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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 SynopsisReadings on the Anthropology of Food: Cuisine, Culture, and Power provides students with a collection of articles that emphasize the close relationship between history, culture, and power in shaping the options that most people face globally in terms of the varieties of food systems. The readings critique the industrialist capitalist food system, evaluate alternative systems, and address critical themes such as GMOs, the mythology of natural food shortages, tourism, and climate change.The anthology is arranged into six units: Nationalism and Food, Work and Food, Theories of Food, Politics and Food, Tourism and Food, and Climate Change. Students read about the interplay between food and identity, child labour in the food industry, the social meanings of coffee, wine tourism, plant-based proteins, food inequality, and much more. Each unit features an editor's introduction and discussion questions to emphasize key concepts and spark lively discussion.Designed to highlight an often-overlooked aspect of our food systems--the people behind them, Readings on the Anthropology of Food is an ideal primary or supplementary textbook for courses that explore the social, cultural, and political issues related to food.

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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 SynopsisThis insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when working in the field.Authors address key strategies to tackle the major challenges to fieldwork, including advice on using indigenous or innovative skills and making intelligent use of the advantages already available within standard research methodologies. International contributors provide a hands-on account of research methodologies as applied in the field, with particular focus on research ethics and community culture and interactions. The book offers a number of useful case studies, featuring examples of the application of research techniques in different cultural and socio-economic contexts.Utilizing an innovative and dynamic ‘storytelling’ method, this book will be a useful research tool for fieldworkers engaging in social science research in community settings, as well as students in the field learning the core techniques of fieldwork.Trade Review‘Occasionally, a particularly insightful work is published with much potential for fostering improved learning and application. This is such a book. The Field Guide offers vital guidance on conducting fieldwork across contexts for community-based work. I consider this essential reading for anyone involved in identifying community issues and potential solutions.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Field guide for research in community settings: tools, methods, challenges and strategies 1 M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, Haris Abd Wahab and Mashitah Binti Hamidi 2 Challenges and solutions for collecting data in health research: experiences of Australian doctoral and early career researchers 11 Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Alan Taylor, Belinda Lunnay, Abraham Kuot, Hannah Wechkunanukul, Omar Smadi, Heath Pillen and Fathimath Shifaza 3 Challenges with opening up closed off communities: interviewing ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Israel 25 Veronika Poniscjakova 4 Ethnography research with Indonesian female factory workers: challenges and strategies in the field 34 Mashitah Binti Hamidi 5 “How can you be so naïve?” Negotiating insider status among co-ethnic migrants in global ethnographic fieldwork 50 Hasan Mahmud 6 Challenges and opportunities in conducting cross-country PhD study: experiences of data collection in India and China 66 Rajendra Baikady 7 Researching the garment sector in Bangladesh: fieldwork challenges and responses 75 Sawlat Zaman 8 Gaining access to research participants for data collection in doctoral studies: evidence from a rural area of Bangladesh 85 Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury, M. Rezaul Islam and Haris Abd Wahab 9 The challenges and strategies of accessing hard to reach locations during fieldwork data collection: the case of northeast Nigeria 101 Nasa’i Muhammad Gwadabe and Adekunle Daoud Balogun 10 Data collection on ‘smartphone addiction and social capital effects’ among the university students of Bangladesh: challenges and strategies for the way out 110 Ashek Mahmud, M. Rezaul Islam and Hamedi M. Adnan 11 Undercover fieldwork: a queer experience of healthcare in Bangladesh 123 Kanamik Kani Khan 12 Ethical issues, challenges and solutions during fieldwork with homeless elderly people of Malaysia and Pakistan 138 Aqsa Qandeel and Welyne J. Jehom 13 Field research in the conflict zone: an empirical study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh 154 Md. Rafiqul Islam 14 Research with coastal people in Bangladesh: challenges and way forward 167 Taj Sultana, Firuza Begham Binti Mustafa, Jillian Ooi Lean Sim and M. Rezaul Islam 15 Data collection from the Santal community: a journey towards an unknown world in ascertaining the nexus between reality and dream 178 Munira Jahan Sumi, M. Rezaul Islam and Ramy Bulan 16 Challenges in accessing rural area and managing sub-culture differences in Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Malaysia 194 Maria Binti Mohd Ismail and Raja Noriza Binti Raja Ariffin 17 Fieldwork experience: challenges and managing risks as a female researcher 201 Bushra Zaman, M. Rezaul Islam and Rosila Bee Mohd Hussain 18 Data collection on acid attack survivor women: a PhD researcher’s experience from Bangladesh 211 Tahmina Islam, M. Rezaul Islam and Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah 19 Challenges, strategies, and way out techniques in conducting in-depth interviews among managers in Malaysian organizations 221 Nafisa Kasem, Shahreen Mat Nayan, Kumaran A/l Suberamanian and Sedigheh Moghavvemi Index

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Book SynopsisFor over thirty years, a political and social battle over bilingual education raged in the U.S. This book, a period piece rich in political, historical, and local western context, is the story of language, education, inequality and power clashes between the dominant society and the Crow Indian Reservation of Montana.

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Book SynopsisOffering a practical guide on How to be an Ethnographer, this book will be a valuable resource for advanced students and early career researchers of organization studies, anthropology and sociology. It will also be a useful introduction to scholars exploring ethnography as a new research method. This book explores the aims, main methods, and ethical and methodological standards of ethnography. Placing human beings at the centre, it showcases why ethnography is a valuable method of research. Highlighting the importance of ethnographic engagement as a means to learn about different ways of being human, the book employs a range of case studies from researchers at all career stages to provide examples of different methods used in research projects. Going beyond tools and techniques, the authors discuss moral and methodological principles as well as community related modes that are important in conducting ethnography.Trade Review‘How to Be an Ethnographer, written by Monika Kostera and Paweł Krzyworzeka, is an important work that provides unique, timely, and exceptional insights into the practice of ethnography. The authors provide a new chapter in the history of ethnography, encompassing theories and methods of conducting ethnography not only in anthropology, but also management and organization studies, by putting them in dialogue with one another. The volume introduces a state-of-the-art ethnography: an imaginative approach that is interdisciplinary, embodied, open-ended, reflexive as well as attends to how ethnographic practices are shaped by researcher’s professional and personal lives – from disciplinary norms and academic communities, to family and safety concerns, to issues of access. Vignettes from fieldwork illuminate the entire ethnographic journey from initial expectations to discovering less obvious aspects of everyday life in the field. The chapters in the book structured around different methods and principals – observing, sensing, studying up and down, and representing – will enable both experienced and aspiring ethnographers to develop a practice that will deepen and develop their ethnographic inquiry.’ -- Melissa S. Fisher, NYU Institute for Public Knowledge and School of Professional Studies, US‘This book on how to “do” ethnography written by Monika Kostera and Paweł Krzyworzeka offers a unique collection of chapters written by a number of scholars expertly engaged with this methodology and method. The reader will be able to enjoy considerable richness of knowledge and experience through book chapters written not only on specific methods linked to ethnography, but also on related processes, theories, practicalities and less explored topics pertaining to ethnographic research.’ -- Ilaria Boncori, University of Essex, UK‘How to be an Ethnographer delivers a powerful tour de force of ethnographic essentials. This valuable work is a profoundly insightful exploration of state-of-the-art ethnographic approaches, including multi-sited ethnography, visual ethnography, and the role of art. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of ethnography as a research tradition and show why consideration of this practice only as a method is insufficient. The volume covers the history of ethnography and major figures in the field. Key developments that moved the practice from the 19th to the 21st centuries are reviewed in depth. Valuable insights into the work of native ethnographers, both advantages and drawbacks are included, which are aimed at students who may be contemplating ethnography in their own cultures. A discussion of methods offers nuances of practices that may be taken for granted, such as issues that arise when interviewees read about themselves in ethnographic writing. It also describes intriguing field work experiences such as the “guerilla activities” of middle managers and potential consequences. The volume is especially useful for organizational ethnographers. Vignettes from fieldwork contain memorable details such as the role of gatekeepers. The authors explain why formal informed consent does not build trust and what should be done to establish and deepen relationships in the field. The volume is highly recommended for professionals teaching ethnography and students studying the practice. It includes numerous vignettes written by students based upon their own ethnographic research. Overall, How to Be an Ethnographer is an engaging textbook that will strengthen education in anthropology and beyond.’ -- Marietta Baba, Michigan State University and Foundation for Women and Children Enslaved in War, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Entering the field 2. Who is the ethnographer? 3. Looking and being 4. Talking and listening 5. Reading and writing 6. Good ethnographic research? 7. Why ethnography? References 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 SynopsisWith contributions from leading scholars in Southern Europe, this compelling book demonstrates the plurality of migratory circumstances and analyses the significance of the Mediterranean migration model.Highlighting the challenges of studying the variability and heterogeneity of migratory patterns in the Mediterranean, this insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of the spatial-temporal scales and sedimentation of different migratory configurations. Chapters explore the continuities between colonial past, postcolonialism and migration; the integration and exploitation in the labour market; and the impact of political discourses on migrants and non-migrants.Contributors analyse the links between race and gender relations, colonialism, and migration policies across countries including Greece, Italy, Lebanon, the Maghreb region, and Spain.Proposing that the ‘principle of coexistence’ can be an interpretive tool for studying migration in the Mediterranean, this book will be essential for students and researchers in comparative social policy, cultural sociology, development studies, history and migration studies. It will also be beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in national and international political bodies and agencies.Trade Review‘An indispensable contribution to comparative immigration studies, this book brings together an impressive group of country specialists on southern European migration, working in a broad range of disciplines. While deeply sensitive to historical context, the contributors offer original insights into ongoing policy issues like the tension between child/elder-care needs of native-born families and restrictive immigration measures. This book is a model of cross-national scholarship that breaks new theoretical ground.’ -- Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California, San Diego, US‘With a multidisciplinary and outward looking (not Eurocentric) perspective, this book offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of research on migration in the Mediterranean area. The contributions cover countries on the European side and those on the opposite side of the Mediterranean. They examine the policies adopted, the motivations and the aims of the multiple parties involved.’ -- Paola Corti, University of Turin, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: broadening the scope of Southern European migration 1 Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés An extended foreword to a critique on Mediterranean Europe as a place of migration 11 Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Jorge Malheiros PART I MOBILITIES AND COLONIALISMS 1 Human mobility in the pre-modern Mediterranean 30 Wolfgang Kaiser and Claudia Moatti 2 Migration and otherness in the Mediterranean region: colonial past and postcolonial continuities through the conception of the ‘Other Moor’ 50 María-Jesús Cabezón-Fernández 3 The weight of colonial cultural legacy in scholarly and political discourses on migration: for a denationalisation of the migration issue 67 Mustapha El Miri PART II BEYOND NATIONAL MIGRATORY DYNAMICS 4 Migration in Italy: a multiscalar analysis 85 Fabio Amato 5 The Maghreb of transit, new laboratory of postcolonial migrations 99 Michel Peraldi 6 Gender and emigration: labour market integration and work‒life balance strategies of young Spanish female migrants to France and Germany 113 Belén Fernández-Suárez and Alberto Capote Lama 7 A Southern European model of migrant agricultural labour: two case studies in Andalusia (Spain) and Calabria (Italy) 130 Francisco Checa y Olmos, Francesco Saverio Caruso and Alessandra Corrado 8 The care shortage and social acceptance: why the welfare needs of native families subvert immigration policies 145 Maurizio Ambrosini 9 Lebanese migration policy since 2011 and its role in the Syrian refugee movement 162 Kamel Doraï and Imad Amer 10 Repoliticising gendered vulnerability: the blind spots of vulnerability-focused humanitarian programmes in Greece 180 Alice Latouche Conclusions: migration patterns across the Mediterranean 195 Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés Index

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Book SynopsisTransnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.Table of ContentsIntroductionKevin N. CAWLEY and Julia C. SCHNEIDERPART ONE. CULTURES CROSSING BORDERSChapter 1. Confucianism and Becoming-in-the-World: A Transnational Modus VivendiKevin N. CAWLEYChapter 2. Diffusion and Transnationalism: Emplantation and the Crossing of Cultural BoundariesJames H. GRAYSONChapter 3. The Battle of Red Cliffs: From History to Transnational IdentityCarlotta SPARVOLIChapter 4: Translation beyond the Written Word: The Transnational Spread of The Journey to the West in East AsiaBarbara WALLPART TWO. NATION, EMPIRE AND BEYONDChapter 5. Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing EmpireJulia C. SCHNEIDERChapter 6. Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance Against Homogenising National Narratives: South Korean Female Subjectivities and Colonial Memory in Pak Sunnyŏ’s Ai rŏbŭ yu (I Love You, 1962)Nadeschda BACHEMChapter 7. Conjuring a Battling China: Willi Münzenberg and his International Popular FrontLei QINChapter 8. Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票: Migrating Political Cleavages and Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Vienna’s Taiwanese CommunityJulia MARINACCIOPART THREE. TRANSNATIONALISM IN POPULAR CULTURESChapter 9. Return Ticket to Pyongyang: Transnational Aspects in the Work of Film Maker Yang Yong-hiTill WEINGÄRTNERChapter 10. Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese relations through Flavors of YouthJamie COATES and Jennifer COATESChapter 11. Translation /Transplantation of Queer in South KoreaAllan SIMPSONChapter 12. A Transnational Approach in Understanding Japanese Colonial Influence in Taiwan: Manifestations in Taiwan’s Cinema and Popular MusicYu-Wen CHENPART FOUR. TRANSNATIONALISM IN GLOBAL EAST ASIAChapter 13. A Gateway to Exciting Opportunities? The Lives of African Migrants inside and outside Taiwan’s University CampusesSarah HANISCHChapter 14. Transnationalism and the Medical Cooperation in Family Planning in East Asia (1950s-70s)Aya HOMEIChapter 15. From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962Adam CATHCARTChapter 16. The New Challenges of Transnational Security in Twenty-first Century East Asia: The Case of North KoreaMarco MILANI

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Book SynopsisTransnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.Table of ContentsIntroductionKevin N. CAWLEY and Julia C. SCHNEIDERPART ONE. CULTURES CROSSING BORDERSChapter 1. Confucianism and Becoming-in-the-World: A Transnational Modus VivendiKevin N. CAWLEYChapter 2. Diffusion and Transnationalism: Emplantation and the Crossing of Cultural BoundariesJames H. GRAYSONChapter 3. The Battle of Red Cliffs: From History to Transnational IdentityCarlotta SPARVOLIChapter 4: Translation beyond the Written Word: The Transnational Spread of The Journey to the West in East AsiaBarbara WALLPART TWO. NATION, EMPIRE AND BEYONDChapter 5. Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing EmpireJulia C. SCHNEIDERChapter 6. Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance Against Homogenising National Narratives: South Korean Female Subjectivities and Colonial Memory in Pak Sunnyŏ’s Ai rŏbŭ yu (I Love You, 1962)Nadeschda BACHEMChapter 7. Conjuring a Battling China: Willi Münzenberg and his International Popular FrontLei QINChapter 8. Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票: Migrating Political Cleavages and Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Vienna’s Taiwanese CommunityJulia MARINACCIOPART THREE. TRANSNATIONALISM IN POPULAR CULTURESChapter 9. Return Ticket to Pyongyang: Transnational Aspects in the Work of Film Maker Yang Yong-hiTill WEINGÄRTNERChapter 10. Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese relations through Flavors of YouthJamie COATES and Jennifer COATESChapter 11. Translation /Transplantation of Queer in South KoreaAllan SIMPSONChapter 12. A Transnational Approach in Understanding Japanese Colonial Influence in Taiwan: Manifestations in Taiwan’s Cinema and Popular MusicYu-Wen CHENPART FOUR. TRANSNATIONALISM IN GLOBAL EAST ASIAChapter 13. A Gateway to Exciting Opportunities? The Lives of African Migrants inside and outside Taiwan’s University CampusesSarah HANISCHChapter 14. Transnationalism and the Medical Cooperation in Family Planning in East Asia (1950s-70s)Aya HOMEIChapter 15. From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962Adam CATHCARTChapter 16. The New Challenges of Transnational Security in Twenty-first Century East Asia: The Case of North KoreaMarco MILANI

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Book SynopsisEstablishing a new set of international perspectives from around the world on experiences of death, disposition and remembrance in urban environments, this book brings deathscapes – material, embodied and emotional places associated with dying and death – to life. It pushes the boundaries of established empirical and conceptual understandings of death in urban spaces through anthropological, geographical and ethnographic insights.Chapters reveal how urban deathscapes are experienced, used, managed and described in specific locales in varied settings; how their norms and values intersect and at times conflict with the norms of dominant and assumed practices; and how they are influenced by the dynamic practices, politics and demographics typical of urban spaces. Case studies from across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America highlight the differences between deathscapes, but also show their clear commonality in being as much a part of the world of the living as they are of the dead.With a people- and space-centred approach, this book will be an interesting read for human geography, death studies and urban studies scholars, as well as social and cultural anthropologists and sociologists. Its international and interdisciplinary nature will also make this a beneficial book for planning and landscape architecture, religious studies and courses on death practices.Trade Review‘This volume challenges us to rethink the diversity of deathscapes – not just cemeteries and columbaria but also retirement homes, hospitals, museums and Facebook pages. Through the fraught terrain of death, the window on life is turned upside-down, giving us a ground-up view of contestations across social-political, familial and technological spheres.’ -- Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore‘Focussing on the urban areas where most humans now live and where conflict, insecurity, migration and violence can characterise death as well as life, this fascinating, disturbing yet hopeful book re-sets the agenda for research into deathscapes.’ -- Tony Walter, University of Bath, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: continuity, change, and contestation in urban deathscapes 1 Mariske Westendorp and Danielle House PART I SOCIO-POLITICAL DEATHSCAPES 2 Informal deathscapes in metropolitan Lima as cultural knowledge systems 21 Christien Klaufus 3 Between life, death, and modernity at Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore 42 See Mieng Tan and Benedict J.W. Yeo 4 There’s no place like home: minority-majority dialogue, contestation, and ritual negotiation in cemeteries and crematoria spaces 61 Katie McClymont, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Avril Maddrell, Brenda Mathijssen, Danny McNally, and Sufyan Dogra PART II FAMILIAL DEATHSCAPES 5 Negotiating the aesthetics of mourning in Luxembourg: on pre-modern forms in post-modern spaces 83 Elisabeth Boesen 6 “The crocodile is stronger in the water”: Swakopmund jetty as a place of death in Namibia 107 Jack Boulton 7 Adapting to ‘one-size-fits-all’: constructing appropriate Islamic burial spaces in Northwestern Europe 124 Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp, Vevila Dornelles, Helena Nordh, and Farjana Islam PART III TECHNOLOGISED DEATHSCAPES 8 Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan 145 Anne Allison 9 Being existed by another through the sensory: the ungrievable deaths of industrial pigs in slaughterhouse tours 162 Eimear Mc Loughlin 10 Mexico City’s exceptional deathscapes: the disappeared, (digital) bodies, molecular speculations 180 Arely Cruz-Santiago 11 Afterword: urban deathscapes – bodies, ritual spaces, urban inequalities, pressures, and opportunities 198 Avril Maddrell Index 204

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Book SynopsisBased on 12 years of research on corruption across the globe, this book presents four empirical case studies which illustrate the cultural, cognitive, and social implications of corruption. Davide Torsello examines the socio-institutional, organizational, and cognitive-hermeneutical aspects of the cultural theory model of corruption.This insightful book proposes an innovative theoretical framework on how the notion of culture can be used to understand corruption as an inexplicable yet resilient phenomenon. Chapters examine the hermeneutical, cultural, and social aspects of corruption, the unravelling political–business corruption in contemporary Japan, and the relationship between organizational culture and corruption. Torsello advises on how to deal with corruption by asking questions that have often been ignored in mainstream literature and suggests that the investigation of corruption must focus on larger societal fields, rather than more limited individual–organizational ones, although ultimately the decision to indulge or not in such a criminal act is of the individual and reflects their own degree of self-awareness.Illustrating multidimensional perspectives on mainstream theories of corruption, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars in cultural sociology, political studies, public administration and management, and public policy. It will also be beneficial for practitioners working in criminology, local and national governance, politics, and social policy.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Theorizing corruption across disciplines 1. Hermeneutical constructions of corruption in societies 2. Corruption as cultural bias—grid-group theory 3. The social nature of corruption 4. Cultural approaches to institutional corruption 5. The golden triangle: unraveling political–business corruption in Japan 6. Organizational culture and corruption 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHome has been used in social sciences as a description, a metaphor and, more recently, as an emergent concept. The goal of this book is to illustrate its analytical power as a lens on the ways in which migrant and displaced people see their life circumstances and attempt to attach a sense of security, familiarity and control over them. Whether as a place or an aspiration towards it, home is a critical entry point into their life histories, experiences and prospects. Migrants’ rights and opportunities to make themselves at home are not just a private concern – rather, they are a major social and political question. This book addresses it through an original theoretical approach and an edited set of interviews with scholars from different national and disciplinary backgrounds. This reflexive conversation unveils the conceptual, methodological and empirical dimensions of researching home on the move and from the margins. Overall, Thinking Home on the Move is a powerful and in-depth look into what we as humans perceive as ‘home’ and what this truly means.Trade Review‘Thinking Home on the Move convenes leading as well as emerging interdisciplinary voices committed to understanding the nexus between home and mobility in an unequal world. An essential forum for knowledge and dialogue.’ -- Katherine Brickell, Royal Holloway, University of London'This volume is a carefully curated series of ‘homing interviews’ that opens up a whole conceptual and empirical kaleidoscope of meanings, emotions, inflections and practical associations suggested by the idea of home. The range of chapters presents a real treat for migration scholars interested in the way homemaking is both a creative and disruptive process, particularly for those living mobile lives while working at the margins of time, space and society.' -- Brenda S.A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore'This anthology represents a fresh approach to the classical tradition of scholarly dialogue. Thoughtful essays from the authors frame conversations with twenty-six researchers who have each spent years working on questions of migration and home. The collaborative meditation yields a collection that is far greater than the sum of its parts.' -- David Scott FitzGerald, author of Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum SeekersTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. On doing homing interviews Chapter 2. Homemaking from the margins: towards a new conversation on home on the move Chapter 3. Home as a concept: identity, belonging, and beyond Chapter 4. Transnational migration and diasporas Chapter 5. Displacement and asylum Chapter 6. Material culture, infrastructures and the built environment Chapter 7. Urban and housing studies Chapter 8. Conclusions. Investigating the home-migration nexus from the margins

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating book offers an authoritative analysis of the legal issues relating to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Taking a critical approach, it provides a unique insight into the impact of international and national law on the present and future safeguarding processes of intangible cultural heritage. Expert contributors draw on the results of an international study conducted in 26 countries to illustrate how domestic laws comprehend the notion of intangible cultural heritage. The book explores the relationship that these states maintain with the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, and highlights challenging concepts, including the principle of participation and community and the nature of safeguarding. Through the analysis and synthesis of empirical data, the book also identifies new developments in cultural heritage law. This book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of cultural heritage law, as well as anthropology, ethnology, and cultural studies. Its panorama of national experiences will also be beneficial for persons involved in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, including policy makers and NGOs. Trade Review'The legal regimes related to intangible cultural heritage are extraordinarily complex. This book succeeds in showing this complexity. It presents a remarkably comprehensive picture of regulatory approaches at international, national and local level, the implementation of the UNESCO Convention and the relationship of intangible cultural heritage to various fields of law. The book throws up many questions for further inquiry and is highly recommended reading for everyone seeking a nuanced understanding of this emerging field of multidisciplinary research and practice.' --Christoph Antons, The University of Newcastle, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword viii 1 Introduction: dialogues between international and national laws relating to intangible cultural heritage 1 Marie Cornu and Anita Vaivade PART I THE STANCE OF STATES TOWARDS THE CATEGORY OF ‘INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE’ 2 Linking new intangible cultural heritage law with a legal past 16 Anita Vaivade 3 Receiving in domestic law concepts born by the 2003 Convention: focus on the notion of community 44 Vincent Négri 4 Defining the perimeter of the intangible cultural heritage: focus on language 54 Marie Cornu PART II INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND OTHER FIELDS OF LAW 5 The interactions between intangible cultural heritage and environmental law 69 Jérôme Fromageau 6 The interactions between intangible cultural heritage and human rights 81 Clea Hance 7 The interactions between intangible cultural heritage and intellectual property law 97 Lily Martinet PART III NATIONAL LEGAL TOOLS TO SAFEGUARD THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE 8 The capacities of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage as legal tools 124 Marie Cornu and Clea Hance 9 Translating the 2003 Convention into national laws 135 Līga  bele 10 Defining intangible cultural heritage through inventories 145 Lily Martinet PART IV JUSTICIABILITY AND JUDICIALIZATION OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE 11 Balancing animal rights and the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage 153 Lily Martinet 12 The judicialization of heritagization procedures 164 Clea Hance and Lily Martinet 13 The judicialization of the tension between the cultural identity of states and intangible cultural heritage 173 Clea Hance Afterword: intangible heritage and national law 181 Index

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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 SynopsisOffering a new and comprehensive overview of important topics and orientations in the anthropological study of economic life, this invigorating third edition of A Handbook of Economic Anthropology addresses key changes in the decade since the previous edition in people’s economic lives and environments, as well as in intellectual interest among scholars.The Handbook contains diverse reflections on the economic turmoil of 2008 and the austerity that followed. Containing 35 newly commissioned chapters from important scholars in the field, it covers the nature of work and the changing ways people think about it, as stable jobs give way to short term work and the platform economy, as well as the expansion of the financial sector and efforts to control it. Chapters further explore social reproduction, the maintenance and regeneration of households and social relations over time, as well as the increasing concern with value, morality and ethics, both as things that motivate people and as policy orientations.This will be a critical read for academic anthropologists looking for a state-of-the-art and thorough reference work for this key area of the discipline. Economic sociologists and geographers, as well as heterodox economists will also benefit from the broad range of empirical work and theoretical standpoints explored.Trade Review‘A Handbook of Economic Anthropology accomplishes that rare feat of surveying the state-of-the-art in the field while also pushing the boundaries of research with new ideas and interpretations. The essays are compelling in their own right, but together they provide a comprehensive look at economic anthropology today and point the way for future work.’ -- Edward F Fischer, Vanderbilt University, US, and author of The Good Life‘James Carrier’s Handbook has established itself as an indispensable resource for economic anthropologists in the 21st century. The contributions assembled in this third edition make it as informative and innovative as its two predecessors.’ -- Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing economic anthropology 1 James G. Carrier PART I ORIENTATIONS 2 Marx and political economy 10 Don Robotham 3 Polanyi and social economy 24 Barry L. Isaac 4 Mauss and the gift 35 Andrew Sanchez 5 Community and economy: economy’s base 45 Stephen Gudeman 6 Provisioning and the household 56 Susana Narotzky PART II ELEMENTS 7 Natural resources: the twice-hidden abode of economic processes 72 Jaume Franquesa 8 Property 85 David Sneath 9 Production 98 Rebecca Prentice 10 Labour 110 Charlotte Bruckermann 11 Circulation and its forms 121 Maxim Bolt 12 Markets 136 Mark Busse 13 Consumption 149 Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Aaron C. Delgaty 14 Waste: the first and final frontier 162 Jacob Doherty PART III INTEGRATIONS 15 Gender: feminist perspectives and economic anthropology 176 Victoria Goddard and Frances Pine 16 Environment and economy: Great divide to great acceleration 191 Eric Hirsch 17 Ritual, rationality and intersections between economy and religion 204 Simon Coleman 18 Kinship and economy 216 Lale Yalçın-Heckmann 19 Migration 227 İbrahim Sirkeci and Armağan Teke Lloyd 20 Morality 239 Irene Sabaté Muriel 21 Archaeology and markets 251 Douglas K. Smit PART IV ISSUES 22 Economic ethicising 266 Stefanie Mauksch 23 The good life 277 Matthew Doyle 24 Emerging varieties of work 289 Ivan Rajković 25 Anthropology’s brief (?) obsession with neoliberalism 303 Thomas Dunk 26 Global inequality 316 Jason Hickel 27 Underlying transfers 331 Anthony J. Pickles 28 Mass mobilisations 341 Ida Susser 29 Business 353 Greg Urban 30 Commodity chains 368 André Thiemann 31 Instability 379 Donald M. Nonini 32 Anthropology with or without Home 392 Andreas Streinzer 33 Activist anthropology 406 Katharina Bodirsky PART V AFTER THE CRISIS 34 The nature of the crisis 420 Nathan Coben 35 Society is debt 433 Anush Kapadia 36 Financialisation 447 Richard H. Robbins 37 Austerity 461 Theodore Powers 38 Financial regulation 473 Daniel Seabra Lopes 39 Alternative economies 487 Patrick O’Hare 40 After the revolutions: incremental change in contemporary economics 500 Michael Blim Index

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Book SynopsisTrust is an elusive concept, meaning different things to different people, and so needs to be clearly defined. By focusing on relations within and between firms, Bart Nooteboom undertakes to produce a clearer definition of trust and its role in the economy.Trust deals with a range of questions such as: what are the roles of trust? What can we trust in? Can trust serve as an instrument for the governance of relations? Is trust a substitute, a precondition or an outcome of contracts? The author then goes on to analyse what trust is based on, what its limits are, how it grows and how it can also break down. The role of intermediaries is also discussed.Bart Nooteboom argues that trust goes beyond calculative self-interest and that blind, unconditional trust is unwise. He then examines the paradox of how trust can be non-calculative and yet, not blind. The book also reveals ways to measure and model trust, its antecedents and its consequences.Trade Review'The book is a pleasure to read, well edited, well argued, and covering much ground in only just over 200 pages. It is thoroughly introduced and has a very complete "summary and conclusions" chapter. With its extensive references and a subject and author index, it is a valuable scholarly help.' -- D.J. Bezemer, Journal of Socio-Economics'[The book] provides a well-grounded approach to the study of trust and offers a number of ways to continue empirical work on this difficult subject.' -- Peter Smith Ring, Administrative Science Quarterly'. . . the book is clear and engaging, targeted at an academic audience but suitable also for practitioners and general interest given some basic knowledge of organisation science and proclivity for concepts.' -- Guido Mollering, Personnel Review'This book provides an interesting and informative account of the nature, causes and consequences of trust. . . Nooteboom has written an interesting book which has prompted this reviewer to think fruitfully about various aspects of trust. I am confident that the book will provide other readers with similar intellectual stimulation and sustenance.' -- P.A. Lewis, The Economic Journal'. . . it is clear that this is an important work, which, with considerable erudition, breaks new ground on a hitherto little understood aspect of economic behaviour. The fact that the book is also well written and draws upon literatures that range from psychology through to organization theory and philosophy, reinforces the indubitable intellectual contribution it makes. It deserves to be widely read and discussed.' -- Gary B. Magee, Journal of Evolutionary Economics'In the past, the economic analysis of the firm has focused too exclusively on pecuniary considerations. While costs and revenues are vital, it is equally important not to ignore other essential elements, such as trust, that cannot be so readily traded or given a monetary value. Bart Nooteboom's work is an important corrective to mainstream opinion. He is one of the pioneers of the analysis of trust in organizations and this present volume is a wonderful and elegant addition to this literature.' -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Aims and Foundations 2. Forms 3. Foundations 4. Functions 5. Failures 6. Figures 7. Summary and Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book combines a theoretical and empirical cross-national perspective to examine how societal transformations in European welfare states affect patterns of solidarity between men and women, and across generations. The authors' research has highlighted substantial discrepancies in various countries between the assumptions made at the macro-level of social policy on family issues and the reality of women's and men's contributions at home. In countries where social policy relies on family solidarity as the main source of support, this may result in growing social inequality. Finally, the chapters reveal the crucial role of women in the transformation of family life and welfare state policy. These conclusions could have important ramifications for European welfare policy. The cross-national perspective allows for a detailed understanding of the similarities and differences between the various European countries and their policies. Solidarity Between the Sexes and the Generations will appeal to scholars and researchers of social policy, sociology and welfare as well as women and gender studies. Because of its comparative perspective the book is also of interest to those involved in developing social policy in European countries.Trade Review'The strength of the book lies in the comprehensive coverage of the expanded Europe and its diverse welfare perspectives, taking gender and intergenerational solidarity as the core of the discourse. The volume includes theoretical, empirical and comparative material, which is written in an accessible and refreshingly jargon-free style. I consider it is eminently suitable for courses in social policy, gender studies and sociology.' -- Kate Davidson, Journal of Social PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Transformations in the Relationship between the Public and the Private 1. The Rediscovery of Family Solidarity 2. Family Solidarity and Social Solidarity: Substitutes or Complements? 3. Shifting Patterns of Solidarity and Responsibility: In Search of a Micro Perspective 4. Individualization and the Need for New Forms of Family Solidarity 5. De-Familialization or Re-Familialization? Trends in Income-Tested Family Benefits Part II: Cross-National Comparisons of Demographic Trends 6. Changes in Family Patterns and People’s Lives: Western European Trends 7. Fertility and Nuptiality in the CEE Countries in the Context of Weakening Families and a Weakening State Part III: Shifting Patterns of Family Solidarity 8. Some Darker Sides of Family Solidarity 9. Kinship Support, Gender and Social Policy in France and Spain 10. ‘What are Children for? Reciprocity and Solidarity between Parents and Children 11. Post-Industrial Families: New Forms of Bonding? 12. Trends in Women’s Employment, Domestic Service, and Female Migration: Changing and Competing Patterns of Solidarity Index

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Book SynopsisThe Indian question has come to the forefront of political agendas in contemporary Latin America. In the process, indigenous movements have emerged as important social actors, raising a variety of demands on behalf of native peoples. Regardless of the situation of Indian groups as small minorities or significant sectors, many Latin American states have been forced to consider whether they should have the same status as all citizens or whether they should be granted special citizenship rights as Indians. This book examines the struggle for indigenous rights in eight Latin American countries. Initial studies of indigenous movements celebrated the return of the Indians as relevant political actors, often approaching their struggles as expressions of a common, generic agenda. This collection moves the debate forward by acknowledging the extraordinary diversity among the movements composition, goals, and strategies. By focusing on the factors that shape this diversity, the authors offer a basis for understanding the specificities of converging and diverging patterns across different countries. The case studies examine the ways in which the Indian question arises in each country, with reference to the protagonism of indigenous movements in the context of the threats and opportunities posed by neoliberal policies. The complexities posed by the varying demographic weight of indigenous populations, the interrelation of class and ethnicity, and the interplay between indigenous and popular struggles are discussed.Trade Review"This work compares the ways in which indigenous peoples in Latin America have organized locally, regionally, and nationally to open up new political spaces since the 1980s. Avoiding the homogenisation of indigenous struggles, the book emphasizes the different paths to rights that indigenous peoples have found in different national contexts. At the same time, it analyzes common processes of ethnification, environmental and land struggles, indigenous involvement in national politics, and indigenous responses to neoliberal and multicultural state policies. What particularly distinguishes this book is its attention not only to indigenous ethnicity but also to the consequences of neoliberalism and the processes of class formation and reformation that have shaped the contexts for the flourishing of indigenous movements. A must read for anyone interested in Latin America and a very useful overview for students." -- Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon."Indigenous movements have become major social and political actors in Latin America, posing radical challenges to the extant model of the nation-state and notions of democracy and development. Bringing together in-depth studies of the Indian Question in seven Latin American countries, this book reveals the diversity of contexts in which indigenous movements emerge and develop their strategies. Highlighting this diversity through up-to-date analyses, it provides a welcome and timely contribution to the study of indigenous struggles, citizenship, democracy and development." -- Willem Assies, Colegio de Michoacan, Mexico.Table of ContentsPreface; National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change; Forest Service Global Change Research Strategy, 2009-2019; Forest Service Strategic Framework for Responding to Climate Change, Version 1.0; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Indian question has come to the forefront of political agendas in contemporary Latin America. In the process, indigenous movements have emerged as important social actors, raising a variety of demands on behalf of native peoples. Regardless of the situation of Indian groups as small minorities or significant sectors, many Latin American states have been forced to consider whether they should have the same status as all citizens or whether they should be granted special citizenship rights as Indians. This book examines the struggle for indigenous rights in eight Latin American countries. Initial studies of indigenous movements celebrated the return of the Indians as relevant political actors, often approaching their struggles as expressions of a common, generic agenda. This collection moves the debate forward by acknowledging the extraordinary diversity among the movements composition, goals, and strategies. By focusing on the factors that shape this diversity, the authors offer a basis for understanding the specificities of converging and diverging patterns across different countries. The case studies examine the ways in which the Indian question arises in each country, with reference to the protagonism of indigenous movements in the context of the threats and opportunities posed by neoliberal policies. The complexities posed by the varying demographic weight of indigenous populations, the interrelation of class and ethnicity, and the interplay between indigenous and popular struggles are discussed.Trade Review"This work compares the ways in which indigenous peoples in Latin America have organized locally, regionally, and nationally to open up new political spaces since the 1980s. Avoiding the homogenisation of indigenous struggles, the book emphasizes the different paths to rights that indigenous peoples have found in different national contexts. At the same time, it analyzes common processes of ethnification, environmental and land struggles, indigenous involvement in national politics, and indigenous responses to neoliberal and multicultural state policies. What particularly distinguishes this book is its attention not only to indigenous ethnicity but also to the consequences of neoliberalism and the processes of class formation and reformation that have shaped the contexts for the flourishing of indigenous movements. A must read for anyone interested in Latin America and a very useful overview for students." -- Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon."Indigenous movements have become major social and political actors in Latin America, posing radical challenges to the extant model of the nation-state and notions of democracy and development. Bringing together in-depth studies of the Indian Question in seven Latin American countries, this book reveals the diversity of contexts in which indigenous movements emerge and develop their strategies. Highlighting this diversity through up-to-date analyses, it provides a welcome and timely contribution to the study of indigenous struggles, citizenship, democracy and development." -- Willem Assies, Colegio de Michoacan, Mexico.Table of ContentsPreface; National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change; Forest Service Global Change Research Strategy, 2009-2019; Forest Service Strategic Framework for Responding to Climate Change, Version 1.0; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power and vivid imagery have attracted considerable interest on both academic and popular levels. Among historians, the confessions are celebrated for providing a unique insight into the way fairy beliefs and witch beliefs interacted in the early modern mind; more controversially, they are also cited as evidence for the existence of Shamanistic visionary traditions, of pre-Christian origin, in Scotland in this period. On a popular level the confessions of Isobel Gowdie have, above any other British witch-trial records, influenced the formation of the ritual traditions of Wicca. The author's discovery of the original trial records (currently being authenticated by the National Archives of Scotland), deemed lost for nearly 200 years, provides a starting point for an interdisciplinary look at the confessions and the woman behind them. Using historical, psychological, comparative religious and anthropological perspectives this book sets out to separate the voice of Isobel Gowdie from that of her interrogators, and to determine the experiences and beliefs which may have generated her confessions. The book explores: How far did those accused of witchcraft self-consciously practice harmful magic? Did they really believe themselves to have made a Pact with an envisioned Devil? Did they ever participate in ecstatic cult rituals? The author argues that close analysis of Isobel's testimony supports the view that in seventeenth-century Britain popular spirituality was shaped by a deep interaction between Christian teachings and shamanistic visionary traditions, of pre-Christian origin. These findings confirm the value of witchcraft confessions as unique windows into the complexities of the early modern religious imagination.Trade Review"Wilby says everything there is to say about Gowdie, and then some." - Fortean Times January 2011"This is in my opinion the finest reconstruction of the thought-world of somebody accused in an early modern witch trial yet made, making sense of elements that most people would find wholly fantastic." (Ronald Hutton, Pomegranate)"Wilby's book is immensely engaging and rich with the promise of allowing us a better understanding of witches and their craft, particularly in the north of Scotland ... this book makes an invaluable contribution to its field of study, and everyone involved in writing about witches and witchcraft should be sure to read it." (Peter Maxwell-Stuart, Journal of British Studies)"Wilby's study constitutes a major contribution and advance in witchcraft studies in general she has resurrected one form of witchcraft, and by implication witchcraft in general, from being an invention of maniacal Christian inquisitors into a credible form of spirituality which must be considered by any researcher in the field of comparative religion." (Clive Tolley, Shaman: Journal of the International Society for Shamanistic Research)"Wilby restores agency and vitality to those individuals who are so often portrayed as the passive victims of a state or patriarchy-driven witch hunt, and offers a significant contribution to the field of witchcraft studies." (Sierra Dye, International Review of Scottish Studies)"In the end, this book does what good research should: provide us with provocative, original interpretations and raise questions for further exploration." (Sabina Magliocco, Journal of Folklore Research)Table of ContentsThe Cottar's Wife; The Confessions; The Shadow of the Interrogator; Interweaving Worlds; Curious Minds; 'Q[uhe]n I wes in the elfes houssis'; The Men of Constant Sorrows ; The Ethics of Malevolence; Wonderful Lies; An Old Way of Seeing; Isobel Follows the Goddess; 'His hour was pursuing him'; The Choosers of the Slain; Lady Isobel & the Elf Knight; The Devil & the Covenant of Grace; Crafting the Bridegroom; 'The De'il's aye gude to his ain'; Witches Covens & Dark Dream Cults; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first major book on Albanian migration, the most significant East-West migration since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Prevented from leaving their country for over 45 years, the citizens of the Republic of Albania emigrated en masse during the 1990s and the exodus continues. According to the 2001 census, one in five Albanians was a migrant living abroad, mainly in Greece and Italy but also, and increasingly, in a range of other European countries and in North America. The volume offers a comprehensive and integrated understanding of Albanian migration, addressing its temporal and spatial dynamics, its diversity of types and destinations, and the implications of the migration for Albanian society and economic development. Its contributors comprise key researchers on Albanian migration from around the world. The book reflects the wide diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches deployed by researchers studying this phenomenon.

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Book SynopsisScholars from Anthropology, History, and Literary and Cultural Studies present their current research on culture and violence in the Andean region. Within an interdisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and mutually constitutive relationship of culture and violence in Peru and Bolivia, countries with large indigenous populations who have largely preserved their culture and way of life in spite of centuries of colonial domination and the encroachment of capitalist modernization, including its latest free-market variant. The intertwined histories of culture and violence in the Andes are examined through analyses of the indigenous and popular mobilization that brought Evo Morales to power as Bolivia's first indigenous president, conservative Latin American intellectuals' response to this popular rejection of neoliberal economic and social policies, the work of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the legacy of the Shining Path war, and nineteenth-century intellectual and political discourses on race, gender, and the incorporation of indigenous peoples into the nation-state.Table of ContentsPreface by Carlos H. Waisman; Introduction & Presentation; Power, Culture, & Violence in the Andes; Within Slavery: Marking Property & Making Men in Colonial Peru; Power Constellations in Peru: Military Recruitment Around the War of the Pacific in Puno; Heroic Masculinities & the War of the Pacific; "ipiruanos, carajo!": Mario Vargas Llosa, Violence, & Modernity; To Cross the River of Blood: How an Inter-Community Conflict is Linked to the Peruvian Civil War, 1940-1983; Ethnic Politics & Popular Mobilization in Bolivia; Andean Utopias in Evo, Morales's Bolivia; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe dog has captured the Jewish imagination from antiquity to the contemporary period, with the image of the dog often used to characterise and demean Jewish populations in medieval Christendom. In the interwar period, dogs were still considered goyishe nakhes ("a gentile pleasure") and virtually unheard of in the Jewish homes of the shtetl. Yet Azit the Paratrooping Dog of modern Israeli cinema, one of many examples of dogs as heroes of the Zionist narrative, demonstrates that the dog has captured the contemporary Jewish imagination. The book discusses specific cultural manifestations of the relationship between dogs and Jews, from ancient times to the present. Covering a geographical range extending from the Middle East through Europe and to North America, the contributors -- all of whom are senior university scholars specializing in various disciplines -- provide a unique cross-cultural, trans-national, diachronic perspective. An important theme is the constant tension between domination/control and partnership which underpins the relationship of humans to animals, as well as the connection between Jewish societies and their broader host cultures. A public increasingly interested in cultural history in general and Jewish history in particular will benefit from the diverse perspectives provided herein. One need look no further than the popular media surrounding President Obama's choice of a canine companion: dog-owners and dog-lovers, and all those involved at university level with cultural studies, can deepen their understanding of the humancanine relationship by reading this volume.Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; Equine Mycotoxicosis; The Significance of Feed-Borne Mycotoxins in ruminant nutrition; Mycotoxicosis in Swine; Mycotoxicosis in Domestic Fowl.

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Book SynopsisA spiritualist, mystic, historian and lifelong collector of antiquities, J. S. M. Ward (18851949) embodied the cultural turmoil of an age of collapsing empires, religious fragmentation and world war. The Abbey Folk Park he started in 1934 at New Barnet, north of London, was an innovative history museum where Wards interest in esoteric heritage, world cultures and the occult attracted much attention. Unfairly disgraced in a sensational court case in May 1945, he and his followers departed England for Cyprus in self-imposed exile, along with his stunning collection of artefacts. After Wards death, both the community and his collection moved to Queensland, Australia, where a new Abbey Museum now thrives just north of Brisbane. Archangels & Archaeology traces John Wards extraordinary life and career for the first time, from Edwardian Freemasonry and wartime spiritualism to his apocalyptic visions as a second world war threatened to engulf Europe. His lively museum fused a passion for Britains disappearing heritage with a conviction that western civilization would shortly collapse. These vivid concerns so often treated in isolation come together in J. S. M. Wards curious and eccentric life story.Table of ContentsRecollecting the Child; History, Marriage & the Afterlife; To the East; Gone West; Opening the Guarded Door; Explorations in the Craft; Kingdom of the Wise; An Ark for England; A Walk in the Folk Park; Anglican Outcasts & Orthodox Catholicism; Wartime Trials; Cyprus & Beyond Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisScholars from Anthropology, History, and Literary and Cultural Studies present their current research on culture and violence in the Andean region. Within an interdisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and mutually constitutive relationship of culture and violence in Peru and Bolivia, countries with large indigenous populations who have largely preserved their culture and way of life in spite of centuries of colonial domination and the encroachment of capitalist modernization, including its latest free-market variant. The intertwined histories of culture and violence in the Andes are examined through analyses of the indigenous and popular mobilization that brought Evo Morales to power as Bolivia's first indigenous president, conservative Latin American intellectuals' response to this popular rejection of neoliberal economic and social policies, the work of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the legacy of the Shining Path war, and nineteenth-century intellectual and political discourses on race, gender, and the incorporation of indigenous peoples into the nation-state.

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Book SynopsisAfter establishing the Spanish Protectorate in Northern Morocco (1912-1956), Spain needed to create a system of colonial policies for the territory it was now to govern. Education became one instrument among many at the service of colonization. Spain created its own colonial educational model based on Spanish schools, Spanish-Arab schools and Spanish-Jewish schools, which coexisted with Koranic madrasas and Talmudic, Alliance Israelite Universelle and nationalist schools. The institutions created for Moroccans by the Spaniards united tradition the Arabic and Hebrew languages and Muslim and Jewish religions with the models and principles of the schools in Spain at the time. The end goal was to instruct the population according to a pro-Spanish, colonizer-friendly ideology in order to control the society and territory in a way that complemented military policies. The coup d'état led by General Franco in Spain in 1936 brought about a change in policy in the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. The Franco government's innovation was to Moroccanize the teaching paradigm, which transformed the Spanish-Arab educational model into a Moroccan model. The Spanish-Arab concept gave way to a Moroccan concept, which entailed the recognition of a national identity based on linguistic and religious precepts on the part of Spain. This process of Moroccanization did not develop under the same terms in other parts of the country, which gave the Spanish Protectorate its distinctive traits. Spain developed a policy that combined educational and cultural aspects through a discourse of Spanish-Arab brotherhood. The establishment of cultural institutions was a sign of this symbiosis and the policy became an important part of how the regime presented itself abroad.

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Book SynopsisThe post-war decades of the 1950s to the 1970s saw a mass migration from Cyprus to the UK. More recent years, however, have witnessed a 'return' to Cyprus of the British-born children of Cypriot migrants in the UK. Drawing on multi-site fieldwork, and adopting a life narrative approach, this book offers a refreshing and contemporary account of the motives, experiences and life views of these second-generation British Cypriots, as they choose to build their lives in their parents' birth country: a Cyprus that has been dramatically altered by globalisation, mass tourism and immigration since the first generation of immigrants left for British shores. Unlike their parents, who moved from Cyprus to the UK mainly out of economic necessity, this new generation of migrants tends to view their relocation to Cyprus as a lifestyle choice. And while the first generation of Cypriot migrants in the UK generally worked and socialised within the bounds of the Cypriot community, the British-born 'return' migrants in Cyprus embrace a more international lifestyle, beyond primordial ethnic or national boundaries -- observations which challenge the hypothesis that second-generation return migration is based on an essential longing to go back to one's 'roots'. The author examines the complexities and ambivalences involved when exploring ideas of 'identity', 'return', 'home' and 'belonging' in the ancestral homeland -- demonstrating how boundaries of such notions are blurred, eroded and re-established by a new generation of migrants, reflecting their time, experiences, choices and ideologies. The book is essential reading for all those involved in Migration Studies and Cultural Anthropology.Trade ReviewA shining example of the very best of interdisciplinary migration studies scholarship. -- Russell King, Department of Geography, University of Sussex

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Book SynopsisSingapore Malays subscribe to mostly traditional rather than modern interpretations of Islam. Singapore state officials, however, wish to curb the challenges such interpretations bring to the country's political, social, educational and economic domains. Thus, these officials launched a programme to socially engineer modern Muslim identities amongst Singapore Malays in 2003, which is ongoing. Negotiating Muslim Identities documents a variety of ethnographic encounters that point to the power struggles surrounding two basic and very different ways of living. While the Singapore state has gained some successes for its project, it has also faced significant and multiple setbacks. Amongst them, state officials have had to contend with traditional Islamic authority that Malay elders carry and who cannot be ignored because these elders are time-entrenched authority figures in their community. One of the book's significant contributions is that it documents how Singapore, an avowedly secular state, has now turned to Islam as a tool for governance. Just as significant are the insights the study provides on another aspect of Singapore state governance, one usually described as 'authoritarian'. The book demonstrates that even 'authoritarian' states can face serious obstacles in the face of religion's influence over its followers. The academic literature on Singapore Malays is sparse: this work not only fills gaps in the existing academic literature but provides new and original research data. Its data-rich ethnographic and anthropological approach show the complexities of Malay and Muslim social contexts, and complements other works that examine Southeast Asian states ' management of Islam, which has attracted much scholarship given the global interest in Islam-based politics and social organisation.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry, in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters "The Generation of '27", created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Silvina Schammah exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces of nationalistic ideologies on the other. Taking upon themselves roles to become the disseminators and populizers of radical positions and world-views first elaborated and conducted by the young urban intelligentsia, their proposed aim of incorporating diverse identities embedded in different cultural constructions and discourse was to have very real and tragic consequences as political and intellectual lines polarized in the years prior to the Spanish Civil War.

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Book SynopsisTunisian women's literary production in French, published or set between the years 1987 and 2011 from Tunisia's second president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's rise to power to the eve of the Tunisian Revolution reveals the role of women, their political engagement, and their resistance to patriarchal oppression. A great deal of media and scholarly attention has focused on the role of women during the Tunisian Revolution itself, yet few studies have considered women's literary and active engagement prior to the uprising. By contrast, this book focuses specifically on the time period leading to the Revolution. The book is structured around three chapters, each focusing on a different form of writing and on a number of contemporary Tunisian writers who have chosen to express themselves in French. Sonia Alba explores the complex ways in which the authors have attempted to deal with those issues cultural, social and political most relevant to them. This is the first study of Tunisian women's writing in French to compare and contrast key themes in three different genres within a single study and within the conceptual framework of subaltern counterpublics. The work is enhanced by the inclusion of extracts from previously unpublished authors interviews. Tunisian Women's Writing in French is essential reading for all Francophone and Postcolonial scholars, and for scholars and students working in Contemporary Women's Writing.

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Book SynopsisWith their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 160914 provide us with arguably the most demonologically-stereotypical accounts of the witches sabbath or akelarre to have emerged from early modern Europe. While the trials have attracted scholarly attention, the most substantial monograph on the subject was written nearly forty years ago and most works have focused on the ways in which interrogators shaped the pattern of prosecutions and the testimonies of defendants. Invoking the Akelarre diverts from this norm by employing more recent historiographical paradigms to analyze the contributions of the accused. Through interdisciplinary analyses of both French- and Spanish-Basque records, it argues that suspects were not passive recipients of elite demonological stereotypes but animated these received templates with their own belief and experience, from the dark exoticism of magical conjuration, liturgical cursing and theatrical misrule to the sharp pragmatism of domestic medical practice and everyday religious observance. In highlighting the range of raw materials available to the suspects, the book helps us to understand how the fiction of the witches sabbath emerged to such prominence in contemporary mentalities, whilst also restoring some agency to the defendants and nuancing the historical thesis that stereotypical content points to interrogatorial opinion and folkloric content to the voices of the accused. In its local context, this study provides an intimate portrait of peasant communities as they flourished in the Basque region in this period and leaves us with the irony that Europes most sensationally-demonological accounts of the witches sabbath may have evolved out of a particularly ardent commitment, on the part of ordinary Basques, to the social and devotional structures of popular Catholicism.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a compilation by one of the most experienced editors in the field of published articles on cultural economics. It includes articles on both the 'traditional' fare of cultural economics - economics of cultural policy, the performing arts, museums and heritage, and artists labour markets - and extends the scope to the economics of creative industries and copyright, topics that are now at the heart of cultural policy. The articles (with one exception) have all been published in the last 10 years and the aim of the book is to bring readers up to date on cultural economics in a range of related fields: cultural and social policy, sociology of the arts and culture, arts management, indeed, anyone with an interest in the 'creative economy'.Recent Developments in Cultural Economics is ideal for undergraduates studying any of these subjects and is essential reading for postgraduates and teachers of cultural economics.Trade Review'This is an extremely useful collection for anyone wishing to find out what currently goes on in the field of cultural economics.'<BR>- Sam Cameron, Economic Issues'For anyone who ever thought economics was the "dismal science" this volume of the latest research on the economics of art and culture will serve as the perfect antidote!' -- Orley C. Ashenfelter, Princeton University, US'Here is a great collection of the most exciting contributions to cultural economics in recent years. They range from competition, diversity and valuation with applications to museums, opera, theatres, popular music, the film industry and copyright problems.' -- Rick van der Ploeg, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Ruth Towse PART I GENERAL 1. Mark Blaug (2001), ‘Where Are We Now in Cultural Economics?’ 2. Bruce A. Seaman (2004), ‘Competition and the Non-Profit Arts: The Lost Industrial Organization Agenda’ 3. William D. Grampp (1989), ‘Rent-seeking in Arts Policy’ 4. Alan Peacock (2004), ‘The Credibility of Cultural Economists’ Advice to Governments’ PART II THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS 5. Michael Rushton (1999), ‘Methodological Individualism and Cultural Economics’ 6. David Throsby (2001), ‘Conclusions’ 7. Douglas S. Noonan (2003), ‘Contingent Valuation and Cultural Resources: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature’ PART III TICKET PRICING 8. Sherwin Rosen and Andrew M. Rosenfield (1997), ‘Ticket Pricing’ 9. Pascal Courty (2003), ‘Some Economics of Ticket Resale’ 10. Stephen J. Bailey and Peter Falconer (1998), ‘Charging for Admission to Museums and Galleries: A Framework for Analysing the Impact on Access’ PART IV PERFORMING ARTS 11. Louis Lévy-Garboua and Claude Montmarquette (1996), ‘A Microeconometric Study of Theatre Demand’ 12. Susanne Krebs and Werner W. Pommerehne (1995), ‘Politico-Economic Interactions of German Public Performing Arts Institutions’ 13. Ruth Towse (2001), ‘Quis custodiet? Or Managing the Management: The Case of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden’ PART V MUSEUMS 14. William D. Grampp (1996), ‘A Colloquy about Art Museums: Economics Engages Museology’ 15. Odile Paulus (2003), ‘Measuring Museum Performance: A Study of Museums in France and the United States’ PART VI BUILT HERITAGE 16. David Throsby (1997), ‘Seven Questions in the Economics of Cultural Heritage’ 17. Ilde Rizzo (1998), ‘Heritage Regulation: A Political Economy Approach’ 18. Françoise Benhamou (1996), ‘Is Increased Public Spending for the Preservation of Historic Monuments Inevitable? The French Case’ PART VII THE ART MARKET 19. Neil De Marchi (1999), excerpt from ‘Introduction’ 20. Jianping Mei and Michael Moses (2002), ‘Art as an Investment and the Underperformance of Masterpieces’ 21. R.B. Ekelund, Jr., Rand W. Ressler and John Keith Watson (2000), ‘The “Death-Effect” in Art Prices: A Demand-Side Exploration’ 22. Victor Ginsburgh (2006), ‘The Economic Consequences of Droit de Suite in the European Union’ PART VIII ARTISTS’ LABOUR MARKETS 23. David Throsby (1994), ‘A Work-Preference Model of Artist Behaviour’ 24. Maurizio Caserta and Tiziana Cuccia (2001), ‘The Supply of Arts Labour: Towards a Dynamic Approach’ 25. Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok (2000), ‘An Economic Theory of Avant-Garde and Popular Art, or High and Low Culture’ 26. Tyler Cowen (1996), ‘Why Women Succeed, and Fail, in the Arts’ PART IX INSTITUTIONS AND CREATIVITY 27. Bruno S. Frey (2003), ‘Creativity, Government and the Arts’ 28. Ruth Towse (2001), ‘Partly for the Money: Rewards and Incentives to Artists’ 29. Xavier Castañer and Lorenzo Campos (2002), ‘The Determinants of Artistic Innovation: Bringing in the Role of Organizations’ PART X CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 30. Richard E. Caves (2003), ‘Contracts Between Art and Commerce’ 31. Jonathan Gander and Alison Rieple (2004), ‘How Relevant is Transaction Cost Economics to Inter-Firm Relationships in the Music Industry?’ 32. F.M. Scherer (2001), ‘An Early Application of the Average Total Cost Concept’ 33. Eric A. Strobl and Clive Tucker (2000), ‘The Dynamics of Chart Success in the U.K. Pre-Recorded Popular Music Industry’ 34. Arthur De Vany and W. David Walls (1999), ‘Uncertainty in the Movie Industry: Does Star Power Reduce the Terror of the Box Office?’ 35. Bruno S. Frey with Isabelle Vautravers-Busenhart (2000), ‘Special Exhibitions and Festivals: Culture’s Booming Path to Glory’ PART XI COPYRIGHT 36. Hal R. Varian (2005), ‘Copying and Copyright’ 37. Stan J. Liebowitz (2004), ‘Will MP3 Downloads Annihilate the Record Industry? The Evidence so Far’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisCulture and Welfare State provides comparative studies on the interplay between cultural factors and welfare policies. Starting with an analysis of the historical and cultural foundations of Western European welfare states, reflected in the competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism and socialism, the book goes on to compare the Western European welfare model to those in North America, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Comprehensive and engaging, this volume examines not only the relationships between cultural change and welfare restructuring, taking empirical evidence from policy reforms in contemporary Europe, but also the popular legitimacy of welfare, focusing particularly on the underlying values, beliefs and attitudes of people in European countries.This book will be of great interest to sociologists and political scientists, as well as social policy experts interested in a cultural perspective on the welfare state.Trade Review'. . . the book focuses on a very interesting and important. . . dimension of welfare analysis. . . the book provides a very rich and interesting range of analyses of the complex links between culture and welfare state. It deserves to be read both by advanced undergraduates and academics working in this area, and perhaps should also be read by policy-makers and politicians as a useful corrective to an overly economistic approach to welfare in the straitened years ahead.' -- Rob Sykes, Social Policy and Administration'The essays in this collection advance cultural analysis of the welfare state by describing the experiences of a large array of developed nations. . . Highly recommended.' -- D. Stoesz, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Culture of the Welfare State: Historical and Theoretical Arguments Wim van Oorschot, Michael Opielka and Birgit Pfau-Effinger PART I: CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE WELFARE STATE: IDEAS OF THE GOOD SOCIETY 2. Liberalism, Citizenship and the Welfare State Julia S. O’Connor and Gillian Robinson 3. Social Democratic Values in the European Welfare States Steinar Stjernø 4. Conservatism and the Welfare State: Intervening to Preserve Kees van Kersbergen and Monique Kremer 5. Christian Foundations of the Welfare State: Strong Cultural Values in Comparative Perspective Michael Opielka PART II: WORLDS OF WELFARE CULTURE 6. European and American Welfare Values: Case Studies in Cash Benefits Reform Robert Walker 7. Is There a Specific East-Central European Welfare Culture? Zsuzsa Ferge 8. Welfare Policy Reforms in Japan and Korea: Cultural and Institutional Factors Ito Peng PART III: CULTURAL CHANGE AND WELFARE REFORM 9. Cultural Change and Path Departure: The Example of Family Policies in Conservative Welfare States Birgit Pfau-Effinger 10. Cultures of Activation: The Shifting Relationship between Income Maintenance and Employment Promotion in the Nordic Context Bjørn Hvinden 11. Unsettled Attachments: National Identity, Citizenship and Welfare John Clarke and Janet Fink PART IV: POPULAR WELFARE VALUES AND BELIEFS 12. European Scope-of-Government Beliefs: The Impact of Individual, Regional and National Characteristics John Gelissen 13. Popular Deservingness Perceptions and Conditionality of Solidarity in Europe Wim van Oorschot 14. The Values of Work and Care Among Women in Modern Societies Detlev Lück and Dirk Hofäcker Index

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Book SynopsisIt is an enduring theme of humanity that people are concerned about what others think of them. The notion of face has thus become firmly established as a means of explaining various social phenomena in a range of fields within the social sciences, including anthropology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and psychology. Yet face has also become increasingly entrenched in the literature as a kind of pre-existing sociocultural construct. This book offers an alternative in focusing on the ways in which face is both constituted in and constitutive of social interaction, and its relationship to self, identity and broader sociocultural expectations. There are three main themes explored in this volume. Part I, 'Face in interaction', encompasses contributions that deal with face as it emerges in interaction in various institutional and non-institutional settings. In Part II, the relationship between self, identity and face is investigated in the context of interpersonal communication. The final part considers various approaches to establishing links between individual interactions (the so-called micro) and broader sociocultural expectations or 'norms' that interactants bring into interactions (the so-called macro).Table of Contents1. Face and interaction (Michael Haugh) Part I: Face in interaction 2. Face as emergent in interpersonal communication: An alternative to Goffman (Robert B. Arundale, University of Alaska) 3. How to get rid of a telemarking agent? Facework strategies in an intercultural service call (Rosina Marquez-Reiter, University of Surrey) 4. Analysing Japanese 'face-in-interaction': insights from intercultural business meetings (Michael Haugh and Yasuhisa Watanabe, Queensland University of Technology) 5. That's a mythA": Linguistic avoidance as face-saving strategy in broadcast interviews (Eric Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth) 6. Two Sides of the same coin: How the notion of 'face' is encoded in Persian communication (Sofia A. Koutlaki ) Part II: Face, identity and self 7. Face, identity and interactional goals (Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick) 8. Evoking face in self and other presentation in Turkish (A ukriye Ruhi, Middle East Technical University, Turkey) 9. Face and self in Chinese communication (Gao Ge, San Jose State University) 10. Face, politeness and interpersonal variables: implications for language production and comprehension (Thomas Holtgraves, Ball State University) 11. In the face of the other: Between Goffman and Levinas (Alexander Kozin, Freie Universitat Berlin) Part III: Face, norms and society 12. Facework collision in intercultural communication (Stella Ting-Toomey, California State University at Fullerton) 13. Face in the holistic and relativistic society (Tae-Seop Lim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 14. Finding face between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft: Greek perceptions of the in-group (Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois) 15. Significance of 'face' and politeness in social interaction as revealed through Thai 'face' idioms (Margaret Ukosakul, Payap University, Thailand) 16. Facing the future: some reflections (Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini)

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Book SynopsisThis is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda. This book explores cannibalism, food, eating and being eaten in its many variations. It deals with people who feel threatened by cannibals, churches who combat cannibals and anthropologists who find themselves suspected of being cannibals. It describes how different African and European images of the cannibal intersected and influenced each other in Tooro, Western Uganda, where the figure of the resurrecting cannibal draws on both pre-Christian ideas andchurch dogma of the bodily resurrection and the ritual of Holy Communion. In Tooro cannibals are witches: they bewitch people so that they die only to be resurrected and eaten. This is how they were perceived in the 1990s when a lay movement of the Catholic Church, the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG] organized witch-hunts to cleanse the country. The UMG was responding to an extended crisis: growing poverty, the retreat and corruption of the local government, a guerrilla war, a high death rate through AIDS, accompanied by an upsurge of occult forces in the form of cannibal witches. By trying to deal, explain and "heal" the situation of "internal terror", the UMG reinforced the perception of the reality of witches and cannibals while at the same time containing violence and regaining power for the Catholic Church in competition for "lost souls" with other Pentecostal churches and movements. This volumeincludes the DVD of a video film by Armin Linke and Heike Behrend showing a "crusade" to identify and cleanse witches and cannibals organized by the UMG in the rural area of Kyamiaga in 2002. With a heightened awareness and reflective use of the medium, UMG members created a domesticated version of their crusade for Western (and local) consumption as part of a "shared ethnography". Heike Behrend is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany, the author of Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits [James Currey, 1999], and co-editor of Spirit Possession, Modernity and Power in Africa[James Currey, 1999]Trade ReviewA major and very welcome addition to the expanding Africanist literatures on religious reformations, the nature of power, and the impact of colonial and postcolonial governance on the felt body. * AFRICAN HISTORY *A must read for all interested in Africa. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I EATING/BEING EATEN 'Eating the King': Fragments of a History of Tooro Kingship Ethnography of Eating: Mediating Food and Power 'Eating God': Western Images of the Cannibal PART II TERROR AND HEALING IN TOORO Crisis and the Rise of Occult Forces Witches and Cannibals in Tooro The Catholic Church and Religious Pluralism in Tooro The Uganda Martyrs Guild The Guild's Crusades PART III THE CANNIBAL IN COLONIAL MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS The Making of a Christian King and 'Pagan' Persecutions Christian Catechists and Missionaries in Tooro Missionaries, the Eucharist and Cannibals in Tooro Resurrecting Cannibals Medical Spectacles of Resurrection and Colonial Mirroring

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Book SynopsisGives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contemporary practice. This collection of studies in African photography examines, through a series of empirically rich historical and ethnographic cases, the variety of ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and engaged across a range of social contexts. In so doing, it elucidates the distinctive characteristics of African photographic practices and cultures, vis-à-vis those of other forms of 'vernacular photography' worldwide. In addition, these studies develop areflexive turn, examining the history of academic engagement with these African photographic cultures, and reflecting on the distinctive qualities of the ethnographic method as a means for studying such phenomena. The volumecritically engages current debates in African photography and visual anthropology. First, it extends our understanding of the variety of ways in which both colonial and post-colonial states in Africa have used photography as a means for establishing, and projecting, their authority. Second, it moves discussion of African photography away from an exclusive focus on the role of the 'the studio' and looks at the circulations through which the studios' products - the photographs themselves - later pass as artefacts of material culture. Last, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between photography and ethnographic research methods, as these have been employed in Africa. Richard Vokes is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and author of Ghosts of KanunguTrade ReviewThe collection is an important and nuanced contribution that will be of wide interest to Africanists, and scholars concerned with photography, imperialism and postcolonialism. * ANTHROPOLOGICAL FORUM *A valuable companion for the broad themes it explores. * AUSTRALASIAN REVIEW OF AFRICAN STUDIES *These essays and Richard Vokes's presentation offer fascinating examples of photography's intersection with ethnography. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Richard Vokes's edited work, Photography in Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives, includes essays that dissect the role of photography (as image and practice) within anthropologists' ethnographic work, and it is this historically and ethnographically informed attention to the construction of the photographic archive on Africa that presents a new lens to consider the overlap, and even lack of distinction, between genres like 'vernacular' and official, or 'state,' photography. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Part I Photography & the Ethnographic Encounter - Richard Vokes Double Alienation: Evans-Pritchard's Zande & Nuer Photographs in Comparative Perspective - Christopher Morton Photographing 'the Bridge': Product & Process in the Analysis of a Social Situation in Non-modern Zululand - Chris Wingfield Frontier Photographs: Northern Kenya & the Paul Baxter Collection - Neil Carrier and Kimo Quaintance Memories of a Blue Nile Home: Still Picture, Moving Contexts & Multimedia Linkage - Wendy James Memories of a Blue Nile Home: Still Picture, Moving Contexts & Multimedia Linkage - Part II Picturing the Nation: Photography, Memory & Resistance - Judith Aston Emptying the Gallery: The Archive's Fuller Circle - Erin Haney 'Ca Bouscoulait!': Democratization & Photography in Senegal - Jennifer Bajorek 'A Once & Future Eden': Gorongosa National Park & the Making of Mozambique - Katie McKeown Reflections on Urban Space, the Visual & Political Affect in Kabila's Kinshasa - Part III The Social Life of Photographs - Katrien Pype On 'the Ultimate Patronage Machine': Photography & Substantial Relations in Rural South-western Uganda - Richard Vokes 'The Terror of the Feast': Photography, Textiles & Memory in Weddings along the East African Coast - Heike Behrend Ceremonies, Sitting Rooms & Albums: How Okiek Displayed Photographs in the 1990s - Corinne Kratz

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Book SynopsisA study of the longue durée of a marginalized part of northern Kenya, examining the process of territorialization and the role of Islam in politicizing ethnicity. The recent ethnic violence in Kenya has been preceded by a process of territorialization and politicization of ethnicity. This study examines a marginalized part of Kenya, the semi-arid north inhabited by pastoralists of three language groups - speakers of Oromo, Somali, and Rendille. It spans different periods of time, from early processes of ethnic differentiation between groups, through the colonial period when differences were reflected in administrative policies, to recent times, when global minority discourses, particularly those related to Islam, are tapped by local political agents and ethnic entrepreneurs. A companion volume to Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia, this book is based on over thirty-four years of field research and synthesizes findings from history and political anthropology. Günther Schlee is director of the Department of 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.Trade ReviewA comprehensive summary of relevant anthropological and historical themes in the borderland of Kenya and Ethiopia. * AETHIOPICA *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Günther Schlee Pax Borana - Günther Schlee Non-Proto-Rendille-Somali Elements of Modern Ethnic Groups - Günther Schlee Modern Trends - Günther Schlee Ecology & Politics - Günther Schlee The Impact of War on Ethnic & Religious Identification in Southern Ethiopia in the Early 1990s - Günther Schlee The Impact of War on Ethnic & Religious Identification in Southern Ethiopia in the Early 1990s - Abdullahi A. Shongolo

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Book SynopsisAfrica is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots. Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volumedeals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between 'hosts' and 'guests'. The viewpoint throughout is from the side of the locals, establishing how the processes of interaction shape each small scale destination. Crucial in Africa is the fact that the large majority of tourism is game oriented and the interaction between locals and visitors is very much 'tainted' by this fact. Central is the notion of the tourist bubble - the infrastructure that is generated locally (and internationally) for hosting tourists, as it is this institutional interface that tends to impact on the local society and culture, not the tourists themselves directly. The examples come from all over Africa, from the Sahara to the Eastern Cape, and from Kenyato Ghana. All contributions are based upon original fieldwork. Walter van Beek is professor of anthropology at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; Annette Schmidt is curatorof the African department at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and is an archaeologist with a long experience in cultural management projects.Trade ReviewHighly recommended. * AFRICA AFFAIRS *A welcome addition to the growing field of tourism research in Africa [which will] provide insights for policy-makers to further consider the benefit-sharing formulas in host-guest relations in Africa, especially when aiming for poverty reduction by utilising the tourism industry as a tool. * JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM *This collection of insightful essays on tourism in Africa makes a major contribution to the literature. . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword - Valene Smith African dynamics of cultural tourism - Walter E A Van Beek African dynamics of cultural tourism - PART I Culture, Identity & Tourism - Annette M. Schmidt To dance or not to dance: Dogon masks as a tourist arena - Walter E A Van Beek Semiotics & the political economy of tourism in the Sahara - Georg Klute 'How much for Kunta Kinte?!' Sites of memory & diasporan encounters in West Africa - Kim C. Warren 'How much for Kunta Kinte?!' Sites of memory & diasporan encounters in West Africa - Elizabeth MacGonagle Imitating heritage tourism: a virtual tour of Sekhukhuneland, South Africa - PART II At the Fringe of the Parks - Ineke van Kessel Hosts & guests: stereotypes & myths of international tourism in the Okavango Delta, Botswana - Joseph Mbaiwa Kom 'n bietjie kuier: Kalahari dreaming with the Khomani San - Kate Finlay and Shanade Barnabas Treesleeper camp: a case study of community tourism in Tsintsabis, Namibia - Stasja Koot 'The lion has become a cow': the Maasai hunting paradox - Vanessa Wijngaarden The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - Shirley Brooks The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - Marja Spierenburg The organization of hypocrisy? Juxtaposing tourists & farm dwellers in game farming in South Africa - PART III Intensive Contact - Harry Wels Backpacking in Africa - Ton van Egmond 'I'm not a tourist. I'm a volunteer': tourism, development & international volunteerism in Ghana - Eiliadh Swan Becoming 'real African kings & queens': chieftaincy, culture & tourism in Ghana - Marijke Steegstra Sex trade & tourism in Kenya: close encounters between the hosts & the hosted - Wanjohi Kibicho Host-guest encounters in a Gambian 'love' bubble - Lucy McCombes Afterword. Trouble in the bubble: comparing African tourism with the Andes trail - Annelou Ypeij

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Book SynopsisGives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contemporary practice. This collection of studies in African photography examines, through a series of empirically rich historical and ethnographic cases, the variety of ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and engaged across a range of social contexts. In so doing, it elucidates the distinctive characteristics of African photographic practices and cultures, vis-à-vis those of other forms of 'vernacular photography' worldwide. In addition, these studies develop areflexive turn, examining the history of academic engagement with these African photographic cultures, and reflecting on the distinctive qualities of the ethnographic method as a means for studying such phenomena. The volumecritically engages current debates in African photography and visual anthropology. First, it extends our understanding of the variety of ways in which both colonial and post-colonial states in Africa have used photography as a means for establishing, and projecting, their authority. Second, it moves discussion of African photography away from an exclusive focus on the role of the 'the studio' and looks at the circulations through which the studios' products - the photographs themselves - later pass as artefacts of material culture. Last, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between photography and ethnographic research methods, as these have been employed in Africa. RICHARD VOKES is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and author of Ghosts of KanunguTrade ReviewThe collection is an important and nuanced contribution that will be of wide interest to Africanists, and scholars concerned with photography, imperialism and postcolonialism. * ANTHROPOLOGICAL FORUM *A fascinating and important read because of its deep roots in the tangled, injurious and troubled history of African and European colonial history. * AFRICA *These essays and Richard Vokes's presentation offer fascinating examples of photography's intersection with ethnography. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Richard Vokes's edited work, Photography in Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives, includes essays that dissect the role of photography (as image and practice) within anthropologists' ethnographic work, and it is this historically and ethnographically informed attention to the construction of the photographic archive on Africa that presents a new lens to consider the overlap, and even lack of distinction, between genres like 'vernacular' and official, or 'state,' photography. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Part I Photography & the Ethnographic Encounter - Richard Vokes Double Alienation: Evans-Pritchard's Zande & Nuer Photographs in Comparative Perspective - Christopher Morton Photographing 'the Bridge': Product & Process in the Analysis of a Social Situation in Non-modern Zululand - Chris Wingfield Frontier Photographs: Northern Kenya & the Paul Baxter Collection - Neil Carrier and Kimo Quaintance Memories of a Blue Nile Home: Still Picture, Moving Contexts & Multimedia Linkage - Wendy James Memories of a Blue Nile Home: Still Picture, Moving Contexts & Multimedia Linkage - Part II Picturing the Nation: Photography, Memory & Resistance - Judith Aston Emptying the Gallery: The Archive's Fuller Circle - Erin Haney 'Ca Bouscoulait!': Democratization & Photography in Senegal - Jennifer Bajorek 'A Once & Future Eden': Gorongosa National Park & the Making of Mozambique - Katie McKeown Reflections on Urban Space, the Visual & Political Affect in Kabila's Kinshasa - Part III The Social Life of Photographs - Katrien Pype On 'the Ultimate Patronage Machine': Photography & Substantial Relations in Rural South-western Uganda - Richard Vokes 'The Terror of the Feast': Photography, Textiles & Memory in Weddings along the East African Coast - Heike Behrend Ceremonies, Sitting Rooms & Albums: How Okiek Displayed Photographs in the 1990s - Corinne Kratz

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Book SynopsisExamines how regional integration can resolve the crises of the Greater Horn of Africa, exploring how it can be used as a mechanism for conflict resolution, promoting the economy and tackling issues of identity and citizenship. The Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is engulfed by three interrelated crises: various inter-state wars, civil wars, and inter-communal conflicts; an economic crisis manifested in widespread debilitating poverty, chronic food insecurity and famines; and environmental degradation that is ravaging the region. While it is apparent that the countries of the region are unlikely to be able to deal with the crises individually, there is consensus that their chances of doing so improve markedly with collective regional action. The contributors to this volume address the need for regional integration in the GHA. They identify those factors that can foster integration, such as the proper management of equitable citizenship rights, as well as examining those that impede it, including the region's largely ineffective integration scheme, IGAD, and explore how the former can be strengthened and the latter transformed; explain how regional integration can mitigate the conflicts; and examine how integration can help to energise the region's economy. Kidane Mengisteab is Professor of African Studies and Political Science at Penn State University; Redie Bereketeab is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden.Trade ReviewRegional Integration, Identity, and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa comprises an ambitious and generally well-executed attempt to reassess and articulate novel approaches to the GHR's challenges, proposing possibilities based largely on collaborative grassroots social, economic, and political approaches ... [A]ll of the chapters succeed in moving the larger debate about regional integration toward a more nuanced and regionally specific understanding of identity and social cohesion. * NORTHEAST AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsPART I: Relevance of Integration to Identity and Citizenship Relevance of Regional Integration in the Greater Horn Region - Kidane Mengisteab Re-conceptualizing Identity, Citizenship and Regional Integration in the Greater Horn Region - Redie Bereketeab A Diversity Perspective on Identity, Citizenship and Regional Integration in the Greater Horn of Africa - PART II: Critical Factors in Integration - Fowsia Abdulkadir Invisible Integration in the Greater Horn Region - Gaim Kibreab Nationalist, Sub-nationalist, and Region-wide Narratives and the Quest for Integration-promoting Narratives in the Greater Horn Region - Assefaw Bariagaber Infusion of Citizenship, Diversity and Tolerance in the Education Curriculum: Promoting Regional Integration and Peace in the Greater Horn Region - Abdinur S. Mohamud Radio and the Propagation of anti- and pro-Ethiopian Narratives in Somalia - PART III: Lessons from Selected African Integration Schemes - Ali N. Mohamed Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD): A Critical Analysis - Redie Bereketeab The East African Community: Can it be a Model for Africa's Integration Process? - Francis A.S.T. Matambalya The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Quest for Community Citizenship: Any Lessons for the Horn of Africa? - Cyril I. Obi

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Book SynopsisA timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and economically. How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personallives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention in which the main beneficiaries are those who can claim to undertake development activities. Even for those not formally engaged in the development sector, its discourses influence everyday discussion about class and inequality, poverty and wealth, modernity and tradition. With Tanzania as the country focus, the author shows how the practices of development have infiltrated not only the state at large but many aspects of people's everyday lives. Maia Green is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.Trade ReviewVery helpful in understanding the multifaceted subject of developmental aid in a country that was once seen as one of the poorest in the world. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Readers familiar with Tanzania will find much of interest and much to ponder in this book. * TANZANIAN AFFIARS *'Will have a major impact in anthropology, development, science and technology and policy studies. ... [and] a significant influence on international development practitioners, policy makers and students of development. -- Professor Steven Robins, Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, University of StellenboschTable of ContentsIntroduction Tanzania: A Development State Participating in Development: Projects and Agency in Tanzania Decentralising Development Globalising Development through Participatory Project Management Making Development Agents: Nationalising Participation in Tanzania Localising Development: Civil Society as Social Capital after Socialism Anticipatory Development: Building Civil Society in Tanzania Development Templates: Modernising Anti-Witchcraft Services in Southern Tanzania Making Middle Income: New Development Citizenships in Tanzania Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFinalist for the African Studies Association 2016 Melville J. Herskovits Award A detailed ethnographic and historical study of the implications of fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe from the perspective of those involvedin land occupations around Lake Mutirikwi, from the colonial period to the present day. The Mutirikwi river was dammed in the early 1960s to make Zimbabwe's second largest lake. This was a key moment in the Europeanisation of Mutirikwi's landscapes, which had begun with colonial land appropriations in the 1890s. ButAfrican landscapes were not obliterated by the dam. They remained active and affective. At independence in 1980, local clans reasserted ancestral land claims in a wave of squatting around Lake Mutirikwi. They were soon evicted asthe new government asserted control over the remaking of Mutirikwi's landscapes. Amid fast-track land reform in the 2000s, the same people returned again to reclaim the land. Many returned to the graves and ruins of past lives forged in the very substance of the soil, and even incoming war veterans and new farmers appealed to autochthonous knowledge to make safe their resettlements. This book explores those reoccupations and the complex contests overlandscape, water and belonging they provoked. The 2000s may have heralded a long-delayed re-Africanisation of Lake Mutirikwi, but just as African presence had survived the dam, so white presence remains active and affective through Rhodesian-era discourses, place-names and the materialities of ruined farms, contour ridging and old irrigation schemes. Through lenses focused on the political materialities of water and land, this book reveals how the remaking of Mutirikwi's landscapes has always been deeply entangled with changing strategies of colonial and postcolonial statecraft. It highlights how the traces of different pasts intertwine in contemporary politics through the active, enduring yet emergent, forms and substances of landscape. Joost Fontein is Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.Trade ReviewEssential reading. * JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE *An enriching book that cuts across a number of disciplines. * JADAVPUR JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS *Packed with fascinating stories and important data...chapters deal with spirit control of landscapes, and the intersection of the material and spirit world in negotiating use and creating belonging; the contested relationship between wildlife - including fish and hippos - and people; the legacies of the liberation war and the struggles over land that occurred both during and after the war. -- Ian Scoones * ZIMBABWELAND *A fascinating book that is ethnographically grounded with an appreciation of local histories and archaeology to bring out a complex story of the struggles over resources, belonging, imagined futures and statecraft in Southern Zimbabwe. * INSIGHT ON AFRICA *Fontein's interdisciplinary approach as an anthropologist, a sociologist, an ecologist, and a historian provides further credence to his writings.Fontein may have opened the door for a whole new understanding of peoples and places. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Highly recommended, both for those interested in detailed analyses of (the impact of) land reform in Zimbabwe, as well as those interested in more theoretical debates about the significance of materialities in anthropology and history. * ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTHERN AFRICA *This is a story of a tangle of imminent pasts and imagined futures firmly rooted in the substances of Mutirikwi . many audiences . will want to journey through the pasts and futures of this book. * IJAHS *T]his handsome volume helps readers to wrestle with the complexities of matter, experience, and time in southern Africa. Fontein's scholarship will interest students of African Studies, landscape, African history and historiography, materiality, development studies, and critical heritage studies. * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY *Basing his book on extensive fieldwork, in-depth oral interviews, and an intimate understanding of the historical and social context, Fontein provides an exceptionally detailed analysis. . . . The moving stories of informants, vivid photos, and helpful maps make for an excellent work. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsRemaking Mutirikwi: An Introduction PART ONE: Remaking Mutirikwi in the 2000s New farmers, old claims Graves, ruins & belonging Rain, power & sovereignty Hippos, fishing & irrigation Genealogical geographies PART TWO: Damming Mutirikwi, 1940s-1990s New white futures, new Rhodesian settlers & large-scale irrigation, 1940s-1950s Remaking Victorian landscapes, 1950s-1960s War & danger in the wake of the dam, 1970s Promised returns & frustrated futures in the wake of war, 1980s-1990s Epilogue: Remaking Mutirikwi in the late 2000s and early 2010s

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Book SynopsisA timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of children themselves to look at where, why and how they move - within and beyond the continent - andthe impact of African child migration globally. Children in Africa are heavily involved in migration but we know too little about the circumstances in which they migrate, their motivations and the impact of migration on their welfare, on wider society and in a global context. This book seeks to retrieve the experiences of child migrants, and to examine how child migration differs from adult migration and whether the condition of childhood pushes individuals towards specific migratory trajectories. It also examines the opportunities that child migrants seek elsewhere, the lack of opportunities that make them move elsewhere and to what extent their trajectories and strategies are gendered. Analysing the diversity and complexity of children's experiences of mobility in Ghana, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Togo and Zambia, the authors look at patterns of fosterage, child circulation within Africa and beyond the continent; therole of education, child labour and conceptions of place and "home"; and the place of the child narrator in migrant fiction. Comparing different methodological and theoretical approaches and setting the case studies within the broader context of family migration, transnational families, colonial and postcolonial migration politics, religious encounter and globalization in Africa, this book provides a much-needed examination of this contentious and criticalissue. Elodie Razy is Associate Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Liege (FaSS). She is the co-founder and co-editor of the online journal AnthropoChildren: Ethnographic Perspectivesin Children & Childhood. Marie Rodet is a Senior Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). She is currently working on her second monograph on slave resistance in Kayes,Mali.Trade Review[T]ouches on many current themes in the literature of African childhood. Razy and Rodet's introduction does a particularly good job describing the state of the field, making it useful in classrooms . interrogating how migrant children have fit into various representations of the world enriches our understanding of contemporary social contexts and has the ability to expand the purview of African policymakers in the future. * IJAHS *Elodie Razy and Marie Rodet have assembled an impressive range of contributions to this fascinating volume on African children and migration . in all, this is an impressive collection with a broad reach that will undoubtedly stimulate further much-needed work on African children and childhoods. The volume reaches across boundaries, both spatial and disciplinary. * JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH *Children on the Move in Africa offers a timely and insightful perspective into the long-established phenomenon of childhood migration in Africa. The volume effectively demonstrates that migration not only shapes the child migrant's identity, but it has also influenced the trajectories of the continent as adults call on their experiences of childhood migration to make value judgements on work, national identity, and social cohesion. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsPreface - Benjamin N. Lawrance Introduction: Child Migration in Africa: Key Issues and New Perspectives - Elodie Razy Introduction: Child Migration in Africa: Key Issues and New Perspectives - PART I: CHILD MIGRANTS: BETWEEN VULNERABILITY AND AGENCY? - Marie Rodet "An Ardent Desire to be Useful": Senegalese Students, Religious Sisters and Migration for Schooling in France, 1824-1840 - Kelly Duke-Bryant Girl Pawns, Brides and Slaves: Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1920s - Robin Chapdelaine PART II: BEING A CHILD AND BECOMING A GENDERED ADULT: THE CHALLENGES OF MIGRATIONS IN CHILDHOOD "Bringing a Girl from the Village": Gender, Child Migration and Domestic Service in Post-colonial Zambia - Sacha Hepburn "I Will Never Become a Crocodile but I am Happy if I Eat Enough": A Psychological Analysis of Child Fosterage and Resilience in Contemporary Mali - Paola Porcelli Working as a "Boy": Labour, Age and Masculinities in Togo, c. 1975-2005 - Marco Gardini PART III: MOBILITY, IMAGINATION AND MAKING NATIONS Childhood, Space and Memory: Migrations of the Métis in Central Highland Madagascar - Violaine Tisseau "We Were Mixed with all Types": Educational Migration in the Northern Territories of Colonial Ghana - Lacy S. Ferrell India-South Africa Mobilities in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Minors, Immigration Encounters in Cape Town and Becoming South African - Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie Education, Migration and Nationalism: Mapping the School Days of the First Genderation of Southern Sudanese Nationalist Leaders, c. 1948-1972 - with Harjyot Hayer - Hannah Whitaker Child Narration as Device for Negotiation for Space and Identity Formation in Recent Nigerian Migrant Fiction - Oluwole Coker

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Book SynopsisMulti-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa. What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the politicaleconomy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial andapartheid pasts. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press).Trade ReviewAn essential volume. For scholars of Africa, several of the contributors and perspectives may well be familiar (more than half of the book's contributors are professors, who have published widely), but the gathering of critical perspectives offers a rare opportunity to take stock of what James Ferguson calls a 'shared intellectual sensibility' (Foreword, p. xvii). For those who are not so familiar with African research, or who may want to move beyond policy approaches, this book is a formidable place to start. * AFRICA AT LSE BLOG *This book is an important and stimulating addition to African Studies and, indeed, as emphasized by Jane Guyer and many of the contributors, also to social theory, especially social theory of 'economic life. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *The text is enriched by sound theoretical discussions and by intellectual excursions into the colonial and contemporary era in Nigeria, German Kamerun, apartheid and contemporary South Africa, and, in the case of Mali and its environs, by insights into the formidable challenges posed by ethnocentric mediation and interpretation. Recommended. * CHOICE *The book is highly recommended. * THE ROUND TABLE *This volume insightfully weaves together an impressive range of topics, scales and themes through often rich and fascinating case studies which make it valuable to anyone interested in economic anthropology. * SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY *Wale Adebanwi's thought-provoking introduction spells out an intriguing and yet straightforwardly sociological mission for anthropologists of Africa today: to study the everyday lives of Africans under the economic constraints they face. * Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsForeword - James Ferguson Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life: An Introduction - Wale Adebanwi PART I - MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY AND FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES Cattle, Currencies and the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier - John and Jean Comaroff Currency and Conflict in Colonial Nigeria - David Pratten Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) - Peter L Geschiere Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) - Tristan Oestermann The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains: Africa's Lessons to Social Theorists - Celestin Monga PART II - LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES AND PRECARITY From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African History - Frederick Cooper Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force - Maxim Bolt PART III - MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION AND BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS Precarious Life: Violence and Poverty Under Boko Haram and MEND - Michael J. Watts The Debt Imperium: Relations of Owing after Apartheid - Anne-Maria Makhulu Marginal Men and Social Conflicts in Nigeria: Okada Riders in Lagos - Gbemisola Animasawun Sopona, Social Relations and the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria - Elisha P. Renne PART IV - HISTORY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY AND DEMOCRATIC LIFE History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa - Sara S. Berry Cultural Mediation, Colonialism and Politics: Colonial "Truchement", Postcolonial Translator - Souleymane Bachir Diagne "Kos'ona Miran?" Patronage, Prebendalism and Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria - Adigun Agbaje AFTERWORD: The Landscapes Beyond the Margins: Agency, Optimization and the Power of the Empirical - Jane Guyer

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Book SynopsisThe author argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social movements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy in South Africa. Critics of liberalism in Europe and North America argue that a stress on 'rights talk' and identity politics has led to fragmentation, individualisation and depoliticisation. But are these developments really signs of 'the end ofpolitics'? In the post-colonial, post-apartheid, neo-liberal new South Africa poor and marginalised citizens continue to struggle for land, housing and health care. They must respond to uncertainty and radical contingencies on a daily basis. This requires multiple strategies, an engaged, practised citizenship, one that links the daily struggle to well organised mobilisation around claiming rights. Robins argues for the continued importance of NGOs, socialmovements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy. He goes beyond the sanitised prescriptions of 'good governance' so often touted by development agencies. Instead he argues for a complex, hybrid and ambiguous relationship between civil society and the state, where new negotiations around citizenship emerge. Steven L. Robins is Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Stellenbosch and editorof Limits to Liberation after Apartheid (James Currey).Trade ReviewAn important addition to the literature which draws attention to the 'ambiguous and contradictory character' of rights-based discourses in South Africa. [It] is a must read for anyone interested in the nature of democracy and identity in the post-apartheid era. * POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW *In this magnificent book, unearthing case studies from academic journals, Robins examines rights-based social movements and the resurgence of the 'traditional' in communal identity politics. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This illuminating post-apartheid ethnography deserves close study by anyone concerned with popular politics in the globalising South. Robins freely intersperses high-level social theory with carefully selected case studies and vignettes. * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT *[...] an important book, setting out as it does a strong argument for rejecting some of the more cynical analyses suggesting an end of politics. Based on some rich empirical case studies it offers some fascinating insights into the post-apartheid dilemmas in South Africa. - -- Ian Scoones, IDS, SussexTable of ContentsIntroduction Activist mediations of 'rights' & indigenous identity Citizens & 'bushmen': the khomani San, NGOs & the making of a new social movement 'Civil society' & popular politics in the postcolony: 'deep democracy' & deep authoritarianism at the tip of Africa? AIDS, science & the making of a social movement AIDS activism & biomedical citizenship in South Africa Rights passages from 'near death' to 'new life': AIDS activism & new HIV-identities in South Africa Sexual rights & sexual cultures: AIDS activism, sexual politics & 'new masculinities' after apartheid Conclusion: beyond rights & the limits of liberalism

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