Social and cultural anthropology Books
HAU The Fire of the Jaguar
Book SynopsisNot since Clifford Geertz's Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight has the publication of an anthropological analysis been as eagerly awaited as this book, Terence S. Turner's The Fire of the Jaguar. His reanalysis of the famous myth from the Kayapo people of Brazil was anticipated as an exemplar of a new, dynamic, materialist, action-oriented structuralism, one very different from the kind made famous by Claude Levi-Strauss. But the study never fully materialized. Now, with this volume, it has arrived, bringing with it powerful new insights that challenge the way we think about structuralism, its legacy, and the reasons we have moved away from it. In these chapters, Turner carries out one of the richest and most sustained analysis of a single myth ever conducted. Turner places the Fire of the Jaguar myth in the full context of Kayapo society and culture and shows how it became both an origin tale and model for the work of socialization, which is the primary form of productive labor in Kayapo society. A posthumous tribute to Turner's theoretical erudition, ethnographic rigor, and respect for Amazonian indigenous lifeworlds, this book brings this fascinating Kayapo myth alive for new generations of anthropologists. Accompanied with some of Turner's related pieces on Kayapo cosmology, this book is at once a richly literary work and an illuminating meditation on the process of creativity itself.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in
Book SynopsisJohn Martin (1789-1869) was a London-based, Edinburgh-educated physician interested in anthropological matters. This comprehensive account of Tongan Society is his only book. He was inspired to write it by a chance encounter with its subject, William Mariner (1791-1853) who spent four years (1806-1810) in Tonga, in the South Pacific, at a time before any substantial European influence disturbed or modified that society. Mariner, an extraordinarily mature and perceptive youth, became thoroughly imbued with Tongan language and culture as the adopted son of the most powerful chief in Tonga. Martin's intelligent engagement with Mariner resulted in a compelling narrative and a comprehensive account of Tongan society which, together with the accompanying grammar and vocabulary, became a classic. Often celebrated as an extraordinary real-life adventure story, it is a pioneering work of anthropology, and for 200 years it has been a primary and authoritative source for research into Tongan history and culture.Table of ContentsMartin’s Preface / Martin’s Introduction / Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8 / Chapter 9 / Chapter 10 / Chapter 11 / Chapter 12 / Chapter 13 / Chapter 14 / Chapter 15 / Chapter 16 / Chapter 17 / Chapter 18 / Chapter 19 / Chapter 20 / Chapter 21 / Chapter 22 / Chapter 23 Surgical Skill of the Tonga Islanders / Appendix : A Grammar and Vocabulary / Summary of Grammar Review / Bibliography / Index
£112.50
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology
£209.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Performance
Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Leading anthropologists describe the range of human expression through performance and explore its role in constructing identity and community, as well as broader processes such as globalization and transnationalism. Introduces new and advanced students to the task of studying and interpreting complex social, cultural, and political events from a performance perspective Presents performance as a convergent field of inquiry that bridges the humanities and social sciences, with a distinctive cross-cultural perspective in anthropology Demonstrates the range of human expression and meaning through performance in related fields of religious & ritual studies, folkloristics, theatre, language arts, andTrade Review“This volume is a comprehensive and well-structured compilation of previously published essays, articulating how anthropology has explored diverse instances of performance . . This book will be of great use to graduate students looking to specialize in the field, or faculty members who wish to deepen their understanding of established concepts and perhaps recast their own work.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 June 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments to Sources vii The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction 1 Frank J. Korom Part I Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity 9 1 Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry 11 Anthony Tuck 2 Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts 26 Rosalind Thomas Part II Verbal Genres of Performance 37 3 Playing the Dozens 39 Roger D. Abrahams 4 The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community 49 Richard Bauman 5 Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore 61 E. Ojo Arewa and Alan Dundes 6 Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times 73 Philip A. Noss 7 Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs 80 Fiona Magowan Part III Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle 95 8 Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts 97 Sam D. Gill 9 Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality 107 Edward L. Schieffelin 10 “He Should Have Worn a Sari”: A “Failed” Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic 124 Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 11 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition 133 Rosemarie K. Bank 12 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process 150 Alice Pomponio Logan Part IV Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities 165 13 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village 167 Gail Kligman 14 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon 174 Donald Brenneis 15 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics 183 Frank E. Manning 16 Performing the Nation: China’s Children as Little Red Pioneers 199 T.E. Woronov Part V Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene 215 17 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco 217 Deborah A. Kapchan 18 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidoˆ and the Shaping of Ainu Identity 234 Lisa Hiwasaki 19 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora 250 Esiaba Irobi 20 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body 260 Halifu Osumare Further Readings 273 Index 287
£89.06
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Performance
Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Leading anthropologists describe the range of human expression through performance and explore its role in constructing identity and community, as well as broader processes such as globalization and transnationalism. Introduces new and advanced students to the task of studying and interpreting complex social, cultural, and political events from a performance perspective Presents performance as a convergent field of inquiry that bridges the humanities and social sciences, with a distinctive cross-cultural perspective in anthropology Demonstrates the range of human expression and meaning through performance in related fields of religious & ritual studies, folkloristics, theatre, language arts, andTrade Review“This volume is a comprehensive and well-structured compilation of previously published essays, articulating how anthropology has explored diverse instances of performance . . This book will be of great use to graduate students looking to specialize in the field, or faculty members who wish to deepen their understanding of established concepts and perhaps recast their own work.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 June 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments to Sources vii The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction 1Frank J. Korom Part I Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity 9 1 Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry 11Anthony Tuck 2 Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts 26Rosalind Thomas Part II Verbal Genres of Performance 37 3 Playing the Dozens 39Roger D. Abrahams 4 The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community 49Richard Bauman 5 Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore 61E. Ojo Arewa and Alan Dundes 6 Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times 73Philip A. Noss 7 Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs 80Fiona Magowan Part III Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle 95 8 Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts 97Sam D. Gill 9 Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality 107Edward L. Schieffelin 10 "He Should Have Worn a Sari": A "Failed" Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic 124Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 11 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition 133Rosemarie K. Bank 12 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process 150Alice Pomponio Logan Part IV Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities 165 13 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village 167Gail Kligman 14 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon 174Donald Brenneis 15 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics 183Frank E. Manning 16 Performing the Nation: China's Children as Little Red Pioneers 199T.E. Woronov Part V Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene 215 17 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco 217Deborah A. Kapchan 18 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidô and the Shaping of Ainu Identity 234Lisa Hiwasaki 19 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora 250Esiaba Irobi 20 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body 260Halifu Osumare Further Readings 273 Index 287
£45.55
John Wiley & Sons Inc Drug Use Misuse and Abuse
Book SynopsisBringing a new approach to covering the basic principles and major topics found in a typical psychopharmacology course, Drug Use, Misuse and Abuse also adds the newest exciting and controversial findings in the study of drug use and abuse. At the core, the text has a strong emphasis on developing scientific literacy and critical thinking in the student. Drug Use, Misuse and Abuse includes the major drugs typically covered in an undergraduate psychopharmacology course (caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines including methamphetamine, alcohol, opiates, marijuana, the hallucinogens, antipsychotics, antidepressants, and antianxiety medications) and, moreover, the content emphasizes the latest scientific findings in the field, including advances in imaging the living brain. Included is a chapter on careers related to psychopharmacology, as well as a variety of pedagogical features that help students learn, making it appropriate for an instructor of a lecture-basedTable of ContentsPREFACE xxi FOR THE STUDENT xxiii FOR THE INSTRUCTOR xxv ABOUT THE AUTHOR xxix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxxi THANK YOU TO THE REVIEWERS xxxiii 1 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 1 2 DRUGS AND THE BRAIN 31 3 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY 58 4 CAFFEINE 84 5 NICOTINE 114 6 COCAINE 146 7 AMPHETAMINES 173 8 ALCOHOL 203 9 OPIATES 242 10 MARIJUANA 272 11 HALLUCINOGENS 300 12 ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS 327 13 ANTIDEPRESSANT, ANTIANXIETY, AND MOOD-STABILIZING DRUGS 351 14 STEROIDS AND SMART DRUGS 382 GLOSSARY 407 REFERENCES 415 INDEX 441
£168.10
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geography and Ethnography
Book SynopsisThis fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials Trade Review“The basic premise, not to be dismissed, is that other 'ancient' or 'pre-modern' societies can inform us about the Classical and Near Eastern progenitors of our own, if we are prepared to look and learn." (Ancient West and East, 2014) "In sum, the editors, and the publisher, are to be congratulated on producing, a stimulating volume which provides expert guidance to many aspects of the foreign country which is the past." (Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science, 2011) "The 20 papers originated in a workshop held at Brown University in March 2006 and fully reflect the series' world focus and broad definition of ancient societies." (CHOICE, July 2010)Table of ContentsList of Figures vii Notes on Contributors xi Series Editor's Preface xvii 1 Introduction 1 Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India 9 Christopher Minkowski 3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India 32 Kim Plofker 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China 43 Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China 64 John B. Henderson 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China’s Early Empires 74 Michael Loewe 7 The Mississippian Peoples’ Worldview 89 Kathleen DuVal 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination 108 Barbara E. Mundy 9 Inca Worldview 128 Catherine Julien 10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings 147 Piotr Michalowski 11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt 169 Gerald Moers 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees 182 James M. Scott 13 'I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea': Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World 197 Susan Guettel Cole 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure 215 James Romm 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia 236 Daniela Dueck 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 252 Richard J. A. Talbert 17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context 273 Adam J. Silverstein 18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels 291 Emilie Savage-Smith 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns 311 Natalia Lozovsky 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500–1750 330 David Buisseret Index 344
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education
Book SynopsisA state-of-the-art reference on educational ethnography edited by leading journal editors This book brings an international group of writers together to offer an authoritative state-of-the-art review of, and critical reflection on, educational ethnography as it is being theorized and practiced todayfrom rural and remote settings to virtual and visual posts. It provides a definitive reference point and academic resource for those wishing to learn more about ethnographic research in education and the ways in which it might inform their research as well as their practice. Engaging in equal measure with the history of ethnography, its current state-of play as well as its prospects, The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education covers a range of traditional and contemporary subjectsfoundational aims and principles; what constitutes good' ethnographic practice; the role of theory; global and multi-sited ethnographic methods in education research; ethnography's many forms (visual, virtualTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1Dennis Beach, Carl Bagley, and Sofia Marques da Silva Part One 15 1 Recognizable Continuity: A Defense of Multiple Methods 17Geoffrey Walford 2 Lived Forms of Schooling: Bringing the Elementary Forms of Ethnography to the Science of Education 31Mats Trondman, Paul Willis, and Anna Lund 3 Tales of Working Without/Against a Compass: Rethinking Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Ethnography 51Barbara Dennis 4 Communities of Practice and Pedagogy 71Sara Delamont and Paul Atkinson 5 Critical Bifocality 91Lois Weis and Michelle Fine 6 Ethnographic Writing 113Bob Jeffrey 7 What Can Be Learnt?: Educational Ethnography, the Sociology of Knowledge, and Ethnomethodology 135Christoph Maeder Part Two 151 8 Changing Conceptions of Culture and Ethnography in Anthropology of Education in the United States 153Margaret Eisenhart 9 Ethnography of Schooling in England: A History and Assessment of Its Early Development 173Martyn Hammersley 10 Latin American Educational Ethnography 195Diana Milstein and Angeles Clemente 11 Curriculum, Ethnography, and the Context of Practice in the Field of Curriculum Policies in Brazil 215Alice Casimiro Lopes and Maria de Lourdes Rangel Tura 12 Ethnographic Research in Schools: Historical Roots and Developments with a Focus on Germany and Switzerland 233Anja Sieber Egger and Gisela Unterweger 13 Ethnography and Education in an African Context 257Maropeng Modiba and Sandra Stewart Part Three 323 14 Visual Ethnography in Education 325Gunilla Holm 15 Lost in Performance? Rethinking and Reworking the Methodology of Educational Ethnography: Artistic and Performance Perspectives 355Jim Mienczakowski 16 Staging Resistance: Theatres of the Oppressed 375Norman K. Denzin 17 Agential Realism and Educational Ethnography: Guidance for Application from Karen Barad’s New Materialism and Charles Sanders Peirce’s Material Semiotics 403Jerry Lee Rosiek 18 Multi]sited Global Ethnography and Elite Schools: A Methodological Entrée 423Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey, Debbie Epstein, Aaron Koh, Cameron McCarthy, and Fazal Rizvi 19 Educational Ethnography In and For a Mobile Modernity 443Martin Forsey 20 On Network(ed) Ethnography in the Global Education Policyscape 455Carolina Junemann, Stephen J. Ball, and Diego Santori 21 Autoethnography Comes of Age: Consequences, Comforts, and Concerns 479Andrew C. Sparkes 22 Positionality and Standpoint: Situated Ethnographers Acting in On- and Offline Contexts 501Sofia Marques da Silva and Joan Parker Webster Part Four 513 23 Ethnography of Education: Thinking Forward, Looking Back 515Dennis Beach, Carl Bagley, and Sofia Marques da Silva Notes 533 Index 549
£160.16
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Anthropology of Education
Book SynopsisA Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings.Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii Introduction 1Mica Pollock and Bradley A.U. Levinson Part I Histories and Generations 9 1 World Anthropologies of Education 11Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt 2 Culture 25Frederick Erickson 3 The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955–2010 34Ray McDermott and Jason Duque Raley 4 Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next 50Hervé Varenne, with Jill Koyama 5 Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education 65Elsie Rockwell 6 The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology 81Douglas Foley 7 “If There’s Going to Be an Anthropology of Education …” 97Harry F. Wolcott 8 Building an Applied Educational Anthropology beyond the Academy 112Jean J. Schensul Part II Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing 135 9 Linguistic Anthropology of Education 137Stanton Wortham and Angela Reyes 10 The Anthropology of Literacy 154Lesley Bartlett, Dina López, Lalitha Vasudevan, and Doris Warriner 11 The Anthropology of Language Planning and Policy 177Teresa L. McCarty and Larisa Warhol 12 Language Socialization across Educational Settings 197Patricia Baquedano-López and Sera Jean Hernandez 13 Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media 212Joseph Tobin and Allison Henward 14 Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-literacy 232H. Samy Alim 15 Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority in Classrooms 247Laura J. Wright, Joel Kuipers, and Gail Viechnicki Part III States, Identities, and Education 263 16 The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and Educational Subjects 265Véronique Benei 17 Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) Citizenship Education 279Bradley A.U. Levinson 18 Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworks for the Study of Education in Africa and Beyond 299Amy Stambach and Zolani Ngwane 19 Civil Sociality and Childhood Education 316Sally Anderson 20 Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and Education 333Vanessa L. Fong and Sung won Kim 21 Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East 349Fida Adely and Gregory Starrett 22 Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State 368Carlos Miñana Blasco and Carolina Arango Vargas Part IV Roles, Experiences, and Institutions 389 23 Immigrants and Education 391Margaret A. Gibson and Jill P. Koyama 24 Variations on Diversity and the Risks of Bureaucratic Complicity 408Ángel Díaz de Rada and Livia Jiménez Sedano 25 Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching 425Sarah Jewett and Katherine Schultz 26 Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education 445Wesley Shumar and Shabana Mir 27 What Makes the Anthropology of Educational Policy Implementation ‘Anthropological’? 461Edmund T. Hamann and Lisa Rosen Part V Interventions 479 28 The Past, Present, and Future of “Funds of Knowledge” 481Norma González, Leisy Wyman, and Brendan H. O’Connor 29 Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education 495Gunther Dietz and Laura Selene Mateos Cortés 30 A Sociohistorical Perspective for Participatory Action Research and Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education 517Julio Cammarota 31 Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers of Schooling 530Janise Hurtig and Andrea Dyrness 32 The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy for Social Justice 547Patricia D. Lopez, Angela Valenzuela, and Emmanuel García Index 563
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of
Book SynopsisReflecting the very latest developments in the field, the New Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of religion with a clear emphasis on comparative and historical approaches.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Mapping the Sociology of Religion 1 Bryan S. Turner Part I The Foundations 31 1 The Sociology of Religion: The Foundations 33 Andrew McKinnon 2 Durkheim and After: Religion, Culture, and Politics 52 William Ramp 3 The Functional Theory of Religion 76 Victor Lidz 4 Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Religion 103 Simon Coleman Part II From Secularization to Resacralization 123 5 Secularization 125 Steve Bruce 6 American Exceptionalism? 141 John Torpey 7 Resacralization 160 Grace Davie Part III New Developments 179 8 Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion 181 David Lehmann 9 The Religious Habitus: Embodiment, Religion, and Sociological Theory 201 Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling 10 Women, Religions, and Feminisms 221 Fang-Long Shih Part IV Institutionalization: Old and New Forms 245 11 New Research on Megachurches: Non-denominationalism and Sectarianism 247 Stephen Ellingson 12 The Sociology of Spirituality: Reflections on a Problematic Endeavor 267 Matthew Wood 13 Arguing against Darwinism: Religion, Science, and Public Morality 286 Michael S. Evans and John H. Evans Part V Sociology of Comparative Religions 309 14 The Sociology of Early Christianity: From History to Theory, and Back Again 311 Joseph M. Bryant 15 Judaism: Covenant, Pluralism, and Piety 340 Alan Mittleman 16 Sociology and Anthropology of Islam: A Critical Debate 364 Gabriele Marranci 17 Approaches to the Study of Buddhism 388 Catherine Newell 18 Sociology of Hinduism 407 Pratap Kumar Penumala 19 Religious Awakening in China under Communist Rule: A Political Economy Approach 431 Fenggang Yang 20 Native American Religious Traditions: A Sociological Approach 456 Dennis F. Kelley Part VI Globalization 475 21 Globalization and the Sociology of Religion 477 Lionel Obadia 22 Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a Global Perspective 498 Afe Adogame 23 Fundamentalism 519 Richard T. Antoun 24 Religion, Media, and Globalization 544 Jeremy Stolow 25 Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodification 563 Pattana Kitiarsa 26 Women and Piety Movements 584 Rachel Rinaldo 27 Religion and Nationalism: A Critical Re-examination 606 Geneviève Zubrzycki Part VII The Future of Religion 627 28 The Future of Religion 629 Andrew Wernick 29 Religion in a Post-secular Society 649 Bryan S. Turner Index 668
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Companion to Globalization
Book SynopsisThis companion features 35 original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x IntroductionGeorge Ritzer 1 PART I: INTRODUCTION 15 Introduction to Part IGeorge Ritzer 16 1. Globalization in Hard Times: Contention in the Academy and BeyondAnthony McGrew 29 2. What Is Globalization?Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White 54 3. The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal GlobalizationRobert J. Antonio 67 4. Globalization: The Major PlayersGeorge M. Thomas 84 5. Globalization TodayJohn Boli and Velina Petrova 103 6. Theories of GlobalizationWilliam I. Robinson 125 7. Studying Globalization: Methodological IssuesSalvatore Babones 144 8. Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Theory for the Twenty-fi rst CenturyUlrich Beck 162 PART II: THE MAJOR DOMAINS 177 Introduction to Part IIGeorge Ritzer 178 9. The End of Globalization? The Implications of Migration for State, Society and EconomySubhrajit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi 201 10. Globalization and the Agrarian WorldPhilip McMichael 216 11. Globalization and the EnvironmentSteve Yearley 239 12. Cities and GlobalizationMichael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma 254 13. The Sociology of Global OrganizationsStewart Clegg and Chris Carter 272 14. Economic Globalization: CorporationsPeter Dicken 291 15. Outsourcing: Globalization and BeyondGeorge Ritzer and Craig Lair 307 16. Globalization and Consumer CultureDouglas J. Goodman 330 17. Cultural GlobalizationJohn Tomlinson 352 18. Globalization and IdeologyManfred B. Steger 367 19. Media and GlobalizationDouglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce 383 20. Globalization and Information and Communications Technologies: The Case of WarHoward Tumber and Frank Webster 396 21. Political GlobalizationGerard Delanty and Chris Rumford 414 22. Globalization and Public PolicyTim Blackman 429 23. Religion and GlobalizationPeter Beyer 444 24. Globalization and Higher EducationPeter Manicas 461 25. Sport and GlobalizationDavid L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger 478 26. The Fate of the LocalMelissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada Jr 498 27. Public Health in a Globalizing World: Challenges and OpportunitiesFarnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach 516 PART III: MAJOR ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS 539 Introduction to Part IIIGeorge Ritzer 540 28. Globalization and Global Inequalities: Recent TrendsGlenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling 549 29. World Inequality in the Twenty-fi rst Century: Patterns and TendenciesRoberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran 565 30. Globalization and CorruptionCarolyn Warner 593 31. Globalization and SexualityKathryn Farr 610 32. War in the Era of Economic GlobalizationGerald Schneider 630 33. Globalization and International TerrorismGus Martin 644 34. Resisting GlobalizationRichard Kahn and Douglas Kellner 662 35. The Futures of GlobalizationBryan S. Turner 675 Index 693
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WW Norton & Co Cultural Anthropology
Book SynopsisReadings that will make your course come alive.
£45.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Feminist Anthropology
Book SynopsisFeminist Anthropology surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped to highlight key themes from the past and present. * Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work rather than synthetic overviews of the field.Trade Review“Feminist Anthropology says it all: from the early debates on universal oppression of women, to the continued rethinking of resistance and political creativity, this wonderful collection highlights the important work that feminist anthropologists have done, and beckons others to continue this important work.” Rayna Rapp, New York University “Ellen Lewin contributes outstanding commentaries and analyses that introduce and connect some of the most valuable and timeless work in feminist anthropology. This book is an extraordinary resource for teaching in anthropology and across the disciplines.” A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland, and past President of the Association for Feminist Anthropology “This well-selected anthology is a treasure trove, guiding readers through more than three decades of feminist anthropology—from the pioneers to the next generation of cutting-edge scholars in the field.” Florence E. Babb, University of Florida “A unique and useful compilation… Highly recommended” ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Ellen Lewin.. Part I. Discovering Women across Cultures. Introduction. 1. Belief and the Problem of Women and The "Problem" Revisited (Edwin Ardener). 2. A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex (Judith K. Brown). 3. Is Woman to Man as Nature is to Culture? (Sherry Ortner). 4. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex (Gayle Rubin). 5. The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-Cultural Understanding (Michelle Z. Rosaldo). 6. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender (Karen Brodkin). Part II. Questioning Positionality. Introduction. 7. Writing against Culture (Lila Abu-Lughod). 8. My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork (Esther Newton). 9. Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Construction Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants (Patricia Zavella). 10. Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism (Paulla Ebron). Part III. Interpreting Instability and Fluidity. Introduction. 11. Bringing the Family to Work: Women’s Culture on the Shop Floor (Louise Lamphere). 12. Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists (Faye Ginsburg). 13. Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry (Elizabeth Chin). 14. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic (Charis Thompson). Part IV. Maintaining Commitments. Introduction. 15. Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland (Begoña Aretxaga). 16. Women’s Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and Feminist: Interests among El Salvador’s Mothers of the Disappeared (CO-MADRES) (Lynn Stephen). 17. Searching for "Voices: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debates over Female Genital Operations (Christine J. Walley). 18. Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes (Lynn M. Morgan). Part V. Interpreting Instability and Fluidity. Introduction. 19. "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York (Shellee Colen). 20. Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender on the Global Assembly Line (Carla Freeman). 21. Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire (Evelyn Blackwood). 22 "What’s Identity Got to Do with It?" Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work (Gloria Wekker). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Feminist Anthropology
Book SynopsisFeminist Anthropology surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped to highlight key themes from the past and present. * Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work rather than synthetic overviews of the field.Trade Review“Feminist Anthropology says it all: from the early debates on universal oppression of women, to the continued rethinking of resistance and political creativity, this wonderful collection highlights the important work that feminist anthropologists have done, and beckons others to continue this important work.” Rayna Rapp, New York University “Ellen Lewin contributes outstanding commentaries and analyses that introduce and connect some of the most valuable and timeless work in feminist anthropology. This book is an extraordinary resource for teaching in anthropology and across the disciplines.” A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland, and past President of the Association for Feminist Anthropology “This well-selected anthology is a treasure trove, guiding readers through more than three decades of feminist anthropology—from the pioneers to the next generation of cutting-edge scholars in the field.” Florence E. Babb, University of Florida “A unique and useful compilation… Highly recommended” ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Ellen Lewin.. Part I. Discovering Women across Cultures. Introduction. 1. Belief and the Problem of Women and The "Problem" Revisited (Edwin Ardener). 2. A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex (Judith K. Brown). 3. Is Woman to Man as Nature is to Culture? (Sherry Ortner). 4. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex (Gayle Rubin). 5. The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-Cultural Understanding (Michelle Z. Rosaldo). 6. Toward a Unified Theory of Class, Race, and Gender (Karen Brodkin). Part II. Questioning Positionality. Introduction. 7. Writing against Culture (Lila Abu-Lughod). 8. My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork (Esther Newton). 9. Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Construction Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants (Patricia Zavella). 10. Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism (Paulla Ebron). Part III. Interpreting Instability and Fluidity. Introduction. 11. Bringing the Family to Work: Women’s Culture on the Shop Floor (Louise Lamphere). 12. Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists (Faye Ginsburg). 13. Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry (Elizabeth Chin). 14. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic (Charis Thompson). Part IV. Maintaining Commitments. Introduction. 15. Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland (Begoña Aretxaga). 16. Women’s Rights are Human Rights: The Merging of Feminine and Feminist: Interests among El Salvador’s Mothers of the Disappeared (CO-MADRES) (Lynn Stephen). 17. Searching for "Voices: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debates over Female Genital Operations (Christine J. Walley). 18. Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes (Lynn M. Morgan). Part V. Interpreting Instability and Fluidity. Introduction. 19. "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York (Shellee Colen). 20. Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender on the Global Assembly Line (Carla Freeman). 21. Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire (Evelyn Blackwood). 22 "What’s Identity Got to Do with It?" Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work (Gloria Wekker). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Art
Book SynopsisThis anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers' appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society. Trade Review“The Anthropology of Art is a superb compilation that enables both scholar and student to have in one volume the major studies and debates in this discipline. In the insightful introduction, the editors survey the history of the field and tackle the vexing problem of defining art in cross-cultural perspective.” Ivan Karp, Emory University “An excellent, near-perfect book that demonstrates the centrality of the anthropology of art in both anthropology and art history debates. The essential reader for anyone who wants a broad, stimulating introduction to the field.” Jeremy MacClancy, Oxford Brookes University“Addresses significant debates … .Seems[s] to provide an understanding of the often subtle but underlying discourse on contemporary African art.” H-Net Reviews "A unique and timely manual that serves to connect the student with the creative impulse of man." The Electric ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on Its History and Contemporary Practice: Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins. Part I: Framing the Discipline:. Introduction. 1. Primitive Art: Franz Boas. 2. Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America: Claude Lévi-Strauss. 3. Tribes and Forms in African Art: William Fagg. 4. Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art: Gregory Bateson. 5. Tikopea Art and Society: Raymond Firth. 6. The Abelam Artist: Anthony Forge. Part II: Primitivism and Art/Artifact:. Introduction. 7. Introduction. In “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern: William Rubin. 8. “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Arthur C. Danto. 9. Histories of the Tribal and the Modern: James Clifford. 10. A Case in Point: Sally Price. 11. Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern: Craig Clunas. 12. Introduction. In ART/Artifact: Susan Vogel. 13. Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps: Alfred Gell. Part III: Aesthetics Across Cultures:. Introduction. 14. Yoruba Artistic Criticism: Robert Farris Thompson. 15. Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts: Heather Lechtman. 16. “Marvels of Everyday Vision”: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-Keeping Nilotes: Jeremy Coote. 17. From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu: Howard Morphy. Part IV: Form, Style and Meaning:. Introduction. 18. Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems: Nancy D. Munn. 19. Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual: Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel. 20. Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shaman’s Masks: Aldona Jonaitis. 21. To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest: David M. Guss. 22. Modernity and the “Graphicalization” of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective: Michael O’Hanlon. Part V: Marketing Culture:. Introduction. 23. Introduction. In Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions of the Fourth World: Nelson H. H. Graburn. 24. The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the “Strictly Commercial”: Ruth B. Phillips. 25. The Art of the Trade: The Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market: Christopher B. Steiner. Part VI: Contemporary Artists:. Introduction. 26. A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art: Nicholas Thomas. 27. Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings: Fred Myers. 28. Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artists Approach: Gordon Bennett. 29. Kinds of Knowing: Charlotte Townsend-Gault. 30. CEW ETE HAW I TIH: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another: Jolene Rickard. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Art
Book SynopsisThis anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers' appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society. Trade Review“The Anthropology of Art is a superb compilation that enables both scholar and student to have in one volume the major studies and debates in this discipline. In the insightful introduction, the editors survey the history of the field and tackle the vexing problem of defining art in cross-cultural perspective.” Ivan Karp, Emory University “An excellent, near-perfect book that demonstrates the centrality of the anthropology of art in both anthropology and art history debates. The essential reader for anyone who wants a broad, stimulating introduction to the field.” Jeremy MacClancy, Oxford Brookes University“Addresses significant debates … .Seems[s] to provide an understanding of the often subtle but underlying discourse on contemporary African art.” H-Net Reviews "A unique and timely manual that serves to connect the student with the creative impulse of man." The Electric ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii About the Editors x The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice 1 Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins Part I Foundations and Framing the Discipline 33 1 Primitive Art 39 Franz Boas 2 Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America 56 Claude Le´vi-Strauss 3 Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art 74 William Fagg 4 Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art 78 Gregory Bateson 5 Tikopia Art and Society 91 Raymond Firth 6 The Abelam Artist 109 Anthony Forge Part II Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts 123 7 Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction 129 William Rubin 8 Defective Affinities: ‘‘Primitivism’’ in 20th Century Art 147 Arthur C. Danto 9 Histories of the Tribal and the Modern 150 James Clifford 10 A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places 167 Sally Price 11 Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art 186 Craig Clunas 12 Introduction to Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections 209 Susan Vogel 13 Vogel’s Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps 219 Alfred Gell Part III Aesthetics across Cultures 237 14 Yoruba Artistic Criticism 242 Robert Farris Thompson 15 Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts 270 Heather Lechtman 16 ‘‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’’: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes 281 Jeremy Coote 17 From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu 302 Howard Morphy Part IV Form, Style, and Meaning 321 18 Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems 326 Nancy D. Munn 19 Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual 339 Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel 20 Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shamans’ Masks 358 Aldona Jonaitis 21 All Things Made 374 David M. Guss 22 Modernity and the ‘‘Graphicalization’’ of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective 387 Michael O’Hanlon Part V Marketing Culture 407 23 Arts of the Fourth World 412 Nelson H. H. Graburn 24 The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the ‘‘Strictly Commercial’’ 431 Ruth B. Phillips 25 The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market 454 Christopher B. Steiner Part VI Contemporary Artists 467 26 A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art 472 Nicholas Thomas 27 Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings 495 Fred Myers 28 Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist’s Approach 513 Gordon Bennett 29 Kinds of Knowing 520 Charlotte Townsend-Gault 30 Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another 544 Jolene Rickard Index 549
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Location
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of 'Location'.Table of ContentsOn location: Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen. The errant image: Rogier van derWeyden’s Deposition from the Cross and its copies: Amy Powell. Signposts of invention: artists’ signatures in Italian Renaissance art: Patricia Rubin. Locating ‘China’ in the arts of sixteenth-century Japan: Andrew M. Watsky. Georgianism and the tenements, Dublin 1908–1926: Mark Crinson. Statues in the square: hauntings at the heart of empire: Deborah Cherry. The Buddha goes global: some thoughts towards a transnational art history: Clare Harris. Rebecca Belmore and James Luna on location at Venice: the allegorical Indian redux: Charlotte Townsend-Gault. Author biographies. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Psychological Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the field Offers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and topics that have emerged through contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change Key issues range from studies of consciousness and time, emotion, cognition, dreaming, and memory, to the lingering effects of racism and ethnocentrism, violence, identity and subjectivity Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year "Absolutely without an equal among texts in the field ... this volume (is) particularly user friendly for instructors and readers." Choice "What a wonderful surprise! Having edited, reviewed and contributed to many anthologies, I approached this Companion skeptically ... But the uniformly high quality of the writing soon won me over ... This volume achieves its goals of introducing new readers to psychological anthropology and of contributing to 'its growing vigor'." Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology "Any publication which draws the attention of psychologists to the existence of other cultures is extremely welcome ... This book can be recommended for its broad coverage and its range of interesting ideas. All university libraries catering for courses in psychology or in any sociological field should consider acquiring a copy." Reference Reviews “A much needed and impressive book. Soundly linking issues of perennial interest to psychological anthropologists, these chapters make for a truly significant advance in anthropology. The pages sparkle with rich, innovative ideas drawn from carefully rendered research by leading scholars.” Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College “On the forefront of discussions about the relationship between culture and psyche, this exciting, wide-ranging collection makes clear how much the field has changed and developed in recent years.” Tanya Luhrmann, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsSynopsis of Contents x Notes on Contributors xvii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction 1 Part I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing 15 1 Time and Consciousness 17 Kevin Birth 2 An Anthropology of Emotion 30 Charles Lindholm 3 "Effort After Meaning" in Everyday Life 48 Linda C. Garro 4 Culture and Learning 72 Patricia M. Greenfield 5 Dreaming in a Global World 90 Douglas Hollan 6 Memory and Modernity 103 Jennifer Cole Part II Language and Communication 121 7 Narrative Transformations 123 James M. Wilce, Jr. 8 Practical Logic and Autism 140 Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon 9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives 168 Susan Reynolds Whyte Part III Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging 183 10 Identity 185 Daniel T. Linger 11 Self and Other in an "Amodern" World 201 A. David Napier 12 Immigrant Identities and Emotion 225 Katherine Pratt Ewing 13 Emotive Institutions 241 Geoffrey M. White 14 Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities 255 Setha M. Low 15 Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind 274 Atwood D. Gaines 16 Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies 298 Margaret Lock 17 Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology 315 Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe 18 Drugs and Modernization 337 Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer 19 Ritual Practice and Its Discontents 358 Don Seeman 20 Spirit Possession 374 Erika Bourguignon 21 Witchcraft and Sorcery 389 René Devisch Part IV Aggression, Dominance, and Violence 417 22 Genocide and Modernity 419 Alexander Laban Hinton 23 Corporate Violence 436 Howard F. Stein 24 Political Violence 453 Christopher J. Colvin 25 The Politics of Remorse 469 Nancy Scheper-Hughes Afterword 495 Catherine Lutz Index 499
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication contains contributions from established scholars and up-and-coming researchers from a range of disciplines to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics.Trade Review“It is a blessing that bibliography follows each chapter where it can be quite use-ful, rather than being amassed at the end of the book.” (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 December 2012) “In sum, “The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication” promises to be a stimulating resource with the potential to inform and to invite debate, inspiring and equipping readers to ponder recent and enduring issues anew.” (Linguist List, 17 November 2012) “This book provides a rich and diverse sampling of the intercultural work going on from various linguistic perspectives, some authors being more reliant on established intercultural theory and practice and others resisting it.” (Dialogin, 1 October 2011) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Preface xv Introduction xvii Part I Background 1 1 Intercultural Communication: An Overview 3 Ingrid Piller 2 Perspectives on Intercultural Discourse and Communication 19 Leila Monaghan 3 Cultures and Languages in Contact: Towards a Typology 37 John Edwards Part II Theoretical Perspectives 61 4 Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication 63 John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz 5 Ethnography of Speaking 77 Scott F. Kiesling 6 Critical Approaches to Intercultural Discourse and Communication 90 Ryuko Kubota 7 Postmodernism and Intercultural Discourse: World Englishes 110 Suresh Canagarajah Part III Interactional Discourse Features 133 8 Turn-Taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication 135 Deborah Tannen 9 Silence 158 Ikuko Nakane 10 Indirectness 180 Michael Lempert 11 Politeness in Intercultural Discourse and Communication 205 Janet Holmes Part IV Intercultural Discourse Sites 229 12 Anglo–Arab Intercultural Communication 231 Eirlys E. Davies and Abdelali Bentahila 13 Japan/Anglo-American Cross-Cultural Communication 252 Steven Brown, Brenda Hayashi, and Kikue Yamamoto 14 “Those Venezuelans are so easy-going!” National Stereotypes and Self-Representations in Discourse about the Other 272 Lars Fant 15 “Face,” Stereotyping, and Claims of Power: The Greeks and Turks in Interaction 292 Maria Sifianou and Arın Bayraktaroğlu 16 Intercultural Communication and Vocational Language Learning in South Africa: Law and Healthcare 313 Russell H. Kaschula and Pamela Maseko 17 Indigenous–Mestizo Interaction in Mexico 337 Rocío Fuentes Part V Interactional Domains 365 18 Translation and Intercultural Communication: Bridges and Barriers 367 Eirlys E. Davies 19 Cultural Differences in Business Communication 389 John Hooker 20 Intercultural Communication in the Law 408 Diana Eades 21 Medicine 430 Claudia V. Angelelli 22 Intercultural Discourse and Communication in Education 449 Amanda J. Godley 23 Religion as a Domain of Intercultural Discourse 482 Jonathan M. Watt Index 496
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan
Book SynopsisThis book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world''s most distinguished scholars of Japan. Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; eugenics and nation building; majority and minority cultures; genders and sexualities; and fashion and food cultures Resists stale and misleading stereotypes, by presenting new perspectives on Japanese culture and society Makes Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country Trade Review"This groundbreaking symposium will serve scholars well as a reference volume ... Challenging yet accessible, this is essential stock for all academic libraries, and for reference libraries with any interest in disciplines spanned or in Far East Studies. Blackwell Companions are setting an admirable standard as they blaze new trails." Reference Reviews "This is a handsomely produced volume in the recently launched Blackwell series of companions to the major fields of anthropology. ... Well-written and comprehensively documented." Ethnic and Racial Studies “Despite the magnitude of the task, Robertson has succeeded in this collection. Taken together, these 29 original chapters provide historical and theoretical grounding across a range of subjects. The diverse approaches taken here offer insight into a great variety of cultural aspects and social players, but articulate a ‘Japan’ that eludes any claims of homogeneity.” Steffi Richter, Universität Leipzig “This Companion provides amazingly wide coverage on contemporary Japan. What's more, it challenges the very idea of anthropology in interesting ways. Although written by experts in the field, it will be of such great interest to students and others new to the field that it may well spark the imagination of the next Ruth Benedict in the making.” Kazue Muta, Osaka University “A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a rich collection by Japanese and international researchers that demystifies Japanese culture and society. Challenging static and ahistorical perceptions of Japan, it ranges widely across space and time to provide an innovative and critical study of minorities, gender, culture, education, family, ritual, citizenship, and more.” Mark Selden, Binghamton and Cornell Universities "This is without doubt a creative, informative, and conscientiously argued book from which anthropologists and other students of Japan will have much to learn." Current AnthropologyTable of ContentsSynopsis of Contents viii Notes on Contributors xviii Part I: Introduction 1 1 Introduction: Putting and Keeping Japan in Anthropology 3 Jennifer Robertson Part II: Cultures, Histories, and Identities 17 2 The Imperial Past of Anthropology in Japan 19 Katsumi Nakao 3 Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Properties Management: Prewar Ideology and Postwar Legacies 36 Walter Edwards 4 Feminism, Timelines, and History-Making 50 Tomomi Yamaguchi 5 Making Majority Culture 59 Roger Goodman 6 Political and Cultural Perspectives on ‘‘Insider’’ Minorities 73 Joshua Hotaka Roth 7 Japan’s Ethnic Minority: Koreans 89 Sonia Ryang 8 Shifting Contours of Class and Status 104 Glenda S. Roberts 9 The Anthropology of Japanese Corporate Management 125 Tomoko Hamada 10 Fashioning Cultural Identity: Body and Dress 153 Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni 11 Genders and Sexualities 167 Sabine Frühstück Part III: Geographies and Boundaries, Spaces and Sentiments 183 12 On the ‘‘Nature’’ of Japanese Culture, or, Is There a Japanese Sense of Nature? 185 D. P. Martinez 13 The Rural Imaginary: Landscape, Village, Tradition 201 Scott Schnell 14 Tokyo’s Third Rebuilding: New Twists on Old Patterns 218 Roman Cybriwsky 15 Japan’s Global Village: A View from the World of Leisure 231 Joy Hendry Part IV: Socialization, Assimilation, and Identification 245 16 Formal Caring Alternatives: Kindergartens and Day-Care Centers 247 Eyal Ben-Ari 17 Post-Compulsory Schooling and the Legacy of Imperialism 261 Brian J. McVeigh 18 Theorizing the Cultural Importance of Play: Anthropological Approaches to Sports and Recreation of Japan 279 Elise Edwards 19 Popular Entertainment and the Music Industry 297 Shuhei Hosokawa 20 There’s More than Manga: Popular Nonfiction Books and Magazines 314 Laura Miller Part V: Body, Blood, Self, and Nation 327 21 Biopower: Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage 329 Jennifer Robertson 22 The Ie (Family) in Global Perspective 355 Emiko Ochiai 23 Constrained Person and Creative Agent: A Dying Student’s Narrative of Self and Others 380 Susan Orpett Long 24 Nation, Citizenship, and Cinema 400 Aaron Gerow 25 Culinary Culture and the Making of a National Cuisine 415 Katarzyna Cwiertka Part VI: Religion and Science, Beliefs and Bioethics 429 26 Historical, New, and ‘‘New’’ New Religions 431 Ian Reader 27 Folk Religion and its Contemporary Issues 452 Noriko Kawahashi 28 Women Scientists and Gender Ideology 467 Sumiko Otsubo 29 Preserving Moral Order: Responses to Biomedical Technologies 483 Margaret Lock Index 501
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Doing Ethnography Today
Book SynopsisDoing Ethnography Today explores the methodologies and theories behind contemporary, collaborative ethnography and provides an opportunity to cultivate experience with included exercises. Presents ethnography as creative and artful rather than analytical or technical Emphasises the collaborative nature of ethnography Structured exercises cultivate practical experience Includes a discussion on indexing and interpreting project materials Provides guidance on interview questions and selecting appropriate field equipmentTable of ContentsPreface x 1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Ethnography 1 Ethnography is as Personal as it Gets 4 Ethnography is Collaborative 5 Ethnography is Hermeneutic 6 Ethnography is Creative and Constitutive 7 Ethnography Grapples with the Idea of Culture, however Deeply Compromised 8 Ethnography is Mostly Art 8 Exercise – Taking Stock: Exploring your Limits and Possibilities 10 Suggested Readings 13 Suggested Websites 14 2 Fields of Collaboration 15 The Field Today 19 On the Actual Complexities of Collaboration 21 Exercise – Engaging Collaborators and Creating Research Questions 24 Suggested Readings 26 Suggested Websites 27 3 Emergent Design 30 Exercise – Intentional Reciprocity 32 Uncertainty and the Collaborative Process 34 Ethics and Ethical Commitments 36 Exercise – Developing Project Codes of Ethics 39 Recognition or Anonymity? 40 Exercise – Ethics, IRBs, and Other Subjects 41 Issues of Authority: Ethnographer as Facilitator, Research Participant as Counterpart 44 Exercise – Revisiting Project Limits and Possibilities 46 Suggested Readings 47 Suggested Websites 48 4 Engagement: Participant Observation and Observant Participation 50 Exercise – One Scene, Many Positions 54 Participation 56 Interlude: Equipment Check 61 From Participant Observation to Observant Participation 64 Fieldnotes: From Definitions, Meanings, and Practices to Storied Observations 66 Exercise – Developing Your Own (Fieldnotes) Style 69 On Fieldnote Forms 72 Exercise – Writing With 75 By Way of Conclusion . . . 77 Suggested Readings 80 Suggested Websites 80 5 Interviews and Conversations 84 Living with Interviews 87 Exercise – Issues for Interviews 89 The Changing Nature of Interviews 94 Exercise – Interviews as Conversations 97 Interviews (and Conversations) in Ethnographic Research 98 Exercise – Talking about Transcripts 104 Suggested Readings 108 Suggested Websites 109 6 Inscriptions: On Writing Ethnography 113 Exercise – Making Sense of Materials 116 “What is Ethnography?” Redux: On the Emergence of Contemporary Ethnographic Forms 120 Exercise – Writing Ethnography 126 Toward Collaborative Writing and Transformation 129 Exercise – Collaborative Writing 131 Suggested Readings 134 Suggested Websites 135 Index 138
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University of Pennsylvania Press Contributions to Ethnography and Philology of the
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Temple University Press,U.S. Oye Como Va
Book SynopsisLatino music as an amalgam of American culturesTrade Review"Oye Como Va! provides an incisive historical and contemporary overview of all the major popular musical genres defined as ‘Latin.’ Pacini Hernandez presents an insightful, coherent, eloquent, and engaging analysis of the hybridity of Latino musical practices, carefully documenting the ‘transnational’ musical interactions between Latinos in the United States and in their countries of origin."—Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras"Deborah Pacini Hernandez’s wonderful book highlights the magnificent diversity and generative hybridity of Latino popular music. Oye Como Va! presents empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analyses of a dazzling range of national and transnational musical genres. From her fully realized critiques of cumbia, merengue, and salsa to her explication of the hidden bilingual and bicultural histories of disco, freestyle, rock, reggaeton, hip-hop, and house, Pacini Hernandez has produced a timely, compelling, and significant book." —George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark"Oye Como Va! brings Pacini Hernandez's unsurpassed expertise in Latino/a and Latin American popular music into a groundbreaking study of how issues of cultural nationalism, immigration, and transnationalism have affected its identification and marketing. The result is the most comprehensive treatment of Latino/a music to date. From bachata to rock en español to reggaeton, Pacini Hernandez discusses both the historical and most fascinating contemporary dimensions." —Arlene Dávila, author of Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of RaceTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Hybridity, Identity, and Latino Popular Music 2. Historical Perspectives on Latinos and the Latin Music Industry 3. To Rock or Not to Rock: Cultural Nationalism and Latino Engagement with Rock ’n’ Roll 4. Turning the Tables: Musical Mixings, Border Crossings, and New Sonic Circuitries 5. New Immigrants, New Layerings: Tradition and Transnationalism in U.S. Dominican Popular Music 6. From Cumbia Colombiana to Cumbia Cosmopolatina: Roots, Routes, Race, and Mestizaje 7. Marketing Latinidad in a Global Era Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. ActionVie
Book SynopsisAct Up-Paris became one of the most notable protest groups in France in the mid-1990s. Founded in 1989, and following the New York model, it became a confrontational voice representing the interests of those affected by HIV through openly political activism. Action=Vie, the English-language translation of Christophe Broqua's study of the grassroots activist branch, explains the reasons for the group's success and sheds light on Act Up's defining featuressuch as its unique articulation between AIDS and gay activism. Featuring numerous accounts by witnesses and participants, Broqua traces the history of Act Up-Paris and shows how thousands of gay men and women confronted the AIDS epidemic by mobilizing with public actions. Act Up-Paris helped shape the social definition not only of HIV-positive persons but also of sexual minorities. Broqua analyzes the changes brought about by the group, from the emergence of new treatments for HIV infection to normalizing homosexuality and a controver
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Temple University Press,U.S. Hope Is Cut
Book SynopsisA detailed look at young men in urban Ethiopia that reveals the impact of economic development and globalizationTrade Review"Hope Is Cut is a thoughtful, penetrating, and moving analysis of the lives of young men in Ethiopia and how their predicament sheds light on existing debates in social theory regarding time, space, temporal narratives of progress, social stratification, youth, and neoliberal capitalism in Africa. Mains’s book not only looks at an issue of great importance in the contemporary world; it also connects the study of youth to issues in broader social theory. Hope Is Cut should have a wide array of potential applications and a long shelf life." —Jennifer Cole, Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, and author of Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in MadagascarTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Youth, Hope, Stratification, and Time1 The Historical and Cultural Roots of Unemployment and Stratification in Urban Ethiopia2 Imagining Hopeful Futures through Khat and Film3 “We Live Like Chickens; We Are Just Eating and Sleeping”: Progress, Education, and the Temporal Struggles of Young Men4 Working toward Hope: Youth Unemployment, Occupational Status, and Values5 Hopeful Exchanges: Reciprocity and Changing Dimensions of Urban Stratification6 Spatial Fixes to Temporal Problems: Migration, Social Relationships, and WorkConclusion: Sustaining Hope in the Present and the Futurenotesreferencesindex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Laotian Daughters
Book SynopsisHow environmental activism in youth shapes political engagement and citizenship for Laotian American womenTrade Review"Laotian Daughters convincingly argues that children of refugees embody a pivotal social location that allows for deeper, more complex insights into such pressing issues as cultural citizenship, political belonging, and national identity. Shah’s weaving together of social scientific research, cultural studies, and literary analysis is seamless. I am particularly excited by the incorporation of environmental justice literature into this mix, which is rare. The book’s greatest strength remains the young activists whose stories bring this book to life. Laotian Daughters is part of an important, growing intellectual body of research on the U.S. second generation, and this ethnographic study of Laotian teenagers fills a significant niche."—Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, and author of Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant EntrepreneursTable of Contents Acknowledgments 1 “Where We Live, Where We Work, Where We Play, Where We Learn”: The Asian Pacific Environmental Network 2 From Agent Orange to Superfund Sites to Anti-immigrant Sentiments: Multiple Voyages, Ongoing Challenges 3 New Immigration and the American Nation: A Framework for Citizenship and Belonging 4 The Politics of Race: Political Identity and the Struggle for Social Rights 5 Negotiating Racial Hierarchies: Critical Incorporation, Immigrant Ideology, and Interminority Relations 6 Family, Culture, Gender: Narratives of Ethnic Reconstruction 7 Building Community, Crafting Belonging in Multiple Homes 8 Becoming “American”: Remaking American National Identity through Environmental Justice Activism APPENDIX Socio-demographic Information on Second-Generation Laotians Who Participated in the Study NotesReferencesIndex
£64.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Young Men Time and Boredom in the Republic of
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality are interlinkedTable of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrologue1 OverviewSECTION I. “IN A QUIET SWAMP, THERE ARE DEVILS WANDERING”: RUINS AND GHOSTS IN BATUMIIntroduction2 Walking a Ruined City3 Devils and BrotherhoodsConclusion: A Period Made PastSECTION II. DAILY INTO THE BLUE? YOUNG LIVES BETWEEN LONGING AND ENGAGEMENTIntroduction4 The White Georgian5 A Tale of Two ArtistsConclusion: “Because of” or “In Order To”?SECTION III. THE FUTURE HAUNTING THE PRESENTIntroduction6 Subjunctive Moods and Imperative Reminders7 Subjunctive MaterialitiesConclusion: Horizons in MotionSECTION IV. APPARITIONSIntroduction8 Social Afterlives and the Creation of Temporal MarginsEpilogueReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Contemporary Social Constructionism
Book SynopsisProvides a critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. This book traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 What is Social Constructionism? 2 The Philosophical Foundations of Social Constructionism 3 Social Constructionism Contra Deconstructionism and Postmodernism 4 Social Constructionism and the Body 5 The Social Construction of Self-Knowledge 6 The Social Construction of Social Problems 7 The Way Forward for Social Constructionism Notes References Index
£37.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Contemporary Social Constructionism
Book SynopsisIn Contemporary Social Constructionism, Darin Weinberg provides a detailed, critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. Weinberg traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences. Contemporary Social Constructionism illuminates how constructionist social science developed in relation to positivism, critical and hermeneutic philosophy, and feminism and then goes on to distinguish the concept from postmodernism and deconstructionism. In addition, Weinberg shows how social constructionists have contributed to our understanding of biology, the body, self-knowledge, and social problems. The result is a contemporary statement of social constructionism that shores up its scientific veracity and demonstrates its analytic power, promise, and influence. The book concludes with a look toward the futurTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 What is Social Constructionism? 2 The Philosophical Foundations of Social Constructionism 3 Social Constructionism Contra Deconstructionism and Postmodernism 4 Social Constructionism and the Body 5 The Social Construction of Self-Knowledge 6 The Social Construction of Social Problems 7 The Way Forward for Social Constructionism Notes References Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. The NFL
Book SynopsisThe National Football League is one of the most significant cultural engines in contemporary American life. This book offers a collection of critical essays to focus attention on the NFL as a cultural force.Table of Contents Foreword: Football as Mediated Spectacle • Michael Oriard Introduction: The Political Football: Culture, Critique, and the NFL • Thomas P. Oates and Zack Furness I Production, Promotion, and Control 1 The Greatest Game Ever Played: An NFL Origin Story • Daniel A. Grano 2 Game Time: A History of the Managerial Authority of the Instant Replay • Dylan Mulvin 3 The Ochocinco Brand: Social Media’s Impact on the NFL’s Institutional Control • Jacob Dittmer 4 New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom • Thomas P. Oates II Identities, Social Hierarchies, and Cultural Power 5 NFL Sex • Toby Miller 6 Football and “Ghettocentric” Logics? The NFL’s Essentialist Mobilization of Black Bodies• Ronald L. Mower, David L. Andrews, and Oliver J. C. Rick 7 “I Was a Gladiator”: Pain, Injury, and Masculinity in the NFL • Katie Rodgers 8 Masculinity, Race, and Violence in Any Given Sunday • Aaron Baker 9 Spignesi, Sinatra, and the Pittsburgh Steelers: Franco’s Italian Army as an Expression of Ethnic Identity, 1972–1977 • Nicholas P. Ciotola III Gridirons and Battlefields 10 Offensive Lines: Sport-State Synergy in an Era of Perpetual War • Samantha King 11 NFL Films and the Militarization of Professional Football • Michael L. Butterworth 12 For the Love of National Manhood: Excavating the Cultural Politics and Media Memorializations of Pat Tillman • Kyle W. Kusz Contributors Index
£52.20
Temple University Press,U.S. The NFL
Book SynopsisThe National Football League is one of the most significant cultural engines in contemporary American life. Yet despite intense and near ubiquitous media coverage, commentators rarely turn a critical lens on the league to ask what material and social forces have contributed to its success, and how the NFL has influenced public life in the United States. The editors of and contributors to The NFL examine the league as a culturally, economically, and politically powerful presence in American life. The essays, by established and up-and-coming scholars, explore how the NFL is packaged for commercial consumption, the league's influence on American identity, and its relationship to state and cultural militarism. The NFL is the first collection of critical essays to focus attention on the NFL as a cultural force. It boldly moves beyond popular celebrations of the sport and toward a fuller understanding of football's role in shaping contemporary sport, media, and everyday life. ContributTable of Contents Foreword: Football as Mediated Spectacle • Michael Oriard Introduction: The Political Football: Culture, Critique, and the NFL • Thomas P. Oates and Zack Furness I Production, Promotion, and Control 1 The Greatest Game Ever Played: An NFL Origin Story • Daniel A. Grano 2 Game Time: A History of the Managerial Authority of the Instant Replay • Dylan Mulvin 3 The Ochocinco Brand: Social Media’s Impact on the NFL’s Institutional Control • Jacob Dittmer 4 New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom • Thomas P. Oates II Identities, Social Hierarchies, and Cultural Power 5 NFL Sex • Toby Miller 6 Football and “Ghettocentric” Logics? The NFL’s Essentialist Mobilization of Black Bodies• Ronald L. Mower, David L. Andrews, and Oliver J. C. Rick 7 “I Was a Gladiator”: Pain, Injury, and Masculinity in the NFL • Katie Rodgers 8 Masculinity, Race, and Violence in Any Given Sunday • Aaron Baker 9 Spignesi, Sinatra, and the Pittsburgh Steelers: Franco’s Italian Army as an Expression of Ethnic Identity, 1972–1977 • Nicholas P. Ciotola III Gridirons and Battlefields 10 Offensive Lines: Sport-State Synergy in an Era of Perpetual War • Samantha King 11 NFL Films and the Militarization of Professional Football • Michael L. Butterworth 12 For the Love of National Manhood: Excavating the Cultural Politics and Media Memorializations of Pat Tillman • Kyle W. Kusz Contributors Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. American Heathens
Book SynopsisAmerican Heathens is the first in-depth ethnographic study about the largely misunderstood practice of American Heathenry (Germanic Paganism). Jennifer Snookwho has been Pagan since her early teens and a Heathen since eighteentraces the development and trajectory of Heathenry as a new religious movement in America, one in which all identities are political and all politics matter. Snook explores the complexities of pagan reconstruction and racial, ethnic and gender identity in today's divisive political climate. She considers the impact of social media on Heathen collectivities, and offers a glimpse of the world of Heathen meanings, rituals, and philosophy. In American Heathens, Snook presents the stories and perspectives of modern practitioners in engaging detail. She treats Heathens as members of a religious movement, rather than simply a subculture reenacting myths and stories of enchantment. Her book shrewdly addresses how people construct ethnicity in a reconstructionist (hiTrade Review"Snook has written a superb insider account of the interesting issues surrounding the revival of pagan traditions among religiously disaffected Americans seeking to (re)construct identities as heathens.... Based on fieldwork, interviews, observation of rituals, and the author's own experiences as a longtime pagan/heathen, this study reveals Snook as a skilled ethno-anthropologist. This is a helpful and needed guide to this diverse and fascinating subculture. Summing Up: Highly recommended." —CHOICE
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Resisting Work
Book SynopsisA job is no longer something we do, but instead something we are. This book insists that many jobs in the West are now regulated by a new matrix of power-biopower - where life itself is put to work through our ability to self-organize around formal rules.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why Work? 1 Come as You Are: The New Corporate Enclosure Movement 2 Common Matters 3 Why the Corporation Does Not Work: A Brief History 4 Corporate Culture and the Coming Bioproletariat 5 “Free Work” Capitalism 6 How to Resist Work Today Conclusion: Working after Neoliberalism Notes References Index
£32.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Knowledge LTD
Book SynopsisCatastrophes ranging from the travesties of financial markets and the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil well to the tsunami that struck northern Japan and the levees breaking in New Orleans are examples of the limits of knowledge. Author Randy Martin insists that the expertise erected to prevent these natural and social disasters failed in each case. In Knowledge LTD, Martin explores how both the limits of knowledge and the social constructions of culture reflect the way we organize social life in the face of disasters and their aftermath. He examines this crisis of knowledge as well as the social movements that rose up in its wake. Martin not only treats derivatives as financial contracts for pricing risk, but also shows how the derivative works in economic terms, where the very unity of the economy is undone. Knowledge LTD ultimately points to a more comprehensive reordering of the once separate spheres of economy, polity, and culture. Martin provides a new way of understTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Who Knew? 1 After Economy?2 Public Quandary3 De-centered Social KinestheticsConclusion: Derivative KnowledgeNotesIndex
£67.50
Temple University Press,U.S. French Gastronomy and the Magic of Americanism
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the effects of corporate-driven industrial processes on the practices, and the practitioners, of French gastronomyTrade Review"A thought-provoking examination of the interpenetration, not opposition, of haute cuisine and the mass-market industry.… This book, ironic rather than tragic, is about paradoxes involving an entente between the carefully defined and protected image of gastronomy and the American-inspired sectors of agribusiness, supermarkets, and frozen food…. French Gastronomy is revealing at every turn and tells a curious and convincing story of philosophical and historical import."— Journal of Modern History
£73.10
Temple University Press,U.S. French Gastronomy and the Magic of Americanism
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the effects of corporate-driven industrial processes on the practices, and the practitioners, of French gastronomyTrade Review"A thought-provoking examination of the interpenetration, not opposition, of haute cuisine and the mass-market industry.… This book, ironic rather than tragic, is about paradoxes involving an entente between the carefully defined and protected image of gastronomy and the American-inspired sectors of agribusiness, supermarkets, and frozen food…. French Gastronomy is revealing at every turn and tells a curious and convincing story of philosophical and historical import."— Journal of Modern History
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. BITS of Belonging
Book SynopsisIndia's global success in the Information Technology industry has also prompted the growth of neoliberalism and the re-emergence of the middle class in contemporary urban areas, such as Bangalore. In her significant study, BITS of Belonging, Simanti Dasgupta shows that this economic shift produces new forms of social inequality while reinforcing older ones. She investigates this economic disparity by looking at IT and water privatization to explain how these otherwise unrelated domains correspond to our thinking about citizenship, governance, and belonging.Dasgupta's ethnographic study shows how work and human processes in the IT industry intertwine to meet the market stipulations of the global economy. Meanwhile, in the recasting of water from a public good to a commodity, the middle class insists on a governance and citizenship model based upon market participation. Dasgupta provides a critical analysis of the grassroots activism involved in a contested water project where different Trade Review“An engaging and important book that re-frames the widely studied field of IT in India in novel and interesting ways. Simanti Dasgupta offers new insights in her juxtaposition of IT and water distribution, and shows how neoliberal politics in India are deeply embedded in gender and caste hierarchies. Illuminative, BITS of Belonging deserves to be widely read.”—Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity“BITS of Belonging is a very timely and important book, with significant theoretical insights and compelling data. Its critique of the rhetoric of IT leaders and professionals in India is rigorous. Dasgupta provides an exploration of lived experience of the IT boom for those on the ground in the city of Bangalore. Her analysis moves fluidly back and forth from slums and governmental water boards, to affluent IT firms and corporate parks. With a geographer’s eye, she shows us firsthand the disconnect between these worlds—which are all affected by the IT boom—and it is extremely powerful.”—Winifred Poster, Washington University, St. Louis
£63.90
Temple University Press,U.S. BITS of Belonging
Book SynopsisIndia's global success in the Information Technology industry has also prompted the growth of neoliberalism and the re-emergence of the middle class in contemporary urban areas, such as Bangalore. In her significant study, BITS of Belonging, Simanti Dasgupta shows that this economic shift produces new forms of social inequality while reinforcing older ones. She investigates this economic disparity by looking at IT and water privatization to explain how these otherwise unrelated domains correspond to our thinking about citizenship, governance, and belonging.Dasgupta's ethnographic study shows how work and human processes in the IT industry intertwine to meet the market stipulations of the global economy. Meanwhile, in the recasting of water from a public good to a commodity, the middle class insists on a governance and citizenship model based upon market participation. Dasgupta provides a critical analysis of the grassroots activism involved in a contested water project where different Trade Review“An engaging and important book that re-frames the widely studied field of IT in India in novel and interesting ways. Simanti Dasgupta offers new insights in her juxtaposition of IT and water distribution, and shows how neoliberal politics in India are deeply embedded in gender and caste hierarchies. Illuminative, BITS of Belonging deserves to be widely read.”—Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity“BITS of Belonging is a very timely and important book, with significant theoretical insights and compelling data. Its critique of the rhetoric of IT leaders and professionals in India is rigorous. Dasgupta provides an exploration of lived experience of the IT boom for those on the ground in the city of Bangalore. Her analysis moves fluidly back and forth from slums and governmental water boards, to affluent IT firms and corporate parks. With a geographer’s eye, she shows us firsthand the disconnect between these worlds—which are all affected by the IT boom—and it is extremely powerful.”—Winifred Poster, Washington University, St. Louis
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. The Struggling State
Book SynopsisA 2003 law in Eritrea, a notoriously closed-off, heavily militarized, and authoritarian country, mandated an additional year of school for all children and stipulated that the classes be held at Sawa, the nation's military training center. As a result, educational institutions were directly implicated in the making of soldiers, putting Eritrean teachers in the untenable position of having to navigate between their devotion to educating the nation and their discontent with their role in the government program of mass militarization. In her provocative ethnography, The Struggling State, Jennifer Riggan examines the contradictions of state power as simultaneously oppressive to and enacted by teachers. Riggan, who conducted participant observation with teachers in and out of schools, explores the tenuous hyphen between nation and state under lived conditions of everyday authoritarianism. The Struggling State shows how the hopes of Eritrean teachers and students for the future of their natiTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Everyday Authoritarianism, Teachers, and the Decoupling of Nation and State1 Struggling for the Nation: Contradictions of Revolutionary Nationalism2 "It Seemed like a Punishment": Coercive State Effects and the Maddening State3 Students or Soldiers? Troubled State Technologies and the Imagined Future of Educated Eritrea4 Educating Eritrea: Disorder, Disruption, and Remaking the Nation5 The Teacher State: Morality and Everyday Sovereignty over SchoolsConclusion: Escape, Encampment, and the Alchemy of NationalismNotes References Index
£52.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self
Book SynopsisInner speech, also known as self-talk, is distinct from ordinary language. It has several functions and structures, from everyday thinking and self-regulation to stream of consciousness and daydreaming. Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self provides a comprehensive analysis of this internal conversation that people have with themselves to think about problems, clarify goals, and guide their way through life.Norbert Wiley shrewdly emphasizes the semiotic and dialogical features of the inner speech, rather than the biological and neurological issues. He also examines people who lack control of their inner speechsuch as some autistics and many emotionally disturbed people who use trial and error rather than self-controlto show the power and effectiveness of inner speech.Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self takes a humanistic social theorist approach to its topic. Wiley acknowledges the contributions of inner speech theorists, Lev Vygotsky and Mikhail Bakhtin, and addresses the classical pr
£60.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Four Germanys A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family
Book Synopsis In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House thatGiacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whosefortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germanythrough the long twentieth century. Each chapter of Four Germanys is reflective of generational ratherthan historical time. In 1922, Edwin Schorcht inherited his family farm,and in Part One, Pitkin traces the derivation of this farmstead. Part Two focuses on Schorcht’s children who came of age in Hitler’sGermany. Part Three has the Schorchts growing up in the Ulbrichtyears (1950–73) of the German Democratic Republic. The bookconcludes with the great-granddaughter, Maria, looking back to thepast in relation to the new Germany that history had bequeathed her. Ultimately, Four Germanys reflects the impact of critical historicalevents on ordinary East Germans while it also reveals how one particular family managed its own historical ad
£66.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Four Germanys A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family
Book Synopsis In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House thatGiacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whosefortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germanythrough the long twentieth century. Each chapter of Four Germanys is reflective of generational ratherthan historical time. In 1922, Edwin Schorcht inherited his family farm,and in Part One, Pitkin traces the derivation of this farmstead. Part Two focuses on Schorcht’s children who came of age in Hitler’sGermany. Part Three has the Schorchts growing up in the Ulbrichtyears (1950–73) of the German Democratic Republic. The bookconcludes with the great-granddaughter, Maria, looking back to thepast in relation to the new Germany that history had bequeathed her. Ultimately, Four Germanys reflects the impact of critical historicalevents on ordinary East Germans while it also reveals how one particular family managed its own historical ad
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. The Supernatural in Society Culture and History
Book SynopsisIn the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us. But despite their popularity, scholars often dismiss such beliefs in the uncanny as inconsequential, or even embarrassing. The editors and contributors to The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History have made a concerted effort to understand encounters with ghosts and the supernatural that have remain present and flourished. Featuring folkloric researchers examining the cultural value of such beliefs and practices, sociologists who acknowledge the social and historical value of the supernatural, and enthusiasts of the mystical and uncanny, this volume includes a variety of experts and interested observers using first-hand ethnographic experiences and historical records. The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History seeks to understand the socio-cultural and socio-historical contexts of the supernatural. This volume takes the supernatural as real because belief in it has fun
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. The Supernatural in Society Culture and History
Book SynopsisIn the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us. But despite their popularity, scholars often dismiss such beliefs in the uncanny as inconsequential, or even embarrassing. The editors and contributors to The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History have made a concerted effort to understand encounters with ghosts and the supernatural that have remain present and flourished. Featuring folkloric researchers examining the cultural value of such beliefs and practices, sociologists who acknowledge the social and historical value of the supernatural, and enthusiasts of the mystical and uncanny, this volume includes a variety of experts and interested observers using first-hand ethnographic experiences and historical records. The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History seeks to understand the socio-cultural and socio-historical contexts of the supernatural. This volume takes the supernatural as real because belief in it has fun
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Japanese American Millennials
Book Synopsis Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures theexperiences, perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980 and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate multiple social identities. The essays by scholars both in the United States and Japan draw upon the Japanese American millennial experience to examine how they find self-expression in Youth Basketball Leagues or Christian youth camps as well as how they grapple with being mixed-race, bicultural, or queer. Featuring compelling interviews and observations, Japanese American Millennials dislodges the dominant generational framework toaddress absences in the current literature and suggests how we migh
£77.35
Temple University Press,U.S. Japanese American Millennials
Book Synopsis Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures theexperiences, perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980 and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple perspectives on who Japanese Americans are, how they think about notions of community and culture, and how they engage and negotiate multiple social identities. The essays by scholars both in the United States and Japan draw upon the Japanese American millennial experience to examine how they find self-expression in Youth Basketball Leagues or Christian youth camps as well as how they grapple with being mixed-race, bicultural, or queer. Featuring compelling interviews and observations, Japanese American Millennials dislodges the dominant generational framework toaddress absences in the current literature and suggests how we migh
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Psychobilly
Book SynopsisExamines how people improve their lives by participating in a rebellious music-based subcultureTrade Review“Kim Kattari’s outstanding study gives psychobilly its justly deserved attention—not only as a historical genre rooted in dissatisfaction and rebellion, but as a complex, living subculture positioned deep on the musical margins. Kattari’s fieldwork brings together dozens of interviews to illuminate the scene, and then she sharpens her analytical gaze on psychobilly’s transgressive performative properties. Steeped in horror, shock, and dark, campy humor, psychobilly emerges in Kattari’s book as an immersive style that relishes the power of taboo. Psychobilly is the definitive study of this fascinating subculture.”—Theo Cateforis, Associate Professor of Music History & Cultures at Syracuse University and author of Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Psychobilly
Book SynopsisExamines how people improve their lives by participating in a rebellious music-based subcultureTrade Review“Kim Kattari’s outstanding study gives psychobilly its justly deserved attention—not only as a historical genre rooted in dissatisfaction and rebellion, but as a complex, living subculture positioned deep on the musical margins. Kattari’s fieldwork brings together dozens of interviews to illuminate the scene, and then she sharpens her analytical gaze on psychobilly’s transgressive performative properties. Steeped in horror, shock, and dark, campy humor, psychobilly emerges in Kattari’s book as an immersive style that relishes the power of taboo. Psychobilly is the definitive study of this fascinating subculture.”—Theo Cateforis, Associate Professor of Music History & Cultures at Syracuse University and author of Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s
£23.39
