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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an exceptionally interesting, carefully written, and well-reasoned examination of the role the Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) has played in the history and culture of the peoples of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska." * Choice *"[A]n interesting read: a current fishing issue with a historic and anthropologic context, well documented and annotated, with references, photographs, charts, and a timeline of the Southeast herring fishery." * Alaska History *"A profoundly hopeful work. If it is taken seriously in high places, it will save the herring and the Tlingit fishery. It is such a stunningly well-done, scholarly, tightly argued work that it will be impossible to dismiss." * Ethnobiology Letters *"The critical element and clear strength of the book is that it is not just a chronicle of herring decline or diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Rather, it provides a way forward from the profoundly alarming situation we are confronted with. The authors’ way forward is a call to draw on traditional and local knowledge concerning sustainable harvesting practices and managerial strategies...[T]his volume offers the kind of rich, compelling and well-argued study that has significant potential to fuel transformational change." * Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology *"Integration of Indigenous knowledge into understanding and management of natural resources and the ecosystems they belong to has been a desired goal of anthropology for decades. Likewise, the use of archaeological data to provide deep diachronic perspective in studies of historical ecology is a growing objective/rational for the pursuit of archaeological research. This book, which considers the past, present, and future of an often-overlooked, but critical keystone species, Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii), represents a timely and impressive step toward attainment of those goals." * Journal of Anthropological Research *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sanderien Verstappen’s wonderful new book New Lives in Anand tells us that the story of Gujarati Muslims does not end with violence and displacement...[T]he book shows us how new lives and connections are made by communities who have deep ties to a region and a way of life that cannot be reduced to the word 'Muslim.'" -- Moyukh Chatterjee * The Wire *"Verstappen...holds herself accountable to the often-contradictory stories that her interlocutors tell about their relationship to communal violence. The threat of violence is still present as a binding force, but processes of social change are made livable by a new aesthetics of mobility and connectedness." -- Nikita Simpson * Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology *"The book is instrumental in charting a new paradigm to theorize segregated Muslim spaces and Muslim middle-class formations." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Geoff Dyer, a Grammy-winning producer discovers a powerful and ancient folk music tradition.Trade Review"Christopher King’s relationship to music is passionate and profound. As a scholar and obsessive collector of 78s he has few peers. Lament from Epirus will delight anyone who has ever put the needle down on an unknown record and waited to see what would come out of the speakers." -- Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears"Anyone interested in the power of music—spiritually, culturally, historically, or politically—will find this odyssey to be transformative. By way of an anthropological detective story, Christopher King deftly reveals details and echoing connections I personally never even imagined. Fascinating." -- Jim Jarmusch"... superb book... A highly recommended read, then, for anyone interested in the music of the southern Balkans, the roots of European folk music, the aesthetics of vernacular music or the philosophy of record collecting." -- Songlines"The book is a great read in itself, but for aficionados of hardcore folk music, it's essential, grappling as it does with what might lie (perhaps deeply buried) in the heart of the music we love." -- fRoots"A passionate record collector embarks on a Greek musical odyssey in this captivating travelogue,... remarkable book... It's not a spoiler to say that King found what he was looking for, and he tells the story well." -- Ed Ward - Financial Times"Lament From Epirus is a feverish memoir of the ecstasies and traumas of a music obsessive, and a gonzo account of the deep, transporting meaning of music itself... King's book is compelling, illuminating and funny, but above all it is a deeply serious lament for the flattening and coarsening of culture by the onrush of technology, commerce and globalisation." -- Wire"Lament From Epirus is a most gripping and entertaining ethnomusicological ride. Highly recommended. " -- Rock n Reel

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Book SynopsisExamines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions.Trade ReviewRefutes the simplistic division of sight and blindness as separate worlds of meanings … the firsthand narratives of blind women provide a mirror where sighted assumptions are revealed and made clear. The book offers alternative conceptualizations of gender, visual culture, the gaze, and the sensorium, as well as new perspectives on central concepts within qualitative research, such as the researcher's gaze and research observation." - Elaine Gerber, Montclair State University"I like this book, which investigates sight as well as blindness … a significant contribution to anthropology, disability studies, and women and gender studies, and likely to be required reading in courses in those fields. It is also just a great book to read—by anyone." - Rod Michalko, University of Toronto

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Book SynopsisExamines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time homeownership a reality for millions of low-income Brazilians over the last ten years.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Part I—Introduction The Subjunctivity of Hope Hoping for the Future Part II—Infrastructural Citizenship 1. The Making of a Model Community 2. The Machine of Worthiness 3. Waiting and Hoping 4. Cartographies of Wellbeing Part III—Middle-Class Sensorial 5. Topographies of Consumption 6. Democracies of Hope 7. Infrastructuring Class Conclusion. Post-Neoliberal Hopescapes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExplores how Europe's increasingly powerful border regime meets and interacts with its target - the clandestine migrant. This book examines the subterranean migration flow from Africa to Europe, and shifts the focus from the "illegal immigrants" themselves to the vast industry built around their movements.Trade Review"A wonderfully readable, extremely well searched, and immensely helpful contribution to migration scholarship. It is the rare author who can combine the writer's fluid prose with the scholar's deep analysis, but Andersson, a post-doctoral fellow at the London School of Economics, does just that." -- Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez crImmigration "[An] impressive work of outstanding scholarship ... highly recommended ... a brilliant ethnography." -- Paul Mutsaers Border Criminologies "Ruben Andersson embarks on a needed and timely pursuit... a novel and powerful argument about Europe's southern external border." -- Elena Popa Council for European Studies "[The book's] contribution lies in its relentless investigation into the workings of what the author refers to as the 'illegal migration industry' ... its rich empirical data and the thoroughness with which the author tackles the 'illegality industry' provide for a strong contribution to a wider body of literature that is concerned with narratives that lie behind popular images of the migrant." -- Lucy Hovil Migration Studies "A rich tapestry of oral testimony that not only makes the reading experience more enjoyable and human, but underpins an emotional and compelling argument... I would highly recommend this debut book." -- Jamie Hitchen Africa at LSE "A rich and lucid narrative ... accessible, creative, and highly informative." -- Thomas Kemp Social and Legal Studies "It's the inside story of the sort of thing you read about in the newspapers all the time... It validated for me this [kind of] ethnographic research, going there, being there, burrowing in." -- Adam Kuper, Professor of Anthropology at LSE 2015 BBC/British Sociological Association ethnography award jury "I was blown away by this book, it was stunning...once you have read it, you will not see migration the same way ever again." -- Beverley Skeggs, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, London 2015 BBC/British Sociological Association ethnography award jury "Best book of the year? With all the usual reservations about the virtues of each and all of everything I've dipped into in 2014, I'm going to go for Ruben Andersson's Illegality, Inc. ... he brings out the ways in which awareness of borders and the relationship which the various actors have with them brings out a set of predicable roles - the border cop, the humanitarian naval guard, the calculating NGO activist, the aggrieved, indignant migrant, the camp welfare officer, right the way through to the anti-globaliser 'no borders' protester." -- Don Flynn Migrants' Rights Network "Timely and beautifully written... Indeed, Illegality Inc. is a fascinating book, a must read not only for those interested in migration studies, but for anyone who dearly cares about the sanity of a European project - and about the way the world is governed." Allegra LabTable of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments Timeline Author's Note Selected Abbreviations Introduction Scene 1 PART ONE. BORDERLANDS 1 Mohammadou and the Migrant-Eaters 2 A Game of Risk 3 Hunter and Prey PART TWO. CROSSINGS Scene 2 4 The Border Spectacle PART THREE. CONFRONTATIONS 5 White Mother, Black Sons Scene 3 6 Stranded in Time Scene 4 7 Marchers without Borders Conclusion Appendix: A Note on Method Notes Selected Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. The Social Life of Remittances 2. Peru: Migration and Remittances 3. Compromiso: The Family Commitment 4. Voluntad: The Community Commitment 5. Superacion: The Personal Commitment 6. After Remittances References Index

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Book SynopsisAIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. This book tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda - a country known as Africa's great AIDS success story.Trade Review"AIDS and Masculinity in the African City will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, gender scholars and global/public health practitioners, but the book is also a compelling must-read for people concerned with and interested in urban ethnography, HIV/AIDS, feminist theory and masculinities." Centre for Medical HumanitiesTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1. Remaking Masculinity in Bwaise 2. The Making of Masculinity in Urban Uganda 3. Providing in Poverty 4. Women’s Rights in the Remaking of Masculinity 5. The Intersection of Masculinity, Sexuality, and AIDS 6. Beyond Bwaise Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow has Latino immigration transformed the South? In what ways is the presence of these newcomers complicating efforts to organize for workplace justice? This is a portrait of neoliberal globalization and calls for organizing strategies that bring diverse working communities together in mutual construction of a more just future.Trade Review"Scratching Out a Living is a model of engaged scholarship. In this timely, beautifully-written, and deeply researched activism-based ethnography about the poultry industry in the American South, Stuesse demonstrates how workers are exploited and divided on the basis of racial and ethnic identities within the context of neoliberal globalization. Without underestimating the difficulties, her research reveals that the basis for inter-racial working class solidarity among African Americans and Latinos does indeed exist in the newest 'new' South." -Judges' Comments, 2017 C.L.R. James Award for Published Books for Academic or General Audiences Working-Class Studies AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Southern Fried: Globalization and Immigrant Transformations 2. Dixie Chicken: Racial Segregation, Poultry Integration, and the Making of the "New" South in Central Mississippi 3. The Caged Bird Sings for Freedom: Black Struggles for Civil and Labor Rights, 1950-1980 4. To Get to the Other Side: The Hispanic Project and the Rise of the Nuevo South 5. Pecking Order: Latino Newcomers, Receptions, and Racial Hierarchies 6. A Bone to Pick: Labor Control and the Painful Work of Chicken Processing 7. Sticking Our Necks Out: Challenges to Union and Workers' Center Organizing 8. Walking on Eggshells: Illegality, Employer Sanctions, and Disposable Workers 9. Plucked: Labor Contractors and Immigrant Exclusion 10. Flying Upwind: Toward a New Southern Solidarity Postscript Home to Roost: Reflections on Activist Research Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Yanomami Indians, living in the depths of the Venezuelan forest, are one of the most interesting of the world's tribal peoples. Jacques Lizot lived among them for over fifteen years and has written an account which allows them to speak for themselves, in stories told by Yanomami individuals. The tales are revealing in the insights they provide into the Indians' daily experience; their shamanism, magic and sorcery; and conflict and alliance with other villages. The result is a richly evocative and intimate account - illustrated with revealing photographs of the Yanomami's own perceptions of their world - recreating in detail the atmosphere, speech, noises, smells and images of life in the Amazon forest.Trade Review'… an impressive (and equally disturbing) account of Yanomami life and myth … Lizot is a poet for the Yanomami.' Redmond O'Hanlon in In Trouble Again'… an outstanding work … deserves to be widely read, not just by anthropologists but by all who have an interest in understanding tribal societies.' Journal of Latin American StudiesTable of ContentsForeword Timothy Asch; Preface to the English edition; Prologue; Part I. The Great Shelter From Day to Day: 1. Ashes and tears; 2. Love stories; 3. Women's lives; Part II. The Magical Powers: 4. The path of the spirits; 5. Spells; 6. Eaters of souls; Part III. War and Alliance: 7. The hunt; 8. The pact; Appendixes.

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Book SynopsisThe RussiaChina border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the Russian. Both governments discourage cross-border interaction, yet exchange is constant. Anthropologists Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey describe a vigorous and diverse transnational society facing profound political constraints.Trade ReviewA wonderfully illuminating book, filled with insights about the frontier between Russia and China and the peoples who live in and alongside the border zones. Beautifully written and immaculately researched, this is an important book that draws on the past and present—and has obvious implications for the future. -- Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldA fine-grained account of the awkwardness, asymmetries, and paradoxes of life…along the 2,600-mile border between Russia and China. -- Adeeb Khalid * Times Literary Supplement *Deeply revealing about both the geopolitical relationship of Russia and China and their strikingly different modes of operation. -- Sheila Fitzpatrick * London Review of Books *The first comprehensive analysis of how the lived experiences of the inhabitants of these peripheries intersect with the grand national and geopolitical visions emanating from the political centers of Moscow and Beijing…Fleshes out reductive media representations, illustrating how the ostensible political friendship between Moscow and Beijing is manifested, rejected, and contested in the everyday lives of ordinary people. -- Emily Couch * Moscow Times *Enlightening…Billé and Humphrey record the results of their studies and visits to this border, taking in a number of themes, including environmental protection, indigenous peoples, cross-border trade, migration, friendship and neighborly attitudes. Each chapter reveals much about the borderlands, and much about the policies and histories of these two giants, which once shared a ruling ideology. -- Katie Burton * Geographical *A close examination of a stretch of the Amur where Russia and China stare at one another in a fragile friendship. [Billé and Humphrey] approach their topic through the perspective of the people who live there and make the river border work or, in some cases, not work. -- Jack Weatherford * Mekong Review *[A] sparkling book…which transported me to familiar and new places. -- Peter Frankopan * The Spectator *For an ethnographic-cum-geopolitical account of Russia’s long border to the east, see the terrific book by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border. -- Sheila Fitzpatrick * Australian Book Review *[A book] with remarkable depth and ambition. A combination of shoe-leather ethnography and macroscopic economic and political analysis, this book not only explains the stark differences in prosperity between the struggling Russian Far East and the flourishing Chinese Northeast, but also debunks a number of myths that have come to shape the popular understanding of the region. -- Gregory Afinogenov * Russian Review *Through their enthralling ethnographic description of many social groups’ lived experiences at the border, the authors both enrich and challenge the existing studies on Sino-Russian relations…Essential for acquiring knowledge about contemporary Russia, China, their comparability and dissimilarities, and Northeast Asia and Eurasia at large. -- Liao Zhang * Journal of Borderlands Studies *A book rich in insight and offering a fascinating and unique way of exposing the real contours of this hugely important relationship…Russians and Chinese, if they do share ethnic, kin or other bonds, simply view the world in a different way, framed by the national sentiments prevailing on the particular side of the border on which they happen to live. -- Kerry Brown * Asian Affairs *The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the continuing relevance of borders, despite all the paeans to mobility and globalization. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, meanwhile, has imparted even greater significance to Moscow’s relationship with China than it had before. Before these twin crises, the issues in this book were consequential; more recent developments have rendered them even more important still. On the Edge is thus a timely intervention. -- Paul W. Werth * Ab Imperio *In this rich and wonderfully written book, two giants of twentieth-century socialism meet in the cities, forests, and along the rivers of northeast Asia to show how much is at stake for so many in competing visions of a postsocialist future. -- Bruce Grant, New York UniversityWhere the edges of Russia and China meet is perhaps the world’s most politically unknown but consequential borderland. Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey provide the missing picture of how multicultural peoples carry on a burgeoning trade that is transforming life along this vast frontier. The authors show that despite different historical imaginations and personal stories on both sides, variant forms of capitalism—mafia and state—help weave friends, foes, and kin across the border. -- Aihwa Ong, author of Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of LifeRelations between Russia and China are usually discussed through a top-down approach—the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of a Putin and a Xi Jinping. Billé and Humphrey on the contrary turn to the ordinary lives of people living on and working across the border. A beautiful exploration of the daily reality of these border lives, revealing tensions, relations, and emerging trends that top-down approaches have missed entirely. -- Michael Puett, Harvard UniversityFor centuries, Russia and China have confronted each other along one of the longest, most important but least understood land borders in the world. On the Edge is a fascinating ethnographic study of life in this border region today that works on two levels, offering a highly focused and personalized consideration of cross-cultural and transnational interactions across a remote borderland while at the same time providing valuable insights into the dynamics that both impel and complicate the evolving Sino–Russian relationship. -- Mark Bassin, Södertörn University

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Book SynopsisThis major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender.Trade Review'This book is of the highest intellectual quality, carefully argued in a non-confrontational tone. Sørenson's emphasis on what archaeology can contribute to the social science discussion about gender is a refreshing change from much of the existing literature on the topic.' Elizabeth Scott, Zooarch Research 'For a penetrating analysis of the state of gender archaeology today, and an extended discussion of the ways in which archaeology can best contribute to understanding gender, this book is extremely important ... Clear and cogent, this book will be of interest to all archaeologists because of its emphasis on the materiality of gender.' Journal of Anthropological Research 'This is not just another book about the history or nature of gender archaeology or the problems associated with making women visible in the past. The author addresses these subjects, but also contributes both theoretical insights into defining gender and practical approaches to excavating "gendered" objects ... Although engendering the archaeological record is a complex endeavor, she documents ways in whch it is an achievable goal. Her book is thorough, well footnoted and well argued.' ChoiceTable of ContentsList of illustrations. Acknowledgements. PART I. 1. Gender into the Past. 2. Gender and Archaeology: a History. 3. Theorizing Gender: Sex and Gender. 4. Theorizing Gender: Negotiation and Practice. 5. The Materiality of Gender: The Gendered Object. PART II. 6. Food: The Performance of Feeding and Eating. 7. Dressing Gender: Identity through Appearance. 8. The Engendering of Space. 9. Contact: The Short-lived Triangle. 10. The Beginning: On Becoming Gendered. 11. Reflections. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisDo Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which coincided with dramatic social upheaval resulting from European exploration and increased travel and trade among Aboriginal peoples.European visitors brought with them varying conceptions of nature as sublime, as spiritual, or as a resource for human progress. They saw glaciers as inanimate, subject to empirical investigation and measurement. Aboriginal oral histories, conversely, described glaciers as sentient, animate, and quick to respond to human behaviour. In each case, however, the experiences and ideas surrounding glaciers were incorporated into interpretations of social relations.Focusing on these contrastingTrade ReviewPerhaps the crucial word in the title is “Listen.” The reader must listen carefully to the words as spoken by others in this beautifully crafted book. Do Glaciers Listen? is a fascinating read. Cruikshank’s discussion of how encounters shape and create perceptions of the world, and how layers of meaning are forced onto landscapes by peoples is thoroughly thought provoking. This book is highly recommended for scientitst, anthropologists, historians, and everyone with an interest in the social construction of landscapes. -- Susan Rowley, Canadian Polar Commission * Meridian, Fall/Winter 2005 *Cruikshank’s book is sophisticated, rigorous, and exciting. Its pages brim with nuanced takes on epistemology, sensitive descriptions of ice, and rigorous analyses of cultural interactions. This is indeed a tour de force in interdisciplinary studies. -- Eric G. Wilson,Wake Forest University * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Stubborn Particularities of VoicePart 1: Matters of Locality1 Memories of the Little Ice Age2 Constructing Life Stories: Glaciers as Social Spaces3 Listening for Different StoriesPart 2: Practices of Exploration4 Two Centuries of Stories from Lituya Bay: Nature, Culture, and La Pérouse5 Bringing Icy Regions Home: John Muir in Alaska6 Edward James Glave, the Alsek, and the CongoPart 3: Scientific Research in Sentient Places7 Mapping Boundaries: From Stories to Borders8 Melting Glaciers and Emerging HistoriesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTaking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present.Trade ReviewNovel and insightful.... Di Leonardo's study is an important reassessment of the ethnic experience in America. * American Anthropologist *

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Book SynopsisIs there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it’s often an indirect one. Opening a new window on the meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, this work also reveals how Catholicism, so key to the identity of earlier generations of Irish Americans, has also evolved.Trade Review“In Irish-American Autobiography James Silas Rogers engages with more than a century of Irish-American nonfiction. Meticulously researched, intelligently orchestrated, and beautifully written, Rogers’s study—in its deep engagement with the many-sidedness of the Irish experience in the United States—brings into the spotlight the lives of many well and not-so-well-known men and women whose lives and writings allow us to understand the Irish diaspora more thoroughly. Some of his subjects are well-known—Jackie Gleason, Frank McCourt, and Michael Patrick McDonald—while others represent important acts of recovery. This is a wise, informative, excellent, and a vital contribution to both Irish and American Studies.” —Eamonn Wall, author of Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions.

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Book SynopsisThrough the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.Trade Review“An extraordinary volume…. Not only is the writing empirically driven, but, more importantly, the theoretic content is grounded in prose that is fresh, vibrant, and something not always associated with what is a university textbook, fascinating. Cleveland, Kaur, and Akindes are to be congratulated for putting together a team that explores complex identities and the dynamic nature of African sport…. Hats off to the Ohio University Press for not only supporting the venture but publishing a book that looks like, and reads like, a classic.” * Journal of Sport History *“A long-overdue project by scholars committed to building African sports studies as a humanities subject. It presents close studies of sports like cycling, surfing, track and field, ultra-marathoning, and weightlifting, which are often neglected in favor of bigger and more popular sports such as soccer, rugby, and cricket. Scholars of social history, nationalism, popular culture, social anthropology, media, and cultural studies will appreciate this book.”“The Sport in Africa collective, active since 2004, has helped kick-start a movement. Here it adds seventeen more topics to the growing corpus of works on African sports history—from surfers in Transkei and women in Nigeria to Kenyan athletes and the football migrations to Europe (happening alongside desperate refugee journeys in the Mediterranean)—showing what a rich field of study sport is becoming.”“Sports in Africa heralds the arrival in sports studies of an empirically rich, theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, and incisive African-focused genre. The volume demonstrates the centrality and complexity of sport in the daily rhythms and social fabric of life on the continent, across time, and in the formal and informal economies. It challenges longstanding racial, ethnic and cultural stereotypes pertaining to Africans, and dispenses with any notion of fixed and prescribed social and cultural identities.”“This collection of essays opens up the debate on the influences of social history, subaltern studies, and postmodernism in stimulating new research and pedagogical approaches to sport studies in Africa. It offers exemplary studies of mainstream sports (athletics, cricket, football, and rugby) and those on the margins (cycling, surfing, and wrestling) and reflects on the contributions and trajectories of those sporting pasts and their present impacts and meanings across the African continent. A go-to volume for those seeking a solid introduction to the politics, poetics and practices of the fascinating life-worlds of sports in Africa.”

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Book SynopsisCombining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Institute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and actions of health care providers and patients.Trade Review“Mika’s lively history shows how Ugandan physician-scientists used cancer research to build oncology care and infrastructure over five decades of labile national politics, pervasive scarcity, and often ephemeral international partnerships. This engaging account illuminates struggles that shaped both global oncology knowledge and the fates of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans facing cancer diagnoses.” -- Claire L. Wendland, author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School“Based on rich historical and ethnographic research, Africanizing Oncology provides an intimate, and at times harrowing view of the day-to-day activities of care, research, and healing that permitted physicians, researchers, nurses, and patients to survive civil war, structural adjustment, and massive global disparities in health resources to build and sustain an African cancer research institute. The book is a remarkable achievement.” -- Randall M. Packard, author or A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples“In this historically and ethnographically rich book, Marissa Mika shows how African doctors and nurses practice oncology by creating, adapting, and transforming medical infrastructures. Tracing the life of the Uganda Cancer Institute through historical periods of independence, dictatorship, war, structural adjustment, and the HIV pandemic, this powerful book reveals the challenges and opportunities of Africanizing oncology. This is a landmark study on the history—and future—of global oncology.” -- Carlo Caduff, author of The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger“In recounting half a century of research and care at the Uganda Cancer Institute, Marissa Mika tells an unforgettable story of the power of connections and the consequences of their loss. Ugandan physician/researchers and their staff proved the value of therapies because they had made friendships that motivated families to return to Kampala for follow-up, but that knowledge became useless when funders’ priorities changed and international partnerships ended. Mika’s story of UCI shows horrifying wounds—and the possibility of healing—in postindependence Uganda, in global health, and in the way we think about the world.” -- Holly Hanson, author of To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015

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Book SynopsisThis ethnography of a river restoration project in Kathmandu, Nepals capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia, contributes to the nascent anthropology of urban environments.Trade Review“Anthropologists have just begun to turn their attention to cities in the south and Reigning the River is one of the first detailed ethnographies to effectively grapple with the cultural politics of urban natures. It is an admirable project and will not only be of immense relevance to a wide range of readers interested in questions of urban improvement, development, and livelihood struggles, but it also deserves to be read widely by undergraduate and graduate students of urban studies, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies. It is a pioneering contribution that is bound to have a lasting impact.” - Shubhra Gururani, American Ethnologist“[A] valuable resource for those with a general interest in urban problems orin Nepal for disciplinary specialists.” - John Whelpton, Asian Anthropology“It certainly does represent a considerable advance in the literature of environmentally conscious humanities research, with powerful general conclusions that can guide both practitioners and academics.” - Paul Brown, Asian Studies Review“Cutting-edge social science has not kept pace with the shift of most of the human population to urban areas. Anne M. Rademacher helps to remedy this deficiency by asking, as one of her informants did of her, ‘What is urban ecology?’ In answer, she shows how urban nature and culture are mutually produced, reinforced, and changed, deftly weaving into her analysis recent political and environmental transformations in Nepal. The result is a pioneering study of the moral and affective dimensions of a twenty-first-century urban environment. It is a model for a new generation of urban studies.”—Michael R. Dove, Yale University“This lucidly written and rigorously argued book is likely to become a major contribution to the anthropology of the Himalayan environment, and to the small but growing literature on urban modernity in Nepal. In the eyes of environmental activists, the sorry state of the Bagmati River is a metaphor for the state of Nepal itself. By elucidating the activists’ critique and their vision for a more ordered and coherent future, Anne M. Rademacher makes a deeply original contribution to political anthropology. This book deserves to be widely read both by students of Himalayan society, culture, and politics and by those who work in the areas of Nepal’s environment, development, and governance. The clarity of the writing makes it especially suitable as an undergraduate text in a range of courses on environment and development, political anthropology, urban anthropology, and South Asian studies.”—Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College“Rademacher provides an engaging ethnographic account of environmental and political transformation in Kathmandu, permeated with abundant historical material and written with a close yet critical understanding of the subject. The book, strong on theoretical references to interdisciplinary debates in social science and in the field of Nepal studies, has made its own important contributions in these fields.” -- Tashi Tsering * Environmental History *“[A] valuable resource for those with a general interest in urban problems or in Nepal for disciplinary specialists.” -- John Whelpton * Asian Anthropology *“Anthropologists have just begun to turn their attention to cities in the south and Reigning the River is one of the first detailed ethnographies to effectively grapple with the cultural politics of urban natures. It is an admirable project and will not only be of immense relevance to a wide range of readers interested in questions of urban improvement, development, and livelihood struggles, but it also deserves to be read widely by undergraduate and graduate students of urban studies, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies. It is a pioneering contribution that is bound to have a lasting impact.” -- Shubhra Gururani * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAbout the Series viii Foreword ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. A Riverscape Undone 1 1. Creating Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley 42 2. Knowing the Problem 57 3. War, Emergency, and an Unsettled City 91 4. Emergency Ecology and the Order of Renewal 116 5. Ecologies of Invasion 139 6. Local Rivers, Global Reaches 155 Conclusion. Anticipating Restoration 175 Notes 185 References 211 Index 237

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Book SynopsisExamining the chronic, widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Akhil Gupta theorizes the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence.Trade Review"This is a landmark study of bureaucratic practices through which the state is actualized in the lives of the poor in India. Akhil Gupta's theoretical sophistication and the ethnographic depth in this book demonstrate how South Asian studies continues to challenge and shape the direction of social theory. This book is a stunning achievement."—Veena Das, author of Life and Words"This long-awaited book is a masterful achievement that offers a close look at the culture of bureaucracy in India and, through this lens, casts new light on structural violence, liberalization, and the paradox of misery in the midst of explosive economic growth. Akhil Gupta's sensitive analysis of the everyday practices of writing, recording, filing, and reporting at every level of the state in India joins a rich literature on the politics of inscription and marks a brilliant new benchmark for political anthropology in India and beyond."—Arjun Appadurai, author of Fear of Small Numbers"Why has the postcolonial state in India seemed so incapable of improving the life chances of the country's poor? In his brilliant book Red Tape, Akhil Gupta argues that the structural violence inherent in the state operates as a form of biopower in which normal bureaucratic procedures depoliticize the killing of the poor. Whether exploring corruption, literacy, or population policy, Gupta provides an utterly original account of the deadly operations of state power associated with the ascendancy of new industrial classes and of neoliberal practice in contemporary India. A tour de force."—Michael Watts, author of Silent Violence“Akhil Gupta’s Red Tape is one of the most insightful, probing and erudite studies that I have read on the Indian bureaucracy and its failures to significantly alter the destinies of millions of India’s poor. . . . Gupta’s findings are complex, multilayered, illuminating and thoughtful; the reader may not agree with all his conclusions, as I did not, but his work is refreshing for not being reductionist and simplistic, and for challenging many accepted assumptions” -- Harsh Mander * Economic and Political Weekly *“[A] novel exploration of the various bureaucratic structures and institutions that make the poor both voiceless and invisible to decision makers and administrators, from Delhi down to the village. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate students through professionals.” -- M. J. Frost * Choice *“Gupta asks why India, with a rapidly growing economy and a government plus NGOs that actively conduct poverty alleviation programs, continues to have vast, extremely poor, and socially marginalized populations. He frames this as a question in the production of structural violence, supported by a impressively clear and thoughtful review of the strengths and weaknesses of that term. . . . Rarely is a perspective of systems inequality, and one of complexity and diversity, so effectively synthesized.” -- Josiah Heyman * Anthropological Quarterly *“This is a lucid, powerfully original and rigorously argued book...The strength of Akhil Gupta’s writing springs from his consistent rejection of the axiomatic as well as the incidental.” -- Tarangini Sriraman * Studies in Indian Politics *“Red Tape is an engaging volume. Gupta raises critical questions about the connections between ‘the state’ and poverty, and is able to provide some answers through ethnographic data. . . . [T]he volume can be strongly recommended to scholars studying the ‘state in India’, and poverty and development more generally.” -- Terah Sportel * Progress in Development Studies *“The greatest strength of this book is that its complex theoretical argument connects an easy-to-read narrative that transports the reader to the rural settings in Uttar Pradesh. Hence, its rich content will appeal to a wider audience mainly because it adds to the literature on the culture and politics of the state. Although it specifically relates to fieldwork in rural India, by using Foucault and Agamben, social theorists who have wider appeal, this book will extend its global readership.” -- Rohit Madan * Gender, Place & Culture *“Akhil Gupta’s masterfully crafted book seeks to contribute to our understanding of the persistence of poverty in India despite high rates of growth and numerous public programmes designed to eradicate this malaise. . . . it makes an important contribution to the study of the quotidian practices that constitute the state, the conceptualization of poverty as structural violence, and the manner in which corruption, state inscriptions, and neoliberal governmentality combine to produce the systematic arbitrariness that perpetuates poverty in the country.” -- Indrajit Roy * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“Red Tape is written with matchless clarity and deliberation, and brims with ethnographic insight. More importantly, it is a profoundly moral book that joins outrage with cold-eyed analysis of abject poverty that kills. . . . Akhil Gupta has produced a tour-de-force: an argument that is ambitious, erudite, bold, and, best of all, generative to think with.” -- Vinay Gidwani * Environment and Planning D *“Red Tape is a brave attempt to answer a harrowing question: ‘Why has a state whose proclaimed motive is to foster development failed to help the large number of people who still live in dire poverty?’ (p. 3). . . Gupta’s account of the relationship between written documents and oral accounts, and also statistics and narrative, makes a significant contribution to existing anthropological analysis of the construction of knowledge in bureaucratic settings.” -- Gemma John * PoLAR *“[A] superb interrogation of bureaucracy and poverty in contemporary India. . . .” -- Benjamin Siegel * Contemporary South Asia *“[M]agesterial. . . . Red Tape beautifully and gut-wrenchingly reveals how and why the government regularly fails to deliver on its promise.” -- Sharmila Rudrappa * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One. Introduction 1. Poverty as Biopolitics 3 2. The State and the Politics of Poverty 41 Part Two. Corruption 3. Corruption, Politics, and the Imagined State 75 4. Narratives of Corruption 111 Part Three. Inscription 5. "Let the Train Run on Paper": Bureaucratic Writing as State Practice 141 6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy 191 Part Four. Governmentality 7. Population and Neoliberal Governmentality 237 Epilogue 279 Notes 295 References Cited 329 Index 355

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Book SynopsisKeywords in Sound defines the field of sound studies and provides a comprehensive conceptual apparatus for why studying sound matters. Each essay includes the keyword's intellectual history, a discussion of its role in cultural, social and political discourses, and suggestions for possible future research.Trade Review"The apparent strategy of the editors is to form a basic, redefined lexicon and this is nicely accomplished. ... Eventually this interesting and thorough experiment reflects the subtle innate heterogeneity of sound, drawing one of the many possible cultural galaxies around it." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"This is an important contribution to the emergent field of sound studies. It will help in both defining the field more fully and in refining its key terms more elaborately." * European Journal of Communication *"For anyone wanting a substantial, if not comprehensive, introduction to the field, Keywords in Sound is the place to start." -- Philip Vandermeer * Notes *Table of ContentsIntroduction / David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny 1 1. Acoustemology / Steven Feld 12 2. Acoustics / Benjamin Steege 22 3. Body / Deborah Kapchan 33 4. Deafness / Mara Mills 45 5. Echo / Mark M. Smith 55 6. Hearing / Jonathan Sterne 65 7. Image / John Mowitt 78 8. Language / David Samuels and Thomas Porcello 87 9. Listening / Tom Rice 99 10. Music / Matt Sakakeeny 112 11. Noise / David Novak 125 12. Phonography / Patrick Feaster 139 13. Radio / Daniel Fisher 151 14. Religion / Charles Hirschkind 165 15. Resonance / Veit Erlmann 175 16. Silence / Ana María Ochoa Gautier 183 17. Space / Andrew J. Eisenberg 193 18. Synthesis / Tara Rodgers 208 19. Transduction / Stefan Helmreich 222 20. Voice / Amanda Weidman 232 Contributors 247 Index 253

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Book SynopsisIn this ethnography Liisa H. Malkki reverses the study of humanitarian aid, focusing on aid workers rather than aid's recipients. She shows how aid serves the needs of its recipients and providers.Trade Review"The Need to Help situates aid work firmly in the social realities of the sending countries, rather than in the context of the abstract cosmopolitan values that academic accounts usually emphasise. For many of the Finnish workers Malkki studies, aid work is also linked to different notions about what is good and what is bad about Finland and about being Finnish. Complementing her focus on professionals who work in crisis settings across the world, Malkki looks at the needs that are associated with some of the more mundane ways in which people connect to the humanitarian enterprise, such as the knitting of bunnies and teddies for imagined children-in-need far away." -- Monika Krause * Times Higher Education *"This book would be a valuable text in undergraduate and graduate courses on development and humanitarianism. Malkki’s skilled ability to link together so many different intellectual inspirations makes this book very useful to examine as a model for theoretical conceptualization and for her methodology." -- Jeremy Rich * African Studies Quarterly *"[A]n original and highly significant analysis of 'Aidland,' essential reading for anyone interested in the growing literature on the people who work in the development industry and humanitarian organizations." -- R. L. Stirrat * Journal of Anthropological Research *"...this book provides finely textured material with which to debate the salience of the various rationales that people give for helping others." -- Erica Caple James * American Ethnologist *"This beautifully written book artfully navigates the purchase of domestic arts on international humanitarianism. . . . It is a book crafted with finesse, weaving in subtle threads of Western political thought on humanism, animism, cosmopolitanism with the empathetic understanding of an ethnographer engaged in painful and complex fieldwork." -- Ritu Mathur * Society & Space *"Perhaps one of the more captivating and accessible texts on humanitarianism. The text would be a useful tool for students seeking a deeper knowledge about the drivers of humanitarianism, as well as connections between the ‘local’ and ‘global.’ Yet, it has sufficient theoretical depth for researchers to find value when reflecting on broader questions about the power of humanitarianism." -- Simon Dickinson * Progress in Development Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Need, Imagination, and the Care of the Self 1 1. Professionals Abroad: Occupational Solidarity and International Desire as Humanitarian Motives 23 2. Impossible Situations: Affective Impasses and Their Afterlives in Humanitarian and Ethnographic Fieldwork 53 3. Figurations of the Human: Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace 77 4. Bear Humanity: Children, Animals, and Other Power Objects of the Humanitarian Imagination 105 5. Homemade Humanitarianism: Knitting and Loneliness 133 6. A Zealous Humanism and Its Limits: Sacrifice and the Hazards of Neutrality 165 Conclusion. The Power of the Mere: Humanitarianism as Domestic Art and Imaginative Politics 199 Notes 209 References 235 Index 267

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Book SynopsisMy Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology in which she uses everyday items to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning.Trade Review"Chin composes a sprawling paean to the joy of stuff and the impossibility of our ever eschewing it. In My Life With Things, she is winningly alert to the ambivalence around our acts of consumption, both the awful guilt and the immeasurable pleasure nonetheless." -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *"My Life with Things is a refreshing and honest book, which gives a rich insight into the experience of engaging with auto-ethnography. It should certainly appeal to the more adventurous, less conventional academic from across the social sciences and not just anthropology, the author’s home discipline.... At the end of the day, researchers interested in anthropology, auto-ethnography and/or consumption looking for an insider account complete with warts and all, should find this an invaluable companion." -- Christina Goulding * Consumption Markets & Culture *"With herself as both subject and object of study, Chin . . . weaves a highly personal, idiosyncratic, and explanatory narrative. Ever the provocateur, she brings her own consumer diaries over the span of several years into conversation with the likes of Karl Marx, not only at a theoretical level but also as biographical touchstones. The narratives, structured around the themes of inheritance, survival, and love, detail the author’s close relationship with the everyday items that surround her. The results can be exhilarating, giving readers self-reflexive pause on the consumptive world and how they got there." -- C. R. Yano * Choice *"My Life with Things is a strange yet fascinating look at our cultural preoccupation with owning and communing with physical objects. Chin uses her anthropological background to present an autoethnography, combining research, theory, and personal writing to criticize (and commiserate with) our love of objects." -- Jess Kibler * Bitch *"Elizabeth Chin’s My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries, is a fantastic book. I can’t imagine anyone reading it and not wanting to become an anthropologist. It is also one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time, with actual laugh-out-loud moments." -- Ben Highmore * New Formations *"Part academic study and part personal essay, My Life with Things offers both casual and scholarly readers an entryway into conversation about the place of material possessions in our lives.... [A] nuanced reflection on both the fact that we are inescapably tied to our possessions and the ways they connect us to our loved ones and neighbors around the world." -- Lee Hull Moses * Christian Century *“My Life with Things is thought-provoking in the best sense of the term. It poses new questions, approaches old ones in fresh ways, and tugs at the complex heart of people’s relationship to the things they have and the things they want.” -- Carrie M. Lane * American Ethnologist *"In the end this book, as Chin tells us, is a focus on moments, rife with the complexities and contradictions of everyday life. Just as in other life moments and journeys, it is full of fodder for contemplation and discussion as well as catalysts for new perspectives. I can imagine it as a resource for teachers as well as students, and I envision many imaginative and lively discussions based on objects described in this book as well as the particular objects animating others’ lives and relationships." -- Patricia L. Sunderland * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 3 2. The Entries 37 My Life with Things 37 Learn to Love Stuff 38 Banky 40 A Digression on the Topic of the Transitional Object 42 Cebebrate! 56 My Purple Shoes 58 Newspapers 61 Rose Nails 63 The Window Shade 67 Napkins 69 My White Man's Tooth 72 Should I Be Straighter 76 Cyberfucked 79 Knobs 80 Glasses 82 Curing Rug Lust 85 Window Shopping Online 89 Catalogs 92 Other People's Labor 95 Making Roots/Making Routes 98 My Closet(s) 101 Joining the MRE 108 Fun Shopping 114 Preschool Birthday Parties 114 Xena Warrior Consumer Princess 118 I Love Your Nail Polish 120 Little Benches 123 The Kiss 126 Are There Malls in Haiti? 127 Baby Number Two Turned Me into Economic Man 129 Pictures of the Rice Grain 132 Panting in Ikea 136 Capitalism Makes Me Sick 139 My Grandmother's Rings 147 Anorectic Energy 157 Mi-Mi's Piano 162 Dream-Filled Prescriptions 169 The Turquoise Arrowhead 170 Turning The Tables 173 Minnie Mouse Earring Holder 176 Make Yourself a Beloved Person 181 3. Writing as Practice and Process 187 4. This Never Happened 203 Notes 221 Bibliography 227 Index 235

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Book SynopsisAyşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former standing, showing how they live and work in their new cities in ways that require them to negotiate the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions.Trade Review"Ayse Calgar and Nina Glick Schiller make a timely and compelling case for migrants as 'city-makers.' Departing from commonly portrayed dichotomies between migrants and non-migrants, they situate, contextualize, and embed them into complex “multi-scalar” processes of urban regeneration. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. R. Innes * Choice *"This fantastic book is a result of committed long-term research by Çaglar and Glick Schiller on migration and the regeneration of cities." -- Susanne Urban * Urban Studies *"A theoretically rich book that immerses us in the relationship between migration and localities that are not urban centers of global power. . . . Migrants and City-Making has a theoretically rich and engaging methodology, which will be useful for anyone teaching courses on transnational migration, urban studies, urban anthropology or urban sociology." -- Hulya Dogan * City & Society *"Its programmatic and didactic approach will make Migrants and City-Making a useful teaching tool for students of migration and urban theory. The argumentation is bold and restated at multiple points in the book." -- Madeleine Reeves * Laboratorium *"... Immigrants and City-Making is a thought-provoking and ambitious study that provides a compelling appraisal of migration, place making, and urban theory. ... A unique, innovative, and valuable contribution to our comparative understanding of migration, cities, and the manifestations of growing economic inequality on a global scale." -- Steven Gold * American Journal of Sociology *"Migrants and City-Making is a thought-provoking and ambitious study that provides a compelling appraisal of migration, place making, and urban theory…. The book is a unique, innovative, and valuable contribution to our comparative understanding of migration, cities, and the manifestations of growing economic inequality on a global scale.” -- Steven Gold * American Journal of Sociology *“The book provides fascinating and important insight into the experiences, challenges, and agency of migrants and nonmigrants in disempowered cities. . . . The book will particularly interest scholars and researchers in those fields and would serve as an excellent introduction to some key debates and developments for anthropologists and sociologists beginning to think about the longer-term effects of urban regeneration efforts and how to study them.” -- Sara Jean Tomczuk * Contemporary Sociology *“[Migrants and City-Making] challenges disciplinary divisions between migration studies and urban studies which limit our understanding of global processes of city-making.... I highly recommend this book especially for those who work at the intersections of migration and urban studies and want to go beyond the national and ethnic lens.” -- Pinar Ensari * Urban Geography *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Multiscalar City-Making and Emplacement: Processes, Concepts, and Methods 1 1. Introducing Three Cities: Similarities despite Difference 33 2. Welcoming Narratives: Small Migrant Businesses within Multiscalar Restructuring 95 3. They Are Us: Urban Sociabillites with Multiscalar Power 121 4. Social Citizenship of the Dispossessed: Embracing Global Christianity 147 5. "Searching Its Future in Its Past": The Multiscalar Emplacement of Returnees 177 Conclusion. Time, Space, and Agency 209 Notes 227 References 239 Index 275

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Book SynopsisHuman beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences. It seeks to explain how human beings can appear to be so malleable in their nature, yet have an inherited set of behavioural instincts. When the founder of sociobiology, E.O. Wilson, made a plea for greater integration of the physical and human sciences in his book Consilience, there was an underlying assumption that the traffic would be mainly one way -- from physical to human science. This book reverses this assumption and draws on a new branch of human sciences, paradoxical systems theory, to reconceptualise some of the most innovative developments from physical sciences -- the related fields of evolutionary psychology, ethology, and behavioural genetics. The new approach is also applied to politics, economic and public policy approaches.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction to Human-Animal Interaction focuses on the human dimension of interacting with other animals. This book introduces recent developments, theories, and debates in the relatively new research area of Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) and focuses on the social and life sciences aspect of these interactions. Experts from different academic disciplines provide an overview for students and professionals interested in how humans and other animals interact, and what advantages and disadvantages emerge for both parties in this relationship.The book starts with the theories and mechanisms supporting our interactions with animals, such as human-animal communication, and it then covers the implications of HAI in terms of ethics and welfare. After discussing cultural differences and forensic aspects in human-animal interaction (e.g., wildlife crime and animal abuse), the book examines evidence in the area of animal-assisted intervention. The final chapters give an overviTrade Review"The book is a revelation: The authors have done an impressive job in bringing together all the main areas of actual contemporary human-animal interaction research."Prof. Robert Mitchell, Department of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, USA"Each chapter provides a really nice introductory text for key topics taught across a range of disciplines in HAI."Prof. Carri Westgarth, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UKTable of Contents1. An Introduction to Human–Animal Interaction, Book Content and Considerations 2. Theories in Human–Animal Interaction 3. Human–Animal Communication 4. Bioethics and Human–Animal Interaction 5. Human–Animal Welfare: The Interconnectedness of Human Well-Being and Animal Welfare 6. Cross-Cultural Variation in Human–Animal Interaction 7. Criminal Issues in Human–Animal Interaction 8. Animal-Assisted Intervention and Professional Practice 9. Human–Pet Interaction 10. Human–Livestock Interaction 11. Human–Wildlife Interaction Multiple Choice Questions: The Answers! Going the Extra Mile ...

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Book SynopsisThis book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture.In focusing on the construction of identity in painting and photographyof Blacks, women, and the animals themselves involved in horseracing, rodeo, and horse show competitionit illuminates the strategic and varying roles visual artists have played in producing cultural understandings of human-animal relationships. As the first book to offer a history of American equine and equestrian imagery, it shrinks the chasm of literature on the subject and illustrates the significance of the genre to the history of American art. This book further connects American equine and equestrian art to historical, theoretical, and philosophical analyses of animals and attests to how the horse endures as a vital, meaningful subject within the art world

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1920, The Burial of the Dead emerged from the idea that the primitive man did not imagine graves as receptacles for the dead, but refuges for the living. The book is an anthropological and a philosophical quest to understand when and how the custom of burial came about within primitive society. The book does not limit itself to the customs and traditions of burial, but also engages with the concepts of death, life, and afterlife as conceived by the primitive man. In doing so, the author traces a continuity between the strength of beliefs in a primitive society and in a modern one, as well as the development of those beliefs into universal principles. This book will be of interest to anyone trying to unravel the mystery of death and especially to students of anthropology, history, philosophy and religion.

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Book SynopsisThis long-awaited volume is the first edited collection to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across 11 chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and expressions that make-up Hip Hop in Australia, including Emceeing/ music production, Graffiti and Breaking.The theoretical and methodological frameworks used include ethnographic and autoethnographic research and writing, discourse analysis, Indigenous methodologies, textual analysis and archival research. Some authors present their contributions in academic chapters, while others use creative formats. The book showcases how Hip Hop is understood and lived across numerous settings in Australia, making important contributions to global Hip Hop studies and scholarship in related fields such as popular music, youth culture and First Nations Studies.It will prove essential reading for students, academics, and practit

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised seventh edition of Kinship and Gender: An Introduction explores kinship in todayâs globalized, increasingly mobile world, and how family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures.Written to engage students, each chapter provides key terms and useful generalizations gleaned through research on the interplay of kinship and gender in both traditional societies and contemporary communities. Detailed case studies and cross-cultural examples help students understand how such generalizations are experienced in real life. The authors also consider the ramifications of current social problems and recent developments in reproductive technology as they demonstrate the relevance of kinship and gender to studentsâ lives. The new edition contains a revised introduction highlighting the disaggregation of marriage and reproduction; new sections on third gender, nonbinary, and trans identities; new case studies on spiritual kinship; as well as explorations of genetic and ancestral kinship paradigms, new reproductive technologies, and a more robust global perspective throughout. Pedagogical features include suggestions for classroom media, a glossary, an appendix, and downloadable PowerPoint slides.Kinship and Gender: An Introduction provides a broad, yet nuanced introduction to the field, and is essential reading for students taking their first steps into anthropology, gender studies, and sociology.

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Book SynopsisBased on Ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or âghost huntersâ: in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena â in a scientific, secular and rational fashion â many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal. What, then, does it mean to regularly see ghosts and yet to not believe ghosts are real?Examining the manner in which the scientific approach adopted by investigators produces profound doubts about the existence of the paranormal, the meaning of science, and the nature of modernity, the author demonstrates that doubt itself is central to experiences of secularity and that doubt can constitute a foundation for long-term engagements with the paranormal. Thus, paranormal investigators are able to sustain a relationship, albeit an uneasy one, with the paranormal while maintaining a commitment to a scientif

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Book SynopsisWhy does the world need anthropology and anthropologists more than ever? The second edition of Why the World Needs Anthropologists brings together prominent academic, practicing, and applied anthropologists to answer this provocative question.This new edition advocates for a proactive and ethically engaged discipline that not only observes societal transformations but also contributes to solving the most pressing global issues. It proposes that anthropology must be at the front and center of the solving table. In an accessible and appealing style, each author explores the social value and practical application of the discipline of anthropology. Contributors share their career paths and how they use their anthropological skills and knowledge outside academia, and provide specific suggestions to anthropologists and the public at large on practical ways in which anthropology offers powerful insights and solutions in complex and unpredictable times. Each chapter includes a list of recommendations - DOs and DON'Ts - from the authors. With such practical resources, this book is a toolkit to harness anthropologyâs full potential.This one-of-a-kind volume is essential reading for both fledgling and established anthropologists, social scientists and the general public.

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Book SynopsisAs emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, automated, and robotic technologies become increasingly prominent in our possible futures, there is growing anxiety about if they can be trusted. Governments, industry organisations and research funders are investing millions in the quest to design trustworthy technologies. But is a future where trusted technologies organise our lives for us even plausible? How do tech workers and researchers design or make technologies that we can trust? Is it even realistic to assume that people would trust technologies in everyday life? This book argues that we need to look beyond simplistic assumptions that trustworthy technologies will solve societyâs problems, to instead ask what would happen if we exchanged the motif of trustworthy technologies for one of trusted futures guided by people, the environment and other species. This will be the first book to advance a new argument and research agenda in this field, and is therefore designe

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Book SynopsisBritish Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so in the context of colonial frontier- making. It is in this regard that the book examines what it culturally meant to be a hunter, peasant or rebel between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries in the British Assam frontier. The book highlights that these figures are of conceptual significance. While the figures were of contrastive nature, the complexity of underlying relations through and in which British colonialism constituted and reproduced itself in Assam could be uncovered from a study of these contrastive figures. Using a wide spectrum of archival sources, the hunters' memoirs, the peasants' ballads and a rebel's worldview are examined as the cultural forms through which one can study these relations that generated the sense of colonial reality in these figures. Through these issues, the book examines what constituted the nature of the British Assam fronti

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Children's Development is the UK's best-selling developmental psychology textbook and has been widely acclaimed for its international coverage and rigorous research-based approach. This dynamic text emphasizes the practical and applied implications of developmental research.Table of ContentsPreface to Sixth Edition xxi Acknowledgements xxv PART I THEORIES AND METHODS 1 Chapter 1 Studying Development 3 Chapter 2 Biological and Cultural Theories of Development 31 PART II PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT AND BIRTH 77 Chapter 3 Prenatal Development and Birth 79 PART III T HE SOCIAL WORLD OF THE CHILD 105 Chapter 4 Parents and Families 107 Chapter 5 Siblings and the Peer Group 161 Chapter 6 Developing Emotional Intelligence and Social Awareness 199 Chapter 7 Play 233 Chapter 8 Children and Media 265 Chapter 9 Helping Others and Moral Development 297 Chapter 10 Social Dominance, Aggression and Bullying 339 PART IV CHILDREN’S DEVELOPING MINDS 377 Chapter 11 Perception 379 Chapter 12 Language 405 Chapter 13 Cognition: Piaget’s Theory 443 Chapter 14 Cognition: The Information Processing Approach 471 Chapter 15 Children’s Understanding of Mind 513 Chapter 16 Learning in a Social Context 545 Chapter 17 Intelligence and Attainment 579 Chapter 18 Deprivation and Enrichment: Risk and Resilience 605 PART V ADOLESCENCE 643 Chapter 19 Adolescence 645 References (Visit the website to download the references - www.wiley.com/college/smith) Index 693

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