Social and cultural anthropology Books

Book SynopsisThe sacred Andean site of Pachacamac has an enduring presence in Peruvian history and plays a pivotal role in the formation of current views about religion and thought in the pre-Hispanic period. This is the first volume to synthesize the past quarter century’s abundance of new data and hypotheses on this important sanctuary.

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Book SynopsisThis work posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person's first hand - or rather, lack of first-hand - experience with other cultural situations, but also predisposes the ""tourist gaze"" to view particular locales in a predetermined way.Table of Contents Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist FOUNDATIONS Defining the Tourist Gaze Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal THE CINEMATIC TOURIST GAZE Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative Corporeal Geographies: E.M. Forster on Film Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels BEYOND FILM Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism

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Book SynopsisExamines why we consider some cosmetic surgeries to be acceptable and others to be unacceptable and possibly harmful. This book brings fresh perspectives to the promotion of extreme makeovers on television, the medicalization of surgery addiction, the moral and political interrogation that many patients face, and feminist debates on the topic.Trade ReviewSurgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of *Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of *Surgery Junkies...offers tremendous details about various consumers of plastic surgery. An interesting and comprehensive read. * Metapsychology *Victoria Pitts-Taylor offers a fascinating journey into the exigencies of perceived excess in Surgery Junkies. Pitts-taylor structures the book into many useful sections. It is smart and compelling and can be read with equal rigor by undergraduate and graduate students [and has] crossover appeal to a more popular audience. * Women's Studies Quarterly *Whether analyzing Extreme Makeover, 'Body Dismorphic Disorder,' or her own rhinoplasty, Pitts-Taylor makes difficult theoretical concepts clear-and clearly relevant to our lives. -- Susan Bordo * author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body *Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, *Table of ContentsVisible pathology and cosmetic wellness Normal extremes: cosmetic surgery television Miss World, Ms. Ugly : feminist debates The medicalization of surgery addiction The surgery junkie as legal subject The self and the limits of interiority

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Trade Review"King...began her ethnographic research...under difficult and often dangerous conditions resulting from the brutal, even genocidal, war undertaken by Saddam Hussein to suppress a Kurdish nationalist movement. Her book focuses on kinship organization and household management, with primary emphasis on how patrilineal or male descent works to maintain Kurdish identity and social cohesion. Recommended." * Choice *"Kurdistan on the Global Stage is an important contribution to ethnographic studies of Iraqi Kurdistan and cannot be missed by anthropologists and others with an interest in the global connections of Kurdistand and the larger Middle East." * American Anthropologist *"King analyses how Kurdish symbols and social relations are sustained, reformulated, and questioned in the age of globalization. King's book is a valuable addition to the anthropology of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Its attention to diachronic changes in Kurdish society makes it particularly useful." * Middle East Journal *"This is a very readable, insightful anthropological study that will be welcomed by all those interested in the Kurds and how Kurdish political actors affect regional and even international politics. I highly recommend King's worthy contribution to the literature and encourage her to continue her valuable work." * Kurdish Studies *"Anthropologist Diane King guides the reader through Kurdistan using a radically different lens in an effort to understand social and political change in an unrecognized state. [This] study offers valuable insights into Iraqi Kurdistan's past and present." * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *"A rare account by an anthropologist of uncommon courage, this unique analysis of the rapid transformation of Iraqi Kurdistan is a must-read for students and scholars of the Middle East." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University *Table of Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Proper Nouns1. Kurdistan Glocal2. Fieldwork in a Danger Zone3. A Man on the Land: Lineages, Identity, and Place4. Gendered Challenges: Women Navigating Patriliny5. Politicking 6. Refuge Seeking, Patriliny, and the Global7. Kurdistan in the WorldNotesGlossary and AcronymsReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"Insightful, beautifully written, and empirically sophisticated, this book will be cited by many others, as it establishes the core of what it means to turn to religious conversion, to become an Orisha 'priest'… a joy to read." -- Salvador Vidal-Ortiz * associate professor, sociology, American University *"[Carr] offers both an insider and outsider perspective (initiate and researcher) that allows us to be privy to the trials and triumphs, the struggles and joys of committing to a faith largely misunderstood and often disparaged by the American mainstream." * Times Higher Education *“Carr has executed a methodologically innovative study of religious identification and self-creation in American Lukumi with integrity, intimacy and insight. Its focus on the 'everyday religion' of devotees is especially welcome.” -- George Brandon * professor emeritus, anthropogy, City University of New York *" An excellent contribution to the study of the complicated process of negotiating religious identity in the increasingly pluralistic context of twenty-first century America." -- Sarah M. Pike * professor, comparative religion, California State University, Chico *"A Year in White is a very fine account and a thoughtful exploration of conversion, deepening faith, and religious socialization, and a thoughtful portrait of the worldview of the Lukumi religion from the inside and how it is incorporated into the lives of the converts that Carr studies." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Situating the Iyawo 2 Iyawo Experience 3 Iyawo Rules 4 Iyawo Social Relations 5 Relating to the Orisha 6 Conclusion: Two (or more) Worlds Appendix A: Interview & Survey Participants Appendix B: Survey Appendix C: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape and the implications of that power for human needs, behaviour, and emotions. Based on two years of fieldwork in rural Flores, the book situates Manggarai place-making and mobility within the larger contexts of diverse human-environment interactions as well as adat revival in postcolonial Indonesia.

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Book SynopsisA key resource for anyone studying this pioneering thinker within the context of sociology, cultural studies, feminism and science studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Science as Stories of Nature: The Case of Primatology 3. A Queer Family of Companion Species: From Cyborgs to Dogs and Beyond 4. Bodies, Knowledge, Politics, Ethics and Truth: Figuring a Feminist Technoscience 5. Conversations with Donna Haraway 6. Why Read Haraway? Recommendations

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Book SynopsisViv Golding is Director of Research Students and Senior Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her most recent publication is Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity Race and Power and she is currently working on two Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded projects 'Behind the Looking Glass: 'Other' Cultures Within Translating Cultures' and 'Mapping Faith and Place in Leicester', and a Daiwa project 'Museum Literacy'. Wayne Modest is currently Head of the Curatorial Department at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Previously he has been Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography at the Institute of Jamaica. Recent publications include 'Slavery and the (Symbolic) Politics of Memory in Jamaica: Rethinking the Bicentenary' in Laurajane Smith et al. (ed) Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements.Trade Review[Museums and Communities] supplies the current state of the theoretical and practical activity in museum studies. It shows that museums have made efforts to open themselves to diverse groups interested in creating new systems of representation. The authors remind us that artists' interventions in museums urge curators to be more responsible and involved, allowing for effective dialogue with communities within disputed histories. * Perspective (Bloomsbury translation) *Museums and Communities thoroughly and unflinchingly interrogates the widely touted goal of collaborative museum work, providing a realistic assessment of the risks and pitfalls, but also the incredible rewards that come with a deep curatorial commitment to working collaboratively. * William Wood, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA *All too often museums invoke the idea of “community” in naïve and uncritical ways. Here at last is an attempt to complicate this construction, unpick its politics, and explore its dynamics in the context of museum exhibition, engagement and outreach. This book has much to teach us about how museums imagine their communities and reminds us of the need to develop more sophisticated approaches to collaborative museology. * Paul Basu , University College London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK Part One: Community Matters? Collaborative Museums: Curators, Communities, Collections - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK The City, Race, and the Creation of a Common History at the Virginia Historical Society - Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington, USA Negotiating the Power of Art: Tyree Guyton and Detroit Communities - Bradley L. Taylor, University of Michigan, USA Learning to Share Knowledge: Collaborative Projects In Taiwan - Marzia Varutti, University of Leicester, UK Community Engagement, Curatorial Practice and Museum Ethos in Alberta Canada - Bryony Onciul, Newcastle University, UK Co-Curating with Teenagers at the Horniman Museum - Wayne Modest, Tropenmuseum, the Netherlands Part Two: Sharing Authority? Museums, Migrant Communities and Intercultural Dialogue in Italy - Serena Iervolino, University of Leicester, UK Community Consultation and the Redevelopment of Manchester Museum's Ancient Egypt Galleries - Karen Exell, University College London, Qatar, Doha 'Shared Authority': Collaboration, Curatorial Voice and Exhibition Design in Canberra Australia - Mary Hutchison, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia One Voice to Many Voices?: Displaying Polyvocality in an Art Gallery - Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, and Helen Graham, Newcastle University, UK A Question of Trust: Addressing Historical Injustices with Romani-people - Åshild Andrea Brekke, Arts Council, Norway Part Three: Audiences and Social Justice? Audience Experiences? Creolising the Museum: Humour, Art and Young Audiences - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK Museums and Civic Engagement: Children Making a Difference - Elizabeth Wood, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA Community Consultation in the Museum: The 2007 Bicentenary of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade - Kalliopi Fouseki, University College London, UK and Laurajane Smith. Australian National University, Australia Interpreting the Shared Past Within the World Heritage Site of Göreme, Cappadocia Turkey - Elizabeth Carnegie, University of Sheffield, UK and Hazel Tucker, University of Otago, New Zealand Testimony, Memory and Art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum Melbourne Australia - Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, Australia Afterword - A View from the Bridge in Conversation with Susan Pearce - Kirstin James, University of Leicester, UK, Petrina Foti, University of Leicester, UK and the Editors Index

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Book SynopsisCarolyn Korsmeyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USATrade ReviewFor the “Sensory Formations” series, Korsmeyer has compiled a collection of previously published essays about the aesthetics of taste. She arranges the essays into eight segments, commencing with a scientific review of the biological and physical processes of taste, then moving on to environmental and cultural impacts on how human beings experience and describe the taste of what is consumed. Korsmeyer includes classic writing on taste from Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Franc¸ois Revel, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant, as well as works by contemporary food historians such as Sidney Mintz and Darra Goldstein, and food writers M. F. K. Fisher, Margaret Visser, and Amy B. Trubek … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; faculty and general readers. * CHOICE *The Taste Culture Reader is a fantastic text for anyone interested in food and sensory experience. This new edition retains classic texts while broadening the already interdisciplinary scope of this excellent reader. An excellent tool for the classroom. * Rachel Black, Connecticut College, USA *This collection is destined to become a classic in the field of food studies, as it reflects the original edition’s key strengths and includes new material that adds coherence and depth. This multidisciplinary exploration expands our understanding of taste, and should be of interest to anyone who eats. * Rachel Ankeny, University of Adelaide, Australia *A marvelous interdisciplinary collection that ranges from biology through the social sciences to philosophy and literature has just gotten better. If you have ever thought about food, you will find much intellectual nourishment here; if you have never thought about it, this is the place to begin. * Larry Shiner, University of Illinois Springfield, USA *The Taste Culture Reader provides splendid material to introduce a variety of themes. * Peter Scholliers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium *… because Korsmeyer recruited authors to write new original material, this second edition is more than simply an updated survey of relevant literature about taste, food, drink, and culture. On the whole, her strategy proves to be a very successful one. * FoodAnthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Perspectives on Taste Part I: Taste: Physiology and Circumstance Part II: Taste Cultures: Gustation in History Part III: Eloquent Flavors Part IV: Body and Soul Part V: Taste and Aesthetic Discrimination Part VI: Fine Discernments and the Cultivation of Taste Part VII: Taste, Emotion, and Memory Part VIII: Artifice, Authenticity, and Artistry Bibliography Notes on Contributors Permissions Index

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Book SynopsisKrishnendu Ray is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University, USA.Trade ReviewThe Ethnic Restaurateur explores subordination and power in the domain of palatal taste which challenges standard theories of aesthetic taste and culture-making in an American city. … A very insightful sociological study on the American culinary world. -- Sarah Kahn * The Washington Book Review *Ray...[sketches] the tiers of what he calls a 'global hierarchy of taste.' … Ultimately, [his] theory is addressing not just the construction of opinions about food, but about culture more generally.The global hierarchy of cultural taste is, in Ray’s eyes, arranged according to capital flows more than it is to any inherent beauty or virtue a culture may possess. * The Atlantic *As the fields of food criticism, food journalism, and food studies increasingly turn their attention to questions of authenticity and appropriation, The Ethnic Restaurateur provides an essential perspective on the subject. -- Jenna Mason * The Southern Foodways Alliance *The Ethnic Restaurateur comprises an extensive reflective introduction, four interconnected substantive essays (chapters 2–5), and a brief conclusion. …This is an engaging and sometimes polemical book which contributes to understanding ethnic entrepreneurs and the circulation and appreciation of culinary traditions, as well as beckoning towards comparison with other national experiences. * Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: As the Grains you Eat, So will be the Mind 1. Taste, Toil and Ethnicity 2. Dreams of Pakistani Grill and Vada Pao in Manhattan: Immigrant Restaurateurs in a Global City 3. Hierarchy of Taste and Ethnic Difference: American Gustatory Imagination in a Globalizing World 4. Extending Expertise: Men in White at the Culinary Institute of America 5. Ethnicity and Expertise: Immigrant Cooks with Haute Aspirations 6. In Closing References Index

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