Social and cultural anthropology Books
Brill Is the Turk a White Man? : Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity
Book SynopsisIn 1909, the US Circuit Court in Cincinnati set out to decide “whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person”; the New York Times article on the decision, discussing the question of Turks’ whiteness, was cheekily entitled “Is the Turk a White Man?” Within a few decades, having understood the importance of this question for their modernization efforts, Turkish elites had already started a fantastic scientific mobilization to position the Turks in world history as the generators of Western civilization, the creators of human language, and the forgotten source of white racial stock. In this book, Murat Ergin examines how race figures into Turkish modernization in a process of interaction between global racial discourses and local responses.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: WHY THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN Race and the Turkish Case Why Care About the Turkish Case? The West = Theory; The Rest = “Mere” Case Cases and National Boundaries CHAPTER 2: THE REPUBLICAN CONVERSION NARRATIVE Rewriting History CHAPTER 3: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE “WEST” Becoming White The Ghosts of the Past: Ottoman Modernization and Encounters with the West The Ottoman Interest in Race Ziya Gökalp: The Official Ideologue of the Republic? The Formation of the “Terrible Turk”: Western Perceptions The Problem of Periodization CHAPTER 4: RACE IN EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEY Racial Vocabularies Mermaids, Fish, Humans: The Taxonomic Discourse Biometric Mobilization to Protect and Improve the Race Anthropometric Mobilization to “Discover” the Turkish Race CHAPTER 5: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AND RACIAL DISCOURSES Intellectual Exchange and Historical Contingency The University Reform and Émigré Scholars Conflicting Loyalties: Expertise in the Service of Local and Universal Agendas Afet İnan and Eugène Pittard: Personal Interaction in Search of Anthropometric Essences CHAPTER 6: RACE IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY Race, and Ethnicity, and Nation Race in Contemporary Turkey CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£132.00
Brill Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi: The Search for Powers of Blessing from the Other World of the Gods
Book SynopsisIn Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi, Kees Buijs describes the traditional culture of the Toraja’s, which is rapidly vanishing. The focus is on personal religion as it has its centre in the kitchen of each house. In the kitchen and also by the use of magical words and stones the gods are sought for their powers of blessing. This book adds important information to Buijs’ earlier Powers of Blessing from the Wilderness and from Heaven (Brill, 2006).Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter I Religion and magic Chapter II Headlines of the religion of the Toraja’s in West Sulawesi Chapter III Pairan, individual religious responsibility Chapter IV Stones and incantations, vestiges from the other world of the gods Chapter V Pairan and magic, personal religion in daily life Glossary Bibliography Index
£72.20
Brill The Materiality and Efficacy of Balinese Letters: Situating Scriptural Practices
Book SynopsisThe Materiality and Efficacy of Balinese Letters examines traditional uses of writing on the Indonesian island of Bali, focusing on the power attributed to Balinese script.The approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, bringing together insights from anthropological and philological perspectives. Scholars have long recognized a gap between the practices of philological interpretation and those of the Javano-Balinese textual tradition. The question is what impact this gap should have on our conception of ‘the text’. Of what relevance, for example, are the uses to which Balinese script has been put in the context of ceremonial rites? What ideas of materiality, power and agency are at work in the production and preservation of palm-leaf manuscripts, inscribed amulets and other script-bearing instruments? Contributors include: Andrea Acri, Helen Creese, Richard Fox, H.I.R. Hinzler, Annette Hornbacher, Thomas M. Hunter and Margaret Wiener.Table of ContentsList of illustrations 1. Introduction—Balinese Practices of Script and Western Paradigms of Text: An Anthropological Approach to a Philological Topic - Annette Hornbacher 2.The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters - Richard Fox 3.‘The World is Full of Letters’: Graphic Ideologies, Graphic Technologies, and Transformative Practice in Bali - Margaret J. Wiener 4.The Body of Letters: Balinese Aksara as an Intersection Between Script, Power and Knowledge - Annette Hornbacher 5.The Medium is the Message: Chirographic Figures in Two Traditions -Thomas M. Hunter 6. Imposition of the Syllabary (mātṛkā/svaravyañjana-nyāsa) in the Javano-Balinese Tradition in the light of South Asian Tantric Sources - Andrea Acri 7. Im-Materiality: Where Have All the Akṣara Gone? - Helen Creese 8. Visible and Invisible Script Used at Consecrations of Buildings in Bali - H.I.R. Hinzler 9. Postscript - Richard Fox Bibliography Index
£115.20
Brill Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan, 1350-1850
Book SynopsisMediated by Gifts is a collection of essays by top scholars on gifts, giving and the social and political forces that shaped these practices in medieval and early modern Japan. The international assemblage of authors provides new insights into these deeply ingrained practices. The essays focus on topics such as shogunal visits to shrines and temples, exchanges between the imperial house and the shogun, a physician and his patients, the shogun, his vassals his and his ladies, the merchant class and the shogunal government, and between scholars and their cosmopolitan circle of contacts. This virtually unexplored view of Japanese history provides new tools to better elucidate both historical and modern Japan. Contributors are Lee Butler, Andrew Goble, Kaneko Hiraku, Laura Nenzi, Ozawa Emiko, Cecilia Segawa Siegle, and Margarita Winkel.Trade Review'Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan, 1350–1850 provides a better understanding of gift-giving mechanisms. Indeed, the variety of essays and approaches found here should whet the appetite of scholars seeking to understand the full scope and significance of gift exchange in medieval and early modern Japanese society.' Charlotte Von Verschuer, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, Monumenta Nipponica, 72:2 (2017) 'Mediated by Gifts covers gift giving across a span of five hundred years in the most useful way possible: by focusing on the details extracted from primary sources through painstaking research. If the essays are sometimes short on analysis and contextualization, it is perhaps because they provide so much information that it is impossible to do justice to all of it in one chapter. The book provides an essential foundation for further research on a myriad of questions, many of them relevant to studies of gender, economics, and politics.' Karen M. Gerhart, Japan review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 34 (2019) 'In summary, Mediated by Gifts is a coherent, insightful, thoroughly researched, and highly original collection of essays. It makes for excellent reading. Most important, it shows how gifts mattered to a broad range of premodern Japanese, occupying quite different stations in society, and how the practice of gift exchange must feature in our efforts to understand their motivations, lives, and relationships.' Jeroen Lamers, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 46:1 (2020).Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors Chronologies Introduction - Martha Chaiklin 1 Unexpected Paths: Gift Giving and the Nara Excursions of the Muromachi Shoguns - Kaneko Hiraku. Translated by Lee Butler 2 Gifts for the Emperor: Signposts of Continuity and Change in Japan’s Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - Lee Butler 3 Physician Yamashina Tokitsune’s Healing Gifts - Andrew Edmund Goble 4 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving - Cecilia Segawa Seigle 5 Mitsui Echigoya’s Gifts to the Tokugawa Shogunate - Ozawa Emiko. Translated by Lee Butler 6 Travel and Gift Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Japan - Laura Nenzi 7 Gift Exchange and Reciprocity: Understanding Antiquarian/Ethnographic Communities Within and Beyond Tokugawa Borders - Margarita Winkel Index
£104.00
Brill Gendering the Trans-Pacific World
Book SynopsisGendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.Table of ContentsPart I: Gendering the Trans-Pacific 1. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 2. Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives, by Denise Cruz 3. The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World, by Karen J. Leong Part II: Geographies of Empire 4. Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898–1921, by Tessa Ong Winkelmann 5. A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel: The Sino-Japanese War and the Gendered Internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo, by Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves 6. Moving Within Empires: Korean Women and Trans-Pacific Migration, by Ji-Yeon Yuh 7. Re-franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific, by Rumi Yasutake 8. Currencies of U.S. Empire in Hawaiʻi’s Tourism and Prison Industries, by Liza Keānuenueokalani Williams Part III: Intimacies and Affect 9. The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje: Colonial Tropes of the Filipina/o, by Gladys Nubla 10. “Ashamed of Certain Japanese”: The Politics of Affect in Japanese Women’s Immigration Exclusion, 1919–1924, by Chrissy Yee Lau 11. Gendered Adoptee Identities: Performing Trans-Pacific Masculinity in the 21st Century, by Kimberly McKee 12. Up in the Air: Circuits of Transnational Asian and Asian American Mothering, by Miliann Kang Part IV: Beauty and the Body 13. Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests, by Genevieve Clutario 14. “Golden Lilies” across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws, by Fang He 15. Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific, by Laura C. Nelson 16. Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship: Human Trafficking in Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s From Busan to San Francisco and Mark Kalesniko’s Mail Order Bride, by Stella Oh Part V: Culture and Circulation 17. Performing between Two Empires: Colonial Modernity and the Racialized Politics of Filipino Masculinity in Okinawa and Japan, by Nobue Suzuki 18. A Careful Embrace: Race, Gender, and the Consumption of Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific in Mid-Century Los Angeles, by Shawn Schwaller 19. We Are Pacific Men, by Craig Santos Perez 20. Gendering the K-Vampire, by Hyungji Park 21. Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens: The Cinemas of Vietnam and the Diaspora, by Lan Duong
£106.40
Brill The Making of the African Road
Book SynopsisThe Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.Trade Review'Si des études éparses avaient déjà porté sur les routes en tant que constructions physiques autant que sociales, aucune entreprise n’avait jusqu’ici tenté de produire un propos plus systématique sur cet objet en Afrique [...] Plusieurs contributions du recueil peuvent être lues comme des descriptions extrêmement fines de pratiques et de représentations constitutives des cultures professionnelles des métiers de la route'. - Sidy Cissokho, Centre d’études africaines de l’Université d’Édimbourg (CAS), dans: Politique africaine n° 147 (Octobre 2017), p.159-170 'The making of the African road offers superb local and comparative insights, decisively placing African roads into the global history and ethnography of modernity. The volume should be of interest well beyond Africanist circles, to all social scientists and experts interested in matters of road infrastructure.' - Florin Faje, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, in: Social Anthropology 26.4 (2018), pp. 577-578 'The chapters contribute rich ethnographic descriptions that highlight the diversity of roads in contemporary Africa, ranging from congested urban thoroughfares to desert roads composed of little more than tracks across the sand. […] the authors engage most directly with scholarship on Western mobility, the anthropology of roads, and science and technology studies, making the book particularly relevant to scholars interested in how technology and culture shape each other.' - Rosa E. Ficek, University of Puerto Rico, in: Transfers 8.3 (2018), pp. 135-136Table of ContentsList of figures List of maps List of contributors Acknowledgments 1 An Introduction to the African Road Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik 2 Roadside Involution, Or How Many People Do You Need to Run a Lorry Park? Michael Stasik 3 Jam-Space and Jam-Time: Traffic in Nairobi Amiel Bize 4 Stories of the Road: Perceptions of Power, Progress and Perils on the Accra-Kumasi road, Ghana Gabriel Klaeger 5 Biographies of Roads, Biographies of Nations: History, Territory and the Road Effect in Post-Conflict Somaliland Luca Ciabarri 6 Cosmological Work at the Crossroads: Commercial Motorbike Riders in Makeni, Sierra Leone Michael Bürge 7 Ruin, Or Repair? Infrastructural Sociality and an Economy of Disappearances along a Rural Road in Kenya Mark Lamont 8 Negotiating Desert Routes: Travelling Practices on the Forty Days Road Rami Wadelnour 9 Teda Drivers on the Road between Agadez and Assheggur: Taking over an Ancient Tuereg Caravan Route Tilman Musch 10 Technological Dramas on the Road: The ‘Artery of the North Highway’ in the Sudan Kurt Beck Index
£68.00
Brill An Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo: Of Spirit, Slave and Sea
Book SynopsisIn this book, Eric Montgomery and Christian Vannier provide an ethnographically informed text on the cultural meanings and practices surrounding the gods and metaphysics of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo. The authors approach this spirit possession and medicinal order through “shrine ethnography,” understanding shrines as parts of sacred landscapes that are ecological, economic, political, and social. Giving voice to practitioners and situating shrines and Vodu itself into the history and political economy of the region make this text pertinent to the social changes and global relevance of Millennial Africa.Trade Review"Through their extensive engagement with vodu shrine priests, devotees, and villagers, anthropologists Montgomery (Wayne State Univ.) and Vannier (Univ. of Michigan-Flint) clarify the interconnected ritual economy of Gbedala, in which dedication to particular vodu deities is a source of both spiritual and material benefits." E. P. Renne, University of Michigan, CHOICE, Vol. 54 No. 12 'Eric Montgomery and Christian Vannier’s (2017) book is a careful, ethnographically rich, and historically grounded contribution to African Studies and especially to the understanding of Vodu, one of the world’s most well-known West African religious complexes (...) If encouraging readers to think in different ways is a measure of success, then I give Montgomery and Vannier’s book five stars. This is a study of tremendous value to scholars of religions in the African Atlantic World that will resonate with historians and anthropologists alike. It is sophisticated enough to speak to specialists and engaging enough to capture the attention of students and the interested public. For anyone wishing to learn more about Africa or religion, this is a superb exploration of both.' Timothy Landry, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Journal of Religion in Africa 48 (2018).
£124.80
Brill Byzantine Culture in Translation
Book SynopsisThis collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west. The time span is from Late Antiquity to the present day. Translations studied include hagiography, history, philosophy, poetry, architecture and science, between Greek, Latin, Arabic and other languages. These chapters build upon presentations given at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on 28-30 November 2014. Contributors include: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Amelia Brown, Penelope Buckley, John Burke, Michael Champion, John Duffy, Yvette Hunt, Maria Mavroudi, Ann Moffatt, Bronwen Neil, Roger Scott, Michael Edward Stewart, Rene Van Meeuwen, Alfred Vincent, and Nigel Westbrook.Trade ReviewEach essay concludes with an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and all are informed by meticulous use of evidence and careful argumentation; texts cited in their original language include English translations. Seldom can an essay be categorized within a single discipline such as philology, social history, folklore, Quellenforschung, or material culture because the authors explore their subject matter for its significance in a range of medieval and modern contexts. - Elizabeth A. Fisher, George Washington University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction Amelia Brown 1 Narrating the Reign of Constantine in Byzantine Chronicles Roger Scott 2 Breaking Down Barriers: Eunuchs in Italy and North Africa, 400–620 Michael Edward Stewart 3 The Orient Express: Abbot John’s Rapid Trip from Constantinople to Ravenna c. AD 700 Ann Moffatt 4 Bang For His Buck: Dioscorides as a Gift of the Tenth-Century Byzantine Court Yvette Hunt 5 Nikephoros Phokas as Superhero John Burke 6 Byzantine Religious Tales in Latin Translation: The Work of John of Amalfi John Duffy 7 Translations from Greek into Latin and Arabic during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical Tradition Maria Mavroudi 8 A Web of Translations: Planudes in Search of Human Reason Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides 9 Translating Dorotheus of Gaza: From Gaza to Humanist Europe Michael Champion 10 The Translation of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman, as Revealed by the Lorck Prospect of the City Nigel Westbrook and Rene Van Meeuwen 11 Byzantium after Byzantium? Two Greek Writers in Seventeenth-century Wallachia Alfred Vincent 12 Yeats’s Two Byzantiums Penelope Buckley Conclusion: Translating Byzantium in the New Millennium Bronwen Neil General Index
£129.60
Brill Chilam Balam of Ixil: Facsimile and Study of an Unpublished Maya Book
Book SynopsisIn Chilam Balam of Ixil Laura Caso Barrera translates for the first time a Yucatec Maya document that resulted from the meticulous reading by the Colonial Maya of various European texts such as the Bible and the Poem of the Mío Cid, as well as various studies on astronomy, astrology, calendars, and medicine. The Maya, showing considerable astuteness and insight, appropriated this knowledge. With this study and facsimile, experts can further their knowledge of Mayan calendars or traditional medicine; and Mayan enthusiasts can discover more about the culture’s world view and history. En el Chilam Balam de Ixil Laura Caso Barrera traduce por primera vez un documento en maya yucateco, que resultó de la minuciosa lectura que realizaron los mayas coloniales de distintos textos europeos como la Biblia o el Cantar del Mío Cid, así como de diversos estudios de astronomía, astrología, calendarios y medicina. Con astucia y perspicacia, los mayas hicieron propio ese saber. Con esta edición, los expertos podrán ahondar en las anotaciones calendáricas o la medicina tradicional maya; y los amantes de esta cultura conocerán otros aspectos de su pensamiento e historia.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Book 1 Facsimile Edition of the Book of Chilam Balam of Ixil Book 2 The Chilam Balam of Ixil: European and Indigenous Aspects of a Maya Colonial Text Laura Caso Barrera The Chilam Balam Books The Chilam Balam of Ixil Physical and Philological Aspects of the Chilam Balam of Ixil The Bible in the Chilam Balam of Ixil Mayan and European Concepts of Disease and Medicine Medicine in the Chilam Balam of Ixil Astrology, Astronomy and Horoscopes Almanacs, Stars and Calendars Mario M. Aliphat F. Maya Astronomy and Astrology Stars and Celestial Bodies Recognized by the Maya during the Colonial Period The Heavens Heavenly Bodies The Sun and the Moon Venus North Star Other Stars Constellations The Pleiades The Milky Way or the Road to Santiago The Zodiac The Western and Maya Zodiacs Numbers and Calendars Maya Numerology The Maya Calendar Cardinal Points and Colors Cardinal Points, Colors and the Quadripartite Deities The u cuch haabob Rounds or “Year Bearers” and Their Association with the Cardinal Points in the Ixil The Katun Round The Maya Almanac and the Portents of Days in the Ixil The Cycle of the Burners The Lunar Calendar in the Ixil The Chilam Balam of Ixil: Text and Translation Appendix A: List of Plants Mentioned in the Chilam Balam of Ixil Appendix B: List of Insects and Animals Mentioned in the Chilam Balam of Ixil Bibliography
£196.00
Brill Feasting and Polis Institutions
Book SynopsisFeasting and commensality formed the backbone of social life in the polis, the most characteristic and enduring form of political organization in the ancient Greek world. Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions reveals how feasts defined the religious and political institutions of the Greek citizen-state. Taking the reader from the Early Iron Age to the Imperial Period, this volume launches an essential inquiry into Greek power relations. Focusing on the myriad of patronage roles at the feast and making use of a wide variety of methodologies and primary sources, including archaeology, epigraphy and literature, Feasting and Polis Institutions argues that in ancient Greece political interaction could never be complete until it was consummated in a festive context.Trade Review"a welcome contribution to the Greek room in the Food Studies house, particularly due to the spread of evidence for Greek feasting practices and for the focus on the ways that feasts contributed simultaneously to ideas of citizen equality and to hierarchies of power (the “dialectic of hierarchy and equality” is a common theme). The introduction will be particularly helpful for those new to the field. (...) In all, this contribution is valuable for its breadth and for its attempts to link feasting practices to the political institutions which operate beside and through them." - Jessica M. Romney, in: BMCR 2018.11.27
£127.20
Brill Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation
Book SynopsisMaroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation sheds further light on the contemporary modes of Maroon circulation and presence in Suriname and in the French Guiana. The contributors assembled in the volume look to describe Maroon ways of inhabiting, transforming and circulating through different localities in the Guianas, as well as their modes of creating and incorporating knowledge and artefacts into their social relations and spaces. By bringing together authors with diverse perspectives on the situation of the Guianese Maroon at the twenty-first century, the volume contributes to the anthropological literature on Maroon societies, providing ethnographic, and historical depth and legitimacy to the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.
£167.20
Brill Resistance and the City: Challenging Urban Space
Book SynopsisThe essays collected in this volume unfold a panorama of urban phenomena of resistance that reach from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, thus revealing the essential vulnerability of urban space to all forms of subversion. Taking their readers to diverse places and moments in history, the contributions remind us of the struggles over the concrete as well as the imaginary space we call the city. The collection maps the various challenges experienced by urban communities, ranging from the unmistakably hegemonic claim of civic festivities in early modern London to the perceived threat posed by newly created parks in the Restoration period and from the dangers of criminality and riots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the transformation of the Berlin Wall into souvenirs scattered around the globe. Contributors: Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer, Blake Fitzpatrick, Kerstin Frank, Jens Martin Gurr, Bernd Hirsch, Marie Hologa, Mihaela Irimia, Stephan Kohl, Norbert Lennartz, Catharina Löffler, Margaret Olin, István Rácz, Gerd Stratmann.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors General Introduction Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer Introduction: Challenging Urban Space Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer Part 1: Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1 Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century Christoph Ehland 2 The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque Norbert Lennartz 3 Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities Mihaela Irimia 4 The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London Kerstin Frank Part 2: Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 5 Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain Gerd Stratmann 6 Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature Pascal Fischer 7 The “Capital of Discontent”: Urban Resistance in Manchester Bernd Hirsch Part 3: Reimagining Urban Space 8 Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography Stephan Kohl 9 Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture Margaret Olin 10 Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s Capital Ingo Berensmeyer and Catharina Löffler Part 4: Creative Transformations of the City 11 Critical Urban Studies and/in “Right to the City” Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production Jens Martin Gurr 12 Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets Marie Hologa 13 Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry István D. Rácz 14 The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin Blake Fitzpatrick Index
£115.20
Brill Anthropology and Hebrew Bible Studies: Modes of Interchange and Interpretation
Book SynopsisInterchange between anthropology and biblical scholarship began because of perceived similarities between “simpler” societies and practices appearing in the Hebrew Bible. After some disengagement when anthropologists turned mainly to ethnographic fieldwork, new cross-disciplinary possibilities opened up when structuralism emerged in anthropology. Ritual and mythology were major topics receiving attention, and some biblical scholars partially adopted structuralist methods. In addition, anthropological research extended to complex societies and also had an impact upon historical studies. Modes of interpretation developed that reflected holistic perspectives along with a sensibility to ethnographic detail. This essay illustrates these trends in regard to rituals and to notions of purity in the Hebrew Bible, as well as to the place of literacy in Israelite society and culture. After discussing these themes, three examples of structuralist-inspired analysis are presented which in different ways take into account historical and literacy-based facets of the Bible.
£71.44
Brill New Voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe
Book SynopsisNew Voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe captures the experience in writing of a fast growing number of individuals belonging to migrant communities in Europe. The book follows attempts to transform postcolonial literary studies into a comparative, translingual, and supranational project. Cristián H. Ricci frames Moroccan literature written in European languages within the ampler context of borderland studies. The author addresses the realm of a literature that has been practically absent from the field of postcolonial literary studies (i.e. Neerlandophone or Gay Muslim literature). The book also converses with other minor literatures and theories from Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Asians and Latino/as in the Americas that combine histories of colonization, labor migration, and enforced exile.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Translations Introduction: A Transmodern-Postcolonial Approach to Afro-European Literature 1 Memories of al-Andalus: between “Paterista” and Testimonial Poetry 2 Negotiating Afro-Iberian Identity in Moroccan and Riffian Literature 1 Castilian Language in Morocco: from the Protectorate to the “Return of the Moors” 2 Moroccan Borderland Literature in Castilian 3 Amazigh (Berber)-Catalan Women and the Forging of an Afro-Iberian Identity 3 Marginal Sexualities in/from Morocco and France 1 Salvation Army 2 An Arab Melancholia 4 Writing the Riff (Morocco) from the Netherlands and Belgium 1 Wedding by the Sea: Troublesome Homecoming for Second-generation Migrants 2 Abdullah’s Feet: the Longing for an Imaginary Homeland from Amsterdam 3 Internal and External Borders in Brick Oussaïd’s Mountains Forgotten by God 5 Moroccan Displacements through History in the Narrative of Laila Lalami Conclusion Works Cited Index
£121.95
Brill World of Diasporas: Different Perceptions on the Concept of Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis book offers fascinating insights into the concept of diaspora by presenting a portrait gallery of writers highlighting diasporas on Welsh, Mauritian, Palestinian, Circassian Kurdish, British Sikh, Dutch Hindustani, Indian, Tamil and African experiences. Harjinder Singh Majhail and Sinan Dogan present the world of diasporas in interesting portrayals such as Gulnur’s research into Circassian history lying hidden in Yistanbulako elegy, Enaya’s visits into Milwaukee in Wisconsin where Palestinian Muslim women marry outside their religion because of the non-availability of suitable partners in their community and Harjinder Majhail’s sojourns into J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy portraying a teenager girl’s brave encounters in British Sikh diaspora. Contributors are Vitor Lopes Andrade, Kimberly Berg, Amenah Jahangeer Chojoo, Gülnur Demirci, Sinan Doğan, Jaswina Elahi, Ruben Gawricharn, Lola Guyot, Nadine Hassouneh, Harjinder Singh Majhail and Enaya Hammad Othman.
£59.20
Brill The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege:
Book SynopsisThe Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege offers a fresh and critical perspective to people of indigenous and/or marginalized identifications. It highlights the research, shared experiences and personal stories, and the artistic collections of those who are of mixed heritage and/or identity, as well as the perspectives of young adolescents who identify as being of mixed racial, socio-economic, linguistic, and ethno-cultural backgrounds and experiences. These auto-ethnographic collections serve as an impetus for the untold stories of millions of marginalized people who may find solace here and in the stories of others who are of mixed identity.Trade Review“A groundbreaking and thoughtful collection of narratives, essays, and poems on challenges that arise for individuals of mixed race identity at different stages of development. Drawing on the experiences of an international collection of scholars, these artifacts remind us that in a world where race and ethnic identities are often used to confer power and privilege, those who occupy hybrid spaces because of their status as ‘mixed’ people, often have unique insights into how these social constructions of identity play out in everyday life. Illuminating and thought provoking, this book will serve as a useful guide to anyone who seeks to understand why race and ethnicity continue to matter so much in modern society.” ~Pedro A. Noguera, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Education, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors The Homily of Pain and Privilege: Understanding the Need for a Discourse on Mixed Identity Ellis Hurd Part 1: Exploring the Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege 1. Navigating the Ambiguity of Mixed Identity as Chinese-Indonesian Dian Mitrayani 2. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Cristina Santamaría Graff 3. Stepping towards Healing about Learning Disability at Our Intersectionality: How Learning Disability Pain and Privilege Structured Our Schooling Experiences Lisa A. Boskovich and David I. Hernández-Saca Part 2: Supporting Youth with Marginalized Identities 4. The Unidentified Nationality: Navigating Middle School as a Third Culture Kid Hwa Pyung Yoo 5. Mis Roots Paloma E. Villegas 6. A Different Kind of Asian Persuasion Susan Y. Leonard 7. Transformative Consciousness Raising Questions Hannah R. Stohry Part 3: Exploring the Convergences of Identity and Cultural Responsiveness 8. Will I Ever Be Enough? An African Louisiana Creole’s Narrative on Race, Ethnicity, and Belonging Raymond Adams 9. Sika Jessica Samuels Part 4: Interrelated Homilies (Movements) of Mixed Identity: An International Lens 10. Being Ambiguously Brown in Africa: An Autoethnography of Biracial Identity in Three Acts Lynnette Mawhinney 11. Identity Perceptions of Youth in Middle and High-School: Beyond Being Mestizo Mariana Leon and Guillermina de Gracia 12. Bordered Lives: An Autoethnography of Transnational Precarity Francisco J. Villegas and Paloma E. Villegas 13. The Ubiquitous Rank: Some Reflections on Walking on Thin Ice Anne Ryen Part 5: On Being Mixed and Moving Forward 14. Raising Consciousness for Multi-Racial Third Culture Kids Hannah R. Stohry 15. Resisting Learning Disabilty Oppression: Healing through Dis/Ability Voice David I. Hernández-Saca 16. Poems on Being Mixed and Moving Forward Lisa A. Boskovich 17. Walking the Line Iman Fagan Part 6: Conclusion 18. The Untold Future of Being Mixed: Moving Forward While Remembering What Is Behind Ellis Hurd
£47.20
Brill The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity
Book SynopsisThe Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege offers a fresh and critical perspective to people of indigenous and/or marginalized identifications. It highlights the research, shared experiences and personal stories, and the artistic collections of those who are of mixed heritage and/or identity, as well as the perspectives of young adolescents who identify as being of mixed racial, socio-economic, linguistic, and ethno-cultural backgrounds and experiences. These auto-ethnographic collections serve as an impetus for the untold stories of millions of marginalized people who may find solace here and in the stories of others who are of mixed identity.Trade Review“A groundbreaking and thoughtful collection of narratives, essays, and poems on challenges that arise for individuals of mixed race identity at different stages of development. Drawing on the experiences of an international collection of scholars, these artifacts remind us that in a world where race and ethnic identities are often used to confer power and privilege, those who occupy hybrid spaces because of their status as ‘mixed’ people, often have unique insights into how these social constructions of identity play out in everyday life. Illuminating and thought provoking, this book will serve as a useful guide to anyone who seeks to understand why race and ethnicity continue to matter so much in modern society.” ~Pedro A. Noguera, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Education, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors The Homily of Pain and Privilege: Understanding the Need for a Discourse on Mixed Identity Ellis Hurd Part 1: Exploring the Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege 1. Navigating the Ambiguity of Mixed Identity as Chinese-Indonesian Dian Mitrayani 2. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Cristina Santamaría Graff 3. Stepping towards Healing about Learning Disability at Our Intersectionality: How Learning Disability Pain and Privilege Structured Our Schooling Experiences Lisa A. Boskovich and David I. Hernández-Saca Part 2: Supporting Youth with Marginalized Identities 4. The Unidentified Nationality: Navigating Middle School as a Third Culture Kid Hwa Pyung Yoo 5. Mis Roots Paloma E. Villegas 6. A Different Kind of Asian Persuasion Susan Y. Leonard 7. Transformative Consciousness Raising Questions Hannah R. Stohry Part 3: Exploring the Convergences of Identity and Cultural Responsiveness 8. Will I Ever Be Enough? An African Louisiana Creole’s Narrative on Race, Ethnicity, and Belonging Raymond Adams 9. Sika Jessica Samuels Part 4: Interrelated Homilies (Movements) of Mixed Identity: An International Lens 10. Being Ambiguously Brown in Africa: An Autoethnography of Biracial Identity in Three Acts Lynnette Mawhinney 11. Identity Perceptions of Youth in Middle and High-School: Beyond Being Mestizo Mariana Leon and Guillermina de Gracia 12. Bordered Lives: An Autoethnography of Transnational Precarity Francisco J. Villegas and Paloma E. Villegas 13. The Ubiquitous Rank: Some Reflections on Walking on Thin Ice Anne Ryen Part 5: On Being Mixed and Moving Forward 14. Raising Consciousness for Multi-Racial Third Culture Kids Hannah R. Stohry 15. Resisting Learning Disabilty Oppression: Healing through Dis/Ability Voice David I. Hernández-Saca 16. Poems on Being Mixed and Moving Forward Lisa A. Boskovich 17. Walking the Line Iman Fagan Part 6: Conclusion 18. The Untold Future of Being Mixed: Moving Forward While Remembering What Is Behind Ellis Hurd
£104.00
Brill Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times
Book SynopsisBorder Lives offers an in-depth account of how people in Arsal, a northeastern town on the border of Lebanon with Syria, experienced postwar sociality, and how they grappled with living in the margins of the Lebanese state in the period following the 1975-1990 war. In a rich ethnography of ‘changing times,’ Michelle Obeid shows how restrictions in cross-border mobility, transformations in physical and social spaces, burgeoning new industries and shifting political alliances produced divergent ideologies about domesticity and the family, morality and personhood. Attending to metaphors of modernity in a rural border context, Border Lives broadens the sites in which modernity and social change can be investigated.Trade Review"Michelle Obeid poetically captures the ardor and anguish of how Lebanese “yu-maddu”, daily manage in an isolated marginal rural town on the alternately porous and securitized border of Lebanon and Syria. Her subtle and sympathetic account offers a window to the transforming, at times violent, reality as the inhabitants seek normality, recount the laughter and familiarity of the past, are upended by the vicissitudes of social life, and push through borders and boundaries, grasping at a modernity they alternately mock and seek. Obeid offers a vivid and riveting story of life lived at the periphery." Suad Joseph (Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, University of California, Davis)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Names and Transliteration 1 Introduction: Border Lives in Changing Times 1 Figuring Out Border Lives 2 Remoteness and Marginality at the Border 3 The Ambivalence of Two States 4 Rural Modernities 2 Sociality between Movement and Space 1 New Capacities for Sociality 2 The Workings of ʿIshra 3 Domestic Spaces, Gender and Consumption 3 Living Well: Experiments in Livelihoods 1 Livelihoods as an Ongoing Experiment 2 Livelihoods in the Shadow of an ‘Evil State’ 3 Contested Moral Economies 4 Pastoralists: Living the Past in the Present 1 Transhumance and Political Change 2 Spatial and Human Organisation 3 Herding Dilemmas 4 Conflicts of Interest 5 Envying ‘the Comfortable Woman’ 5 Marriage between Love and Fate 1 The Befalling of Nasīb 2 The Vocabulary of Modern Marriage 3 Intergenerational Negotiations 4 When Negotiation Fails 6 Suspicion and Scorpions: The Morality of Kinship 1 Ensnaring Brothers and Suspicious Sisters 2 Of Failed Bargains 3 The Morality of Kinship 7 Local Elections: Politics at the Margin 1 1963: Familism, a Divisive Force 2 1998: ʿĀʾila Redeemed 3 Familism Strikes Back 4 Corruption that Compromises National Pride 5 The 2004 Lists: ‘Old Wine, New Bottles?’ 6 New Council, New Directions 8 What the Future Hides 1 A Visit in Post-Syrian Time 2 Is it Possible to Move Backwards? Bibliography Index
£92.80
Brill The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work: Neoliberal Desires and Labour Arbitrage in Post-socialist Romania
Book SynopsisThe Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate actors and local populations of hosting communities. The book synthesizes ethnographic research, media reviews, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of offshoring production occur in social, political and economic processes to highlight dilemmas connected to mobility of capital, modernization, social equality and capitalist expansion. The book delineates the complex interplay between Western neoliberalism and a transforming post-socialist Europe, to show the complex ways in which offshoring production infiltrates local communities. Analyzing issues of labor, work and employment, this book engages with current scholarship on critical management, sociology, anthropology, and East European studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement Introduction: the Post-socialist Workforce in the Global Offshoring Networks 1 The Post-socialist Workforce in Global Production 2 Offshoring Studies 3 Social Reproduction and Offshoring 4 Ethnography of Foreign Investment 5 The Investor and the Region 6 The Structure of this Book 1 Romania’s Systemic Transformation: Chaos, Austerity and Imposed Neoliberal Reform 1 Ad-hoc Transition (1989–1996) 2 The Period of Market Orientation (1996–2004) 3 The Period of European Integration (2004–2009) 4 Global Economic Crisis and Neoliberal Rule (2009–2014) 5 Conclusions 2 The Arrival: Global Assemblage of Neoliberal Production 1 Nokia Village Plans 2 Factory Closure in Germany 3 The Opening 3 A Journey onto the Shop Floor: Cultural Specificity of the Offshored Plant and Workforce Adaptation 1 Joining a Capitalist Workplace 2 Cultural Specificity of the Workplace and Worker Socialisation 3 Workplace Adaptation 4 Cultural Specificity and the Offshored Workplace 4 Shop Floor Culture and Routine Production Process 1 Lubricating the Taylorist Workplace 2 Limiting Control and Political Intimacies at Work 3 Epistemic Holes, Humour and Storytelling 4 Conclusions 5 Familial Involvement in Offshored Labour 1 Prior to Investment 2 Mutual Dependencies 3 Emancipatory Forces 4 Intergenerational Exceptionalism 5 Mutual Dependency in a Broader Context 6 Employee Reactions to the Plant Closure 1 The Good Investor’s Bad Decisions 2 Social Mobilization 3 What the Plant Changed 7 Coping with Loss: Local Agency and Offshored Labour 1 The Secrecy of the Contract 2 Smartphone Controversy 3 Romania in the Global Economy 4 The New Investor 5 Discussion: National Reaction to the Issue of Relocation Conclusions: Labour Arbitrage, Modernity and the Realities of Offshored Labour Bibliography Index
£121.60
Brill Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age
Book SynopsisIn Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age Koch offers a detailed analysis of local responses to colonial rule, and to its collapse. The book focuses on colonial encounters between local groups in southwest Canaan (between the modern-day metropolitan areas of Tel Aviv and Gaza) and agents of the Egyptian Empire during the Late Bronze Age (16th–12th centuries BCE). This new perspective presents the multifaceted aspects of Egyptian colonialism, the role of local agency, and the reshaping of local practices and ideas. Following that, the book examines local responses to the collapse of the empire, mechanisms of societal regeneration during the Iron Age I (12th–10th centuries BCE), the remnants of the Egyptian–Canaanite colonial order, and changes in local ideology and religion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsII List of FiguresX Introduction 1 Egyptian Colonialism and Canaan in Scholarship: an Overview 2 Notes on Nomenclature 3 Chronological Framework 1 Dawn 1 Decline and Revitalization of Settlements during the Late Bronze I 2 The Advent of Egyptian-style Objects 3 Reassessing the Levantine–Egyptian Interaction during the Late Bronze I 2 The Egyptian Network 1 Modeling the Egyptian Colonial Network 2 Egyptian and Local Centers 3 Local Rulers and the Egyptian Court 3 Goddess in Translation: The Fosse Temple at Lachish 1 Introducing the Fosse Temple in Lachish 2 Assessing the Change 3 Hathor and Tiye 4 The Cult in the Fosse Temple in Context 4 Ambivalence 1 Building Deposits 2 Conspicuous Consumption 3 The Equestrian Goddess 4 Range of Reactions 5 Collapse 1 Questioning the Philistine Paradigm 2 In Search of the Early Philistines 6 Regeneration 1 The Yarkon Basin 2 The Shephelah and the Coastal Plain 3 The Besor Basin, or: the Problem with Gaza 4 Retrospective 7 Reorientations 1 Animal-based Economy and Accumulation of Wealth 2 Pottery Production and Communal Feasting 3 Religion 4 Interpreting Reorientations 8 In the Eye of the Beholder 1 The Egyptian Connection 2 Canaanite Innovations 3 Local Glyptic Production during the Iron Age I–IIA Summary: Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Appendix: Chronology of Egyptian Kings Bibliography Index
£116.80
Brill Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa
Book SynopsisIn Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government’s initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ‘‘subaltern health narratives’’ in designing health policy.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Local Words and Expressions 1 Prelude: the Globalization of Traditional Knowledge Systems 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Definition of Concepts 1.3 The International Context of TCAM Practices 1.4 Different but Complimentary? 1.5 Lay Out of Work 2 Subject Matter, Method and Theoretical Framework 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Choice of Study Area 2.3 Methodological and Theoretical Framework 2.4 Data Analysis 2.5 Ethical Considerations and Reflexivity 2.6 Theoretical Framework 2.7 Conclusion 3 Traditional Medicine, Colonialism and Apartheid in South Africa 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Biomedical Capitalism 3.3 Colonialism, Biomedical Hegemony and Alternative Healthcare 3.4 The Pre-Colonial Era 3.5 The Colonial Era 3.6 The Post-Colonial Era 3.7 Conclusion 4 Democracy, Witchcraft and Traditional Medicine 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The HIV/AIDS Policy Context, Traditional Medicine and Democracy 4.3 The Lingering Socioeconomic Inequalities of the Apartheid Era 4.4 The “Return to Tradition” Policy 4.5 Shortages of Human Resources for Health 4.6 The Adoption of Democracy and the Promotion of Cultural Rights 4.7 Traditional Medicine as Cure and a Curse for HIV/AIDS 4.8 The Preference for Traditional Healers 4.9 Biomedical Hegemony? 4.10 Conclusion 5 The Sociocultural Context of HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape Region 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Eastern Cape Region and the Legacy of Apartheid Era Policies 5.3 The Sociocultural Context of HIV/AIDS 5.3.1 Labour-related Migration 5.3.2 Gender Identity and Unprotected Sex 5.3.3 Multiple Partnering and Intergenerational Relationships 5.3.4 Gender Inequality and Gender-based Violence 5.3.5 Teenage Pregnancies 5.3.6 Substance Abuse 5.3.7 Cultural Factors: Initiation Rituals 5.3.7.1 Ukuthwala 5.3.7.2 Virginity Testing 5.4 Conclusion 6 The Debate on the Integration of Traditional Medicine into the Mainstream Healthcare Delivery System in South Africa 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Debate for and against Traditional Medicine 6.3 Primary Healthcare and the Changing Pattern of Disease 6.4 Traditional Medicine and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic 6.5 Conclusion 7 “African Diseases” and the Epistemology of South African Healers’ Knowledge 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The African Concept of Health 7.3 The Process of Becoming a Healer 7.4 Typology of African Traditional Healers 7.4.1 Disease as Prelude to Divinership 7.5 Prospects for the Integration of Traditional Medicine into Official Healthcare 7.6 Enhancing Cooperation between Traditional Healers and Biomedicine 7.7 Conclusion 8 The Integration of Modern and Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni Location 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Respondents’ Opinions on Traditional Medicine 8.3 Opinions on Traditional Medicine 8.3.1 Case Study 1: Vuyo (Fictitious Name) 8.3.2 Case Study 2: Bate (Fictious Name) 8.3.3 Case Study 3: Monde (Fictious Name) 8.4 Perception of Nurses and Traditional Healers 8.5 Conclusion 9 The Daily Use of Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni Location 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The African Concept of Health 9.3 The Concept of Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni 9.4 The Use of Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni 9.5 Attitudes and Perceptions towards African Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni 9.6 Users of African Traditional Medicine 9.7 Recommendations 9.8 Conclusion Bibliography Index
£135.20
Brill Gendering the Trans-Pacific World
Book SynopsisGendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.Table of ContentsPart I: Gendering the Trans-Pacific 1. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 2. Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives, by Denise Cruz 3. The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World, by Karen J. Leong Part II: Geographies of Empire 4. Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898–1921, by Tessa Ong Winkelmann 5. A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel: The Sino-Japanese War and the Gendered Internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo, by Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves 6. Moving Within Empires: Korean Women and Trans-Pacific Migration, by Ji-Yeon Yuh 7. Re-franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific, by Rumi Yasutake 8. Currencies of U.S. Empire in Hawaiʻi’s Tourism and Prison Industries, by Liza Keānuenueokalani Williams Part III: Intimacies and Affect 9. The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje: Colonial Tropes of the Filipina/o, by Gladys Nubla 10. “Ashamed of Certain Japanese”: The Politics of Affect in Japanese Women’s Immigration Exclusion, 1919–1924, by Chrissy Yee Lau 11. Gendered Adoptee Identities: Performing Trans-Pacific Masculinity in the 21st Century, by Kimberly McKee 12. Up in the Air: Circuits of Transnational Asian and Asian American Mothering, by Miliann Kang Part IV: Beauty and the Body 13. Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests, by Genevieve Clutario 14. “Golden Lilies” across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws, by Fang He 15. Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific, by Laura C. Nelson 16. Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship: Human Trafficking in Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s From Busan to San Francisco and Mark Kalesniko’s Mail Order Bride, by Stella Oh Part V: Culture and Circulation 17. Performing between Two Empires: Colonial Modernity and the Racialized Politics of Filipino Masculinity in Okinawa and Japan, by Nobue Suzuki 18. A Careful Embrace: Race, Gender, and the Consumption of Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific in Mid-Century Los Angeles, by Shawn Schwaller 19. We Are Pacific Men, by Craig Santos Perez 20. Gendering the K-Vampire, by Hyungji Park 21. Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens: The Cinemas of Vietnam and the Diaspora, by Lan Duong
£48.00
Brill Decolonizing Arts-Based Methodologies: Researching the African Diaspora
Book SynopsisThe genealogy of racism dates back to 610 AD when Islamic jihadists invented whiteness as a religious justification for deracinating and enslaving African people out of East Africa and into Southeastern Europe for more than 1,300 years. Through a new interdisciplinary research methodology, Ancestorology, a taxonomy of Western cultural and visual productions of history are juxtaposed with the social stratifications of the African Diaspora to arrive at a new interpretation of the historical narrative. Decolonzing Arts-Based Methodologies: Researching the African Diaspora provokes critical analytical thought between the historical narrative and current public discourse in Western societies where people of African descent exist. The importance of this work begins the process of unlearning Western ways of knowing and seeing through hegemonic productions of knowledge and by assigning new values to humanity’s collective memory.Trade Review"Decolonizing Arts-Based Methodologies discusses the methodical, step by step process for anyone who has an interest of tracing their ancestry or anyone that is intrigued about the untold history of African descendants. Dr. Royster challenges the art of perception verses 'what is reality' while researching the African Diaspora. The transparent account of her events engages the reader as she embarks upon a journey that is filled with new theories, obstacles, despondencies, and untold truths. This work of art is not only thought provoking, but it provokes thought about self-perception and the perception of others through Genealogy, History, Cultural Anthropology and Visual Studies. Even though this literature is a resourceful tool for ancestry tracing, it also provides compelling evidence; backed with research and historical data that African Descendants contributions have been overtly excluded from American History. Dr. Royster teaches us that forward progression for African Americans means dispelling the incomplete picture that has been presented to the American culture, for hundreds of years; and suggests that we should relearn truths from our perspective, to create a complete picture of our African heritage." - Laurette W., student at the Southern New Hampshire UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures My Perspective 1 Silence in the Western Canon 2 Afrocentrism & Ancesterology 3 Traditional Historic Methods 4 Cultural Anthropology 5 Cultural Studies Methodologies 6 The Geography of Racial Bias 7 Epistemology of Knowledge References Index
£51.20
Brill Decolonizing Arts-Based Methodologies: Researching the African Diaspora
Book SynopsisThe genealogy of racism dates back to 610 AD when Islamic jihadists invented whiteness as a religious justification for deracinating and enslaving African people out of East Africa and into Southeastern Europe for more than 1,300 years. Through a new interdisciplinary research methodology, Ancestorology, a taxonomy of Western cultural and visual productions of history are juxtaposed with the social stratifications of the African Diaspora to arrive at a new interpretation of the historical narrative. Decolonzing Arts-Based Methodologies: Researching the African Diaspora provokes critical analytical thought between the historical narrative and current public discourse in Western societies where people of African descent exist. The importance of this work begins the process of unlearning Western ways of knowing and seeing through hegemonic productions of knowledge and by assigning new values to humanity’s collective memory.Trade Review"Decolonizing Arts-Based Methodologies discusses the methodical, step by step process for anyone who has an interest of tracing their ancestry or anyone that is intrigued about the untold history of African descendants. Dr. Royster challenges the art of perception verses 'what is reality' while researching the African Diaspora. The transparent account of her events engages the reader as she embarks upon a journey that is filled with new theories, obstacles, despondencies, and untold truths. This work of art is not only thought provoking, but it provokes thought about self-perception and the perception of others through Genealogy, History, Cultural Anthropology and Visual Studies. Even though this literature is a resourceful tool for ancestry tracing, it also provides compelling evidence; backed with research and historical data that African Descendants contributions have been overtly excluded from American History. Dr. Royster teaches us that forward progression for African Americans means dispelling the incomplete picture that has been presented to the American culture, for hundreds of years; and suggests that we should relearn truths from our perspective, to create a complete picture of our African heritage." - Laurette W., student at the Southern New Hampshire UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures My Perspective 1 Silence in the Western Canon 2 Afrocentrism & Ancesterology 3 Traditional Historic Methods 4 Cultural Anthropology 5 Cultural Studies Methodologies 6 The Geography of Racial Bias 7 Epistemology of Knowledge References Index
£101.60
Brill Youth, Space and Time: Agoras and Chronotopes in the Global City
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
£54.40
Brill Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation
Book SynopsisMaroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation sheds further light on the contemporary modes of Maroon circulation and presence in Suriname and in the French Guiana. The contributors assembled in the volume look to describe Maroon ways of inhabiting, transforming and circulating through different localities in the Guianas, as well as their modes of creating and incorporating knowledge and artefacts into their social relations and spaces. By bringing together authors with diverse perspectives on the situation of the Guianese Maroon at the twenty-first century, the volume contributes to the anthropological literature on Maroon societies, providing ethnographic, and historical depth and legitimacy to the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.
£62.40
Brill The Brigands' Song: Serving in the Army of A Native Chieftain: A Traditional Song Text from Guangxi in Southern China
Book SynopsisThis is an annotated edition of a traditional song text, written in the Zhuang character script. The Brigands’ Song is part of a living tradition, sung antiphonally by two male and two female singers. The song is probably unique in presenting the experiences of ordinary men and women during wartime in pre-modern China. The narrative relates how the men are sent off to war, fighting as native troops on behalf of the Chinese imperial armies. The song dates from the Ming dynasty and touches on many topics of historical significance, such as the use of firearms and other operational details.Trade Review"In this volume, David Holm and Meng Yuanyao present photos of the full text, two transcriptions, an English translation, extensive annotations on linguistic and historical matters, a musical score for the recitation, glossary, concordance, several indices, a long introduction on the background and significance of the text, and a bibliography with 250 entries. This extraordinarily thorough 850-page study is a major contribution to the historical linguistics of the Tai family of languages and an unique window onto the feudal system of Tai communities in southwestern China in the Ming era (...) This magnificent book is principally a contribution to the study of Tai linguistics and especially to the understanding of the Zhuang language. But the song itself is a beautiful and very affecting piece of work, wonderfully captured in the seemingly artless translation." Chris Baker, Journal of the Siam Society, 110/2 (2022).Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Conventions Introduction English Translation Interlinear Transcription Textual and Ethnographic Notes Appendix: Song Markets in Pingguo Plates: Photo-Reproduction of Manuscript Pages Bibliography Glossary and Concordance Chinese Character Index Index of Vernacular Characters and Allographs Index of Zhuang Characters and Other Symbols English-Zhuang Index Index of Scientific Names of Plants and Animals Subject Index
£148.00
Brill Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews: Collected Essays
Book SynopsisIn the collection entitled Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews Gabriella Gelardini gathers fifteen essays written in the last fifteen years, twelve of which are in English and three in German. Arranged in three parts (the world of, behind, and in front of Hebrews’s text), her articles deal with such topics as structure and intertext, sin and faith, atonement and cult, as well as space and resistance. She reads Hebrews no longer as the enigmatic and homeless outsider within the New Testament corpus, as the “Melchizedekian being without genealogy”; rather, she reads Hebrews as one whose origin has finally been rediscovered, namely in Second Temple Judaism.Trade Review“She [Gelardini] ably summarizes and engages with broader currents such as the linguistic turn or spatiality, with wider ancient contexts such as discussions of synagogue practice or Roman fides and brings these to bear in the detail of her exegetical or structural discussions of the text of Hebrews. While some details may not persuade […] her wider project of attending to the detail of what it means to locate Hebrews within Second Temple Judaism is both important and convincing. ” – Nicholas J. Moore, Durham University, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Hebrews Scholarship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 2 Hebrews Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century 3 Arrangement and Content of This Collection Part 1: The World of Hebrews’s Text 1 “As if by Paul?” Some Remarks on the Textual Strategy of Anonymity in Hebrews 1 Introduction—Hebrews: Pauline or not Pauline, or “Somehow” Connected to a Pauline Environment 2 Anonymity as a Literary Strategy 3 Habakkuk 2:4 in Hebrews and Paul 4 Jesus as Mercy Seat (ἱλαστήριον) in Heb 9:5 and in Rom 3:25? 5 Once for All (ἐφάπαξ) in Hebrews and Paul 6 Brief Conclusion 2 From “Linguistic Turn” and Hebrews Scholarship to Anadiplosis Iterata: The Enigma of a Structure 1 History of Ideas 2 Hebrews Scholarship in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 3 Structural Analysis: A New Proposal 3 Hebrews, Homiletics, and Liturgical Scripture Interpretation 1 The Ancient Synagogue and its Liturgy 2 The Ancient Synagogue Homily 3 The Two Readings Underlying Hebrews, or its Two Central Scriptural Quotations 4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily and its Remaining Scriptural Quotations 5 Hebrews in the Context of Ancient Synagogue Liturgy 4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av: Its Function, Its Basis, Its Theological Interpretation 1 Introduction 2 The Ancient Synagogue Homily in Its Liturgical Context 3 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av 4 Conclusion 5 Rhetorical Criticism in Hebrews Scholarship: Avenues and Aporias 1 A Brief History 2 Exemplary and Theoretical Analysis 3 Summary and Prospects Part 2: The World behind Hebrews’s Text 6 Frei von Blut und Fleisch, Sündenbewusstsein und Todesfurcht: Die Hoffnung auf einen vollkommenen Menschen im Hebräer 1 Einleitung 2 Der kosmische Horizont des Menschenbilds im Hebräer 3 Jesus Christus ist der Mensch—die “christologische” Anthropologie 4 Blut und Fleisch, Seele und Geist, Tod und Leben 5 Geheiligtes Menschsein muss noch im Glauben der Erprobung im Leiden standhalten 6 Versuch einer historischen Kontextualisierung 7 Schluss 7 Charting “Outside the Camp” with Edward W. Soja: Critical Spatiality and Hebrews 13 1 Introduction 2 Hebrews 13 in Scholarship: Riddles about a Key Space 3 Critical Spatiality: An Apt Methodology 4 The Text of Hebrews 13: Overlapping Maps 5 The Primary Intertext of Hebrews 13: Exodus 32–33 6 How the Primary Intertext, Exodus 32–33, Reinterprets Hebrews 13 Spatially 7 Conclusion and Outlook 8 Useless Foods: Communal Meals in Hebrews 1 Introduction 2 The Epistle to the Hebrews and Communal Meals 3 Context, Structure and Content 4 Research History and Central Intertext 5 How the Intertext Exod 32–34 Interprets Heb 13 6 Conclusion 9 Von Bundesbruch zu Bundeserneuerung: Das sühnende Opfer im Hebräer 1 Das Opfer im Neuen Testament und im Hebräer 2 Der kultisch-liturgische Kontext des Hebräers 3 Der theologische Kontext des Hebräers 4 Die kultischen Inhalte des Hebräers 5 Der sühnende Opferkult des Jom Kippur 6 Der sühnende Opferkult im Hebräer 7 Der historische Kontext des Hebräers 10 The Inauguration of Yom Kippur according to the LXX and Its Cessation or Perpetuation according to Hebrews: A Systematic Comparison 1 Introduction 2 Hebrews Scholarship 3 Systematic Comparison of Cultic Elements 4 Conclusion Part 3: The World in Front of Hebrews’s Text 11 Faith in Hebrews and Its Relationship to Soteriology: An Interpretation in the Context of the Concept of Fides in Roman Culture 1 Fides quaerens intellectum? 2 Bicultural Interaction, Not Syncretism 3 Fides and πίστις 4 The Cloud of Witnesses 12 Existence beyond Borders: Hebrews and Critical Spatiality 1 The Turn to Critical Spatiality 2 Mapping the Ancient World with Hebrews 3 “Outside the Camp”: A “Counter Space” in Hebrews 13 13 “Wir haben hier keine bleibende Stadt” (Hebr 13,14): Kritische Raum- und Machtdiskurse im Hebräer 1 Die Wende zur Raumsoziologie (“Critical Spatiality”) 2 Eine Landkarte der Alten Welt: Nach dem Neuen Testament und dem Hebräerbrief 3 “Ausserhalb des Lagers”—Ein “Gegenort” in Hebräer 13 14 The Unshakeable Kingdom in Heaven: Notes on Eschatology in Hebrews 1 Introduction—Eschatology and Apocalypticism 2 Hellenistic and Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews 3 The Unshakeable Kingdom of Heaven 15 Ethics in Hebrews 1 Introduction 2 Descriptions of Hebrews’s Ethics 3 Ethical-Hermeneutical Evaluations of Hebrews 4 Conclusion Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects
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Brill Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them: New Insights from the Application of Sidney H. Gould’s Analytic System
Book SynopsisThis essay presents Gould’s distinctive system for analyzing kin terminologies showing the system’s power, importance, and usefulness—and showing its relationship to other approaches and the payoffs each aims at. In revealing significant new empirical regularities and simplifications, Gould’s analytic system implies important constraints on future analytic and interpretative approaches to kin terminologies. Some of these new insights involve the demonstration of the effect of distributed collective cognitive systems over and above the effects of repeated iterations of individual cognitive constraints or pressures. It is the peculiar nature of the kinterm domain that allows these findings to be so directly shown, but the implication is that these findings apply more generally to the collective cognitive systems that make up language and culture.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abstract Keywords Introduction Part 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens Part 2 Notational Schemes Part 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations Part 4 Gould’s Kingraphs Part 5 Analysis Part 6 System Types Part 7 The Fanti Case Part 8 Overview Conclusion References Cited Index
£44.84
Brill Monty Howell. Milestones of Life among Rastafari
Book SynopsisThis book conveys a unique, unrivaled, and moving insight into the life of Monty Howell, the little-know eldest son of Leonard Howell, regarded as the Father of Rastafari. Opening several files, over the pages, the man is revealed behind the son. Being both an actor and storyteller of History, Monty Howell blends anecdotes, reflections, and revelations, avoiding no subject, even the most delicate and scorching. With confidence, he takes you through his childhood memories, his conflicts with Jamaica, and his reconciliations on behalf of his father’s legacy. With bold, mature, incisive, and provocative assertions, he even reframed the Rasta experiences and the development of Rastafari, altering the terms of the knowledge and the subsequent discourse.Table of ContentsForeword: Rastafari and the Howell Legacy Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction section 1 Genealogy of Intimacies 1 Setting the Scene 2 Once Beaten, Twice Shy 3 My Father, My Old Man section 2 Values and Rastafari 4 Broaden My Horizons 5 Seeking Out Opportunities 87 6 Rekindling Leonard Percival Howell Legacy 7 Inwardness Conclusion Epilogue Appendix 1 Historical Context 2 Important Dates 3 Illustrations References Index
£124.80
Brill Spain’s African Colonial Legacies: Morocco and Equatorial Guinea Compared
Book SynopsisThe African cities of Bata and Al-Hoceima were created during the Spanish colonial rule of Equatorial Guinea and Morocco. This book constructs their local history to analyse how Spanish colonialism worked, what its legacies were and the imprints it left on their national histories. The work explains the revision of collective memories of the past in the present as a form of decolonisation that seeks to build different foundations for the future in a transnational and glocal framework. The result is an exciting puzzle of individual and collective memories in which Africans contest their colonial cultural heritage and shape their identities at a global level.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cities at the decolonial margins 1. Al-Hoceima and Bata: Local histories, glocal impacts 2. Colonial imprints in African city formation 3. Cities after colonial independence: The search for collective affirmation and decolonial contestation 4. Conclusions: African cities asserting themselves in a global world 5. Primary and secondary sources consulted List of tables List of photographs Index
£137.60
Brill River-Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China
Book SynopsisAnyone who cares about the environment cannot ignore the overmining of river-sand. This book explores how river sand in Zhuang villages in China has been overexploited with disastrous environmental (or social and environmental) consequences, despite official state ownership of the sand, national and local laws regulating mining, and peasant resistance.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on the Text 1 Introduction 1.1 A Brief History of River-Sand Mining: A National Perspective 1.2 The Current Demand for River Sand in China 1.3 The Political Ecology of River-Sand Mining 1.4 The Concept of Indigeneity in China 1.5 The Zhuang and Their Indigenous Ecological Knowledge 1.6 The Objective, Research Questions, and Structure of the Book 2 The Research Setting and Conducting Research “at Home” 2.1 The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Human–Environment Relations in Historical Perspective 2.2 Qinzhou City, Zhuang Towns, the River, and the Villages 2.2.1 Huangwutun Town 2.2.2 Xintang Town 2.2.3 Six Villages along the Maoling River 2.2.3.1 Mei Village: An Example of Agricultural Crisis and Its Impact on Outmigration 2.2.3.2 Migrant Workers Who Settle in Urban Areas 2.3 Starting Research in Mei Village: Topic Determination during Fieldwork 2.4 Methods 2.4.1 Choosing the Key Informants 2.5 Multiple Positions: Conducting Research “at Home” and Beyond 3 The Commodity Chain of River Sand and the Ecological Consequences of River-Sand Mining 3.1 The Commodification of River Sand 3.1.1 The Increase in River Sand Prices and the Use of New Technology 3.2 The Sand Rush along the Maoling River 3.2.1 Illegal Sand Miners on the Upper Reaches of the Maoling River 3.2.2 Illegal Sand Miners on the Lower Maoling River 3.2.2.1 Case Study 1: The Family-Owned Sand Company 3.2.2.2 Case Study 2: Changing Status from Worker to Owner 3.2.3 The Outsiders and the Insiders: The Boom in Illegal Sand Mining 3.2.3.1 Case Study of a Female Miner: No Worry about the Customers 3.2.3.2 Case Study of a Local Miner Restarting His Business: Performing a Rite before Mining 3.3 The Role of Sand Wholesalers and the Sand Market in the Commodity Chain 3.3.1 A Sand Wholesaler in Qinzhou City 3.3.2 The Sand Market in Nanning City 3.3.3 Truck and Ship Owners 3.4 The Ecological Consequences of Sand Commodification 3.4.1 Loss of Fish Species 3.4.2 Water Pollution 3.4.3 Destruction of Riverbanks and Adjacent Farmlands 3.4.4 Loss of Life 3.4.5 Damage to Infrastructure: Roads and Bridges 3.5 Conclusion 4 Government Policies and the Commodification of River Sand 4.1 Project-based Development and Its Role in the Marketization of Sand 4.2 Urbanization in Formerly Rural Areas 4.2.1 The Incorporation of Rural Areas into Large Cities 4.2.2 Rapidly Expanding Towns 4.2.3 Rebuilding the Administrative Committee’s Offices 4.2.4 Private House Construction in Rural Areas 4.3 Infrastructural Projects in Rural Areas 4.3.1 Water Conservation 4.3.2 Two Case Studies of the “One Project, One Discussion System” 4.3.2.1 Case Study 1: A 390-meter Cement Road Project in Mei Village in 2012 4.3.2.2 Case Study 2: A 220-meter Cement Road Project in Mei Village in 2015 4.4 The Counterproductive Aspects of the Project System in Villages 4.5 Conclusion 5 State Ownership and the Governmental Management of River Sand 5.1 Laws Governing River-Sand Mining and the State Ownership of River Sand 5.2 Horizontal Politics in the Governance of River-Sand Mining 5.3 Vertical Politics in the Governance of River-Sand Mining 5.4 Sand-Management Policies at the Provincial Level: Power Decentralization and Autonomy 5.5 River-Sand Auctions at the Prefectural Level: Sand-Mining Licensing in Practice 5.5.1 The Deceptive Success of Auctions of Sand-Mining Licenses 5.5.2 The Effects of Corruption and Mismanagement on the Sand-Mining License System 5.6 The (Non-)Governance of River Sand at the Township Level: A Lack of Authority 5.7 Discussion and Conclusion 6 Zhuang Villages’ Perspectives on Property Rights “This is Our Sand” 6.1 The Emergence of Sand “Thieves” and Ownership Problems 6.2 The “Blame Game” and the Complexity of Rights on the Commons 6.3 Selling Sand on the Instructions of Government Officials 6.4 Selling Sand to Defend a Village’s Right to Common Resources 6.5 An Illegal Sand Agreement and Its Implications 6.6 Discussion and Conclusion 7 The Sociocultural Consequences of Illegal Sand Mining and Local Resistance 7.1 Consequences for Agricultural Livelihoods 7.2 Social Conflicts and Local Resistance against Sand Mining 7.2.1 Resistance through Throwing Stones 7.2.2 Resistance through Appealing to Formal Government Channels 7.2.3 Resistance through Petitioning 7.2.4 Resistance through Social Media 7.3 Sand Exploitation and Its Impact on Indigenous Belief Systems 7.3.1 Case One: The Supernatural Punishment of Violators 7.3.2 Case Two: The Infestation of Gods’ Trees by Insects 7.3.3 Case Three: The Death of Some Elders 7.4 Discussion and Conclusion 8 Conclusion References Index
£132.80
Brill Writing Ethnography (Second Edition)
Book SynopsisEthnographers spend a tremendous amount of time in the field, collecting all sorts of empirical material—but how do they turn their work into books or articles that people actually want to read? This concise, engaging guide will help academic writers at all levels to write better. Many ethnography textbooks focus more on the ‘ethno’ portion of our craft, and less on developing our ‘graph’ skills. Gullion fills that gap, helping ethnographers write compelling, authentic stories about their fieldwork. From putting the first few words on the page, to developing a plot line, to publishing, Writing Ethnography offers guidance for all stages of the writing process.Trade Review"Jessica Smartt Gullion writes with conversational, reader-friendly prose about the craft and art of scholarly storytelling. She expertly demonstrates how to follow the essential rules of academic writing and how and when to break them. Dr. Gullion titles her work with 'ethnography,' but the pragmatic guidance in this book also applies to other genres of qualitative inquiry such as phenomenology, case study, grounded theory, and autoethnography. This is an essential resource for novice and veteran researchers to enhance their written documentation of fieldwork, and an ideal textbook for courses and workshops in scholarly composition." – Johnny Saldaña, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, author of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (now in its fourth edition) and co-author of Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (second edition) "Ethnographic fields are contested territories and terrains because even as we ethnographers work and live in our fields, we carry them with us wherever we go—in our notes, memories, dreams, reveries, and bodies. We shuttle between here and there and here. We try to translate between the ethnographic moments when and where we saw, heard, felt and the ethnographic presents, when and where we are seeing, hearing, and feeling, presently. Many things are lost, but much newness is found in these temporal and geographical crossings. Ethnographic writing is nothing if not an unruly dance, an orchestral attempt to write in-between these crossings, an attempt to untangle, in text or performance, what was experienced, what is remembered, and what is to be written, in the ‘now.’ It is a kind of writing that is always answering what I believe are two questions that ethnographers like Jessica Smartt Gullion are committed to—how to tell this story? And how to tell it well? In Writing Ethnography, Gullion takes on the daunting task of how such a dance can be led and be led with care and rigor. I highly recommend this book to any student and practitioner of the ethnographic method. It is much needed and essential." – Devika Chawla, Professor of Communication Studies, Ohio University and editor-in-chief of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research "Writing Ethnography is engaging and accessible, yet still grounded in solid scholarship—the essence of good public scholarship. Gullion makes the mysterious process of writing a lot less mysterious, and actually quite straightforward. She does this, in part, by sharing her own relationship with writing, including the banes of every writer—panic, writer’s block, and the academic’s desire to sound smart which often obscures the whole point of sharing the research. She also fills the book with concrete examples, suggested approaches, and practical advice. The new edition includes an expanded and extremely useful section on editing (the most disregarded phase of writing). A particular strength of the book is that Gullion speaks to the reader directly, creating a connection that functions much like a trusted friend. Her generous spirit spills off the page. She includes writing prompts that help the reader to make concrete connections to the points she is making. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Gullion emphasizes that all research, especially ethnography, is basically about telling stories that matter. After all, as Thomas King reminds us, the truth about stories is that’s all we are." – Rosemary C. Reilly, PhD, Full Professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal "Jessica Smartt Gullion’s Writing Ethnography is a valuable resource not only in my dance ethnography classes, but also in my work with MA and PhD students at the thesis and dissertation writing stage. The book provides pithy guidance for graduate students and emerging scholars for transforming their data into prose that transports readers into the field sites, bringing research participants to life on the page. Writing Ethnography is a beautiful and accessible primer on how to ‘show, don’t tell,’ and produce polished, publishable work." – Rosemary Candelario, PhD, Associate Professor of Dance, Texas Woman’s University and co-editor of the forthcoming book Dance ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures About the Author Introduction 1 Changes from the First Edition 1 On Ethnography 1 A (Very) Brief History of Ethnography 2 Why Ethnography? 3 Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Writing 4 Fieldnotes 2 On Storytelling 1 Types of Tales 2 Creative Nonfijiction in Ethnography 3 What Makes a Story Great? 4 Story Arcs 5 Vignettes 6 Evocative Storytelling 7 Vulnerability in Writing 8 Reflexivity and Difffraction 3 On Technical Considerations 1 Writing Rituals 2 Academic Fanfijiction 3 The Art of the Sentence 4 First, Second, or Third Person 5 Active/Passive 6 The Trouble with Adverbs 7 Audience 8 Show, Don’t Tell 9 Voice 10 Writing the Voices of Our Participants 11 Characters 12 Conversations 13 Metaphorically Speaking 14 Integrating the Literature 4 On Refinement 1 Editing 2 On Sounding Smart 3 What to Call This Thing? 5 On Writing as Process 1 Getting Started 2 Writing as Process 3 Writing as Inquiry 4 Doing the Unstuck 5 The Panic Attack 6 Framing and Publishing 7 Revise and Resubmit 8 Writing to Connect, Writing for Social Change Appendix: Writing Prompts References Index
£30.54
Brill Writing Ethnography (Second Edition)
Book SynopsisEthnographers spend a tremendous amount of time in the field, collecting all sorts of empirical material—but how do they turn their work into books or articles that people actually want to read? This concise, engaging guide will help academic writers at all levels to write better. Many ethnography textbooks focus more on the ‘ethno’ portion of our craft, and less on developing our ‘graph’ skills. Gullion fills that gap, helping ethnographers write compelling, authentic stories about their fieldwork. From putting the first few words on the page, to developing a plot line, to publishing, Writing Ethnography offers guidance for all stages of the writing process.Trade Review"Jessica Smartt Gullion writes with conversational, reader-friendly prose about the craft and art of scholarly storytelling. She expertly demonstrates how to follow the essential rules of academic writing and how and when to break them. Dr. Gullion titles her work with 'ethnography,' but the pragmatic guidance in this book also applies to other genres of qualitative inquiry such as phenomenology, case study, grounded theory, and autoethnography. This is an essential resource for novice and veteran researchers to enhance their written documentation of fieldwork, and an ideal textbook for courses and workshops in scholarly composition." – Johnny Saldaña, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, author of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (now in its fourth edition) and co-author of Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (second edition) "Ethnographic fields are contested territories and terrains because even as we ethnographers work and live in our fields, we carry them with us wherever we go—in our notes, memories, dreams, reveries, and bodies. We shuttle between here and there and here. We try to translate between the ethnographic moments when and where we saw, heard, felt and the ethnographic presents, when and where we are seeing, hearing, and feeling, presently. Many things are lost, but much newness is found in these temporal and geographical crossings. Ethnographic writing is nothing if not an unruly dance, an orchestral attempt to write in-between these crossings, an attempt to untangle, in text or performance, what was experienced, what is remembered, and what is to be written, in the ‘now.’ It is a kind of writing that is always answering what I believe are two questions that ethnographers like Jessica Smartt Gullion are committed to—how to tell this story? And how to tell it well? In Writing Ethnography, Gullion takes on the daunting task of how such a dance can be led and be led with care and rigor. I highly recommend this book to any student and practitioner of the ethnographic method. It is much needed and essential." – Devika Chawla, Professor of Communication Studies, Ohio University and editor-in-chief of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research "Writing Ethnography is engaging and accessible, yet still grounded in solid scholarship—the essence of good public scholarship. Gullion makes the mysterious process of writing a lot less mysterious, and actually quite straightforward. She does this, in part, by sharing her own relationship with writing, including the banes of every writer—panic, writer’s block, and the academic’s desire to sound smart which often obscures the whole point of sharing the research. She also fills the book with concrete examples, suggested approaches, and practical advice. The new edition includes an expanded and extremely useful section on editing (the most disregarded phase of writing). A particular strength of the book is that Gullion speaks to the reader directly, creating a connection that functions much like a trusted friend. Her generous spirit spills off the page. She includes writing prompts that help the reader to make concrete connections to the points she is making. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Gullion emphasizes that all research, especially ethnography, is basically about telling stories that matter. After all, as Thomas King reminds us, the truth about stories is that’s all we are." – Rosemary C. Reilly, PhD, Full Professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal "Jessica Smartt Gullion’s Writing Ethnography is a valuable resource not only in my dance ethnography classes, but also in my work with MA and PhD students at the thesis and dissertation writing stage. The book provides pithy guidance for graduate students and emerging scholars for transforming their data into prose that transports readers into the field sites, bringing research participants to life on the page. Writing Ethnography is a beautiful and accessible primer on how to ‘show, don’t tell,’ and produce polished, publishable work." – Rosemary Candelario, PhD, Associate Professor of Dance, Texas Woman’s University and co-editor of the forthcoming book Dance ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures About the Author Introduction 1 Changes from the First Edition 1 On Ethnography 1 A (Very) Brief History of Ethnography 2 Why Ethnography? 3 Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Writing 4 Fieldnotes 2 On Storytelling 1 Types of Tales 2 Creative Nonfijiction in Ethnography 3 What Makes a Story Great? 4 Story Arcs 5 Vignettes 6 Evocative Storytelling 7 Vulnerability in Writing 8 Reflexivity and Difffraction 3 On Technical Considerations 1 Writing Rituals 2 Academic Fanfijiction 3 The Art of the Sentence 4 First, Second, or Third Person 5 Active/Passive 6 The Trouble with Adverbs 7 Audience 8 Show, Don’t Tell 9 Voice 10 Writing the Voices of Our Participants 11 Characters 12 Conversations 13 Metaphorically Speaking 14 Integrating the Literature 4 On Refinement 1 Editing 2 On Sounding Smart 3 What to Call This Thing? 5 On Writing as Process 1 Getting Started 2 Writing as Process 3 Writing as Inquiry 4 Doing the Unstuck 5 The Panic Attack 6 Framing and Publishing 7 Revise and Resubmit 8 Writing to Connect, Writing for Social Change Appendix: Writing Prompts References Index
£80.00
Brill Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. Drawing inspiration from case studies spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Caledonia, the volume rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities, through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself. How might conceptualisations of contemporary coastal urbanisms be approached from the sea, in ways that complicate singularly terrestrial, fixed framings of the city? What connections, contradictions, and dissonances can be found between sea change and urban change? While addressing these questions, the authors re-centre more marginal voices of those who dwell and work in islanded metropoles, offering new insights on the futures and contested nature(s) of littoral urban transformation.Trade Review"Breaking down the lines that falsely separate land and sea, city and shore, wet and dry, this carefully collated, beautifully curated text provides critical scholars researching coasts, islands, seas and cities a deep reflection of the intersections, relations and entanglements of these spaces: how the urban and the ocean coalesce, crash, creep, collide and create worlds anew – on and offshore and the spaces between. A must-read text at a moment of climate crisis, rising seas, ecological decline and human response – this volume offers profoundly necessary empirical and theoretical contributions to understanding complex social ecologies in the context of postcolonial histories. It presents a myriad of perspectives often marginalised by mainstream western scholarship, for better grasping, understanding, resisting and struggling against environmental changes in the littoral zones where land and sea meet, mix and meld in urbanities. It also offers empirical specificity to Southeast Asia but is absolutely not a book only for scholars interested in this world region. It is a reminder of the importance of this part of the world, its global reverberations and echoes, and its situated significance. The book cuts across disciplinary lines and perspectives, career stages, institutional geographies, and brings in voices from beyond the conventional academy." – Kimberley Peters, Marine Governance, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Germany "Science, technology, and society (STS) work carried out in archipelagic countries should focus more on theorizing littoral spaces. This book is a rare and much needed attempt at theorizing life that is both oceanic and terrestrial, the life that dominates and characterizes human and more-than-human assemblages in archipelagic countries. Maritime STS work in Southeast Asia and elsewhere would, therefore, benefit from this book when it needs to examine the limits and porosity of the maritime world, and the material traffics between the ocean and the hinterland." – Fadjar I. Thufail, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia "This volume charts a significant and vital contribution to the understanding of contemporary urban lifeworlds by the sea. Assembling original scholarship on coastal cities in Southeast Asia, it allows to rethink urbanity through the lens of the coastal." – Lukas Ley, University of Heidelberg, Germany
£100.80
Brill Hakka Women in Tulou Villages: Social and Cultural Constructs of Hakka Identity in Modern and Contemporary Fujian, China
Book SynopsisSabrina Ardizzoni’s book is an in-depth analysis of Hakka women in tulou villages in Southeast China. Based on fieldwork, data acquired through local documents, diverse material and symbolic culture elements, this study adopts an original approach that includes historical-textual investigation and socio-anthropological enquiry. Having interviewed local Hakka women and participated in rural village events, public and private, in west Fujian’s Hakka tulou area, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the historical threads and cultural processes that lead to the construction of the ideal Hakka woman, as well as an insightful analysis of the multifaceted Hakka society in which rural women reinvent their social subjectivity and negotiate their position between traditional constructs and modern dynamics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Acronyms Introduction The Theoretical Framework in the Research Rural/Urban Dialectics in Twentieth-Century China The Han/Non-Han Dichotomy and the Nation-Building Process in Modern China The Hakka Ethnicity/Cultural Issue Existing Relevant Studies The Yongding Area, the Tulou Issue, and Modern Approaches Contemporary Studies on Hakka Women in Rural Villages in Fujian The Legacy of Gender Studies on Rural Chinese Women Methodology The Villages The Informants The Present Book 1 Into the Minxi Countryside 1.1 From Collectivization to the Individual 1.2 Demographic Changes: The Gender Perspective 1.3 Out of the Countryside 1.4 School and Girls’ Education 1.5 Female Employment 1.6 New Jobs 1.7 New Ethics: The “Wise Wife and Good Mother” in Contemporary Terms 1.8 Conclusions 2 Hakka Culture 2.1 The Hakkas: A Definition 2.1.1 Migration: Historical Narrations and Social Group Construction 2.1.2 The “Hakka Spirit” 2.2 Hakka Family Culture 2.2.1 Confucian Values in the Traditional Hakka Family 2.2.2 Family as an Agent for Education 2.2.3 Hakka jiapus and zupus 2.3 Conclusions 3 The Tulou as a Material Body and a Theoretical Body 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Functions of the Hakka Minxi tulou 3.2.1 Defensive Function: The Fortress 3.2.2 Ecology: Harmony with the Environment 3.2.3 Ethics: Perpetuating Family Cohesion 3.3 Fengshui 3.4 Myths and Legends 3.5 A Tulou’s Walls Embody Hakka Lineage Culture 3.6 Conclusions 4 Contemporary Ritual Practices in Fujianese Hakka Villages 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Ancestor Worship 4.3 Popular Rituals and Beliefs 4.4 Female Deities 4.4.1 Mazu: An Independent Female Deity 4.4.2 Guanyin: a Powerful Protector 4.4.3 Potai: The Woman Ancestor 4.5 A Private Ritual: The Manyue Ceremony 4.5.1 The First Manyue 4.5.2 The Second Manyue 4.6 Conclusions 5 “Woman” as an Ethical Model in Confucian Traditions 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Zhongnan qingnü Culture and the Tradition of Rites 5.3 The Nüjie Tradition 5.4 Must-Reads for Women: Nüzi mengxue 5.5 Conclusions 6 Women in Hakka Tradition 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The “Strong Woman” Narrative 6.3 The “Virtuous Woman” Narrative 6.4 Traditional Marriage 6.5 Folk Wisdom and Wen Education: A “Snowball” Effect 6.5.1 “Zengguang xianwen” (The Expanded Writings of Wisdom) 6.5.2 An Artistic Vehicle for Expressing Emotion: Shan ge 6.5.3 The Ballad of the Hakka Woman 6.6 Gender Inequality from a Historical Perspective 6.6.1 Hakka Women in the Taiping Rebellion 6.7 Conclusions 7 The Twentieth Century: From the Tulou to the Modern World 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Central Soviet and the Political Shift 7.3 A Matter of Education 7.4 Heroines in Revolutionary Times 7.5 Conclusions 8 The Image of the Hakka Woman 8.1 Representations of Hakka Women in Contemporary Minxi 8.1.1 Yongding Fulian 8.1.2 Homepage 8.2 A Twenty-First Century Model of a Twentieth-Century Hakka Woman: Jiang Yue’e 8.3 Global Inspirational Models 8.4 Conclusions 9 Conclusions References Appendix: Chinese Place Names Index
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Brill Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa
Book SynopsisIn Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government’s initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy-seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine, thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ‘‘subaltern health narratives’’ in designing health policy.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Local Words and Expressions 1 Prelude: the Globalization of Traditional Knowledge Systems 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Definition of Concepts 1.3 The International Context of TCAM Practices 1.4 Different but Complimentary? 1.5 Lay Out of Work 2 Subject Matter, Method and Theoretical Framework 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Choice of Study Area 2.3 Methodological and Theoretical Framework 2.4 Data Analysis 2.5 Ethical Considerations and Reflexivity 2.6 Theoretical Framework 2.7 Conclusion 3 Traditional Medicine, Colonialism and Apartheid in South Africa 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Biomedical Capitalism 3.3 Colonialism, Biomedical Hegemony and Alternative Healthcare 3.4 The Pre-Colonial Era 3.5 The Colonial Era 3.6 The Post-Colonial Era 3.7 Conclusion 4 Democracy, Witchcraft and Traditional Medicine 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The HIV/AIDS Policy Context, Traditional Medicine and Democracy 4.3 The Lingering Socioeconomic Inequalities of the Apartheid Era 4.4 The “Return to Tradition” Policy 4.5 Shortages of Human Resources for Health 4.6 The Adoption of Democracy and the Promotion of Cultural Rights 4.7 Traditional Medicine as Cure and a Curse for HIV/AIDS 4.8 The Preference for Traditional Healers 4.9 Biomedical Hegemony? 4.10 Conclusion 5 The Sociocultural Context of HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape Region 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Eastern Cape Region and the Legacy of Apartheid Era Policies 5.3 The Sociocultural Context of HIV/AIDS 5.3.1 Labour-related Migration 5.3.2 Gender Identity and Unprotected Sex 5.3.3 Multiple Partnering and Intergenerational Relationships 5.3.4 Gender Inequality and Gender-based Violence 5.3.5 Teenage Pregnancies 5.3.6 Substance Abuse 5.3.7 Cultural Factors: Initiation Rituals 5.3.7.1 Ukuthwala 5.3.7.2 Virginity Testing 5.4 Conclusion 6 The Debate on the Integration of Traditional Medicine into the Mainstream Healthcare Delivery System in South Africa 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Debate for and against Traditional Medicine 6.3 Primary Healthcare and the Changing Pattern of Disease 6.4 Traditional Medicine and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic 6.5 Conclusion 7 “African Diseases” and the Epistemology of South African Healers’ Knowledge 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The African Concept of Health 7.3 The Process of Becoming a Healer 7.4 Typology of African Traditional Healers 7.4.1 Disease as Prelude to Divinership 7.5 Prospects for the Integration of Traditional Medicine into Official Healthcare 7.6 Enhancing Cooperation between Traditional Healers and Biomedicine 7.7 Conclusion 8 The Integration of Modern and Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni Location 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Respondents’ Opinions on Traditional Medicine 8.3 Opinions on Traditional Medicine 8.3.1 Case Study 1: Vuyo (Fictitious Name) 8.3.2 Case Study 2: Bate (Fictious Name) 8.3.3 Case Study 3: Monde (Fictious Name) 8.4 Perception of Nurses and Traditional Healers 8.5 Conclusion 9 The Daily Use of Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni Location 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The African Concept of Health 9.3 The Concept of Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni 9.4 The Use of Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni 9.5 Attitudes and Perceptions towards African Traditional Medicine in Qokolweni 9.6 Users of African Traditional Medicine 9.7 Recommendations 9.8 Conclusion Bibliography Index
£60.00
Brill The Portuguese Jews of Hamburg: The History of a
Book SynopsisThe political and economic rise of this small but influential community of New Christian bankers and merchants is analysed against the backdrop of its institutional dynamics, in an overall perspective never before conceived. The political, religious, economic, legal, charitable and disciplinary history of the community is thus explored through the analysis of the richly detailed protocol books, written between 1652 and 1682. This is the intimate and fascinating journey of their everyday lives, hopes and challenges, as brought to us by their leaders.Table of ContentsPreface Note on Terminology List of Illustrations Glossary of Terms Introduction Aim and Organisation of the Work State of the Art Sources 1 Historical Context 1 The Western Sephardic Diaspora 2 History of the Portuguese Settlement in Hamburg (16th and 17th Century) 2 The Kahal and its Organization 1 Communal Leadership 2 Congregational Dissolution and Political Centralization (1652–1682) – The Particular Path of the Portuguese Community of Hamburg 3 Financial Administration 4 Salaried Officials 5 Instituições religiosas e educativas 6 Communal Justice 7 Social Assistance and Charitable Institutions 3 Orthodoxy and Morality 1 Social Discipline 2 Women and Communal Discicpline 3 Domestic Sphere and Family Life 4 Transgressions and Offenses Punished by the Nation’s Statutes Conclusion Annexes: Criteria for the Transcription of Manuscript Documents 1 Congregational Unification of 1652 (Talmud Torah, Keter Torah, Neve Shalom and Magen David) 2 Founding Statutes of the General Congregation Bet Israel 3 Founding Statutes of the Elementary School Talmud Torah 4 Privileges and Obligations of the Brotherhood Guemillut Hassadim 5 Foundation of the Private Brotherhood Ets Haim and its Consequent Incorporation into the General Congregation 6 Finta geral of 1656 7 Finta geral of 1658 8 Direito da Nação of 1652 9 Passages in the Protocol Book in Reference to Sabbatai Zevi 10 Commotion in the Synagogue and Schism of the Lima family / Conditions of their Re-entry into the General Congregation Bibliographic References Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index of People
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Brill Cultural Semantics in the Lexicon of Modern
Book SynopsisWhat is cultural semantics? How to define and analyze it in the lexicon of modern Chinese? This book outlines the development and research results of cultural semantic theory, and then proposes the distinction between two types of cultural semantics at the synchronic level: conceptual gap items and items with a cultural meaning. It provides criteria for identifying these items by using detailed examples from theory and application. Finally, the two types of cultural semantics are applied to the case of modern Chinese. The criteria proposed for determining the Chinese cultural semantics apply not only to this, but also to other languages. Therefore, this book offers an operational basis for further studies of cultural semantics in academia.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures Overview 1 Introduction 1.1 Why This Topic? 1.2 Literature Review 1.3 Research Questions 1.4 Disciplinary Significance 1.5 Research Methodology 1.6 Summary of Chapters 2 The Relationship between Semantics and Culture in One Language 2.1 Culture and Its Classifications 2.2 The Relationship between Language and Culture 2.3 The Relationship between Lexicon and Culture 2.4 Conclusion 3 Determining Conceptual Gap Items in a Language Lexicon 3.1 Introduction 3.2 “Cultural Words” – Too Many Uncertain Meanings 3.3 The Phenomenon of Conceptual Gaps 3.4 Conclusion 4 Determining Items with Cultural Meaning in a Language Lexicon 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Study 4.3 Criteria for Determining Items with Cultural Meaning 4.4 Conclusion 5 Cultural Semantics Analysis Methods 5.1 The Cultural Sememe Analysis Method 5.2 The Cultural Seme Analysis Method 5.3 The Process of Cultural Semantic Analysis 5.4 Conclusion 6 Application 1 – a List of Conceptual Gap Items 6.1 Theoretical Background 6.2 The Nature and Function of Conceptual Gap Item Lists 6.3 The Relationship between Generic Items and Conceptual Gap Items 6.4 The Relationship between Generic Item Lists and Conceptual Gap Item Lists 6.5 Manual Intervention and Inclusion Criteria Issues of Conceptual Gap Items 6.6 The Process of Word List Development 6.7 Sample List of Conceptual Gap Items – Grammatical Classification 6.8 Sample List of Conceptual Gap Items: Cultural System 6.9 Sample List of Conceptual Gap Items: Core Conceptual Gap Items 6.10 Conclusion 7 Application 2 – Interpretative Analysis of Cultural Semantics in CFL Dictionaries 7.1 Background 7.2 Current Problems of Chinese Cultural Semantics Interpretation in CFL Dictionaries 7.3 Suggestions for Improving Annotation of Cultural Semantics in CFL Dictionaries 7.4 Conclusion Conclusion Primary Sources References Index
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Brill The Lives of Extraction: Identities, Communities and the Politics of Place
Book SynopsisThe frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the first of these two volumes, 16 authors offer a critical and nuanced understanding of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. The experiences of communities, indigenous peoples and workers in extractive contexts are deeply shaped by narratives, imaginaries and the complexity of social contexts. These dimensions are crucial to making extraction possible and to sustaining its expansion, but also to identifying possibilities for resistance, and to paving the way for alternative, post-extractive economies. This volume is accompanied by IDP 16, The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Global Lives of Extraction Filipe Calvão, Matthew Archer and Asanda Benya Part 1 Community, Labout and Social Life 2 Migrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining Belt Melusi Nkomo 3 Chromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985–2021 Joseph Mujere 4 ‘Le fléau de la soude caustique’: Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Women’s Promotion Groups Luisa Lupo 5 Time for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements Liz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenzie Part 2 Scales of Space and Time 6 Struggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso Diana Ayeh 7 The Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in China’s Borderlands, Then and Now Eveline Bingaman 8 Spaces of Extraction in Europe: the Corporate–State–Mining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania Konstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos 9 Muddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela Jesse Jonkman and Eva van Roekel Part 3 Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses 10 Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes Anneloes Hoff 11 (Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity Julia C. Morris 12 Anti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East Sardana Nikolaeva Index
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Brill The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures
Book SynopsisThe frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the second of the two volumes, the 22 authors, using different conceptual approaches and in different empirical contexts, demonstrate the alarming obduracy of the logic of extractivism, even - and perhaps especially - in the growing support for the so-called green transition. The authors highlight the complex and enduring legacies of resource extraction and the urgent need to move beyond extractive models of development towards alternative pathways that prioritise social justice, environmental sustainability, democratic governance and the well-being of both humans and non-humans. They also caution us against the assumption that anti-extraction is anti-extractivist, that post-extraction is post-extractivism, and they critically attune us to the systemic nature of extractivism in ways that both connect and transcend any particular site or scale. This volume accompanies IDP 15, The Lives of Extraction: Identities, Communities, and the Politics of Place.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Global Afterlives of Extraction Filipe Calvão, Asanda Benya and Matthew Archer Part 1 Post-extractivism: Debates and Practices 2 Expanding Extractivisms: Extractivisms as Modes of Extraction Sustaining Imperial Modes of Living Erik Post 3 The Structures of Conquest: Debating Extractivism(s), Infrastructures and Environmental Justice for Advancing Post-development Pathways Alexander Dunlap 4 Logics of Extraction and of the Valorisation of Culture: the Role of Post-extraction Investment in the Creation of Inequality in China Ryan Parsons 5 Regulating Mine Rehabilitation and Closure on Indigenous Held Lands: Insights from the Regulated Resource States of Australia and Canada Emille Boulot and Ben Collins Part 2 Resilience, Contestation and Resistance 6 Aluminium in Suriname (1898–2020): an Industry Came and Went, But Its Impacts on the Maroon Communities Remain Simon Lobach 7 Contesting Extraction: Challenges for Coalition Building between Agrarian and Anti-mining Movements Louisa Prause 8 ‘We Are Nature Defending Itself’: the Forest of Dannenrod Occupation as an Example of Contested Extractivism in the Global North Dorothea Hamilton and Sina Trölenberg 9 National Resources, Resistance, and the Afterlives of the New International Economic Order in Bangladesh Paul Robert Gilbert Part 3 ‘Green’ Extractivism and Its Discontents 10 The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert James J. A. Blair, Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán and Amanda Maxwell 11 Green Masquerade: Neo-liberalism, Extractive Renewable Energy Transitions, and the ‘Good’ Anthropocene in South Africa Michelle Pressend 12 Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism Devyn Remme, Siddharth Sareen, Håvard Haarstad and Kjetil Rommetveit Index
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Brill Imagined Racial Laboratories: Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisImagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region. It demonstrates that racialisation took — and continues to take — mutable and multiple forms that often connect, perhaps more than differentiate, colonial and national periods across a variety of Southeast Asian settings. Thus, imagined races have contributed as much to the invention of modern Southeast Asia as have other fabled imagined communities.Table of ContentsContents AcknowledgementsII List of IllustrationsII Introduction: Imagined Racial Laboratories in Southeast Asia Warwick Anderson and Ricardo Roque 1 Bilibid and Beyond: Race, Body Size, and the Native in Early American Colonial Philippines Francis A. Gealogo 2 The Colonial Ethnological Line: Timor and the Racial Geography of the Malay Archipelago Ricardo Roque 3 ‘Their Indonesian Forefathers’: Indonesia as the Austronesian Homeland in German-Language Theories of Ancient Pacific Migrations Hilary Howes 4 Racialization in the Malay Archipelago during the Asia-Pacific War Sandra Khor Manickam 5 Mixed Messages. Racial Science and Local Identity in Bali and Lombok, 1938–39 Fenneke Sysling 6 ‘The Salvational Currents of Emigration’: Racial Theories and Social Disputes in the Philippines at the end of the Nineteenth Century Florentino Rodao 7 The Mestizos of Kisar: An Insular Racial Laboratory in the Malay Archipelago Hans Pols and Warwick Anderson 8 Race as a Religious Destiny: The Vietnamese as “God’s Chosen People” in French Indochina Janet Alison Hoskins Afterword: A Prelude Bronwen Douglas Index
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Brill Homeland or Religion? Personal Identity Building in Zangskar, Indian Himalayas
Book SynopsisWho are you? Where do you come from? These two simple questions have so many answers and are sometimes even difficult to answer. This book tells the story of a Buddhist-Muslim community from Padum, in the Zangskar Valley - Indian Greater Himalayas. The author has gained a unique insight into this community during twenty years of research while the people shared doubts and joys with her. These experiences showed her that the meaning of “belonging” to a homeland or a confessional group, and therefore the transformation of the process of identity building in our modern world, is bridging the gap between tradition and modernity.
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Brill A Mountain Oasis: Daily Life in a Village in the Yasin Valley, Pakistan
Book SynopsisIn A Mountain Oasis, Susan York presents a richly illustrated socio-economic study of village life in Pakistan’s Yasin Valley, undertaken during one year spent living with a local family. It documents this dynamic agro-pastoral society at a time when few researchers were recording developments in these far-flung and difficult to reach mountain oases of the Hindukush. It is a record of a time when development interventions were in their beginnings, and before this area in Gilgit-Baltistan entered a crucial period of transformation. It provides solid comparative reference material for future research on this region, which is continuing to undergo challenging and complex changes.Table of ContentsForeword Prologue and Acknowledgements List of Maps, Figures and Graphs List of Photographs List of Tableslii 1 The Valley and the Village Economy Background A Household-focused Mountain Economy Village Housing Layout Clans 2 The House and Its Uses The Main Room – ha A Multi-Purpose Space Constructing a House 3 The Seasons: Spring and Summer Spring (garú) Spring Celebrations (Bo) Summer (šiní) 4 The Seasons: Autumn and Winter Autumn (datú) Winter – (bái) 5 Daily Life in a Large Household First Task of the Day – Light the Fire Making the Breakfast Bread for gunc̣áṭa čái The Rest of the Household Awakens After Breakfast Mid-morning: Time for Tea – čaṣṭákal čái Mid-day: More Bread and Tea – doɣói páqo Afternoon Tea: pišín čái Evening Bread: šaáma páqo 6 A High Pasture Settlement Establishing a High Pasture Settlement Leaving for the High Pastures Daily Life in a High Pasture Settlement – Makuli Makuli High Pasture Settlement Shelters in 1982 Visitors to the High Pastures Clear Air, Clean Water and Plentiful Food 7 Food: Daily and Celebratory Bread and Tea – The Daily Diet The Evening Meal Seasonally Available Foods Bread (páqo) – A Staple and Celebratory Food Milk (mamú) Products Hot and Cold Foods Food for Celebrations 8 Making and Decorating: Craft Activities Spinning and Weaving Knitting Basket Making Embroidery Tailoring Shoe Making Wood Carving Other Craft Activities 9 The Household: Who Lives in the House? Forming a Household and Changes in Household Size Households and Changes over Time Why Did Households Divide? Developing Trends 10 Relationships within the Household Age Children Adulthood Interpersonal Status 11 Beyond the Household Perspectives on Co-operation Relationships between Members of the deh Grambéšu-level Interactions Inter-household and Interpersonal Relationships beyond the Household, deh and grambéšu Epilogue Glossary Bibliography Index
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Brill Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean
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Brill Talking to the Dead: A Study of Irish Funerary Traditions
Book SynopsisTalking to the Dead is an essay on death and its tenacious hold on Irish culture. There are few traditions in which funerary motifs have been so ubiquitous in literature, popular rituals, folk representations, public rhetorics, even constructions of place. There are even fewer cultures in which funerary genres and preoccupations constitute the central thread of continuity. The Irish Theatrum Mortis is not simply an obsession of writers from the bards to Beckett and Heaney. Nor is it confined to contemporary Republican iconography. It is to be found in the pages of the local press, in acts of ritual resistance to unpopular decisions, in the way in which significant public events are narrated and framed. Though the funerary Ireland presented here may well yield to the new, positive self-image of the Celtic Tiger, it is the authors' contention that at the end of the twentieth century the funerary sign continues to define Irish identity. For good and ill, it is the centre that holds.
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Brill The Expectations of Morality
Book SynopsisMoral expectation is a concept with which all of us are well acquainted. Already as children we learn that certain courses of action are expected of us. We are expected to perform certain actions, and we are expected to refrain from other actions. Furthermore, we learn that something is morally wrong with the failure to do what we are morally expected to do. A central theme of this book is that moral expectation should not be confused with moral obligation. While we are morally expected to do everything we are obligated to do, a person can be morally expected to do some things that he or she is not morally obligated to do. Although moral expectation is a familiar notion, it has not been the object of investigation in its own right. In the early chapters Mellema attempts to provide a philosophical account of this familiar notion, distinguish it from other types of expectations, and show how it is possible to form false moral expectations. Subsequent chapters explore the role of moral expectation in agreements between people, analyze ways that people avoid moral expectation, illustrate how groups can have moral expectations, and view moral expectation in the context of our relationship with divine beings. The final chapter provides insight into how moral expectation operates in people’s professional lives.Trade ReviewThis book opens up a whole new, and intriguing vista. Eventually others will see Mellema’s discussion as having shattered the old rigidities and made us see that the ethic of action is far richer, far less stereotyped, than we have been taught to think.” – Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor, Department of Philosophy, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsNicholas WOLTERSTORFF: Editorial Foreword Acknowledgments ONE Introduction TWO Faulty and Unformed Expectations THREE Reasonable, Social, and Failed Expectations FOUR Oughts and Expectations FIVE Agreements and Expectations SIX Avoiding Expectation SEVEN Group Expectation EIGHT The Symbolic Dimension NINE Offence and Expectation TEN Divine Expectation ELEVEN Expectation and Professional Ethics Works Cited About the Author Index
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