Social and cultural anthropology Books

Book SynopsisArchaeology in Dominica examines the everyday lives of enslaved and free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean plantation that produced sugar, coffee, and provisions. Focusing on household archaeology, this volume helps document the underrepresented history of slavery and colonialism on the edge of the British Empire.Contributors discuss how enslaved and free people were entangled in shifting economic and ecological systems during the plantation's 200-year history, most notably the introduction of sugarcane as an export commodity. Analyzing historical records, the landscape geography of the plantation, and material remains from the residences of laborers, the authors synthesize extensive data from this site and compare it to that of other excavations across the Eastern Caribbean. Using historical archaeology to investigate the political ecology of Morne Patate opens up a deeper understanding of the environmental legacies of colonial empires, as well as the long-term impacts of plantation agriculture on the Caribbean region and its people.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series.

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Book SynopsisIn addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much more to the two nations' relationship than their perceived antagonism. Rejecting dominant narratives that reinforce opposition between the two sides of the island, contributors to this volume highlight the connections and commonalities that extend across the border, mapping new directions in Haitianist and Dominicanist scholarship.Exploring a variety of topics including European colonialism, migration, citizenship, sex tourism, music, literature, political economy, and art, contributors demonstrate that alternate views of Haitian and Dominican history and identity have existed long before the present day. From a moving section on passport petitions that reveals the familial, friendship, and communal networks across Hispaniola in the nineteenth century to a discussion of the shared music traditions that unite the island today, this volume speaks of an island and people bound together in a myriad of ways.Complete with reflections and advice on teaching a transnational approach to Haitian and Dominican studies, this agenda-setting volume argues that the island of Hispaniola and its inhabitants should be studied in a way that contextualizes differences, historicizes borders, and recognizes cross-island links.Contributors: Paul Austerlitz, Nathalie Bragadir, Raj Chetty, Anne Eller, Kaiama L. Glover, Maja Horn, Regine Jean-Charles, Kiran C. Jayaram, Elizabeth Manley, April Mayes, Elizabeth Russ, Fidel J. Tavárez, Elena ValdezPublication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Book SynopsisThis volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a wide range of contemporary anthropological scholarship that has not been available in English until now, Reimagining the Gran Chaco illuminates how the region’s many indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.The essays in this volume explore how the region has become a complex arena of political, cultural, and economic contestation between actors that include the state, environmental and NGOs, and private businesses and how local actors are reconfiguring their subjectivities and political agency in response. With its multinational perspective, and its examination of major themes including missionization, millenarian movements, the Chaco war, industrial enclaves, extractivism, political mobilization, and the struggle for rights, this volume brings greater visibility to an underrepresented, complex region.Trade Review“This book is the first of its kind and fills a very important gap in the anthropology and ethnohistory of the Gran Chaco, especially of the last thirty years. The editors have assembled an outstanding collection of articles by the top and well-recognized anthropologists working on the Gran Chaco.”- René Harder Horst, author of A History of Indigenous Latin America: Aymara to Zapatistas; “A much-needed collection of ethnographies written by experienced field workers, useful for understanding what is happening right now with Indigenous peoples in the region. This book presents little-known facts from the viewpoint of localized researchers, unveiling the effects of ethnicity, culture, Christian conversion, national identity, exploitation, and dispossession.”- Marcela Mendoza, author of Juegos de combate entre varones de grupos etnográficos cazadores-recolectores.

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Book SynopsisThis book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Duke University. A portrait of the game of capoeira and its practice across borders.Originating in the Black Atlantic world as a fusion of dance and martial art, capoeira was a marginalized practice for much of its history.Today it is globally popular. This ethnographic memoir weaves together the history of capoeira, recent transformations in the practice, and personal insights from author Katya Wesolowski’s thirty years of experience as a capoeirista.Capoeira Connections follows Wesolowski’s journey from novice to instructor while drawing on her decades of research as an anthropologist in Brazil, Angola, Europe, and the United States. In a story of local practice and global flow, Wesolowski offers an intimate portrait of the game and what it means in people’s lives. She reveals camaraderie and conviviality in the capoeira ring as well as tensions and ruptures involving race, gender, and competing claims over how this artful play should be practiced. Capoeira brings people together and yet is never free of histories of struggle, and these too play out in the game’s encounters.In her at once clear-sighted and hopeful analysis, Wesolowski ultimately argues that capoeira offers opportunities for connection, dialogue, and collaboration in a world that is increasingly fractured. In doing so, capoeira can transform lives, create social spheres, and shape mobile futures.Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Book SynopsisThe intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their diasporasThis volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and their diasporas.Topics range from historical and anthropological perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico before and during the Cold War to cultural and sociological studies of diasporic communities in the United States. The volume features analyses of political coalitions, the formation of interisland sororities, and environmental issues. Along with sharing a similar early history, Cuba and Puerto Rico have closely intertwined cultures, including their linguistic, literary, food, musical, and religious practices. Contributors also discuss literature by Cuban and Puerto Rican authors by examining the aesthetics of literary techniques and discourses, the representation of psychological space on the stage, and the impacts of migration.Showing how the trajectories of both archipelagos have been linked together for centuries and how they have diverged recently, Cuba and Puerto Rico offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of this intricate relationship and the formation of diasporic communities and continuities.Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Book SynopsisThe intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their diasporasThis volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and their diasporas.Topics range from historical and anthropological perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico before and during the Cold War to cultural and sociological studies of diasporic communities in the United States. The volume features analyses of political coalitions, the formation of interisland sororities, and environmental issues. Along with sharing a similar early history, Cuba and Puerto Rico have closely intertwined cultures, including their linguistic, literary, food, musical, and religious practices. Contributors also discuss literature by Cuban and Puerto Rican authors by examining the aesthetics of literary techniques and discourses, the representation of psychological space on the stage, and the impacts of migration.Showing how the trajectories of both archipelagos have been linked together for centuries and how they have diverged recently, Cuba and Puerto Rico offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of this intricate relationship and the formation of diasporic communities and continuities.Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Book SynopsisUsing storytelling and performance to explore shared religious expression across continentsThrough a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance as alternative means of knowledge, Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arará of Cuba, who were brought to the island in the transatlantic slave trade.The volume draws on two decades of research in four communities: Dzodze, Ghana; Adjodogou, Togo; and Perico and Agramonte, Cuba. In the ceremonies, oral narratives, and daily lives of individuals at each fieldsite, the authors not only identify shared attributes in religious expression across continents, but also reveal lasting emotional, spiritual, and personal impacts in the communities whose ancestors were ripped from their homeland and enslaved. The authors layer historiographic data, interviews, and fieldnotes with artistic modes such as true fiction, memoir, and choreographed narrative, challenging the conventional nature of scholarship with insights gained from sensorial experience.Including reflections on the making of an art installation based on this research project, the volume challenges readers to imagine the potential of approaching fieldwork as artists. The authors argue that creative methods can convey truths deeper than facts, pointing to new possibilities for collaboration between scientists and artists with relevance to any discipline.Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Book SynopsisLife in an Indigenous town during an understudied era of Haitian historyThis book details the Indigenous Taíno occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola between AD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changes imposed by Spanish contact. En Bas Saline is the largest late precontact Taíno town recorded in what is now Haiti; the only one that has been extensively excavated and analyzed; and one of few with archaeologically documented occupation both before and after the arrival of Columbus in 1492. It is thought to be the site of La Navidad, Columbus’s first settlement, where the cacique Guacanagarí offered refuge and shelter after the sinking of the Santa Maria. Kathleen Deagan provides an intrasite and spatial analysis of En Bas Saline by focusing on households, foodways, ceramics, and crafts and offers insights into social organization and chiefly power in this political center through domestic and ornamental material culture. Postcontact changes are seen in patterns of gendered behavior, as well as in the power base of the caciques, challenging the traditional assumption that Taíno society was devastatingly disrupted almost immediately after contact. En Bas Saline is the only archaeological account of the consequences of contact from the perspective of the Taíno peoples’ lived experience.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

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Book SynopsisFirst-person accounts that show the expanding demographics of African-descended religions. In this focused portrayal of global dispersal and spiritual sojourning, Martin Tsang draws together first-person accounts of the evolving Afro-Atlantic religious landscape. Spirited Diasporas offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban Lukumí, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian Candomblé, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions.In these accounts, practitioners from many origins illustrate the workand commitment they undertook to learn and become initiated in these traditions. They reveal in the process a variety of experiences that are not often documented. Their perspectives also show the expanding contemporary demographics of African-descended religions, many of whose members identify as LGBTQ or are part of other minoritized populations, and they counter inaccurate and often racialized portrayals of these religions as being anti-modern and geographically limited.Through the voices of the professionals, scholars, and activists gathered here, readers will appreciate the purpose and belonging to be found in the far-reaching communities of these Latin American and Caribbean spiritualities. As the seekers in these stories discover and come home to their new religious families, Spirited Diasporas displays the relevance and generative power of these traditions.

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Book SynopsisApproaching Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti’s complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean, contributors provide pedagogical guidance on how to approach the country from different lenses in course curricula. They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences.Teaching Haiti dispels stereotypes associating Haiti with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions often found in literary and historical accounts. Instructors in diverse subject areas discuss ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture, and they advocate for including Haiti in American and Latin American studies courses.Portraying Haiti not as “the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere” but as a nation with a multifaceted culture that plays an important part on the world’s stage, this volume offers valuable lessons about Haiti’s past and present related to immigration, migration, locality, and globality. The essays remind us that these themes are increasingly relevant in an era in which teachers are often called to address neoliberalist views and practices and isolationist politics.Contributors:Cécile Accilien Jessica Adams Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Anne M. François Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Elizabeth Langley Valérie K. Orlando Agnès Peysson-Zeiss John D. Ribó Joubert Satyre Darren Staloff Bonnie Thomas Don E. Walicek Sophie WattTrade ReviewA timely effort to overcome stereotypes and decolonize knowledge. . . . This unparalleled contribution inserts seldom-heard Haitian voices and a much-needed postcolonial perspective into scholarly and personal narratives of Haiti. . . . Essential." —ChoiceTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Ayiti se tè glise: Intersectionalities of History, Politics, and Culture Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando I. Teaching About Haitian Art, Literature, and Language 1. Getting Around the Poto Mitan: Reconstructing Haitian Womanhood in the Classroom Régine Jean-Charles 2. Teaching Haiti Through the Work of Rodney Saint-Eloi, écrivain engage Bonnie Thomas 3. Teaching Haitian Theater: Franck Fouché's Bouqui au paradis Joubert Satyre 4. Engaging Haiti Through Art and Religion Cécile Accilien 5. Creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge About Haiti's Creole Language Don E. Walicek II. Teaching About Haitian History and Politics 6. Haiti in the Presidencies of John Adams and John Quincy Adams: Lesson Plans and Course Modules Darren Staloff and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken 7. Teaching the 2004 Coup in Haiti from a French Perspective: Insights into Global Neo-Imperial Culture and Practices Sophie Watt 8. Peck's Fatal Assistance: A Filmic Lesson on the Failures of Aid Agnès Peysson-Zeiss III. Teaching About Haiti in American Studies, Latin American Studies, and General Studies Contexts 9. Rendering Haiti Visible in an Introductory American Studies Course Elizabeth Langley 10. Race and Culture on the Thrift Store Shift: Teaching About Haiti Inside and Outside the Academy Jessica Adams 11. Rethinking Latinx Studies from Hispaniola's Borderlands John Ribó 12. Teaching Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Cultural Representations of Haitian Immigrant Experiences Anne M. François Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisSexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God’s Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It’s hard to imagine an Australia where these abuses were not yet fully understood as obstacles to women’s equality, yet that was Australia in 1975.It was in this climate that Anne Summers identified ‘damned whores’ and ‘God’s police’, the stereotypes that characterised all women as being either virtuous mothers whose function was to civilise society or bad girls who refused, or were unable, to conform to that norm and who were thus spurned and rejected by mainstream Australia. These stereotypes persist to this day, argues Anne Summers in this updated version of her classic book which, in the 40 years since it was first published, has sold well over 100,000 copies and been set on countless school and university syllabuses. Who are today’s damned whores? And why do women themselves still want to be God’s Police? And although sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape are well understood today they are nevertheless still with us and seem to be increasing. The fight is far from over.

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Book SynopsisCultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tension Between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use.Drawing on Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work as antidotes to colonial power and dehumanization, this collection challenges cultural practices that violate human rights, and the dichotomous and taken-for-granted assumptions in the cultural representations between the West and the Rest of the world. Engaging critically with cultural traditions while affirming Indigenous knowledge and practices, it is unafraid to deal frankly with uncomfortable truths. Each chapter explores a specific aspect of African cultural norms and practices and their impacts on human rights and human dignity, paying special attention to the intersections of politics, economics, race, class, gender, and cultural expression.Going beyond analysis, this collection offers a range of practical approaches to understanding and intervention rooted in emancipatory social work. It offers a pathway to develop critical reflexivity and to reframe epistemologies for education and practice. This is essential reading not only for students and practitioners of social work, but for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of African cultures and practices.

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Book SynopsisPeasant Wars in Bolivia reveals the active political role played by the Cochabamba valley peasants during the 1952-64 revolutionary period in Bolivia from a non-state perspective. Based on contemporary research in social, political, and cultural issues in Latin America it blends sociological and anthropological methods to go beyond recognized contexts of central power and emphasize the revolutionary experience of the peasants themselves.Drawing on archival research, newspapers, interviews, and a wealth of secondary sources, the book argues that the Cochabamba valley mestizo population of rural workers forged their own collective "campesino" identity alongside their revolutionary struggles against regional elites and the state. This newly created identity allowed the campesinos entry into the Bolivian national political arena as dynamic actors, transformed their subjectivities, and changed the existing political culture of Bolivia. It goes on to analyze the historical status of the revolution and the role of the mestizo peasantry within it in the context of academic and political debates of the first two decades of the twenty-first century.Crossing established borders between history, anthropology, and sociology, Peasant Wars in Bolivia is a fascinating, interdisciplinary exploration of the revolutionary campesinos of the Cochabamba valley, of Bolivia's nationalist revolution, and of the ways it has been interpreted and understood within Bolivian politics and culture.

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Book SynopsisThis ethnography explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practised in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. ‘Bungoma’ is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands that is basedon the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other; while this is the cause of illness, it is also the condition for the possibility of healing. This healing seeks to protect the ‘exposed being’ from harm through augmenting the self. Unlike Western medicine, it does not seek to cure physical ailments but aims to prevent suffering by allowing patients to transform their personal narratives of self. Like Western medicine, it is empirical and is presented as ‘local knowledge’ that amounts to a practical anthropology of human conflict and the environment. The book examines this anthropology through political, economic, interpretive and environmental lenses and seeks to bring its therapeutic applications into relation with global academic anthropology.Trade Review"Healing the Exposed Being is a scholarly, rich and engaging account of the complex and individualised knowledge systems and passages of influence that shape sangoma practices in South Africa. Thornton's descriptions of and insight into the philosophies, rituals, and objects of the sangoma, and the ancestors, spirits and others beings with whom they work, change our view of these healers as custodians of the living, advisers, philosophers and guardians. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in health and illness in the region." - Lenore Manderson, Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand.

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Book SynopsisSocial science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research methods available to researchers responding to these context-bound issues. It is particularly relevant for study and research in the fields of applied psychology, sociology, ethnography, biography and anthropology. In addition to their unique combination of conceptual and application issues, the chapters also include discussions on ethical considerations relevant to the method in similar global South contexts. Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences has much to offer to researchers, professionals and others involved in social science research both locally and internationally.Trade Review… an innovative, fascinating and unique book … The editors should be commended for their conceptualisation in bringing together this diversity of views; the contributors have written excellent, state-of-the-art chapters. It is a fi ne book and I recommend it highly! — Desmond Painter, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University … important and interesting research that contains a broad range of chapters on qualitative and quantitative research designs in the global South … an excellent resource for researchers. — Mary van der Riet, Psychology, School of Applied Human Sciences, University of KwaZulu-NatalTable of Contents Tables and figures Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Research as practice: Contextualising applied research in the South African context – Sherianne Kramer, Angelo Fynn and Sumaya Laher Section 1 Quantitative methods Chapter 2 Non-experimental research designs: Investigating the spatial distribution and social ecology of male homicide – Lu-Anne Swart, Sherianne Kramer, Kopano Ratele and Mohamed Seedat Chapter 3 Longitudinal designs: The RANCH-SA study – Kate Cockcroft, Paul Goldschagg and Joseph Seabi Chapter 4 Establishing factorial validity of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: A cross-sectional design – Malose Makhubela and Solomon Mashegoane Chapter 5 Using the WAIS-III to illustrate test norming strategies for valid cognitive assessment: A non-experimental design – Ann B. Shuttleworth-Edwards Chapter 6 Quasi-experimental designs in applied behavioural health research – Brendon R. Barnes Chapter 7 Experimental research: Randomised control trials to evaluate task-shifting interventions – Goodman Sibeko and Dan J. Stein Chapter 8 Repeated-measures Factorial Design: Exploring working memory interactions in earworms – Thomas Geffen and Michael Pitman Chapter 9 Q Methodology: Patterns of subjectivity in academic misconduct – Gillian Finchilescu and Saloshni MuthalSection 2 Qualitative methods Chapter 10 Systematic case study research in clinical and counselling psychology – David J.A. Edwards Chapter 11 Doing psychobiography: The case of Christiaan Barnard – Roelf van Niekerk, Tracey Prenter and Paul Fouché Chapter 12 Narrative research in career counselling: The career construction interview – Jacobus G. Maree Chapter 13 Interrogating grounded theory in meaning-making of voluntary medical adult male circumcision for HIV prevention – Lynlee Howard-Payne Chapter 14 Feminist approaches: An exploration of women’s gendering experiences – Peace Kiguwa Chapter 15 The power of critical discourse analysis: Investigating female-perpetrated sex abuse victim discourses – Sherianne Kramer Chapter 16 Using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study racial social categories in radio talk – Kevin A. Whitehead Chapter 17 Autoethnography: Locating the voice of the self in post-apartheid South Africa – Jeanette Schmid Chapter 18 Genealogy in practice: Labour, discipline and power in the production of the South African mine worker – Brett Bowman, Ian Siemers and Kevin A. WhiteheadSection 3 Transparadigmatic methods Chapter 19 Transformative mixed methods research in South Africa: Contributions to social justice – Brendon R. Barnes Chapter 20 Design research: Developing effective feedback interventions for school-based monitoring – Elizabeth Archer Chapter 21 Appreciative inquiry as transformative methodology: Case studies in health and wellness – Kathryn Nel and Saraswathie Govender Chapter 22 Photovoice methodologies for social justice – Shose Kessi, Debbie Kaminer, Floretta Boonzaier and Despina Learmonth Chapter 23 Action and community-based research: Improving local governance practices through the community scorecard – Diana Sanchez-Betancourt and Elmé Vivier Chapter 24 Trends in social science research in Africa: Rigour, relevance and responsibility – Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMore than a million black South African women are domestic workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue to occupy a central place in in postapartheid society. But it is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. ‘Like family’ they may be, but they and their employers know they can never be real family.Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. This established social hierarchies and patterns of behaviour and interaction that persist to the present day, and are still evident in the predicament of the black female domestic worker.To support her argument, Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans. Authors include André Brink, JM Coetzee, Imraan Coovadia, Nadine Gordimer, Elsa Joubert, Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona, Kopano Matlwa, Es'kia Mphahlele, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner and Zoë Wicomb.. Later texts by black authors offer wry and subversive insights into the madam/maid nexus, capturing paradoxes relating to shifting power relationships.Like Family is an updated version of the award-winning Soos familie published in 2015 and the highly-acclaimed 2016 Dutch translation, Bijna familie.Trade ReviewDrawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Like Family provides rich insights into the `contact zone’ of domestic service that paradoxically involves both intimacy and distance. In doing so, Jansen deepens our understanding of how the institution both reflects and reproduces the savage inequalities on which our society continues to be based. — Jacklyn Cock, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand and author of Maids and Madams: A Study in the Politics of ExploitationTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to Readers Introduction Searching the archive Chapter 1 Domestic workers in South Africa Chapter 2 Enslaved women at the Cape – Precursors to the culture of domestic work Chapter 3 Migrant women and domestic work in the city Chapter 4 Legislation governing the lives of urban women Chapter 5 Domestic workers in personal accounts Chapter 6 Testimonies of domestic workers – Interviews, stories and a novel Chapter 7 Domestic workers and children Chapter 8 Domestic workers and sexuality Chapter 9 Domestic workers in times of political unrest and protest Chapter 10 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by white authors Chapter 11 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by black authors Chapter 12 Domestic workers on the threshold Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisI am walking through a destitute, poverty-stricken, rotten building. Although people are living here, my aim is not to interact with the current tenants but rather to try and uncover the memories that are hidden in the façade, the plaster and the bricks of this building. I use my mobile phone to record what I see, but in my head, it is February 1945. I hear the sounds of war "Travelling along a timeline of memory, Tanja Sakota takes us on a journey through South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina. Using a camera and short film format, Sakota hosts several workshops in different countries focused on interacting and engaging with remembering through different memory sites. The author sits at the core but the book is an interdisciplinary work shaped around films made by different workshop participants using film to access personal interpretations of space and place. Questions that underpin the uncovering of memories are: How does one use a camera to make the invisible visible? How does one remember events that one hasn’t necessarily experienced? How does one use film to interrogate the past from the future present? As the journey evolves, workshop participants and readers alike enter into a conversation around practice-based research, autoethnography and film.Table of Contents List of images Foreword – Cynthia Kros Acknowledgements Map of Africa and Europe PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH, TEACHING AND LEARNING Chapter 1 Creating a context Chapter 2 Film as a research tool Chapter 3 Accessing memory through the visible and the invisible Chapter 4 Timelines and site-specific research Chapter 5 Working in parallel why the workshop process? PART I WORKING WITH STUDENTS: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Berlin Chapter 6 Decolonising the curriculum Chapter 7 Tropes of time workshop Chapter 8 Towards a future past workshop: a German perspective Chapter 9 Conversation with memory workshop Chapter 10 Memory through site-specific research: a discussion post-practice PART II WORKING WITH PEERS: Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Chapter 11 Personal interpretations of political spaces Chapter 12 The past, relevance and readings Chapter 13 The politics of remembering workshop Chapter 14 Understanding personal, political and cultural memory Chapter 15 Point of view: a discussion post-practice PART III WORKING WITH MYSELF: Poland, Germany, Bosnia/Herzegovina, South Africa Chapter 16 Finding my voice Chapter 17 Autoethnography and remembering through the self Chapter 18 Excavating ghosts: Perpetrators and victims Chapter 19 My film Shattered Reflection Chapter 20 Looking at the reflections: a discussion post-practice MOVING FORWARD Chapter 21 Recognising artistic research as good practice Film credits Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis"The Economics of Religion" explores the new paradigms of "religious economics" and "economies of religion" under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. It examines and appraises some of the recent theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and social sciences. This volume offers the chance to extend the analysis of religious behaviours by means of conceptual and methodological models of economics. It goes far beyond the classical "economy and religion" debate, and suggests not only theoretical but also epistemological changes in the study of religion: individual rationality and rational choice, market theory, demand and supply theory, branding and commodification of religion, believers' "consumer" habits, churches' competitive strategies, for example. Of course, these are not exempt from criticism, which this volume also addresses. These detailed and localized case-studies range from experimental to ethnographic methods, psychological to cultural aspects of believing and practising cults in the scope of economics of religion. Geographical areas covered include Nigeria, Bolivia, Italy, Mexico, France, Korea, Nepal and Tonga.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Economics and. Trust, Faith and Calculativeness: A Theoretical Extension of O. Williamson's ‘Institutional Trust’. Prosperity Unbound? Debating the “Sacrificial Economy”. A Catholic Alternative to Globalization? the Compagnia Delle Opere. The Economy of the Host in the Monastic World: A Non-Economic Economy. Is Buddhism like a Hamburger? Buddhism and the Market Economy in a Globalized World. Spiritual Capital: On the Materiality and Immateriality of Blessings in Puerto Rican Brujería. Promising and Engaging the Future Through Ritual Sponsorships in Eastern Yucatan, Mexico. God Unlimited: Economic Transformations of Contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism. Multi-Level Marketing: At the Crossroads of Economy and Religion. Economic, Religious, and Social Practice of Giving: A Microanalysis of Donating in the Kingdom of Tonga. Are Religious Individuals More Generous, Trusting, and Cooperative? An Experimental Test of the Effect of Religion on Prosociality. Charitable Christians, Punitive Neighbors: Religiosity and Economic Norms in a Water-Scarce Environment. The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches. Research in Economic Anthropology. Research in Economic Anthropology. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of this unique Handbook was praised for its substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work by anthropologists on economic processes and issues, on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life and on the conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists. This thoroughly revised edition brings those discussions up to date, and includes an important new section exploring ways that leading anthropologists have approached the current economic crisis. Its scope and accessibility make it useful both to those who are interested in a particular topic and to those who want to see the breadth and fruitfulness of an anthropological study of economy.This comprehensive Handbook will strongly appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students in anthropology, economists interested in social and cultural dimensions of economic life, and alternative approaches to economic life, political economists, political scientists and historians.Contributors: C. Alexander, K. Applbaum, M. Blim, M. Busse, J.G. Carrier, M.A. Chen, S. Coleman, R. Colloredo-Mansfeld, E.P. Durrenberger, J.S. Eades, T.H. Eriksen, S. Gudeman, J.I. Guyer, M. Harris, J. Harriss, K. Hart, E. Hirsch, R.C. Hunt, B.L. Isaac, D. Kalb, D. Lewis, P. Luetchford, B. Maurer, E. Mayer, S. Narotzky, H. Ortiz, S. Ortiz, J. Parry, T.C. Patterson, D. Robotham, T. Roopnaraine, M. aul, V. Siniscalchi, P.J. Stewart, M. Stivens, A. Strathern, O. Visser, Y. YanTrade ReviewThis excellent overview would serve as an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level classroom use... Because of the clarity, conciseness, and accessibility of the writing, the chapters in this volume likely will be often cited and recommended to those who want the alternative and frequently culturally comparative perspective on economic topics that anthropology provides. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. --K.F. Rambo, ChoiceAcclaim for the first edition:The volume is a remarkable contribution to economic anthropology and will no doubt be a fundamental tool for students, scholars, and experts in the sub-discipline. --Mao Mollona, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction James G. Carrier PART I: ORIENTATIONS 1. Karl Polanyi Barry L. Isaac 2. Anthropology, Political Economy and World-System Theory J.S. Eades 3. Political Economy Don Robotham 4. Decisions and Choices: The Rationality of Economic Actors Sutti Oritz 5. Provisioning Susana Narotzky 6. Community and Economy: Economy’s Base Stephen Gudeman PART II: ELEMENTS 7. Property Mark Busse 8. Labour E. Paul Durrenberger 9. Industrial Work Jonathan Parry 10. Money in Twentieth-century Anthropology Keith Hart 11. Finance 2.0 Bill Maurer 12. Distribution and Redistribution Thomas C. Patterson 13. Consumption Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld PART III: CIRCULATION 14. Ceremonial Exchange: Debates and Comparisons Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart 15. Markets: Places, Principles and Integrations Kalman Applbaum 16. The Gift and Gift Economy Yunxiang Yan 17. One-way Economic Transfers Robert C. Hunt PART IV: INTEGRATIONS 18. Gender Maila Stivens 19. Environment and Economy Eric Hirsch 20. Culture and Economy Michael Blim 21. Economy and Religion Simon Coleman 22. Economies of Ethnicity Thomas Hylland Eriksen PART V: ISSUES 23. Economic Anthropology and Ethics Peter Luetchford 24. Households and their Markets in the Andes Enrique Mayer 25. Peasants Mark Harris 26. Economic Valuations and Environmental Policy Catherine Alexander 27. Anthropology and Development: The Uneasy Relationship David Lewis 28. The Informal Economy in Comparative Perspective Martha Alter Chen PART VI: REGIONS 29. South America Terry Roopnaraine 30. Africa South of the Sahara Mahir Şaul 31. South Asia John Harriss 32. East Asia J.S. Eades 33. Towards an Economic Anthropology of Europe Valeria Siniscalchi PART VII: THE CRISIS 34. Oligarchy and State Capture: Soviet-style Mechanisms in Contemporary Finance Capitalism Don Kalb and Oane Visser 35. Anthropology – of the Financial Crisis Horacio Ortiz 36. Economic Crisis, 2008: What Happened, What Can be Learned About How and Why, What Could Happen Next Michael Blim 37. Terms of Debate versus Words in Circulation: Some Rhetorics of the Crisis Jane I. Guyer 38. The Financial Crisis and the History of Money Keith Hart Index

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Book SynopsisRuth Towse has provided an indispensable guide and companion for anyone seeking an informed grasp of the economics of the cultural sector. In a series of wonderfully clear and well-organized chapters on themes including the creative economy, cultural policy, artists' labour markets and copyright, and characterized throughout by insightful references to key theories, players and institutions, this book skillfully lays out and explains the fundamental and distinctive economic features of artistic and cultural industries. A valuable resource and timely contribution to the thinking of an emerging generation of researchers and scholars.'- Gillian Doyle, University of Glasgow, UK'Ruth Towse presents a fabulous, broad ranging overview of cultural economics. The book explores the forefront of knowledge, is easy to read and reveals sound judgement. I highly recommend the book to anyone concerned about the relationship of culture to society - as everyone should!'- Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Zeppelin University, GermanyElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by some of the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Written by an internationally renowned expert in the field, Professor Ruth Towse, this book presents a comprehensive yet concise introduction to cultural economics. It covers a broad range of topics in the arts and cultural industries, using the tools of economics to explain their supply and demand, production and consumption.Starting from the 1960s concern about costs and public finance in the performing arts, the subject has developed over the last fifty years to include museums and built heritage, and lately, the wider creative industries and their issues with copyright. This book explains the theoretical underpinnings and reports on the main empirical research on the creative industries, cultural policy, performing arts, heritage, artists' labour markets, copyright, broadcasting, film and music, festivals, cities of culture, creative clusters and economic impact.Key features include:- a unique survey of the main developments in the field- written in straightforward language including explanations of all technical terms- each chapter offers guidance for further reading for those who wish to pursue the subject beyond an introductory level- accessible to anyone with an interest in what drives the creative economy and how the arts are financed.Composed in a succinct and engaging style, this commanding introduction will prove an essential resource for students of business economics and industrial organization, particularly those with an interest in culture, the arts and the media.Contents: 1. About Cultural Economics 2. Cultural Economics and Cultural Policy 3. Performing Arts 4. Museums and Built Heritage 5. Artists, the Art Market and Artists' Labour Markets 6. The Creative Economy 7. Copyright 8. Broadcasting Music and Film Industries 9. Festivals, Cities of Culture, Creative Clusters and Economic Impact 10. Conclusion IndexTrade Review‘Ruth Towse has provided an indispensable guide and companion for anyone seeking an informed grasp of the economics of the cultural sector. In a series of wonderfully clear and well-organized chapters on themes including the creative economy, cultural policy, artists’ labour markets and copyright, and characterized throughout by insightful references to key theories, players and institutions, this book skillfully lays out and explains the fundamental and distinctive economic features of artistic and cultural industries. A valuable resource and timely contribution to the thinking of an emerging generation of researchers and scholars.’ -- Gillian Doyle, University of Glasgow, UK‘Ruth Towse presents a fabulous, broad ranging overview of cultural economics. The book explores the forefront of knowledge, is easy to read and reveals sound judgement. I highly recommend the book to anyone concerned about the relationship of culture to society – as everyone should!’ -- Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Zeppelin University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. About Cultural Economics 2. Cultural Economics and Cultural Policy 3. Performing Arts 4. Museums and Built Heritage 5. Artists, the Art Market and Artists’ Labour Markets 6. The Creative Economy 7. Copyright 8. Broadcasting Music and Film Industries 9. Festivals, Cities of Culture, Creative Clusters and Economic Impact 10. Conclusion Index

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Book Synopsis'All in all, the chapters of the volume provide insightful material 'about how different forms of precarious work are linked to speci?c institutional changes in the labour market and laws governing it but also how they are linked to each other'. . . Situated in the ?eld of Global Labour Studies, the volume goes beyond one of the most central weaknesses of the discipline: its optimistic bias. By systematically including cases in which trade failed or chose not to engage in the organization of precarious workers, the contributions pave the way to a deeper understanding of the challenges within this ?eld.'- British Journal of Industrial RelationsWith the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. This edited collection explores the spread across a number of economic sectors and countries worldwide of work that is invariably insecure, dirty, low-paid, and often temporary and/or part-time.The first part of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years in both the Global North and South. These transformations are captured in ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops, day labour, homework, Chinese construction workers unpaid contract work, the introduction of insecure contracting into the Korean automotive industry, and the insecurity of Brazilian sugarcane cutters. The case studies all shed light upon how the nature of work and the workplace are changing under the pressures of neoliberal capitalism and what this means for workers. In the second part the editors and contributors then detail some of the ways in which precarious workers are seeking to improve their own situations through their efforts to counter the growth of precarity under neoliberal capitalism, efforts that involve collectively exploring forms of resistance to work restructuring and the failures of traditional trade unions to fully engage with precarious work's growth.Illustrating the impacts of the expansion of precarious work, this book will appeal to students, academics and those generally interested in the issues of the global economy, the reworking of labour markets, the impacts of neoliberal capitalism and ethnographies of the working poor in various parts of the world.Contributors include: L.L.M. Aguiar, M.J. Barreto, S. Chauvin, J. Cock, B. Garvey, M. Gillan, D. Hattatoglu, A. Herod, L. Huilin, K. Joynt, R. Lambert, P. Ngai, J. Tate, M. Thomas, E. Webster, A. YunTrade Review'Precarious work is on the rise in the Global South and North alike. This important volume provides interesting examples about the hardship of long working hours, poverty wages and dangerous employment conditions. And yet, workers are not only victims but also agents with possibilities of resistance. The book points to the potential of a cross-border movement of the dispossessed based on a re-imagined role of the labour movement. A must read for everyone interested in resistance to capitalist exploitation.' --Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, UK'As the world becomes increasingly global, labor's response must be as well. As ''standard'' employment declines, and workers come to see ''flexibility'' as a four-letter word, the future of the labor movement hinges on the ability to develop creative responses to precarious labor. Anyone interested in stimulating examples of what is happening to employment and ways to challenge precarious work needs to read Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work.' --Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts Amherst'A clear and engaging global overview of the extent and nature(s) of precarious work and the link between such precarity and neoliberalism is provided by the editors' Introduction. . . I would thoroughly recommend.' --Journal of Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Neoliberalism, Precarious Work and Remaking the Geography of Global Capitalism Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert PART I EXPERIENCES OF PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 2. The Growth and Organization of a Precariat: Working in the Clothing Industry in Johannesburg’s Inner City Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster 3. Bounded Mobilizations: Informal Unionism and Secondary Shaming Amongst Immigrant Temp Workers in Chicago Sébastien Chauvin 4. Homebased Work and New Ways of Organizing in the Era of Globalization Dilek Hattatoğlu and Jane Tate 5. Constructing Violence and Resistance: The Political Economy of the Construction Industry and Labour Subcontracting System in Post-Socialist China Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin 6. Nature and Insecurity in South Africa Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert 7. At the Cutting Edge: Precarious Work in Brazil’s Sugar and Ethanol Industry Brian Garvey and Maria Joseli Barreto PART II CHALLENGING PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 8. Organizing Across a Fragmented Labour Force: Trade Union Responses to Precarious Work in Korean Auto Companies Aelim Yun 9. Closures and Openings: The Politics of Place and Space in Resisting Corporate Restructuring Michael Gillan and Rob Lambert 10. Sweatshop Citizenship, Precariousness and Organizing Building Cleaners Luis L.M. Aguiar 11. Global Unions, Global Framework Agreements and the Transnational Regulation of Labour Standards Mark Thomas Conclusion: Towards a Movement of the Dispossessed? Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod Index

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge Research Handbook, at the intersection of comparative law and anthropology, explores mutually enriching insights and outlooks. The 20 contributors, including several of the most eminent scholars, as well as new voices, offer diverse expertise, national backgrounds and professional experience. Their overall approach is ''ground up'' without regard to unified paradigms of research or objects of study.Through a pluralistic definition of law and multidisciplinary approaches, Comparative Law and Anthropology significantly advances both theory and practice. The Research Handbook's expansive concept of comparative law blends a traditional geographical orientation with historical and jurisprudential dimensions within a broad range of contexts of anthropological inquiry, from indigenous communities, to law schools and transitional societies. This comprehensive and original collection of diverse writings about anthropology and the law around the world offers an inspiring but realistic source for legal scholars, anthropologists and policy-makers.Contributors include: U. Acharya, C. Bell, J. Blake, S. Brink, E. Darian-Smith, R. Francaviglia, M. Lazarus-Black, P. McHugh, S.F. Moore, E. Moustaira, L. Nader, J. Nafziger, M. Novakovic, R. Price, O. Ruppel, J.A. Sanchez, W. Shipley, R. Tejani, A. Telesetsky, K. ThomasTrade Review‘. . . Comparative Law and Anthropology offers a diverse pool of writings connected to anthropology and law that are timely and relatable. The volume covers many geographical areas of the world either in in-depth studies or through shorter examples related to certain legal fields. In addition, although a majority of the authors deal with indigenous or local law, there are also many other subjects covered from intellectual property to religious freedom.’ -- Elin Hofverberg, International Journal of Legal InformationTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to comparative law and anthropology James A.R. Nafziger PART I PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE 2. Law and anthropology: research traditions Sally Falk Moore 3. Whose comparative law? A global perspective Laura Nader PART II COMPLEXITY, LEGAL PLURALISM AND TOTALITY OF LEGAL IDEAS 4. Anthropology on trial: the Hindmarsh Island Bridge controversy (1993–2001) P.G. McHugh 5. First Nation control over archeological sites: contemporary issues in heritage law, policy and practice Catherine Bell 6. The hybridity of law in Namibia and the role of community law in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Oliver C. Ruppel and Katharina Ruppel-Schlichting 7. Legal pluralism – linking law and culture in natural resource co-management and environmental compliance Anastasia Telesetsky PART III SUBSTANCE OF LEGAL SCHEMES OF MEANING AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LAW 8. Anthropology in international law: the case of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage Janet Blake 9. Cultural landscapes significant to indigenous peoples James A.R. Nafziger 10. Governance disputes involving First Nations in Canada: culture, custom, and dispute resolution outside of the Indian Act William B. Shipley PART IV COSMOPOLITAN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 11. Images of Muhammad: religious law and freedom of expression Richard Francaviglia 12. Narratives of laws, narratives of peoples Elina N. Moustaira PART V HISTORICAL ORIENTATION 13. Law, society and landscape in early Scandinavia Stefan Brink 14. Transgenic maize: the Mexican cultural battle Jorge Sánchez Cordero 15. A trinity of culture, law and politics: legal anthropology of the bonded labor system in Nepal Upendra D. Acharya PART VI CONTEXTUAL DIFFERENCES 16. Global law firms in real-world contexts: practical limitations and ethical implications Eve Darian-Smith 17. An historical, cultural and political perspective of corruption in the Balkans Marko Novaković PART VII IN-DEPTH FIELD RESEARCH 18. The anthropologist as expert witness: a personal account Richard Price 19. Intellectual property law in comparative perspective: the case of trademark “piracy” in Guatemala Kedron Thomas 20. The voice of the stranger: foreign LL.M. students’ experiences of culture, law and pedagogy in US law schools Mindie Lazarus-Black PART VIII RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRADITION AND ITS THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS 21. Distance in law and globalization: armchair anthropology revisited Riaz Tejani Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with excess or overflow. This book explores the ways in which institutions, corporations and individuals define and manage situations of 'too much' - too much information, too many choices, too many commodities or too many tasks.By analyzing a wide range of settings - from corporate firms and public administration to everyday domestic routines - the book offers an in-depth understanding of the complexities of overflow phenomena. It questions when, where and why overflow emerges and for whom this is a problem or a blessing.This broad introduction to a striking contemporary phenomenon will prove an enlightening read for a wide-ranging audience including academics and researchers in the disciplines of business and management, political science, economic history and sociology.Contributors: H. Brembeck, F. Cochoy, H. Corvellec, B. Czarniawska, M. Czubaj, P. Donatella, K.M. Ekström, S. Fellman, O. Löfgren, L. Norén, M. Pantzar, A. Popp, E. Raviola, R. Solli, E. Tarim, J. Wentzer, R. WillimTable of ContentsContents: 1. Changing Perspectives on the Management of Overflow Orvar Löfgren and Barbara Czarniawska 2. ‘What are we to do with our New Affluence?’: Anticipating, Framing and Managing the Putative Plenty of Post-war Finland Mika Pantzar 3. Potlatch à la Polonaise or Consumption Cultures in Times of Transformation Mariusz Czubaj 4. Help! We Have Too Much Money! Barbara Czarniawska, Pierre Donatella and Rolf Solli 5. Management of and by Overflow: The Example of Primary Healthcare Lars Norén 6. Taking Michel Callon to the Istanbul Stock Exchange: Frames, Overflows and Storytelling Emre Tarim 7. Cloud Control: The Capture and Escape of Music as Information Jakob Wentzer 8. Transmutations of Noise Robert Willim 9.Creators Meet Companies: Hundred Offices and the Opening of Frames Elena Raviola 10. Recycling Food Waste into Biogas, or How Management Transforms Overflows into Flows Hervé Corvellec 11. The Discovery of Relations to Artefacts in the Boundless Process of Moving Karin Ekström 12. Managing Inflows, Throughflows and Outflows: Mothers Navigating the Baby Stuff Scape Helene Brembeck 13. Lost in the Archive: The Business Historian in Distress Susanna Fellman and Andrew Popp 14. Selective Knowledge: Learning How to Forget and Ignore Orvar Löfgren 15. Afterword: Overflows as Boundary Events between Organizations and Markets Franck Cochoy References

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Book SynopsisWhat does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with excess or overflow. This book explores the ways in which institutions, corporations and individuals define and manage situations of 'too much' - too much information, too many choices, too many commodities or too many tasks.By analyzing a wide range of settings - from corporate firms and public administration to everyday domestic routines - the book offers an in-depth understanding of the complexities of overflow phenomena. It questions when, where and why overflow emerges and for whom this is a problem or a blessing.This broad introduction to a striking contemporary phenomenon will prove an enlightening read for a wide-ranging audience including academics and researchers in the disciplines of business and management, political science, economic history and sociology.Contributors: H. Brembeck, F. Cochoy, H. Corvellec, B. Czarniawska, M. Czubaj, P. Donatella, K.M. Ekström, S. Fellman, O. Löfgren, L. Norén, M. Pantzar, A. Popp, E. Raviola, R. Solli, E. Tarim, J. Wentzer, R. WillimTable of ContentsContents: 1. Changing Perspectives on the Management of Overflow Orvar Löfgren and Barbara Czarniawska 2. ‘What are we to do with our New Affluence?’: Anticipating, Framing and Managing the Putative Plenty of Post-war Finland Mika Pantzar 3. Potlatch à la Polonaise or Consumption Cultures in Times of Transformation Mariusz Czubaj 4. Help! We Have Too Much Money! Barbara Czarniawska, Pierre Donatella and Rolf Solli 5. Management of and by Overflow: The Example of Primary Healthcare Lars Norén 6. Taking Michel Callon to the Istanbul Stock Exchange: Frames, Overflows and Storytelling Emre Tarim 7. Cloud Control: The Capture and Escape of Music as Information Jakob Wentzer 8. Transmutations of Noise Robert Willim 9.Creators Meet Companies: Hundred Offices and the Opening of Frames Elena Raviola 10. Recycling Food Waste into Biogas, or How Management Transforms Overflows into Flows Hervé Corvellec 11. The Discovery of Relations to Artefacts in the Boundless Process of Moving Karin Ekström 12. Managing Inflows, Throughflows and Outflows: Mothers Navigating the Baby Stuff Scape Helene Brembeck 13. Lost in the Archive: The Business Historian in Distress Susanna Fellman and Andrew Popp 14. Selective Knowledge: Learning How to Forget and Ignore Orvar Löfgren 15. Afterword: Overflows as Boundary Events between Organizations and Markets Franck Cochoy References

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking collection introduces readers to the fascinating research field of political anthropology. The chapters engage in major theoretical and methodological debates to provide interpretive frames, analytical tools and ethnographic illustrations for culturally based interpretations of political phenomena, revealing the intersection between anthropology, culture, politics and international relations. Theoretical tools such as liminality, sacrifice, mimesis, ethics, trickster and interpretation of meaning provide understanding of key challenges in a globalised world. These include war zones, revolutions, migration, securitization, territorial borders, climate change and ethno-religious violence. The contributing authors focus on the ethnographies of power, political culture and forms of cultural intimacy in informal networks. Using self-critical and reflexive approaches, they show that disciplinary boundaries have been reshaped by changing meanings of power, including reconfigurations of state and sovereignty. With reflections on the potential and limits of political anthropology, this Handbook explores the art of understanding human interaction within political frameworks in a globalising world. Offering a unique reference resource in the area with exceptional cross-disciplinary research, this Handbook will suit political, social and cultural anthropologists as well as scholars in comparative political analysis and social theory. Students and researchers of politics, anthropology and international relations will also benefit from the key methodological tools explaining the challenges and consequences of globalisation.Contributors include: S. Coleman, J.-P. Daloz, G. de Anna, H. Donnan, T.H. Eriksen, R. Farneti, M. Fog Olwig, J. Gledhill, J. Gould, S. Haugbølle, A. Horvath, C. Illies, J. Kubik, N. Long, M. Mälksoo, K. Martin, M. Moodie, M. Nuijten, P. Rabinow, M. Rasaratnam, P. Raman, E. Ranta, A. Sanchez, D. Sausdal, A. Stavrianakis, F. Stepputat, A. Szakolczai, B. Thomassen, H. Vigh, H. WydraTrade Review'This wide-ranging collection challenges disciplinary boundaries to demonstrate the relevance of political anthropology to both old and new audiences. It offers refreshing takes on core anthropological themes and links classical theory to the quintessential questions of political life today in a compelling manner useful to diverse scholars, students, and practitioners.' --Sara Shneiderman, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the promise of political anthropology Harald Wydra and Bjørn Thomassen PART I OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS 1. Recovering the classical foundations of political anthropology Arpad Szakolczai 2. On the mimetic turn in the social sciences Roberto Farneti 3. Charisma/trickster: on the twofold nature of power Agnes Horvath 4. Contemporary political stakes: after-lives of the modern Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis 5. Political anthropology: biology, culture, and ethics Gabriele De Anna and Christian Illies 6. Cultural intimacy and the politics of civility Michael Herzfeld PART II ANTHRO-POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 7. Politics and the permanence of the sacred Paul Dumouchel 8. Anthropology and the enigma of the state Finn Stepputat and Monique Nuijten 9. Liminality and the politics of the transitional Maria Mälksoo 10. The anthropology of political revolutions Bjørn Thomassen 11. Comparative political analysis and the interpretation of meaning Jean-Pascal Daloz 12. Anthropology and political ideology Sune Haugbolle 13. Post-neoliberalism? Keir Martin 14. The political and the religious: on the making of virtuous politics Simon Coleman PART III ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE POLITICAL 15. The politics of development: anthropological perspectives Jeremy Gould and Eija Ranta 16. Ethnographies of power Jan Kubik 17. Postdemocracy and a politics of prefiguration Nicholas J. Long 18. Feminist theory and reproduction Megan Moodie 19. New war zones or evolving modes of insurgency warfare? Morten Bøås 20. The political anthropology of borders and territory: European perspectives Hastings Donnan, Bjørn Thomassen and Harald Wydra 21. The politics of movement and migration Parvathi Raman PART IV PROCESSES 22. Security, securitization, desecuritization: how security produces insecurity John Gledhill 23. Nature, politics, and climate change Mette Fog Olwig 24. The fall and rise of class Andrew Sanchez 25. The politics of ethno-religious violence Madurika Rasaratnam 26. The anthropology of crime Henrik Vigh and David Sausdal 27. Globalization Thomas Hylland Eriksen Index

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Book SynopsisThis much-needed volume explains who ethnic minorities are and how well do they do in China. In addition to offering general information about ethnic minority groups in China, it discusses some important issues around ethnicity, including ethnic inequality, minority rights, and multiculturalism. In doing so, it explores questions such as: How are ethnic minorities represented in China? Are ethnic minorities' gender norms different from those of Han Chinese? How serious is ethnic inequality in education and income? How well are minority cultures and languages preserved in China? Are ethnic minorities marginalized amid China's rapid economic growth? In what ways do China's ethnic policy affect its foreign policy and international relations?The handbook reviews research on major ethnic issues in China and addresses some key conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues in the study of ethnicity in China. It offers updated research findings on minority ethnicity, consolidates knowledge scattered in different disciplines in the existing literature and provides readers with a multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted coverage in one single volume.Drawing on insights and perspectives from scholars in different continents the contributions provide critical reflections on where the field has been and where it is going, offering readers possible directions for future research on minority ethnicity in China. The Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and convenient reference, ideal for teaching and research on ethnic minorities in China.Contributors include: M. Clarke, M. Dillon, S. Du, B. Gustafsson, W. Jankowiak, H. Lai, K.Y. Law, K.-m. Lee, J. Liebold, Y. Luo, J. Ma, C. Mackerras, T. Oakes, L. Schein, B. Shurentana, B.R. Weiner, X. Zang, M. ZhouTrade Review'Among the recent works on ethnicity in China, few are as encompassing as the Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China. Apart from containing a wide range of relevant topics covered by leading scholars in their sub-fields and presenting a spectrum of perspectives, the Handbook is accessible to readers well beyond the corps of specialists. Its articles will not only inform future scholarship, but will also provide students, journalists policy-makers and others with an empirically-based and theoretically-informed introduction to key issues.' --Barry Sautman, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Who are ethnic minorities and how well do they do in China? Xiaowei Zang 2. Ethnic minorities in southwest China Jianxiong Ma 3. Hui Muslims in northwest China Michael Dillon 4. Xinjiang and the Uyghurs Michael Dillon 5. Tibet in China? China in Tibet? Benno Ryan Weiner 6. Nation-state building and multiculturalism in China Minglang Zhou 7. Ethnic autonomous regions and the unitary multiethnic nation-state Hongyi Lai 8. Preferential policies for ethnic minorities in China James Leibold 9. The state of research on urban Chinese ethnicity: Urban Mongols William Jankowiak and B Shurentana 10. Ethnic minority languages and cultures Colin Mackerras 11. Gender norms among ethnic minorities: Beyond ‘Han Chinese patriarchy’ Shanshan Du 12. Representations of Chinese minorities Louisa Schein with Luo Yu 13. Ethnic tourism in China Tim Oakes 14. Ethnic inequality in education Yangbin Chen 15. Ethnic disparities in economic wellbeing in China Björn Gustafsson 16. Ethnic marginalization in China: The case of the Lahu Jianxiong Ma 17. Integration policy and South Asian minorities in Hong Kong Law Kam-yee and Lee Kim-ming 18. Ethnic minorities and China’s foreign policy Michael Clarke References Index

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Book SynopsisDynamo Island is an account of a contemporary ideal world set in an Ireland-sized island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It expresses the possibility of a modern society living in harmonious ecological balance with its environment. The ethos of the place is built around the notion of the human being as a dynamo managing and self-regulating energy in a way that draws on without harming the natural world. One of the island's main features is that there are no cars, only bicycles along with a comprehensive public tram and electric train network.

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Book SynopsisOn community and the creative life. The Power of the Impossible surveys cultural figures from Spinoza to popular culture icon Ivan Lendl, to illuminate the challenge and problem of establishing a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the creative life. 'This original, unorthodox study illuminates our current crises of community formation and creativity in ways unexpected but necessary.' Robert Appelbaum, Uppsala UniversityTrade ReviewLearned, exigent, original, and timely, Erik Roraback's The Power of the Impossible: On Community and the Creative Life presents authoritative readings of what important theorists from Spinoza to Bataille, Blanchot, Nancy, Zizek, and others have had to say about community and the individual, with sections along the way on how those theorists might lead us to approach work by Henry James, James Joyce, Ralph Ellison, Dante Alighieri, and, surprisingly, the great tennis player, Ivan Lendl. Roraback also develops on the basis of his theorists his own persuasive concept of an impossible/possible global community yet to come that would facilitate individual creativity as well as contest the repressive hegemony of finance capitalism and technology, especially digital technology. - J. Hillis Miller, The University of California at Irvine

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Book SynopsisWhat is civilization, and is it a good thing? It's a name for the most glorious of humanity's monuments and cultural achievements; yet it also speaks of the conquests, oppressions, and empires which make their glory possible. This book explains the essence of civilization, then asks what's wrong with it, and considers what can be done about it.

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Book SynopsisMany have pursued, and continue to pursue, real immortality by seeking to prolong their lives on this earth. Others pursue symbolic or proxy immortality, through children, fame or being part of something long-lasting. One can imagine these different forms of immortality as a menu of options of how to live forever: you click the one that appeals to you most and best fits your beliefs, hopes, values and worldview.

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Book SynopsisOur economic system is over-stimulated by the information age. Interconnection aids and abets companies earning trillions and their swift rise to global dominance. The 24-hour wired world has led to increased volatility; negative information, and even an accidental computer glitch can crash the market and create panic. Health, the environment, the welfare of society are pushed to the far edge of national interests. Instead, GDP and short-term monetary profit is prioritised over long-term impact on society and the environment. The world as we know it is set for collapse. Simultaneously, the science of evolution has itself evolved. In as much as “survival of the fittest” has been used to justify harsh, competition behaviour on the part of individuals and corporations, an updated understanding of evolution now tends to tell us a different story. What if written into the code of our DNA and RNA is a guide for telling us how to evolve morally and as a result improve our world and progress our epistemology? From such an understanding emerge new Spheres of Perception.

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Book SynopsisFor the last 40 years, anthropotechnology has concentrated its efforts on the study and improvement of the working and living conditions of populations throughout the world. It guides the actors of the design processes by paying attention to the “human factor”: its social, cultural and environmental components. It therefore values a conception of techniques that respect people and their ways of thinking and acting in specific contexts. This book introduces the reader to design dynamics that combine often conflicting sets of competencies, but that are always anxious to respond to the contexts of the field.Table of ContentsIntroduction ixPhilippe GESLIN Chapter 1 Anthropotechnological Practice and Time Politics in the Development Industry 1Matthieu BOLAY 1.1 Conducting research about water allocation when there is no water 2 1.2 Time, power and cotemporalities 6 1.2.1 Ethnographic temporality 9 1.2.2 Bureaucratic temporality 13 1.3 Anthropotechnological temporalities: the Tanzanian case 14 1.3.1 The oMoMi project 15 1.3.2 Project genesis: when does a project begin? 16 1.3.3 Supported iterations 18 1.3.4 Productive cotemporality: simultaneity, crowdsourcing and FabLab fabrication 20 1.4 Conclusion: designing technologies based on user temporality 23 1.5 Bibliography 25 Chapter 2 The Appropriation of Knowledge: An Anthropology of Transmission in the Context of Professional Training 27Hervé MUNZ 2.1 The anthropotechnological approach to appropriation as a critique of the notion of transmission 28 2.2 Learning an industry 30 2.2.1 The “mechanical sense” as a way of knowing 31 2.2.2 Skilled vision or sight training 33 2.3 Transmission methods for the “mechanical sense” 36 2.3.1 Professional training beyond binary oppositions 36 2.3.2 The pedagogy of concealment 39 2.3.3 Objects as transfer vectors of the profession 41 2.4 A theory of transmission as appropriation and transformation 44 2.5 Bibliography 46 Chapter 3 At the Heart of the Sensibility: The “Profane” Gold of Madre de Dios 49Carole BAUDIN 3.1 Prologue 49 3.2 Context: the challenge of a perceived nature 51 3.3 The scene: a humid and slippery topography 53 3.4 Gold mining: a skillful practice between nature and culture 56 3.5 Body techniques: embodied tempo 60 3.6 Body to body with the elements 64 3.7 Gold and mercury: sensual alchemy 66 3.8 The mythic body of miners 69 3.9 Sensitive memory: transmission of a “slippery” skill 70 3.10 Collective memory: the development of a social body 71 3.11 Local memory of development 73 3.12 Discussion: an intervention based on profane knowledge 75 3.13 Conclusion: contribution to anthropotechnology 79 3.14 Bibliography 82 Chapter 4 The Fall Between the Objectification of Engineers and the Subjectification of Elderly People: The Challenges of Mediation 85Laura BERTINI 4.1 Introduction 85 4.2 New technologies for older generations 87 4.3 The cultural dimension of gerontechnologies 90 4.4 Defining and understanding the fall in the home 94 4.5 Common frames of reference 101 4.6 Anthropotechnology, process of legitimization and transfer of ethnographic knowledge 103 4.7 Conclusion 107 4.8 Bibliography 108 Chapter 5 In Step with Prosthetic Limbs! A Study of Scaling Up from Local Innovations 111Chloé LECOMTE 5.1 A multisite study in northern and southern Vietnam 113 5.2 The conventional route: standard and existing prostheses 114 5.3 Forms of appropriation and illustrative stories 116 5.4 Taking the next step: an analysis of scale-up factors 119 5.4.1 Partnerships and history: anchoring in the local network to better scale-up 119 5.4.2 Local adaptation of techniques and objects, proof of appropriation 121 5.4.3 Adaptability of technologies in an autopoietic system 122 5.5 Discussions and a review of the anthropotechnological approach 123 5.6 Acknowledgements 126 5.7 Bibliography 126 Chapter 6 FabLabs: Product Design and Anthropotechnology 129Gaëtan BUSSY 6.1 FabLabs 131 6.1.1 History 131 6.1.2 Philosophy 132 6.1.3 Evolution 135 6.2 A day in the FabLab 135 6.3 Anthropotechnology and FabLabs 138 6.3.1 Managing water in Tanzania 139 6.3.2 Pleco: the electrolytic pencil 141 6.4 Conclusion 143 6.5 Bibliography 145 List of Authors 147 Index 149

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Book Synopsis'This book is unsettling, in the most enjoyable way. ''Home'' has long been a scholarly obsession, but where others try to pin down its ''meaning'', this collection revels in its multiplicity. By viewing home-making as practiced and mobile, these essays emphasise the 'interactional achievement' of people, spaces and things. It examines its scale - from man-caves to nations - its spatiality - on public transport as much as in residences - and its temporality - as constant re-creation. This approach flags the contradictory and ambivalent nature of home-making as individual and collective projects of identity. In a world marked by a ''crisis of home'', this collection examines the relation between agency and power as we struggle for coherence and continuity.'Greg Noble, University of Western Sydney, Australia Asking us to think differently about the home, this book challenges the notion of a closed-off and self-sufficient place and reimagines home to be where we find our connections to others and the world. By exploring home in relation to the figure of the stranger and public space, as well as with a focus on practices of dwelling and materialities, the authors demonstrate that thinking differently about home advances our understanding of belonging as a social process in which we are all implicated.Interrelated chapters challenge traditional, convenient and stereotypical notions of 'home'. Specifically, the book provides a state-of-the-art cross-disciplinary conceptual framework; contributes to national and international discussions on the changing economic and social meanings of home; and provides analysis of areas and locations that are rarely thought of as involved in 'home-making', e.g. man caves; mobile homes; the home in public; senses of home; the migrant citizen/stranger. This book is an essential resource for those involved in housing policy, issues around migration policies and to researchers working in other arenas such as cultural heritage. It is of particular interest to academics of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, and those whose research investigates questions of domestic space and the politics of home.Contributors include: A. Ålund, J. Browitt, A. Deslandes, N. Ebert, M. Giuffre, O. Hamilton, E. Honeywill, J. Humphry, L. Kings, J. Lloyd, Y. Musharbash, S. Redshaw, C.-U. Schierup, A. Stebbing, S. Supski, I. Vanni Accarigi, E. VastaTrade Review'Justine Lloyd and Ellie Vasta have done a fantastic job as editors in bringing together a group of critically minded scholars to write chapters on the meanings, practices and representations of home during a period of rapid social change. I have no doubt that Reimagining Home in the 21st Century will make an important contribution to academic scholarship by showcasing the considerable insights that can be achieved by interdisciplinary forms of inquiry.' --(Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania, Australia)'From ''man caves'' to commuter cars, ''smart houses'' to convivial kitchens, Reimagining Home in the 21st Century provides a rich and engaging window into the diverse lifeworlds that characterise the 21st Century.' --(Katherine Brickell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)'Reimagining Home in the 21st Century is a timely book that addresses key themes of 21st century life; about where we belong, how we shape our present, imagine our future and are shaped by the mobility and migrations of those both close to us and more culturally distant. An invaluable contribution that sheds light on both the way we live now and the concepts we use to make sense of our time.' --(Michael Keith, University of Oxford, UK)Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Reimagining Home in the 21st Century Justine Lloyd and Ellie Vasta PART I Home-making and belonging: The Figure of the Stranger 2. Reflections on home and identity in late-modernity Norbert Ebert 3. The migrant ‘stranger’ at home: ‘Australian’ shared Values and the National Imaginary Ellie Vasta PART II Home-making and belonging: Practices of dwelling 4. The transnational matrifocal home among Cape Verdean migrant women: The case of Santo Antão Island Martina Giuffrè 5. Country’, ‘community’ and ‘growth town’: three spatio-temporal snapshots of Warlpiri experiences of home Yasmine Musharbash 6. Mobile my spaces: home in commuter cars, working vehicles and contrasting dwelling for backpackers in campervans and homeless car sleepers Sarah Redshaw 7. Without house or home? Understanding homelessness as dwelling Adam Stebbing PART III Conditions of homeliness/unhomeliness: Publicness 8. At home in public: The work of mobility and anti-racist mobile witnessing practices Justine Lloyd 9. Home-making: youth and urban unrest in multiethnic Sweden Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Lisa Kings 10. The coming home of postindustrial society Evelyn Honeywill 11. Staying in place: meanings, practices and the regulation of publicness in Sydney’s Martin Place Ann Deslandes and Justine Humphry PART IV Conditions and practices of homeliness/unhomeliness: Materialities 12. Senses of home Olivia Hamilton 13. Transcultural objects, transcultural homes Ilaria Vanni Accarigi 14. The garage as vernacular museum: reading contemporary masculinity through ‘man caves’ Jeff Browitt 15. Kitchen as home: Shifting meanings Sian Supski Index

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Book Synopsis'All in all, the chapters of the volume provide insightful material 'about how different forms of precarious work are linked to speci?c institutional changes in the labour market and laws governing it but also how they are linked to each other'. . . Situated in the ?eld of Global Labour Studies, the volume goes beyond one of the most central weaknesses of the discipline: its optimistic bias. By systematically including cases in which trade failed or chose not to engage in the organization of precarious workers, the contributions pave the way to a deeper understanding of the challenges within this ?eld.'- British Journal of Industrial RelationsWith the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. This edited collection explores the spread across a number of economic sectors and countries worldwide of work that is invariably insecure, dirty, low-paid, and often temporary and/or part-time.The first part of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years in both the Global North and South. These transformations are captured in ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops, day labour, homework, Chinese construction workers unpaid contract work, the introduction of insecure contracting into the Korean automotive industry, and the insecurity of Brazilian sugarcane cutters. The case studies all shed light upon how the nature of work and the workplace are changing under the pressures of neoliberal capitalism and what this means for workers. In the second part the editors and contributors then detail some of the ways in which precarious workers are seeking to improve their own situations through their efforts to counter the growth of precarity under neoliberal capitalism, efforts that involve collectively exploring forms of resistance to work restructuring and the failures of traditional trade unions to fully engage with precarious work's growth.Illustrating the impacts of the expansion of precarious work, this book will appeal to students, academics and those generally interested in the issues of the global economy, the reworking of labour markets, the impacts of neoliberal capitalism and ethnographies of the working poor in various parts of the world.Contributors include: L.L.M. Aguiar, M.J. Barreto, S. Chauvin, J. Cock, B. Garvey, M. Gillan, D. Hattatoglu, A. Herod, L. Huilin, K. Joynt, R. Lambert, P. Ngai, J. Tate, M. Thomas, E. Webster, A. YunTrade Review'Precarious work is on the rise in the Global South and North alike. This important volume provides interesting examples about the hardship of long working hours, poverty wages and dangerous employment conditions. And yet, workers are not only victims but also agents with possibilities of resistance. The book points to the potential of a cross-border movement of the dispossessed based on a re-imagined role of the labour movement. A must read for everyone interested in resistance to capitalist exploitation.' --Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, UK'As the world becomes increasingly global, labor's response must be as well. As ''standard'' employment declines, and workers come to see ''flexibility'' as a four-letter word, the future of the labor movement hinges on the ability to develop creative responses to precarious labor. Anyone interested in stimulating examples of what is happening to employment and ways to challenge precarious work needs to read Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work.' --Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts Amherst'A clear and engaging global overview of the extent and nature(s) of precarious work and the link between such precarity and neoliberalism is provided by the editors' Introduction. . . I would thoroughly recommend.' --Journal of Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Neoliberalism, Precarious Work and Remaking the Geography of Global Capitalism Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert PART I EXPERIENCES OF PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 2. The Growth and Organization of a Precariat: Working in the Clothing Industry in Johannesburg’s Inner City Katherine Joynt and Edward Webster 3. Bounded Mobilizations: Informal Unionism and Secondary Shaming Amongst Immigrant Temp Workers in Chicago Sébastien Chauvin 4. Homebased Work and New Ways of Organizing in the Era of Globalization Dilek Hattatoğlu and Jane Tate 5. Constructing Violence and Resistance: The Political Economy of the Construction Industry and Labour Subcontracting System in Post-Socialist China Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin 6. Nature and Insecurity in South Africa Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert 7. At the Cutting Edge: Precarious Work in Brazil’s Sugar and Ethanol Industry Brian Garvey and Maria Joseli Barreto PART II CHALLENGING PRECARIOUS WORK Andrew Herod and Rob Lambert 8. Organizing Across a Fragmented Labour Force: Trade Union Responses to Precarious Work in Korean Auto Companies Aelim Yun 9. Closures and Openings: The Politics of Place and Space in Resisting Corporate Restructuring Michael Gillan and Rob Lambert 10. Sweatshop Citizenship, Precariousness and Organizing Building Cleaners Luis L.M. Aguiar 11. Global Unions, Global Framework Agreements and the Transnational Regulation of Labour Standards Mark Thomas Conclusion: Towards a Movement of the Dispossessed? Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the anthropological study of economic activity has profoundly changed. A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology poses new questions for anthropologists about the post-recession world, interrogating common social and political assumptions and stimulating innovative directions for research in economic anthropology. Employing a broad range of intellectual orientations, this comprehensive book tackles the most pressing developments in economic anthropology. The stimulating and thought-provoking chapters engage with the major features of modern economies, including inequality, debt, financialisation, neoliberalism and the ethics of economic practice, as well as with the effects of social mobilisation and activism. The contributors shed light on previously overlooked topics, reassess familiar subjects that need a fresh approach and share their own predilections concerning the modern economic world. With contributors ranging from senior academics to those early in their career, this work is critical reading for any anthropologist concerned with the economy and economic activity. Those searching for novel questions or for a sense of the direction of the discipline will particularly benefit from this book's broad, inquisitive approach. Economic sociologists and geographers will also gain from the comprehensive coverage of the many facets of modern economies. 'The chapters in James Carrier's provocative new collection give us stimulating ideas that set us well on the way to a new kind of economic anthropology. Anybody who finds themselves simultaneously fascinated and yet puzzled by what seems to be the ever more ''economized'' kind of society we live in will find much to attract them in these wide-ranging pages. And this won't just be anthropologists (or broad-minded economists), but students old and young, some seeking a new take on an old issue - markets and the state, inequality, or ethical action; others instead urged to reach toward new challenges - expanding our ideas of ''management'', thinking about resources along a time dimension, or reflecting on how politics is expressed in the language of finance. And there is much more. The opposite of a comprehensive ''wrapping-up'' exercise, this lively collection provides us with a distinct set of starting points that take us into exciting new fields within, and well beyond, economic anthropology. Lively, challenging and rewarding reading.' - Gavin Smith, University of Toronto, Canada and the National University of IrelandTrade Review'This excellent collection of essays by junior and senior scholars is an appeal to rejuvenate economic anthropology and it does so brilliantly. Setting a research agenda requires engagement, focus, and the courage to point at ongoing inadequacies while highlighting future avenues of research. Through theoretical debates that address legal fictions, nature and value, debt and politics, mobilization and ethics, the chapters provide new scope for understanding the economy at multiple scales. Often neglected in social anthropology, corporations, management and the deplorable are spotlighted as objects of study in a remarkable volume that drives us to explore the economic frontiers of the twenty-first century.' --Susana Narotzky, University of Barcelona, Spain'This book is the best possible sign that economic anthropology is having a true renaissance, forging important connections with a whole array of contemporary issues. This Research Agenda is truly a blueprint for the future of the field.' --Richard Wilk, Open Anthropology Institute, US'James Carrier's A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology offers anthropology the makings of a new canvas for understanding the role of economy as it unfolds before us. An important new volume.' --Michael Blim, City University of New York Graduate Center, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction James G. Carrier 1. Collective economic actors Greg Urban 2. Research directions on states and markets Felix Stein 3. Inequality Tom Neumark 4. Debt, financialisation and politics Fabio Mattioli 5. Resources: Nature, value and time Jaume Franquesa 6. Management Stefan Leins 7. Mobilisation, activism and economic alternatives Valeria Siniscalchi 8. Ethical economic practice Andreas Streinzer 9. An anthropology of the Deplorable Mark Moberg Index

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Book SynopsisCultural economics deals with many aspects of the creative economy including the art market, heritage, live performing arts and cultural industries. Teaching Cultural Economics introduces the range and scope of these subjects through short chapters by experienced teachers who are expert in the topic of their chapters. The guide starts out with chapters on the experience of teaching cultural economics by leading exponents in the field. Chapters then follow grouped by general topic: financing cultural production, artists' labour markets, consumer behaviour in the cultural sector, digitisation and copyright and case studies of creative industries. The breadth of material provided within these pages is invaluable to teachers who wish to offer courses in cultural economics and are seeking guidance for developing a new course, as well as for teachers who are already teaching cultural economics and are seeking inspiration for new case studies. The material can also be used by teachers of other courses who wish to teach cultural economics as part of their curriculum. Contributors include: V. Ateca-Amestoy, H. Bakhshi, A. Baldin, F. Benhamou, T. Bille, E. Bjørnsen, R. Buijze, S. Cameron, L. Champarnaud, D.C. Chisholm, M.J. del Barrio-Tellado, L. Delomeaux, J. Denis, P. Di Caro, L. Di Gaetano, J. Farchy, K. Goto, C. Handke, S.J.C. Hemels, L.C. Herrero- Prieto, P. Kaszynska, E. Lazzaro, I. Mazza, J. McKenzie, A. Mignosa, T. Navarrete, T. Orme, G. Pignataro, I. Rizzo, B. Seaman, R. TowseTrade Review‘This is a rich and extremely useful guide on why to teach cultural economics, how it should be taught and what to teach.’ -- Jen Snowball, Journal of Cultural Economics'This book, composed by three leading scholars in the field, includes 38 articles that are most useful for courses in the Economics of Culture. They cover a broad range of topics, among them various relationships to digitization. I highly recommend it.' --Bruno S. Frey, University of Basel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction 1 Trine Bille, Anna Mignosa and Ruth Towse 2 Teaching cultural economics 3 Ruth Towse 3 Cultural economics – in research and teaching 10 Trine Bille 4 Why a(nother) book on cultural economics? 20 Anna Mignosa 5 My approach to teaching cultural economics: Why, how, what? 25 Franҫoise Benhamou 6 Teaching cultural economics: The perspective of a decade 27 Bruce A. Seaman PART I ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS 7 Economic arguments for public support of arts and culture 42 Trine Bille 8 Cultural value and economic value in arts and culture 51 Patrycja Kaszynska 9 Performance assessment in cultural institutions 58 Luis César Herrero-Prieto and María José del Barrio-Tellado 10 Economic impact studies 69 Trine Bille PART II FINANCING CULTURAL PRODUCTION 11 Tax incentives for the cultural sector 79 Sigrid Hemels 12 Tax incentives for international giving to the cultural sector 86 Renate Buijze 13 Philanthropy 91 Luigi Di Gaetano and Isidoro Mazza 14 The economics of crowdfunding 99 Franҫoise Benhamou PART III ARTISTS’ LABOUR MARKETS 15 Artists’ earnings and labour markets 106 Trine Bille 16 Contracts for creators and performers in the creative industries 115 Ruth Towse 17 Busking as a source of income 122 Samuel Cameron 18 Creators’ and performers’ earnings from copyright 129 Ruth Towse 19 Superstars 140 Luc Champarnaud PART IV CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR IN THE CULTURAL SECTOR 20 Demand for cultural goods: Key concepts and a hypothetical case study 149 Bruce A. Seaman 21 Consumer theory, market segmentation and audience research on cultural goods 157 Victoria Ateca-Amestoy 22 Consumer behaviour in the performing arts 166 Andrea Baldin 23 Digital consumption of cultural goods and services 175 Jordi McKenzie 24 Strategies for and experiences of audience development 182 Egil Bjørnsen 25 Big Data: The new avenue for measuring cultural consumption? 189 Lydia Deloumeaux PART V DIGITIZATION AND COPYRIGHT 26 Artificial intelligence and cultural creation 198 Joëlle Farchy and Juliette Denis 27 Digitization in museums 204 Trilce Navarrete 28 Paying for digital music 214 Christian Handke 29 The economics of e-books 220 Françoise Benhamou 30 BBC3 goes digital 225 Ruth Towse PART VI TOPICS IN ECONOMICS OF CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 31 Measuring the creative economy 230 Hasan Bakhshi 32 Art at the crossroads between creativity, innovation, digital technology and business, a case study 238 Elisabetta Lazzaro 33 Art galleries as market makers 244 Paolo Di Caro and Isidoro Mazza 34 Film economics 253 Tylor Orme and Darlene C. Chisholm 35 Cinema economics 258 Tylor Orme and Darlene C. Chisholm 36 Intangible cultural heritage 262 Kazuko Goto and Anna Mignosa 37 The economics of craft 268 Kazuko Goto and Anna Mignosa 38 Conservation of historical buildings: The rehabilitation of the Benedettini Monastery in Catania 275 Giacomo Pignataro and Ilde Rizzo Index 282

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Book SynopsisTransnational Russian Studies offers an approach to understanding Russia based on the idea that language, society and culture do not neatly coincide, but should be seen as flows of meaning across ever-shifting boundaries. Our book moves beyond static conceptions of Russia as a discrete nation with a singular language, culture, and history. Instead, we understand it as a multinational society that has perpetually redefined Russianness in reaction to the wider world. We treat Russian culture as an expanding field, whose sphere of influence transcends the geopolitical boundaries of the Russian Federation, reaching as far as London, Cape Town, and Tehran.Our transnational approach to Russian Studies generates new perspectives on the history of Russian culture and its engagements with, and transformation by, other cultures. The volume thereby simultaneously illuminates broader conceptions of the transnational from the perspective of Russian Studies. Over twenty chapters, we provide case studies based on original research, treating topics that include Russia’s imperial and postcolonial entanglements; the paradoxical role that language plays in both defining culture in national terms, and facilitating transnational communication; the life of things ‘Russian’ in the global arena; and Russia’s positioning in the contemporary globalized world. Our volume is aimed primarily at students and researchers in Russian Studies, but it will also be relevant to all Modern Linguists, and to those who employ transnational paradigms within the broader humanities.Contributors: Amelia M. Glaser, Cathy McAteer, Connor Doak, Dušan Radunović, Ellen Rutten, Galin Tihanov, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Julie Curtis, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Marijeta Bozovic, Michael Gorham, Olga Maiorova, Philip Ross Bullock, Sergey Tyulenev, Stephen Hutchings, Stephen M. Norris, Tatiana Filimonova, Vera Tolz, Vitaly Nuriev and Vlad Strukov.Trade ReviewReviews ‘This book is a very sophisticated and accessible discussion of the issues involved with the concept of transnational. It is clear that the use of transnational throughout the volume is no trendy marketing ploy; it is meticulously woven throughout the book and discussed with great nuance and insight.' Brian James Baer, Kent State University‘This well-researched and thematically rich book is worth the attention of all who take an interest in what is currently an almost universally despised state, but one with a great cultural heritage.’ Arnold McMillin, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsContributorsTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Transnationalizing Russian StudiesAndy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen HutchingsPart I. Nation, Empire, and Beyond1. Transnational, Multi-National, or Imperial? The Paradoxes of Russia’s (Post-)colonialityVera Tolz2. Gogol'’s Other Coat: Transnationalism in Russia’s Literary BorderlandsAmelia M. Glaser3. The Empire Strikes East: Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Russian Central AsiaOlga Maiorova4. Where the Nation Ends: Transnationalism and Affective Space in Post-Soviet CinemaDušan Radunović5. Vladimir Sorokin’s Telluria: Post-Imperial Eurasia, Fragmented EuropeTatiana FilimonovaPart II. Beyond and Between Languages6. World Literature, War, Revolution: The Significance of Viktor Shklovskii’s A Sentimental Journey Galin Tihanov7. The Transnational Vladimir Nabokov, or the Perils of Teaching LiteratureMarijeta Bozovic8. Bringing Books across Borders: Behind the Scenes in Penguin BooksCathy McAteer9. ‘Sewing up’ the Soviet Politico-Cultural System: Translation in the Multilingual USSRSergey Tyulenev and Vitaly Nuriev10. The Politics of Theatre: ‘New Drama’ in Russian, across Post-Soviet Borders and BeyondJulie Curtis Part III. Cultures Crossing Borders11. A la russe, mais à l'étranger: Russian Opera AbroadPhilip Ross Bullock12. On Russian Cinema Going West (and East): Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad and Blockbuster HistoryStephen M. Norris13. Queer Transnational Encounters in Russian Literature: Gender, Sexuality, and National IdentityConnor Doak14. The Russian Novel of Ideas in Southern AfricaJeanne-Marie Jackson15. ‘Russian’ Imperfections? A Plea for Transcultural Readings of Aesthetic TrendsEllen RuttenPart IV. Russia Going Global16. Beyond a World with One Master: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Putin’s ‘Sovereign Internet’Michael Gorham17. RT and the Digital Revolution: Reframing Russia for a Mediatized WorldStephen Hutchings18. Meduza: A Russo-Centric Digital Media Outlet in a Transnational SettingVlad Strukov19. Transnational Self and Community in the Talk of Russophone Cultural Leaders in the UKLara Ryazanova-ClarkeIndex

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.Trade Review“This book will be a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing re-shaping of Modern Languages in the UK, with an appeal and impact that goes far beyond.”Chris Harris, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of SpanishChapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 3 James T. Monroe: The First Chapter in Ibero-Romance Literatures: The ḫarja-s (kharjas)Chapter 4 Rosaleen Howard: Indigenous people of the Andes through languageSection 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the HispanicChapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish WorldChapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybriditySection 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and ConsumptionChapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin AmericanismChapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary FictionChapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in CubaChapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American CinemaSection 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century SpainChapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, PeruChapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican Trans: Frank Báez’s Global PoeticsChapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of EmbodimentList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.Trade Review“This book will be a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing re-shaping of Modern Languages in the UK, with an appeal and impact that goes far beyond.”Chris Harris, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of SpanishChapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 3 James T. Monroe: The First Chapter in Ibero-Romance Literatures: The ḫarja-s (kharjas)Chapter 4 Rosaleen Howard: Indigenous people of the Andes through languageSection 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the HispanicChapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish WorldChapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybriditySection 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and ConsumptionChapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin AmericanismChapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary FictionChapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in CubaChapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American CinemaSection 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century SpainChapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, PeruChapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican Trans: Frank Báez’s Global PoeticsChapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of EmbodimentList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisTransnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of ‘nationhood’ and ‘the nation’ in the epistemologies that underpin Portuguese Studies as an academic discipline. Portuguese Studies offers a particularly rich and enlightening challenge to methodological nationalism in Modern Languages, not least because the teaching of Portuguese has always extended beyond the study of the single western European country from which the language takes its name. However, this has rarely been analysed with explicit, or critical, reference to the ‘transnational turn’ in Arts and Humanities. This volume of essays from leading scholars in Portugal, Brazil, the USA and the UK, explores how the histories, cultures and ideas constituted in and through Portuguese language resist borders and produce encounters, from the manoeuvres of 15th century ‘globalization’ and cartography to present-day mega events such as the Rio Olympics. The result is a timely counter-narrative to the workings of linguistic and cultural nationalism, demonstrating how texts, paintings and photobooks, musical forms, political ideas, cinematic representations, gender identities, digital communications and lexical forms, may travel, translate and embody transcultural contact in ways which only become readable through the optics of transnationalism.Contributors: Ana Margarida Dias Martins, Anna M. Klobucka, Christopher Larkosh, Claire Williams, Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Edward King, Ellen W. Sapega, Fernando Arenas, Hilary Owen, José Lingna Nafafé, Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Maria Luísa Coelho, Paulo de Medeiros, Sara Ramos Pinto, Sheila Moura Hue, Simon Park, Susana Afonso, Tatiana Heise, Toby Green, Tori Holmes, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Zoltán Biedermann.Trade Review“This is easily the most complete collection produced to date to broach the issue of transnationalism in Lusophone culture and history and it will be an essential purchase for libraries where Portuguese is taught.”Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds“Hilary Owen and Claire Williams’ volume is a superb contribution to the field of Portuguese Studies (a problematic signifier, as the editors point out in the introduction) at a time when the sometimes contentious intersections between the transnational and the global have caught the attention of scholars, students, and the reading public.”Peggy Sharpe, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsIllustrations and TablesAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionHilary Owen and Claire Williams: Transnationalising Portuguese StudiesPart I: SPATIALITYChapter 1Zoltán Biedermann: Global Navigations and the Challenge of World-Making: Introducing the Study of Spatiality in the Portuguese EmpireChapter 2Anna M. Klobucka: Translational Travails of LusotropicalismChapter 3Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Sheila Moura Hue: English Pirates in Brazil: Early Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the New WorldChapter 4Fernando Arenas: Soundtracks of the Lusophone and Creolophone Spheres: ‘Tanto’ by Aline Frazão (Angola), ‘Kreol’ by Mário Lúcio (Cabo Verde) and ‘N na nega bedju’ by José Carlos Schwarz (Guinea-Bissau)Chapter 5Maria Luísa Coelho: Transnational, Palimpsestic Journeys in the Art of Bartolomeu Cid dos SantosChapter 6Hilary Owen: ‘Becoming Portuguese’: New Europes for Old in Miguel Gomes’s Arabian NightsPart II: LANGUAGEChapter 7Toby Green and José Lingna Nafafé: Lusotopian or Lusophone Atlantics? The Relevance of Transnational African Diasporas to the Question of Language and CultureChapter 8Susana Afonso: Portuguese as a Transnational LanguageChapter 9Simon Park: Beyond Comprehension: Language, Identity and the Transnational in Gil Vicente’s TheatreChapter 10Sara Ramos Pinto: Dialects in Translation: Traveling in Space and Time in the Portuguese-Speaking World with Pygmalion and My Fair LadyChapter 11Tori Holmes: The Duality and Ambiguity of Mega-events in Rio de Janeiro: Local and Transnational Dimensions of Urban Transformations in the Webdocumentary Domínio PúblicoPart III: TEMPORALITYChapter 12Ellen W. Sapega: ‘Mining Memory's Archive: Two Portuguese Documentaries about the Second World War’Chapter 13Edward King: Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration in Photobooks from BrazilChapter 14Tatiana Heise: The National and the Transnational in Brazilian Postdictatorship CinemaChapter 15Ana Margarida Dias Martins: Remembering New Portuguese Letters Transnationally: Memory, Emotion, MobilityPart IV: SUBJECTIVITYChapter 16Cláudia Pazos Alonso: ‘Publish and be Damned’: Memórias da Minha Vida and the Politics of Exclusion in Nineteenth-century PortugalChapter 17Paulo de Medeiros: Transnational PessoaChapter 18Kimberly DaCosta Holton: Sound Travel: Fadocore in CaliforniaChapter 19Christopher Larkosh: ‘Can’t We All Just Be Queer?’ On Imagining Shared Translational SpaceChapter 20Claire Williams: International Departures and Transnational Texts in Contemporary Brazilian Literature: the ‘Amores Expressos’ SeriesIndex

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Book SynopsisTransnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of ‘nationhood’ and ‘the nation’ in the epistemologies that underpin Portuguese Studies as an academic discipline. Portuguese Studies offers a particularly rich and enlightening challenge to methodological nationalism in Modern Languages, not least because the teaching of Portuguese has always extended beyond the study of the single western European country from which the language takes its name. However, this has rarely been analysed with explicit, or critical, reference to the ‘transnational turn’ in Arts and Humanities. This volume of essays from leading scholars in Portugal, Brazil, the USA and the UK, explores how the histories, cultures and ideas constituted in and through Portuguese language resist borders and produce encounters, from the manoeuvres of 15th century ‘globalization’ and cartography to present-day mega events such as the Rio Olympics. The result is a timely counter-narrative to the workings of linguistic and cultural nationalism, demonstrating how texts, paintings and photobooks, musical forms, political ideas, cinematic representations, gender identities, digital communications and lexical forms, may travel, translate and embody transcultural contact in ways which only become readable through the optics of transnationalism.Contributors: Ana Margarida Dias Martins, Anna M. Klobucka, Christopher Larkosh, Claire Williams, Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Edward King, Ellen W. Sapega, Fernando Arenas, Hilary Owen, José Lingna Nafafé, Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Maria Luísa Coelho, Paulo de Medeiros, Sara Ramos Pinto, Sheila Moura Hue, Simon Park, Susana Afonso, Tatiana Heise, Toby Green, Tori Holmes, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Zoltán Biedermann.Trade Review“This is easily the most complete collection produced to date to broach the issue of transnationalism in Lusophone culture and history and it will be an essential purchase for libraries where Portuguese is taught.”Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds“Hilary Owen and Claire Williams’ volume is a superb contribution to the field of Portuguese Studies (a problematic signifier, as the editors point out in the introduction) at a time when the sometimes contentious intersections between the transnational and the global have caught the attention of scholars, students, and the reading public.”Peggy Sharpe, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsIllustrations and TablesAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionHilary Owen and Claire Williams: Transnationalising Portuguese StudiesPart I: SPATIALITYChapter 1Zoltán Biedermann: Global Navigations and the Challenge of World-Making: Introducing the Study of Spatiality in the Portuguese EmpireChapter 2Anna M. Klobucka: Translational Travails of LusotropicalismChapter 3Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Sheila Moura Hue: English Pirates in Brazil: Early Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the New WorldChapter 4Fernando Arenas: Soundtracks of the Lusophone and Creolophone Spheres: ‘Tanto’ by Aline Frazão (Angola), ‘Kreol’ by Mário Lúcio (Cabo Verde) and ‘N na nega bedju’ by José Carlos Schwarz (Guinea-Bissau)Chapter 5Maria Luísa Coelho: Transnational, Palimpsestic Journeys in the Art of Bartolomeu Cid dos SantosChapter 6Hilary Owen: ‘Becoming Portuguese’: New Europes for Old in Miguel Gomes’s Arabian NightsPart II: LANGUAGEChapter 7Toby Green and José Lingna Nafafé: Lusotopian or Lusophone Atlantics? The Relevance of Transnational African Diasporas to the Question of Language and CultureChapter 8Susana Afonso: Portuguese as a Transnational LanguageChapter 9Simon Park: Beyond Comprehension: Language, Identity and the Transnational in Gil Vicente’s TheatreChapter 10Sara Ramos Pinto: Dialects in Translation: Traveling in Space and Time in the Portuguese-Speaking World with Pygmalion and My Fair LadyChapter 11Tori Holmes: The Duality and Ambiguity of Mega-events in Rio de Janeiro: Local and Transnational Dimensions of Urban Transformations in the Webdocumentary Domínio PúblicoPart III: TEMPORALITYChapter 12Ellen W. Sapega: ‘Mining Memory's Archive: Two Portuguese Documentaries about the Second World War’Chapter 13Edward King: Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration in Photobooks from BrazilChapter 14Tatiana Heise: The National and the Transnational in Brazilian Postdictatorship CinemaChapter 15Ana Margarida Dias Martins: Remembering New Portuguese Letters Transnationally: Memory, Emotion, MobilityPart IV: SUBJECTIVITYChapter 16Cláudia Pazos Alonso: ‘Publish and be Damned’: Memórias da Minha Vida and the Politics of Exclusion in Nineteenth-century PortugalChapter 17Paulo de Medeiros: Transnational PessoaChapter 18Kimberly DaCosta Holton: Sound Travel: Fadocore in CaliforniaChapter 19Christopher Larkosh: ‘Can’t We All Just Be Queer?’ On Imagining Shared Translational SpaceChapter 20Claire Williams: International Departures and Transnational Texts in Contemporary Brazilian Literature: the ‘Amores Expressos’ SeriesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.Trade Review‘Transnational German Studies offers a compelling contribution to the field of German Studies, offering both a clear account of its current identity in historical context and, crucially, a timely challenge to rethink the traditional boundaries of the discipline.’ Janet Stewart, Durham University‘This volume is a timely and important intervention in the field of German Studies. At a time when German Studies is perceived to be in crisis, with declining student numbers and the shrinking of university departments, it convincingly demonstrates how transnational perspectives offer to expand the discipline by imbuing it with critical new questions, and by encouraging reflection not only on what German Studies is today, but where it has come from, and where it may productively head.’ Anna Saunders, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsIntroductionTransnationalizing German StudiesRebecca Braun and Benedict SchofieldSection OneLanguage: Local and Global Voices1. Translation, Transposition, Transmission: Low German and Processes of Cultural TransformationElizabeth Anderson2. Developing a Polyglot Poetics: The Power of Testimony and Lived Literary ExperienceUlrike Draesner3. German Writers from Abroad: Translingualism, Hybrid Languages, ‘Broken’ GermansDirk Weissmann4. Collaboration and Commitment: German-Language Books Across BordersCharlotte RylandSection TwoSpatiality: Mapping Nations, Mapping Networks5. Networks and World Literature: The Practice of Putting German Authors in their PlaceRebecca Braun6. Who is German? Nineteenth-Century Transnationalisms and the Construction of the NationBenedict Schofield7. Co-Producing World Cinema: Germany and Transnational Film ProductionSebastian Heiduschke8. Towards a Collaborative Memory: Networks and Relationality in German Memory CulturesSara JonesSection ThreeTemporality: Experiences of Time9. It’s About Time: The Temporality of Transnational StudiesAnne Fuchs10. Transnationalizing Faith: Re-imagining Islam in German CultureJames Hodkinson11. Transnational Imaginaries: Place of Palestine in Gershom Scholem, Franz Kafka, and Early CinemaNicholas Baer12. Securing the Archive: On the Transience of (Latin) American German IdentitiesPaulo SoetheSection FourSubjectivity: Ideology and the Individual13. Radical Germans and Their Anglophone Interpreters: Exploring and Translating ‘The Unconscious’ and PsychoanalysisAngus Nicholls14. Patterns of Global Exile: Exploring Identity through ArtBirgit Lang15. Representative Germans: Navid Kermani and the German Literary Tradition of Critical CosmopolitanismClaire Baldwin16. Contrite Germans?Stuart TabernerIndex

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.Trade Review"A major strength of this new work is that it encompasses both the spatial and the historical dimensions of transnationalism in France.”Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University"This book constitutes a remarkably powerful and necessary intervention which will find its place alongside other recent attempts at challenging narrow and stereotypical understandings of French culture. This critical intervention is a very welcome contribution to the efforts aimed at asserting France’s intrinsic diversity."Etienne Achille, Villanova UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONCharles Forsdick and Claire LaunchburyPART I: LANGUAGEIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 1: Transnational French before the nationSimon GauntChapter 2: Frenches on walls and onlineRobert BlackwoodChapter 3: Transnational French and Translingual FilmGemma KingChapter 4: Reading British Fiction in France: The Case of Jonathan CoeHelena ChaddertonChapter 5: Unbearableyasser elhariryPART II: SPACESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 6: The French Hexagon: Defining the Shape of the NationDouglas SmithChapter 7: Transnational fraternitéClaire LaunchburyChapter 8: Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as transnational siteDebra KellyChapter 9: The ‘Real’ Capital of France: ‘Authentic’ ‘Colourful’ MarseilleChong BertillonChapter 10: French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational PerspectiveHugh Dauncey and Jonathan ErvinePART III: TEMPORALITIESIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 11: Imagined Communities of PrehistoryBill MarshallChapter 12: Translating Revolutionary LanguageSanja PerovicChapter 13: Beyond a national memory of slavery and abolitionCharles ForsdickChapter 14: French Museums, Where the World MeetsHerman LebovicsChapter 15: Transnational Memory: Art, Ethics and Politics in La Seine était rouge (Leila Sebbar, 1999) and Je Veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008)Max SilvermanChapter 16: Transnational Utopianism in French Futuristic Fiction: From Mercier’s L’An 2440 (1771) to Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015)Jacqueline DuttonPART IV: SUBJECTIVITIESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 17: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century FranceRichard HibbittChapter 18: Laïcité and belonging: Transnational PerspectivesMelanie AdrianChapter 19: French Food and Wine as Moveable FeastKolleen M. GuyChapter 20: Transnational approaches to language and sexualityDenis M. ProvencherChapter 21: Bande Dessinée: The Ninth Art of France that is not really FrenchLaurence GroveNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.Trade Review"A major strength of this new work is that it encompasses both the spatial and the historical dimensions of transnationalism in France.”Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University"This book constitutes a remarkably powerful and necessary intervention which will find its place alongside other recent attempts at challenging narrow and stereotypical understandings of French culture. This critical intervention is a very welcome contribution to the efforts aimed at asserting France’s intrinsic diversity."Etienne Achille, Villanova UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONCharles Forsdick and Claire LaunchburyPART I: LANGUAGEIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 1: Transnational French before the nationSimon GauntChapter 2: Frenches on walls and onlineRobert BlackwoodChapter 3: Transnational French and Translingual FilmGemma KingChapter 4: Reading British Fiction in France: The Case of Jonathan CoeHelena ChaddertonChapter 5: Unbearableyasser elhariryPART II: SPACESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 6: The French Hexagon: Defining the Shape of the NationDouglas SmithChapter 7: Transnational fraternitéClaire LaunchburyChapter 8: Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as transnational siteDebra KellyChapter 9: The ‘Real’ Capital of France: ‘Authentic’ ‘Colourful’ MarseilleChong BertillonChapter 10: French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational PerspectiveHugh Dauncey and Jonathan ErvinePART III: TEMPORALITIESIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 11: Imagined Communities of PrehistoryBill MarshallChapter 12: Translating Revolutionary LanguageSanja PerovicChapter 13: Beyond a national memory of slavery and abolitionCharles ForsdickChapter 14: French Museums, Where the World MeetsHerman LebovicsChapter 15: Transnational Memory: Art, Ethics and Politics in La Seine était rouge (Leila Sebbar, 1999) and Je Veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008)Max SilvermanChapter 16: Transnational Utopianism in French Futuristic Fiction: From Mercier’s L’An 2440 (1771) to Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015)Jacqueline DuttonPART IV: SUBJECTIVITIESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 17: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century FranceRichard HibbittChapter 18: Laïcité and belonging: Transnational PerspectivesMelanie AdrianChapter 19: French Food and Wine as Moveable FeastKolleen M. GuyChapter 20: Transnational approaches to language and sexualityDenis M. ProvencherChapter 21: Bande Dessinée: The Ninth Art of France that is not really FrenchLaurence GroveNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisFrom Desert to Town sheds light on the sedentarisation and integration of Bedouin living in fellahin towns and villages in the Galilee, between 1700 and 2020. The purpose is to analyse the dynamics of the factors and circumstances that led to this migration. Official history has always lacked data on the Bedouin population in Palestine. Historians have recorded the biography of particular elites, and especially in the context of local warfare and tribal antagonisms, but have hitherto neglected ongoing migration from desert life to town life of Bedouin in the Galilee. The historical record is further complicated by the Bedouin themselves, who over time have been reluctant to register with governmental authority, whether Ottoman, British, or Israeli. This book brings together the available historical information combined with ethnographic data, from which it is possible to derive, analyse, and infer much information about Bedouin life in the Galilee over the past three hundred years. The move from rural to town for populations world-wide has dominated twentieth-century migration patterns. The move from desert life, as opposed to the move from rural life, has distinctive features, making the Bedouin case unique in its social complexity: from change in the use of language to the economic underpinning of intermarriage. A comprehensive understanding of the process of Bedouin settlement and integration into urban society has major social, cultural and economic implications for the wider Israeli society. The work is a major contribution to government planning at many levels, including population disbursement and education.

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Expertly navigating the interdisciplinary field of economic anthropology, Peter D. Little illustrates how an anthropological perspective can deepen understandings of customary and global markets; different types of money; diversified livelihoods of the poor; gendered and racialized labor; climate change and other global issues. By questioning common dichotomies, such as the informal versus formal sectors and customary versus modern institutions, the book uncovers those hidden connections, power relations, and economic actors and processes that underpin real economies throughout the world.Key Features: Highlights the significance of neglected and unwaged economic activities Focuses on the role of social trust in both low- and high-income economies Covers in depth how decisions in financial institutions are impacted by cultural factors Critically analyzes seminal literature in economic anthropology and related disciplines This erudite Advanced Introduction is an indispensable resource for academics, researchers, and students in economics and finance, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, anthropology, development studies, international and global studies, and cultural and social economy studies.Trade Review‘This volume offers an insightful analysis and synthesis of the breadth of contemporary Economic Anthropology. It’s a valuable exploration of the current state of the field, incorporating recent literature and adding voices often left out, thus demonstrating the diversity of economic thought in anthropology and inspiring fresh insights. It is a clear and comprehensive introduction to the field for students, an excellent and concise refresher for those already familiar.’ -- Lisa Cliggett, University of Kentucky, US‘In this concise volume, Peter Little has renewed the field of economic anthropology. Classic topics meet the urgency of today’s economies. From street vending to global value chains, agrarian labor to the gig economy, Little explains ideas and debates essential for understanding how diverse peoples create careers, value, and earnings. It is an excellent guide for contemporary analysis of working lives and economic power.’ -- Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US‘Without neglecting the classics, Peter Little has written an introduction to economic anthropology that tackles the present moment of global capitalism head on. Over a vast range of topics, he juxtaposes ethnographic analysis of the “real economy” with ethical sensitivity. I particularly appreciated the attention paid to informality and trust, global value chains, digital financialization, and to the very language in which people’s economic activities are described and thereby constituted.’ -- Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction to economic anthropology: history, theory, and concepts 2 Labor and work 3 Exchange, trade, and markets 4 Culture and consumption 5 Informality 6 Money, credit, and debt 7 Real-world challenges 8 Concluding remarks on economic anthropology Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Expertly navigating the interdisciplinary field of economic anthropology, Peter D. Little illustrates how an anthropological perspective can deepen understandings of customary and global markets; different types of money; diversified livelihoods of the poor; gendered and racialized labor; climate change and other global issues. By questioning common dichotomies, such as the informal versus formal sectors and customary versus modern institutions, the book uncovers those hidden connections, power relations, and economic actors and processes that underpin real economies throughout the world.Key Features: Highlights the significance of neglected and unwaged economic activities Focuses on the role of social trust in both low- and high-income economies Covers in depth how decisions in financial institutions are impacted by cultural factors Critically analyzes seminal literature in economic anthropology and related disciplines This erudite Advanced Introduction is an indispensable resource for academics, researchers, and students in economics and finance, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, anthropology, development studies, international and global studies, and cultural and social economy studies.Trade Review‘This volume offers an insightful analysis and synthesis of the breadth of contemporary Economic Anthropology. It’s a valuable exploration of the current state of the field, incorporating recent literature and adding voices often left out, thus demonstrating the diversity of economic thought in anthropology and inspiring fresh insights. It is a clear and comprehensive introduction to the field for students, an excellent and concise refresher for those already familiar.’ -- Lisa Cliggett, University of Kentucky, US‘In this concise volume, Peter Little has renewed the field of economic anthropology. Classic topics meet the urgency of today’s economies. From street vending to global value chains, agrarian labor to the gig economy, Little explains ideas and debates essential for understanding how diverse peoples create careers, value, and earnings. It is an excellent guide for contemporary analysis of working lives and economic power.’ -- Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US‘Without neglecting the classics, Peter Little has written an introduction to economic anthropology that tackles the present moment of global capitalism head on. Over a vast range of topics, he juxtaposes ethnographic analysis of the “real economy” with ethical sensitivity. I particularly appreciated the attention paid to informality and trust, global value chains, digital financialization, and to the very language in which people’s economic activities are described and thereby constituted.’ -- Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction to economic anthropology: history, theory, and concepts 2 Labor and work 3 Exchange, trade, and markets 4 Culture and consumption 5 Informality 6 Money, credit, and debt 7 Real-world challenges 8 Concluding remarks on economic anthropology Index

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