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Book SynopsisExamining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of Decolonization, studies collective movement, resistance, and everyday life in the West Bank to show how Palestinians assert a kind of Indigenous self-determination over mobility that Israeli settler colonialism seeks to undermine.Having immersed herself in a year of fieldwork, Griffin maps multiple engagements with the flexible bus, shared van, and private taxi services to demonstrate that the politics of mobility are shaped by ongoing settler colonialism and Indigenous struggle. Griffin uses critical border studies to look at the contested nature of mobility at the sites of transit, where Palestinians practice self-determination through routine participation, spectacular political organizing and demonstration, and artisticTrade Review"[A] unique and invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination....[T]he publication of Vehicles of Decolonization is notable and worth celebrating.... [I]t succeeds in showing how the shape of public transportation is connected to a set of broader political and economic contradictions.... For scholars eager to think about public transportation outside the strictures of land use debates or environmental sustainability, Vehicles of Decolonization remains important precisely in its ability to place public transportation squarely within debates on political power, identity, and political economy."—City and Community"Griffin highlights public transportation as a site of collective Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation in the West Bank. She begins by illuminating the Israeli systems of border crossings, surveillance, and permits that seek to impede Palestinians’ movement in the region. The book then investigates the ways Palestinians use routes, human interactions surrounding transportation, and vehicles themselves to subvert these systems. Griffin also presents the history of political protests on West Bank buses and anti-occupation art that depicts public transit as examples of Palestinian social struggle centered around mobility."—Middle East Journal"[A] rich piece of political geography that celebrates the agency of people whose every movement can be controlled. With no apologies for her activist and sympathetic posture, Griffin describes the quotidian travails of daily life in the West Bank, where a modern highway system and buses for Jewish settlers are largely off limits for Palestinians.... [T]his well-researched monograph presents a positive picture of resilience, imagination, and community often missing in accounts of the West Bank.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"Griffin provides a compelling examination of what she refers to as the 'regime of im/mobility' imposed by Israel on Palestinians inside the West Bank."—Contemporary Sociology"Griffin's writing contextualises the ramifications of public transportation for Palestinians from within Israel's colonial framework, thus setting the scene for readers to engage with a political reality that is either denied or obfuscated."—Middle East Monitor“A critical aspect of colonial biopolitics is the control of body and its movement. Maryam Griffin’s highly insightful Vehicles of Decolonization is the first detailed study of not only how Israeli occupation restrains the daily movement of the Palestinians through walls, checkpoints, permits, and road systems, but especially how Palestinians resist this regime of enclosure by reclaiming mobility through mundane yet highly contested venues of public transit and collective interaction. A timely book.”—Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring“A lively and accessible read, Griffin’s book is the first in-depth study of im/mobility in the West Bank. In a landscape pockmarked by politically created closures, constrained movements, and forbidden spaces, public transport takes on important and contested meaning. Griffin’s account demonstrates how despite the intricacies of Israeli settler colonialism, Palestinians carve out spaces that provide possibilities for social connections and decolonial power, sometimes through mundane practices such as seatbelt clicks, hand-drawn maps, and a metro network art installation, which, given the political conditions, are rendered spectacular.”—Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and coeditor of Gaza as Metaphor"Vehicles of Decolonization is an original study about the restricted daily life and hardships Palestinians have been experiencing under Israeli occupation since 1967; it is also about the imaginative alternatives they have deployed to assert their rights and agency. This study would be of interest to scholars and students in Middle East history, Palestine and Settler Colonial Studies, and the social sciences."—Arab Studies Quarterly

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Book SynopsisExamining the border-enclosure strategy Israel uses to impose Palestinian im/mobilization, Maryam Griffin considers the ways public transportation in the Palestinian West Bank is a constant site of social struggle. Her illuminating book, Vehicles of Decolonization, studies collective movement, resistance, and everyday life in the West Bank to show how Palestinians assert a kind of Indigenous self-determination over mobility that Israeli settler colonialism seeks to undermine.Having immersed herself in a year of fieldwork, Griffin maps multiple engagements with the flexible bus, shared van, and private taxi services to demonstrate that the politics of mobility are shaped by ongoing settler colonialism and Indigenous struggle. Griffin uses critical border studies to look at the contested nature of mobility at the sites of transit, where Palestinians practice self-determination through routine participation, spectacular political organizing and demonstration, and artisticTrade Review"[A] unique and invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination....[T]he publication of Vehicles of Decolonization is notable and worth celebrating.... [I]t succeeds in showing how the shape of public transportation is connected to a set of broader political and economic contradictions.... For scholars eager to think about public transportation outside the strictures of land use debates or environmental sustainability, Vehicles of Decolonization remains important precisely in its ability to place public transportation squarely within debates on political power, identity, and political economy."—City and Community"Griffin highlights public transportation as a site of collective Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation in the West Bank. She begins by illuminating the Israeli systems of border crossings, surveillance, and permits that seek to impede Palestinians’ movement in the region. The book then investigates the ways Palestinians use routes, human interactions surrounding transportation, and vehicles themselves to subvert these systems. Griffin also presents the history of political protests on West Bank buses and anti-occupation art that depicts public transit as examples of Palestinian social struggle centered around mobility."—Middle East Journal"[A] rich piece of political geography that celebrates the agency of people whose every movement can be controlled. With no apologies for her activist and sympathetic posture, Griffin describes the quotidian travails of daily life in the West Bank, where a modern highway system and buses for Jewish settlers are largely off limits for Palestinians.... [T]his well-researched monograph presents a positive picture of resilience, imagination, and community often missing in accounts of the West Bank.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"Griffin provides a compelling examination of what she refers to as the 'regime of im/mobility' imposed by Israel on Palestinians inside the West Bank."—Contemporary Sociology"Griffin's writing contextualises the ramifications of public transportation for Palestinians from within Israel's colonial framework, thus setting the scene for readers to engage with a political reality that is either denied or obfuscated."—Middle East Monitor“A critical aspect of colonial biopolitics is the control of body and its movement. Maryam Griffin’s highly insightful Vehicles of Decolonization is the first detailed study of not only how Israeli occupation restrains the daily movement of the Palestinians through walls, checkpoints, permits, and road systems, but especially how Palestinians resist this regime of enclosure by reclaiming mobility through mundane yet highly contested venues of public transit and collective interaction. A timely book.”—Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring“A lively and accessible read, Griffin’s book is the first in-depth study of im/mobility in the West Bank. In a landscape pockmarked by politically created closures, constrained movements, and forbidden spaces, public transport takes on important and contested meaning. Griffin’s account demonstrates how despite the intricacies of Israeli settler colonialism, Palestinians carve out spaces that provide possibilities for social connections and decolonial power, sometimes through mundane practices such as seatbelt clicks, hand-drawn maps, and a metro network art installation, which, given the political conditions, are rendered spectacular.”—Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and coeditor of Gaza as Metaphor"Vehicles of Decolonization is an original study about the restricted daily life and hardships Palestinians have been experiencing under Israeli occupation since 1967; it is also about the imaginative alternatives they have deployed to assert their rights and agency. This study would be of interest to scholars and students in Middle East history, Palestine and Settler Colonial Studies, and the social sciences."—Arab Studies Quarterly

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Book SynopsisReveals how activism to reclaim gentrifying urban spaces, even in a supposedly equitable welfare state, is dramatically impacted by the physical and social geography of the movement's context.Trade Review“Beginning with a charming portrait of one small Swedish neighborhood, Kimberly Creasap demonstrates the power of the concept of a social movement ‘scene,’ a concentrated network of activists and the places they congregate. Scenes are not just a resource for politics; they are an accomplishment in their own right. Who really owns a city? And how?”—James M. Jasper, author of The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements“A must-read on autonomous social movements resisting gentrification in Swedish cities that draws on a conceptual apparatus made up of centrality, concentration, and visibility. Making a Scene is rich in contextual detail, description, and, critically, a sense of hope for activists everywhere. Creasap puts the spatial into the social of social movement research and contributes to the rapidly growing literature on resistance in gentrification studies.”—Loretta Lees, Incoming Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, and coauthor of Gentrification and Planetary Gentrification"Creasap offers the reader ethnographic glimpses and comparisons of the local social movement scenes in Sweden’s three major cities of Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö.... [Her] main argument serves as an important contribution to the scholarship on social movement scenes. This book also presents an important call for thinking more critically about spatiality in the sociology of social movements more generally."—Social Forces"Creasap's comparative analysis of autonomous movements across these three different urban spaces provides a nuanced contribution not just to social movement studies but to urban social science, as well.... Making a Scene provides important insights that will be invaluable for social movement scholars, political sociologists, and urban social scientists studying gentrification and neighborhood change."—Mobilization"This book contributes to the understanding of autonomist and anarchist movements in Sweden’s three major cities.... Creasap’s concise and clear writing style helps readers follow the storyline and makes the sociological picture of the activist scenes more palatable for a wider, non-academic audience. The book also enriches the literature by analysing urban activism and radical politics in Sweden at a very specific historical period.... [I]t represents a well-crafted research effort and offers important insights to consider when addressing theoretical questions at the intersection of urban sociology, urban movements, and far-left radical politics in the somewhat unique Swedish context."—Acta Sociologica“Creasap examines an important issue in the social movement literature—the centrality of place for the rise and fall of social movements. Introducing the concept of social movement scenes, she theorizes their importance and the interplay between these scenes and the political economies of their cities. Moreover, Making a Scene engages in an interesting discussion of how gentrification contributes to both sharpening the grievances of urban activists and destroying the environment they need to survive and thrive."—Walter J. Nicholls, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship"This slim sociological study provides welcome data on gentrification and oppositional social movements outside the US, while also providing a counterpoint to generalized readings of the overall success of the Swedish welfare state.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"[A] detailed ethnographic study of the social movement 'scenes' in Stockholm, Goteborg, and Malmo in Sweden. Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, it is the kind of ethnographic work that allows for deep exploration of issues and people, and that uses that exploration to raise complex questions.... [I]t adds admirably to the large body of work on urban social movements, and is worth reading by those interested in dynamics and processes in such movements.... [T]his is a good book that should be of real interest to scholars who are interested in urban social movements, and those who simply want to read an interesting set of stories about these scenes."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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Book SynopsisCharacters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only relate to the millions of disabled people in the global South, but also make more vivid such issues as the effects of colonialism, global capitalism, racism and sexism, war, and environmental disaster.Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversation with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our appreciation of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. In addition, he uncovers the myriad ways fiction gains energy, Trade Review"Krentz effectively traces the evolution of disability in literature from 'a subtle, easy to miss presence' to something central to a work’s narrative, and... makes a strong case for literature as an agent of change.... [T]his book should have a spot on the shelves of literature students and scholars."—Publishers Weekly“Krentz’s triangulation of disability, postcolonial studies, and human rights is original and significant work. In lively and engaging analysis, Elusive Kinship yields important insights about the intersection of disability with trauma and the different ways in which activism and community may be constituted, while providing critical discussions of the limitations of disability rights models. This book is a welcome addition to scholarship in literary postcolonial studies and disability in global contexts.”—Clare Barker, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, and author of Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality“Elusive Kinship is a vital contribution to the growing literature on the geopolitics of disability and debility. Krentz provides a lucid analysis of disabled lives in the Global South as represented in literature while also thoughtfully deconstructing the politics of knowledge production of disability studies in the Global North. Making a powerful case that postcolonial literature assists in challenging these divides, Krentz’s attention to overlooked aspects of disability offers a deep understanding, complicating and transforming what disability is and how it is lived."—Jasbir K Puar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, and author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"Krentz’s excellent study into the depictions of disability in postcolonial literature.... is hugely ambitious in both its scope and subject matter. Krentz’s prose is clear and highly readable, his grasp of the thorny theoretical issues with which he grapples is detailed and impressive, and the balance of classic works of postcolonial literature with lesser-known texts gives the work a broad appeal and relevance.... This study will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those working in disability, postcolonial, and human rights studies."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies"Recognizing the parallel growth of postcolonial literature and global human rights, Krentz traces how literary works published after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights potentially informed future rights instruments, most notably the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)…. Krentz primes readers of postcolonial fiction to read for disability, an approach that promises to uncover new dimensions even to classic works…. [H]is study does open a plethora of possibilities for future scholarship."—Twentieth-Century Literature"Krentz’s scholarly text is a brilliant work of disability studies, a brilliant work on the Global South and on current systems of power, and a brilliant consideration of twelve works of postcolonial literature. This work will become a go-to text for academics, and it will appeal equally to casual readers. Like the works of fiction that Krentz discusses, Elusive Kinship shows readers that disability visibility is important, that care ethics can be a strategic and activist antidote to oppression, and that current debates over human rights must be expanded. Hopefully, Krentz’s work will go on to spur more debates about human rights, definitions of humanity, and systematic inequalities."—Wordgathering

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Book SynopsisCharacters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only relate to the millions of disabled people in the global South, but also make more vivid such issues as the effects of colonialism, global capitalism, racism and sexism, war, and environmental disaster.Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversation with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our appreciation of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. In addition, he uncovers the myriad ways fiction gains energy, Trade Review"Krentz effectively traces the evolution of disability in literature from 'a subtle, easy to miss presence' to something central to a work’s narrative, and... makes a strong case for literature as an agent of change.... [T]his book should have a spot on the shelves of literature students and scholars."—Publishers Weekly“Krentz’s triangulation of disability, postcolonial studies, and human rights is original and significant work. In lively and engaging analysis, Elusive Kinship yields important insights about the intersection of disability with trauma and the different ways in which activism and community may be constituted, while providing critical discussions of the limitations of disability rights models. This book is a welcome addition to scholarship in literary postcolonial studies and disability in global contexts.”—Clare Barker, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, and author of Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality“Elusive Kinship is a vital contribution to the growing literature on the geopolitics of disability and debility. Krentz provides a lucid analysis of disabled lives in the Global South as represented in literature while also thoughtfully deconstructing the politics of knowledge production of disability studies in the Global North. Making a powerful case that postcolonial literature assists in challenging these divides, Krentz’s attention to overlooked aspects of disability offers a deep understanding, complicating and transforming what disability is and how it is lived."—Jasbir K Puar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, and author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"Krentz’s excellent study into the depictions of disability in postcolonial literature.... is hugely ambitious in both its scope and subject matter. Krentz’s prose is clear and highly readable, his grasp of the thorny theoretical issues with which he grapples is detailed and impressive, and the balance of classic works of postcolonial literature with lesser-known texts gives the work a broad appeal and relevance.... This study will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those working in disability, postcolonial, and human rights studies."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies"Recognizing the parallel growth of postcolonial literature and global human rights, Krentz traces how literary works published after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights potentially informed future rights instruments, most notably the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)…. Krentz primes readers of postcolonial fiction to read for disability, an approach that promises to uncover new dimensions even to classic works…. [H]is study does open a plethora of possibilities for future scholarship."—Twentieth-Century Literature"Krentz’s scholarly text is a brilliant work of disability studies, a brilliant work on the Global South and on current systems of power, and a brilliant consideration of twelve works of postcolonial literature. This work will become a go-to text for academics, and it will appeal equally to casual readers. Like the works of fiction that Krentz discusses, Elusive Kinship shows readers that disability visibility is important, that care ethics can be a strategic and activist antidote to oppression, and that current debates over human rights must be expanded. Hopefully, Krentz’s work will go on to spur more debates about human rights, definitions of humanity, and systematic inequalities."—Wordgathering

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Book SynopsisIn the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity. InModel Machines,Long Bui investigates what he calls Asian roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given robotic characteristics.Buioffers the first historical overview of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. He puts forth the concept of the “model machine myth,” which holds specific queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the transnational making of Asian/America.The case studies inModel Machineschart the representation of Chinese laborers, Japanese soldiers, Asian sex workers, and other examples to show how Asians are reimagined to be model machines as a product of globalization, racism, and colonialism. Moreover, it offers examples of how artists and everyday people resisted that stereotype to consider diTrade Review“In this powerful and indispensable historiography, Long Bui puts to rest any lingering doubt about the pernicious pervasiveness of the model machine myth that has long cast Asians as technologized nonhumans in American cultural and economic histories. Through a meticulously researched catalog of the ways Asians have been instrumentalized via recalcitrant techno-Orientalist vocabularies, Bui provides rigorous analyses of the implications and damages of the myth as well as bold provocations for interventions and change.”—Betsy Huang, Associate Professor of English and Dean of the College at Clark University, and coeditor of Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media“Model Machines tracks how fantasies of race and machines inform one another, but also inform the coding of the Asian American race through global history. Looking at the long history of Asian American racial formation, beginning with early nineteenth-century Chinese ‘coolies’ figured as labor machines, through Southeast Asian women imagined as ‘sex machines’ during the Cold War, into the present era of increasing machine-human interactions, Bui creates a welcomed bridge between theories of human-machine relations and critical ethnic studies of the racialization of technology.”—Kalindi Vora, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University, and coauthor of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures"[A] historical analysis of the stereotype of Asian persons as 'automatons'.... The main purpose of this historiography is to contribute to understanding the racialization of Asians in the U.S. over the past two centuries. This compelling work will likely be of greatest interest to scholars and students of Asian American studies, American ethnic history, ethnic studies, sociology, and other social sciences with a focus on critical race studies.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Model Machines is a richly researched and creative study of the model machine myth’s expansive histories and mutations. The book charts a wide range of examples while persuasively demonstrating how the model machine myth threads through them all. This book is an important resource for identifying and challenging persistent characterizations of Asians as nonhuman machines, as well as situating these characterizations within broader histories of Asian exclusion, exploitation, and abuse."—MELUS"Bui [provides] extraordinary insights and deep scholarship in his study of the dehumanisation of Asians and Asian Americans. By focusing on the model machine stereotype, Bui creates an intersectional approach to lucidly uncovering the complex ways in which Asians and Asian Americans have been racialised and marginalised, looking at the intersections between race, gender, class, technology, humanity, capital, and power.... [T]he book is a valuable contribution to the fields of Asian and Asian American studies, the sociology of race and gender, the history of technology, media studies, and global political economy."—European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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Book SynopsisIn the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity. InModel Machines,Long Bui investigates what he calls Asian roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given robotic characteristics.Buioffers the first historical overview of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. He puts forth the concept of the “model machine myth,” which holds specific queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the transnational making of Asian/America.The case studies inModel Machineschart the representation of Chinese laborers, Japanese soldiers, Asian sex workers, and other examples to show how Asians are reimagined to be model machines as a product of globalization, racism, and colonialism. Moreover, it offers examples of how artists and everyday people resisted that stereotype to consider diTrade Review“In this powerful and indispensable historiography, Long Bui puts to rest any lingering doubt about the pernicious pervasiveness of the model machine myth that has long cast Asians as technologized nonhumans in American cultural and economic histories. Through a meticulously researched catalog of the ways Asians have been instrumentalized via recalcitrant techno-Orientalist vocabularies, Bui provides rigorous analyses of the implications and damages of the myth as well as bold provocations for interventions and change.”—Betsy Huang, Associate Professor of English and Dean of the College at Clark University, and coeditor of Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media“Model Machines tracks how fantasies of race and machines inform one another, but also inform the coding of the Asian American race through global history. Looking at the long history of Asian American racial formation, beginning with early nineteenth-century Chinese ‘coolies’ figured as labor machines, through Southeast Asian women imagined as ‘sex machines’ during the Cold War, into the present era of increasing machine-human interactions, Bui creates a welcomed bridge between theories of human-machine relations and critical ethnic studies of the racialization of technology.”—Kalindi Vora, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University, and coauthor of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures"[A] historical analysis of the stereotype of Asian persons as 'automatons'.... The main purpose of this historiography is to contribute to understanding the racialization of Asians in the U.S. over the past two centuries. This compelling work will likely be of greatest interest to scholars and students of Asian American studies, American ethnic history, ethnic studies, sociology, and other social sciences with a focus on critical race studies.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Model Machines is a richly researched and creative study of the model machine myth’s expansive histories and mutations. The book charts a wide range of examples while persuasively demonstrating how the model machine myth threads through them all. This book is an important resource for identifying and challenging persistent characterizations of Asians as nonhuman machines, as well as situating these characterizations within broader histories of Asian exclusion, exploitation, and abuse."—MELUS"Bui [provides] extraordinary insights and deep scholarship in his study of the dehumanisation of Asians and Asian Americans. By focusing on the model machine stereotype, Bui creates an intersectional approach to lucidly uncovering the complex ways in which Asians and Asian Americans have been racialised and marginalised, looking at the intersections between race, gender, class, technology, humanity, capital, and power.... [T]he book is a valuable contribution to the fields of Asian and Asian American studies, the sociology of race and gender, the history of technology, media studies, and global political economy."—European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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Book SynopsisAs Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline's theoretical paths. The essays inAfricana Studiesfocus on philosophy, science, and technology; poetry, literature, and music; the crisis of the state; issues of colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism; and the ever-expanding diaspora. The editor and contributors to this volume open exciting avenues for new narratives, philosophies, vision, and scale in this critical field of studyformed during the 1960s around issues of racial injustice in Americato show what Africana Studies is already in the process of becoming. Africana Studiesrecognizes how the discipline has been shaped, changing over the decades as scholars have opened new modes of theoretical engagement such as addressing issues of gender and sexuality, politics, and cultural studies. The essays debate and (re)consider black and diasporic life to sustTrade Review"This collection, edited by Farred, may be more relevant to comparative literature and European theorists than to Africana studies. Farred's introduction hails Friedrich Nietzsche via French theorists to imagine the future task of Africana studies as the creation of theoretical concepts.... Many of the contributors similarly draw heavily from the works of European theorists.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice

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Book SynopsisAs Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline's theoretical paths. The essays inAfricana Studiesfocus on philosophy, science, and technology; poetry, literature, and music; the crisis of the state; issues of colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism; and the ever-expanding diaspora. The editor and contributors to this volume open exciting avenues for new narratives, philosophies, vision, and scale in this critical field of studyformed during the 1960s around issues of racial injustice in Americato show what Africana Studies is already in the process of becoming. Africana Studiesrecognizes how the discipline has been shaped, changing over the decades as scholars have opened new modes of theoretical engagement such as addressing issues of gender and sexuality, politics, and cultural studies. The essays debate and (re)consider black and diasporic life to sustTrade Review"This collection, edited by Farred, may be more relevant to comparative literature and European theorists than to Africana studies. Farred's introduction hails Friedrich Nietzsche via French theorists to imagine the future task of Africana studies as the creation of theoretical concepts.... Many of the contributors similarly draw heavily from the works of European theorists.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice

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Book SynopsisWhat exactly does it mean to be North American? The Labyrinth of North American Identities is a long essay that attempts to learn more about North America as a unit and its individual countries by exploring the idea of a shared North American identity.Trade ReviewResnick has offered an insightful little work that will doubtless prompt much debate. There is much that unites-and entangles-these three countries, and in helping readers through the resulting labyrinth, Resnick is an able guide. -- American Review of Canadian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Quetzalcoatl's Heirs 2. Chosen Peoples 3. Trajectories to Independence 4. "Language Has Always Been the Perfect Instrument of Empire" 5. Manifest Destiny and the Fate of a Continent 6. Market Society and Possessive Individualism 7. Democracy and Its Discontents 8. The Protean State 9. New World Utopias and Dystopias 10. An Archipelago of Regions 11. A North American Civilization? 12. Dwellers of the Labyrinth Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThomas M. Prymak uses the essays and articles he has written over the past thirty years as a historian of Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian history to reflect on the evolution of ethnic studies in Canada and the United States.Trade Review'This collection will be highly useful addition to the library of any scholar or student who is seeking to understand the often complex historiography of Ukrainian and Slavic studies.' -- Jim Mochoruk Manitoba History Journal number 80 spring 2016 'This well-written volume is worth-while for those interested in emigration and immigration history. It is also good window into the ethnic dynamics of Canada's Prairie Provinces.' -- Kurt K. Kinbacher Great Plains Quarterly, winter 2016Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction EMIGRATION STUDIES 1. The Great Migration: East Central Europe to the Americas in the Literatures of the Slavs: Some Examples 2. A Little-known Book from the Late Soviet Period on the Economic Emigration from Imperial Russia to Western Europe and North America, 1880-1914 3. Ivan Franko and Large Scale Ukrainian Economic Emigration to Canada before 1914 4. A Polish Scholar on Polyethnic Emigration from the Republic of Poland to Canada Between the Wars HISTORY, HISTORIANS, AND OTHERS 5. Dmytro Doroshenko and Canada 6. General Histories of Ukraine Published in English During the Second World War: Canada, the United States, and Britain 7. George W. Simpson, the Ukrainian Canadians, and the 'Pre-history' of Slavic Studies in Canada 8. The Post-Secondary Teaching of the 'History of Ukraine' in Canada: An Historical Profile 9. Ukrainian Scholarship in the West During the 'Long Cold War' 10. Lubomyr Wynar and the Ukrainian Historical Association in the United States and Canada. 11. In the Shadow of a Political Assassination: Gabrielle Roy's 'Stephen' and the Ukrainian Canadians LIBRARY STUDIES AND REFERENCE WORKS 12. Inveterate Voyager: J.B. Rudnyckyj on Ukrainian Culture, Books, and Libraries in the West during the 'Long Cold War' 13. Scholarship on Mykhailo Hrushevsky during the Early 1980s: Ukrainian Books and Libraries in Canada and the United States 14. Ukrainian Canada in the Encyclopedias, 1897-2010: An Historical Overview CONCLUDING THOUGHTS 15. Ukrainian Canadians and Ukrainian Americans: Some Reflections and Comparisons Appendix: Publishing Histories Index

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Book SynopsisPrairie Rising provides a series of critical reflections about the changing face of settler colonialism in Canada through an ethnographic investigation of Indigenous-state relations in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan's largest city.Trade Review‘Through narratives and images conveyed in the stories of provocative characters, Dhillon makes rich theoretical arguments accessible to readers. Indeed, it is Dhillon’s candid, engaging, and imaginative language that makes this book a pleasure to read.’ -- Janique Dubois * The Journal of Native Studies, vol 37:01:2017 *‘This book is extremely rich… It makes a number of contributions to fields such as anthropology, sociology, political science, youth studies, and the like. It is moreover a model of how to bridge academic scholarship and responsible community advocacy.’ -- Robert Nichols * Theory and Event vol20:04:2017 *"By offering a politics of materiality derived from the lived experiences of urban Indigenous youth caught in the teeth of colonial violence, Prairie Rising offers a productive ground for an effective decolonial praxis." -- Melanie K. Yazzie * NAIS, vol 5 no 2 *"Prairie Rising is an ambitious first book, and makes helpful contributions to the areas of youth studies, the anthropology of the modern state, discourses and institutional practices of neoliberalism, as well as Indigenous resistance and survivance under settler colonial conditions on Turtle Island. Prairie Rising is a useful and thorough reminder that our neighbours to the north themselves have a long way to go before they can speak of true reconciliation, much less justice." -- Smaran Dayal * Critical Ethnic Studies *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface and Appreciations Introduction: Urban Indigenous Youth and Participatory Politics in the Paris of the Prairies Part 1: A World of Invisible Things: History and Politics in the Context of Settler Colonial Encounters Chapter 1: Breakage: Settler Colonization, Violence, and the Possibility (Still) of Self-Determined Destiny Chapter 2: The Making of Crisis Stories Part 2: The Space that Lies in Between: Ethnographic Encounters with the Land of Living Skies Chapter 3: Seductive Change: They Say the Best is Yet to Come Chapter 4: Policing the Boundaries and Debates over What's "Real" Part 3: Pushback on the Plains: Tensions and Trials of Participation Chapter 5: Justice in a Binder: Cultural Currency and Urban Indigenous Youth Chapter 6: The Dislocation of Self Conclusion: Red Rising References Notes

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Book SynopsisIndigenous Tourism Movements explores Indigenous identity using movement as a metaphor, drawing on case studies from throughout the world including Botswana, Canada, Chile, Panama, Tanzania, and the United States.Trade Review"…This book uncovers some of the mounting tensions and pervasive discontinuities in global Indigenous tourism movements. The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on Indigenous tourism, colonial histories of cultural repression, the production of Indigeneity, nationalism, and the inequitable of political power structures that continue to marginalize and disadvantage Indigenous communities internationally." -- Courtney Mason, Thompson Rivers University * Transmotion, vol 5 no 1 *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface 1. Current Themes in Indigenous Tourism, Alexis Celeste Bunten and Nelson H.H. Graburn PART 1: IDENTITY MOVEMENTS 1. Deriding Demand: A Case Study of Indigenous Imaginaries at an Australian Aboriginal Tourism Cultural Park, Alexis Celeste Bunten 2. The Masaai as paradoxical icons of tourism (im)mobility, Noel Salazar 3. The Alchemy of Tourism: From Stereotype and Marginalizing Discourse to Real in the Space of Tourist Performance, Karen Stocker PART II: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS 1. Indigenous tourism as a transformative process: the case of the Embera in Panama, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos 2. San Cultural Tourism: Mobilizing Indigenous Agency in Botswana, Rachel Giraudo 3. The Commodification of Authenticity: Performing and Displaying Dogon Material Identity, Laurence Douny PART III: KNOWLEDGE MOVEMENTS 1. Streams of Tourists: Navigating the Tourist Tides in Late 19th Century Southeast Alaska, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse 2. Experiments in Inuit Tourism: The Eastern Canadian Arctic, Nelson H.H. Graburn 3. Beyond Neoliberalism and Nature: Territoriality, Relational Ontologies and Hybridity in a Tourism Initiative in Alto Bio Bio, Chile, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha Epilogue

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Book SynopsisIn this well-researched book, Philip Massolin takes a fascinating look at the forces of modernization that swept through English Canada, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. Victorian values - agrarian, religious - and the adherence to a rigid set of philosophical and moral codes were being replaced with those intrinsic to the modern age: industrial, secular, scientific, and anti-intellectual. This work analyses the development of a modern consciousness through the eyes of the most fervent critics of modernity - adherents to the moral and value systems associated with Canada's tory tradition. The work and thought of social and moral critics Harold Innis, Donald Creighton, Vincent Massey, Hilda Neatby, George P. Grant, W.L. Morton, Northrop Frye, and Marshall McLuhan are considered for their views of modernization and for their strong opinions on the nature and implications of the modern age. These scholars shared concerns over the dire effects of modernity and the need toTrade Review"Historians and students of Canadian history will find Canadian Intellectuals, the Tory Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity, 1939-1970 an interesting read as it is eloquently written, rich in thick description, and impressively comprehensive in its sources." -- Helen Raptis History of Education Quarterly "Well argued, well worth reading, this is a lively book." -- Fred Jones British Journal of Canadian Studies "An impressive piece of scholarship ... Canadian Intellectuals makes a solid contribution to Canadian intellectual history." -- Ira Wagman American Review of Canadian Studies "Philip Massolin's thoughtful and well-written study ... contribute[s] much to our understanding of the death of British Canada and to the motivations of those who fired the last cannon shots of resistance." -- John English University of Toronto Quarterly

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Book SynopsisIn PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel, Keren Friedman-Peleg sheds light on a new way of speaking about mental vulnerability and national belonging in contemporary Israel.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One Birth of Agencies, Birth of an Interpretative Framework Chapter Two Trauma and Capital: Bearers of Knowledge, Keepers of Cashboxes Chapter Three Trauma and the Camera: Labeling Stress, Marketing the Fear Chapter Four They Shoot, Cry and Are Treated: The "Clinical Nucleus" of Trauma among IDF Soldiers Chapter Five Woman, Man and Disorder: Trauma in the Intimate Sphere of the Family Chapter Six Wandering PTSD: Ethnic Diversity and At-Risk Groups across the Country Chapter Seven Taking Hold: Resilience Program in the Southern Town of Sderot Chapter Eight Treading Cautiously around Sensitive Clinical and Political Domains References

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Book SynopsisBrief, accessibly written, and peppered with vivid ethnographic examples that bring contemporary research to life, Global Inequality is an introduction to the topic from a unique and important perspective.Trade Review"This is a welcome anthropological college textbook on surveying global human inequalities across different world regions, nation-states, and local cultural responses and initiatives. It accessibly discusses a complex and important subject now constantly studied and increasingly debated for creating new inequalities." -- R. S. Khare, Anthropos"Drawing from the fields of anthropology, economics, history, political science, philosophy, and more, McGill weaves together a tapestry to support the book’s overarching argument: inequality is real, there is no primary form of inequality, and inequalities are multiple and overlapping." -- Leo McCann, University of York * Agric. and Human Values, vol 35 *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Anthropology and Inequality 2. Global Inequality: Historical-Anthropological Perspectives 3. The Challenge of Global Inequality 4. The Production of Inequality 5. Rights, Equality, and the Nation-State 6. Welfare and Economic Inequality 7. Resistance and Social Organization in an Unequal World 8. Situated Subjects in an Unequal World Appendix 1: Additional Readings and Films Appendix 2: Study and Essay Questions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the psych disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial frameworks, allowing readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality are constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology, psychiatry, and medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Culture, Abnormality, and Disorder 2. Beyond Culture to the Suffering Subject 3. Culture, Psychiatry, and Cultures of Psychiatry 4. The Politics of Trauma 5. "The Big Three": Schizophrenia, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder 6. Globalization, Global Culture, and Global Mental Health 7. Drugs, God, and Talking: Shaping New "Orders" out of "Disorder" Conclusion Appendix I: Recommended Resources References Index

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Book SynopsisDetailing the history of the aboriginal village of Iskut, British Columbia over the past 100 years, ‘We Are Still Didene’ examines the community's transition from subsistence hunting to wage work in trapping, guiding, construction, and service jobs. Using naturally occurring, extended transcripts of stories told by the group's hunters, Thomas McIlwraith explores how Iskut hunting culture and the memories that the Iskut share have been maintained orally. McIlwraith demonstrates the ways in which these stories challenge the idealized images of Aboriginals that underlie state-sponsored traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) studies. McIlwraith instead illuminates how these narratives are connected to the Iskut Village's complex relationships with resource extraction companies and the province of British Columbia, as well as their interactions with animals and the environment.Table of ContentsContents Dedication Acknowledgments Notes on Orthographic and Transcription Conventions Introduction: The Persistence of Hunting Part I: Background Chapter 1: Aboriginal Hunting in an Era of 'TEK' Chapter 2: Iskut History and Hunting Part II: Stories about Hunting and History Chapter 3: 'That Bloody Moose Got Up and Took Off': Food Animals and Traditional Knowledge Chapter 4: 'Rough Riding All Day': Work Animals and Guiding Work Chapter 5: Chief Louie's Speech at Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park Chapter 6: Everyday Talk about Hunting Appendix 1: Tahltan Language Place Names Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisIn Brewing Legal Times, Emily Grabham boldly draws on perspectives from actor-network theory, feminist theory, and legal anthropology to advance our understanding of law and time.Trade Review‘Emily Grabham’s book is path-breaking theorization of regulation and a pioneering methodological demonstration. It delivers insights not only in relation to the author’s chosen examples, but also far beyond – including circumstances in which humans themselves are treated as objects.’ -- Carol J. Greenhouse * Journal of Law & Society vol 44:03:2017 *"I was gripped from page to page as if reading a novel, being drawn into the various worlds that Grabham describes and, more so, into the conceptual world which this book creates...This book will be a provocative and generative resource for a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars looking for new ways to understand the worlds which seemingly mundane legal practices create." -- Sarah Keenan, University of London * Feminist Legal Studies, vol 26 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'The Eagerness of Objects' Chapter One: 'Praxiographies' of Law and Time Chapter Two: Progression Chapter Three: A Likely Story Chapter Four: Transition Chapter Five: Balance Epilogue: Apple Crates and Hinges

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Book SynopsisCultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized. Indigenous communities in particular are responding to these opportunities in innovative ways that set them apart from their non-Indigenous predecessors and competitors. Indigenous Tourism Movements explores Indigenous identity using movement as a metaphor, drawing on case studies from throughout the world including Botswana, Canada, Chile, Panama, Tanzania, and the United States. Editors Alexis C.Bunten and Nelson Graburn, along with a diverse group of contributors,  frame tourism as a critical lens to explore the shifting identity politics of Indigeneity in relation to heritage, global policy, and development. They juxtapose diverse expressions of identity from the commodification of Indigenous culture to the performance of heritage for tourists to illuminate the complexTrade Review"…This book uncovers some of the mounting tensions and pervasive discontinuities in global Indigenous tourism movements. The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on Indigenous tourism, colonial histories of cultural repression, the production of Indigeneity, nationalism, and the inequitable of political power structures that continue to marginalize and disadvantage Indigenous communities internationally." -- Courtney Mason, Thompson Rivers University * Transmotion, vol 5 no 1 *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface 1. Current Themes in Indigenous Tourism, Alexis Celeste Bunten and Nelson H.H. Graburn PART 1: IDENTITY MOVEMENTS 1. Deriding Demand: A Case Study of Indigenous Imaginaries at an Australian Aboriginal Tourism Cultural Park, Alexis Celeste Bunten 2. The Masaai as paradoxical icons of tourism (im)mobility, Noel Salazar 3. The Alchemy of Tourism: From Stereotype and Marginalizing Discourse to Real in the Space of Tourist Performance, Karen Stocker PART II: POLITICAL MOVEMENTS 1. Indigenous tourism as a transformative process: the case of the Embera in Panama, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos 2. San Cultural Tourism: Mobilizing Indigenous Agency in Botswana, Rachel Giraudo 3. The Commodification of Authenticity: Performing and Displaying Dogon Material Identity, Laurence Douny PART III: KNOWLEDGE MOVEMENTS 1. Streams of Tourists: Navigating the Tourist Tides in Late 19th Century Southeast Alaska, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse 2. Experiments in Inuit Tourism: The Eastern Canadian Arctic, Nelson H.H. Graburn 3. Beyond Neoliberalism and Nature: Territoriality, Relational Ontologies and Hybridity in a Tourism Initiative in Alto Bio Bio, Chile, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha Epilogue

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Book SynopsisIn PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel, Keren Friedman-Peleg sheds light on a new way of speaking about mental vulnerability and national belonging in contemporary Israel.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One Birth of Agencies, Birth of an Interpretative Framework Chapter Two Trauma and Capital: Bearers of Knowledge, Keepers of Cashboxes Chapter Three Trauma and the Camera: Labeling Stress, Marketing the Fear Chapter Four They Shoot, Cry and Are Treated: The "Clinical Nucleus" of Trauma among IDF Soldiers Chapter Five Woman, Man and Disorder: Trauma in the Intimate Sphere of the Family Chapter Six Wandering PTSD: Ethnic Diversity and At-Risk Groups across the Country Chapter Seven Taking Hold: Resilience Program in the Southern Town of Sderot Chapter Eight Treading Cautiously around Sensitive Clinical and Political Domains References

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Book SynopsisIn the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can escape disastrous consequences in the future. Karl W. Deutsch (M.I.T.) deals with the general area of interplay between the sciences and the non-scientific aspects of our culture. F.E.L. Priestley (University of Toronto) discusses the impact of science on English literature. David Hawkins (University of Colorado) surveys the anthropological background of science. Harcourt Brown (Brown University) gives an account of the influence of the scientific outlook in French literary culture, and contributes an introduction explaining how the book came to be written.

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Book SynopsisIn 1948 the Quebec artist Paul-Emile Borduas published his famous manifesto Refus global—a plea on behalf of the powers of imagination and sensibility in society and a revolt against rationalization, mechanization, and other restraining influences, including the church. Borduas and his consigners were bitterly attacked. But the message of Refus global had far-reaching and revolutionary effects on the culture of Quebec and ultimately on its politics. André Bourassa, in this important work, underlines the role played by artists and poets during the 1940s and the relationships among various groups. But his emphasis is on the literature of Quebec, from the first novel in 1837 (also the year of Quebec’s first revolution), through the Quiet Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, to the present. In manifestos, poems, articles, and theatre pieces he examines the nature of Quebec surrealism and its international context. Surrealism to

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Book SynopsisMaking Knowledge presents the work of leading anthropologists who promote pioneering approaches to understanding the nature and social constitution of human knowledge. The book offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the subject and covers a rich and diverse ethnography. Presents cutting-edge research and theory in anthropology Includes many beautiful illustrations throughout The contributions cover a rich and diverse ethnography Offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the eternal questions concerning human knowledge' Contributions by leading scholars in the field who explore a wide range of disciplines through an anthropological perspective Trade Review“Indeed I have used Making Knowledgein a graduate seminar, and it made for stimulating, productive discussion.” (Ethos, 1 February 2013) Table of ContentsNotes on contributors. Preface. Trevor H.J. Marchand: Introduction: Making knowledge: explorations of the indissoluble relation between mind, body, and environment. 1 Greg Downey: ‘Practice without theory’: a neuroanthropological perspective on embodied learning. 2 Tom Rice: Learning to listen: auscultation and the transmission of auditory knowledge. 3 Anna Odland Portisch: The craft of skilful learning: Kazakh women’s everyday craft practices in western Mongolia. 4 Nicolette Makovicky: ‘Something to talk about’: notation and knowledge-making among Central Slovak lace-makers. 5 Trevor H.J. Marchand: Embodied cognition and communication: studies with British fine woodworkers. 6 Tim Ingold: Footprints through the weather-world: walking, breathing, knowing. 7 Konstantinos Retsikas: Unconscious culture and conscious nature: exploring East Javanese conceptions of the person through Bourdieu’s lens. 8 Soumhya Venkatesan: Learning to weave; weaving to learn ... what? 9 Roy Dilley: Reflections on knowledge practices and the problem of ignorance. 10 Emma Cohen: Anthropology of knowledge. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn-depth ethnographic analysis provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about who and how to address the long term care needs of older people in Sub-Saharan Africa.Trade Review"This is a valuable, timely and thought-provoking collection on spaces and practices of care in Africa. The challenges of political economic change and the variations in actual situations are beautifully documented." Susan Reynolds Whyte, University of Copenhagen"This book provides an opportunity for one of the most misrepresented entities to be heard - Africa's older population, a vulnerable group with unique needs." Sanet du Toit, University of Sydney, Australia"...a thoughtful and insightful contribution, adding to or supporting our discussions on Western care-giving... an invaluable book on Africa's older population, a thought-provoking discussion on the practices of care – familial, informal and formal – in Africa and an interesting discussion on the spaces of care" Ageing and Society, Volume 39, Issue 4Table of ContentsIntroduction: spaces and practices of care for older persons in Sub-Saharan Africa ~ Jaco Hoffman and Katrien Pype; Will families in Ghana continue to care for older people? Logic and contradiction in policy ~ Sjaak van der Geest; Caring for people “without” value: movement, reciprocity and respect in Kinshasa’s retirement homes ~ Katrien Pype; Older persons providing care for older persons in Tanzania: Against conventions – but accepted ~ Peter van Eeuwijk; Place matters. The home as a key site of old-age care in coastal Tanzania ~ Brigit Obrist; Care and identity in rural Malawi ~ Emily Freeman; Making sense of neglect in northwest Tanzania ~ Josien de Klerk; Negotiating care for older persons in South Africa: between the ideal and the pragmatics ~ Jaco Hoffman; Afterword: Discourses of care for older persons in Sub-Saharan Africa – towards Conceptual Development ~ Andries Baart.

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Book SynopsisIn-depth ethnographic analysis provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about who and how to address the long term care needs of older people in Sub-Saharan Africa.Trade Review"...a thoughtful and insightful contribution, adding to or supporting our discussions on Western care-giving... an invaluable book on Africa's older population, a thought-provoking discussion on the practices of care – familial, informal and formal – in Africa and an interesting discussion on the spaces of care" Ageing and Society, Volume 39, Issue 4"This is a valuable, timely and thought-provoking collection on spaces and practices of care in Africa. The challenges of political economic change and the variations in actual situations are beautifully documented." Susan Reynolds Whyte, University of Copenhagen"This book provides an opportunity for one of the most misrepresented entities to be heard - Africa's older population, a vulnerable group with unique needs." Sanet du Toit, University of Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction: spaces and practices of care for older persons in Sub-Saharan Africa ~ Jaco Hoffman and Katrien Pype; Will families in Ghana continue to care for older people? Logic and contradiction in policy ~ Sjaak van der Geest; Caring for people “without” value: movement, reciprocity and respect in Kinshasa’s retirement homes ~ Katrien Pype; Older persons providing care for older persons in Tanzania: Against conventions – but accepted ~ Peter van Eeuwijk; Place matters. The home as a key site of old-age care in coastal Tanzania ~ Brigit Obrist; Care and identity in rural Malawi ~ Emily Freeman; Making sense of neglect in northwest Tanzania ~ Josien de Klerk; Negotiating care for older persons in South Africa: between the ideal and the pragmatics ~ Jaco Hoffman; Afterword: Discourses of care for older persons in Sub-Saharan Africa – towards Conceptual Development ~ Andries Baart.

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Book SynopsisThis unique study of social work provides a bold and challenging view of the subject from an anthropological perspective. Combining research and personal reflection, it explores cultural and symbolic representations of social work, evolving identities of social work practitioners and the ways in which they and society now view one another.Trade Review“A unique anthropological approach that explores the diversity of social work and the intricate processes that motivate and shape people into social workers.” Marek Perlinski, Umeå University"Of great value to anyone who wants to engage in serious reflection on what it means to be a social worker, including prospective and practicing social workers." John Chandler, University of East LondonTable of ContentsWho are “social workers”? Why do we need them? Getting involved: an auto-ethnographic enquiry; Time and change : UK social work and comparative social work cultures since 1990; Becoming: being admitted, trained and accepted as a social worker; Identifying: professional identity/ies; Valuing and transgressing: practice and research values, and ‘becoming unfit’ to practice; Practising and relating: Social workers and relationships; Partnering: Social workers, other professionals and clients/ service users; Knowing and evidencing: building a research base, mapping and modelling; Symbolising: cultural representations in theory and in practice; Organising: the development of national and international associations; Changing: Social work and the public, anthropological reflections & conclusions on an ever changing profession – the future?

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Book SynopsisThis unique study of social work provides a bold and challenging view of the subject from an anthropological perspective. Combining research and personal reflection, it explores cultural and symbolic representations of social work, evolving identities of social work practitioners and the ways in which they and society now view one another.Trade Review“A unique anthropological approach that explores the diversity of social work and the intricate processes that motivate and shape people into social workers.” Marek Perlinski, Umeå University"Of great value to anyone who wants to engage in serious reflection on what it means to be a social worker, including prospective and practicing social workers." John Chandler, University of East LondonTable of ContentsWho are “social workers”? Why do we need them? Getting involved: an auto-ethnographic enquiry; Time and change : UK social work and comparative social work cultures since 1990; Becoming: being admitted, trained and accepted as a social worker; Identifying: professional identity/ies; Valuing and transgressing: practice and research values, and ‘becoming unfit’ to practice; Practising and relating: Social workers and relationships; Partnering: Social workers, other professionals and clients/ service users; Knowing and evidencing: building a research base, mapping and modelling; Symbolising: cultural representations in theory and in practice; Organising: the development of national and international associations; Changing: Social work and the public, anthropological reflections & conclusions on an ever changing profession – the future?

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Book SynopsisPresenting the complexities of doing planning work, with its moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses today's planning scene through the stories of four diverse working environments.Table of Contents1. Introducing Contemporary Planning Practice 2. Southwell: the Privatised Local Authority 3. Simpsons: the Values-Driven Global Consultancy 4. Bakerdale: a ‘Traditional’ Local Authority Commercialising Under Austerity Politics 5. OIP: the ‘regular’ planning consultancy 6. So, Just What Are Planners Doing?

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Book SynopsisIn this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British and US imperialism.

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Book SynopsisExamines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepong's focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion.

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Book SynopsisExamines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepong's focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion.

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Book SynopsisIn Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession.

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Book SynopsisIn Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners’ everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession.

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South.

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Book SynopsisThis volume covers sources in the European tradition: printed collections, secular and religious chroniclers, and biobibliographies.Table of Contents (Continues from Volume 12) Abbreviations 11. Published Collections of Documents Relating to Middle American Ethnohistory (Charles Gibson) Evolution of Documentary Collections Spain New Spain and Mexico Central America Documentary Collections Published before 1810 Legislative Compendia Other Collections Documentary Collections of the 19th Century Mexican Spanish French Other European United States Colecciones de Documentos Inéditos Historia de España Collections Relating to Spanish America Documentos inéditos… de Indias Documentos inéditos… de ultramar Documentos… Ibero-América Large General Collections of the 20th Century Peñafiel García Pimentel Paso y Troncoso Documentos inéditos ó muy raros Biblioteca histórica Epistolario de Nueva España AGN Publications Mexico Colonial Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications Colección Chimalistac Hakluyt Society Vargas Rea Publications Other Modern Documentary Collections and Series on Special Topics: Colonial Period Institutional Publications Anthologies of Documents Native Literature Conquest Literature Heraldry and Genealogy Missionary Efforts Indian Tribute and Labor Law and Legislation Other Social and Economic Topics Regions Modern Publications: Postcolonial Period Independence and General Later 19th Century and Mexican Revolution Church, Law, Legislation Local Regions and Areas Topics Modern Journals and Additional Miscellaneous Series MNA Anales AGN Boletín Other Journals and Series Marginal Collections References 12. An Introductory Survey of Secular Writings in the European Tradition on Colonial Middle America, 1503–1818 (J. Benedict Warren) Earliest Accounts General Works Official Chroniclers Other General Works by Spaniards General Works by Northern Europeans Colonial Travelers in Middle America Discovery and Conquest of Mexico Exploratory Expeditions Eyewitness Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico Derivative Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico Central Mexico Sixteenth Century Seventeenth Century Eighteenth Century Nineteenth Century Northern and Western Mexico Southern Mexico Yucatan Central America Early Southern Central America Early Northern Central America Later Writings Other Writings Bibliography 13. Religious Chroniclers and Historians: A Summary with Annotated Bibliography (Ernest J. Burrus, S.J.) General Observations and Background Biobibliographical Sources General Franciscans Dominicans Augustinians Jesuits Chronicles and Histories, by Orders Franciscans (O.F.M.) Dominicans (O.P.) Augustinians (O.S.A.) Jesuits (S.J.) Mercedarians (O.Merc.) Epilogue Annotated Bibliography 14. Bernardino de Sahagún, 1499–1590 A. Sahagún and His Works (Luis Nicolau d’Olwer and Howard F. Cline) Plans and Methods Evolution of “Historia general” Nahuatl Documentation and Drafts “Historia general”: Nahuatl “Historia general”: Spanish and Bilingual Texts Works About the Nahuatl Language “Arte” “Historia general” “Vocabulario trilingüe” The “Postilla,” or Doctrinal Encyclopedia Coloquios and Doctrina Chronicle Postilla Epistolas Adiciones Apéndice Comments Books of Songs and Prayers Cantares Manual del Cristiano Evaluation B. Sahagún’s “Primeros memoriales” Tepepulco (H. B. Nicholson) “Primeros memoriales”: Paso y Troncoso Reconstruction Descriptions Discussion C. Sahagún Materials and Studies (Howard F. Cline) Publications General Plans National and International Trends Germany France United States Mexico Spain International Topical Writings and General Studies “Historia general”: Translations and Studies Minor Texts References 15. Antonio de Herrera, 1549–1625 (Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois) Works “Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos” Coverage Sources Methods Editions Conclusions Appendix A: Herrera, Selected Works Appendix B: Herrera, Selections Related to Middle America References 16. Juan de Torquemada, 1564–1624 (José Alcina Franch) Works “Monarquía indiana” Minor Works Sources Native Sources Spanish Language Sources The Problem of Plagiarism Evaluation Appendix A: Torquemada, Works Appendix B: Tentative Chronological Outline of the Biography of Torquemada References 17. Francisco Javier Clavigero, 1731–1787 (Charles E. Ronan, S.J.) “Storia antica”: Publishing History “Storia antica”: Description of the Work Clavigero’s Sources Evaluation Appendix: Clavigero, Historical Works References 18. Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, 1814–1874 (Carroll Edward Mace) Principal Monographic Works Discovery and Publication of Sources Evaluation Appendix A: Brasseur de Bourbourg, Writings Appendix B: Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Translation of Maya Signs References 19. Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1832–1918 (Howard F. Cline) Plans and Methods Format Authorship The Corps of Writers and their Contribution to “Native Races” Evaluation Appendix A: Bancroft, Principal Works Appendix B: Selected References to Biobibliographies, Topical Bibliographies, and Extended Notes in Bancroft’s “Works” References 20. Eduard Georg Seler, 1849–1922 (H. B. Nicholson) Mesoamerican Ethnohistorical Investigations Major Publications Native Language Texts: Translations and Commentaries Western Mesoamerican Native-Tradition Pictorials: Interpretations Mayanist Researches Ethnographic and Culture-Historical Syntheses Evaluation Appendix: Seler, Selected Writings of Ethnohistorical Interest References 21. Selected Nineteenth-Century Mexican Writers on Ethnohistory (Howard F. Cline) Carlos María Bustamante, 1774–1848 Works Evaluation José Fernando Ramírez, 1804–1871 The Ramírez Collections Publications Manuel Orozco y Berra, 1810–1881 “Historia antigua y de la conquista de México” “Historia de la dominación española en México” Other Writings Evaluation Joaquín García Icazbalceta, 1825–1894 The Collection Works Alfredo Chavero, 1841–1906 Edited Works Biobibliographies Commentaries and Studies “Historia antigua” Summary and Evaluation Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, 1842–1916 The European Mission The Sahagún Corpus Plans for the “Papeles de Nueva España” Paso y Troncoso’s Execution of the Plans Repatriation of the Paso y Troncoso Collection Later Developments and Publications of the “Papeles de Nueva España” Evaluation Appendix A: Bustamante, Selected Writings of Ethnohistorical Interest Appendix B: Ramírez, Selected Writings of Ethnohistorical Interest Appendix C: Orozco y Berra, Selected Writings of Ethnohistorical Interest Appendix D: García Icazbalceta, Selected Writings of Ethnohistorical Interest Appendix E: Chavero, Selected Writings of Ethnohistorical Interest Appendix F: Paso y Troncoso, Selected Writings and Publications of Ethnohistorical Interest References

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Book SynopsisSignificant scholarship exists on anthropological fieldwork and methodologies. Some anthropologists have also published memoirs of their research experiences. Renowned anthropologist Jeffrey Cohen’s Eating Soup without a Spoon is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of the two, expertly melding story with methodology to create a compelling narrative of fieldwork that is deeply grounded in anthropological theory.Cohen’s first foray into fieldwork was in 1992, when he lived in Santa Anna del Valle in rural Oaxaca, Mexico. While recounting his experiences studying how rural folks adapted to far-reaching economic changes, Cohen is candid about the mistakes he made and the struggles in the village. From the pressures of gaining the trust of a population to the fear of making errors in data collection, Cohen explores the intellectual processes behind ethnographic research. He offers tips for collecting data, avoiding pitfalls, and embracing the chaos and shocks that come wTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Setting Up and Settling In Chapter 2. The First Month and First Steps Chapter 3. Field Matters Chapter 4. The Rhythm of Fieldwork Chapter 5. Fine-Tuning and Focus in the Field Chapter 6. Bumps and Breaks in the Field Chapter 7. Finishing? Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith implications for the human role in global environmental change, this timely study explores how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have affected their environment and how that environment sometimes resists human manipulation.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Amazonia in the Anthropocene 2. People 3. Soils 4. Plants 5. Forests 6. From the Anthropocene to the Ecozoic? Appendix: Useful Botanical Species Surveyed in Borba, Amazonas, Brazil Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first study of how Mapuche shamans make history, this book challenges perceptions of shamans as being outside of history and examines how shamans themselves understand notions of civilization, savagery, and historical processes.Trade ReviewIn this fascinating ethnography, Bacigalupo (anthropology, SUNY Buffalo) draws on decades of field research among the Mapuche, an Indigenous people in the Araucanian region of Chile. * Choice *...a well balanced and unique text. Readers interested in religion, memory, indigeneity, or modern Latin America will find themselves pushed in new and challenging directions. * Reading Religion *[A] fascinating book on the embodiments of Mapuche history, shamanism, and continuity in changing contexts…One of the book's main strengths is the light it sheds on shamanism as active indigenous and gendered politics, rejecting the notion of machi as ahistorical and apolitical. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *By contextualizing her own multicultural experiences within Mapuche reality, Bacigalupo opens a window into the life of a Mapuche shaman and her people’s spirituality, history, and worldview. * The Americas *It's not every ethnography that is so convincingly captivating—a book containing a shamanic spirit that makes the reader fall in also. The kind of anthropological connection Bacigalupo forged with Francisca Kolipi Kurin is rare and precious. We are fortunate to have a book that enables us to briefly lay our hand along that charged cord and thrill to it, too. * American Ethnologist *Thunder Shaman includes both the narrative and embodied dimensions of shamanism and is more personal as it weaves together the experience of shaman Francisca and the author. Students, scholars, and all who read Thunder Shaman will certainly be transformed as well. One cannot help but feel the power of Francisca being transmitted through the image on the cover and the illustrations throughout the book. * Tipití *Thunder Shaman is an ambitious, engaging, multi-purposed text…should be of great interest to scholars of indigenous social movements, shamanism, and the Mapuche. * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Permissions 1. Making History in Francisca Kolipi’s Bible 2. Mobile Narratives that Obliterate the Devil’s “Civilized History” 3. Multitemporal Visions and Bad Blood 4. Embodied History: Ritually Reshaping the Past and the Future 5. Shamanizing Documents and Bibles 6. The Time of Warring Thunder, the Savage State, and Civilized Shamans 7. Transforming Memory through Death and Rebirth 8. Reconciling Diverse Pasts and Futures Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQueer Beirut paves the way for a timely anthropological conversation about gender and queer identities in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies.Trade ReviewThis monograph . . . is the first of its kind, making it an invaluable contribution to scholarship on queer sexualities, urban space, and social production in Lebanon. * Anthropos *Queer Beirut masterfully bridges disciplinary borders by engaging with an impressive and diverse body of scholarship, ranging from literary to anthropological to sociological theory. * H-Net Reviews *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue. Itinerant Journeys Map of Lebanon Introduction Map of Beirut 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil-War Lebanon 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia 7. The Gay Gaze on the Corniche and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoqāq al-Blāṭ 8. “Seeing Oneself” and the Mirror Stage: The Ḥammām and the Gay Icon Fairuz 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life Conclusion. Struggling for Difference Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of evidence that ranges from Pre-Columbian texts to ethnographic accounts of contemporary rituals, a leading scholar traces the extensive continuity of pre-Hispanic elements in Maya ceremonies of world renewal.Trade ReviewAn important new contribution to the general study of enduring, ancient Maya traditions adapted to serve in modern times. * Choice *That the Maya continued to practice traditional beliefs within their Christianity is not novel, but the details, interviews, photos, and descriptions contained in this book's chapter's contribute a new and exciting window through which to glimpse this blending of worldviews. As a result, the work would be a beneficial read to all with scholarly interests in the Maya. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Christenson's distinct contribution lies in documenting the specific degree of blending of two entire ritual cycles rather than individual elements. For the Mesoamericanist, Christenson's book is well worth reading for his method and its content. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Much has been written about Mayan beliefs but little with the historical depth and ethnographic detail that Allen J. Christenson brings to The Burden of the Ancients...Christenson fills the book with personal ethnographic anecdotes that add richness to both the historical chapters and the contemporary descriptions of the Tz’utujil Mayas of Santiago Atitlán...This is an impressive work of scholarship. * Ethnohistory *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Pre-Columbian Rituals of World Renewal in Yucatan 2. New Year’s Ceremonies in the Maya Highlands 3. Easter and the Spanish Conquest 4. Post-Conquest Ceremonies of World Renewal 5. Holy Monday 6. Holy Tuesday 7. Holy Wednesday 8. Holy Thursday 9. Good Friday 10. Aftermath and Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing extensively on French colonial archives and historical ethnography, this book offers the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Latin America and the creation of Arab, French, and Mexican transnational networks.Trade Review[A] contribution to our understanding of transnational networks, the role of the Levantine migrants to Mexico as well as an important chapter in modern Mexican history. * Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online *Pastor's elucidation of migrant experiences, and their representation by various social actors, is essential reading for understanding the often-hidden diversity of modern Mexico…[The Mexican Mahjar] is a powerhouse. * Mashriq & Mahjar *The Mexican Mahjar...is an innovative book with creative reading of sources and well-designed chapters...Such documentary richness and its careful reading lead to important conclusions about culture transformation and Mahjaris’ active agency. * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Mexican Mahjar Chapter 2. Managing Mobility Chapter 3. Race and Patronage Chapter 4. Migrants and the Law Chapter 5. Modernism Chapter 6. Making the Mahjar Lebanese Chapter 7. Objects of Memory Chapter 8. The Arab and Its Double Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis anthropological history traces the development of a distinctive regional culture in Peru's second largest city, which constitutes one of the earliest central Andean examples of the emergence of a broadly mestizo identity.Trade Review"[S]pecialists interested in the central Andes will find Love's book rewarding…The book ranges widely rather than focusing narrowly on Arequipan regionalism and subnational identites, and thus contains information that will attract readers interested in other aspects of southern Peru." * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"The Independent Republic of Arequipa] is ambitious not only in its chronological scope, stretching back to pre-Columbian times, but also in its interdisciplinary approach that combines history and anthropology...Love has provided a rich picture of a regional culture, from different perspectives. His work will hopefully inspire more scholarship on both Arequipa and other regionalist discourses." * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of Contents Maps, Tables, and Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Nation, State, Culture, and Region in Arequipa 2. Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Arequipa: Altiplano Ties and Religious Pilgrimage as the Popular Foundations of Regional Identity 3. From Colony to the War of the Pacific: Crises, Nation Building, and the Development of Arequipeño Identity as Regional 4. Literary Regionalism: Browning, Secularizing, and Ruralizing Regional Identity 5. Picanteras and Dairymen: Quotidian Citizenry 6. Social Genesis, Cultural Logic, and Bureaucratic Field in the Changing Arequipeño Social Space Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContrasting the birthing practices of upper-class and indigenous women, this ethnography of the alternative birth movement in Mexico offers new understandings of female empowerment, citizenship, and the commodification of indigenous culture.Trade ReviewVega walks the reader through more than two years of ethnographic work…She is attentive to her own origins as a relatively well-resourced American academic in relation to the communities she studies, exercising a 'hyper-self-reflexivity' to understand the ways in which even subtle differences in appearance, language, and consumption patterns impact social inclusion. * CHOICE *[No Alternative] is a good examination of the other side of humanized birth…this book has many strengths, including its theoretical sophistication and the very important way that Vega reimagines alternative birth and its effect on different bodies and populations. Anyone interested in matters of anthropology of reproduction, race and citizenship, and Mexico would benefit from reading Vega's No Alternative. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *No Alternative is a deeply theoretical and richly ethnographic critique of the relationship between traditional midwifery and the humanized birth movement in Mexico…Vega adds important provocations and depth to scholarly and activist conversations about power in health care in general, and about the intersecting forces that direct flows of knowledge and authority in the field of childbirth in particular. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *No Alternative offers a sharp and reflexive analysis of contemporary midwifery practices in Mexico…Vega's narrative style is simultaneously sharp and smooth, making reading resemble the experience of watching a detective movie. She takes the reader from one ethnographic site to the next as if they had been seamlessly lived...This strategy gives fluidity to the narrative while also endowing force and clarity to her arguments. * Reproductive BioMedicine and Society Online *No Alternative demonstrates that the study of childbirth is a lens through which one can unearth social realities and analyse the dynamics of inequities under the guise of postmodern, well-intentioned liberation movements…This project accomplishes its goals of demonstrating how women's bodies and their reproductive options (or lack thereof) are sites where race, class and gender are created and transnational economies play out. It makes crucial intellectual interventions in the evolving fields of medical anthropology and transnational feminist studies. * Journal of Latin American Studies *[No Alternative] should be of interest to sociologists teaching classes on reproduction, medical sociology, development, and global and transnational processes. * American Journal of Sociology *[Vega] offers an insightful analysis of the political economy of midwifery networks in Mexico...With precise, careful analysis of newly popularized 'traditional' childbirth practices, Vega illuminates how the celebrated promise of midwifery reifies existing disparities that are derived from an imbrication of colonial legacies and neoliberal market logics... Vega’s exciting field site and her astute scholarship...turns most of the basic premises of the anthropology of reproduction on its head. This is a welcome addition to the recently flourishing critical scholarship on race and reproduction. * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Commodifying Indigeneity: Politics of Representation 2. Humanized Birth: Unforeseen Politics of Parenting 3. Intersectionality: A Contextual and Dialogical Framework 4. A Cartography of “Race” and Obstetric Violence 5. (Ethno)Medical (Im)Mobilities Conclusion: Destination Birth—Time and Space Travel Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.Trade Review[A] well-written, well-researched ethnograpy of bonesetting among Guatemalan Maya…Recommended. * CHOICE *[Maya Bonesetters] is an important document of an often overlooked Indigenous healing practice that will be of interest to scholars and students of medical anthropology, Mesoamerica, and anyone with an interest in contemporary health care challenges in Latin America. * Journal of Anthropological Research *[Maya Bonesetters] adds rich detail to our understanding of the accommodations that Indigenous healers often make to the challenge of biomedicine, how they will accept and integrate into their practice new ideas, new terminology, new medicines, and even new technology...This is a strong work presenting ideas about the contemporary context of Indigenous medicine that approaches the topic from the angle of empiricism and pragmatism. As a contribution to the anthropology of healing it is invaluable. Scholars of the Maya will find great value here as Hinojosa takes the reader into the villages and therapeutic spaces of pain and suffering that are relatively undocumented. * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *Maya Bonesetters should appeal to anthropologists and those in the disciplines of natural medicine, indigenous healers like curanderas, and individuals with traditional healing in their ancestral memories...This is a fascinating book for use by anthropologists focused on the Americas, and is a resource for those in other disciplines, sociology, psychology, with an interest in natural healing and its connection to social and mental health...Without a doubt, this is a highly absorbing book. * Journal of Global South Studies *The most important contribution of this book is its focus on a healing tradition that has not received the academic attention it deserves...In his convincing discussion of the injustice of this omission, Hinojosa restores the bonesetters to a valued position in Mesoamerican ethnology and medical anthropology in general...this study represents an advance in recognition of indigenous healing knowledge and techniques. As indigenous knowledge is increasingly valued, the bonesetters and their skills in diagnosing injuries, massaging muscles and restoring movement will be more widely accepted, not only in Guatemala but around the world. This book is more than a first approximation to this healing tradition and the changes it is facing in its coexistence with biomedicine; it is also a tribute to this important area of humanity’s knowledge. * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Bonesetting over Time Chapter 2. Empirical Forms of Maya Bonesetting Chapter 3. Sacred Forms of Maya Bonesetting Chapter 4. Challenges and Changes in the Injury Landscape Conclusion Appendix. Traditional Medicine and Bonesetting: Integration and Lessons Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.Trade Review[A] well-written, well-researched ethnograpy of bonesetting among Guatemalan Maya…Recommended. * CHOICE *[Maya Bonesetters] is an important document of an often overlooked Indigenous healing practice that will be of interest to scholars and students of medical anthropology, Mesoamerica, and anyone with an interest in contemporary health care challenges in Latin America. * Journal of Anthropological Research *[Maya Bonesetters] adds rich detail to our understanding of the accommodations that Indigenous healers often make to the challenge of biomedicine, how they will accept and integrate into their practice new ideas, new terminology, new medicines, and even new technology...This is a strong work presenting ideas about the contemporary context of Indigenous medicine that approaches the topic from the angle of empiricism and pragmatism. As a contribution to the anthropology of healing it is invaluable. Scholars of the Maya will find great value here as Hinojosa takes the reader into the villages and therapeutic spaces of pain and suffering that are relatively undocumented. * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *Maya Bonesetters should appeal to anthropologists and those in the disciplines of natural medicine, indigenous healers like curanderas, and individuals with traditional healing in their ancestral memories...This is a fascinating book for use by anthropologists focused on the Americas, and is a resource for those in other disciplines, sociology, psychology, with an interest in natural healing and its connection to social and mental health...Without a doubt, this is a highly absorbing book. * Journal of Global South Studies *The most important contribution of this book is its focus on a healing tradition that has not received the academic attention it deserves...In his convincing discussion of the injustice of this omission, Hinojosa restores the bonesetters to a valued position in Mesoamerican ethnology and medical anthropology in general...this study represents an advance in recognition of indigenous healing knowledge and techniques. As indigenous knowledge is increasingly valued, the bonesetters and their skills in diagnosing injuries, massaging muscles and restoring movement will be more widely accepted, not only in Guatemala but around the world. This book is more than a first approximation to this healing tradition and the changes it is facing in its coexistence with biomedicine; it is also a tribute to this important area of humanity’s knowledge. * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Bonesetting over Time Chapter 2. Empirical Forms of Maya Bonesetting Chapter 3. Sacred Forms of Maya Bonesetting Chapter 4. Challenges and Changes in the Injury Landscape Conclusion Appendix. Traditional Medicine and Bonesetting: Integration and Lessons Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis2021 Silver Medal, Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book International Latino Book Awards, Latino Literacy NowAn in-depth look at an emerging Latino presence in Orlando, Florida, where Puerto Ricans and others navigate differences of race, class, and place of origin in their struggle for social, economic, and political belonging. Puerto Ricans make up half of Orlando-area Latinos, arriving from Puerto Rico as well as from other long-established diaspora communities to a place where Latino politics has long been about Cubans in Miami. Together with other Latinos from multiple places, Puerto Ricans bring diverse experiences of race and class to this Sunbelt city. Tracing the emergence of the Puerto Rican and Latino presence in Orlando from the 1940s through an ethnographic moment of twenty-first-century electoral redistricting, Sunbelt Diaspora provides a timely prism for viewing how differences of race, class, and place play out in stTrade ReviewSilver offers a groundbreaking perspective on the recent social history and politics of [Orlando] by unravelling the dynamics of race, class and place-making in the development of a heterogeneous community...The true value of this book is its ability to scrutinize the unseen sociopolitical realities that shape Puerto Ricans and other Latinxs’ efforts for community organization and political participation in this new place. Silver has made an impressive contribution to fields of Latinx migration and politics by focusing on the recent history of the understudied area of central Florida. Researchers, students, and a wider audience will be fully satisfied with the vivid life histories of this well-written book. * The Independent Scholar *Throughout Sunbelt Diaspora, Silver demonstrates how Puerto Ricans and, more generally, other Latinos have affirmed their presence in spite of their circumscribed political and social positioning in the imagined community of the United States, Florida, and Orlando...The expanse of data collected and examined in this study, combined with an insider-outsider perspective integrated throughout and critiques informed from perspectives in Puerto Rican and Latino studies make Sunbelt Diaspora an original contribution to the literature on Latinos in the region and provide a space for this work to engage in dialogue with comparative studies on Latinos in traditional and nontraditional urban destinations. * US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal *Sunbelt Diaspora is an extremely well-written and insightful book about Puerto Ricans in Orlando, Florida, the state with the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans stateside. It is also a compelling account of the Puertoricanization of Orlando, how this has meshed with the larger Latino/a community, and the politics of race, ethnicity, class, and place in determining political representation amidst widespread demographic changes in a southern town. This is a must read for scholars of Puerto Rican migration and diasporic communities as well as race and ethnic relations. * CENTRO Journal *Silver’s work is a must-read for those interested in the history of Latinos and Puerto Ricans in Florida...It captures the complexity of the intersection of different racial/ethnic identities, class relations, and memories of place...The important lessons contained in this book are going to be vital for understanding the process by which the continuous resettlement of Puerto Ricans to less traditional Latino destinations such as Georgia, the Carolinas, and elsewhere are going to impact their identity, social inclusion, and political power. * Latino Studies *There is an unfortunate tendency among many academics to homogenize the racial experiences and identities of Puerto Rican migrants as well as Latin American immigrants. Silver’s study bucks this trend...This is the first significant academic monograph to focus on this fast-growing community in Central Florida, and it will be of great interest to scholars from various disciplines. This is a readable book that will also be appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students. * American Historical Review *Silver fills an important gap in social scientific knowledge by providing a rich analysis of an important yet underexamined case...a key contribution of Sunbelt Diaspora, which is supported by its methodological and analytical approach, is its engagement with intersecting histories, 'messiness of difference,' 'contradictory relations' in the examination of place-making, and political community formation in a new and southern destination. * Journal of Anthropological Research *Silver guides readers, in deft and engaging prose, across the shifting and combated sociopolitical terrain of Orange County, where Puerto Ricans, and Latinx peoples in general, have been subjected to discriminatory policies and regulations, which look to curtail their viability and vibrancy as a political force. The triumph of this book, however, is that...the author has made the astute decision to focus on the ideological fault lines among Puerto Ricans in Orlando. * Chiricú Journal *Table of Contents List of Maps, Tables, and Charts Preface. For Orlando Readers Acknowledgments Introduction. Race, Class, Place, and Politics in a New Puerto Rican Diaspora Part I. Puerto Rican Orlando Chapter 1. Between Black and White: Geography, Demography, and Political Place Chapter 2. Hidden Histories in the New Orlando: Colonial Migrations, Color-Blind Multiculturalism, and Natural Neoliberalism Part II. Difference and the Incompleteness of Political Community Formation Chapter 3. “You Don’t Look Puerto Rican”: Race, Class, and Memories of Place in Orlando Chapter 4. Enough Is Enough: Memory, Political Formations, and Participatory Citizenship Chapter 5. “This Building Is Our Island”: Seen and Unseen in Orlando Part III. The Case of Redistricting in Orange County, Florida Chapter 6. Divided by Beans: Difference and Political Community Formation Chapter 7. Four Districts for Americans: Mapping Community in Orange County Conclusion. Navigating Ambiguity in the Interests of Community Epilogue. “Things Will Be Different Now” Appendix. Oral History Collections and Orange County Board of County Commissioners Proceedings Notes References Index

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