds
Book Synopsis"Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota."Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: A Sense of Urban Africa1. Representing Bamako2. Artistiya3. Ethics and Aesthetics4. A Pious Poetics of Place5. Money Trouble6. Afropolitan PatriotismConclusion: An Africanist’s QueryAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Compulsory
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking look at America's public education system through the lens of prison schoolingTrade Review"Fiercely rendered, Compulsory is the book for our moment. This book requires readers to remap the circuits that bind schools to prisons and the state and centers how communities—including young men who are locked up and their loved ones—negotiate, and often shatteringly resist, these powerlines. Situating the ‘prison classroom’ within a carceral landscape punctuated by deeply racialized and heteropatriachal practices of removal and premature death, Sabina E. Vaught’s necessary and poetic writing moves activist scholarship into needed and new terrains and pushes readers to mourn, to analyze, and to build struggles for radical freedom that leave no one behind."—Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University"Compulsory is a critical ethnography that examines the institution of public education through the lens of the Lincoln prison school at Lincoln Treatment Center, a high-security detention center for males. Observations and interviews with prisoners, their families, teachers, the security staff, and the prison administration offer a vivid look into the specific lives of those at Lincoln and the institutional setting. "—American Journal of Sociology"A highly original, masterful look at the inner workings and logic of the American juvenile justice system. This is the single best book to date on juvenile justice in the age of mass incarceration. Compulsory is an instant classic."—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Take No PrisonersPart I. Outside1. with its institutions: The Education State2. Keys: Lockup and Juvenile Prison3. The Street: Arterials of the White State4. Second Possession: Racial Property and Removal5. Home: A Story in Three PartsPart II. Inside6. Compulsory Schooling: Inside the Education State7. The Architecture of Discipline: Personal Safety and Prison Security8. Guilty by Association: Kinship and TreatmentConclusion: FutilitiesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Servant Class City Urban Revitalization
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Written in an accessible style, this is a cautionary tale of how urban revitalization bypasses low-income communities, constraining the economic mobility of the working poor and increasing their reliance on shady financial services and other predatory institutions."—Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago"The Servant Class City is a remarkable book. There are few other books that document growing urban inequality's mechanisms in such a fine-grained way, with both qualitative and quantitative evidence."—Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin–Madison"The book’s strong point is its grounding in the real lives of people."—Planning Magazine"This valuable case study does an excellent job of demonstrating the complex reality the hardworking poor face in neoliberal capitalism."—CHOICE"Karjanen expertly illustrates the ineffectiveness of conventional revitalization initiatives devised to reduce poverty."—H-Net"There is much to like about Karjanen’s work."—Journal of Urban Affairs"Karjanen’s work is an exemplary study that paves the way for future work in urban sociology."—Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Changing Urban Fortunes 1. Subsidizing Capital and Expanding Low-Wage Work 2. A Good Job Is Hard to Find Part II. Working in the Servant Class 3. Working in the Hospitality Industry 4. Working Retail in the Inner City 5. Working On, Off, and Around the Books Part III. Living in the Servant-Class Economy 6. Do-It-Yourself Safety Nets 7. Asset Poverty and the High Cost of Fringe Banking 8. The Low-Income Trap: Barriers to Economic Mobility Conclusion: An Expanding Servant Class or a Pathway to Prosperity? Appendix A. The Communities Appendix B. Servant Class Occupations in San Diego Appendix C. Survey Data and Methodology Chronology Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press American by Paper How Documents Matter in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I leave Vieira’s book feeling deeply that ours is a crazy system: Why keep piling documents on top of documents, making of them a wall to the world? Why should migrants—people—have to choose between the time-consuming work of pursuing English or caring for their families? Why make migrant lives any harder than they already are? American by Paper urges us to rethink all that we ask of those who seek a better life."—Catherine Prendergast, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign"Relentless in its critique of literacy as a social practice and in its effort to develop a counter-narrative, American by Paper forces open a conversation that has been lingering but has not received the kind of attention it deserves."—Juan Guerra, University of Washington"A riveting account of those pursuing the American Dream."—CHOICE "Vieira aims to contribute to the social history of literacy with American By Paper, informing pedagogy and practice through a comprehensive consideration of literacy, documents, and bureaucracy in ordinary life." —PoLARTable of ContentsContentsPreface: An American with PapersAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. How Documents Matter in Migrants’ Lives1. Literacy and Assimilation in an Age of Papers: The View from South Mills2. “American by Paper”: Azorean and Azorean American Literacy Lives3. Undocumented in a Documentary Society: Brazilian Literacy Lives4. “It’s Not Because of the English”: Literacy Lives of the YoungConclusion. Lessons Learned from Transnational Lives: Toward a Sociomaterialist LiteracyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Herlands Exploring the Womens Land Movement in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"No foggy remnant of a dying era, lesbian (and women’s) lands continue to provide meaning and solace to many women who are dissatisfied with and alienated from the dominant U.S. culture and its heterosexism. Herlands documents a particular moment in history in which a radical movement of primarily white women imagined and crafted a different world. There are few instances cross-culturally in which women have taken such dramatic steps to remake the world in their own image, which is why this story, an empathetic view of a group of women continuing to define themselves and live independently, is a must read."—Evelyn Blackwood, Purdue University"Herlands is an accessible and sympathetic ethnography of the lesbian back-to-the-land movement. Going well beyond caricatures of landdykes, Keridwen N. Luis shows the promise of feminist intentional communities—their enactment of utopic ideals of collectivity, feminist embodiment, and ecofeminism—without sidelining how the animating logic of women’s nature/nature-as-woman also reproduces transphobia, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. What emerges is a complex reading of gender, race, and nature in a rural lesbian culture."—Margot Weiss, author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality "The book is an ethnography rooted in the methods and language of Anthropology. It’s refreshing to see women's lands positioned as the saving remnants that we always hoped they might become!"—Duluth News Tribune "For urban, landscape, and community planners, a careful read of Herlands can shake loose the biases and banalities that inform our current assumptions about who is included in our sanitized visions of future communities. Landscape architecture and planning practices are grappling with intersecting threads of systemic racism and segregation, income inequality, and new perspectives on gender and identity, all within the context of climate change. Women’s communities have been facing these issues head-on, grappling with them in all the conflict and messiness required in utopian work, and they offer clues for alternative practices. "—Landscape Architecture Magazine "Luis describes the unique freedom she feels in an exclusively woman space. She is able to interact with others less carefully, and to experience a sense of self-possession and awareness."—Full Stop "Herlands makes important points about the cultural dynamics of social movements, the politicization of everyday life, current debates within feminism, and the persistence of inequality within social movements."—Mobilization "The book is deeply enmeshed in cutting-edge contemporary academic arguments about identity politics."—American Journal of Sociology "The relevance of the collectives, in addition to their reach into mainstream and left-of-mainstream culture, is their creation of a space to debate and examine and critique. In some of the most refreshing sections of the book, Luis describes the unique freedom she feels in an exclusively woman space."—Full Stop Reviews Supplement "Luis’s depiction of real women necessarily provides a much more nuanced narrative of complex lives, identities, and motives."—H-Net "This book beautifully illustrates the possibilities that can become realities when people collectively re-imagine ways of building community, creating homes, and living outside of traditional societal structures."—Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies Table of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to Women’s Land, Here Is Your Umbrella1. The Political Is Personal: From the Peace Camp and Women’s Music Festivals to Women’s Land2. Are the Amazons White? Race and Space on Women’s Land3. “Now My Neighbors and Friends Are the Same People”: Community, Language, and Identity4. The Giving Tree: Gift Economies Planted in Capitalist Soil5. The Mountain Is She: Gender as Landscape, Landscape as Gender6. Primally Female: Agency and the Meaning of the Body on Women’s Land7. We Have Met the Enemy and She Is Us: Scapegoating Trans Bodies8. The Hermit and the Family: Aging and Dis/Ability in CommunityAfterword: Women’s Lands, Women’s LivesAcknowledgmentsBibliography
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University of Minnesota Press When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Thomas W. Pearson takes us to the front lines of one of the great under-reported environmental issues in America today—how the fracking industry’s hunger for sand is impacting rural Wisconsin. His deep research and intimate portraits of people on all sides of the controversy make this an important and timely read for anyone concerned about our country’s environment, natural resources, and what happens when the needs of big business collide with those of ordinary citizens."—Vince Beiser, award-winning journalist"A masterful blend of stories and scholarship that will be the definitive account of a major environmental justice issue. Thomas W. Pearson is fair-minded and unflinching as he traces the erasure of place and the scramble to salvage community and democracy."—Adam Briggle, author of A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking"When the Hills Are Gone is a riveting, sobering story about local democracy at the whipped-around tail-end of the frack-driven oil and gas boom that has rocked the United States since the turn of the millennium. The writing is lively and reflective—deftly portraying the many micro-tactics through which local democracy can be undercut and the many kinds of people working against this in rural Wisconsin. This is critical reading for understanding contemporary politics on the ground."—Kim Fortun, University of California, Irvine"The churning engine of the global energy economy always touches down in local places, sometimes to brutal effect. Thomas W. Pearson provides a compelling and deeply personal story of one such place, the sand hills of Wisconsin. Both an ethnography and a study of state and local politics, When the Hills Are Gone richly describes community divisions and sudden activism in places where disruptive environmental change is ongoing."—Paul Robbins, director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison"For scholars, activists, and students seeking understanding of mining and rural politics in the United States, this book will be essential reading." —Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Magic Mineral1. Save Our Hills2. Low Hanging Fruit3. Dangers Unseen4. Where You Live5. Neighbors6. In Pursuit of Local Democracy7. Confronting the Next BoomAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Ulster and North America Transatlantic Perspectives on the ScotchIrish
Book SynopsisThe 11 essays in this volume, originally presented at meetings of the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium by scholars from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the USA, explore the nature of Scotch-Irish culture by examining values, traditions, demographics, and language.Trade ReviewThese essays should lay to rest any lingering doubts that the Scotch-Irish have made a major contribution to North American civilization in general and to that of the U.S. Upper South in particular. - Now & Then Magazine
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The University of Alabama Press Building Back Better in India Development NGOs
Book SynopsisAddresses the ways in which natural disasters impact the strategies and priorities of neoliberalizing states in the contemporary era. Raja Swamy offers an ethnographically rich account of post-disaster reconstruction, its contested aims, and the mixed outcomes of state policy, humanitarian aid, and local resistance.Trade ReviewAfter the 2004 tsunami in South India, reconstruction efforts leveraged the humanitarian gift of inland housing to relocate the artisanal fishing population and privatize the coastal commons. But the task of securing a spatial fix for capital accumulation failed. With keen ethnographic insight, Swamy shows how fishers sustained their claim to coastal life and livelihood while transforming humanitarian gifts into assets. Challenging assumptions about its depoliticizing and disciplining effects, he argues for humanitarianism as a contested process that can reset the contours of economy and politics." - Ajantha Subramanian, author of The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India"This rich, multi-level ethnography brings together a rich ethnography of a fishing community in India, with the largely separate literatures of humanitarianism, disaster studies and development studies, and offers new ways to help poor communities to remain political agents in the face of the forces of neo-liberalism." - Arjun Appadurai, author of India's World: The Politics of Creativity in a Globalized SocietyTable of Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: “Building Back Better” Part I. Nagapattinam Chapter 1. The Tsunami of 2004 and Its Aftermath Chapter 2. Artisanal Fishers, the State, and an NGO Part II. The Politics of Humanitarianism Chapter 3. NGO Antipolitics and Politics Chapter 4. The Humanitarian Gift Economy Part III. Economic Development and Humanitarian Aid Chapter 5. Unbridging the Future: Connectivity and Distance Chapter 6. Memory, Space, and Power Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Plains Earthlodges
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers provides a comprehensive gathering of the current research into earthlodges in a variety of Plains Indian cultures - Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Oglala Sioux - in the territory of the upper Missouri River and its tributaries.Trade ReviewAn excellent body of work that will serve as an important reference for many years. - George H. Odell, University of Tulsa
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press San Jacinto 1 A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the data gathered and the interpretations made during excavation and analysis of the San Jacinto 1 site. By examining the social activities of a human population in a highly seasonal environment, it adds to our contemporary understanding of the historical ecology of the tropics.Trade ReviewAn outstanding summary of the important San Jacinto site.... Few sites in the Americas offer this kind of window into early human complexity....The authors have written a remarkable synthesis of the ecological and behavioral issues surrounding early pottery making and intensive plant manipulation in the lowland tropics of Colombia. Geographers, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Latin Americanists, and archaeologists will find this an essential source of information on a key region of early South American civilization. - Tom D. Dillehay, Vanderbilt University
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Southern Heritage on Display
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA collection of articles articulating a stunningly intelligent comprehension of southern culture, this book models what true cultural studies should do: understand a culture according to how its people express it. - Choice. Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title ""From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in Mississippi and the Scottish Highland games atop Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, the reader is exposed to a diverse southern culture, or heritage, that is often overlooked by many people, both within and outside the South. The reality of a southern culture based in Mexican heritage of a celebration of [a] Southeastern tribe's heritage through the powwow helps deconstruct the myth of a solid southern culture as one that is simply portrayed as black and white."" - Florida Historical Quarterly
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University of Alabama Press Public Indians Private Cherokees Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground Contemporary American Indian Studies
Book SynopsisA major economic industry among American Indian tribes is the public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues. Comparing the experiences of the Cherokee with the Florida Seminoles and Southwestern tribes, this work brings into focus the fine line between promoting and selling Indian culture.
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The University of Alabama Press Under the Rattlesnake
Book SynopsisFor the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. All aspects - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - figure into the Cherokee concept of good health. This title provides a portrait of Cherokee health issues.
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press The Packhorseman Fire Ant Books
Book SynopsisIn April 1735, 20-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whiskey and a set of Shakespeare's plays, arrives in Charles Town, South Carolina, to make his fortune in the New World. The Scottish Highlands were in steep economic decline and hopelessly entangled in dangerous political intrigue.Trade ReviewHudson successfully carries the reader into the Cherokee world of 1735. His characters, settings, props, and human interactions are all convincing and historically, as well as anthropologically, sound. Readers will find this book engaging, entertaining, and enlightening. - Gregory A. Waselkov, author of A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press Trinidad Yoruba From Mother Tongue to Memory Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Trade ReviewAn important and innovative contribution to several related fields of study ranging from social sciences to African and Creole linguistics.... Carefully researched and well written. - American Speech ""Warner-Lewis argues that the inimical conditions of slavery, rather than leading to deprivation of culture, led culture bearers of central African descent to resolutely hold onto aspects of their cultural identity.... [This book] contains a wealth of information for any scholar."" - Latin American Research Review
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Inside the Eagles Head An American Indian College
Book SynopsisThe Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a self-described National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Through a series of interviews, this volume presents an innovative and enlightening look into the contemporary state of American Indian educational institutions.
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The University of Alabama Press Personality and the Cultural Construction of
Book SynopsisPyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful to speak of a social act as having "functions"? What elements and processes of human personality are universal, and why? What is the relationship between religion and personality? Why? What are the pyschological underpinnings of social manipulation?Trade Review"Superb. . . . An outstanding contribution to the field of psychological anthropology in particular and anthropology in general." -- Ralph Bolton, Pomona College|"The volume can be read with profit by all serious students of culture." -- American Anthropologist|"Unabashedly aims at using ethnographic material to illuminate general problems about human nature." -- American Ethnologist
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University of Alabama Press Remaining Chickasaw in Indian Territory 1830s1907
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The University of Alabama Press Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean
Book SynopsisIn this volume, practitioners of heritage management on the frontline of their own islands address the current state of affairs across the Caribbean to present a comprehensive overview of Caribbean heritage preservation challenges. Considerable variability is seen in how determined and serious different nations are in approaching the responsibilities of heritage preservation.
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The University of Alabama Press Expanding American Anthropology 19451980 A
Book SynopsisExpanding American Anthropology, 19451980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology's participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields, frequently on the initiative of individual practitioners. The Association of Senior Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) called upon a number of its leaders to give accounts of their particular innovations in the discipline. This volume is the result of the AAA venturea set of primary documents on the history of American anthropology at a critical juncture. In preparing the volume, the editors endeavoured to maintain the feeling of oral history within the chapters and to preserve the individual voices of the contributors. There are many books on the history of anthropology, but few that include personal essays from such a broad swath of different perspectives
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The University of Alabama Press The Domesticated Penis How Womanhood Has Shaped
Book SynopsisChallenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection made to the attributes of the modern male form.Trade ReviewRecommended."" - Choice“The Domesticated Penis is a study of the anatomical distinctiveness of the genitals of the human male and diverse cultural attitudes toward them and their symbolism. This is scholarship at its liveliest: a colorful, knowledgeable romp through history and across cultures and species, to explore how the penis we know and (mostly) love today developed its characteristic shape, size, physiology, and behavior. The core argument is evolutionary: ancient women knew what they wanted, and what they wanted was smooth, substantial, long-lasting penetration. Male anatomy evolved to match female desire.” - Beth A. Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society“Assiduously avoiding tired gender stereotypes and naive evolutionary reasoning, and written in clear and sparkling prose, Cormier’s and Jones’s book advances the debate on the evolution of human sexuality.” - Sarah S. Richardson, author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome“Professor Cormier and Professor Jones remind us that “there is perhaps no topic where cultural bias comes so glaringly into play as human sexuality.”-Times Higher Education
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The University of Alabama Press The Battle over Peleliu Islander Japanese and
Book SynopsisThe Japanese annexed the archipelago of Palau in 1914. The airbase built on Peleliu Island became a target for attack by the US in World War II. This book offers an ethnographic study of how Palau and Peleliu were transformed by warring powers and explores how their conflict is remembered differently by the three peoples who shared the experience.Trade ReviewStephen Murray has written a remarkably sensitive, insightful, and compassionate book about a war that continues. While Japanese forces surrendered the island of Peleliu in what is now the Republic of Palau to American invaders on 24 November 1944, the battle goes on around issues of memory, commemoration, and the meaning of history. To his great credit, Stephen Murray has done much to redress the imbalance and injustice." - The Contemporary Pacific"The Battle over Peleliu is an important contribution to Pacific history, because it considers the significant voices, experiences and memories of the Islanders in their view of the battle for Peleliu as 'an unmitigated social, cultural, and environmental diaster'" - The Journal of Pacific History"In the field of Pacific Island ethnography, and more particularly studies of Palauan society, culture, and history, this book has no equal. Murray's focus on the people of the island of Peleliu and their relationship to the bloody battle which took place there in 1944 is particularly illuminating. Also noteworthy are his very lucid sketch of Palauan social structure and his astute analysis of the differential impact of Japanese and US colonialism on that social structure." - Peter W. Black, coauthor Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives"Among the book manuscripts I have had the honor to review, no other has impressed, inspired, and touched me as deeply as this one. For those of us trying hard to expand world history to include a focus on the Pacific, this book will be a welcome aid to refocus students' geographical perceptions of history and challenge received wisdom. Murray's story is at once academically grounded, intellectually integer, practically informed, and personally engaged-a combination that cannot fail to attract considerable attention." - Franziska Seraphim, author of War, Memory, and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Palauan and Colonial Landscapes Chapter 1 History, Memory, and Island Landscapes Chapter 2 Colonial Masters and Island Society Part II. Peace, War, and a New Empire Chapter 3 Smiling Sky, Gathering Clouds Chapter 4 War Chapter 5 Exile, Fear, and Hunger: Ngaraard, Babeldaob, 1944-1945 Chapter 6 An Island Desolated, a Trust Betrayed, 1946-1994 Part III. Pursuing Memory Chapter 7 Retrieving the Dead Chapter 8 Remembering a Painful Victory Chapter 9 Parallel Histories: Three Peoples' Memories of War and Loss Conclusion: The Roots of the Plant Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Navigating Souths Transdisciplinary Explorations
Book SynopsisThe fourteen original essays in Navigating Souths articulate questions about the significances of the South as a theoretical and literal “home” base for social science and humanities researchers. They also examine challenges faced by researchers who identify as southern studies scholars.
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Ohio University Press Anxiety in and about Africa
Book SynopsisThis addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective anxieties can unsettle dominant historical narratives, shape contemporary discourse, and appear across material culture.Trade Review“Using ‘anxiety’ as the organizing rubric, this collective examination of affect, emotion, and concern across Africa, geographically and temporally, delves into fascinating disciplinary endeavors and disparate approaches. Although ‘anxiety’ is deliberately not defined strictly by the editors, and the contributors employ their own, different takes on what is anxiety inducing (and what is inferred by being anxiety provoking), this volume contains valuable essays about historical periods or behavioral thresholds that may be labeled as sources of anxiety…. Recommended.” * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii I n t roduct ion States of Anxiety in Africa Perspectives, Approaches, and Potential Yola na Pringle and Andrea Mariko Grant 1 PART I: Anxious Spaces One: Misapprehensions. Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa’s Archaeological Past (Rach el King) Two: Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing. Settlers’ Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s–30s (Cécile Feza Bushidi) Three: Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (Kalala Ngala mulume) Part II: Unsettling Na rratives Four: Anxiety over Masculinity. Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II’s Buganda, 1884–97 (Naka nyike B. Musisi) Five: No End to the Trouble. Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963–64 (Will Jacks on and Harry Firth-Jones) Six: Competing Development “Visions”? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda (Andrea Mariko Grant) Part III: Alternative Temporalities Seven: “Right Now, I Don’t Know What the Future Might Bring”. Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis (Simon Turner) Eight: “Obuganda Buladde". Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda (Jonathon L. Earle) Contributors Index
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Ohio University Press A Language for the World The Standardization of
Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili—a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabet—argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.Trade Review“Morgan Robinson’s A Language for the World is original, thoroughly researched, and accessible. Robinson complicates our understanding of the development of Swahili, using fascinating microhistories of diverse actors drawn from extensive archival research to challenge longstanding assumptions. This profoundly innovative book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, languages, and cultures of East Africa.” -- Matthew S. Hopper, author of Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire“This wonderful book offers a new and original account of the history of Standard Swahili. Drawing on rich archival research and a close reading of Swahili-language texts such as the magazine Msimulizi and the publications of the East African Literature Bureau, Morgan Robinson argues that the development of Standard Swahili from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century should be understood as the outcome of multiple and competing projects united by a shared goal of communication. This book is an important contribution to histories of the Swahili language and to the intellectual and cultural history of East Africa more broadly.” -- Emma Hunter, author of Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization“Morgan Robinson’s history of the standardization of Swahili is not your standard history. Her skill in showing the level of influence that African interlocutors wielded, as well as their affective investment, in interpreting, defining, and shaping this African lingua franca throughout the colonial period and beyond is an achievement. Robinson’s novel approach embraces the amorphous nature of this linguistic development, yet guides the reader comfortably through its neither-here-nor-there process while remaining clear and coherent. This is an enlightening read.” -- Steven Fabian, author of Making Identity on the Swahili Coast: Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo
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Ohio University Press A Language for the World
Book SynopsisThis intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of East Africa and beyond.Morgan J. Robinson argues that the portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use not only across the African continent but also around the globe. The book pivots on the question of whether standardized versions of African languages have empowered or oppressed. It is inevitable that the selection and promotion of one version of a language as standarda move typically associated with missionaries and colonial regimesnegatively affected those whose language was suddenly deemed nonstandard. Before reconciling the consequences of codification, however, Robinson argues that one must seek to understand the process itself. The history of Standard Swahili demonstrates how events, people, and ideas move rapidly and sometimes surprisingly between linguistiTrade Review“Morgan Robinson’s A Language for the World is original, thoroughly researched, and accessible. Robinson complicates our understanding of the development of Swahili, using fascinating microhistories of diverse actors drawn from extensive archival research to challenge longstanding assumptions. This profoundly innovative book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, languages, and cultures of East Africa.” -- Matthew S. Hopper, author of Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire“This wonderful book offers a new and original account of the history of Standard Swahili. Drawing on rich archival research and a close reading of Swahili-language texts such as the magazine Msimulizi and the publications of the East African Literature Bureau, Morgan Robinson argues that the development of Standard Swahili from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century should be understood as the outcome of multiple and competing projects united by a shared goal of communication. This book is an important contribution to histories of the Swahili language and to the intellectual and cultural history of East Africa more broadly.” -- Emma Hunter, author of Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization“Morgan Robinson’s history of the standardization of Swahili is not your standard history. Her skill in showing the level of influence that African interlocutors wielded, as well as their affective investment, in interpreting, defining, and shaping this African lingua franca throughout the colonial period and beyond is an achievement. Robinson’s novel approach embraces the amorphous nature of this linguistic development, yet guides the reader comfortably through its neither-here-nor-there process while remaining clear and coherent. This is an enlightening read.” -- Steven Fabian, author of Making Identity on the Swahili Coast: Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo
£25.19
Ohio University Press Africanizing Oncology
Book SynopsisCombining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Institute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and actions of health care providers and patients.Trade Review“Mika’s lively history shows how Ugandan physician-scientists used cancer research to build oncology care and infrastructure over five decades of labile national politics, pervasive scarcity, and often ephemeral international partnerships. This engaging account illuminates struggles that shaped both global oncology knowledge and the fates of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans facing cancer diagnoses.” -- Claire L. Wendland, author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School“Based on rich historical and ethnographic research, Africanizing Oncology provides an intimate, and at times harrowing view of the day-to-day activities of care, research, and healing that permitted physicians, researchers, nurses, and patients to survive civil war, structural adjustment, and massive global disparities in health resources to build and sustain an African cancer research institute. The book is a remarkable achievement.” -- Randall M. Packard, author or A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples“In this historically and ethnographically rich book, Marissa Mika shows how African doctors and nurses practice oncology by creating, adapting, and transforming medical infrastructures. Tracing the life of the Uganda Cancer Institute through historical periods of independence, dictatorship, war, structural adjustment, and the HIV pandemic, this powerful book reveals the challenges and opportunities of Africanizing oncology. This is a landmark study on the history—and future—of global oncology.” -- Carlo Caduff, author of The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger“In recounting half a century of research and care at the Uganda Cancer Institute, Marissa Mika tells an unforgettable story of the power of connections and the consequences of their loss. Ugandan physician/researchers and their staff proved the value of therapies because they had made friendships that motivated families to return to Kampala for follow-up, but that knowledge became useless when funders’ priorities changed and international partnerships ended. Mika’s story of UCI shows horrifying wounds—and the possibility of healing—in postindependence Uganda, in global health, and in the way we think about the world.” -- Holly Hanson, author of To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015
£25.19
MD - Duke University Press Cultures of United States Imperialism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A superb collection of essays that presents a unique model for a Post-American cultural studies. As a whole, the volume argues persuasively for the centrality of culture in the study of imperialist politics and the defining significance of imperialism in U.S. cultural formations."—Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine"This collection is well positioned to intervene in the most important scholarly debates of our time."—George Lipsitz, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsIntroduction "Left Alone with America": The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture / Amy Kaplan 3 New Perspectives on U.S. Culture and Imperialism / Donald E. Pease 22 1. Nation-Building as Empire-Building Why Did the Europeans Cross the Ocean? A Seventeenth-Century Riddle / Myra Jehlen 41 Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation / Priscilla Wald 59 The Naming of Yale College: British Imperialism and American Higher Education / Gauri Viswanathan 85 Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and The Pioneers / Eric Cheyfitz 109 Science Fiction, the World's Fair, and the Prosthetics of Empire, 1910-1915 / Bill Brown 129 Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" and the Mythologization of the American Empire / Richard Slotkin 164 II. Borderline Negotiations of Race, Gender, and Nation White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael 185 Black and Blue on San Juan Hill / Amy Kaplan 219 Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway 237 Americo Paredes and Decolonization / Jose David Saldivar 292 Pious Sites: Chamorro Culture Between Spanish Catholicism and American Liberal Individualism / Vicente M. Diaz 312 Plotting the Border: John Reed, Pancho Villa, and Insurgent Mexico / Christopher P. Wilson 340 III. Colonizing Resistance or Resisting Colonization? Anti-Imperial Americanism / Walter Benn Michaels 365 Appeals for (Mis)recognition: Theorizing the Diaspora / Kenneth W. Warren 392 Resisting the Heat: Menchu, Morrison, and Incompetent Readers / Doris Sommer 407 Black Americans' Racial Uplift Ideology as "Civilizing Mission": Pauline E. Hopkins on Race and Imperialism / Kevin Gaines 433 From Liberalism to Communism: The Political Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois / William E. Cain 456 White Like Me: Racial Cross-Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness / Eric Lott 474 IV. Imperial Spectacles "Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics [and] The Sequel / Michael Rogin 499 The Patriot System, or Managerial Heroism / Susan Jeffords 535 Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, and the Gulf War Post-National Spectacles / Donald E. Pease 557 Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": From the Quagmire to the Gulf / Lynda Boose 581 "Bwana Mickey": Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland / Mary Yoko Brannen 617 We Think, Therefore They Are? On Occidentalizing the World / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington 635 Index 657 Contributors 669
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Duke University Press Social Currents in Eastern Europe
Book Synopsis Social Currents in Eastern Europe traces the diverse social currents that have developed alongside and interacted with political and economic forces to bring about change in Eastern Europe. In this second edition—which significantly updates and expands the previous edition to include a new introduction, revisions throughout, as well as five new chapters, including timely material on ethnic war in the former Yugoslavia—Ramet extends and develops the theory of social change upon which the book is based.Ramet draws on interviews conducted over a ten-year period with individuals active in arenas for social change—intellectual dissent, feminism, religious activism, youth cultures and movements, and trade unionism—in eight East European countries: East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. She shows how the processes leading to the ultimate collapse of communism began more than a decade earlier and how thTable of ContentsTables ix Preface to the Second Edition x Preface to the First Edition xi Abbreviations xv I. Introduction 3 2. Social Currents and Social Change 24 II. Dissent and Parallel Society in the 1980s 3. Disaffection and Dissent in East Germany 55 4. Underground Solidarity and Parallel Society in Poland 84 5. Independent Activism in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania 120 III. Religious and Ethnic Currents 6. Religious Change and New Cults in Eastern Europe 155 7. Church and Dissent in Praetorian Poland 178 8. Serb-Albanian Tensions in Kosovo 196 IV. A New Generation 9. Feminism in Yugoslavia 219 10. Rock Music and Counterculture 234 11. Young People: The Lost Generation 262 V. Collapse of the Old Order 12. Bulgaria: A Weak Society 279 13. Strong Societies: Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia 288 14. Dominoes: East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Future of Europe 313 15. The Great Transformation 338 VI. Building New Systems 16. Core Tasks for a Pluralist Order 371 17. Yugoslav Breakup and Ethnic War 401 18. Civil Society and Uncivil Chauvinism 431 19. Propositions About the Future 455 Appendixes: Public Opinion Polls 461 Notes 483 Selected Bibliography 565 Index 569
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Duke University Press Social Currents in Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisTraces the diverse social currents that developed alongside and interacted with political and economic forces to bring about change in Eastern Europe. This book shows how the processes leading to the collapse of communism began more than a decade earlier and how they were necessarily manifested in spheres as diverse as religion and rock music.Table of ContentsTables ix Preface to the Second Edition x Preface to the First Edition xi Abbreviations xv I. Introduction 3 2. Social Currents and Social Change 24 II. Dissent and Parallel Society in the 1980s 3. Disaffection and Dissent in East Germany 55 4. Underground Solidarity and Parallel Society in Poland 84 5. Independent Activism in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania 120 III. Religious and Ethnic Currents 6. Religious Change and New Cults in Eastern Europe 155 7. Church and Dissent in Praetorian Poland 178 8. Serb-Albanian Tensions in Kosovo 196 IV. A New Generation 9. Feminism in Yugoslavia 219 10. Rock Music and Counterculture 234 11. Young People: The Lost Generation 262 V. Collapse of the Old Order 12. Bulgaria: A Weak Society 279 13. Strong Societies: Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia 288 14. Dominoes: East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Future of Europe 313 15. The Great Transformation 338 VI. Building New Systems 16. Core Tasks for a Pluralist Order 371 17. Yugoslav Breakup and Ethnic War 401 18. Civil Society and Uncivil Chauvinism 431 19. Propositions About the Future 455 Appendixes: Public Opinion Polls 461 Notes 483 Selected Bibliography 565 Index 569
£100.80
Duke University Press The Third Eye
Book SynopsisCharting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, this title explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific.Trade Review“The Third Eye is an extraordinary contribution to both film history and the theorization of the ethnographic gaze. Informed by Rony’s close involvement with contemporary art practice and documentary film production, this fascinating book breaks with familiar genres of academic writing to provide an exciting new take on practices of ethnographic looking, the cultural history of the body, and the racial and sexual politics of visual culture in colonial science.”—Lisa Cartwright, University of RochesterTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Third Eye 3 I. Inscription 1. Seeing Anthropology: Felix-Louis Regnault, the Narrative of race, and the Performers at the Ethnographic Exposition 21 2. The Writing of Race in Film: Felix-Louis Regnault and the Ideology of the Ethnographic Film Archive 45 II. Taxidermy 3. Gestures of Self-Protection: The Picturesque and the Travelogue 77 4. Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North 99 III. Teratology 5. Time and Redemption in the "Racial Film" of the 1920s and 1930s 129 6. King Kong and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema 157 Conclusion. Passion of Remembrance: Facing the Camera/Grabbing the Camera 193 Notes 219 Bibliography 265 Index 289
£80.10
Duke University Press The Third Eye
Book SynopsisCharting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, this title explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific.Trade Review“The Third Eye is an extraordinary contribution to both film history and the theorization of the ethnographic gaze. Informed by Rony’s close involvement with contemporary art practice and documentary film production, this fascinating book breaks with familiar genres of academic writing to provide an exciting new take on practices of ethnographic looking, the cultural history of the body, and the racial and sexual politics of visual culture in colonial science.”—Lisa Cartwright, University of RochesterTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Third Eye 3 I. Inscription 1. Seeing Anthropology: Felix-Louis Regnault, the Narrative of race, and the Performers at the Ethnographic Exposition 21 2. The Writing of Race in Film: Felix-Louis Regnault and the Ideology of the Ethnographic Film Archive 45 II. Taxidermy 3. Gestures of Self-Protection: The Picturesque and the Travelogue 77 4. Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North 99 III. Teratology 5. Time and Redemption in the "Racial Film" of the 1920s and 1930s 129 6. King Kong and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema 157 Conclusion. Passion of Remembrance: Facing the Camera/Grabbing the Camera 193 Notes 219 Bibliography 265 Index 289
£25.19
Duke University Press Producing Guanxi
Book SynopsisShows what guanxi production, the formation of social connections, reveals about the evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender in Dengist China.Trade Review"An elegantly written, conceptually deft, and careful piece of work. I know of no other systematic contemporary attempt to theorize guanxi in a rural context. Kipnis’s theoretically sophisticated involvement with current debates in anthropology will also ensure that this book is of interest to a scholarly audience both within and beyond the China field."— Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz"This is a rich and well-reflected ethnographic text that captures a core feature of both traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. The richness and variety of ethnographic descriptions reveal the author’s meticulous fieldwork and his insightful and thought–provoking observations. This book will help correct the current imbalance towards depicting urban guanxi by examining the roots of guanxi in rural and peasant kinship, ethics, and rituals."—Mayfair Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara
£22.49
Duke University Press Wandering Peoples
Book SynopsisFocusing on the native subjects of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico, this book explores the social process of peasant class formation and the cultural persistence of Indian communities, during the transitional period between Spanish colonialism and Mexican national rule. It is useful for those in the fields of Latin American and postcolonial studies.Trade Review“Wandering Peoples is an example of regional history at its best. Cynthia Radding is one of the finest practitioners in the emerging field of Latin American ecological history; indeed, she is playing a major role in shaping the field. This book is an important and innovative contribution to colonial Mexican studies and will resonate with scholars working on any part of the globe who are engaged with its key themes.”—Ann Wightman, Wesleyan University“Here, for the first time, we get an extensive treatment of the ‘ordinary’ men and women who populated the missions, presidios, mining camps, and other settlements of Sonora—they have names, identities, agendas, and complex strategies for coping with the multiple demands they face. Those specializing in other geographical areas—not just Latin Americanists—would do well to consider the concrete grounding of this working model.”—Cheryl Martin, The University of Texas, El Paso
£27.90
