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Book SynopsisExamines the pervasive expectation of continual innovation in the business sector.

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Book SynopsisArguing that village life is an effect of the modern and the global, this text analyzes everyday and social practices, and suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local.

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Book SynopsisRecreates the daily life of the bar room from 1870 to 1920, exploring what it was like to be a regular in the old-time saloon of pre-prohibition industrial America. This study examines saloon-goers across America, including New York, Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco.

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Book SynopsisAfrican American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to racialized dog whistles, especially for Democratic candidates. However, politicians from both parties and from all racial backgrounds continually appeal to negative racial attitudes for political gain. Challenging what we think we know about race and politics, LaFleur Stephens-Dougan argues that candidates across the racial and political spectrum engage in racial distancing, or using negative racial appeals to communicate to racially moderate and conservative whites--the overwhelming majority of whites--that they will not disrupt the racial status quo. Race to the Bottom closely examines empirical data on racialized partisan stereotypes to show that engaging in racial distancing through political platforms that do not address the needs of nonwhite communities and charged rhetoric that targets African Americans, immigrants, and others can be poliTrade Review"Stephens-Dougan lays out a novel theoretical framework for understanding how candidates and politicians might strategically use racial messaging to gain the support of white voters. Departing from earlier research on racial priming, which examined the use of racial messaging primarily by white Republican candidates, Stephens-Dougan argues that the electoral incentives that exist for candidates to engage in racially inflammatory messaging are so great that even candidates of color running in these districts often find racially derogatory campaign appeals effectively. This book makes an important contribution to the study of American political behavior and race and ethnic politics." -- Ismail K. White, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Theory of Racial Distancing Chapter 3: Obama as Racial Signaler Chapter 4: Racial Distancing on the Campaign Trail and in the Lab Chapter 5: Race, Partisanship, and Rhetoric Chapter 6: Racial Distancing and Racial Imagery Chapter 7: Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stephens-Dougan lays out a novel theoretical framework for understanding how candidates and politicians might strategically use racial messaging to gain the support of white voters. Departing from earlier research on racial priming, which examined the use of racial messaging primarily by white Republican candidates, Stephens-Dougan argues that the electoral incentives that exist for candidates to engage in racially inflammatory messaging are so great that even candidates of color running in these districts often find racially derogatory campaign appeals effectively. This book makes an important contribution to the study of American political behavior and race and ethnic politics." -- Ismail K. White, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Theory of Racial Distancing Chapter 3: Obama as Racial Signaler Chapter 4: Racial Distancing on the Campaign Trail and in the Lab Chapter 5: Race, Partisanship, and Rhetoric Chapter 6: Racial Distancing and Racial Imagery Chapter 7: Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Experiments with Power is an ethnographically and theoretically rich monograph contributing thoughtful provocations to religious studies. The book is effective in drawing attention to the shortcomings of religious theories when put in conversation with Black Atlantic religious experience. Crosson thoughtfully presents his interlocutors as forceful agents experimenting with power beyond the rule of law. This book should be read by all those interested in postcolonial ethnographies of religion, race, and politics." * Sociology of Religion *"Covering a woefully under-studied set of traditions and making important and timely interventions in Religious Studies, Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and African Diaspora Studies, this is a must-read for scholars across these fields and beyond." * Nova Religio *"In Experiments with Power, Crosson has tackled an oft-misunderstood subject and engaged with it in an innovative way. By muddling Western definitions of science and religion, Crosson reveals similarities in their practice and experimentation. . . . This is a book that cultural anthropologists, historians, and scholars of religion alike will find both thought-provoking and exciting." * H-Net *"Experiments with Power is a remarkable ethnography, offering an intimate engagement with spiritual work. With it we step, alongside Crosson’s interlocutors, into the science of crafting postcolonial justice. This important study is a must read that will make lasting contributions to debates on modernity’s key terms, including the nature of religion, sovereign power, and the violence of liberal governance." -- N. Fadeke Castor, author of Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad"In this excellent ethnography, Crosson shows how productive the question of defining obeah is, reframing the very logics used in trying to contain the word. The book models the importance of listening to the expertise of one’s interlocutors and pushes against the limits of modernity’s ‘purifying’ projects. With its pointed political message about justice, the book is a timely contribution." -- Kristina Wirtz, author of Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History"Crosson makes a dramatic contribution to the study of religion, showing how confounding the very term is in the mouths of spiritual workers, who instead use words like ‘science,’ ‘work,’ and ‘experiment.’ The gambit works wonderfully—like magic. Often beautiful and chilling at once, this is creative work and makes for a gripping read." -- Paul Cristopher Johnson, coauthor of Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State"Experiments with Power is a timely text that weaves together anthropology, Caribbean studies, and religious studies to study one of the Black Atlantic's most misunderstood practices. It is a richly interdisciplinary text that draws widely from several fields of study and brings them to bear on important ethical and social concerns. Further, through his use of science and technology studies, Crosson demonstrates how 'science' and 'religion' as disciplines have much to gain from the other. Readers from a wide array of disciplines will find Crosson's text to be a useful resource for examining colonial pasts and presents, and it will serve as an excellent guide for thinking beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface IntroductionPart One. The DepthsInterlude 1. Number Twenty-One Junction Chapter 1. What Obeah Does Do: Religion, Violence, and LawInterlude 2. In the Valley of Dry Bones Chapter 2. Experiments with Justice: On Turning in the GraveInterlude 3. To Balance the Load Chapter 3. Electrical Ethics: On Turning the Other CheekPart Two. The NationsInterlude 4. Where the Ganges Meets the Nile, I Chapter 4. Blood Lines: Race, Sacrifice, and the Making of ReligionInterlude 5. Where the Ganges Meets the Nile, II Chapter 5. A Tongue between Nations: Spiritual Work, Secularism, and the Art of CrossoverPart Three. The HeightsInterlude 6. Arlena’s Haunting Chapter 6. High Science Epilogue. The Ends of Tolerance References Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRepresenting a broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions, this work examines how the imagination of race has influenced musical production, reception, and scholarly analysis. It reviews the history of race in European and American, non-Western and global music.

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Book SynopsisIn 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 108 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed crime hot spots. The government justified this action and subsequent police violence on the grounds that these measures were restoring the rule of law. In this milieu of expanded policing powers, protests occasioned by police violence against lower-class black people have often garnered little sympathy. But in an improbable turn of events, six officers involved in the shooting of three young people were charged with murder at the height of the state of emergency. To explain this, the host of Crime Watch, the nation's most popular television show, alleged that there must be a special power at work: obeah. From eighteenth-century slave rebellions to contemporary responses to police brutality, Caribbean methods of problem-solving spiritual work have been criminalized under the label of obeah. Connected to a justicTrade Review"Experiments with Power is an ethnographically and theoretically rich monograph contributing thoughtful provocations to religious studies. The book is effective in drawing attention to the shortcomings of religious theories when put in conversation with Black Atlantic religious experience. Crosson thoughtfully presents his interlocutors as forceful agents experimenting with power beyond the rule of law. This book should be read by all those interested in postcolonial ethnographies of religion, race, and politics." * Sociology of Religion *"Covering a woefully under-studied set of traditions and making important and timely interventions in Religious Studies, Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and African Diaspora Studies, this is a must-read for scholars across these fields and beyond." * Nova Religio *"In Experiments with Power, Crosson has tackled an oft-misunderstood subject and engaged with it in an innovative way. By muddling Western definitions of science and religion, Crosson reveals similarities in their practice and experimentation. . . . This is a book that cultural anthropologists, historians, and scholars of religion alike will find both thought-provoking and exciting." * H-Net *"Experiments with Power is a remarkable ethnography, offering an intimate engagement with spiritual work. With it we step, alongside Crosson’s interlocutors, into the science of crafting postcolonial justice. This important study is a must read that will make lasting contributions to debates on modernity’s key terms, including the nature of religion, sovereign power, and the violence of liberal governance." -- N. Fadeke Castor, author of Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad"In this excellent ethnography, Crosson shows how productive the question of defining obeah is, reframing the very logics used in trying to contain the word. The book models the importance of listening to the expertise of one’s interlocutors and pushes against the limits of modernity’s ‘purifying’ projects. With its pointed political message about justice, the book is a timely contribution." -- Kristina Wirtz, author of Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History"Crosson makes a dramatic contribution to the study of religion, showing how confounding the very term is in the mouths of spiritual workers, who instead use words like ‘science,’ ‘work,’ and ‘experiment.’ The gambit works wonderfully—like magic. Often beautiful and chilling at once, this is creative work and makes for a gripping read." -- Paul Cristopher Johnson, coauthor of Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State"Experiments with Power is a timely text that weaves together anthropology, Caribbean studies, and religious studies to study one of the Black Atlantic's most misunderstood practices. It is a richly interdisciplinary text that draws widely from several fields of study and brings them to bear on important ethical and social concerns. Further, through his use of science and technology studies, Crosson demonstrates how 'science' and 'religion' as disciplines have much to gain from the other. Readers from a wide array of disciplines will find Crosson's text to be a useful resource for examining colonial pasts and presents, and it will serve as an excellent guide for thinking beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface IntroductionPart One. The DepthsInterlude 1. Number Twenty-One Junction Chapter 1. What Obeah Does Do: Religion, Violence, and LawInterlude 2. In the Valley of Dry Bones Chapter 2. Experiments with Justice: On Turning in the GraveInterlude 3. To Balance the Load Chapter 3. Electrical Ethics: On Turning the Other CheekPart Two. The NationsInterlude 4. Where the Ganges Meets the Nile, I Chapter 4. Blood Lines: Race, Sacrifice, and the Making of ReligionInterlude 5. Where the Ganges Meets the Nile, II Chapter 5. A Tongue between Nations: Spiritual Work, Secularism, and the Art of CrossoverPart Three. The HeightsInterlude 6. Arlena’s Haunting Chapter 6. High Science Epilogue. The Ends of Tolerance References Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEurope's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality.Trade Review"Empire's Children is a brilliant and deeply researched exploration of the place of race in the French citizenship experience, focusing on the rights of mixed-race people in French Indochina and other colonies. Emmanuelle Saada deftly weaves together the perspectives of jurists, colonial officials, journalists, and the mixed-raced individuals themselves to demonstrate why the French Empire - and by extension, today's France - cannot be analyzed in black-and-white terms. A nuanced and important account, beautifully translated by Arthur Goldhammer." (Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University)"

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Book SynopsisEurope's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality.Trade Review"Empire's Children is a brilliant and deeply researched exploration of the place of race in the French citizenship experience, focusing on the rights of mixed-race people in French Indochina and other colonies. Emmanuelle Saada deftly weaves together the perspectives of jurists, colonial officials, journalists, and the mixed-raced individuals themselves to demonstrate why the French Empire - and by extension, today's France - cannot be analyzed in black-and-white terms. A nuanced and important account, beautifully translated by Arthur Goldhammer." (Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University)"

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Book SynopsisPresents an extended case study of the 20th-century AIDS epidemic and the cultural circumstances from which it emerged. The book brings together anthropology, demography and epidemiology to explain how the Chagga people of Tanzania in Africa experience AIDS.

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Book SynopsisIn the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge development while sympathetically introducing the myriad therapeutic traditions of southern China. Over a period of six years, Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai worked with seven minority nationality groups in China's southern mountains, observing how medicines were gathered and local healing systems codified. Gathering Medicines shares their intimate view of how people understand ethnicity, locality, the body, and nature. This ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China is a testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, one that theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between formal statist knowledge and the popular authority of the wild.Trade Review"Gathering Medicines offers important empirical, conceptual, and methodological insights into what it means to practice and theorize medicine within the geographical borders of the People’s Republic of China today." * Isis *"A well-written account of often-charming, sometimes moving encounters with healers diligently trying to record disappearing ways of knowing and curing sickness. Ideal for anyone interested in history and local traditions of medicine in China." * Choice Connect *"Gathering Medicines offers an immensely valuable and sensitive account of health and medical practices in regions that have rarely been explored in academic literature." * Asian Medicine *“In Gathering Medicines, Farquhar and Lai offer a remarkably wide range of observations and reflections on the anthropology and history of medicine as a living social practice in southern China. They weave into their discussion a fascinating array of life histories and object narratives, a rich assortment of institutional sites and both textual and nonliterate practices, and an abundance of self-critical reflections on methodology and meaning. This is a major, pathbreaking piece of scholarship, indicative of the highest-quality research and analysis.” * David Arnold, University of Warwick *“Gathering Medicines is an ethnography of epistemology at its best. Unpacking words and things, collecting and feeling plants, the authors thread relentlessly through depth and density to craft their book, a multidimensional object at its core.” * Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis *“Experienced anthropologists Farquhar and Lai have written a philosophically sophisticated ethnography of today’s China caught in the act of constructing ‘minority nationality medicines,’ a set of complex, always changing, social, and epistemological things.” * Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1 Institution Chapter 2 Knowledge Chapter 3 Bodies Chapter 4 Plants Chapter 5 Encounters Conclusions, and Then Some . . . Acknowledgments Appendix: The Emphasis on “Three Ways and Two Roads” in Zhuang Medicine and Pharmacy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gathering Medicines offers important empirical, conceptual, and methodological insights into what it means to practice and theorize medicine within the geographical borders of the People’s Republic of China today." * Isis *"A well-written account of often-charming, sometimes moving encounters with healers diligently trying to record disappearing ways of knowing and curing sickness. Ideal for anyone interested in history and local traditions of medicine in China." * Choice Connect *"Gathering Medicines offers an immensely valuable and sensitive account of health and medical practices in regions that have rarely been explored in academic literature." * Asian Medicine *“In Gathering Medicines, Farquhar and Lai offer a remarkably wide range of observations and reflections on the anthropology and history of medicine as a living social practice in southern China. They weave into their discussion a fascinating array of life histories and object narratives, a rich assortment of institutional sites and both textual and nonliterate practices, and an abundance of self-critical reflections on methodology and meaning. This is a major, pathbreaking piece of scholarship, indicative of the highest-quality research and analysis.” * David Arnold, University of Warwick *“Gathering Medicines is an ethnography of epistemology at its best. Unpacking words and things, collecting and feeling plants, the authors thread relentlessly through depth and density to craft their book, a multidimensional object at its core.” * Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis *“Experienced anthropologists Farquhar and Lai have written a philosophically sophisticated ethnography of today’s China caught in the act of constructing ‘minority nationality medicines,’ a set of complex, always changing, social, and epistemological things.” * Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1 Institution Chapter 2 Knowledge Chapter 3 Bodies Chapter 4 Plants Chapter 5 Encounters Conclusions, and Then Some . . . Acknowledgments Appendix: The Emphasis on “Three Ways and Two Roads” in Zhuang Medicine and Pharmacy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn incisive look at how America’s continued demographic explosion has spurred the development of a new identity as people of color.Trade Review“Diversity’s Child makes an important contribution to the existing research on American politics, social identity, and racial politics in the United States. Pérez offers a provocative and convincing argument regarding a new pan-ethnic identity, people of color, that is meaningful and relevant to racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Importantly, he carefully and meticulously demonstrates how this new identity is salient in the political realm and how it can be politicized to mobilize these communities into political action. These findings offer key insights for both academics and practitioners into the future landscape of American politics.” -- Marisa Abrajano, University of California, San Diego"Diversity’s Child is a tour de force that presents complex topics and ideas to readers in an impressively accessible fashion. Pérez should be applauded for his extensive efforts toward establishing a body of evidence that PoC identity is a meaningful social and political identity that scholars of American politics should be theorizing and studying with regularity." * Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marable’s Forecast Chapter 1: The Elusive Quest for People of Color Chapter 2: People of Color, Unite! Chapter 3: The Many Faces of People of Color Chapter 4: New Wine in New Bottles Chapter 5: I Feel Your Pain, Brother Chapter 6: Galvanizing People of Color Chapter 7: Falling Apart Conclusion: People of Color in a Diversifying World Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Django Generations offers a profound analysis of how Manouche Romanies navigate French denials of race and racism through what Siv B. Lie calls ‘ambivalent essentialism’—the set of incompatible qualities ascribed by and to this ethnicized and racialized group whose most famous ancestor is the guitarist Django Reinhardt. Drawing on deep ethnographic and historical research, Lie brilliantly develops a semiotic framework that both explicates the development and negotiation of local identities in jazz manouche and their connection to much broader processes of managing marginalization and the exigencies of capitalism.”” -- Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University“A necessary addition for ethnomusicologists and scholars of Romani music, Django Generations is aptly named because it gives voice to groups of Romani musicians who are forging contemporary identities in modern contexts while acknowledging past histories and cultural roots.” -- Adriana Helbig, University of Pittsburgh“In this book, Siv B. Lie explores the paradoxes of jazz manouche’s history and its relationship to the Manouche community without taking sides in the complex debates between musicians, institutions, and the industry. Django Generations is a work of considerable intellectual sophistication.” -- Andy Fry, King’s College LondonTable of ContentsNotes on Terminology List of Figures Introduction Chapter One: Making Jazz Manouche Chapter Two: Cultural Activism’s Living Legacies Chapter Three: Generic Ontologies and the Stakes of Refusal Chapter Four: The Sound of Feeling Chapter Five: Heritage Stories Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: List of Formal Interviews Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the history of "musica tropical", analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power.

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Book SynopsisDescribes the changing nature of ethnography as anthropologists use it to analyze places closer to home. This book maintains that a conversational style of ethnography can help us look beyond our assumptions and gain new insight into arenas of contemporary life such as corporations, financial institutions, science, the military, and religion.Trade Review"Westbrook's book is the most convincing rendering of how to be a good anthropologist that I know of. The extraordinary clarity and accessibility of his prose and his reasoning are testaments in their very performance to the virtues of his ambitiously broad vision of ethnography. Both stylistically and intellectually, this is a fresh and lovely breeze." - James D. Faubion, Rice University"

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Book SynopsisDescribes the changing nature of ethnography as anthropologists use it to analyze places closer to home. This book maintains that a conversational style of ethnography can help us look beyond our assumptions and gain new insight into arenas of contemporary life such as corporations, financial institutions, science, the military, and religion.Trade Review"Westbrook's book is the most convincing rendering of how to be a good anthropologist that I know of. The extraordinary clarity and accessibility of his prose and his reasoning are testaments in their very performance to the virtues of his ambitiously broad vision of ethnography. Both stylistically and intellectually, this is a fresh and lovely breeze." - James D. Faubion, Rice University"

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Book SynopsisExamines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing - harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation - to speak to their contemporary predicaments.Trade Review"Taking the Xhosa cattle killing as her focus, Wenzel offers something beautifully paradoxical: a new, anticanonical canon of South African writing. Concerned with historical and literary 'failures,' this work is a profound reflection on the fragmentary and spectral (but not therefore any less compelling) nature of echoes, influences, and prophecies. A work of sophistication and intellectual ambition, Bulletproof is a timely and innovative intervention in postcolonial studies." - Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania"

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I Swedish Lives 1 Fadime, in Remembrance 2 Sara: “Too Swedish” for a Right to Live 3 Pela, or History Repeats Itself Part II Honor 4 What Is Honor? 5 The Cross-Cultural Context of Honor Killing 6 Virginity, Virility, and Honor Part III Fadime’s Case 7 At a Trial 8 Little Sister, Thirteen Years Old 9 A Mother’s Story 10 Naive or Primitive? 11 Strength Born from Grief Part IV Norwegian Lives 12 Intermission: Honor in the Courtroom 13 Nadia’s Case: Another Question of Honor 14 The Zedini Case: Was Honor at Stake? 15 The Lørenskog Murder: Rethinking Honor Part V The Appeal 16 The Man in the Woods 17 The Mother Part VI The Way Forward 18 Speaking in Parliament 19 Integration 20 At Stake: A Perception of Humanity Part VII Reflections 21 Longing for a Family AfterwordAcknowledgmentsNotesReferences

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Book SynopsisGathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork resumes in anthropology. In its twelve essays, this book covers encounters with transvestites in Oman, childbirth in Bhutan, poverty in Cairo, and honor killings in Scandinavia, with visits to several other locales.Trade Review"Unni Wikan has spent more time in sustained fieldwork in more societies than any other anthropologist I know, and these essays are the connective tissue among her most substantial work. They demonstrate her theoretical acuity in defining an approach that always places human experience first. They are exemplars and a test, as well, of just that approach which understands that common humanity is to be found anywhere, though complicated by distinctive cultural orientations to the expression of personhood." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"

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Book SynopsisThe Udege, a small Indigenous group in Russia’s far east, have a rich oral storytelling tradition. Kira Van Deusen befriended and interviewed Udege storytellers during her travels in Russia. Tigers and the Internet shows their fascinating culture and provides a valuable collection of their stories translated into English.Trade Review"This book offers English speakers a memorably authentic portrait of what has been preserved of Udege narrative heritage in the 21st century. Based on years of travel and original research through personal connections, Van Deusen ... has compiled excellent translations of stories recorded from traditional storytellers. Her commentary bridges past, present, and future to provide unique glimpses into the culture of a people who have managed to survive modern intrusions into their traditional world. This fascinating and well-written study is excellent for folklorists, ecologists, and social scientists interested in the Indigenous peoples of Asian Russia. Highly recommended." CHOICE

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Book SynopsisTwenty years after the 9/11 attacks, Under Siege examines how the global war on terror and heightened anti-Muslim racism have affected millennials who were socialized into a world where their faith and identity are under attack. Jasmin Zine explores the experiences of Canadian Muslim youth to unpack the dynamics of Islamophobia.Trade Review“Under Siege is an exceptionally poignant, meticulously researched, and profoundly detailed account of Islamophobia in Canada that will stir the soul and fire the intellect. It is the definitive contribution to the study of Islamophobia and questions relating to the representation of Islam and Muslims in Canadian society to date.” Tahir Abbas, Leiden University and author of Countering Violent Extremism: The International Deradicalization Agenda

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Book SynopsisThe 9/11 attacks in the United States, the subsequent global war on terror, and the proliferation of domestic security policies in Western nations have had a profound impact on the lives of young Muslims, whose identities and experiences have been shaped within and against these conditions. The millennial generation of Muslim youth has come of age in these turbulent times, dealing with the aftermath and backlash associated with these events.Under Siege explores the lives of Canadian Muslim youth belonging to the 9/11 generation as they navigate these fraught times of global war and terror. While many studies address contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism, few have focused on the toll this takes on Muslim communities, especially among younger generations. Based on in-depth interviews with more than 130 young people, youth workers, and community leaders, Jasmin Zine's ethnographic study unpacks the dynamics of Islamophobia as a system of oppresTrade Review“Under Siege is an exceptionally poignant, meticulously researched, and profoundly detailed account of Islamophobia in Canada that will stir the soul and fire the intellect. It is the definitive contribution to the study of Islamophobia and questions relating to the representation of Islam and Muslims in Canadian society to date.” Tahir Abbas, Leiden University and author of Countering Violent Extremism: The International Deradicalization Agenda

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Book SynopsisGabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.Trade Review“Attitudes of Play is essential reading for any member of society who pursues excellence. The book addresses the fundamental attitude required for all people in all fields to thrive and flourish.” Mark Nyvlt, Dominican University College and author of Aristotle and Plotinus on the Intellect: Monism and Dualism Revisited"Attitudes of Play is a compelling thinking task that has consequences for educators, leaders, managers and any of us who struggle with the complexity of life. It is a useful reminder of what it means to be human, and the need for all of us to slow down and engage in the art of living." Winnipeg Free Press“This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on play, and will stand beside such classics as Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (1950) and Roger Caillois’s Man, Play, and Games (1961).” Choice

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Book SynopsisGabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.Trade Review“Attitudes of Play is essential reading for any member of society who pursues excellence. The book addresses the fundamental attitude required for all people in all fields to thrive and flourish.” Mark Nyvlt, Dominican University College and author of Aristotle and Plotinus on the Intellect: Monism and Dualism Revisited"Attitudes of Play is a compelling thinking task that has consequences for educators, leaders, managers and any of us who struggle with the complexity of life. It is a useful reminder of what it means to be human, and the need for all of us to slow down and engage in the art of living." Winnipeg Free Press“This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on play, and will stand beside such classics as Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (1950) and Roger Caillois’s Man, Play, and Games (1961).” Choice

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Book SynopsisMarlene Epp demonstrates that the meaning of Mennonite food lies within the multiple identities of the eater. Spanning the globe, from the nineteenth century to present day, Eating Like a Mennonite concludes that Mennonite food identities develop from adoptions, adaptations, and attitudes in diverse times and places.Trade Review“While food studies is an increasingly popular field of research, there remains a continued tendency to neglect domestic food production. Eating Like a Mennonite makes a major contribution by examining these intimate and quotidian acts of nourishment. Moreover, it is a delight to read, and made me hungry for the foods of my childhood.” Janis Thiessen, University of Winnipeg“Written in lively prose, Eating Like a Mennonite provides specific angles of entry into the broader topic of Mennonite self-identity and culture in a global context. Marlene Epp takes care to explore the foodways of Mennonites in such different regions of the world as Eastern Europe, India, China, Paraguay, Pennsylvania and Waterloo, Ontario. With each example, she traces foods prepared and packed for the journey, and how they come to represent comfort amidst discomfort, and familiarity in unfamiliar circumstances.” Nathalie Cooke, McGill University

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the pig in Judeo-Christian culture and European anti-semitism, this work chronicles its cultural and religious character. The author details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans.Trade ReviewFabre-Vassas's work in particular illuminates the fear of otherness that, as a dimension of human consciousness, underlies the relationship between those who are persecuted and those who persecute... The extensive and detailed research in The Singular Beast provides ample evidence of how Jewishness became imbued with all manner of hateful traits... Through ethnography and text, Fabre-Vassas offers a rich and nuanced protrait of anti-Semitic beliefs and practices that remained deeply embedded in twentieth-century European society. -- Janet Liebman Jacobs Religious Studies Review [A] masterful demonstration of the role of the pig as that animal which, because of its own natural and cultural anomalousness, came so powerfully to symbolize the dialectic of identity and difference obtaining between Christians and Jews. -- David Gordon White Journal of Religion A stunning compendium of porcine and theological folklore... With remarkable acuity, The Singular Beast shows how the pig, the Jew and the Christian have been locked in a fatal and macabre pas de trois for the past two millenniums. Times Literary Supplement Fabre-Vassas argues that the cultural tension between those who did and those who did not eat pork helps set the stage for a murderous anti-Semitism... Taking her cue from Claude Levi-Strauss, [she] studied the culinary habits of southern France, and the way in which the pig began to be associated with the Jew in the anti-Semitic imaginings of peasant culture, and by implication the rest of Europe. The New York Times Fabre-Vassas... has written an examination of Christian attitudes toward Jews, particularly during the Middle Ages... [I]n the historical anti-Semitic literature, the Jews were associated with the pig's lowly traits... Fabre-Vassas offers a solid, scholarly study. Library JournalTable of ContentsOne. An Anological Being One. The Red Men Two. Children's Stories Three. The Circle of Metamorphoses Two. From One Blood To the Next Four. The Jew's Sow Five. Red Easter Six. Old Jews, Young Christians Seven. The Little Jew Three. Christian Flesh Eight. The Return of the Pig Nine. Blood and Soul Ten. The Bone That Sings. The Time of Sacrifice

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to knowledge about methods of recording and presenting visual culture of non-Western peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Choice With fascinating examples and illustrations culled from a number of international archives,Wondrous Difference is an invaluable resource for cinema historians, anthropologists, archivists, and museum professionals... Griffiths is working within a new tradition of scholars approaching visuality with a historically integrated and culturally critical perspective... The masterful way in which Griffiths navigates and reveals the complexity of these relationships sets a standard for others to follow. -- Amy J. Staples Film Quarterly Wondrous Difference will make an excellent... textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in both visual anthropology and the history of anthropology. -- Deborah Poole Current AnthropologyTable of ContentsPart I: Precinema and Ethnographic Representation 1. Life Groups and the Modern Museum Spectator 2. Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World's Fair 3. Knowledge and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology Part II: Early Ethnographic Film in Science and Popular Culture 4. The Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer 5. "The World Within Your Reach": Popular Cinema and Ethnographic Representation Part III: First Steps: The Museum and Early Filmmakers 6. Early Ethnographic Film at the American Museum of Natural History 7. Finding a Home for Cinema in Ethnography: The First Generation of Anthropologist-Filmmakers in America 8. Conclusion: The Legacy of Early Ethnographic Film

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to knowledge about methods of recording and presenting visual culture of non-Western peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Choice With fascinating examples and illustrations culled from a number of international archives,Wondrous Difference is an invaluable resource for cinema historians, anthropologists, archivists, and museum professionals... Griffiths is working within a new tradition of scholars approaching visuality with a historically integrated and culturally critical perspective... The masterful way in which Griffiths navigates and reveals the complexity of these relationships sets a standard for others to follow. -- Amy J. Staples Film Quarterly Wondrous Difference will make an excellent... textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in both visual anthropology and the history of anthropology. -- Deborah Poole Current AnthropologyTable of ContentsPart I: Precinema and Ethnographic Representation 1. Life Groups and the Modern Museum Spectator 2. Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World's Fair 3. Knowledge and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology Part II: Early Ethnographic Film in Science and Popular Culture 4. The Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer 5. "The World Within Your Reach": Popular Cinema and Ethnographic Representation Part III: First Steps: The Museum and Early Filmmakers 6. Early Ethnographic Film at the American Museum of Natural History 7. Finding a Home for Cinema in Ethnography: The First Generation of Anthropologist-Filmmakers in America 8. Conclusion: The Legacy of Early Ethnographic Film

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Book SynopsisThis text analyzes how modern Jordanian identity was created and defined. The author studies two key institutions, the law and the military, and uses them to create an analysis of the making of modern Jordanian identity.Trade ReviewA work of genuine brilliance, as much for its searing insights into Jordanian history and culture as for its extraordinary mastery of the vast material it deploys. It is rare to encounter a pathbreaking book: this is certainly one. -- Edward Said The thesis of this important and profound book transcends the Jordanian case and reaches into the heart of the debate about the formation of national identities, the idea of the nation, and the effect of the colonial context in shaping identities and nationalities. The [analytic and historical] benefits that this book contributes surpass those provided by many other books on the topic, and it will surely occupy a central place in the literature about the modern history of Jordan. Al-Jazeera (translated from the Arabic) Massad offers not the usual political history but a study of legal changes and the use of the military for nation-building. Foreign Affairs By focusing on the actions and motivations of the British Colonial administrators-in codifying laws and defining the national culture-Massad provides an excellent analysis of state construction in the colonial realm. For this reason, his work is poised for use by scholars and teachers in a number of fields far beyond Jordanian and Middle Eastern studies... Massad beautifully expands the breadth of Jordanian studies by examining issues thus far neglected in all studies of the country... In a classroom setting... the thematic organizational structure means that students do not have to know very much about Jordanian history to be able to understand the main points. The chapters on the role of gender, law, and the military in nationalist construction can be read easily as case studies of national identity throughout the region and the world. A search of any Web engine will show how very popular this book has become for a range of disciplines and class types... As many scholars and teachers have discovered already, the book provides questions and answers about nationalism that few writers have posed before. -- Betty S. Anderson Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies Massad offers a theoretically informed and highly interesting analysis of the construction of national identity in Jordan... [Colonial Effects] is full of fascinating information and an analysis of the colonial and postcolonial state's production of national identity that should invigorate the field. -- Mary C. Wilson Journal of Palestine Studies Massad adopts an innovative approach by examining the effects of juridical and military institutions on the shaping of Jordan's national culture... [He] devotes very tangible attention to Bedouins, women, and Palestinians and their incorporation into the invented national culture of Jordan... [in a] sophisticated analysis. Choice Massad's book will occupy an important place in the literature on the modern history of Jordan, not only due to its unique and pioneering topic, but also due to its remarkably encyclopedic range. It is a book that engages the fields of politics, history, sociology, as well as popular culture... This is a great and distinguished book. Al-Hayat (translated from the Arabic) This is an important book... It is against the background of Massad's study that one will have to judge... current and forthcoming works. -- Laurie Brand Middle East Journal Historians interested in the emergence of national identities in other colonial and postcolonial countries and societies would do well to examine Massad's book. Reading it will require considerable concentration and patience, but the rewards should be substantial. -- Philip S. Khoury American Historical Review This is a potent, suggestive, and original work, based on extensive research including archival material and newspapers. It is a major contribution to the literature on Jordanian nationalism, anticolonial nationalism, and the wider field of postcolonial studies. It will be widely read and stir important debates. Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies Massad's book is informative, original, and interesting... Ultimately, this book is a pleasure. It is an innovative approach to the creation of Jordanian national identity and a much-needed and welcome addition to the scholarship on Jordanian national identity. Arab Studies Journal [I]n his provocative book... Massad eruditely examines and reconstructs the creation and evolution of the Jordanian nation... This insightful book will serve to provide readers with an immeasurable understanding and a methodology for exploring the complexities of colonialism and postcolonial national movements. Al-Jadid [P]ainstakingly researched... Massad's Colonial Effects is an enlightening exploration of national identity construction that... can illuminate the process of identity creation not only in Jordan, but in many other postcolonial nations as well. Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies Massad chart[s] new ground methodologically [and] his substantive arguments are equally innovative... he uses new conceptual tools for interpreting the construction of colonial and postcolonial national identity... Always attuned to the political implications of culture, Massad shows how [cultural] inventions have been politically expedient, aimed at bolstering the unity of the nation in the face of real social cleavages... Colonial Effects is an ambitious book. It is sometimes hard to categorize because of the author's apparent comfort in different disciplines (political theory, diplomatic history, and cultural studies toname a few) and his use of different modes of argumentation (from the purely descriptive to the highly abstract)... [The book] illuminate[s] the complex negotiations between colonizer and colonized in an understudied period of mandate rule in the Middle East. In addition, [it] constitute[s] part of a small but growing group of works demonstrating the usefulness ofMiddle Eastern history and politics for theorizing modern processes like the gendered construction of citizenship and national identity. It is to be hoped that scholars of Europe in particular (who have paid little attention to the Middle East) will appreciate [its] insights. Radical History Review Massad has done a thorough job of mastering the source material. Middle East Quarterly Massad, puts forward a sophisticated constitutive analysis of Jordan's 'national' identity, singling out the different turns and twists in the formation of the 'Jordanian' character and make-up. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Impressive... meticulously documented throughout. International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Law, Military, and Discipline Tradition and Modernity Historical Moments Part I: Codifying the Nation: Law and the Articulation of National Identity in Jordan The Prehistory of Juridical Postcoloniality National Time National Space National Territory and Paternity Nationalizing Non-Nationals Losing Nationality: The Law Giveth and the Law Taketh Away Women and Children Part II: Different Spaces as Different Times: Law and Geography in Jordanian Nationalism Different Species of Citizens: Women and Bedouins Bedouins and National Citizenship Nationalist Tribalism or Tribalist Nationalism: The Debate Jordanian Culture in an International Frame Women Between the Public and Private Spheres Women in Public Women and Politics Part III: Cultural Syncretism or Colonial Mimic Men: Jordan's Bedouins and the Military Basis of National Identity The Bedouin Choice Cultural Imperialism and Discipline Cultural Cross-Dressing as Epistemology Imperialism as Educator Masculinity, Culture, and Women Transforming the Bedouins Persuasion, Education, and Surveillance Part IV: Nationalizing the Military: Colonial Legacy as National Heritage Anticolonial Nationalism and the Army King Husayn and the Nationalist Officers Clash of the Titans: Glubb Pasha and the Uneasy King "Arabizing" the Jordanian Army The Palace Coup and the End of an Era Palace Repression and the Forgiving King Palestinians and the Military Threatening the Nation's Masculinity and Religious "Tradition" The Military and the New Jordan Colonial or National Legacy Part V: The Nation as an Elastic Entity: The Expansion and Contraction of Jordan Expanding the Nation: The Road to Annexation The Jericho Conference The New Jordan Palestinians and the West Bank Competing Representatives: The PLO and Jordan Toward Civil War A New Nationalist Era Clothes, Accents, and Football: Asserting Post-Civil War Jordanianness Contracting the Nation: The Road to "The Severing of Ties" Who Is Jordanian? 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Book SynopsisPresents studies on gender and life in the Amazon. This book covers the fieldwork of the authors among the Mundurucu people of Brazil in 1952. It provides an account of the historical, ecological, and cultural setting of the Mundurucu, including the mythology surrounding women, women's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, and more.Trade ReviewA salute to women's liberation in a portrait of a fascinating primitive people. -- Margaret Mead Women of the Forest restores something of the balance that has been missing from conventional anthropology-an anthropology largely written by men-in giving this lucid account of the fundamental roles played by women in all societies. Very readable it sets the record straight for widely but wrongly held beliefs concerning many aspects of the roles of the sexes in all societies. -- Ashley MontaguTable of ContentsForeword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition 1. Woman's Day 2. The Land and the People 3. Beyond the Looking Glass 4. MundurucY Culture 5. Women in Myth and Symbol 6. The Woman's World 7. Women and Married Life 8. Women and Social Change 9. Women and Men Bibliography Index 03/12/0405 Murphy 00_toc.doc: vii vii

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Book SynopsisExplores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. This book provides descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other religious practices. It analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity.Trade Review[A] Masterful study... Highly recommended. Choice Norget's book should find a welcomed place on many of our shelves. -- Jeffrey H. Cohen Journal of Anthropological Research Will be useful to scholars... [while] still perfectly appropriate for the lay reader. -- Juanita Garciagodoy Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Death and Life in Oaxaca Part I Rites of Popular Life in Oaxaca 1. Anthropology in a Mexican City 2. Practicing Popular Religion in Oaxaca Part II Rites of Popular Death in Oaxaca 3. Living with Death 4. The Drama of Death Part III Living the Day of the Dead 5. Days of the Dead in Oaxaca 6. Spectacular Death and Cultural Change Epilogue: Life in Death Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. This book provides descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other religious practices. It analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity.Trade Review[A] Masterful study... Highly recommended. Choice Norget's book should find a welcomed place on many of our shelves. -- Jeffrey H. Cohen Journal of Anthropological Research Will be useful to scholars... [while] still perfectly appropriate for the lay reader. -- Juanita Garciagodoy Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Death and Life in Oaxaca Part I Rites of Popular Life in Oaxaca 1. Anthropology in a Mexican City 2. Practicing Popular Religion in Oaxaca Part II Rites of Popular Death in Oaxaca 3. Living with Death 4. The Drama of Death Part III Living the Day of the Dead 5. Days of the Dead in Oaxaca 6. Spectacular Death and Cultural Change Epilogue: Life in Death Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisKlezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America.Trade ReviewThere are some fascinating vignettes in this book. -- Shoel Stadlen Times Literary Supplement always engaging and at time groundbreaking. -- David Brauner WasafiriTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Angels, Monsters, and Jews: From Kushner to Klezmer 2. Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe,, and the Making of Ethnic Masculinity 3. Antisemitism Without Jews: Left Behind in the American Heartland 4. The Human Stain of Race: Roth, Sirk, and Shaw in Black, White, and Jewish 5. Conversos, Marranos,, and Crypto-Latinos: Jewish-Hispanic Crossings and the Uses of Ethnicity 6. Transgressions of a Model Minority 7. Asians and Jews in Theory and Practice Conclusion: The Klezmering of America Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA book on tattoo literature and culture. It traces the origins and significance of tattoo in the works of nineteenth and twentieth-century artists, travelers, missionaries, scientists, and such writers as Herman Melville, Margaret Mead, and Albert Wendt. It shows how culture has been etched on the human form and on a body of literature.Trade ReviewThis fascinating book traces the culture and literature surrounding the curious art that uses skin as a canvas. -- Billy Heller New York Post [A] scholarly and beautifully written book. -- Cahir O'Doherty Irish Voice Best New Book by a Local Author Baltimore City Paper Richly layered and meticulously researched -- Vivienne Muller M/C Reviews This brilliant, wide-ranging study deserves careful reading. Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note About Pacific Languages Introduction: Living Scripts, Texts, Strategies 1. Tatau and Malu: Vital Signs in Contemporary Samoan Literature 2. "The Original Queequeg"? Te Pehi Kupe, Toi Moko, and Moby-Dick 3. Another Aesthetic: Beauty and Morality in Facial Tattoo 4. Marked Ethics: Erasing and Restoring the Tattoo 5. Locating the Sign: Visible Culture 6. Transfer of Desire: Engendering Sexuality Epilogue: The Question of Belonging Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA seminal work that is strongly recommended reading. The Midwest Book Review Essential reading for those who are interested in the link between colonial politics and ethnographic practices. -- Muriam Haleh Davis Arab Studies Journal With its translation of lesser-known texts, thoughtful juxtaposition of texts and images, and, above all, beautiful presentation of the photographs, this book provides a fascinating glimps into the working process and intellectual origins of the most important scholars of the twentieth century. H-France Review Picturing Algeria juxtaposes Bourdieu's photographs with excerpts from his later writings, enabling the reader/viewer to grasp the destruction left in the wake of colonial violence. -- Olivia Harrison The Los Angeles Review of Books Picturing Algeria is worth its price for the 130 images alone... An invaluable contribution to scholarship. The photographs offer a rare glimpse into an unfamiliar aspect of Bourdieu's work in Algeria, displaying the literal lenses through which he framed his research sites. Journal of Historical GeographyTable of ContentsForeword, by Craig Calhoun Pierre Bourdieu and Algeria: An Elective Affinity, by Franz Schultheis Pictures from Algeria: An Interview with Pierre Bourdieu, by Franz Schultheis War and Social Transformation in Algeria Habitus and Habitat Men-Women An Agrarian Society in Crisis The Economics of Poverty In Algiers and Blida: Image Sequence, by Pierre Bourdieu Comments on the Photographic Documentations of Pierre Bourdieu, by Christine Frisinghelli Works by Pierre Bourdieu on Algeria List of Photographs Notes

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