Social and cultural anthropology Books
Fordham University Press The Blind Man A Phantasmography
Book SynopsisAn anthropologist’s captivating journey into the realms of photographic imagery,exposing the complex interplay of perception and imagination in contemporarylifeTable of ContentsPreface vii Photography tears the subject from itself 1 Plastic intimacies 35 Corneal abrasion 55 Opticalterities 79 The delirium of images 95 Baroque vision 117 Phanomenology 145 The collector of eyes 163 Allusions and Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Selected Bibliography 205
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Fordham University Press The Blind Man A Phantasmography
Book SynopsisAn anthropologist’s captivating journey into the realms of photographic imagery,exposing the complex interplay of perception and imagination in contemporarylifeTable of ContentsPreface vii Photography tears the subject from itself 1 Plastic intimacies 35 Corneal abrasion 55 Opticalterities 79 The delirium of images 95 Baroque vision 117 Phanomenology 145 The collector of eyes 163 Allusions and Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Selected Bibliography 205
£78.30
Fordham University Press Peoples Car Industrial India and the Riddles of
Book SynopsisPeople's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.Trade ReviewAmid a glut of work on the urban global South, it is refreshing to read a book that strives to think the contemporary dynamics of development and agrarian change ethnographically. The book convincingly argues that the romanticized portrayals of either the communitarian peasant (commonplace in activist portrayals) or the irrational peasant (commonplace in policy circles and certain quarters of disciplinary economics) miss the point. Land, Majumder argues, is a vessel of personhood and unrequited desires. Attentive to the conflicted sentiments and desires of its peasant informants, the book refreshingly refuses to toe a clear ideological line. This well-crafted, clearly written book poses important questions of broad relevance to contemporary India and beyond. -- Vinay Gidwani, University of MinnesotaPeople’s Car offers an extraordinarily valuable take on a major movement against the acquisition of land for development, in the case of a Tata Motors car factory. The factory becomes the alibi for nuanced interrogations, both material and theoretical, of resistance, anthropology, economics, political economies, rural-scapes and the very nature and idea of land. -- Geeta Patel, University of VirginiaSarasij Majumder’s new ethnography, People’s Car, does what anthropology does best: he shows (not tells) how populism works... Anthropologists, South Asia scholars, and readers interested in class, labor, gender and village life will greatly benefit from Majumder’s attention to the rural not as object, but as process. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *Majumder’s book deserves to be read by everybody interested in the present of West Bengal as history; so that, above all, one may not mistake snake oils of the past for elixirs of the future.---Indraneel Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Economic and Political WeeklyTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix A Timeline of the Events in Singur xi Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development 1 1. “We Are Chasis, Not Chasas”: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities 33 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land 62 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests 100 4. “Peasants” Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists’ Representations of the Rural 131 Conclusion: Value Versus Values? 153 Postscript: From a Defunct Factory to a “Crematorium” 167 Acknowledgments 171 Glossary 175 References 177 Index 193 Photographs follow page 14
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Fordham University Press The TongueTied Imagination Decolonizing Literary
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsNote on Orthography and Pronunciation, ix Introduction: Unwinding the Language Question, 1 Part I Colonial Literary Modernity 1. The Fetish of Textuality: David Boilat’s Notebooks and the Making of a Literary Past, 33 2. Para-literary Authorship: Colonial Education and the Uses of Literature, 51 3. Toward the Future Reader: Print Networks and the Question of the Audience, 96 Part II Decolonization and the Language Question 4. Senghor’s Grammatology: The Political Imaginaries of Writing African Languages, 123 5. Counterpoetics: Translation as Aesthetic Constraint in Sembène’s Mandabi and Ndao’s Buur Tilleen, 152 Part III World Literature, Neoliberalism 6. How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique, 181 7. Aesthetics After Austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the Work of Literature in Neoliberal Senegal, 203 Epilogue. Out of Time: Decolonization and the Future of World Literature, 233 Acknowledgments, 243 Notes, 247 Bibliography, 303 Index, 331
£78.30
Fordham University Press The Disabled Church Human Difference and the Art
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction: Disabling Liturgy, Desiring Human Difference | 1 1. Gathering: Unfolding a Liturgy of Difference | 29 2. Weaving: Aesthetics of Interdependence | 65 3. Disrupting: Aesthetics of Time and Work | 99 4. Naming: Aesthetics of Healing and Claiming | 131 5. Sending: Aesthetics of Belonging | 167 Conclusion: The Disabled Church: Beauty and the Creation of a Community of Difference | 195 Acknowledgments | 215 Notes | 217 Bibliography | 235 Index | 241
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Fordham University Press The Disabled Church
Book SynopsisHow do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of those who constitute them? Christian congregations often make assumptions about the shared abilities, practices, and experiences that are necessary for communal worship. The author of this provocative new book takes a hard look at these assumptions through a detailed ethnographic study of an unusual religious community where more than half the congregants live with diagnoses of mental illness, many coming to the church from personal care homes or independent living facilities. Here, peopleâs participation in worship disrupts and extends the formal orders of worship. Whenever one worships God at Sacred Family Church, there is someone who is doing it differently. Here, the author argues, the central elements and the participation in the symbols of Christian worship raise questions rather than supply clear markers of unity, prompting the questioTable of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction: Disabling Liturgy, Desiring Human Difference | 1 1. Gathering: Unfolding a Liturgy of Difference | 29 2. Weaving: Aesthetics of Interdependence | 65 3. Disrupting: Aesthetics of Time and Work | 99 4. Naming: Aesthetics of Healing and Claiming | 131 5. Sending: Aesthetics of Belonging | 167 Conclusion: The Disabled Church: Beauty and the Creation of a Community of Difference | 195 Acknowledgments | 215 Notes | 217 Bibliography | 235 Index | 241
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Fordham University Press The Philosophers Gift Reexamining Reciprocity
Book SynopsisFor philosophers, the gift fascinates because it demands disinterested generosity. Yet anthropology offers another view. Reciprocity, rather than disinterestedness, Hénaff shows, is central to ceremonial giving, alliance, and the social bond. From actual gift practices, Hénaff develops an original and profound theory of symbolism, the social, and the relationship between self and other.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface | vii Preliminary Directions | 1 1. Derrida: The Gift, the Impossible, and the Exclusion of Reciprocity | 11 2. Propositions I: The Ceremonial Gift—Alliance and Recognition | 30 3. Levinas: Beyond Reciprocity—For-the-Other and the Costly Gift | 52 4. Propositions II: Approaches to Reciprocity | 77 5. Marion: Gift without Exchange—Toward Pure Givenness | 95 6. Ricoeur: Reciprocity and Mutuality—From the Golden Rule to Agape | 124 7. Philosophy and Anthropology: With Lefort and Descombes | 148 8. Propositions III: The Dual Relationship and the Third Party | 169 Postliminary Directions | 199 Acknowledgments | 213 Notes | 215 Bibliography | 245 Index | 253
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Fordham University Press Textures of the Ordinary
Book SynopsisHow might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy''s promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention to the diverse ways in which the natural and the social mutually absorb each other on a daily basis. Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life,Table of ContentsPreface | xi Introduction | 1 1 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations | 29 2 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life | 58 3 Ordinary Ethics: Take One | 96 4 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable | 120 5 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other | 148 6 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi | 173 7 The Boundaries of the “We”: Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life | 198 8 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life | 216 9 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Reading Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer | 246 10 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making | 275 11 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying | 307 Acknowledgments | 333 Notes | 337 References | 373 Index | 403
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Fordham University Press Channeling Moroccanness
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez.Table of ContentsNote on Transcription and Translation | ix Introduction: Moroccan Channels, Channeling Moroccanness | 1 1 A Fassi Linguascape | 37 2 Literate Listening: Broadcast News and Ideologies of Reasoning | 43 3 Reregistering Media and Remediating a Register: Moroccan Morality Tales | 73 4 Scripting Sounds and Sounding Scripts: Senses, Channels, and Their Discontents | 102 5 Mediating Moroccan Muslims | 137 Conclusion: Opening and Closing the Channels | 169 Appendixes | 175 Acknowledgments | 189 Notes | 191 Bibliography | 203 Index | 219
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Fordham University Press Channeling Moroccanness Language and the Media
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez.Table of ContentsNote on Transcription and Translation | ix Introduction: Moroccan Channels, Channeling Moroccanness | 1 1 A Fassi Linguascape | 37 2 Literate Listening: Broadcast News and Ideologies of Reasoning | 43 3 Reregistering Media and Remediating a Register: Moroccan Morality Tales | 73 4 Scripting Sounds and Sounding Scripts: Senses, Channels, and Their Discontents | 102 5 Mediating Moroccan Muslims | 137 Conclusion: Opening and Closing the Channels | 169 Appendixes | 175 Acknowledgments | 189 Notes | 191 Bibliography | 203 Index | 219
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Fordham University Press The National Frame
Book SynopsisThe National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship, continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Intimate Encounters | 1 1 Modernity, Nationalism, and Civilizing the Arts | 29 2 Art Worlds: Of Friends, Foes, and Working for the Greater Good | 56 3 Governing Culture, Producing Modern Citizens | 90 4 The Art of Forgetting | 120 5 The Politics of Art and Censorship | 153 6 Enterprising Art, Aestheticizing Business | 182 Instead of a Conclusion: Meeting, Again | 209 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 References | 255 Index | 279
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Fordham University Press The National Frame Art and State Violence in
Book SynopsisThe National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship, continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Intimate Encounters | 1 1 Modernity, Nationalism, and Civilizing the Arts | 29 2 Art Worlds: Of Friends, Foes, and Working for the Greater Good | 56 3 Governing Culture, Producing Modern Citizens | 90 4 The Art of Forgetting | 120 5 The Politics of Art and Censorship | 153 6 Enterprising Art, Aestheticizing Business | 182 Instead of a Conclusion: Meeting, Again | 209 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 References | 255 Index | 279
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Fordham University Press Commodified Communion
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 The Praise of Camp at My Abuela’s Altarcito | 9 1 The Resistance | 17 Singing about a (Liturgical) Revolution | 45 2 Listening for the Cry in a Consumer Culture | 53 Salvation in the Shape of an Apple | 78 3 The Limits of Eucharistic Resistance | 86 Communion Commodified | 107 4 Confession, Hope, and Justice in a Commodified World | 115 Acknowledgments | 129 Notes | 133 Index | 181
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Fordham University Press Commodified Communion Eucharist Consumer Culture
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 The Praise of Camp at My Abuela’s Altarcito | 9 1 The Resistance | 17 Singing about a (Liturgical) Revolution | 45 2 Listening for the Cry in a Consumer Culture | 53 Salvation in the Shape of an Apple | 78 3 The Limits of Eucharistic Resistance | 86 Communion Commodified | 107 4 Confession, Hope, and Justice in a Commodified World | 115 Acknowledgments | 129 Notes | 133 Index | 181
£73.80
Fordham University Press Orphaned Landscapes
Book SynopsisThis book examines the proliferation of monumental Christian street art in a Muslim/Christian conflict to show how ephemeral phenomena are inherent to sociopolitical change.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance | 1 Image, Appearance, Figuration, 8 • A Christian Town, 11 • The Appearance of Crisis, 15 • Matters of Perception, 18 • Orphaning the Nation, 20 • Orphaned Landscapes, 23 • A Symptomatology of Crisis, 28 1 Fire without Smoke | 33 War’s Fog, 36 • Fire without Smoke, 40 • The Thick of Things, 45 • Soundtracks of War, 52 • Amplifications, 54 • Anticipatory Practices, 58 • Official Peace, 63 2 Christ at Large | 67 Christ at Large, 76 • The Canon in the Street, 79 • Guardians of the Neighborhood, 88 • Streetwise Masculinity, 96 • This Face Wants you, 104 • Sighting the Street, 109 3 Images without Borders | 113 Painting Christianity, 116 • Landscape I: Christian Enclave, 127 • Landscape II: Pancasila Jesus, 132 • Landscape III: Sidewalk Citizenship, 136 • Landscape IV: Witnessing the End-Time, 146 • Frames at War, 152 • A Frenzy of the Visible, 154 4 Religion under the Sign of Crisis | 157 Times Rich in Demons, 158 • Conversion’s Unstable Alchemy, 161 • Religion under the Sign of Crisis, 163 • Simplifications, 166 • Terms of Coexistence, 170 • Symptomatology: Treacherous Things, 176 • Symptomatology: Treacherous Persons, 180 • Neighbors and Neighborhoods, 184 5 Provoking Peace | 191 Spectacles of Reconciliation, 193 • The Child in the Picture, 199 • Peace Journalism, 214 • Scrolling for Peace, 222 Conclusion: Ephemeral Mediations | 229 Acknowledgments | 233 Notes | 239 Works Cited | 281 Index | 299
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Fordham University Press Orphaned Landscapes Violence Visuality and
Book SynopsisThis book examines the proliferation of monumental Christian street art in a Muslim/Christian conflict to show how ephemeral phenomena are inherent to sociopolitical change.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance | 1 Image, Appearance, Figuration, 8 • A Christian Town, 11 • The Appearance of Crisis, 15 • Matters of Perception, 18 • Orphaning the Nation, 20 • Orphaned Landscapes, 23 • A Symptomatology of Crisis, 28 1 Fire without Smoke | 33 War’s Fog, 36 • Fire without Smoke, 40 • The Thick of Things, 45 • Soundtracks of War, 52 • Amplifications, 54 • Anticipatory Practices, 58 • Official Peace, 63 2 Christ at Large | 67 Christ at Large, 76 • The Canon in the Street, 79 • Guardians of the Neighborhood, 88 • Streetwise Masculinity, 96 • This Face Wants you, 104 • Sighting the Street, 109 3 Images without Borders | 113 Painting Christianity, 116 • Landscape I: Christian Enclave, 127 • Landscape II: Pancasila Jesus, 132 • Landscape III: Sidewalk Citizenship, 136 • Landscape IV: Witnessing the End-Time, 146 • Frames at War, 152 • A Frenzy of the Visible, 154 4 Religion under the Sign of Crisis | 157 Times Rich in Demons, 158 • Conversion’s Unstable Alchemy, 161 • Religion under the Sign of Crisis, 163 • Simplifications, 166 • Terms of Coexistence, 170 • Symptomatology: Treacherous Things, 176 • Symptomatology: Treacherous Persons, 180 • Neighbors and Neighborhoods, 184 5 Provoking Peace | 191 Spectacles of Reconciliation, 193 • The Child in the Picture, 199 • Peace Journalism, 214 • Scrolling for Peace, 222 Conclusion: Ephemeral Mediations | 229 Acknowledgments | 233 Notes | 239 Works Cited | 281 Index | 299
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Fordham University Press The Politics of the Near
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 A South African City | 27 2 The Sense of Community | 46 Interlude 1: Football, Community, and Politics | 71 3 “We Are the People Who Stay with Them in the Township” | 75 4 “My Blood Is Still Here, in UPM” | 102 Interlude 2: What Really Matters | 121 5 “It Is Moral to Rebel” | 129 6 “We Do Not Discuss Politics” | 148 7 Leaders in the Communities | 174 Interlude 3: Breakups | 194 8 Lost in Transition? | 199 9 The Community, the Movement, and the “Outside World” | 228 10 “Yes, We Do the Same Thing” | 246 Epilogue | 263 Acknowledgments | 269 Notes | 271 Works Cited | 287 Index | 307
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Fordham University Press The Politics of the Near On the Edges of Protest
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 A South African City | 27 2 The Sense of Community | 46 Interlude 1: Football, Community, and Politics | 71 3 “We Are the People Who Stay with Them in the Township” | 75 4 “My Blood Is Still Here, in UPM” | 102 Interlude 2: What Really Matters | 121 5 “It Is Moral to Rebel” | 129 6 “We Do Not Discuss Politics” | 148 7 Leaders in the Communities | 174 Interlude 3: Breakups | 194 8 Lost in Transition? | 199 9 The Community, the Movement, and the “Outside World” | 228 10 “Yes, We Do the Same Thing” | 246 Epilogue | 263 Acknowledgments | 269 Notes | 271 Works Cited | 287 Index | 307
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University of Hawaii Press Unruly Gods Divinity and Society in China
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University of Hawai'i Press Legacies of the Sword The KashimaShinryu and
Book SynopsisWestern scholars are generally far less familiar with the samurai in his original role as warrior and master of arms than in his other functions as landowner, feudal lord, litterateur, or philosopher. Karl Friday examines samurai martial culture from a historical and worldview in this study.Trade ReviewThis study is refreshingly free of jargon and inscrutable or pretentious philosophizing. Instead, Friday presents this history of the samurai in cool, clear terms that will appeal to more than a select band of academics.... An excellent book." —Daily Yomiuri
£16.96
University of Hawai'i Press And the Sun Pursued the Moon Symbolic Knowledge
Book SynopsisFrom 600 to 1600 CE, the Java Sea was dominated by a ring of maritime kingdoms engaged in long-distance raiding, trading, and marriage alliances with one another. This work explores the economic, political, and symbolic processes by which early Makassar communities were incorporated into this regional system.
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University of Hawai'i Press Traditional Micronesian Societies Adaptation Integration and Political Organization in the Central Pacific
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University of Hawai'i Press Kings of the Forest
Book SynopsisHunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by surrounding communities. Will they manage to survive? This book discusses about one such society living in the monsoon rainforests of western Nepal: the Raute.
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University of Hawai'i Press Gods Ghosts and Gangsters Ritual Violence Martial Arts and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society
Book SynopsisOffers a thorough and original account of violent ritual and ritual violence in Chinese religion and society. Close-up, sensitive portrayals and the voices of ritual actors themselvesâmostly working-class men, many of them members of sworn brotherhoods and gangsâlink martial ritual practice to the lives and desires of men on the margins of Chinese society.
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University of Hawai'i Press Gods Ghosts and Gangsters Ritual Violence Martial
Book SynopsisOffers a thorough and original account of violent ritual and ritual violence in Chinese religion and society. Close-up, sensitive portrayals and the voices of ritual actors themselvesâmostly working-class men, many of them members of sworn brotherhoods and gangsâlink martial ritual practice to the lives and desires of men on the margins of Chinese society.
£23.16
University of Hawai'i Press Hard Times in the Hometown A History of Community
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University of Hawai'i Press Embodying Difference
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University of Hawai'i Press Making Sense of Micronesia The Logic of Pacific
Book SynopsisWhy are islanders so lavishly generous with food and material possessions but so guarded with information? Why do these people, unfailingly polite for the most part, laugh openly when others embarrass themselves? What does a smile mean to an islander? What might a sudden lapse into silence signify? These questions are common in encounters with an unfamiliar Pacific Island culture. Making Sense of Micronesia is intended for westerners who find themselves in contact with Micronesiansâas teachers, social workers, health-care providers, or simply as friendsâand are puzzled by their island ways. It is for anyone struggling to make sense of cultural exchanges they donât quite understand. The author focuses on the guts of island culture: the importance of the social map, the tension between the individual and social identity, the ways in which wealth and knowledge are used, the huge importance of respect, emotional expression and its restraints, island ways of handling both conflict and int
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University of Hawaii Press The Aesthetics of Strangeness Eccentricity and
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University of Hawai'i Press Seeing Beauty Sensing Race in Traditional
Book SynopsisIn Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesiaâs changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences.
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University of Hawai'i Press Forest of Struggle Pa Southeast Asia Politics
Book SynopsisIn a village community in the highlands of Cambodia's Southwest, people struggle to rebuild their lives after nearly thirty years of war and genocide. Recovery is a tenuous process as villagers attempt to shape a future while contending with the terrible rupture of the Pol Pot era. Forest of Struggle tracks the fragile progress of restoring the bonds of community in O'Thmaa and its environs, the site of a Khmer Rouge base and battlefield for nearly three decades between 1970 and 1998. Anthropologist Eve Zucker's ethnographic fieldwork (20012003, 2010) uncovers the experiences of the people of O'Thmaa in the early days of the revolution, when some villagers turned on each other with lethal results. She examines memories of violence and considers the means by which relatedness and moral order are re-established, comparing O'Thmaa with villages in a neighbouring commune that suffered similar but not identical trauma. Zucker argues that those differing experiences shape present ways of hea
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University of Hawai'i Press Imperatives of Culture Selected Essays on Korean
Book SynopsisThis volume contains translationsâmany appearing for the first time in the English languageâof major literary, critical, and historical essays from the colonial period (1910â1945) in Korea. Considered representative of the debates among and between Korean and Japanese thinkers of the colonial period, these texts shed light on relatively unexplored aspects of intellectual life and take part in current conversations around the nature of the colonial experience and its effects on post-liberation Korean society and culture. The essays, each preceded by a scholarly introduction giving necessary historical and biographical context, represent a diverse spectrum of ideological positions and showcase the complexity of intellectual life and scholarship in colonial Korea. They allow new perspectives on an important period in Korean history, a period that continues to inform political, social, and cultural life in crucial ways across East Asia. The translations also provide an important counterpoi
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University of Hawai'i Press Capturing Contemporary Japan
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University of Hawai'i Press Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change The Mongols
Book SynopsisSince the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbours often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent dangerââœbarbarians,â in factâtheir impact on sedentary cultures was far more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with which they have long been associated in the popular imagination. The nomads were also facilitators and catalysts of social, demographic, economic, and cultural change, and nomadic culture had a significant influence on that of sedentary Eurasian civilisations, especially in cases when the nomads conquered and ruled over them. Not simply passive conveyors of ideas, beliefs, technologies, and physical artefacts, nomads were frequently active contributors to the process of cultural exchange and change. Their active choices and initiatives helped
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University of Hawai'i Press Sinophobia Anxiety Violence and the Making of Mongolian Identity
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University of Hawai'i Press Intimate Japan Ethnographies of Closeness and
Book SynopsisExplores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. The volume's chapters offer rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Past Before Us
Book SynopsisThe title of this book refers to the importance of ka w mamua or the time in front in Hawaiian thinking. In this collection of essays, eleven Kanaka iwi (Native Hawaiian) scholars honor their mookauhau (geneaological lineage) by using genealogical knowledge drawn from the past to shape their research methodologies.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Past Before Us Mookauhau as Methodology
Book SynopsisThe title of this book refers to the importance of ka w mamua or the time in front in Hawaiian thinking. In this collection of essays, eleven Kanaka iwi (Native Hawaiian) scholars honor their mookauhau (geneaological lineage) by using genealogical knowledge drawn from the past to shape their research methodologies.
£21.56
University of Hawai'i Press Feasting in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisDocuments the dynamics of traditional feasting and the ways in which a bewildering array of different types of feasts benefits hosts. Brian Hayden argues that people's ability to marry, reproduce, defend themselves against threats and attacks, and protect their interests in village politics all depend on their ability to engage in feasting networks.
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University of Hawai'i Press Hawaiki Rising
Book SynopsisIn 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe - Hokuleæa - was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hokuleæa.
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University of Hawai'i Press China in the World
Book SynopsisConfucius Institutes have given rise to contentious public debate in host countries, where they have been both welcomed as a source of educational funding and feared as spy outposts. China in the World turns an anthropological lens on this controversial globalization project to provide fresh insight into China's shifting place in the world.
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University of Hawai'i Press Puppets Gods and Brands Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan Asia Pop
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University of Hawai'i Press China in the World An Anthropology of Confucius
Book SynopsisTakes the study of soft power policy into the classroom, offering an anthropological intervention into a subject that has been dominated by the methods and analyses of international relations and political science.
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University of Hawai'i Press Becoming Landowners
Book SynopsisAcross Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, this book argues, in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and that ‘landowner’ and ‘custom landowner’ become identities to be wielded against both state and capital.
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University of Hawai'i Press Invented Traditions in North and South Korea
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in both Koreas. The volume is divided thematically into sections covering history, religions, language, music, food, crafts, and space.
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University of Hawai'i Press Taiwan Archaeology
Book SynopsisDdescribes the archaeology of Taiwan, outlining the major discoveries of the past fifty years. These date from roughly 200,000 years ago to the pivotal seventeenth century AD, the time of Dutch and Spanish contact and the entry of Taiwan into global trade markets. The book focuses on some forty sites and is based on roughly 450 published sources.
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University of Hawai'i Press Making Our Own Destiny
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research and interviews with more than a hundred single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, this is the first study to compare the views and experiences of single women living in these three great cities - cities that stand at the forefront of the regionâs movement toward later marriage and rising singlehood.
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University of Hawai'i Press Kuleana and Commitment
Book SynopsisExamines the entangled interactions between Kanaka Maoli and archaeologists in Hawai’i. Kathleen Kawelu explores the development of Hawaiian archaeology, discusses important cases of the recent past, and focuses on the interpersonal relationships between these two key groups involved in heritage management in Hawai’i.
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