Social and cultural anthropology Books

Book SynopsisIn today's European arts and sciences most of the time we see not only other, but also our own cultural traditions and the different forms of modernity like a dim image in a mirror. The question this book addresses is whether it is possible to get an almost face-to-face intimacy with various forms of cultural tradition and modernity by using our experiences and our powers of imagination, i.e. our expectations, in a more fruitful way.Table of ContentsThrough a Glass, Darkly: An Introductory Essay, Wil Arts Beyond Melancholy and Before Utopia: Plea for a Boring World, Wolf Lepenies Experience and Expectations of the East, Jack Goody Global Expectations, Local Experiences. Non-Western Modernities, Nilüfer Göle The Visual Arts Today. Experiences and Expectations, Hans Belting Old Virtues and Vices as Icons of a New Morality, Harry Peeters Pursuing the Spirit of the Laws: An Epilogue, Willem Witteveen

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Book SynopsisGovernance is not a topic that easily lends itself to neat and precise definitions. Although concepts and practices of governance are profoundly under-specified, they are frequently associated with three dimensions: how and why governments are structured, what processes they employ in governing, and what results they are able to accomplish in serving their societies. The articles in this book represent a wide range of scholarly interests that extend from the abstract and conceptual to the specific and applied.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Jamil E. Jreisat I. Operationalizing Governance for Sustainable Development, Goran Hyden II. The Political Economy of Good Governance, Hartmut Elsenhans III. Administration in Developing Countries and the Democratic Challenge, Abdo I. Baaklini IV. Consociational Democracy in Lebanon: A Flawed System of Governance, Joseph G. Gabbra and Nancy W. Jabbra V. Globalization vs. local Institutional Factors in the Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Civil Service Reforms, 1991-1996, Paul Mavima and Richard Chackerian VI. Globalization, Liberalization, and Human Security in India: Challenges for Governance, R.B. Jain VII. Chinese Governance: Problems and Prospects, Harvey Nelsen Contributors Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThis book presents findings based on a unique source of insight into the role of human values--the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey, covering 78 societies containing over 80 per cent of the world's population. The findings reveal large and coherent cross-national differences in what people want out of life. Four waves of surveys, from 1981 to 1999-2001, reveal the impact of changing values on societal phenomena. Evidence from eleven Islamic societies demonstrates that a distinctive Islamic culture exists-but the democratic ideal is endorsed overwhelmingly. Other analyses examine Gender Equality and Democracy; Corruption and Democracy; Social Capital in Vietnam; the Clash of Civilization; political satisfaction in global perspective; Trust in International Governance; and Israeli and South African values.Trade Review"Ultimately, the most important product of (the World Values Survey) may be the insight that it produces concerning changes at the individual level that are transforming social, economic and political life. These changes are invisible until they are measured and analyzed through survey research, which has only recently begun to address them."Table of ContentsNotes on contributors Introduction, Ronald Inglehart Islamic Culture and Democracy: Testing the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Thesis, Pippa Norriss and Ronald Inglehart Is there an Islamic Civilization? Yilmaz Esmer The Worldviews of Islamic Publics: The Cases pf Egypt, Iran and Jordan, Mansoor Moaddel and Taqhi Azadarmaki Gender Equality and Democracy, Ronald Inglehart, Pippa Norris and Christian Welzel Value Priorities in Israeli Society: An Examination of Inglehart’s Theory of Modernization and Cultural Variation, Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya’ar Social Relations and Social Capital in Vietnam: Findings from the 2001 World Values Survey, Russel J. Dalton, Pham Minh Hac, Pham Thanh Nghi and Nhu-Ngoc T. Ong Authority Orientations and Political Support: A Cross-national Analysis of Satisfaction with Governments and Democracy, Neil Nevitte and Mebs Kanji Revising the Value Shift Hypothesis: A Descriptive Analysis of South Africa’s Value Priorities between 1990 and 2001, Hennie Kotzé and Karin Lombard Individual Values and Global Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Orientations towards the United Nations, Thorleif Petterson Two contradictory Hyptheses on Globalization: Societal Convergence or Civilization Differentiation and Clash, Juan Díez-Nicholás Corruption and Democracy: A Cultural Assessment, Alejandro Moreno Index

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Book SynopsisCulture explains much of the behavioral and institutional differences around the globe. In social science there are many ways of framing cultural diversities. This book brings together authors with a classic status in the field of comparative cultural studies on one overarching theme: what are the relevant differences and similarities of contemporary cultural dimensions with which countries, organizations, and people can be compared? This book is the first publication available in which the cultural divisions of the world are compared and confronted. In the first part of the book classic authors reflect on each others key work and assess the main overlap and distinction. The book next provides insight in frontline academic work from a wide range of countries and social science disciplines dealing with the classic status cultural dimensions aimed at addressing contemporary key issues.Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgements Prologue Culture’s consequences revisited, Pieter J.D. Drenth 1. Cultures and dimensions. Classic perspectives and new opportunities in ‘dimensionalist’ cross-cultural studies, Henk Vinken, Joseph Soeters & Peter Ester 2. Dimensions of culture beyond Hofstede, Harry C. Triandis 3. Mapping and interpreting cultural differences around the world, Shalom H. Schwartz 4. Individualism, autonomy, self-expression, and human development, Ronald Inglehart & Daphna Oyserman 5. Methodological problems of value research, Wolfgang Jagodzinski 6. The structural roots of values. An anthropological interpretation of Hofstede’s value dimensions Hans-Peter Müller & Patrick Ziltener 7. Cultural nationalism in Japan. A starting point for comparing cultures, Kazufumi Manabe, Henk Vinken & Joseph Soeters 8. Dimensions of culture in intra-cultural comparisons. Individualism/collectivism and family-related values in three generations, Gisela Trommsdorff, Boris Mayer & Isabelle Albert 9. A cross-cultural analysis of immigrant and host values and acculturation orientations, Karen Phalet & Marc Swyngedouw 10. Making maternity care work. The consequences of culture for health care systems, Raymond De Vries, Sirpa Wrede, Edwin Van Teijlingen, Cecilia Benoit & Eugene Declerq 11. The cultural relativity of employee empowerment. A comparative study in the European hotel industry, Antonios K. Klidas 12. Integrating the Hofstede dimensions and twelve aspects of negotiating behavior. A six country comparison, Lynn Metcalf & Allan Bird Epi-dialogue, Geert Hofstede References

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the ethnic formation among the 1990s immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, in light of both domestic changes, and developments in the Israel- Arab conflict. Based on a broad variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book presents a detailed analysis of identity patterns among these immigrants, their orientation in matters of religion, society, culture and politics, and their relationships with all the constituent groups in Israeli society – including the Palestinian minority. The book provides a new critical perspective on questions of immigration, ethnicity and society in Israel. The analysis is placed in a global theoretical context that challenges the dominant approach in the sociology of immigration in Israel, which is based on the Zionist paradigm.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel Methodology Immigrants’ Survey Survey of the General Population Students’ Survey Focus Groups Chapter 1. Theoretical Framework Definitions of “Ethnic Group” Immigration and Ethnic Formation Ethnic Mobilization The Reactive Perspective The Competitive Model of Ethnic Mobilization Criticism of the Reactive and Competitive Approaches Rational Choice Theory The Role of the State Chapter 2. Israeli Society: A Background Immigration and the Construction of Social Boundaries Unique vs. Typical Immigration An Ideological Value or a Means to Achieve Political Goals Immigration and Ethnic Formation in Israel Background of Jewish Ethnicity Ethnic Composition over Time Ethnicity as a Socio-Cultural Rift The Modernization-Establishment Approach The Melting Pot Ideology Counter-approaches to Ethnic Relations Ethnic mobilization Ethnicity and the Religious-Nonreligious Divide The Jewish-Arab Divide Background Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel Social Change Economic Deterritorialization Political Territorialization Multiculturalism vs. Tribalism in Israeli Society Chapter 3. The Jews of Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Background and Waves of Immigration Emigration by Russian/Soviet/FSU Jews The First Waves to Palestine Immigrants from the Soviet Union in the 1970s Ethiopia: A New Reservoir of Immigrants Aspirations for Aliya from the West The 1990s Wave Main Trends Differences between the 1970s and the 1990s Waves Chapter 4. Identity Patterns and Ethnic Formation Communal Ethnic Organizations Sources of Information, Russian-Language Media Motivation for Migration and Connection with the Home Country Self-Identification Non-Jewish immigrants The Other – Definition: How Veteran Israelis Perceive the Immigrants Chapter 5. Attitudes toward Civil Society and Freedom of Expression Character of Israel Attitudes toward Peace Freedom of Expression Communication Environments Permissiveness The Ranking of Rights Chapter 6. Political Organization Voting Patterns in the Knesset Elections Collective vs. Individual Factors behind the Voting Patterns Factors behind the Voting for Prime Minister The Elections of 2003 Local Elections Chapter 7. Immigrants versus Israeli Society Adjustment Patterns Residential Adjustment Economic Adjustment Social Adjustment Mutual Influence Immigrants’ Social Distance from Other Groups in Israel Social Distance from Arabs Social Distance from other Jewish Groups Chapter 8. Attitudes of Veteran Groups toward Immigrants Attitudes in the Early 1990s Jewish Leadership Jewish Public The Arab Leadership Arab Public Trends over Time: A Decade later Internal Divisions within Jewish Populations Tolerance of Separate Immigrant Organizations Social Distance The Attitudes of the Younger Generation Social Distance as Felt by the Younger Generation Concluding Remarks References List of tables List of Figures

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Book SynopsisCette première édition critique d'un manuscrit écrit en arabe et mandinka focalise l'importance des communautés mandinka et jakhanké dans la construction et la préservation de la mémoire collective de l' "empire" païen du Kaabu en Sénégambie. This is the very first scholarly publication of an arabographic manuscript in Mandinka language revealing also the importance of the Mandinka and Jakhanka clerical diaspora in the making of the history of the pagan "empire" of Kaabu in the Senegambia.Table of ContentsTABLE DES MATIÈRES Editors’ introduction Remerciements L’orthographe des noms et notions en langues étrangères Liste des abréviations Introduction Chapitre 1 : Les versions du texte et leur transmission écrite et orale Chapitre 2 : Les versions écrites et orales du Ta:rikh Mandinka présentées en colonnes Chapitre 3 : Sujets mythiques et historiques du Ta:rikh Mandinka (interprétations et commentaires comparés) Chapitre 4 : Contextes de production et de transmission des livres de Bijini : historiographie et discours social dans un village musulman au pays des Sòoninkee du Kaabu et du Badoora Tableaux Images Cartes Ta:rikh Mandinka : La reproduction de deux manuscrits arabes en possession de al-Hajj Ibrahiima « Koobaa » Kasama – MS A (18 pp), MS B (35 pp) Glossaire des anthroponymes et toponymes et des termes en mandinka et autres langues Bibliographie Index des auteurs cités

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a richly detailed ethnography of Kenyan khat, tracing some of the many national and transnational trajectories this controversial stimulant takes from its centre of production in the Nyambene Hills to consumers in Kenya and throughout the world. The author, guided by his friend and khat connoisseur M'Mucheke, draws out the full economic, social and cultural significance of the substance, situating this significance within current debates on the legality of khat and the global rhetoric of the 'war on drugs'. The work explores how networks of Kenyan khat bring people of diverse backgrounds together in sometimes uneasy relationships, and highlights the vast cluster of meanings this remarkable commodity has accrued in its 'social life'.Trade Review"The story of khat encapsulates the contradictions of the world in which we live, and Neil Carrier's lucid ethnography of Kenya's khat producers and consumers brings the social life of this ambiguous commodity into sharp focus. Writing for a broad audience across the social sciences, Carrier provides what is the best and most scholarly account of the topic yet published." David Anderson 'Carrier succeeds admirably in (his) task and in the process demonstrates that social anthropology has the requisite imagination and skill to make sense of both the local and the global community'. W. Arens (Choice, Jan. 2008)

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Book SynopsisThis study of an oral tradition in northeast India is the first of its kind in this part of the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis reveals parallel stories in an area stretching from central Arunachal Pradesh into upland Southeast Asia and southwest China. The subject of the volume, the Apatanis, are a small population of Tibeto-Burman speakers who live in a narrow valley halfway between Tibet and Assam. Their origin myths, migration legends, oral histories, trickster tales and ritual chants, as well as performance contexts and genre system, reveal key cultural ideas and social practices, shifts in tribal identity and the reinvention of religion.Trade Review"Not only does Blackburn collect tales, myths, oral histories, and ritual chants with great sensitivity to the social context of the performance, he also opens up meaningful new cross-border directions in Asian folklore studies. Blackburn's comparative work is sure to encourage further investigations into the complex patterns of migration, cultural diffusion, and economic exchange within the 'extended eastern Himalayas'...the scholarly understanding of the Apatani oral traditions has been firmly cemented through the publication of Himalayan Tribal Tales." Adheesh Sathaye, University of British Columbia, JAS, 69/2

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Book SynopsisAt the centre of this study is a shaman's chant performed during a three-week long feast in the eastern Himalayas. The book includes a translation of this 12-hour text chanted in Apatani, a Tibeto-Burman language, and a description of the events that surround it, especially ritual exchanges with ceremonial friends, in which fertility is celebrated. The shaman's social role, performance and ritual language are also described. Although complex feasts, like this one among Apatanis, have been described in northeast India and upland Southeast Asia for more than a century, this is the first book to present a full translation of the accompanying chant and to integrate it into the interpretation of the social significance of the total event.Trade Review"The book under review offers the first full account of a festival that plays a central role in maintaining social and economic relations among inhabitants of the valley and their neighbors. His studies of the valley culture equal the fine work of early anthropologists on US Native cultures." – G.R. Thursby, University of Florida (Emeritus), in: Choice 47/11 (July 2010) "The Sun Rises stands a detailed and authoritative account of a highly complex event of central significance within a tribal society. It is a book that explores the foundations of Apatani cosmology and ritual life. Whilst this is a scholarly text that will appeal to anthropologists and historians in Northeast India and beyond, it may also achieve lasting value among the increasing number of young literate indigenous readers in Arunachal Pradesh. By presenting his own analysis alongside a detailed transcription and translation of this central ritual chant, Blackburn has produced an accessible and reliable doorway into the heart of indigenous ritual practices." – Alexander Aisher, in: Anthropos 107.2012.2

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Book SynopsisScholars of religion have always worked closely with media of one kind or another, from sacred books and archaic languages to cassette-sermons and the Internet. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to the ways we actually use these and other media in the pursuit of historical inquiry. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted on the Indonesian island of Bali, this book offers a critique of the media-related assumptions underpinning fields as diverse in their subject matter and approach as the history of religions, British cultural studies and Old Javanese philology. Its central contention is that more nuanced attention to problems of media will have serious implications for how we think about the study of religions, past and present.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. Purposefully interdisciplinary, this volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Colour Plates Preface Introduction Lidwien Kapteijns and Annemiek Richters Making Memories of Mogadishu in Somali Poetry about the Civil War Lidwien Kapteijns The Road, the Song and the Citizen: Singing after Violence in KwaZulu-Natal Liz Gunner Maisha bora, kwa nani? A Cool Life, for Whom? Mediations of Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Violence in a Nairobi Slum Naomi van Stapele Testimonies of Suffering and Recasting the Meanings of Memories of Violence in Post-war Mozambique Victor Igreja Suffering and Healing in the Aftermath of War and Genocide in Rwanda: Mediations through Community-Based Sociotherapy Annemiek Richters “The balsak in the Roof ”: Bush War Experiences and Mediations as Related by White South African Conscripts Diana Gibson List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers’ attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions to which single disciplines have given partial answers, often due to the paucity of written sources for early periods of Hausa history. Contributors draw from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology to enquire into how a ‘Hausa’ identity took shape and what have been its changing material and cultural manifestations. The result is a compelling overview of one of the most iconic groups of modern West Africa.Trade Review'Precisely what it means to be Hausa and whether Hausa speakers compose a specific ethnic group has long been a vexed question. The editors of this volume on Hausa identity and social life in West Africa conceptualize ethnicity as a "category of practice," situated within a particular historical context. They have brought together essays that critically examine what being Hausa means from linguistic, archaeological, sociocultural, and historical perspectives. Following a thoughtful introduction, the volume's 12 chapters focus on several themes: language, archaeology, material culture, and religion, mainly in areas associated with present-day Nigeria and Niger. Contributors use historical and comparative linguistic evidence, place-names, and proverbs to present reconstructions of early histories of Hausaland, while archaeological studies provide material evidence of social organization and economic production in emergent Hausa societies. Others consider Hausa precolonial textile industries and museum dress collections. Two chapters on religious practice, both Islamic and Christian, among contemporary Hausa-speaking societies in Niger underscore the ways that past social dynamics inform the present. A final chapter returns to the question of studying the "Hausaisation process." Essential reading for those concerned with Hausa identity, language, and historical and regional studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above'. E. P. Renne, University of Michigan - Reviewed in 2011may CHOICE. 'This book shows that gone are the days when one could use the European or missionary archives as the only source for studying African ethnicities, as if such historical records can be applied beyond the time of their production. No wonder this anachronistic tendency, as especially shown in some recent studies described as historical anthropology, is always eventually reductionist. The broad multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary agendas and the longitudinal views, as well as the expansive theoretical frameworks, that Haour and Rossi and their collaborators have persued in this book provide useful templates for the future study of cultural and ethnolinguistic identities in Africa'. Akinwumi Ogundiran, University of North Carolina - Reviewed in March 2012 Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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Book SynopsisThis book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction, social relationships and alliances, identifications and identity constructions within society at large. In order to reach an in-depth understanding of integrative and violent forms of interaction in the region of the Upper Guinea Coast, authors take into account the impact and repercussions of specific historical experiences as well as the continuities and changes of social patterns affected by the interaction of local and globalized values, institutions, and models of social organization. Rather than providing an(other) analysis of wars and violence as such, contributors aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms that affect both the processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.Trade ReviewIn: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 18:2, 466-510 '.......The chapters (by anthropologists David Berliner, James Fairhead, Christian Højbjerg, William Murphy, Krijn Peters, Ramon Sarró, Susan Shepler, and Elizabeth Tonkin, and historians Stephen Ellis, Bruce Mouser, Peter Mark, and Jodi Tomàs, plus the editors) are individually strong. Important new insights are frequent. Among the highlights on the anthropological side is a splendid essay by Ramon Sarró showing that identity among the Baga of the coast of Guinea is at any one point in time the product of temporally and spatially variable processes of social incorporation and exclusion. This should be mandatory reading for any manipulator of a ‘large N’ conflict data set inclined to code ‘ethnicity’ as a single variable. Excellent contributions by the historians include an especially significant chapter by Stephen Ellis on Liberian politics, since it expands and modifies his widely discussed earlier arguments about violence and the occult. Space excludes further discussion of admirable contributions by Wilson Trajano Filho, Bruce Mouser, Krin Peters, and others, but it is safe to say that no anthropologist or historian interested in modern Africa or armed conflict and violence will want to be without this collection'...... Paul Richards Wageningen University and Research Centre,Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Maps Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Jacqueline Knörr & Wilson Trajano Filho (PRE-)COLONIAL LEGACIES Patrimonial Logic of Centrifugal Forces in the Political History of the Upper Guinea Coast William P. Murphy Insurrection as Socioeconomic Change: Three Rebellions in Guinea/Sierra Leone in the Eighteenth Century Bruce Mouser Kouankan and the Guinea-Liberian Border James Fairhead A Saucy Town? Regional Histories of Conflict, Collusion, and Commerce in the Making of a Southeastern Liberian Polity Elizabeth Tonkin ‘Traditional’ Jola Peacemaking: From the Perspectives of an Historian and an Anthropologist Peter Mark & Jordi Tomàs REVISITING THE POLITICS OF ELITE CULTURE The Creole Idea of Nation and its Predicaments: The Case of Guinea-Bissau Wilson Trajano Filho The Mutual Assimilation of Elites: The Development of Secret Societies in Twentieth Century Liberian Politics Stephen Ellis Out of Hiding? Strategies of Empowering the Past in the Reconstruction of Krio Identity Jacqueline Knörr THE POWER AND POLITICS OF MEMORIES Map and Territory: The Politics of Place and Autochthony among Baga Sitem (and their Neighbours) Ramon Sarró The Invention of Bulongic Identity (Guinea-Conakry) David Berliner Victims and Heroes: Manding Historical Imagination in a Conflict-ridden Border Region (Liberia-Guinea) Christian K. Højbjerg CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN INTERGENERATIONAL AND GENDER RELATIONS Are ‘Child Soldiers’ in Sierra Leone a New Phenomenon? Susan Shepler Generating Rebels and Soldiers: On the Socio-Economic Crisis of Rural Youth in Sierra Leone before the War Krijn Peters Index

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Book SynopsisResearching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, and poor reliability of official data. Traditional methodological approaches may need to be adapted, and new methods may be called for. In addition, such research carries ethical challenges about representation of informants and information and possible use of the research for harmful ends. This book, drawing on research conducted throughout Africa in conflict zones and other insecure environments, considers the everyday dilemmas researchers face. It provides essential contributions to ongoing challenging debates about the use of alternative and mixed methods in social science research.Trade Review'Besides the Introduction, the contributions by Doná, Hammond, and Wienia stand out, especially their approaches to silence. Silence can mean complicity or resistance, a calm before the storm, a cultural expression of self-censorship, or self-censorship on the part of the researcher. These critical reflections illustrate how method encompasses our access to the field and our actions in it, but also how we reflect on our experiences, and how we analytically order and shape them into ethnographic representations. This is one of the strengths of the volume – and it could have been spelled out more explicitly. The questions and reflections raised here are relevant beyond an African context. However, restricting the focus to Africa makes this publication a timely contribution to debates on African social change and how we engage in it'. Jacob Rasmussen, Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims and Roskilde University, in 'African Affairs' July 2012Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgements ............................................................................ vii Navigating the Terrain of Methods and Ethics in Conflict Research ..... 1 Johan Pottier, Laura Hammond and Christopher Cramer Researching Conflict in Africa: A Researcher’s Account of Ife-Modakeke, South-Western Nigeria ...... 23 Olajide O. Akanji Researching Children and Violence in Evolving Socio-Political Contexts ...... 39 Giorgia Doná Four Layers of Silence: Counterinsurgency in Northeastern Ethiopia ... 61 Laura Hammond Uncertain Ethics: Researching Civil War in Sudan ..................... 79 Sharon E. Hutchinson ‘From Nation to Family’: Researching Gender and Sexuality ..... 95 Danai Mupotsa Cooperative Ethics as a New Model for Cultural Research on Peace and Security ... 111 Derek B. Miller and Ron Scollon Hidden Agendas in Conflict Research: Informants’ Interests and Research Objectivity in the Niger Delta ... 137 Ukoha Ukiwo Silence and authoritative speech in post-violence northern Ghana .. 155 Martijn Wienia List of Contributors ........................................................................... 175 Index .................................................................................................... 1

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Book SynopsisThis book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young transnationalists, young glocals and young protesters in cities on the five continents, it analyzes new agoras and chronotopes in global cities. It is based on a selection of papers first presented to the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 34 session on Youth Cultures, Space and Time that took place during the ISA World Congresses of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden (2010), and in Yokohama, Japan (2014). The value of this volume for youth researchers worldwide is twofold. Firstly, the chapters exemplify innovative approaches to understanding the fluid and dynamic urban space-time dimension in which young people’s cultural and bodily practices are located. Secondly, the volume offers a transnational perspective. Chapter contributors come from countries across the world, and give account of very diverse youth culture phenomena. They represent both established researchers and new voices in youth research. Contributors are: Óscar Aguilera Ruiz, Ilenya Camozzi, Carles Feixa, Vitor Sérgio Ferreira, Liliana Galindo Ramírez, Elham Golpoush-Nezhad, Leila Jeolás, Jeffrey J. Juris, Hagen Kordes, Sofia Laine, Carmen Leccardi, Pam Nilan, Jordi Nofre, Ndukaeze Nwabueze, Luca Queirolo Palmas, Yannis Pechtelidis, Geoffrey Pleyers, José Sánchez García, Mahmood Shahabi. Youth, Space and Time is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Maps List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Chronotopes of Youth Carles Feixa, Carmen Leccardi and Pam Nilan PART I. YOUNG TRANSNATIONALISTS (AND COSMOPOLITANS) Foreword Carmen Leccardi 1. Young progressive activists in Europe: Scales, identity and agency Geoffrey Pleyers 2. Young people on the move: Cosmopolitan strategies in the transition to adulthood Ilenya Camozzi 3. Forming Agora chronotopes from young people's political participation in transnational meetings Sofia Laine 4. Atlantic Latino gangs. La Raza Latina, transnationalism and generations Luca Queirolo Palmas 5. Youth cultures in the new century: Cultural citizenship and cosmopolitanism Carmen Leccardi PART II. YOUNG GLOCALS Foreword Pam Nilan 6. Juvenilising cultures: Illegal and legal road racing in Londrina, Brazil Leila Jeolás and Hagen Kordes 7. The tattooed young body: A body still under suspicion? Vitor Sérgio Ferreira 8. Hip-hop culture and youth in Lagos: The interface of globalisation and identity crisis Ndukaeze Nwabueze 9. Rap music and youth cultures in Iran: Serious or light? Mahmood Shahabi and Elham Golpoush-Nezhad 10. Space, time and symbol in urban Indonesian schoolboy gangs Pam Nilan PART III. YOUNG PROTESTERS Foreword Carles Feixa 11. Occupying school buildings in the Greece of The Memorandum: Discursive formations around pupils' political activism Yannis Pechtelidis 12. From hara to midam: Public spaces of youth in Cairo José Sánchez García 13. Geographies of the European Spring: The case of #SpanishRevolution Jordi Nofre 14. Youth movements, politics of identity and battles for visibility in neoliberal Chile: Penguin Generations Óscar Aguilera Ruiz 15. The network as chronotope: Internet and political practices in the Colombian student movement MANE and Occupy São Paulo Liliana Galindo Ramírez 16. Reflections on #Occupy everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation Jeffrey J. Juris Postscript: Youthtopia and the Chronotopical Imagination Carles Feixa, Carmen Leccardi and Pam Nilan Afterword Michel Wieviorka Index

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Book SynopsisEvenki are modern hunter-gatherers who live in Central and Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation. They are known to scholarship for their animistic worldview, and because the word ‘shaman’ has been borrowed from their language. Despite such recognition contemporary Evenki everyday life rarely appears as a subject for anthropological monographs, mainly because access to Evenki communities for the purpose of extended fieldwork has only recently become possible. In this original study of the Evenki the authors describe a variety of events and situations they observed during fieldwork, and through these experiences document different strategies that Evenki use to retain their ethos as hunter-gatherers even in circumstances when hunting is prohibited. The authors adopt the vocabulary of cybernetics, proposed by anthropologist Gregory Bateson, in order to underline the circuit logic of events that happen in Evenki land. Culture Contact in Evenki Land, therefore, will be welcomed by social anthropologists in general and specialists of Siberian and Inner Asian studies (Manchu-Tungus peoples) and hunter-gatherer peoples in particular, as well as those interested in the cybernetic approach.

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Book SynopsisThis book charts the history and influence of the most vitriolic and successful anti-Semitic polemic ever to have been printed in the early modern Hispanic world and offers the first critical edition and translation of the text into English. First printed in Madrid in 1674, the Centinela contra judíos (“Sentinel against the Jews”) was the work of the Franciscan Francisco de Torrejoncillo, who wrote it to defend the mission of the Spanish Inquisition, to call for the expansion of discriminatory racial statutes and, finally, to advocate in favour of the expulsion of all the descendants of converted Jews from Spain and its empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo combined the existing racial, theological, social and economic strands within Spanish anti-Semitism to demonize the Jews and their converted descendants in Spain in a manner designed to provoke strong emotional responses from its readership.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgements … vii Abbreviations … ix List of Illustrations and Maps … xi Maps … xii Illustrations … xv Foreword … xxi SECTION ONE A HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE CENTINELA CONTRA JUDÍOS 1. Seventeenth-Century Spain and its ‘Jewish Problem’: The Centinela contra Judíos and its Historical Context … 3 2. Religion and Blood: ‘Religious Anti-Semitism’ in Early Modern Spain … 19 3. Authorship, History and Impact of the Centinela contra Judíos … 47 4. Anti-Semitic Propaganda and Pedagogy: Fear Mongering in the Centinela contra Judíos …75 Conclusion … 99 SECTION TWO TRANSLATION OF THE CENTINELA CONTRA JUDÍOS Foreword to the Translation … 105 Introductory Poem … 107 Prologue … 109 1. How the Jews are, and always have been, arrogant and liars … 111 2. That the Jews are, and have been, traitors … 117 3. How the Jews came to be disdained and humbled … 139 4. How the Jews are persecutors of our Holy Catholic Faith … 145 5. That those who favour Jews because of the benefit that they receive in return will never come to a good end. Nor will they prosper with them … 161 6. Why the Jews should not be trusted, nor should any faith be placed in their deeds … 175 7. Regarding the anxiety with which the Jews await the coming of the Messiah … 185 8. How the Jews, wherever they may be, stick together and form a Mystical Body … 197 9. Why they were called Hebrews, Israelites and Jews and why and how, in ancient times, they came to be called Marranos … 205 10. How the Jews, in addition to being opposed to our Holy Faith, are our mortal enemies … 219 11. Regarding the signs by which Divine Providence differentiates the Jews … 237 12. How the Jews are restless, vainglorious and seditious and ordinarily sow discord wherever they are … 251 13. How the Hebrews do not presently possess any honour, or nobility whatsoever, and they lost that which they possessed with the death of Christ … 263 14. Regarding the mercy with which our Mother Church treats the Jews, and will continue to treat them, and how far its obligations extend … 273 Appendix … 285 Bibliography … 303 ndex … 315

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Book SynopsisAnthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought. Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.Trade ReviewA “scintillating collection” and a “generous Kunstkammer of a book.” Martha Hollander, Hofstra University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 255-256.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction Michel Weemans and Bertrand Prévost ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND THE ORDER OF THINGS Delineating the Boundaries of the Human 1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt Anne-Laure van Bruaene 2 Monkey in the Middle Christina Normore 3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel Paul J. Smith 4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World Miya Tokumitsu Empathy and the Constitution of the Self 5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed Nathalie de Brézé 6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel’s Emblematic Art Marisa Bass 7 The ‘Album Αmicorum’ and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq Aneta Georgievska-Shine Visualizing the Body Politic 8 Picturing the ‘Living’ Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible Pamela Merrill Brekka 9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the ‘Carrara Herbal’ Sarah R. Kyle 10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse Elke Anna Werner FIGURATION AND SEMIOTIC POTENTIAL Anthropomorphosis and Its Critics 11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine: Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600 Walter S. Melion 12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol Ralph Dekoninck Anthropomorphosis and Its Conditions 13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: ‘Terms’ of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance Elizabeth J. Petcu 14 Visage-paysage. Problème de peinture Bertrand Prévost Figuring the Impossible 15 Nobody’s Bruegel Christopher P. Heuer 16 Morbid Fascination: Death by Bruegel Larry Silver Metamorphic Figuration 17 Jan van Hemessen’s Anatomy of Parody Bret L. Rothstein 18 The Smoke of Sacrifice: Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery’s ‘Sacrifice of Cain and Abel’ for Louis Richeome’s ‘Tableaux Sacrez’ (1601) Michel Weemans Index Nominum List of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisIn his study of the human, non-human relationships in Mongolia, Bernard Charlier explores the role of the wolf in the ways nomadic herders relate to their natural environment and to themselves. The wolf, as the enemy of the herds and a prestigious prey, is at the core of two technical relationships, herding and hunting, endowed with particular cosmological ideas. The study of these relationships casts a new light on the ways herders perceive and relate to domestic and wild animals. It convincingly undermines any attempt to consider humans and non-humans as entities belonging a priori to autonomous spheres of existence, which would reify the nature-society boundary into a phenomenal order of things and so justify the identity of western epistemology.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an ethnographic account of contemporary Christian Palestinian lives in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Through individual life stories, Bård Kårtveit shows how Christians in the District of Bethlehem strive to live meaningful lives. Lives which are shaped by Christian-Muslim relations within the national community, the impact of Israeli presence in the Palestinian Territories, migration and homeland-diaspora relationships, and which are heavily influenced by changes in their local community and traditional family structures. By situating these stories in the changing political contexts of Palestine, from late Ottoman to Israeli/Palestinian Authority rule, the author engages with these general processes of patriarchal resistance to social change; the role of minorities in nation-building processes; the impact of Western interventions in the region; the rise of political Islam; and the impact of emigration in the Arab World.Trade Review“Kårtveit succeeds admirably in integrating the historical, political, and religious processes since Ottoman times. Well researched, this is a required read for anthropologists and Middle East scholars.” L.D. Loeb in CHOICE July 2015. “The author is commendably attentive to the nuances of individual stories and deftly links these to the wider context of a society subject to hostile occupation as well as to internal tensions between social change and the assertion of tradition as a defense against that change and the occupation.” Glenn Bowman in Journal of Palestine Studies 175, volume XLIV, Number 3 (Spring 2015), 63-64. “Kårtveits bok er betimelig i en tid da fremveksten av islamistiske bevegelser gjør at kristne og andre religiøse minoriteter i Midtøsten opplever økt press og usikkerhet. Boken er essensiell lesning for alle som er interessert i den arabisk-israelske konflikten generelt og minoriteter og migrasjon i Midtøsten spesielt.” Cathrine Thorleifsson in Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift / Norwegian Journal of Anthropology 03-04/2015, p. 310-311.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction: Palestinian Christians in the West Bank Ch. 1: Bethlehem between tradition and modernity Ch. 2: Christian-Muslim relations: land, law and family protection Ch. 3: National identity, attachments and solidarity Ch. 4: The Israeli occupation: a politics of paralysis Ch. 5: Bethlehem emigration and diaspora relations Conclusion and epilogue Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural Heritage under Siege, Fatme Myuhtar-May makes a case for the recognition of Pomak heritage by presenting five stories from the past and present of the Rhodope Muslims in Bulgaria as examples of a distinct Pomak culture. The stories range from the Christianisation during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and the forced communist renaming of the Pomaks in the 1970s, to their fascinating wedding rituals and historic figures. Each of the five narratives contains its own storyline and serves as a prominent example of Pomak heritage, from the author’s perspective. The stories take place in the context of fervent nationalism and the ongoing censorship of Pomakness based on the claim that it is an “ethnic Bulgarian,” not “Pomak” heritage.

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Book SynopsisApproaching Ottoman social history through the lens of entertainment, this volume considers the multi-faceted roles of entertainment within society. At its most basic level entertainment could be all about pleasure, leisure and fun. But it also played a role in socialisation, gender divisions, social stratification and the establishment of moral norms, political loyalties and social, ethnic or religious identities. By addressing the ways in which entertainment was employed and enjoyed in Ottoman society, Entertainment Among the Ottomans introduces the reader to a new way of understanding the Ottoman world. Contributors are: Antonis Anastasopoulos, Tülay Artan, Ebru Boyar, Palmira Brummett, Kate Fleet, James Grehan, Svetla Ianeva, Yavuz Köse, William Kynan-Wilson, Milena Methodieva and Yücel Yanıkdağ.Trade Review‘Some of the common themes – tradition and modernity, homosocial entertainment (including cross-dressing and acting), fun and escape under trying circumstances – come together to conclude this informative, wide-ranging and eye-opening volume.’ Li Guo in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83.2 (2020), 347-349. doi:10.1017/S0041977X20002323Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Contributors  1 Ottoman Society through the Lens of Entertainment  Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet  2 Contemplation or Amusement? The Light Shed by Ruznames on an Ottoman Spectacle of 1740-1750  Tülay Artan  3 Caravans and Voyages, Story and Song: Entertaining the Traveler in/to Ottoman Space  Palmira Brummett  4 Play and Performance in Ottoman Costume Albums  William Kynan-Wilson  5 Fun and Games in Ottoman Aleppo: the Life and Times of a Local Schoolteacher (1835-1865)  James Grehan  6 Between Tradition and Modernity – Entertainment in Late Ottoman Rusçuk  Svetla Ianeva  7 Public Celebrations and Ceremonies in the Late Ottoman Cretan Press: Building a Collective Identity among the Christian Population  Antonis Anastasopoulos  8 The Late Ottoman Brothel in Istanbul: a Heterosexual Social Space for Homosocial Entertainment?  Ebru Boyar  9 Bicycling into Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire: Ahmed Tevfik and his Bicycle Travelogue  Yavuz Köse  10 Muslim Culture, Reform and Patriotism: Staging Namık Kemal in Post-Ottoman Bulgaria (1878-1908)  Milena B. Methodieva  11 Warriors in Drag: Performing Gender and Remaking Men in Prisoner of War Theater  Yücel Yanıkdağ Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is based on iterative multi-sited ethnography at Merrivale farm, Tavaka village, and various sites in South Africa. The author reveals how the dynamics generated by fast-track potentially offer new development opportunities – specifically for women. The findings challenge existing expert notions and opinions about women’s rural land use, livelihoods, and rural development. The book examines how negotiations and bargaining by women with family, state, and traditional actors have proved useful in accessing land in Mwenezi district, Zimbabwe. The hidden, complex, and innovative ways adopted by women to access land and shape livelihoods based on transitory mobility are examined. The role of collective action, conflicts, conflict resolution, and women’s agency in overcoming the challenges associated with trading in South Africa are examined within the ambit of the sustainable livelihoods framework, a gendered approach to land reform and social networks analysis.Trade Review'A native Shona speaker, she spent 16 months in the field, including a trip to Pietermaritzburg to visit the farm manager’s wife of a generation ago (the family left years before the land invasions) and market trips to Mozambique and South Africa with the farm women. She asks many pertinent questions and presents a perspective that seems genuinely eager to understand the situation rather than to applaud or condemn ‘fast track’. Her methodological discussion also seems unusually scrupulous and her excellent photographs, including some from the white manager’s family in Rhodesian times, are a plus'. 'Mutopo reminds us above all that the high road is not always the best road for everyone, but where the road that she delineates so clearly and sympathetically is going is not so clear. Yet she is aware of the big questions and that is why this monograph is of particular value'. Bill Freund, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, in Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 16, issue 2, pp.358-361Table of ContentsDedication List of Illustrations Acronyms and Terminology Acknowledgements Preface 1 Setting the Research Agenda and the Conceptual Framework 2 Methodology 3 Description of the Study Area 4 The Early Beginnings of Merrivale Farm 5 Merrivale Farm during and after Fast-Track Land Reform, 2000–2010 6 Access to Land and the Shaping of Livelihoods at Tavaka Village, Merrivale 7 Life beyond Merrivale Farm: Preparation for and Trading in South Africa 8 Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. The famous ryōsai kenbo or ‘good wife, wise mother’ role of Japanese women was, in fact, not a traditional Confucian view but a modern construct – its first appearance in Japan being the latter half of the nineteenth century. Girls at the time were proud to fulfill their new role of contributing to not just the family but to the formation of the state. Koyama’s discovery has transformed how we see modern women’s history in Japan and East Asia as a whole.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Shizuko (Kyoto Univ., Japan) has produced a major contribution to the study of modern Japanese women. Originally published in Japanese in 1991, this important work has now been brought into crystal-clear English by Stephen Filler. There is much to admire in this book. First, the argument is invariably laid out with great clarity, careful distinctions among categories, and sensitivity to seemingly small adjustments in nuance that nonetheless produce major changes over time. Second, the author provides clear and easily accessible explanations of the ways in which the meaning of the key phrase of the title has gradually evolved, as Japanese national experience moved through 150 years since the Meiji Revolution. Rather than falling into the many traps available for overgeneralization, Shizuko instead shows with sharp and clear examples how one or another steps led toward what became evolving new directions. This clarity is remarkable in its readability, and makes a convincing case for the author's argument. It is not too much to claim that this is a very important contribution not only to Japanese gender history, but also to the worldwide struggle for improved relationships between men and women. Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries. - R. B. Lyman Jr., emeritus, Simmons College [This review appeared in the June 2013 issue of Choice. Copyright 2013 American Library Association]Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition ... vii Preface ... xi List of Tables ... xv List of Key Words ... xvii Introduction: Approach to the Issues ... 1 1 The Formation of Ryōsai Kenbo Thought ... 11 1. The View of Women in Edo-Period Instructional Texts for Girls (Jokunsho) ... 12 2. “Wise Mother” Theory in the Meiji Enlightenment Period ... 21 3. The Emergence of Ryōsai Kenbo Thought ... 35 2 Ryōsai Kenbo Thought and the Public Education System ... 53 1. The Emergence of a Discourse on “Home Education” ... 54 2. Home Education and the Public Education System ... 60 3 The Causes of Change ... 75 1. The Emergence of the “Woman Problem” ... 76 2. The Shock of World War I ... 89 4 The Reconfiguration of Ryōsai Kenbo Thought ... 97 1. The Reform of Girls’ Education ... 98 2. A New Image of Ryōsai Kenbo ...120 3. Revision of the Girls’ Middle School Act ...137 5 The Evolution of the Concept of Ryōsai Kenbo in Morality Textbooks ...157 1. Morality Textbooks up to 1911 ... 158 2. Morality Textbooks between 1912 and 1920 ... 165 3. Morality Textbooks between 1921 and 1932 ... 168 Epilogue: The Meaning of Ryōsai Kenbo Thought ... 181 Appendix 1: List of Morality Textbooks (Shūshin Kyōkasho) Consulted for this Study ... 187 Bibliography ... 193 Index of Persons ... 211 Index of Subjects ... 215

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Book SynopsisIn this unique edition, Carl Davila takes an original approach to the texts of the modern Moroccan Andalusian music tradition. This volume offers a literary-critical analysis and English translation of the texts of this nūba, studies their linguistic and thematic features, and compares them with key manuscripts and published anthologies. Four introductory chapters and four appendices discuss the role of orality in the tradition and the manuscripts that lie behind the print anthologies. Two supplements cross-reference key poetic images in English and Arabic, and provide information on known authors of the texts. This groundbreaking contribution will interest scholars and students of pre-modern Arabic poetry, muwashshaḥāt, Andalusian music traditions, Arabic Studies, orality, and sociolinguistics.

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Book SynopsisIn China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The book’s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries’ orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its kinship society.Table of ContentsForeword: A Fascination with China, by David Fasenfest Preface Introduction: The Goal of this Book 1. Familism: A Threat to the Environment The “Public Sphere:” Rights without Obligations Two types of Personal Association Personalization of the Law 2. Exchanges of Threats: The Opium Wars International Relations: Britain Russia, Japan, and Germany The Chinese Experience: Threat and Disappointment Why Did China not Defend herself? 3. China and the US: A Balance of Power? Why follow Thucydides? Promises and Threats Based on Economic Interests Real and Imagined Military Threats 4. Religions: Core Components of Cultures The Task at Hand: What is a Religion? Shared Origins of Contemporary Religions Governmental Interference with Religious Affairs 5. Religious Vitality in Contemporary China Types of Atheism in Party Politics Ancestor Worship: The Religion of China 6. Max Weber’s View of Religion in China 7. Daoism: China’s Native Religion The Fundamentals of Daoism Nature and Life Everlasting in Daoism Daoism as seen by Confucians and Buddhists 8. Oracle-Bones: The Mandate of Heaven How to Change – forward or backward? The Splendid Age of the Oracle Bones 9. Confucius: Recapture the Lost Splendour The Heavenly Mandate Shared by Relatives Finding Options for the Future The Party or the Family as “Church” in China? 10. The West: Individualism at its Limits The Western Family as Tragedy Cultural Evolution of Kinship in the West 11. China: The Kinship Society Granet and the Analects: Evolution of Kinship in China Fei Xiaotong: Field Work on Types of Family Life Altruism and Selfishness: A precarious Balance 12. China: A Threatening Promise to the West Summaries of the Chapters Concluding Queries about Threats and Promises Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe focus of Richard Zgusta’s The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time is the formation of indigenous and cultural groups of coastal northeast Asia, including the Ainu, the “Paleoasiatic” peoples, and the Asiatic Eskimo. Most chapters begin with a summary of each culture at the beginning of the colonial era, which is followed by an interdisciplinary reconstruction of prehistoric cultures that have direct ancestor-descendant relationships with the modern ones. An additional chapter presents a comparative discussion of the ethnographic data, including subsistence patterns, material culture, social organization, and religious beliefs, from a diachronic viewpoint. Each chapter includes maps and extensive references.

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Book SynopsisIn Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region, edited by Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund, the contributors introduce the history and contemporary situation of these little known groups of people that for centuries have been part of the religious and ethnic mosaic of this region. The book has a broad and multi-disciplinary scope and covers the early settlements in Lithuania and Poland, the later immigrations to Saint Petersburg, Finland, Estonia and Latvia, as well as the most recent establishments in Sweden and Germany. The authors, who hail from and are specialists on these areas, demonstrate that in several respects the Tatar Muslims have become well-integrated here. Contributors are: Toomas Abiline, Tamara Bairasauskaite, Renat Bekkin, Sebastian Cwiklinski, Harry Halén, Tuomas Martikainen, Agata Nalborczyk, Egdunas Racius, Ringo Ringvee, Valters Scerbinskis, Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund.Trade Review“This volume is a detailed and fascinating examination of a loose-knit ethno-religious community spanning several states. […] Svanberg and Westerlund successfully demonstrate that a European Islam is not only possible but has been functioning for centuries, almost unnoticed.” Abdullah Drury in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 30:1 (2019), 116-118, DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2018.1541632 https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2018.1541632Table of ContentsList of illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction, Sebastian Cwiklinski Early Settlements 1. Lithuania, Tamara Bairašauskaitė and Egdūnas Račius 2. Poland, Agata S. Nalborzcyk Second Wave 3. Saint Petersburg, Renat Bekkin and Sabira Ståhlberg 4. Finland, Harry Halén and Tuomas Martikainen 5. Estonia, Toomas Abiline and Ringo Ringvee 6. Latvia, Valters Ščerbinskis Third Wave 7. Sweden, Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg 8. Germany, Sebastian Cwiklinski Index

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Book SynopsisIn Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs Joo-Yup Lee examines the formation of new group identities, with a focus on the Qazaqs, in post-Mongol Central Eurasia within the context of qazaqlïq, or the qazaq way of life, a custom of political vagabondage widespread among the Turko-Mongolian peoples of Central Asia and the Qipchaq Steppe during the post-Mongol period. Utilizing a broad range of original sources, the book suggests that the Qazaqs, as well as the Shibanid Uzbeks and Ukrainian Cossacks, came into existence as a result of the qazaq, or “ambitious brigand,” activities of their founders, providing a new paradigm for understanding state formation and identity in post-Mongol Central Eurasia.Trade Review2017 CESS Book Award Winner "The author has done a great service for historians of the Kazakhs, particularly those hoping to introduce monolingual students to the rich sources for medieval Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Those wishing to follow along with Lee’s analysis more closely are welcomed to do so by the inclusion of two appendices marking the appearance and context of the terms qazaqlïq and qazaq in medieval (Appendix 1) and modern sources (Appendix 2). The book also includes several maps, though they are difficult to read as they contain only river courses, ethnic labels, and the occasional city. Comprising the annotated bibliography in the introduction, a bibliography, an index and two helpful family trees, the scholarly apparatus should be useful to a wide array of scholars even tangentially interested in the field of Kazakh history." Michael Hancock-Parmer, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, in Central Asian Review, 2016

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Book SynopsisIn Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301) Dušan Zupka examines rituals as means of political and symbolic communication in medieval Central Europe, with a special emphasis on the rulers of the Árpád dynasty in the Kingdom of Hungary. Particular attention is paid to symbolic acts such as festive coronations, liturgical praises, welcoming of rulers (adventus regis), ritualised settlement of disputes, and symbolic rites during encounters between rulers. The power and meaning of rituals were understandable to contemporary protagonists and to their chroniclers. These rituals therefore played an essential role in medieval political culture. The book concludes with an outline of ritual communication as a coherent system.Trade Review''Zupka hat mit seiner Arbeit jedoch den eigenen Anspruch, gleichsam eine Teststudie für die Ritualforschung in Mitteleuropa vorzulegen, erfolgreich eingelöst: Seine Studie zeigt, wie weiterführend das erneute Durchdenken bekannter Theorien und deren Anwendung auf neue Fallbeispiele ist. Besonders überzeugend ist, dass Zupka sich nicht ausschließlich auf das Königreich Ungarn bezieht, sondern den Interferenzen mit benachbarten Reichen und ihrer Spiegelung in den Quellen besondere Aufmerksamkeit schenkt. Damit hat er eine gute Ausgangslage und zahlreiche Anregungen für weitere komparative Arbeiten zur Geschichte der politischen Gefüge in Mitteleuropa geschaffen''. - Julia Burkhardt, in: Sehepunkte 11 (2019) ''Man kommt angesichts der Überzeugungskraft der vorgetragenen Beobachtungen nicht umhin, ihm beizupflichten, und das umfangreiche Verzeichnis der zitierten Quellen und Literatur bestätigt nur, dass dem interessierten Leser hier ein sachkundiger Führer durch die Welt der ungarischen Árpáden in die Hand gelegt wird''. - Martin Wihoda, in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 2018 (1) ''Mein Fazit nach der Lektüre des Buches ist, dass ihm ein gutes Konzept zugrunde liegt. Zudem basiert es auf einem fundierten globalgeschichtlichen Hintergrund, der für die Bearbeitung des Themas geeignet ist''. - Márta Font, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 2019 (2)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations VIII Abbreviations IX Introduction 1 1 Rituals and Symbolic Communication: Theory, Terminology and Methodology 15 1 Ritual—Definition of the Term 15 2 The Study of Rituals in the Humanities 19 3 Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Studies 22 3.1 Rituals in Medieval Studies—Overview of Previous Research 22 3.2 Rituals in Medieval Studies—The Current State of Research 25 3.3 Rituals and Symbolic Communication in the Middle Ages 32 2 Rituals of Power and Symbols of Monarchy 35 1 Three Types of Coronation 36 2 Laudes regiae 45 3 Cingulum militiae 49 4 Court Festivities and Royal Majesty 55 5 The Symbols and Rituals of the Hungarian Monarchs 61 6 Summary 68 3 The Settling of Disputes and Submission—Rituals of Reconciliation 70 1 Reconciliation Rituals in Internal Political Struggles and in the Settling of Disputes with Foreign Monarchs (11th Century) 72 1.1 Reconciliation Rituals in the Struggles for the Hungarian Throne in the Second Half of the 11th Century 72 1.2 Conciliatory Settlement of Disputes between Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire 86 2 The Evolution and Transformation of the Ritual of Reconciliation in the 12th Century 94 2.1 Coloman and Álmos 94 2.2 Coloman and Foreign Rulers 97 2.3 Hungary and Byzantium 101 vi contents 3 Symbolic Gestures of Humility—Submission and Supplication 107 4 Summary and Conclusions 115 4 Adventus regis in Medieval Hungary 117 1 Adventus regis 117 2 Adventus regis in Political Communication in Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty 121 3 Good and Bad adventus 130 4 Conclusion 137 5 Encounters between Royalty—Greeting Rituals 139 1 Symbolic Communication during Meetings between Royalty 139 2 Osculum pacis 144 3 Research Issues 147 4 Symbolic Communication between Members of the Árpád and Piast Dynasties 147 4.1 Stephen I and Bolesław I 148 4.2 Ladislas I and Bolesław II 152 4.3 Coloman I and Bolesław III 156 5 Symbols and Rituals in the Hungarian Kings’ Encounters with the Crusaders 162 5.1 The First Crusade (1096) 163 5.2 The Second Crusade (1147) 167 5.3 The Third Crusade (1189) 170 6 The Role and Significance of Royal Encounters in the Middle Ages 172 7 Conclusion 177 6 Concluding Reflections: Ritual Communication as a Coherent System 179 1 The Role of Ritual 180 2 The Acquisition of Ritualized Communication—Lernprozess 182 3 An Outline of Developments in the Later Middle Ages: Urban Rituals and Written Culture 185 4 Monarchic Power and Its Representation 189 5 Quality, Role, and Ritual: Towards a Conceptual Framework 194 Bibliography 197 Index 222

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Book SynopsisIn Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series of personal letters to an anonymous correspondent. This first ethnography of Bali provides rich, perceptive descriptions of early nineteenth-century Balinese politics, society, religion and culture. The book includes a complete edition and translation of Dubois’ Légère Idée de Balie en 1830/Sketch of Bali in 1830.Trade Review"The book is a major achievement in the study of Balinese history and culture. The complex of letters, sometimes in a fragmentary and unfinished state, offers a vast panorama of Bali in the early nineteenth century, seen by a prejudiced but sharp-eyed official who had seen much of this world. [...] The highly useful and down-to-earth comments by Helen Creese, together with her meticulous efforts to trace the life and times of Pierre Dubois, makes the book an inexhaustible source of information." – Hans Hägerdal, Linnaeus University, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 175 (2019), p. 81–135.Table of ContentsPreface Editorial principles and conventions List of Illustrations Part 1: Historical and Cultural Context Ch. 1: The Textual Traces of a Colonial Life: Pierre Dubois (ca. 1776-1838) Ch. 2: Overtures: The Dutch in Bali, 1808-1826 Ch. 3: The Recruitment Post at Kuta Ch. 4: The Transcendent Art of Balinese Politics Ch. 5: The Return to Kuta, 1829-1831 Ch. 6: The Kuta Post: An Assessment Ch. 7: An Accidental Ethnographer Ch. 8: In Pursuit of Truth: Dubois in the Field Ch. 9: A Textual Cabinet of Curiosities: Commentaries on History, Society, Religion and Ritual Ch. 10: The Dubois Manuscripts: Transmission and Intertextuality Ch. 11: A Textual Postscript: The Journey of the Manuscripts Part 2: Pierre Dubois: Légère Idée de Balie en 1830 List of Letters Letters – French Transcription Part 3: Pierre Dubois: Sketch of Bali in 1830 List of Letters Letters – English Translation Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is at the crossroads where a New Age sensibility, advancing like an ecumen of worldwide spirituality without national, cultural, or ecclesiastical frontiers, meets Latin America's syncretic religions, practiced by groups of people wiht African or indigenous roots or developed from the tradition of popular Catholicism. The Syncretic character of the two sensibilities makes both the New Age and popular religion behave like two, syncretizing and syncreticizable matrices of meaning. This book opens up a rich vein of debate with new dilemmas and discussions, that will provide a framework for a new field of study in anthropology. What new ways of signifying living and experiencing religion is the New Age generating in Latin America? What are its limits?Trade Review"Overall, this is a superb book that opens up important new areas of study to an Englishspeaking audience. Anyone who studies New Age movements and/or Latin American religions will find it provocative and informative." - Brett Hendrickson, Lafayette College, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This volume accomplishes the important task of bringing awareness of the New Age in Latin America (...) This is an important work for scholars of the New Age movement, and one that all such specialists should attend to in order to broaden the geographical range of the subject. It is also relevant for those studying religion in Latin America more generally." - Susannah Crockford, Ghent University, Nova Religio 21.4 (2018)

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