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Book SynopsisAttachment between an infant and his or her parents is a major topic within developmental psychology. An increasing number of psychologists, evolutionary biologists and anthropologists are articulating their doubts that attachment theory in its present form is applicable worldwide, without, however, denying that the development of attachment is a universal need. This book brings together leading scholars from psychology, anthropology and related fields to reformulate attachment theory in order to fit the cultural realities of our world. Contributions are based on empirical research and observation in a variety of cultural contexts. They are complemented by careful evaluation and deconstruction of many of the underlying premises and assumptions of attachment theory and of conventional research on the role of infant-parent attachment in human development. The book creates a contextual cultural understanding of attachment that will provide the basis for a groundbreaking reconceptualizatioTrade Review'A much-needed collection of evolutionary, anthropological and psychological accounts of early relationship formation from the majority world which differ from the classical Bowlby–Ainsworth attachment theory. It opens up a new agenda for research regarding early socio-emotional development.' Cigdem Kagitcibasi, Koç University, Istanbul'Dazzling in the range of cultural behaviors that relate to infant attachment and social development. The most serious attempt yet to integrate evolutionary adaptation, developmental universals, and cultural variation in attachment and caregiving behaviors.' Patricia M. Greenfield, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsForeword Michael Lamb; Introduction: understanding relationships. What we would need to know to conceptualize attachment as the cultural solution of a universal developmental task Heidi Keller; Part I. Attachment as an Adaptation: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives: 1. Family relations among cooperative breeders: challenges and offerings to attachment theory from evolutionary anthropology Johannes Johow and Eckart Voland; 2. Attachment theory as cultural ideology Robert A. LeVine; 3. 'Babies aren't persons': a survey of delayed personhood David Lancy; Part II. Multiple Attachments: Allomothering, Stranger Anxiety, and Intimacy: 4. Maternal and allomaternal responsiveness: the significance of cooperative caregiving in attachment theory Courtney L. Meehan and Sean Hawks; 5. Bonding and belonging beyond WEIRD worlds: rethinking attachment theory on the basis of cross-cultural anthropological data Birgitt Röttger-Rössler; 6. Concentric circles of attachment in Pirahã: a brief survey Daniel L. Everett; 7. Is it time to detach from attachment theory? Perspectives from the West African rain forest Alma Gottlieb; 8. 'Don't show your emotions!' Emotion regulation and attachment in the Cameroonian Nso Hiltrud Otto; 9. Family life as bricolage - reflections on intimacy and attachment in death Nancy Scheper-Hughes; Part III. Looking into the Future and Implications for Policy Development: 10. The socialization of trust: plural caretaking and diverse pathways in human development across cultures Thomas S. Weisner; 11. The precursors of attachment security: behavioral systems and culture Vivian Carlson and Robin Harwood; Part IV. Conclusion Heidi Keller and Hiltrud Otto.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a fresh overview of ancient Egyptian society and culture in the age of the pyramids. It addresses key themes in the comparative research of early complex societies, including urbanism, funerary culture, temple ritual, kingship, the state, and cultural cohesion.Table of ContentsI. Orientation: 1. Studying the Pyramid age; 2. Historical outline; II. Living Together: 3. People in landscapes; 4. Life in settlements; 5. Urban growth; 6. Egypt in the wider world; III. Ritual and Discourse: 7. Funerary culture; 8. Temple ritual; 9. Kingship sacred and social; IV. Organising People: 10. Scaling the state; 11. Archaeology beyond elites; 12. Civilisation at grass-roots level.

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Book SynopsisUsing extensive, spoken vernacular data collected by youth from youth, Tagliamonte argues that teen language is at the cutting edge of linguistic change, offering a window to the future. Richly illustrated and filled with engaging quotes, anecdotes and language puzzles, Teen Talk is fascinating reading for students, teachers and parents.Trade Review'Teen Talk offers an exciting, thought-provoking, and engaging observation of the 'good, the bad and the lovely' aspects of youth language. Using a wide range of datasets from the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language to insights gained from kitchen table conversations with her own children, Tagliamonte forcefully demonstrates how the linguistic behaviour of young people offers fascinating insights into the dynamics of how linguistic systems can be reorganized from one generation to the next. If you manage to read just one book on this topic at any stage of your own life, make it this one.' Karen Corrigan, Newcastle UniversityTable of Contents1. What's all the fuss about teen language?; 2. Teens talking; 3. Methods: how to tap teen language?; 4. Quotatives: I'm like, 'Oh my God!'; 5. Intensifiers: upping the ante: super cool!; 6. How do you start a sentence?; 7. Sentence enders: finish with a flourish; 8. Generics: stuffology; 9. Just: just what?; 10. Adjectives: the good, the bad and lovely; 11. Other funky teenage features: you know what? I dunno. Whatever!; 12. Internet language: everyone's online; 13. Are they always going to talk like that?

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Book SynopsisHumans are complex social beings. To understand human behaviour, an integrated perspective is required - one which considers both what we regularly do (our personality traits) and what motivates us (our values). Personality, Values, Culture uses an evolutionary perspective to look at the similarities and differences in personality and values across modern societies. Integrating research on personality and human values into a functional framework that highlights their underlying compatibilities (driven by shared genetic and brain mechanisms), Fischer describes how personality is shaped by the complex interplay between genes and the environment, both over the course of human evolution and within the lifespan of individuals. He proposes a gene-culture coevolution model of personality and values to explain how and why people differ around the world and how genes, economics, social conditions, and climate jointly shape personality.Trade Review'Personality traits and value orientations have been studied in separation. Ronald Fischer overcomes this separation and demonstrates convincingly how much these two strands of scholarship can learn from each other. He synthesizes a vast multi-disciplinary literature in a most competent way. This book is a new classic in cross-cultural psychology.' Christian Welzel, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany'Ronald Fischer, a giant in the field of cross-cultural psychology, has produced an intellectual masterpiece. Drawing on fields as diverse as genetics, neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, he provides a marvelous integration of research on personality, values and culture, tackling age-old questions and identifying new frontiers along the way. This book is a must for anyone interested in understanding human behavior.' Michele J. Gelfand, University of Maryland'This is a rich and erudite work that covers key concepts in the history of psychological thought and supports the author's arguments regarding a model of gene-culture coevolution. Psychologists, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in personality, culture, and evolutionary psychology will want to read this book.' D. S. Dunn, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction: the quest to understand the person; 2. Everything is change: a primer to evolution; 3. The big five personality traits and human values; 4. Examining the common structure of traits and values; 5. Explaining personality structures: the relative importance of genetic; 6. Searching for the underlying mechanisms in the brain and the situation and cultural differences in values and traits; 7. Is the personality world two-dimensional? The (in)stability of the trait-value structure across cultures; 8. Understanding structural variation: resources, threats and the power of the situation; 9. Values and traits as adaptive strategies; 10. Traits and values across the lifespan; 11. Evolutionary genetics of personality; 12. Why should we care about personality, culture and evolution?

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Book SynopsisFour leading scholars present a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages in peripheral sites.Trade Review'Reading the book, the authors' passion for small languages and the selected languages in particular is very evident. This results in convincingly written passages in which the authors' virtuosity in the field of sociolinguistics combines with interesting and sometimes even amusing examples from Corsican, Welsh, Irish and Sámi.' Sven Leuckert, The Linguist ListTable of Contents1. Small languages in new circumstances?; 2. Reflexivity and small languages: the 'meta' imperative in late modernity; 3. Conventional and transactional authenticities in small-culture tourism; 4. Expanding possibilities for commodification: luxury, mobility, visuality; 5. Transgression, small languages, and changing boundaries; 6. A view from the periphery: sociolinguistics, small languages and change.

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Book SynopsisCultural exchange, the dynamic give and take between two or more cultures, has become a distinguishing feature of modern Europe. This was already an important feature to the elites of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and it played a central role in their fashioning of self. The cultures these elites exchanged and often integrated with their own were both material and immaterial; they included palaces, city-dwellings, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, dresses and jewellery, but also gestures, ways of sitting, standing and walking, and dances. In this innovative and well-illustrated 2007 volume all this lively exchange is traced from Bruges, Augsburg and Istanbul to Italy; from Italy to Paris, Amsterdam, Dresden, Novgorod and Moscow; and even from Brazil to Rouen. This volume, which reveals how a first European identity was forged, will appeal to cultural and art historians, as well as social and cultural anthropologists.Trade Review'This finely composed book contains a wealth of information not only for scholars of Renaissance and early modern studies, but for anyone interested in a Europe still under construction today.' Revue Belge de Philologie et d'HistoireTable of ContentsPreface; Cultural exchange and cultural transfer in early modern Europe: a theoretical perspective and examples Bernd Roeck; 1. The Baltic ceramic market 1200–1600: measuring Hanseatic cultural transfer and resistance David Gaimster; 2. Between Italy and Moscow: cultural crossroads and the culture of exchange Evelyn Welch; 3. Netherlandish painting and early Renaissance Italy: artistic rapports in a historiographical perspective Bernard Aikema; 4. Cultural transfer between Venice and the Ottomans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Deborah Howard; 5. Wandering objects, migrating artists: the appropriation of Italian Renaissance art by German courts in the sixteenth century Barbara Marx; 6. The dressed body: the moulding of identities in sixteenth-century France Isabelle Paresys; 7. Clothing and cultural exchange in Renaissance Germany Ulinka Rublack; 8. Gesture and comportment: diversity and uniformity Dilwyn Knox; 9. The exchange of dance cultures in Renaissance Europe: Italy, France and abroad Marina Nordera; 10. Dancing in the Dutch Republic: the uses of bodily memory Herman Roodenburg; 11. Imaginations of overseas cultures in Western European pageants, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries Johan Verberckmoes; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) across its three decades in exile through rich, local histories of the camps where Namibian exiles lived in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola and highlights how different Namibians experienced these sites, as well as the tensions that developed within.Trade Review'Drawing upon insights from anthropology as well as a number of remarkable interviews he conducted with Namibians who had been in exile, Williams’s ‘historical ethnography’ is rich and sophisticated. No one concerned with SWAPO’s exile history in future will be able to ignore this book.' Christopher Saunders, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. Camp, Nation, History: 1. Liberation movement camps and the past of the present in Southern Africa; 2. Revisiting an image of a camp: remember Cassinga?; Part II. Camps and the Formation of a Nation: 3. Living in exile: life and crisis at SWAPO's Kongwa Camp, 1964–8; 4. Ordering the nation: SWAPO in Zambia, 1974–6; 5. 'The spy' and the camp: SWAPO in Angola, 1980–9; Part III. Camps and the Production of History: 6. Namibia's 'Wall of Silence': challenging national history in the international system; 7. Reconciliation in Namibia? Narrating the past in a post-camp nation; 8. The camp and the post-colony.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1928, this volume provides a study of tribal culture on Rossel Island, with a detailed section devoted to social relationships and monetary system. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of anthropology and Melanesian cultures.Table of ContentsAuthor's preface; Introduction A. C. Haddon; 1. Introduction; 2. Material culture; 3. Tribe, clan, and family; 4. The relationship system; 5. The monetary system; 6. Monetary ceremonial; 7. Feasts; 8. Marriage; 9. Death and cannibalism; 10. Ghosts; 11. Religion; 12. Sacred places; 13. Sorcery; 14. Games and songs; 15. Chiefs; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah. Diana Paton traces how representations of obeah were entangled with key moments in Caribbean history, from eighteenth-century slave rebellions to the formation of new nations after independence.Trade Review'Paton takes a fresh approach to the study of black religion, examining the way obeah - as term and as practice - emerged amid the political tensions of slavery, state, and empire. With careful research, conceptual sophistication, and narrative force this book reveals the vital importance of African diaspora spiritual forms in the history of Atlantic political culture.' Vincent Brown, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Obeah is usually seen as an exotic and frightening phenomenon that sharply differentiates a spiritually and politically regressive Caribbean from the modern world. But obeah, as Diana Paton informs us in this sparkling, wide-ranging and multifaceted book, was much more than this. Her insightful and gracefully written book helps us understand not just obeah as the ritual manipulation of spiritual power, but transforms our understanding of the multiple cultural meanings of this religious practice within Anglophone Caribbean society from slavery days to the present.' Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne'This absorbing, beautifully written account offers a new angle into multiple issues at the core of British Caribbean lives and struggles from the era of enslavement to the dawn of independence. The Cultural Politics of Obeah reveals the realm of spiritual power and healing to have been a crucial resource and potent target alike. It was African-Caribbean peoples most of all who hewed to and renewed that resource, but Indo-Caribbeans, Europeans and others also sought power and healing in obeah. Obeah was a crossroads, a common ground, a mystery, a flashpoint, and a quotidian part of Caribbean life all at once. Diana Paton brings alive the voices of bureaucrats and rebels, con-men and balm mothers, to help us understand why obeah mattered so very much.' Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh'The Cultural Politics of Obeah is a major contribution to Caribbean history. Obeah was part of a feared shadow world of African spiritual practice, illegal and thus almost invisible. Diana Paton's achievement in this masterful experiment in social and cultural history is to map its meanings for Caribbean society from the era of slavery to the postcolonial moment. She helps us towards a new view of the intellectual life of the Caribbean underclass, and of how colonial and nationalist state-makers sought to contain or conjure with its power.' Richard Drayton, King's College London'The Cultural Politics of Obeah is an elegantly written, deeply researched, and wideranging account of spiritual powers and healing practices that have long been central to Caribbean people's daily lives as well as targets of ridicule and prosecution. It is a major contribution to Caribbean history and essential reading for historians of slavery and emancipation.' Randy M. Browne, Slavery and Abolition'Diana Paton's recently published book, The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity in the Caribbean World, helps us understand how the 1904 Obeah Act is not only still in existence in the Caribbean, but also active … This rich text shows how the crime of obeah emerged as a homogenizing tool used by police, prosecutors, and governments to consolidate a wide range of healing practices deemed subversive and uncivilized … The Cultural Politics of Obeah does an excellent job demonstrating how racial hostilities have been mobilized as obeah for different reasons at different moments. Through a range of historical detail it demonstrates how anti-obeah legislation has defined racial governance where obeah is an artifact of colonial law. Rather than a singular practice or object of knowledge, it shows how obeah must be understood as a hostile term.' Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean AnthropologyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The emergence of Caribbean spiritual politics; 2. Obeah and the slave-trade debates; 3. Creole slave society, obeah, and the law; 4. Obeah and its meanings in the post-emancipation era; 5. Obeah in the courts, 1890–1939; 6. Obeah prosecutions from the inside; 7. Protest, development, and the politics of obeah; 8. The postcolonial politics of obeah; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this introductory textbook has been updated and restructured to emphasise the deep, yet constantly changing relationship between gender and language use. It covers the full breadth of the course, including sexuality and non-normative sexual and gender identities.Trade Review'This is no ordinary textbook. Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, two of the most important scholars writing in sociolinguistics and semantics today, have established a new direction for research in the field of language and gender. There is a reason that this now classic text is being reissued in second edition: no other book in this field makes a more convincing case for the crucial interdependence of language, gender, and sexuality in the formation of diverse twenty-first-century subjectivities. Revised to include all the provocative research directions of the last decade, this new edition of Language and Gender is a must-read for students and scholars who are engaged in the grounded analytics of social life.' Kira Hall, University of Colorado'… Language and Gender is a much needed work, and a much needed new edition in these changing times. Kira Hall's endorsement on the back cover employs two key terms: convincing and provocative. To which I add: absolutely necessary.' Mariaelena Bartesaghi, Journal of Language and PoliticsTable of Contents1. An introduction to gender; 2. Introduction to the study of language and gender; 3. Linguistic resources; 4. Getting it said; 5. Making nice; 6. Being assertive… or not; 7. Where common sense comes from and where it hides; 8. Mapping the world; 9. Constructing nations, constructing boundaries; 10. Fashioning selves.

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Book SynopsisThe Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3000 years. The resulting 'anthropology of archaeology' highlights the connections between past and present in west-central and southern Africa.Trade Review'… the almost total lack of prior archaeological work in the Tong hills, and the relative lack of such research across much of northern Ghana, makes this an important contribution to regional history …' Peter Mitchell, Antiquity'There is much to like about this book: it provides information on a little known area and a brief discussion of larger regional connections, and the personal narratives provide a good description of the processes of fieldwork in Congo, sometimes on a shoestring.' Scott MacEachern, Azania: Archaeological Research in AfricaTable of Contents1. Behind the scenes of research; 2. Pride and prejudice: big oil, eucalyptus, and the people without history; 3. Natural and cultural environment; 4. Preservation: heritage and reconnaissance; 5. Ceramic later Stone Age excavations; 6. The early Iron Age; 7. Later Iron Age sites and the historic period; 8. Opening Pandora's box: from Loango to the Okavango; 9. Summation.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1910, this book analyses the customs and superstitions of modern Greece as a means of gaining a greater understanding of ancient Greek belief structures. Analogies and coincidences between ancient and modern Greece had been pointed out prior to the publication of this edition, but no large attempt had been made to trace the continuity of the life and thought of the Greek people, and to exhibit modern Greek folklore as an essential factor in the interpretation of ancient Greek religion. The text is highly accessible, and all quotations from ancient and modern Greek are translated into English. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in anthropology and the classical world.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introductory; 2. The survival of pagan deities; 3. The communion of gods and men; 4. The relation of soul and body; 5. Cremation and inhumation; 6. The benefit of dissolution; 7. The union of gods and men; General index; Index of Greek words and phrases.

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Book SynopsisEdward Burnett Tylor (18321917) was an English anthropologist who is widely considered the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. First published in 1871, this influential work explains Tylor's idea of cultural evolution in relation to anthropology. Volume 1 focuses on social evolution, language and myth.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The science of culture; 2. The development of culture; 3. Survival in culture; 4. Survival in culture continued; 5. Emotional and imitative language; 6. Emotional and imitative language continued; 7. The art of counting; 8. Mythology; 9. Mythology continued; 10. Mythology continued; 11. Animism.

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Book SynopsisContinuing on from his successful Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, in this book Éliphas Lévi traces magic from its ancient origins to the latest developments of the nineteenth century, stressing the importance of magic as a valid science and a compromise between the rational and the mystical.Table of ContentsPréface; Introduction; Livre I. Les Origines Magiques: 1. Origines fabuleuses; 2. Magie des mages; 3. Magie dans l'Inde; 4. Magie hermétique; 5. Magie en Grèce; 6. Magie mathématicienne de Pythagore; 7. Le sainte kabbale; Livre II. Formation et Réalisation du Dogme: 1. Symbolisme primitif de l'histoire; 2. Le mysticisme; 3. Initiations et épreuves; 4. Magie du culte publie; 5. Mystères de la virginité; 6. Des superstitions; 7. Monumenets magiques; Livre III. Synthèse et Réalisation Divine du Magisme par la Révélation Chrétienne: 1. Christ accusé de magie; 2. Vérité du christianisme par la magie; 3. Du diable; 4. Les dernier païens; 5. Les légendes; 6. Peintures kabbalistiques; 7. École d'Alexandrie; Livre IV. La Magie et la Civilisation: 1. Magie chez les Barbares; 2. Influence des femmes; 3. Lois saliques contre les sorciers; 4. Légendes de Charlemagne; 5. Magiciens; 6. Procès célèbres; 7. Superstitions relatives au diable; Livre V. Les Adeptes et le Sacerdoce: 1. Prêtres et papes accusés de magie; 2. Apparition des Bohémiens nomades; 3. Légende et histoire de Raymond Lulle; 4. Alchimistes; 5. Sorciers et magiciens célèbres; 6. Procès de magie; 7. Origines magiques de la maçonnerie; Livre VI. La Magie et la Révolution: 1. Auteurs remarquables du XVIIIe siècle; 2. Personnage merveilleux du XVIIIe siècle; 3. Prophéties de Cazotte; 4. Révolution française; 5. Phénomènes de médiiomanie; 6. Les illuminés d'Allemagne; 7. Empire et restauration; Livre VII. La Magie au XIXe Siècle: 1. Les magnétiseurs mystiques et les matérialistes; 2. Des hallucinations; 3. Les magnétiseurs et les somnamnules; 4. Les fantaisistes en magie; 5. Souvenirs intimes de l'auteur; 6. Des sciences occultes; 7. Résumé et conclusion; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in France in 1854, this highly popular two-volume treatise on ritual magic initiates the reader into the secrets of Western occult philosophy. This first volume, 'The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic', chronicles the philosophy of western magic and the esoteric.Table of ContentsDiscours préliminaire; Introduction; 1. Le récipiendaire; 2. Les colonnes du temple; 3. Le triangle de Salomon; 4. Le tétragramme; 5. Le pentagramme; 6. L'équilibre magique; 7. L'épée flamboyante; 8. La réalisation; 9. L'initiation; 10. La cabale; 11. La chaîne magique; 12. Le grand oeuvre; 13. La nécromancie; 14. Les transmutations; 15. La magie noire; 16. Les envoûtements; 17. L'astrologie; 18. Les philtres et les sorts; 19. La pierre des philosophes; 20. La médecine universelle; 21. La divination; 22. Résumé et clef générale des quatre sciences occultes.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in France in 1854, this highly popular two-volume treatise on ritual magic initiates the reader into the secrets of Western occult philosophy. This second volume explains the symbols and philosophy behind magical ceremony and ritual.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Les préparations; 2. L'équilibre magique; 3. Le triangle des pantacles; 4. La conjuration des quatres; 5. Le pentagramme flamboyant; 6. Le médium et le médiateur; 7. Le septénaire des talismans; 8. Avis aux imprudents; 9. Le cérémonial des initiés; 10. La clef de l'occultisme; 11. La triple chaîne; 12. Le grand oeuvre; 13. La nécromancie; 14. Les transmutations; 15. Le sabbat des sorciers; 16. Les envoûtements et les sorts; 17. L'écriture des étoiles; 18. Philtres et magnétisme; 19. Le magistère du soleil; 20. La traumaturgie; 21. La science des prophètes; 22. Le livre d'Hermès; Supplément.

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Book SynopsisThis compilation of Maori oral literature was commissioned in 1879 by the New Zealand government to help preserve indigenous traditions. The ethnographer John White (182691) collected the texts and provided accompanying English translations. Volume 3 (1887) includes narratives about the rainbow god Uenuku, and the South Island Maori.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Ue-nuku and Whena; 2. Ue-nuku; 3. Pou-heni and Hine-kau-i-rangi; 4. Tama-tea and Rongo-kako; 5. Rongo-i-tua and Kahui-tupua; 6. Tara-ki-uta and Tara-ki-tai; 7. Nga-ti-ira; 8. Rau-rika; 9. Kui, Tutu-mai-ao, and Turehu; 10. Pa o Nga-toko-ono (The Pa of the Six); 11. The acts of Te-wera; 12. Last migration from Ha-taitai; 13. Tama-i-hara-nui; 14. Nga-ti-mamoe and South Island history.

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Book SynopsisClÃment Huart (1854â1926) studied Middle Eastern languages and served as a French diplomat for twenty years before becoming Professor of Persian at the Ecole des Langues Orientales in Paris. This two-volume French translation (1918â22), published as part of a larger series on Islamic hagiography, focuses on the medieval founders of the Mevlevi order of whirling dervishes, whose main centre, Konya, Huart had visited twenty years earlier. The fourteenth-century Persian text is preserved in several manuscripts, and Huart's translation follows an early seventeenth-century manuscript from his private collection. Huart regards the text as providing evidence primarily about the intellectual and moral contexts of the origins of the dervishes' mystical movement rather than about strict historical facts, but also points to the relevance of its treatment of dreams, prophecies, apparitions and paranormal phenomena to modern researchers of hypnosis and psychosis. The translation is accompanied by eTable of ContentsPréface; 1. Biographie de notre grand Maître Béhâ-ed-dîn Mohammed, fils d'el-Hoséïn, fils d'Ahmed, el-Khatîbî, el-Balkhî, el-Bakrî; 2. Biographie du Seigneur connaisseur des mystères, Borhân el-Haqq wèd-dîn d'el-Hoséïn et-Tirmidî; 3. Sur certains détails de la biographie de notre Maître Djé-lâl-ed-dîn; Biographie de Chems-ed-dîn Tébrîzî; Notes additionnelles; Table généalogique des Tchélébis de Qonya; Index alphabétique.

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Book SynopsisClÃment Huart (1854â1926) studied Middle Eastern languages and served as a French diplomat for twenty years before becoming Professor of Persian at the Ecole des Langues Orientales in Paris. This two-volume French translation (1918â22), published as part of a larger series on Islamic hagiography, focuses on the medieval founders of the Mevlevi order of whirling dervishes, whose main centre, Konya, Huart had visited twenty years earlier. The fourteenth-century Persian text is preserved in several manuscripts, and Huart's translation follows an early seventeenth-century manuscript from his private collection. Huart regards the text as providing evidence primarily about the intellectual and moral contexts of the origins of the dervishes' mystical movement rather than about strict historical facts, but also points to the relevance of its treatment of dreams, prophecies, apparitions and paranormal phenomena to modern researchers of hypnosis and psychosis. The translation is accompanied by eTable of ContentsPréface; 3. (Suite). Biographie de Djélâl-ed-dîn Roûmi; 4. Biographie du sultan des pauvres, mystère de Dieu parmi les hommes, parfait en situation et en parole, notre Maître Chems-ed-dîn Mohammed ben 'Ali ben Mélek-dad et-Tébrîzi; 5. Biographie du Sultan des mystiques, Calâh-ed-dîn Féridoûn, fils de Yaghi-Siyan de Qonya, connu sous le nom de Zerkoûb (batteur d'or); 6. Biographie de Hosâm-ed-dîn Hasan ben Mohammed ben Hasan ben Akhi-Turk, l'Abou-Yézîd [Bastâmi] de l'époque, le Djonéïd du temps, clef des trésors du Trône, Saint de Dieu sur la terre, intercesseur des amis au jour de la Grande Revue; 7. Biographie de notre Maître, le Sultan des mystiques, le lieu de la manifestation des mystères de la certitude, Béhâ-ed-dîn Wéled; 8. Biographie du souverain des mystiques, argument des clairvoyants, Pôle des Abdâl et des Autâd, Djélâl-ed-dîn Féridoûn, fils de Mohammed, fils de Mohammed, fils de Mohammed, le mystique de Balkh [Amir 'Abid]; 9. Biographie du Tchélebi Chems-ed-dîn Amir 'Arif; 10. Noms des enfants et des successeurs de notre grand Maître Béhâ-ed-dîn Wéled Balkhî; Index.

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Book SynopsisJohn Rhys (1840â1915), the son of a Welsh farmer, studied at Oxford and in Germany, and became the first professor of Celtic languages at Oxford in 1877. His research ranged across the fields of linguistics, history, archaeology, ethnology and religion, and his many publications were instrumental in establishing the field of Celtic studies. This two-volume work, published in 1901, had its beginnings in the late 1870s, when Rhys began collecting Welsh folk tales. His entertaining preface sheds light on folklore fieldwork and its difficulties, including fragmentary evidence, alteration of stories by those interviewed, and the hostility of the religious and educational establishment to 'superstition'. Volume 1 begins with these stories; for each text, Rhys provides fascinating information about his sources, and an English translation. Later chapters present comparative material, focusing particularly on the Isle of Man, and a detailed account of Welsh legends and customs associated with wTable of ContentsPreface; Geographical list of authorities; List of bibliographical references; 1. Undine's Kymric sisters; 2. The fairies' revenge; 3. Fairy ways and words; 4. Manx folklore; 5. The Fenodyree and his friends; 6. The folklore of the wells.

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Book SynopsisA pioneer in establishing the field of Celtic studies, John Rhys (18401915) became the first professor of Celtic languages at Oxford in 1877. This two-volume work, published in 1901, illuminates folklore fieldwork and its difficulties. For each text, Rhys provides information about his sources, and an English translation.Table of Contents7. Triumphs of the water-world; 8. Welsh cave legends; 9. Place-name stories; 10. Difficulties of the folklorist; 11. Folklore philosophy; 12. Race in folklore and myth; Additions and corrections; Index.

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Book SynopsisLeading sociologists who live and work in East Asia examine their region''s most dangerous and explosive social problems, and some of their most stunning success stories, from the viewpoint of Civil Sphere Theory. This new and increasingly influential sociological understanding of democracy aims to describe and explain the moral codes and institutional foundations of democratic solidarity, as it manifests itself within a distinct social sphere. Part of a multi-volume project, this collection includes cases from Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, bringing together efforts by sociologists based in East Asian academic institutions. Through an extraordinary blend of sophisticated social theory and path-breaking empirical research, The Civil Sphere in East Asia aims to advance civil sphere theory by globalizing and regionalizing it at the same time.Trade Review'At a time when civil spheres are being threatened both by internal forces and external opposition, Jeffrey C. Alexander's seminal work on Civil Sphere Theory gives a powerful sociological account of sources of fragility and resilience. With contributions from a superb team of scholars, this book demonstrates the breadth of Civil Sphere Theory.' Richard Madsden, University of California, San Diego'Jeffrey C. Alexander, one of America's leading cultural theorists, has been wrestling with the broad intellectual issue of how social space shapes the moral codes of societies. He has set the ambition of looking at societies around the world. For this path-breaking volume, he has collaborated with scholars of East Asia to look at the various moral codes of mainland China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.' Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University, Massachusetts'The Civil Sphere in East Asia is an ambitious work that theorizes civil society using the East Asian experiences from a comparative perspective. It will be a must read for those who seek to understand East Asian society and politics.' Gi-Wook Shin, Stanford University, Connecticut'Combining innovative case studies, comparative leverage, and theoretical strength, this landmark volume provides a new benchmark for comparative studies of political culture. Greater than the sum of its excellent parts, it demonstrates a robust development of civil sphere theory beyond the West and offers a new view of East Asian political cultures.' Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame, IndianaTable of ContentsIntroduction. The civil sphere in the cultural and political transformations of modern East Asia David A. Palmer and Jeffrey C. Alexander; 1. South Korea's presidential scandal and civil repair Jongryul Choi; 2. System crisis and the civil sphere: media discourse on the crisis of education in South Korea Sunwoong Park; 3. Boundary tension and reconstruction: credit information crises and the civil sphere in Korea Hee-Jeong Lee; 4. Performing civil disobedience in Hong Kong Agnes Shuk-mei Ku; 5. Fault line in the civil sphere: explaining new divisions in Hong Kong's opposition movement Andrew Junker and Cheris Chan; 6. Three moral codes and microcivil spheres in China David A. Palmer; 7. Attempting civil repair in China: SACOM's campaigns and the challenge to digital capitalism Pun Ngai and Kenneth Tsz Fung Ng; 8. Fantasy is more believable: the shadow civil sphere in Chinese online fiction Xiaoli Tian; 9. Institutions and civil instantiation: the case of modern Japanese police Mayumi Shimizu; 10. What constitutes 'autonomy' in the Japanese civil sphere? The struggle over surrogacy Yoshie Yanagihara; 11. Developing communicative institutions in local communities: the practice of participatory budgeting in Taiwan Kuo-ming Lin; 12. Reconciliation through the transnational civil sphere? Historical dialogue and the tri-national joint history project in East Asia Horng-luen Wang; Commentary. Opening up civil sphere theory: from the United States through Latin America to East Asia Carlo Tognato; Conclusion. Theoretical issues in comparative perspective Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino.

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Book SynopsisThrough a meticulous detailing of the everyday life of development bureaucracy on the Himalayan borderland, Paper Tiger shifts the frames of the debate on state failure and opens up a refreshingly new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.Trade Review'This outstanding ethnography offers a rich glimpse of the workings of the state in a remote area of India. It shows that the problem of the implementation of law in India is less a problem of corruption or of neo-liberal governmentality and more a problem of the way in which the social life of paper produces a strange combination of affect and effect at the local level. Bureaucratic rule is created through the materiality of documents, letters and written texts which implement the state rather than the law, a paradox which explains both the omnipresence of the state and its limited effects on policy. This book will be of great interest to all students of the state, law and bureaucracy.' Arjun Appadurai, New York University'Demonstrating a stunning intimacy with the life of bureaucracy in a remote region of India, Paper Tiger brings alive the everyday forms of bureaucratic practice. The book is conceptually innovative and a model of ethnographic writing that will have a decisive impact on the study of the state in India and beyond. Above all, it is written with flair and an irony that makes it stand next to such literary classics as Krishna Sobti's rendering of lower level bureaucracy in Yaaron ke Yaar.' Veena Das, The Johns Hopkins University'Carefully researched and subtly argued, this book is a great Indian novel and an artful anthropological study in one. It first brings paper to life, and then pivots on the unforgettable tale of humans-as-prey and an all too slowly hunted, hungry leopard/tiger.' Annemarie Mol, University of Amsterdam'In the burgeoning literature on the anthropology of state, Mathur's contribution is a significant one. Paper Tiger takes the inquiry of state away from the body of the state, into the domains of language, affect, emotion, time and space.' Atreyee Majumder, Economic and Political Weekly'Mathur's contribution to the field of studying state practices, law and bureaucracy, apart from being a revelation of the peculiar context of the Indian state, is also a methodological novelty in the field of writing and doing ethnography … I would always go back to reading Paper Tiger as it is a compelling and grounded ethnography which presents a reflective stance on the process of its own making while delightfully elaborating on what it engages with.' Subhashim Goswami, Allegra Lab (www.allegralaboratory.net)'Paper Tiger is a brilliant book, an outstanding achievement of research and understanding. Mathur's witty and accessible prose rests on a foundation of serious scholarship and groundbreaking methodology. … Paper Tiger is highly recommended, essential reading for all those first approaching the study of the Indian subcontinent, NGO workers and institutional and private international development donors.' Elisabetta Iob, The London School of Economics and Political Science Book Review (www.blogs.lse.ac.uk)'Nayanika Mathur's Paper Tiger is an ethnographic work that reads beautifully for scholars and non-scholars alike. … (Mathur's study) lays the necessary groundwork for more detailed explorations of the roles and the effects of laws targeting the improvement of the livelihoods of the poor in developmental states. The strength of this work rests in the author's convincing representation of bureaucracy as an axis that generates affection through its effective use banalization and specialization. It adds depth and nuance to a growing body of scholarly work on transparency and accountability, as well as on Indian welfare laws and political culture.' Irene Hadiprayitno, The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial LawTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Glossary; Acronyms; Prologue; Introduction; 1. A remote town: the paper state; 2. The state life of law; 3. The material production of transparency; 4. The letter of the state; 5. Meeting one another: paper tiger?; 6. The reign of terror of the big cat; Conclusion: the state as a paper tiger; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisModern law seems to be designed to keep emotions at bay. The Sentimental Court argues the exact opposite: that the law is not designed to cast out affective dynamics, but to create them. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork - both during the trial of former Lord''s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court''s headquarters in The Netherlands and in rural northern Uganda at the scenes of violence - this book is an in-depth investigation of the affective life of legalized transitional justice interventions in Africa. Jonas Bens argues that the law purposefully creates, mobilizes, shapes, and transforms atmospheres and sentiments, and further discusses how we should think about the future of law and justice in our colonial present by focusing on the politics of atmosphere and sentiment in which they are entangled.Trade Review'This book constitutes a major work in the study of legal anthropology and, at the same time, a key contribution to current debates in the interrelated fields of affective politics and the anthropological study of emotions … Bens offers an original and innovative approach that reverses common assumptions, and it reforms and transforms our possibilities of thinking about law and legal processes differently, in a promising and productive manner – as emotionally charged, affectively framed, and contested. This is a thoroughly worked, wide-ranging, and impressive piece of scholarship that weaves together ethnography, legal theory, and a condensed re-reading of the history of legal anthropology, while navigating with deep knowledge and brilliant lucidity the current and recent debates in related fields.' Kai Kresse, S-Professor and Vice Director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Freie Universität Berlin'In The Sentimental Court, Jonas Bens shines an entirely new light on the ICC and its trials. He shows how aspects of trials that have felt awkward or out of place, strategies of transitional justice at odds with the law's supposed dispassion, and even our feelings as researchers, witnesses, or spectators – all of these are, in fact, fundamental to the workings of international criminal justice. A revelatory book.' Adam Branch, Professor in International Politics and the Director of the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge'The Sentimental Court is a thoughtful deliberation on the emotional dimensions of international criminal justice, with special emphasis on Northern Uganda and the trial of Dominic Ongwen. Affect, while officially abjured in the adjudication of international crimes, is at the heart of the legal endeavor. By paying close attention to sentiment, Jonas Bens provides crucial insights into why transitional justice succeeds or fails.' Richard Ashby Wilson, Associate Dean of Research, University of Connecticut School of Law'In The Sentimental Court, Jonas Bens offers a brilliantly eloquent detailing of the affective life of international criminal justice through this innovative ethnography about the Court and its connections to other sites of justice making. From a person entering the ICC and clearing the security check, to the examination of the constructed narratives of the prosecutor, the victim's representative, and the feelings that such encounters conjure, he offers a deterritorialized mapping of the International Criminal Court's Dominic Ongwen case to show the way that justice atmospheres are sentimentalized in mass-atrocity violence contexts. Not only is the ethnography a wonderful must-read, but it offers precious insights into the wildly complex and unfinished results of the postcolonial condition. With passionate insights about the complexities of justice, Bens clarifies the affective spaces and the fierce stronghold of transnational globalized legal processes in the contemporary period.' Kamari Maxine Clarke, Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Sociolegal Studies at the University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Affect, emotion and the law; Part I. Atmospheres: 1. Courtroom atmospheres: The courtroom of the ICC as an affective arrangement; 2. Transitional justice atmospheres: The ICC's outreach work in northern Uganda; Part II. Sentiments: 3. The sentiment of plausibility: Affective framing and the production of legal truth; 4. The sentiment of objectivity: Arranging objects and subjects in the ICC courtroom; 5. The sentiment of justice: Navigating normative pluralism in northern Uganda; Part III. Politics: 6. The politics of atmosphere and sentiment: International criminal justice in Africa and competing indignation regimes; 7. We have never been rational: The emotions of liberal legalism and the affective politics of modernity; Epilogue: Affect and colonialism; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking reconceptualization of attachment theory brings together leading scholars from psychology, anthropology and related fields to reformulate the theory to fit the cultural realities of our world. It will be of particular interest to scholars and graduate students interested in developmental psychology, developmental anthropology, evolutionary biology and cross-cultural psychology.Trade Review'A much-needed collection of evolutionary, anthropological and psychological accounts of early relationship formation from the majority world which differ from the classical Bowlby–Ainsworth attachment theory. It opens up a new agenda for research regarding early socio-emotional development.' Cigdem Kagitcibasi, Koç University, Istanbul'Dazzling in the range of cultural behaviors that relate to infant attachment and social development. The most serious attempt yet to integrate evolutionary adaptation, developmental universals, and cultural variation in attachment and caregiving behaviors.' Patricia M. Greenfield, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsForeword Michael Lamb; Introduction: understanding relationships. What we would need to know to conceptualize attachment as the cultural solution of a universal developmental task Heidi Keller; Part I. Attachment as an Adaptation: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives: 1. Family relations among cooperative breeders: challenges and offerings to attachment theory from evolutionary anthropology Johannes Johow and Eckart Voland; 2. Attachment theory as cultural ideology Robert A. LeVine; 3. 'Babies aren't persons': a survey of delayed personhood David Lancy; Part II. Multiple Attachments: Allomothering, Stranger Anxiety, and Intimacy: 4. Maternal and allomaternal responsiveness: the significance of cooperative caregiving in attachment theory Courtney L. Meehan and Sean Hawks; 5. Bonding and belonging beyond WEIRD worlds: rethinking attachment theory on the basis of cross-cultural anthropological data Birgitt Röttger-Rössler; 6. Concentric circles of attachment in Pirahã: a brief survey Daniel L. Everett; 7. Is it time to detach from attachment theory? Perspectives from the West African rain forest Alma Gottlieb; 8. 'Don't show your emotions!' Emotion regulation and attachment in the Cameroonian Nso Hiltrud Otto; 9. Family life as bricolage - reflections on intimacy and attachment in death Nancy Scheper-Hughes; Part III. Looking into the Future and Implications for Policy Development: 10. The socialization of trust: plural caretaking and diverse pathways in human development across cultures Thomas S. Weisner; 11. The precursors of attachment security: behavioral systems and culture Vivian Carlson and Robin Harwood; Part IV. Conclusion Heidi Keller and Hiltrud Otto.

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Book SynopsisThe stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends in tribal as well as modern communities.? --Michael Meade, from the IntroductionVersed in the languages of psychology, comparative literature, as well as ancient mythology, healing, and divination, Malidoma Patrice Some bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern Western society. Ritual is written with wild imagination, careful critical reflection, and intuitive insights that will force the reader to encounter the world anew.

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Book Synopsis“If you fear that cultural, political, and class differences are tearing America apart, read this important book.” —Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., author of The Righteous Mind Who will rule in the twenty-first century: allegedly more disciplined Asians, or allegedly more creative Westerners? Can women rocket up the corporate ladder without knocking off the men? How can poor kids get ahead when schools favor the rich?As our planet gets smaller, cultural conflicts are becoming fiercer. Rather than lamenting our multicultural worlds, Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner reveal how we can leverage our differences to mend the rifts in our workplaces, schools, and relationships, as well as on the global stage.Provocative, witty, and painstakingly researched, Clash! not only explains who we are, it also envisions who we could become.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be male in the 21st Century? Award-winning artist Grayson Perry explores what masculinity is: from sex to power, from fashion to career prospects, and what it could become—with illustrations throughout.In this witty and necessary new book, artist Grayson Perry trains his keen eye on the world of men to ask, what sort of man would make the world a better place? What would happen if we rethought the macho, outdated version of manhood, and embraced a different ideal? In the current atmosphere of bullying, intolerance and misogyny, demonstrated in the recent Trump versus Clinton presidential campaign, The Descent of Man is a timely and essential addition to current conversations around gender. Apart from gaining vast new wardrobe options, the real benefit might be that a newly fitted masculinity will allow men to have better relationships—and that’s happiness, right? Grayson Perry admits he’

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Book SynopsisLabor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, Tenth Anniversary Edition, is an ethnography of undocumented immigrants who work as busboys at a Chicago-area restaurant. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz introduces readers to the Lions, ten friends from Mexico committed to improving their fortunes and the lives of their families. Set in and around "Il Vino," a restaurant that could stand in for many places that employ undocumented workers, The TenthAnniversary Edition of Labor and Legality reveals the faces behind the war being waged over "illegal immigrants" in America. Gomberg-Muñoz focuses on how undocumented workers develop a wide range of social strategies to cultivate financial security, nurture emotional well-being, and promote their dignity andself-esteem. She also reviews the political and historical circumstances of undocumented migration, with an emphasis on post-1970 socioeconomic and political conditions in the United States and Mexico.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Anthropology2. Culture3. Meaning-Making and Language4. Worldview and Religion5. The Dimensions of Social Organization6. Sex, Gender, and Sexuality7. Relatedness: Kinship, Marriage, Family, and Friendship8. Political Anthropology9. Economic Anthropology10. Globalization11. The Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine12. Theory in Cultural AnthropologyAppendix: Reading EthnographyThe Parts of an EthnographyThe Use of Indigenous and Local TermsThe PhotographsWhy Are You Reading This Ethnography (and How Should You Read It)?BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsLetter from the Authors About the Authors Preface Acknowledgments 1. Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity How Did Anthropology Begin? The Disruptions of Industrialization The Theory of Evolution Colonial Origins of Cultural Anthropology Anthropology as a Global Discipline What Do the Four Subfields of Anthropology Have in Common? Culture Cultural Relativism Human Diversity Change Holism How Do Anthropologists Know What They Know? The Scientific Method in Anthropology When Anthropology Is Not a Science: Interpreting Other Cultures How Do Anthropologists Put Their Knowledge to Work in the World? Applied and Practicing Anthropology: The Fifth Subfield? Putting Anthropology to Work What Ethical Obligations Do Anthropologists Have? Do No Harm. But Is That Enough? Take Responsibility for Your Work. But How Far Does That Go? Share Your Findings. But Who Should Control Those Findings? CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Edward Burnett Tylor and the Culture Concept DOING FIELDWORK: Conducting Holistic Research with Stanley Ulijaszek THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Anthropologists are Innovative THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Key Characteristics of Anthropologists in the Workplace A WORLD IN MOTION: George A. Dorsey and the Anthropology of Immigration in the Early Twentieth Century 2. Culture: Giving Meaning to Human Lives What Is Culture? Elements of Culture Defining Culture in This Book If Culture Is Always Changing, Why Does It Feel So Stable? Symbols Values Norms Traditions How Do Social Institutions Express Culture? Culture and Social Institutions American Culture Expressed Through Breakfast Cereals and Sexuality Can Anybody Own Culture? CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Franz Boas and the Relativity of Culture ANTHROPOLOGIST AS PROBLEM SOLVER: Michael Ames and Collaborative Museum Exhibits THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Cultural Anthropology and Human Possibilities 3. Ethnography: Studying Culture What Distinguishes Ethnographic Fieldwork from Other Types of Social Re-search? Fieldwork Seeing the World from "the Native's Point of View" Avoiding Cultural "Tunnel Vision" How Do Anthropologists Actually Do Ethnographic Fieldwork? Participant Observation: Disciplined "Hanging Out" Interviews: Asking and Listening Scribbling: Taking Fieldnotes What Other Methods Do Cultural Anthropologists Use? Comparative Method Genealogical Method Life Histories Ethnohistory Rapid Appraisals Action Research Anthropology at a Distance Analysis of Secondary Materials Special Issues Facing Anthropologists Studying Their Own Societies What Unique Ethical Dilemmas Do Ethnographers Face? Protecting Informant Identity Anthropology, Spying, and War CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Bronislaw Malinowski on the Ethnographic Method ANTHROPOLOGIST AS PROBLEM SOLVER: Alcida Rita Ramos and In-digenous Rights in Brazil A WORLD IN MOTION: Transnational Migration, Ethnographic Mobility, and Digital Fieldwork 4. Linguistic Anthropology: Relating Language and Culture How Do Anthropologists Study Language? Where Does Language Come From? Evolutionary Perspectives on Language Historical Linguistics: Studying Language Origins and Change How Does Language Actually Work? Descriptive Linguistics Sociolinguistics Does Language Shape How We Experience the World? The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Hopi Notions of Time Ethnoscience and Color Terms Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Correct? If Language Is Always Changing, Why Does It Seem So Stable? Linguistic Change, Stability, and National Policy Language Stability Parallels Cultural Stability How Does Language Relate to Power and Social Inequality? Language Ideology Gendered Language Styles Language and Social Status Language and the Legacy of Colonialism Language Ideology and New Media Technologies CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Edward Sapir on How Language Shapes Cul-ture DOING FIELDWORK: Helping Communities Preserve Endangered Languages THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Career Trajectories for Undergraduates with a Linguistic Anthropology Background A WORLD IN MOTION: The Emergence of a New Language in the Northern Territory of Australia 5. Globalization and Culture: Understanding Global Interconnections Is the World Really Getting Smaller? Defining Globalization The World We Live In What Are the Outcomes of Global Integration? Colonialism and World Systems Theory Cultures of Migration Resistance at the Periphery Globalizing and Localizing Identities Doesn't Everyone Want to Be Developed? What Is Development? Development Anthropology Anthropology of Development Change on Their Own Terms If the World Is Not Becoming Homogenized, What Is Actually Happening? Cultural Convergence Theories Hybridization How Can Anthropologists Study Global Interconnections? Defining an Object of Study Multi-Sited Ethnography CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Eric Wolf, Culture, and the World System DOING FIELDWORK: Tracking Emergent Forms of Citizenship with Aihwa Ong THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Coldplay and the Global Citizen Festival 6. Foodways: Finding, Making, and Eating Food Why Is There No Universal Human Diet? Human Dietary Adaptability and Constraints Cultural Influences on Human Evolution: Digesting Milk Why Do People Eat Things That Others Consider Disgusting? Foodways and Culture Foodways Are Culturally Constructed Foodways Communicate Symbolic Meaning Foodways Mark Social Boundaries and Identities Foodways Are Dynamic How Do Different Societies Get Food? Foraging Horticulture Pastoralism Intensive Agriculture Industrial Agriculture How Are Contemporary Foodways Changing? Industrial Food Systems and Access to Healthy Food Industrial Foods, Sedentary Lives, and the Nutrition Transition The Return of Local and Organic Foods? The Biocultural Logic of Local Foodways CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Audrey Richards and the Study of Foodways ANTHROPOLOGIST AS PROBLEM SOLVER: Urban Black Food Justice With Ashanté Reese A WORLD IN MOTION: Instant Ramen Noodles Take Over the Globe 7. Environmental Anthropology: Relating to the Natural World Do All People See Nature in the Same Way? The Human-Nature Divide? The Cultural Landscape How Does Non-Western Knowledge of Nature Relate to Science? Ethnoscience Traditional Ecological Knowledge Are Industrialized Western Societies the Only Ones to Conserve Nature? Anthropogenic Landscapes The Culture of Modern Nature Conservation Is Collaborative Conservation Possible? How Do Social and Cultural Factors Drive Environmental Destruction? Population and Environment Ecological Footprint Political Ecology Anthropology Confronts Climate Change CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Roy Rappaport's Insider and Outsider Models DOING FIELDWORK: James Fairhead and Melissa Leach on Misreading the African Landscape THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Careers in Sustainability A WORLD IN MOTION: Migrant Caravans, Global Warming, and Ecological Refugees 8. Economics: Working, Sharing, and Buying Is Money Really the Measure of All Things? Culture, Economics, and Value The Neoclassical Perspective The Substantivist-Formalist Debate The Marxist Perspective The Cultural Economics Perspective So, How is Value Established? How Does Culture Shape the Value and Meaning of Money? The Cultural Dimensions of Money Money and the Distribution of Power Why Does Gift Exchange Play Such an Important Role in All Societies? Gift Exchange and Economy: Two Classic Approaches Gift Exchange in Market-Based Economies What Is the Point of Owning Things? Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Property Appropriation and Consumption Does Capitalism Have Distinct Cultures? Culture and Social Relations on Wall Street Entrepreneurial Capitalism Among Malays CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Marshall Sahlins on Exchange in Traditional Economies ANTHROPOLOGIST AS PROBLEM SOLVER: Jim Yong Kim's Holistic, On-the-Ground Approach to Fighting Poverty THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: The Economics of Anthropology 9. Politics: Cooperation, Conflict, and Power Relations Does Every Society Have a Government? The Idea of "Politics" and the Problem of Order Structural-Functionalist Models of Political Stability Neo-Evolutionary Models of Political Organization: Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, and States Challenges to Traditional Political Anthropology What Is Political Power? Defining Political Power Political Power Is Action-Oriented Political Power Is Structural Political Power Is Gendered Political Power in Non-State Societies The Political Power of the Contemporary Nation-State Why Do Some Societies Seem More Violent Than Others? What Is Violence? Violence and Culture Explaining the Rise of Violence in Our Contemporary World How Do People Avoid Aggression, Brutality, and War? What Disputes Are "About" How People Manage Disputes Is Restoring Harmony Always the Best Way? CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: E. E. Evans-Pritchard on Segmentary Lineages ANTHROPOLOGIST AS PROBLEM SOLVER: Maxwell Owusu and Democracy in Ghana 10. Race, Ethnicity, and Class: Understanding Identity and Social Inequality Is Race Biological? The Biological Meanings (and Meaninglessness) of "Human Races" Race Does Have Biological Consequences How Is Race Culturally Constructed? The Construction of Blackness and Whiteness in Colonial Virginia and Beyond Racialization in Latin America Saying "Race Is Culturally Constructed" Is Not Enough How Are Other Social Classifications Naturalized? Ethnicity: Common Descent Class: Economic Hierarchy in Capitalist Societies Caste: Moral Purity and Pollution Are Prejudice and Discrimination Inevitable? Understanding Prejudice Discrimination, Explicit and Disguised The Other Side of Discrimination: Unearned Privilege CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Hortense Powdermaker on Prejudice DOING FIELDWORK: Tamie Tsuchiyama and Fieldwork in a Japanese-American Internment Camp THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Talking About Race and Racism 11. Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: The Fluidity of Maleness and Femaleness How and Why Do Males and Females Differ? Shifting Views on Male and Female Differences Beyond the Male-Female Binary Do Hormones Really Cause Gendered Differences in Behavior? Why Is There Inequality Between Men and Women? Debating "The Second Sex" Taking Stock of the Debate Reproducing Male-Female Inequalities Transformations in Feminist Anthropology What Does It Mean to Be Neither Male Nor Female? Navajo Nádleehé Indian Hijras Trans in the United States Is Human Sexuality Just a Matter of Being Straight or Queer? Cultural Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality Controlling Sexuality CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Margaret Mead and the Sex/Gender Distinction DOING FIELDWORK: Don Kulick and "Coming Out" in the Field 12. Kinship, Marriage, and the Family: Love, Sex, and Power What Are Families, and How Are They Structured in Different Societies? Families, Ideal and Real Nuclear and Extended Families Clans and Lineages Kinship Terminologies Cultural Patterns in Childrearing How Do Families Control Power and Wealth? Claiming a Bride Recruiting the Kids The Dowry in India: Providing a Financial Safety Net for a Bride Controlling Family Wealth Through Inheritance Why Do People Get Married? Why People Get Married Forms of Marriage Sex, Love, and the Power of Families Over Young Couples How Are Social and Technological Changes Reshaping How People Think About Family? International Adoptions and the Problem of Cultural Identity In Vitro Fertilization Surrogate Mothers and Sperm Donors CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: A. L. Kroeber on Classificatory Systems of Relationship DOING FIELDWORK: Andrea Louie on Negotiating Identity and Culture in International Adoptions THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Family-Centered Social Work and Anthropology 13. Religion: Ritual and Belief How Should We Understand Religion and Religious Beliefs? Understanding Religion, Version 1.0: Edward Burnett Tylor and Belief in Spirits Understanding Religion, Version 2.0: Anthony F. C. Wallace on Super-natural Beings, Powers, and Forces Understanding Religion, Version 3.0: Religion as a System of Symbols Understanding Religion, Version 4.0: Religion as a System of Social Action Making Sense of the Terrorist Attacks in France: Charlie Hebdo What Forms Does Religion Take? Clan Spirits and Clan Identities in New Guinea Totemism in North America Shamanism and Ecstatic Religious Experiences Ritual Symbols That Reinforce a Hierarchical Social Order Polytheism and Monotheism in Ancient Societies World Religions and Universal Understandings of the World The Localization of World Religions How Does Atheism Fit in the Discussion? How Do Rituals Work? Magical Thought in Non-Western Cultures Sympathetic Magic: The Law of Similarity and the Law of Contagion Applying These Principles to Religious Activities Magic in Western Societies Rites of Passage and the Ritual Process How Is Religion Linked to Political and Social Action? The Rise of Fundamentalism Understanding Fundamentalism CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Sir James G. Frazer on Sympathetic Magic DOING FIELDWORK: Studying the Sikh Militants THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Is Anthropology Compatible with Religious Faith? A WORLD IN MOTION: Contemporary Pilgrimage and the Camino de Santiago 14. The Body: Biocultural Perspectives on Health and Illness How Do Biological and Cultural Factors Shape Our Bodily Experiences? Uniting Mind and Matter: A Biocultural Perspective Culture and Mental Illness What Do We Mean by Health and Illness? The Individual Subjectivity of Illness The "Sick Role": The Social Expectations of Illness How and Why Do Doctors, Healers, and Other Health Practitioners Gain Social Authority? The Disease-Illness Distinction: Professional and Popular Views of Sick-ness The Medicalization of the Non-Medical How Does Healing Happen? Clinical Therapeutic Processes Symbolic Therapeutic Processes Social Support Persuasion: The Placebo Effect What Can Anthropology Do to Help Us Address Global Health Problems? Understanding Global Health Problems Anthropological Contributions to Tackling the International HIV/AIDS Crisis CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Arthur Kleinman and the New Medical Anthropological Methodology ANTHROPOLOGIST AS PROBLEM SOLVER: Nancy Scheper-Hughes on an Engaged Anthropology of Health A WORLD IN MOTION: Medical Tourism and Yemen THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Zak Kaufman, Grassroot Soccer, and the Fight to Slow the Spread of HIV/AIDS 15. Materiality: Constructing Social Relationships and Meanings with Things Why Is the Ownership of Artifacts from Other Cultures a Contentious Issue? Questions of Ownership, Rights, and Protection Cultural Resource Management: Not Just for Archaeologists How Should We Look at Objects Anthropologically? The Many Dimensions of Objects A Shiny New Bicycle, in Multiple Dimensions The Power of Symbols The Symbols of Power How and Why Do the Meanings of Things Change Over Time? The Social Life of Things Three Ways Objects Change Over Time How Do Objects Help Shape and Express Our Goals and Aspirations? The Cultural Biography of Things The Culture of Mass Consumption How Advertisers Manipulate Our Goals and Aspirations CLASSIC CONTRIBUTIONS: Daniel Miller on Why Some Things Matter ANTHROPOLOGIST AS PROBLEM SOLVER: John Terrell, Repatriation, and the Maori Meeting House at The Field Museum THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIFE: Richard Busch, Education Collections Manager at the Denver Museum of Science and Nature Epilogue Glossary References Credits List of Boxes Index

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Book Synopsis.Trade ReviewThe authors do a very fine job of folding in current research in a concise yet engaging way. Students are guided with core questions and engaging case studies, but are not told what to think * so they learn to think critically. The authors also do an incredible job of fusing sociocultural and biocultural perspectives throughout. This is the best text on the market.Keri Brondo, ^lUniversity of Memphis *I chose this book because it takes a comprehensive approach to covering many topics in a concise manner. This is the perfect text for my students in terms of readability, content, and presentation. * Robert M. Clark, ^lPennsylvania Highlands Community College *The text aligns nicely with my course discussion that anthropology is a science, just different from the definitions and modes of practice that most students are familiar with. The chapter on globalization is very well done. I like and enjoy teaching from this text more than others I have used, and students respond positively to it. * Brett Hoffman, ^lUniversity of Wisconsin-Oshkosh *

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