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Book SynopsisExplores new developments in kinship studies in anthropology -- including the impact of new reproductive technologies and changing conceptualisations of personhood and gender.Trade Review'Eschews polemic in favour of the balanced approach appropriate to a good lecture course' -- Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. First principles 2. Kinship, descent and marriage 3. Kinship and the domestic domain 4. Descent and the public domain I: lineage theory 5. Descent and the public domain II: matrilineal and cognatic descent 6. Marriage and alliance 7. Universality of kinship and the current practice of kinship studies Notes Index

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Book Synopsisaeo A major new study of German national identity and of the difficulty of coming to terms with the legacy of the Holocaust. aeo Develops a new theory of the nation as a constructed community with a common legacy and destiny.Trade Review'Mary Fulbrook displays a rare capacity for clear and sober thinking about a complex and emotive subject. Her analyses of academic, political and private ways of understanding the past in post-1945 Germany are illuminating. Ideas of fixed national identity are revealed as constructs which serve to create satisfying links between imagined past, troubled present and uncertain future.' John Breuilly, University of Birmingham 'This is a remarkable book, resting on historical scholarship of the highest order, rich in ideas and highly nuanced in approach.' Journal of European Area Studies 'An expert dissection of German national identity since 1945, and the role that historians have played in its formation, deformation and reformation ... Fulbrook writes with wit about the East German leadership's forlorn efforts to manufacture a supportive past ... She is sceptical of grand notions about collective memory, preferring to identify micro-communities each with its own sense of the past. Here the divergence between the official and the vernacular discourse of memory is starkest, a gulf that Fulbrook can illustrate thanks to her unrivalled knowledge of East German social history.' David Cesarani, The Times Higher Education Supplement 'In her discussion of these issues Fulbrook displays her enviable capacity for rendering complex ideas in an easily accessible form. Indeed, this accessibility, combined with Fulbrook's ability to summarize and reflect upon the pre-existing literature in such judicious fashion, is the chief strength of this book as a whole.' German History 'Despite the complexity of the subject, Fulbrook succeeds in presenting a clear and fascinating account of national identity formation in the two German states after 1950, exploring new avenues of thought and combining public and private views of the past and its consequences for the present to create a new approach to our dealings with the question of national identity.' European Review of History 'Fulbrook's achievement is to bring out both individual experience and the importance of historical contingency in examining questions of national identity. Above all, the book suceeds in drawing together stark first-hand accounts, by both perpetrators and victims, of life and death in a concentration camp, with their subsequent recontextualizing within the discourses of shame and blame in the two post-war Germanys.' Patterns of Prejudice 'All three groups of intended readers - students, established scholars, and interested members of the public - should find this book rewarding, stimulting, and at times controversial reading. The overall analysis is persuasive, judicious, and marked by considerable empathy.' Canadian Journal of History 'Fulbrook's tour de force is an informative read for anyone who wishes to educate themselves authoritatively about the "German debates" of the last decade.' Journal of Contemporary HistorTable of ContentsPreface. 1. National Identity and German History. 2. Landscapes of Memory. 3. Overcoming the Past in Practice? Trials and Tribulations. 4. Awkward Anniversaries and Contested Commemorations. 5. The Past which Refuses to Become History. 6. Collective Memory? Patterns of Historical Consciousness. 7. Citizenship and Fatherland. 8. Friends, Foes and Volk. 9. The Nation as Legacy and Destiny. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis work provides an account of the existence of New World cannibalism and the images it conjured up for Europeans from the Renaissance to the 19th century. It describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians throughout the period.Trade Review"Frank Lestringant's Cannibals is a magisterial, wide-ranging, and wonderfully readable exploration of one of the great Western obsessions. With a blend of horror, astonishment, and half-suppressed admiration, European travellers, philosophers, theologians, missionaries and artists have argued for centuries about the significance of cannibalism. Lestringant's extraordinary erudition enables him to map an immensely complex territory. His book is a feast!" Professor Stephen Greenblatt "A fascinating account of European cannibalism." The Bookseller "This is a learned and highly original book. Its virtues lie in its details, in the dazzling series of connections it makes between different aspects of cultural history - literary, theological, economic and artistic. Dare one say, in the words of the Prayer Book, that there is much here to "read, learn, and inwardly digest"?" The Sunday Telegraph "Excellent ... It takes a freshly informed look at the question of the American Indian, mainly through French rather than Spanish or British witnesses with whom Anglo-American scholars are more familiar." Claude Rawson, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Introduction: To Meet a Cannibal. Part I: From Dog-heads to Man-eaters: . 1. Birth of the Cannibal. 2. The Cannibal á la mode. 3. The Cannibal Comes to France. 4. Brazil, Land of Cannibals. Part II: In Search of the Honourable Cannibal: . 5. The First Ethnographer of the Tupinamba Indians. 6. Jean de Léry, or the Cannibal Obsession. 7. The Melancholy Cannibal. 8. The Spitting Cannibal. Part III: Cannibals by Constraint: . 9. Cardano, or the Rule of Necessity. 10. Brébeuf and Robinson: The Missionary and the Colonist. 11. The Enlightenment Cannibal: from Bougainville to Voltaire. 12. Cruel Nature: De Pauw and Sade. 13. Cannibalism and Colonialism: Jules Verne. Epilogue: The Return of the Cannibal: Swift, Flaubert and the Medusa. Appendix I: The Cannibal Speaks: From Montaigne to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Appendix II: The Cannibal in Canada: Chateaubriand Reads Montaigne. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Camporesi is one of Europea s most important and original historians of food and culture* This is a lively account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe* His previous book on a similar subject, The Bread of Dreams, was very widely reviewed; the present book should also receive a good deal of exposure.Trade Review"The Magic Harvest is a concentrated broth of pieces every bit as rich as the cuisine that forms the focus of [Camporesi's] study. There is a convincing unity in these essays. Together, they offer a scholarly history of the slow shifts in the dietary geography and regimes of Italy to the present, a masterly display of the interdisciplinary skills food history demands and of the exciting range of questions it poses, and, not least, a provocative argument about the reasons for, and costs of, the comparatively recent 'invention' of a national 'Italian' cuisine. Coming after Bread of Dreams, this book confirms Piero Camporesi's importance in the evolving field of the history of food." John Walter, University of Essex "A collection of fascinating scholarly essays ... excellent insight into a culture which most people may only rather simplistically associate with a relatively scant diet of pasta, pizza, tripe and escalopes of veal." The Good Book Guide "Piero Camporesi is one of the most stimulating and path-breaking historians." Roy PorterTable of ContentsPart I:. 1. Bread and Death: Food and Peasant Rituals in Italy. 2. The Two Faces of Time: The City Calendar and the Country Calendar. 3. The Setting of the Moon: Wine, the Vine and the New Science. 4. Food and Popular Culture. 5. Dietary Geography and Social History. 6. City Cooking and Country Cooking. Part II:. 7. Bourgeois Cooking in the 19th Century: Between Tradition and Renewal. 8. Concentrated Broth. 9. The Demon of the Hearth. 10. Shopping for Food. 11. The Age of the Soya Bean. 12. The Great Transformation. 13. Born Under Libra. Appendices. 1. Diet and Literature. 2. List of Authors. Notes and References. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods. Avoiding divisive debates over science and humanism, the contributors draw upon both traditions to explore fieldwork in practice. The second edition also reflects major developments of the past decade, including: the rising prominence of mixed methods, the emergence of new technologies, and evolving views on ethnographic writing.Spanning the chain of research, from designing a project through methods of data collection and interpretive analysis, the Handbook features new chapters on ethnography of online communities, social survey research, and network and geospatial analysis. Considered discussion of ethics, epistemology, and the presentation of research results to diverse audiences round out the volume.The result is an essential guide for all scholars, professionals, and advanced students who employ fieldwTrade ReviewThis significantly expanded second edition is bound to become the quintessential reference book for every anthropologist engaged in active field research. With sixteen updated chapters and eight entirely new ones—on topics ranging from online ethnography to GIS to public anthropology—this volume is a treasure trove of sound methodological strategies imparted by leading figures in the discipline. A must-read for everyone from graduate students headed for the field to established academics and applied anthropologists. -- Marcia Inhorn, Yale UniversityA timely update that provides rich and in-depth overviews on contemporary methods in cultural anthropology. Each chapter is written by experts in the particular methodology, making this second edition an excellent companion to Bernard’s Research Methods in Anthropology. -- Douglas W. Hume, Northern Kentucky University; Treasurer, Society for Anthropological SciencesI challenge any anthropologist to read this expanded second edition and not contemplate adding one of the described methods to his or her own toolbox. The chapters invite us to reflect upon the nuances of our methodological choices and encourage us to move beyond a polarizing divide between quantitative and qualitative research—to embrace the no-longer-stranger notion that both may contribute to the anthropologists' craft. This new edition is easily classified as essential reading. -- M. Cameron Hay, Miami University; author, Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural IndonesiaEditors Bernard and Gravlee focus on the core aspect: fieldwork. The second edition of this handbook is organized into four parts: 'Perspectives,' 'Acquiring Information,' 'Interpreting Information,' and 'Applying and Presenting Information. The 23 chapters were each separately authored; some are by well-known anthropologists and others by those not so well-known. All have lengthy reference lists. . . .Nevertheless, the excellent essays certainly will be of use to experts wanting to expand their repertoire and to novices. Contributors cover topics ranging from epistemology to survey methods and from the classic participant observation to contemporary fieldwork in online environments. This highly readable collection will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students alike and be a useful addition to college and university libraries collecting in the social sciences. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsHandbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, Second Edition H. Russell Bernard and Clarence C. Gravlee, Editors Preface IntroductionH. Russell Bernard and Clarence C. Gravlee Section I. Perspectives 1. EpistemologyMichael Schnegg 2. Meaningful methodsJames W. Fernandez and Michael Herzfeld 3. Research design and research strategies in cultural anthropologyJeffrey C. Johnson and Daniel J. Hruschka 4. EthicsCarolyn Fluehr-Lobban 5. Feminist methodsChristine Ward Gailey 6. Participatory methods: Conceptual and methodological approaches to collaborative community-based transformational research for change Stephen Schensul, Jean Schensul, Merrill Singer, Margaret Weeks, and Marie Brault Section II. Acquiring Information 7. Sampling and selecting participants in field researchGreg Guest 8. Participant observationKathleen Musante (aka DeWalt) 9. Behavioral observationRaymond Hames and Michael Paolisso 10. Person-centered interviewingRobert I. Levy and Doug W. Hollan 11. Structured interviewing and questionnaire constructionSusan Weller 12. Discourse-centered methodsBrenda Farnell and Laura R. Graham 13. Visual anthropologyFadwa El Guindi 14. Ethnographic methods for Internet culturesJeffrey Snodgrass 15. Survey methodsWilliam W. Dressler and Kathy Oths Section III. Interpreting Information 16. Reasoning with numbersW. Penn Handwerker and Steve Borgatti 17. Text analysisAmber Wutich, Gery Ryan, and H. Russell Bernard 18. Cross-cultural researchCarol Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine 19. Spatial analysisEduardo S. Brondizio and Tracy Van Holt 20. Social network analysisChristopher McCarty and José Luis Molina Section IV. Applying and Presenting Information 21. Methods in applied anthropologyRobert Trotter, Jean Schensul, and Kristin M. Kostick 22. Ethnographic writing and presenting anthropologyConrad Kottak 23. Public anthropologyThomas Hylland Eriksen Author Index

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Book SynopsisIn this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.J. de Montigny maintains that they, along with other professionals, create an `institutional' reality through their day-to-day practices. He traces the practical ways that social workers, when involved in child protection, struggle to produce a world which can be ordered, systematized, and subjected to their powers. It is a penetrating and sensitive analysis of how social workers in their everyday practice make sense from a confusing collection of case details to create organizationally defined problems and cases. De Montigny uses the tension between his experience of growing up 'working class' and the difficult process of becoming a social worker to explore the practical activities professionals use to secure organizational power and authority over clients. This tension has forced him to confront the dilemma of how to stand on the side of clients when standing inside professional and organizational realities.In Table of ContentsPreface / Acknowledgments * Introduction* Ideological Practice** Constructing a Professional Standpoint* Professional Discursive Powers* Ad Hoc Science: Constructing Child Abuse* Producing Good Sense* Producing Reports* Child Protection Work* Producing a File* The Report Goes to Court* The Hearing* Conclusion: Dirty Social Work Notes / References / Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPlanned and executed upon a novel and striking pattern . . . this book appeals to the lawyer, the sociologist and the collector of Indian lore, as well as to the general reader."" - New York Times Book Review""Llewellyn and Hoebel have made a brilliant contribution. . . . not only to social anthropology and the sociology of law but to social science at large."" - Yale Law Journal""The Cheyenne Way is a stepping stone and a landmark in the program of social science. . . . and will prove of great value to social science, anthropology, and to the theory of law, primitive and crystalized."" - Lawyers Guild Review""A remarkable picture of the system of law and jurisprudence evolved by a primitive people . . . and as practiced by them over a long period of years. . . . The individual case histories reveal the working of the warrior societies, the degree of authority exercised by the chiefs, and the mores of a primitive people. . . . More than a study of the jurisprudence of this single tribe, [the book] deals with the evolution of law and legal procedure among various other primitive peoples of the world."" - Edward Everett Dale, Journal of Southern History""Here is pioneering in the Sociology of Law. . . . The cases themselves are so beautifully alive that an elementary school child will forget to go to sleep reading them; so will the adult."" - Columbia Law Review

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Trade ReviewErnest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, historian and anthropologist, . . . have re-created the life of the bold, confident people who . . . dominated the prairies of the Southwest. All of it is here: the toil and stress and joyous ingathering of the buffalo harvest, the exultant feats of horsemanship, the happy sociability of the tepee village, the excitement of war and raiding. Then military defeat and the loss of the buffalo, the frustrations of the reservation experience with the failure to bring back the old order by dancing and 'medicine,' and finally the mystical escape through Father Peyote. . . . In its interpretation of the Comanches' way of life, the book achieves its aim of satisfying both the general reader and the anthropologist. It is a good story well told, without romanticizing, but with understanding and detachment. Here [is] a people perfectly adapted to their environment, loving their life and their wild land and sky."" - Angie Debo, in the New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisHighlighting language renewal programs, Telling Stories in the Face of Danger presents case studies from various North American communities that show tribal stories as vehicles of moral development, healing, and the construction of identity.

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Book SynopsisMore than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Jeffrey Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology.

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Book SynopsisAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism.Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links racial segregation in the Southwest and the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, known as In

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1970, this book makes the case that the New Deal, by emphasizing stability for all citizens, situated itself firmly within the traditions of American democracy. Hubert Humphrey’s cogent assessment of Roosevelt's policies offers insights still applicable in current discourse about the financial and social sectors within the US.

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