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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is useful for all levels of practice and education, from undergraduate to graduate courses, because it links circumstances of daily living with social work issues. It will also be of interest to social work professionals, to other helping or care professions, and to a broad public. It is a moving book. It makes life appear as social and the social as a strong fiber of life. -- Adrienne Chambon, University of Toronto The stories in the book made me laugh, cry, and most of all think about the taken-for-granted, something we absolutely want our social work students to be able to do well and confidently. It is a brave and courageous work that must be made public. -- Sally St. George, University of Calgary A fascinating, unique, and often moving book. It explores the huge potential that 'autoethnography' has for expanding our understanding of both ourselves and social work and has clear practical implications. -- Nigel Parton, University of Huddersfield This is a unique collection of personal stories written by social workers... there are many pearls of wisdom to be gained from these heartfelt narratives that may help you not only become a better therapist but also better understand parts of your own history. Social Work Career Development An incredibly engaging, well-written, and unique reading experience. CHOICE Not only does this book have a set of fascinating well-referenced stories that show life as social and the social as central to life, it is also a unique, emotive, social work text which... is so engaging as to be hard to ignore... Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsForeword, by W. David Harrison Preface 1. Autoethnography: The Opening Act, by Stanley L Witkin 2. Where's Beebee? The Orphan Crisis in Global Child Welfare, by Katherine Tyson McCrea 3. A Finn in India: From Cultural Encounters to Global Imagining, by Satu Ranta-Tyrkko 4. Being of Two Minds: Creating My Racialized Selves, by Noriko Ishibashi Martinez 5. Learning From and Researching (My Own) Experience: A Critical Reflection on the Experience of Social Difference, by Jan Fook 6. What Remains? Heroic Stories in Trace Materials, by Karen Staller 7. What Matters Most in Living and Dying: Pressing Through Detection, Trying to Connect, by Brenda Solomon 8. Will You Be with Me to the End? Personal Experiences of Cancer and Death, by Johanna Hefel 9. Holding on While Letting Go: An Autoethnographic Study of Divorce in Ireland, by Orlagh Farrell Delaney and Patricia Kennedy 10. The Pretty Girl in the Mirror: A Gender Transient's Tale, by Allan Irving 11. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: An Inquiry of Transformative Change, by Stanley L Witkin 12. From Advising to Mentoring to Becoming Colleagues: An Autoethnography of a Growing Professional Relationship in Social Work Education, by Zvi Eisikovits and Chaya Koren List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is useful for all levels of practice and education, from undergraduate to graduate courses, because it links circumstances of daily living with social work issues. It will also be of interest to social work professionals, to other helping or care professions, and to a broad public. It is a moving book. It makes life appear as social and the social as a strong fiber of life. -- Adrienne Chambon, University of Toronto The stories in the book made me laugh, cry, and most of all think about the taken-for-granted, something we absolutely want our social work students to be able to do well and confidently. It is a brave and courageous work that must be made public. -- Sally St. George, University of Calgary A fascinating, unique, and often moving book. It explores the huge potential that 'autoethnography' has for expanding our understanding of both ourselves and social work and has clear practical implications. -- Nigel Parton, University of Huddersfield This is a unique collection of personal stories written by social workers... there are many pearls of wisdom to be gained from these heartfelt narratives that may help you not only become a better therapist but also better understand parts of your own history. Social Work Career Development An incredibly engaging, well-written, and unique reading experience. CHOICE Not only does this book have a set of fascinating well-referenced stories that show life as social and the social as central to life, it is also a unique, emotive, social work text which... is so engaging as to be hard to ignore... Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsForeword, by W. David Harrison Preface 1. Autoethnography: The Opening Act, by Stanley L Witkin 2. Where's Beebee? The Orphan Crisis in Global Child Welfare, by Katherine Tyson McCrea 3. A Finn in India: From Cultural Encounters to Global Imagining, by Satu Ranta-Tyrkko 4. Being of Two Minds: Creating My Racialized Selves, by Noriko Ishibashi Martinez 5. Learning From and Researching (My Own) Experience: A Critical Reflection on the Experience of Social Difference, by Jan Fook 6. What Remains? Heroic Stories in Trace Materials, by Karen Staller 7. What Matters Most in Living and Dying: Pressing Through Detection, Trying to Connect, by Brenda Solomon 8. Will You Be with Me to the End? Personal Experiences of Cancer and Death, by Johanna Hefel 9. Holding on While Letting Go: An Autoethnographic Study of Divorce in Ireland, by Orlagh Farrell Delaney and Patricia Kennedy 10. The Pretty Girl in the Mirror: A Gender Transient's Tale, by Allan Irving 11. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: An Inquiry of Transformative Change, by Stanley L Witkin 12. From Advising to Mentoring to Becoming Colleagues: An Autoethnography of a Growing Professional Relationship in Social Work Education, by Zvi Eisikovits and Chaya Koren List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEgocentricity and Mysticism is a philosophical milestone that clarifies our relationship to language, social interaction, and mortality. Ernst Tugendhat casts mysticism as an innate facet of what it means to be human—a response to an existential need for peace of mind.Trade ReviewErnst Tugendhat's groundbreaking essay in philosophical anthropology explores with analytical lucidity and existential depth our twofold disposition to speak and act in the first person while going beyond egocentricity, relativizing our singular senses of selfhood in 'mystical' apperceptions of what it means to possess agency, to pursue the good, to ponder mortality, to achieve peace of mind, and to be responsible for others and to life itself-in sum, to be human. -- Michael Jackson, author of As Wide as the World is Wise: New Directions in Philosophical Anthropology This is an engaging and thoughtful philosophical reflection that packs much into its relatively short span. It admirably ranges from what is involved in our ability to say 'I,' through what counts as important in our moral lives, to the large and recurrent questions dealing with life and death, mysticism, religion, and wonder at the existence of the world. Its lucid style of philosophizing joins the precision of analysis with a finessed feel for the larger picture. In its own way, it impressively spans the so-called divide between the analytic and continental approaches to philosophical questions. Warmly recommended. -- William Desmond, author of God and the Between Ernst Tugendhat demonstrates how a sense of mysticism, that is, the capacity for 'stepping back,' is not only necessary for a more humane anthropology but also for philosophy's own theoretical practice. -- Santiago Zabala, author of The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics Egocentricity and Mysticism is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work. In addition to straddling the so-called continental/analytic divide in contemporary philosophy, it also makes significant and original contributions to the fields of philosophical anthropology, existential phenomenology, and theology-not to mention semantics and even ethics as well. -- Martin Woessner, author of Heidegger in AmericaTable of ContentsTranslators' Introduction Introduction Part I. Relating to Oneself 1. Propositional Language and Saying "I" 2. "Good" and "Important" 3. Saying "I" in Practical Contexts: Self-Mobilization and Responsibility 4. Adverbial, Prudential, and Moral Good: Intellectual History 5. Relating to Life and Death Part II. Stepping Back from Oneself 6. Religion and Mysticism 7. Wonder Addendum: On Historical and Nonhistorical Inquiry Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTime and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing." -- George Marcus, University of California, Irvine "The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers." -- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University xTable of ContentsForeword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti Bunzl Preface to the Reprint Edition Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Time and the Emerging Other 2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied 3. Time and Writing About the Other 4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision 5. Conclusions Postscript: The Other Revisited Notes References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTime and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing." -- George Marcus, University of California, Irvine "The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers." -- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University xTable of ContentsForeword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti Bunzl Preface to the Reprint Edition Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Time and the Emerging Other 2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied 3. Time and Writing About the Other 4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision 5. Conclusions Postscript: The Other Revisited Notes References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.Trade ReviewA stunningly original and significant contribution to a field that seems mired in a Cold War long passed. Not only does Hyun Ok Park seek to untie the knotted problem of the two Koreas, but she also persuasively provides an exemplary guide to how best unveil the interacting entanglements of history and the contemporary moment. -- Harry Harootunian, Columbia University One of the most provocative works on North Korea to emerge in years, Hyun Ok Park's The Capitalist Unconscious offers a fresh look at the past twenty years of political and socioeconomic changes in Northeast Asia. Her focus is on labor moving across borders-how it moves, generates wealth, and transforms every place it travels. The two Koreas, we learn, might not be so divided after all. -- Andre Schmid, University of Toronto Combining broad theoretical insights into Korea's rapidly changing political economy with vivid ethnographic details of migrant workers' experiences, Hyun Ok Park's The Capitalist Unconscious challenges us to reimagine the region's present, as well as its future. It will provoke lively debates about the construction of 'transnational Korea' in the twenty-first century. -- Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provocative and engaging. Korean Quarterly A deeply moving, warm personal tale. Korea.net A much-needed examination of North Korea and its relationship to South Korea, China, and global capitalism writ large. -- Patrick Chung Journal of American-East Asian Relations Park's book fundamentally challenges existing understandings of Korean unification and will surely redefine debates about the meaning of a transnational Korea. American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Crisis 1. The Capitalist Unconscious: The Korea Question 2. The Aesthetics of Democratic Politics: Labor, Violence, and Repetition Part II: Reparation 3. Reparation: On Colonial Returnee 4. Socialist Reparation: On Living Labor 5. Chinese Revolution in Repetition: The Minority Question Part III: Peace and Human Rights 6. Korean Unification as Capitalist Hegemony 7. North Korean Revolution in Repetition: Crisis and Value 8. Spectacle of T'albuk: Freedom and Free Labor Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on eight years of ethnographic research, Beliso-De Jesús traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of Santería practitionersTrade ReviewAisha Beliso-De Jesus allows us to see the densely intertwined modes of becoming that include the racing, sexing, and engendering of bodies. Electric Santeria is an exciting and timely addition to the series Gender, Theory, and Religion. -- Solimar Otero, author of Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World, and coeditor of Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and African Diasporas An inspiring-even astonishing-piece of anthropological research. -- John L. Jackson Jr., author of Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem A brilliantly coherent and insightful contribution to the way that we think about the complexities and nuances of new transnational formations. This artfully mastered ethnography is bound to become an influential staple for a range of actors: Santeria practitioners, academics, and cultural critics. Not only does it demand from its readership a rethinking of our ontologies of knowing, but it also requires that we take seriously affective practices in clarifying the way we make sense of our world. This is a must read for all! -- Kamari Clarke, University of Pennsylvania Ethnographically rich and theoretically audacious, Beliso-De Jesus's Electric Santeria breathes fresh air into the scholarship on Afro-Cuban ritual praxis. Her principled refusal of an analytic of transcendence, her spirited critique of conventional approaches towards mediation, her focus of the sensorium, and her mobilization of black feminist and queer theory give us a handle on problems that anthropologists of religion and religious studies scholars have yet to pay full attention to. -- Stephan Palmie, author of The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion In this brilliant, theoretically exciting, and innovative ethnography, Beliso-De Jesus explains Santeria in Cuba in terms of a transnational, diasporic geo-ontology. Critiquing the ubiquity of religious universals-based Christian notions of transcendence and transubstantiation, she reveals Santeria's 'trans' as an assemblage of co-presences, in which nationalisms, gender, and sexuality are mediated through sound, image, and sense. Electric Santeria is a new 'classic' for religious studies and for African diaspora studies. -- Inderpal Grewal, Yale University An innovative exploration of a protean and complex religious phenomenon, Electric Santeria presents a powerful challenge to the longstanding dominance of the Abrahamic within anthropological scholarship on religion. Drawing on her own vast ethnographic archive, Beliso-De Jesus carries us along the historical and transnational peregrinations of people, spiritual forces, racial formations, and nationalist projects that together constitute the relational ontology of Santero worlds. This is a work of considerable insight and theoretical daring, a rare accomplishment that deserves to be widely read. -- Charles Hirschkind, University of California, Berkeley Electric Santer'ia should be required reading for ethnographers of not only Cuba and African-inspired religious traditions, but any new religious movements that challenge Western theories of being in the world. Nova Religio This book is a major breakthrough in the conceptualization of transnational religious ontologies be they in Cuba or not. American Anthropologist This book is an important contribution to writing stories that are not nationally bounded but also that work to look beyond binary dualisms. SociologyTable of ContentsAuthor's Note Preface: Despedidas Acknowledgments Introduction: Transnational Santeria Assemblages 1. Electric Oricha 2. Transnational Caminos 3. Pacts with Darkness 4. Scent of Empire 5. Contaminating Femininities Epilogue: A Death at Dawn Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Egyptian cyberpunk to dubbed versions of Shrek in Iran, this book examines the emergence of new forms of culture in circulation and their geopolitical implications.Trade ReviewAfter the American Century offers a fascinating tour of the appropriation and deployment of American popular culture in a globalized, restless Middle East. From cinema and novels to hip-hop and comic books, this wonderfully written and richly observed book presents novel and exciting readings of familiar cultural forms in new political environments. -- Marc Lynch, author of The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East After the American Century is a book of exquisite audacity. Bold in its detailed precision and daring in its imaginative topography of topics, Brian T. Edwards's writing cuts through much noise and nuisance to lay bare what lies ahead. Its arguments do not just dismantle the imperial fantasy of an 'American century,' but point to the uncharted worlds far beyond its captured imagination. -- Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University This book is a rich account of what happens when cultural objects, literary texts, and films circulate between the Middle East and the United States: how they are interpreted and reinvented, in the process engendering new publics and counterpublics. A nuanced analysis of cultural politics that extends our understanding of the forms and limits of Western domination of the Middle East. -- Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject In After the American Century, Edwards has devised subtle, ethnographically informed reading methodologies to explain how anomalous logics of transnational circulation have radically undermined plans for a 'new American century.' The book will fast become indispensable to an understanding of the genealogy of transnational American studies. -- Donald E. Pease, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and founding director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College Edwards plunges into the cultural lives of Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran to illustrate the demise of one aspect of "the American century": the outsize influence that U.S. popular culture exercised in the Middle East. -- John Waterbury Foreign Affairs Edwards' background and considerable expertise shine... making the book a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the region. Middle East Journal Now that American power is receding across the globe it is a good time to ask how... methodologies might adapt to these new circumstances, and what we might name such an academic adaptation. Brian T. Edwards' important new book... provides us with a possible answer to this arguably urgent question. Post45 Ambitious, wide-ranging, and highly valuable. European Journal of American Culture Edwards challenges traditional narratives of US cultural imperialism... Highly recommended. CHOICE Edwards is to be commended for his ethnographic methods, his command of local languages, and the originality of his archive. International Journal of Middle East Studies A genuinely important contribution to our understanding of how American literary studies circulates internationally in the twenty-first century. American Literature A welcome work, valuable for its rich readings of unfamiliar yet important Middle Eastern artists and for its stimulating arguments about the transnational circulation of American culture in our global, digital age. Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface 1. After the American Century: Ends of Circulation 2. Jumping Publics: Egyptian Fictions of the Digital Age 3. "Argo Fuck Yourself": Iranian Cinema and the Curious Logics of Circulation 4. Coming Out in Casablanca: Shrek, Sex, and the Teen Pic in Contemporary Morocco Epilogue: Embracing Orientalism in the Homeland Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Egyptian cyberpunk to dubbed versions of Shrek in Iran, this book examines the emergence of new forms of culture in circulation and their geopolitical implications.Trade ReviewAfter the American Century offers a fascinating tour of the appropriation and deployment of American popular culture in a globalized, restless Middle East. From cinema and novels to hip-hop and comic books, this wonderfully written and richly observed book presents novel and exciting readings of familiar cultural forms in new political environments. -- Marc Lynch, author of The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East After the American Century is a book of exquisite audacity. Bold in its detailed precision and daring in its imaginative topography of topics, Brian T. Edwards's writing cuts through much noise and nuisance to lay bare what lies ahead. Its arguments do not just dismantle the imperial fantasy of an 'American century,' but point to the uncharted worlds far beyond its captured imagination. -- Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University This book is a rich account of what happens when cultural objects, literary texts, and films circulate between the Middle East and the United States: how they are interpreted and reinvented, in the process engendering new publics and counterpublics. A nuanced analysis of cultural politics that extends our understanding of the forms and limits of Western domination of the Middle East. -- Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject In After the American Century, Edwards has devised subtle, ethnographically informed reading methodologies to explain how anomalous logics of transnational circulation have radically undermined plans for a 'new American century.' The book will fast become indispensable to an understanding of the genealogy of transnational American studies. -- Donald E. Pease, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and founding director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College Edwards plunges into the cultural lives of Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran to illustrate the demise of one aspect of "the American century": the outsize influence that U.S. popular culture exercised in the Middle East. -- John Waterbury Foreign Affairs Edwards' background and considerable expertise shine... making the book a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the region. Middle East Journal Now that American power is receding across the globe it is a good time to ask how... methodologies might adapt to these new circumstances, and what we might name such an academic adaptation. Brian T. Edwards' important new book... provides us with a possible answer to this arguably urgent question. Post45 Ambitious, wide-ranging, and highly valuable. European Journal of American Culture Edwards challenges traditional narratives of US cultural imperialism... Highly recommended. CHOICE Edwards is to be commended for his ethnographic methods, his command of local languages, and the originality of his archive. International Journal of Middle East Studies A genuinely important contribution to our understanding of how American literary studies circulates internationally in the twenty-first century. American Literature A welcome work, valuable for its rich readings of unfamiliar yet important Middle Eastern artists and for its stimulating arguments about the transnational circulation of American culture in our global, digital age. Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface 1. After the American Century: Ends of Circulation 2. Jumping Publics: Egyptian Fictions of the Digital Age 3. "Argo Fuck Yourself": Iranian Cinema and the Curious Logics of Circulation 4. Coming Out in Casablanca: Shrek, Sex, and the Teen Pic in Contemporary Morocco Epilogue: Embracing Orientalism in the Homeland Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRichard B. Miller aims to stimulate religious ethics through discussions of ethnography, ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; the ethics of empathy; moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, loyalty, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimensions of memory; and religion and democratic life.Trade ReviewThe work of one of the leading religious ethicists of his generation, Friends and Other Strangers could revolutionize the field of religious ethics. Richard B. Miller calls for a revitalized field of inquiry that will adopt new methodological strategies while masterfully crossing disciplinary boundaries and demonstrating what first-rate work in ethics should look like. -- Paul Lauritzen, author of The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of TerrorFriends and Other Strangers is a beautifully written and important book by a prominent scholar in the field of religious ethics. There is little existing work that does this sort of careful theoretical and acutely interdisciplinary thinking in a way that is both illuminating to specialists and accessible to undergraduates. -- Elizabeth Bucar, author of Creative Conformity: The Feminist Politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i WomenFriends and Other Strangers makes a powerful and important case for a turn to culture and ordinary life in religious ethics. Exploring the implications of this turn, Richard B. Miller demonstrates that sophisticated grappling with concrete issues such as the treatment of children, friendship, the politics of memory, or just war cannot do without engaging underlying issues in moral anthropology. Based on impressively wide reading in ethnography, philosophy, and religious ethics, Miller's new book provides a timely and accessible contribution to a vibrant field. -- Thomas A. Lewis, author of Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion—and Vice VersaRecommended. * CHOICE *An important book for theological ethics and public theology as well as religious ethics. * Theological Studies *Deserves a wide reading within the discipline it lovingly seeks to reshape. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Friends and Other StrangersPart I: Religion, Ethics, and the Human Sciences1. What Is Religious Ethics?2. On Making a Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics3. Moral Authority and Moral Criticism in an Age of Ethnocentric AnxietyPart II: Selves and Others4. The Ethics of Empathy5. Indignation, Empathy, and Solidarity6. On Duties and Debts to Children7. Evil, Friendship, and Iconic Realism in Augustine's ConfessionsPart III: Communities and Institutions8. Just War, Civic Virtue, and Democratic Social Criticism: Augustinian Reflections9. The Moral and Political Burdens of Memory10. Religion, Public Reason, and the Morality of Democratic AuthorityEpilogue: Signposts of the Past and for the FutureNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Naqab Bedouins represents the first attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last century, including the Ottoman era, the British Mandate, Israeli military rule, and the contemporary schema, and document its broader relevance to understanding state-minority relations in the region and beyond.Trade ReviewIn The Naqab Bedouins, Nasasra uncovers marvelous material that illuminates the history of the Bedouins of southern Palestine and challenges prevailing understandings of their politics and social experiences. The long historical perspective that takes us from Ottoman times to the present relies on Nasasra's prodigious original research and superb documentation to present a comprehensive and detailed picture of this Bedouin community struggling against state power. -- Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University What makes Nasasra's study of the Bedouins in Israel especially interesting is the close parallel with the experience of Bedouin communities throughout the Middle East. Refreshingly, he avoids romanticizing the Bedouins while focusing on their resistance as an indigenous people to policies that are, in effect, if not always in design, anti-nomadic. His comparative, historicized approach, moreover, offers an intriguing entry to wider debates about different forms of nationalism and identity in Arab societies. -- Yezid Sayigh, senior fellow, Carnegie Middle East Center A book like no other. Nasasra tells the riveting story of the Palestinian Bedouins of the Naqab and Bi?r al-Saba? from the late Ottoman era until today, opening up a new vista for understanding the place of indigeneity in the Middle East and highlighting resistance and power relations that shadow the lives of the Naqab Bedouins. Particularly strong is his discussion on indigeneity scholarship in reference to international law. Nasasra has not just written a book on Bedouins-he has given a voice to the most marginalized among the Palestinians in Israel. -- Larbi Sadiki, Qatar UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Transliteration Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Understanding the State Project: Power, Resistance, and Indigeneity 2. Ruling the Desert: Ottoman Policies Toward the Frontiers 3. British Colonial Policies for the Southern Palestine and Transjordan Bedouin, 1917-1948 4. Envisioning the Jewish State Project 5. The Emergence of Military Rule, 1949-1950 6. Reshaping the Tribes' Historical Order, 1950-1952: Border Issues, Land Rights, IDPs, and UN Intervention 7. Traditional Leadership, Border Economy, Resistance, and Survival, 1952-1956 8. The Second Phase of Military Rule, 1956-1963 9. The End of Military Rule and Resistance to Urbanization Plans, 1962-1967 10. Postmilitary Rule, the Oslo Era, and the Contemporary Prawer Debate 11. The Ongoing Denial of Bedouin Rights and Their Nonviolent Resistance Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Naqab Bedouins represents the first attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last century, including the Ottoman era, the British Mandate, Israeli military rule, and the contemporary schema, and document its broader relevance to understanding state-minority relations in the region and beyond.Trade ReviewIn The Naqab Bedouins, Nasasra uncovers marvelous material that illuminates the history of the Bedouins of southern Palestine and challenges prevailing understandings of their politics and social experiences. The long historical perspective that takes us from Ottoman times to the present relies on Nasasra's prodigious original research and superb documentation to present a comprehensive and detailed picture of this Bedouin community struggling against state power. -- Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science, Columbia UniversityWhat makes Nasasra's study of the Bedouins in Israel especially interesting is the close parallel with the experience of Bedouin communities throughout the Middle East. Refreshingly, he avoids romanticizing the Bedouins while focusing on their resistance as an indigenous people to policies that are, in effect, if not always in design, anti-nomadic. His comparative, historicized approach, moreover, offers an intriguing entry to wider debates about different forms of nationalism and identity in Arab societies. -- Yezid Sayigh, senior fellow, Carnegie Middle East CenterA book like no other. Nasasra tells the riveting story of the Palestinian Bedouins of the Naqab and Bi?r al-Saba? from the late Ottoman era until today, opening up a new vista for understanding the place of indigeneity in the Middle East and highlighting resistance and power relations that shadow the lives of the Naqab Bedouins. Particularly strong is his discussion on indigeneity scholarship in reference to international law. Nasasra has not just written a book on Bedouins—he has given a voice to the most marginalized among the Palestinians in Israel. -- Larbi Sadiki, Qatar UniversityHistorically and analytically rich. . . . Adds considerably to scholarly understanding of the Bedouin both in Mandate-era Palestine and the state of Israel. -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen * International Affairs *An important contribution [that] provide[s] a comprehensive account, temporally and thematically, of the Bedouin communities of the Naqab area. . . . I strongly recommend this book. -- Ahmad Amara * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Readable and well-sourced. . . . Nasasra shows that the Bedouin community has constantly challenged power. -- Dina Matar * LSE Middle East Centre Blog *This is the most comprehensive existing survey of the Bedouin Arab tribes of the Naqab desert in southern Palestine over the last century...[A] must read for anyone eager to look beyond the usual stereotypes and socio-political assumptions concerning the medium of colonial and post-colonial resistance. -- Abdullah Drury * The Muslim World Book Review *A welcome challenge to the conventional wisdom that the Bedouin in southern Palestine were passive victims under Israeli military rule. . . . Recommended. * Choice *The Naqab Bedouins is a well-documented ethnohistory that provides an overview of the past events and people that have come to define popular Bedouin history in the twenty-first century. -- Emilie Le Febvre * Anthropos *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesNotes on TransliterationAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Understanding the State Project: Power, Resistance, and Indigeneity2. Ruling the Desert: Ottoman Policies Toward the Frontiers3. British Colonial Policies for the Southern Palestine and Transjordan Bedouin, 1917–19484. Envisioning the Jewish State Project5. The Emergence of Military Rule, 1949–19506. Reshaping the Tribes' Historical Order, 1950–1952: Border Issues, Land Rights, IDPs, and UN Intervention7. Traditional Leadership, Border Economy, Resistance, and Survival, 1952–19568. The Second Phase of Military Rule, 1956–19639. The End of Military Rule and Resistance to Urbanization Plans, 1962–196710. Postmilitary Rule, the Oslo Era, and the Contemporary Prawer Debate11. The Ongoing Denial of Bedouin Rights and Their Nonviolent ResistanceNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and '90s with an ethnographic account of a club he calls Le Boogie Woogie. He explores the life of a cast of characters that includes regulars and bar workers, dealers and hustlers, following social interaction around the club's active bar.Trade ReviewTerry Williams has already established himself as a master of gaining access to hard-to-reach, hidden, and vulnerable populations. He has done so again here, giving an in-depth look at a place with which most people will be totally unfamiliar in a vivid and compelling style. -- Richard E. Ocejo, author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban EconomyWilliams, our twenty-first century griot with an unparalleled deftness for illuminating the most cavernous recesses of our humanity, weaves together exquisite prose, unburdened by self-consciousness or recriminations, pulsating with such delicious expectancy of nights lived reckless but free, tempered by a palpable compassion that renders the foreign familiar and lays bare the beautifully flawed souls buried beneath. -- Lawanna R. Kimbro, civil rights attorneyAn admirable effort to illuminate a hidden world that will be most useful to fellow researchers in the social sciences. * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Setting2. The Scene3. The Characters4. After-Hours NowConclusion: A Culture of RefusalAcknowledgmentsAppendix 1. Methodological AppendixAppendix 2. Field Note SamplesAppendix 3. Where Are They Now?GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from the socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the effects of these artifacts, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts.Trade ReviewWhat Remains is a perceptive and - perhaps more crucially - a very sympathetic account of multiple ways through which ordinary people try to take hold of their politically controversial past. Bach creates an intricate but highly accessible story about the past that is not quite gone. -- Serguei Oushakine, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University Jonathan Bach weaves his way elegantly and insightfully through Berlin's post-unification landscape, highlighting the absences, unsettlements and inheritances from the past. In doing so, he shows not only the potency of what remains but also the creativity with which it is addressed and new futures forged. This is a wonderful, highly readable yet deeply sophisticated book. -- Sharon Macdonald, Institut fur Europaische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universitat zu BerlinTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "The Taste Remains" 2. Collecting Communism 3. Unbuilding 4. The Wall After the Wall Epilogue: Exit Ghost Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from the socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the effects of these artifacts, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts.Trade ReviewIn this wonderful book, Jonathan Bach shows the complexity of East Germans' adjustment to their new reality. Examining preferred consumption items, personal museums of things from the past, demolitions and rebuildings, and memorializations of the Wall, he goes well beyond fashionable invocations of "nostalgia" to explore unification's assaults on personhood and identity, on senses of place and history. A must read! -- Katherine Verdery, the Graduate Center of the City University of New YorkWhat Remains is a perceptive and—perhaps more crucially—a very sympathetic account of multiple ways through which ordinary people try to take hold of their politically controversial past. Bach creates an intricate but highly accessible story about the past that is not quite gone. -- Serguei Oushakine, Princeton UniversityJonathan Bach weaves his way elegantly and insightfully through Berlin’s postunification landscape, highlighting the absences, unsettlements, and inheritances from the past. In doing so, he shows not only the potency of what remains but also the creativity with which it is addressed and new futures forged. This is a wonderful, highly readable, yet deeply sophisticated book. -- Sharon Macdonald, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinWhat Remains traces a quarter century of present pasts—a minefield of forced dispossessions and reappropriations in the struggles of forging German unification. It offers a vibrant encounter with the residues of Germany’s first socialist state and concludes with a moving tribute to a current generation of Nachgeborenen haunted by the failures and the promises of the past. -- Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University[What Remains] weaves together theories of representation, time, and memory to examine the complicated legacy of East Germany’s material culture. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Jonathan Bach’s superb analysis of how state and non-state actors make sense of, display, and appropriate the material remains of the GDR in What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany could not be more timely. His careful attention to materials that became obsolete almost overnight — consumer goods, the Berlin Wall, the “People’s Palace” — has enormous relevance for the pressing questions regarding the schism(s) in German memory. -- Benjamin Nienass * Public Seminar *Jonathan Bach makes an important contribution to the scholarship on the politics of memory in Germany. . . . Eloquently but accessibly written, with expert translations of sometimes very difficult-to-translate German terms. . . . This book illustrates the importance of delving deeply into everyday culture in order to develop a sophisticated understanding of politics. -- Jenny Wüstenberg * Perspectives on Politics *This study in material culture succeeds in walking us through, at times literally, what reads like a magical landscape in which the trash, desiderata, and fragments of yesteryear . . . become visual feasts and official memories. . . . Thought-provoking . . . refreshing and incisive. -- Andrew Lass * American Anthropologist *This highly readable account weaves together public and private, the big and the small, to offer a fresh take on the politics of memory in united Germany. . . . As an insightful, innovative take on this important topic, What Remains is likely to endure. -- Kyrill Kunakhovich * German Studies Review *Bach’s book takes the reader on a dazzling journey through selective aspects of the German past and present. It dwells little on the study of political agents and organizational structures, and perhaps because, and not in spite, of that, it makes for stimulating material and a highly recommended reading. -- Lutz Kaelber * American Journal of Sociology *Insightful, original, beautifully written, and richly illustrated with documentary photographs...The book will be of interest for memory-studies scholars, as well as social scientists taking the role of material culture in social processes seriously. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "The Taste Remains"2. Collecting Communism3. Unbuilding4. The Wall After the WallEpilogue: Exit GhostNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection between religious conversion and the nation-state.Trade ReviewEasily the best recent ethnography of state bureaucratic practice (and state-sponsored conversion) in Israel. Kravel-Tovi's work is grounded in significant ethnographic fieldwork and moves beyond accounts that treat 'the State' as a monolithic and inimical entity. Real people-rabbis, converts and state workers-emerge from these pages, not stick figures of the sociological imagination. -- Don Seeman, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Naked Truth on Tel Aviv’s BeachesIntroduction: Taking Winking SeriouslyPart 1. The Conversion Mission1. National Mission2. State WorkersPart 2. The Conversion Performance3. Legible Signs4. Dramaturgical Entanglements5. Biographical ScriptsEpilogue: Winking Like a StateGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection between religious conversion and the nation-state.Trade Review[This] book is well organized ... it is essential reading for anyone who wants to get a deeper understanding of how the conversion process really operates. -- Alan Rosenbaum * The Jerusalem Post *This book is required reading for students and scholars who are interested in religion and state in contemporary Israel, reproduction, gender, and of course, conversion -- Michal Raucher, Rutgers University * Religious Studies Review *In addition to its contributions to the fields of political anthropology and the anthropology of religion, When the State Winks is a model of a methodologically and theoretically rigorous ethnography written in an accessible language. * American Ethnologist *Important, challenging book. -- Shlomo Brody * Jewish Review of Books *This is a masterpiece to recommend to all those concerned about research into political states and the related concepts of governmentality and biopolitics. -- Avihu Shoshana * Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History *This study is well-written and readable. It combines academic professional writing with relevant, informative stories from the field. The result is an informative and beautifully written book. * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *When the State Winks is written in an engaging style that will instantly draw in both a specialist and a non-specialist reader. It can be recommended to a wide range of academic audiences and is a must-read in anthropology of religion at the intersection with political anthropology and anthropology of the state. -- Yulia Egorova * LSE Review of Books *[A] stunning ethnographic study...Highly recommended. * Choice *A beautifully written and engaged ethnography of the overlooked topic of state-sponsored conversion to Judaism. Kravel-Tovi illustrates how the complicated playing field of conversion is constrained with tensions between state secularism and religion; Zionism and Judaism; and bureaucracy and sincerity. -- Esra Ozyurek, London School of EconomicsIn addition to its contributions to the fields of political anthropology and the anthropology of religion, When the State Winks is a model of a methodologically and theoretically rigorous ethnography written in an accessible language that would make an excellent addition to undergraduate- and graduate-level syllabi. * American Ethnologist *This book is highly recommended. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *When the State Winks is a superb ethnography of state-run conversion to Judaism in Israel. -- Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar * Ethnos *The book offers a wonderful synthesis between an animated ethnographic description and a sharp analytical account. [It] makes an important contribution to both the anthropology of the state and the ethnography of communication. -- Tamar Katriel * Israeli Sociology *When the State Winks is a milestone, or even a breakthrough, in the understanding of the state. Kravel-Tovi directs her look at the generally overlooked bodily part of the state: its face; not at the way in which the state “sees” or “hears” but at the way in which its shifting gestures and expressions create a double entendre. -- Haim Hazan * Israeli Sociology *In her stimulating and engrossing book, Michal Kravel-Tovi deploys the classic anthropological concept of ‘winking’ . . . Kravel-Tovi is to be congratulated for a political ethnography that achieves a satisfying balance among macro-contextual analysis, mobilization of social science, vivid and detailed vignettes of the objects of her study, and authorial self-reflection. -- Ian S., Lustick University of Pennsylvania * Israel Studies Review *In this probe of state-religion relations in Israel, Michal Kravel-Tovi brings the critical but sympathetic curiosity of a skilled ethnographer to explore the use of religious conversion for the purpose of creating national belonging. Addressing the substantial divergence between rabbinical practice and theological ideals and portraying converts whose reasons for choosing Judaism are often practical rather than spiritual, she shows how officials of state as well as rabbinical judges wink collusively at the short shrift given to doctrinal requirements in favor of well-trained performances of sincerity. -- Michael Herzfeld, Harvard UniversityThe question of who is allowed to convert to Judaism in Israel, and how and when, is deeply charged with both spiritual and political commitments. Kravel-Tovi’s insightful, thoughtful book helps us to understand the nature of these contradictions and their consequences and the way that converts themselves come to experience their conversion. -- Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford UniversityWhen the State Winks is an excellent, original work that uniquely situates its analysis not just within an anthropological framework but also within a broad, humanistic one. Kravel-Tovi tells a compelling story about the political and personal complexities of conversion in Israel, and it will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, and historians as well as scholars of Judaism and religion more generally. -- Leora Batnitzky, Princeton UniversityThe best recent ethnography of state bureaucratic practice in Israel and the best ethnography of state-assisted conversion more broadly. With clarity of prose, pathbreaking ethnography, and a humanizing argument, Kravel-Tovi’s work moves beyond accounts that treat ‘the state’ as a monolithic and inimical entity. Real people—rabbis, converts, and state workers—emerge from these pages, not stick figures of the sociological imagination. -- Don Seeman, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Naked Truth on Tel Aviv’s BeachesIntroduction: Taking Winking SeriouslyPart 1. The Conversion Mission1. National Mission2. State WorkersPart 2. The Conversion Performance3. Legible Signs4. Dramaturgical Entanglements5. Biographical ScriptsEpilogue: Winking Like a StateGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisLeader Communities is a study of Stockholm's suburb Djursholm and other similar places: privileged communities where elites choose to live, socialize with other elites, and raise their children into future elites. Mikael Holmqvist provides unparalleled insight into today's power elite and the social and political consequences of their aspirations.Trade ReviewOne of the very few extensive and penetrating ethnographic studies of an upper-class community, its culture, lifestyle, mentality, ideals, and norms, but also its problems and shortcomings, which contributes new empirical knowledge to a topic which has received much attention in mass media as well as in elite literature. -- Trygve Gulbrandsen, research professor at the Institute for Social Research (Norway) Sweden is mainly known to Americans as an advanced welfare state with equality bordering on socialism. This book presents another side of Sweden through its focus on its most exclusive suburb, Djursholm, situated just outside of Stockholm. This is where Sweden's one-percenters live and also where they do their utmost to ensure that their children will stay in that percent. A first rate social science study. -- Richard Swedberg, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsPreface1. A Shining City: The Emphasis on Aesthetics2. A Privileged World: Economic Power and Wealth3. Significant People and Winners4. Sporty Teenagers, Winsome Pensioners5. Fragrant, Sociable Personages6. Community and Social Partition7. Family Life8. A Lifestyle Under Threat9. Service Staff10. Becoming an Elite11. Judgment and Fear of Failure12. Tactics for Success13. The Rise of the “Consecracy” AcknowledgmentsLiteratureAppendix: The Ethnographic StudyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBelief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha’s Wizards is a historically informed, ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era.Trade ReviewWhen hospital visiting hours are over in contemporary Myanmar, Thomas Nathan Patton reports in this compelling book, the supernatural heroes known as weizzā stay behind—in images and statues of them, in dreams, and sometimes in visions—to comfort and embolden the sick. This is one example of how the men and women of modern-day Myanmar make lives for themselves in the everyday company of Buddhist wizard-saints, to the anxious consternation of religious and political authorities. Written with historical depth, attentive throughout to comparative phenomena in other religions, and based on extensive fieldwork, The Buddha’s Wizards is a major contribution to the critical reexamination of lived religion in the modern world. -- Robert A. Orsi, author of History and PresenceIn this path-breaking and richly textured study, Patton presents a much needed revision of the literature on Burmese Buddhist practices. His comprehensive study accounts of the ways in which many lay Buddhists in Myanmar form affective relations with wizards like Bo Min Gaung in dreams, visions, and through their material embodiments of power. Buddhist wizards and the stories about them transcend not only time and space; they also help devotees or fight the threat of Buddhist decline while giving voice to traditional Theravada sentiments. The reader will leave this book with a nuanced understanding of Theravada Buddhist practices as lived religion and its imaginaries that goes far beyond monolithic depictions of Buddhist institutions or texts by showing the reader how followers of the Buddha’s wizards make sense of the world around them. Anthropologists of religion and scholars of Buddhism, Southeast Asia, and especially Myanmar will want to introduce their students to Patton’s wonderful book. -- Juliane Schober, author of Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar: Cultural Narratives, Colonial Legacies, and Civil SocietyPatton’s gift to us is that he has opened a door into the mystical and miraculous world of the weizzā, Burmese Buddhism’s furtive wizard-saints. Resisting colonial, state, and institutional religious power, the wizards belong to the people. In affective bonds with their devotees, they disrupt, occupy, heal, and transform. Readers will not forget their encounter with the most potent wizard of all, Grandpa Bo Min Gaung. Grandpa is more proximate and accessible to his devotees than the Buddha himself. Patton’s intimate and vivid ethnographic study of the material and spiritual worlds of lived religion in Myanmar will transform how we think about Buddhism. -- Jennifer Scheper Hughes, author of Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the PresentBeginning from the very first page, Patton whisks us away on an exciting journey through the magical world of the Buddhist wizards of Myanmar. Based on in-depth and long-term ethnographic research, this book provides an intimate and deeply empathetic exploration of the roles wizards play as healers, bestowers of good luck, defenders of the faith, spirit guides and teachers, and, most importantly, as familiar presences in the everyday lives of contemporary Burmese Buddhists. -- C. Pierce Salguero, author of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern SourcesIn The Buddha’s Wizards, the prose sparkles—the writing is crisp without being dry and evocative without being flowery—and Patton has achieved a nice balance between personal stories, primary research, and secondary source citations. He puts the voices of actual Burmese weizzā and practitioners (both female and male) first and foremost while also drawing upon a plethora of Burmese-language sources. -- Justin Thomas McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical MonkAn elegant, rich, and thought-provoking study. Thomas Nathan Patton weaves theoretical reflection through graceful ethnographic and historical narrative and in the process develops a sophisticated framework for thinking about religious bodies and their worlds. -- Donovan Schaefer, author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power[An] elucidating anthropological monograph on Burmese Buddhism. . . . Filled with absorbing stories of wizards and magic, this book would fit easily into undergraduate or graduate courses on Asian religions and Southeast Asia. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Eloquently demonstrates the power of studying religions as lived phenomena. I hope it will find readers far and wide, both among specialists and in the undergraduate classroom. * Reading Religion *An accessible text suitable for undergraduate students and scholars alike interested in Buddhist encounters with modernity and Southeast Asian lived religiosity broadly. * Religious Studies Review *A multilayered history and ethnography. . . . Patton’s work is especially important for the way in which he allows the voices of his informants to be heard. * Choice *Well-written and informative. * New Books Asia *A work of lucid scholarship on a novel topic of interest not only to students of Theravada Buddhism but also to ethnographers, theorists of affect, and historians of religion. -- Justin W. Henry, Georgia College & State University * Bulletin for the Study of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. Vanguards of the Sāsana2. The Buddha’s Chief Wizard3. Women of the Wizard King4. Pagodas of Power5. Wizards in the ShadowsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisBelief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha’s Wizards is a historically informed, ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era.Trade ReviewWhen hospital visiting hours are over in contemporary Myanmar, Thomas Nathan Patton reports in this compelling book, the supernatural heroes known as weizzā stay behind—in images and statues of them, in dreams, and sometimes in visions—to comfort and embolden the sick. This is one example of how the men and women of modern-day Myanmar make lives for themselves in the everyday company of Buddhist wizard-saints, to the anxious consternation of religious and political authorities. Written with historical depth, attentive throughout to comparative phenomena in other religions, and based on extensive fieldwork, The Buddha’s Wizards is a major contribution to the critical reexamination of lived religion in the modern world. -- Robert A. Orsi, author of History and PresenceIn this path-breaking and richly textured study, Patton presents a much needed revision of the literature on Burmese Buddhist practices. His comprehensive study accounts of the ways in which many lay Buddhists in Myanmar form affective relations with wizards like Bo Min Gaung in dreams, visions, and through their material embodiments of power. Buddhist wizards and the stories about them transcend not only time and space; they also help devotees or fight the threat of Buddhist decline while giving voice to traditional Theravada sentiments. The reader will leave this book with a nuanced understanding of Theravada Buddhist practices as lived religion and its imaginaries that goes far beyond monolithic depictions of Buddhist institutions or texts by showing the reader how followers of the Buddha’s wizards make sense of the world around them. Anthropologists of religion and scholars of Buddhism, Southeast Asia, and especially Myanmar will want to introduce their students to Patton’s wonderful book. -- Juliane Schober, author of Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar: Cultural Narratives, Colonial Legacies, and Civil SocietyPatton’s gift to us is that he has opened a door into the mystical and miraculous world of the weizzā, Burmese Buddhism’s furtive wizard-saints. Resisting colonial, state, and institutional religious power, the wizards belong to the people. In affective bonds with their devotees, they disrupt, occupy, heal, and transform. Readers will not forget their encounter with the most potent wizard of all, Grandpa Bo Min Gaung. Grandpa is more proximate and accessible to his devotees than the Buddha himself. Patton’s intimate and vivid ethnographic study of the material and spiritual worlds of lived religion in Myanmar will transform how we think about Buddhism. -- Jennifer Scheper Hughes, author of Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the PresentBeginning from the very first page, Patton whisks us away on an exciting journey through the magical world of the Buddhist wizards of Myanmar. Based on in-depth and long-term ethnographic research, this book provides an intimate and deeply empathetic exploration of the roles wizards play as healers, bestowers of good luck, defenders of the faith, spirit guides and teachers, and, most importantly, as familiar presences in the everyday lives of contemporary Burmese Buddhists. -- C. Pierce Salguero, author of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern SourcesIn The Buddha’s Wizards, the prose sparkles—the writing is crisp without being dry and evocative without being flowery—and Patton has achieved a nice balance between personal stories, primary research, and secondary source citations. He puts the voices of actual Burmese weizzā and practitioners (both female and male) first and foremost while also drawing upon a plethora of Burmese-language sources. -- Justin Thomas McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical MonkAn elegant, rich, and thought-provoking study. Thomas Nathan Patton weaves theoretical reflection through graceful ethnographic and historical narrative and in the process develops a sophisticated framework for thinking about religious bodies and their worlds. -- Donovan Schaefer, author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power[An] elucidating anthropological monograph on Burmese Buddhism. . . . Filled with absorbing stories of wizards and magic, this book would fit easily into undergraduate or graduate courses on Asian religions and Southeast Asia. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Eloquently demonstrates the power of studying religions as lived phenomena. I hope it will find readers far and wide, both among specialists and in the undergraduate classroom. * Reading Religion *An accessible text suitable for undergraduate students and scholars alike interested in Buddhist encounters with modernity and Southeast Asian lived religiosity broadly. * Religious Studies Review *A multilayered history and ethnography. . . . Patton’s work is especially important for the way in which he allows the voices of his informants to be heard. * Choice *Well-written and informative. * New Books Asia *A work of lucid scholarship on a novel topic of interest not only to students of Theravada Buddhism but also to ethnographers, theorists of affect, and historians of religion. -- Justin W. Henry, Georgia College & State University * Bulletin for the Study of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. Vanguards of the Sāsana2. The Buddha’s Chief Wizard3. Women of the Wizard King4. Pagodas of Power5. Wizards in the ShadowsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades Taiwan has increasingly come to see itself as a modern nation-state. A-chin Hsiau traces the origins of Taiwanese national identity to the 1970s, when a surge of domestic dissent and youth activism transformed society, politics, and culture in ways that continue to be felt.Trade ReviewIn this theoretically informed and empirically grounded study, A-chin Hsiau locates the genesis of the prevailing cultural nativism in twenty-first-century Taiwan in the postwar generation’s “return-to-reality” movement of the 1970s. The work powerfully illuminates the early stages of the ascendance of an island-centered historical narrative that presently rivals, and is poised to supplant, the erstwhile dominant Sinocentric national discourse. -- Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, author of Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market LawPolitics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan explores an understudied period and adds nuance to the scholarly conversation about Taiwanese identity. Through detailed analysis, this book exposes how history has been rewritten to serve various identity construction efforts in Taiwan. It sheds new light on just how complicated and changeable identity can be. -- J. Megan Greene, author of The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan: Science Policy and the Quest for ModernizationIn Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan, A-chin Hsiau’s striking achievement is to demonstrate how committed activists who came of age during the era of martial law used indirect politics to pave the way for Taiwan’s later democratization. Hsiau shows compellingly how youth and its passions have the power to remake the world even amid political repression. -- Margaret Hillenbrand, author of Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary ChinaHsiau provides a sensible and nuanced interpretive account of how nativist discourse, cultural nationalism, and youth activism in 1970s Taiwan shaped its path toward democracy and thereby transformed global post–Cold War politics. This book is required reading for students and scholars of Asian and transregional studies. -- Ping-hui Liao, coeditor of Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, MemoryA milestone of international Taiwan studies . . .With a solid scholarship, Hsiau has woven a convincing narrative of the power of ideas, and the moving saga of how Taiwanese youth's difficult search for their true selves should find wider resonance in present-day Taiwan, China, and beyond. * International Journal of Asian Studies *Good introductory reading for students of Taiwanese literature, culture, politics, and contemporary history. * Pacific Affairs *A landmark piece of scholarship. * Global Asia *Relevant to sociology, history and Taiwan studies, but most of all to Chinese studies writ large . . . an important contribution to understanding China's rise in the international system, local societal reactions to Taiwan's global marginalization, and the apparently sudden emergence of Taiwanese nationalism in the 1970s. * The China Quarterly *Beyond the richness of the corpus and the finesse of the analyses, it is above all the theoretical approach adopted by the author that makes this publication essential in the field of Taiwan studies. * China Perspectives *The focus on narrative makes this a valuable study of the creation of a usable past by continually altering memories of historical events and figures, and it allows Hsiau to take declarations of Chinese national identity by the return-to-reality generation at face value. He should be applauded for challenging essentialist and instrumentalist explanations and for highlighting the continued salience of Chinese identity. * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceNotes on Romanization and TranslationIntroduction: Get Real1. Generation and National Narration2. Education, Exile, and Existentialism in the 1960s3. The Rise of the Return-to-Reality Generation in the Early 1970s4. The Rediscovery of Taiwan New Literature5. The Reception of Nativist Literature6. Dangwai HistoriographyConclusion: The Renarration of IdentityGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection that bridges the dichotomy between sacred and secular travel.Trade Review"The contributors to Intersecting Journeys focus on a diverse mix of pilgrim-tourists, producing a varied and nuanced image of what tourists want. Each small, gem-like chapter explores travel and shrine in a different ethnographic context, from the Spanish pilgrimage center of Santiago de Compostela to the temples of Kyoto; from British missionaries in New Guinea to Star Trek conventions." --Anthropology News"A very welcome addition . . . to a field which is expanding far beyond the limits of the anthropology of religion."--John Eade, Sociology and Anthropology, Roehampton University, London, UKTable of ContentsApproaches to the anthropology of pilgrimage and tourism Ellen Badone & Sharon R. Roseman; "They told what happened on the road": Narrative and the construction of experiential knowledge on the pilgrimage to Chimayo, New Mexico Paula Elizabeht Holms-Rodman; Pilgrimage to "England's Nazareth": Landscapes of myth and memory at Walsingham Simon Coleman; The Kyoto tax strike: Buddhism, Shinto and tourism in Japan Nelson H. H. Graburn; Tourism and Holy Week in Leon, Spain Mark Tate; Santiago de Compestela in the year 2000: From religious centre to European City of Culture Sharon R. Roseman; Extending the metaphor: British missionaries as pilgrims in New Guinea Wayne Fife; Pilgrimage and the IDIC ethic: Exploring Star Trek convention attendance as pilgrimage Jennifer E. Port; Stories of the return: Pilgrimage and its aftermath Nancy L. Frey; Crossing boundaries; Exploring the borderlands of ethnography, tourism and pilgrimage Ellen Badone

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Book SynopsisOffers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, this book shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.Trade Review"Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell by Jonathan Reinarz is an ambitious, lucid, and engaging book that brings some order to the ever-expanding academic literature on smelling, odors, and perfumery. . . . It will no doubt be a useful book for researchers and teachers for many years, and will also continue to be a thoughtful reflection on smell history, composed at a time when this subfield of historiography is particularly flourishing."--American Historical Review"Past Scents neatly summarizes many current historical perspectives on smell. More importantly it points to a number of other contemporary perspectives we might take as historians and past sensory perspectives, of women and the lower classes to take two examples, that we might better excavate from the archive."--Reviews in History"This book suggests that engagement with the cultural work of smell both in the past and in the present can be richly rewarding. Reinarz's timely survey of historical perspectives on smell will (hopefully) inspire further research that will move us beyond simple binaries of fragrant/foul and self/other toward more redolent possibilities."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Past Scents will endure as a valuable compendium of smell scholarship."--H-Net Reviews"The volume is rich in factual detail and benefits from a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective. . . . Reinarz has provided a significant contribution to the history of olfaction."--H-Soz-Kult"Past Scents makes a timely and welcome addition to the rapidly evolving scholarship on the history of the senses. Through an engaging tour of the field and a comprehensive survey of prior studies, Jonathan Reinarz awakens the reader's senses to the history and power of smell."--William A. Cohen, author of Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses"Reinarz's work ambitiously ranges between examples as diverse as fifth century Byzantium and contemporary Columbia, with thematic chapters presenting different prisms for examining the history of smell. . . . Demonstrates that the historiography of smell does not have to justify itself through calling attention to its former absence but can show how smell shaped religious, economic, colonial, gender and urban transformation."--Social History

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Book SynopsisBrings together sixteen essays on key and intersecting topics in critical cultural studies from major scholars in the field. This title includes essays that give particular attention to how relevant ideas, themes, and terms were developed, elaborated, and deployed in the work of James W Carey, the 'founding father' of cultural studies in the US.Trade ReviewAwarded the James W. Carey Media Research Award from the Carl Couch Center, 2011. "An unusually full and rich--and sometimes passionate--conversation on communication and culture, this volume offers a selection of illuminating and provocative responses to the life's work of James W. Carey.”--Carolyn Kitch, author of Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines“A creative approach to connecting key elements in a sometimes abstract field. Recommended for students and scholars of critical and cultural studies.”--Lee Wilkins, coeditor of The Handbook of Mass Media EthicsTable of ContentsContributors are: Stuart Allan, Jack Zeljko Bratich, Clifford Christians, Norman Denzin, Mark Fackler, Robert Fortner, Lawrence Grossberg, Joli Jensen, Steve Jones, John Nerone, Lana Rakow, Quentin J. Schultze, Linda Steiner, Angharad N. Valdivia, Catherine Warren, Frederick Wasser, and Barbie Zelizer

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Book SynopsisHow to interpret identity, culture, and history in soundTrade Review"Compelling and imaginative case studies--air-raid sirens, Warner Brothers cartoons, and clocks--ground this sonic investigation, but just as important is Goodale's work in interpreting sounds as opposed to merely placing them in a larger historical narrative. A major contribution to the study of music, communications, sound, and rhetoric."--John M. Picker, author of Victorian Soundscapes"An important book."--IEEE Technology and Society Magazine"Goodale's book helps us acquire a ... much-needed sonic literacy."--Technology and CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. Reading Sound 1 2. Fitting Sounds 16 3. Machine Mouth 47 4. The Race of Sound 76 5. Sounds of War 106 6. On Sound Criticism 132 Notes 155 Index 183

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Book SynopsisHow one set of anthropological sculptures deeply influenced modern racial perceptionsTrade Review"A provocative new study. . . . Kinkel shows how the images contributed to a contentious and mutating discourse on race through the end of the twentieth century."Art in America"Kinkel's original research brings to light much archival material, and the amply footnoted text is generously illustrated. . . . Touches on broad themes of racial politics in America."--Library Journal"Covers every detail concerning Malvina Hoffman'sRaces of Mankind--from the artist's career through her extensive preparation to the creation of work and its reception. . . . Recommended"--Choice"'Races of Mankind' staged some strange scenes from a marriage of arts and anthropology."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"Elegantly written and eminently readable, this work deals with an important and very current topic: the history of the social construction of race. Through the case study of Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind sculptures, Marianne Kinkel gives us a compelling example of how race has been imaged in art and in museum displays."--Mary Jo Arnoldi, curator of African ethnology and arts at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution"Sculpture, by virtue of its intimate connection with the human body, was given an authoritative place in the history of racial science, and Hoffman's project is perhaps the single most important example of that peculiar intersection of art and science. This is a fascinating study that reveals much about the persistence and contradictions of racial science in its final phase before genetics would transform biology and demolish race as a scientifically viable category."--Kirk Savage, author of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Initial Plans for a Physical Anthropology Display 21 2. Malvina Hoffman as Professional Artist 34 3. Producing the Sculptures and Building Consensus 48 4. The Hall of the Races of Mankind 82 5. Life beyond the Field Museum: Exhibiting Statuettes during the 1930s 124 6. Deploying the Races of Mankind Figures during the 1940s 144 Conclusion: Retraction and Redeployment of the Sculptures in Chicago 183 Abbreviations 201 Notes 203 Bibliography 245 Index 263

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Book SynopsisA fascinating ethnographic record of vanishing musical genres, traditions, and practicesTrade Review"Kartomi's book reaffirms the value of classic ethnomusicological research. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"This is a delicious book -- to be savoured, appreciated for its richness of detail and admired for its texture and cohesion. An innovative work, of great significant for describing, categorising and analysing Indonesia's traditional musical arts."--Inside Indonesia"The first comprehensive text detailing Sumatran music-dance traditions, based on forty years of fieldwork and scholarship, is, above all, a wonderfully encyclopedic collection of fascinating data and careful, honest description--in short, a classic ethnomusicological text."--Journal of the American Musicological Society"This book deserves credit as a significant contribution in englarging the body of knowledge of Indonesian traditional music."--Indonesia"Kartomi's impressive compendium of data, combined with engaging scholarship, is an important contribution to Asian studies, one that will likely inspire many students and scholars to think about Sumatra in new ways through its history of expressive culture and performance."--The Journal of Asian Studies"Rich in both extremely specific detail (in the form of musical transcriptions and artful play-by-play descriptions of events) and extremely broad theoretical musings about history, acculturation, gender,and pan-Sumatran themes and trends. . . . Here (as in person) Kartomi combines genuine warmth and gregariousness, a keen eye and ear for detail, and a disarmingly pragmatic matter-of-factness about potentially surprising or difficult subjects to fully engage her readers. It all makes for extraordinarily entertaining as well as informative reading"--Journal of Folklore Research"This volume presents a lifetime of writings by a distinguished scholar on the musical arts of Sumatra. Readers get a comprehensive glimpse of the myriad music and dance styles, ritual and religious life, cultural politics, and ecological and gender issues that permeate the island."--David D. Harnish, author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival"Widely recognized as the expert on the music of Sumatra, Margaret Kartomi provides a wealth of information on the music of various regions of the huge and culturally diverse island of Sumatra in Indonesia. No other book comes close to the treasure trove of descriptive data and detail here."--R. Anderson Sutton, author of Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java: Musical Pluralism and Regional Identity

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Book SynopsisA long view of human movement throughout RussiaTrade Review"Highly recommended. Randolph and Avrutin have done much to place mobility into the mainstream of Russian historiography."--The Russian Review“An important contribution to Russian history.”--Revolutionary Russia"A meritorious contribution."--Journal of Transport History"This is an absorbing collection of essays that will repay reading by historians and social scientists. . . . A good introduction to the latest scholarship on the rewards but also the discontents and hidden injuries of migration."--Slavic Review"New ways of looking at Russian society are well exploited, and hitherto ignored or unnoticed facts are revealed about individuals or institutions. This is a book that really does repay its reader."--The Slavonic and East European Review"This well-crafted collection of essays brings together a comprehensive selection of new research on mobility in Russia from the Tsarist Empire's westernmost provinces to the Far East. Of worldwide interest to scholars in migration studies as well as Eastern European studies."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium“An important contribution to Russian history.”--Revolutionary RussiaTable of ContentsContributors are Eugene M. Avrutin, Alexandra Bekasova, Faith Hillis, Gijs Kessler, Diane P. Koenker, Chia Yin Hsu, Eileen Kane, Anne Lounsbery, Matthew Light, Sarah D. Phillips, John Randolph, Anatolyi Remnev, Jeff Sahadeo, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Charles Steinwedel, Willard Sunderland, and Elena Tyuryukanova

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Book SynopsisBringing together the latest and most innovative scholarship on the history of the emotions.Trade Review"An excellent collection. Many of these essays represent the state of the art in the history of emotions, combining a very sophisticated understanding of the relations between emotional experience and emotional expression, between practices and feelings, between self and collectivity."--William M. Reddy, author of The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900–1200 CE "The essays goad historians to bravely study how emotions and emotional standards change when society modernizes. Recommended."--Choice“An essential reference for those in emotions history and for anyone who wants to understand the contours and promises of this emerging field.”--Canadian Journal of History

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Book SynopsisAs cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. This book describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity.Trade Review"Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala is an excellent modern ethnography of the Maya that takes globalization into account without losing any of the unique ethnographic insights of traditional case studies. Using a very descriptive writing style, S. Ashley Kistler gives an up-to-date analysis of Maya women who use modern marketing and exchange to maintain local social and cultural institutions such as religious brotherhoods, ritual co-parenthood, and folkloric performances." --Rachel Corr, author of Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes "This book has much to offer those interested in embodied memory, perception, and action. There are tantalizing strands for explorations of performance theory, language praxis, and spatial associations and resonances. It succeeds in its aim to elucidate the process by which Q'eqchi women entail capitalistic systems in their own projects of personhood and social institutions, and thereby maintain the cultural fabric. Indeed this ethnography displays the many meshed systems that have enabled the reemergence of Maya values onto the Guatemalan national scene."-Western Folklore "A delightfully readable and illuminating ethnography of the Maya market women of Chamelco. . . . It offers opportunities for reflection and debate about how cultural and economic practices work in tandem."--Journal of Anthropological Research"Kistler not only describes the daily lives of vendor women, she captures the broader contexts of their lives as they participate in local community politics, consider national-level Maya cultural movements, and confront typical non-Maya patriarchal forms of decision making and power that Mayas throughout Guatemala experience."-American Anthropologist

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Casey High weaves together memories, facts and fantasies as these occur in contemporary Ecuadorian Amazonia, offering us a fascinating picture of Waorani life today. This highly original book takes us a step further in the understanding of current sociocultural transformations among Amazonian indigenous peoples." --Carlos Fausto, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro "An exciting analysis of the most intimate aspects of memory and experience in a contemporary Amazonian indigenous group in dialogue with its own stereotypes. . . . A compelling book not only for anthropologists but for anyone interested in contemporary Amerindian groups."--European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"What do Bruce Lee, American missionaries being speared to death, Amerindians dancing in a national pride day, urban warrior performances, and a deeply felt sense of victimhood possibly have in common? In a refined narrative, Casey High weaves together memories, facts and fantasies as these occur in contemporary Ecuadorian Amazonia, offering us a fascinating picture of Waorani life today. This highly original book takes us a step further in the understanding of current sociocultural transformations among Amazonian indigenous peoples."--Carlos Fausto, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro"Insightful and terrifically readable. Victims and Warriors is a timely, innovative look at how Waorani use images of their violent past to craft new forms of masculinity and identity that remain remarkably resistant to gender hierarchy and sexual antagonism."--Beth Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society"Usually Waorani voices are distorted due to some other outside agenda, but here we have a nuanced account that communicates their experiences, remembrances, and perspective. Being able to hear what Waorani people think and say about violent encounters and violence in general, as well as Christianity, development, and other topics related to Waorani life and history, makes for a compelling read."--Michael A. Uzendoski, author of The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it." --Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play"Play and the Human Condition is a book as ambitious as its title… An erudite reading of the vast tradition of play studies, from sociology and psychology to cultural anthropology. It is also an original contribution to understanding play--provocative, informative and enlightening."--American Journal of Play "Profound and reasonable, accessible and well-written, and wide-ranging while confident of the details of past scholarship and current theory over a range of disciplines. This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it."--Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play"Thomas Henricks provides us with a completely new way of looking at children's play. He skillfully separates out the existing theories and then brings them back together to provide his own unique perspective. This book makes the most significant contribution to the field of play theory since Brian Sutton-Smith's seminal work, The Ambiguity of Play. It is stimulating and challenging, but at the same time most enjoyable to read."--Fraser Brown, author of Rethinking Children's Play"Students across disciplines will find here a thoughtful analysis of physiological, environmental, psychological, cultural, and social theories about how play changes and sustains people across generations. This timely work addresses the rapidly expanding knowledge and promise of play as well as trends such as consumerism and computer play that potentially diminish the spirit of play and quality of life across societies."--Joe L. Frost, author of Play and Child Development

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Based on finely detailed ethnography, lovingly treated by an author who knows how to write."--Daniel M. Goldstein, author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City"An engagingly written, and often moving, depiction of the lives of working class women in Bolivia and their stories of suffering and success navigating the social and political economic obstacles of everyday life in the twenty-first century. Throughout, the finely detailed analysis illuminates the cultural parameters of emotion and illness and the local politics of neoliberalism and we gain an appreciation for individuals' efforts to protest the distress in their lives and enhance the well-being of themselves and others. A clear contribution to the field."--Krista E. Van Vleet, author of Performing Kinship Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exploratory and rich in its investigation of multi-sensory critical methods as well as in its pursuit of the aural flaneur."--French Studies"In an innovative effort to provide an auditory history of Paris, Boutin mined the works of 19th-century writers, poets, composers, and painters for descriptions of or images evoking the cris de Paris. Recommended."--Choice"Boutin convinces us both of the possibility and the value in probing the sounds of the city of light in the nineteenth century."--Nineteenth Century Contexts "Boutin does not shy away from the inevitable tensions between text and context arising from the analysis of literary, journalistic or visual discourse." --Transposition"Readers from all disciplines will appreciate Boutin's elegant prose and her convincing argument that the City of Light has always been a city of sound."--Canadian Journal of History"This richly documented and timely book makes an important contribution to studies in sensory history and enriches our understanding of the context in which nineteenth-century French poetry developed, illuminating the visceral shocks of modernity which writers placed at the heart of their work."--Nineteenth Century French Studies"Boutin provides a particular perspective on comprehending nineteenth-century Paris as a "city of noise," and it is a rich one."--H-France Review"In City of Noise, Aimée Boutin raises fresh critical questions about the status of sound, music, and noise that transform our understanding of nineteenth-century Parisian soundscapes. Starting with a familiar nineteenth-century Parisian figure--the flâneur--Boutin turns our attention to an under-explored facet of the flâneur: the sounds and noises encountered on a stroll through the city. Boutin offers lively discussions of rarely considered first-hand accounts of the different types of street music and street cries heard in the Parisian cityscape. By taking the unique perspective of the peddler, City of Noise brings that world to life in a way that has never been tackled before. Boutin offers a real sense of how noisy Paris was and how these noises affected its citizens and their way of going about their daily business. The vast array of multimedia materials considered here (from poetry to music criticism, to guidebooks and visual sketches) means that City of Noise will be of interest to scholars, students and amateurs of nineteenth-century Paris alike."--Helen Abbott, University of Sheffield "City of Noise treats a timely, original, and intellectually rich topic: the street sounds of Paris in the nineteenth century and, no less essential, the experience, meaning, and depiction of those sounds."--James H. Johnson, author of Listening in Paris: A Cultural History "City of Noise provides a fascinating perspective on the evolution of aural modernity in France. This is an important contribution to the interconnected fields of literary studies and history of the senses. Boutin's analysis compels us to tune in the sounds of the past, listen to the music and noise of texts, and hear the streets around us in new ways."--Cheryl Krueger, author of The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire's Poetry in Prose "This is an excellent and important piece of work, engaging and lucid while still being scholarly."--Richard Cullen Rath, author of How Early America Sounded

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRanging widely from elite literary texts and baroque sculpture to 'archaic' Catholic folk images and positivist reveries, it offers a dazzling exegesis of language, metaphor, and allegory while connecting past and present as a spiral through time within the Luso-Brazilian colonial space. . . . A must-read tour de force." --John D. French, author of Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture "The dialectical processes Bosi describes help one understand both the context and contours of the passage from premodern to modern--mechanisms that remain operative in countries that, like Brazil, experienced and extended colonial period of development. Recommended."--Choice"The Dialectic of Colonization, published in Portuguese in 1992, is Bosi's most influential work, evoking for a millennial public iconic forms of brasilidade such as corporatism, cordiality, and evolutionary radicalism." --Ethos and Pathos in Millennial Brazil "Bosi's work, through Newcomb's translation, will undoubtedly reach and educate a broad audience of English speakers not entirely acquainted with Brazil."--Hispania"Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization is a very important book, written by one of the most respected intellectuals in Brazil."--Journal for Brazilian Studies"This classic of Brazilian literary and social criticism defies the artificial boundaries dividing the colonial from the modern, the religious from the secular, or 'high' from 'popular' culture. This singular survey offers a penetrating interpretation of the moral dynamics and contradictions that characterized missionaries, sculptors, poets, novelists, popular artists, and lawyers across three centuries. Ranging widely from elite literary texts and baroque sculpture to 'archaic' Catholic folk images and positivist reveries, it offers a dazzling exegesis of language, metaphor, and allegory while connecting past and present as a spiral through time within the Luso-Brazilian colonial space. . . . A must-read tour de force."--John D. French, author of Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture"In an array of masterfully crafted literary and cultural analyses, this book sheds light on the experience of people who navigate the troubled waters of the colonial condition. Moved by those who lacked an established voice in the colonial world, Bosi explores the inner drama of those who witnessed and wrote about a Brazil in the making: surrounded by the illiterate, where did their loyalties lie?"--Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University"A modern Brazilian classic. Written by a distinguished professor of literature, the essay ranges across several disciplines. Each chapter is organized around a particular moment in national history, illustrating fundamental themes of Brazilian culture. In the final chapter, the author relates what Robert Redfield called the Great Tradition ('high' culture) to the Little Tradition (popular culture), showing how they have borrowed and adapted from each other across the centuries."--Joseph L. Love, former director, Lemann Institute of Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Provocative. . . . Baker's study reminds us of the delicate dance between voyeurism and witnessing, pity and righteous indignation."--African American Review "This groundbreaking book is a corrective to recent arguments that have misunderstood the role of representations of black suffering and death in empowering a people. With insight and keen observation, it illuminates how proponents of black freedom and dignity employed difficult images to alter public opinion and spur change."--Maurice Berger, University of Maryland Baltimore County"The scholarship presented by Baker is sound with expert use of various categories of criticism and philosophy, including literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and sociology. This book is a much needed contribution to African American Cultural Studies. Baker offers fresh insights and deft interpretations suffering and death imagery. Her discussion of the psycho-political work of Emmett Till's beaten and abused body during the Civil Rights Era, for instance, is particularly astute. I recommend this text highly."--Debra Walker King, author of African Americans and the Culture of Pain"An innovative cultural study that connects visual theory to African American history, Humane Insight asserts the importance of ethics in our analysis of race and visual culture, and reveals how representations of pain can become the currency of black liberation from injustice. . . . An impressively well written and truly exceptional work of seminal scholarship."--Midwest Book Review"Asks us to set aside earlier theoretical interpretations pertaining to the camera and the violent, invasive, imperial gaze it affords . . . and instead to pay attention to the power of the photographs themselves and what looking at them achieves."--Civil War Book Review"A thoughtful narrative that seeks not only to broaden the readers' vision of their own humanity but to access a deeper understanding of how race, lack of jurisprudential process, and bigotry was used to justify these crimes against the black body."--H-Net"Humane Insight resituates our understanding of how black activists used images of black suffering and death to challenge racism and inequalities in the United States. . . . Baker's work is to be commended for emphasizing the various ways African Americans sought to use their suffering and deaths to undermine the very structures that allowed for black victimization."--Journal of African American History"With perceptive and original analysis, Baker moves us through a series of historical moments when images of black pain and death made black suffering legible to a wider public."--Amy Louise Wood, author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890–1940

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A well written and often gripping ethnographical study of the young, marginalized, and poor youth who live there, and who are separated from distant homes that are either unable or unwilling to provide for them. . . . The book's findings and discussions around gender dynamics make a worthy contribution to anthropological analysis of youth and understandings of the logics of social organization that develop in tough urban environments."--African Studies Quarterly "Margaretten's ethnographic realism and dialogical writing style make for compelling reading, while her appreciation of Zulu idioms and metaphors adds depth and thickness to her ethnographic accounts."--Journal of the Anthropological Institute "An important contribution to the anthropology of youth in Africa. Margaretten's rich, experience-near, ethnographic descriptions support a complex analysis of the lives of South African street youth in a context of dramatic inequality. It is nearly impossible to read Street Life under a Roof without feeling a connection with the youth of Point Place, and taking a deep interest in their struggles with love, family, and money."--Daniel Mains, author of Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia"An exemplary ethnography of post-apartheid life. Margaretten takes us to a place that few people know even exists: a self-run shelter for homeless young people in Durban. What emerges is a searing portrait of drugs, violence, and AIDS but also of compassion, love, loyalty, and humanity."--Mark Hunter, author of Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa"A major addition to the literature on youth in Africa as well as 'homelessness' and street children more generally."--Adam Ashforth, author of Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa

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Book SynopsisThe revolt against white rule in Rhodesia nurtured incipient local feminisms in women who imagined independence as a road to gender equity and economic justice. But the country's rebirth as Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe's rise to power dashed these hopes. Using history, literature, participant observation, and interviews, Carolyn Martin Shaw surveys Zimbabwean feminisms from the colonial era to today. She examines how actions as clearly disparate as baking scones for self-protection, carrying guns in the liberation, and feeling morally superior to men represent sources of female empowerment. She also presents the ways women across Zimbabwean society--rural and urban, professional and domestic--accommodated or confronted post-independence setbacks. Finally, Shaw offers perspectives on the ways contemporary Zimbabwean women depart from the prevailing view that feminism is a Western imposition having little to do with African women. The result of thirty years of experience, Women and PowerTrade Review"[An] engaging contribution to the anthropology of African feminism. Recommended."--Choice "[Women and Power in Zimbabwe] has paved the way for future research on feminism in Zimbabwe to interrogate the reconfiguration of gender roles and relations and Shona patriarchy's inherent, adaptive mechanisms that accommodate situations that perplex its internal logic."--American Anthropologist "Independence in Zimbabwe did not bring liberation for women, but failed promises gave momentum to their efforts to unite across differences. Carolyn Martin Shaw's intimate account of diverse women, from ex-combatants to beauty queens, NGO activists, and working wives and mothers, offers an engaged scholar's rich insights into the power of feminism to envision change."--Florence E. Babb, author of The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories"What happens to dreams when the revolution falls short? Drawing together mixed genres including ethnography, performance and literature, Martin Shaw offers an engaging portrait of postcolonial Zimbabwe through the storied lives of women."--Paulla A. Ebron, author of Performing Africa"Carefully illustrates Zimbabwean women's efforts to establish a feminist habitus and provides an excellent analysis of non-Western feminisms. The author dares to discuss some very intimate issues about feminism and sexuality that are rarely articulated in public."--Betty J. Harris, author of The Political Economy of the Southern African Periphery: Cottage Industries, Factories, and Female Wage Labour in Swaziland Compared

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book constitutes an excellent contribution to contemporary Chinese folklore studies and would make a wonderful addition to undergraduate courses on East Asian folklore and cross-cultural explorations of contemporary cultural politics."--Journal of American Folklore"I have read nothing like it in the field of Chinese studies. Original, insightful, and thoughtful, this book will be a must-read for a wide audience."--Lisa Rofel, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture"A lively, engaging ethnography."--China Quarterly"Reinventing Chinese Tradition is a fine example of how the anthropological analysis of tradition and suggests how anthropologists can articulate the relationship between modernity and tradition(s) in all societies."--Anthropology Review Database"This book uses solid ethnographic data and rich research findings in the field to provide convincing support for the newer trends in the theory of tradition. The profound analyses make a strong case for the argument that tradition is changeable."--Journal of Folklore Research"Wu's theoretical approach and frequent engagement with a broader ethnographic literature makes this a must-read for specialists. It is recommended for anyone looking for insights into the complexities of contemporary rural China's cultural scene."--China Journal"A wonderful balance of ethnography and theoretical argument. Written in an engaging and accessible style and each chapter has much to offer in terms of theoretical insight and argument. It fairly sparkles intellectually."--Ann Anagnost, coeditor of Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times"Drawing on years of deep and prolonged immersion in the lives of village residents of the North China plain, Ka-ming Wu not only brilliantly elucidates scholarly dialogues about domestic and global debates, but through lively ethnography allows readers to appreciate the dynamic interchange between several generations of village performers, artists, and their audiences."--Deborah S. Davis, coeditor of Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHonorable mention, Errol Hill Award, American Society for Theatre Research, 2017 "An impressive ethnography of racialized state violence in Brazil and the quotidian gestures to survive or counter its enduring push against black life. The writing is urgent, engaging, and exemplary in its focus and clarity.”--The American Society for Theatre Research"Afro-Paradise offers a much needed contribution to the field of black studies in the Americas. . . . Additionally, it expands the recent discussions unearthed by the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, by addressing the unique context of race relations in Brazil."--Luso-Brazilian Review "This book is an excellent one that should be of great use in a number of seminars, particularly to those that consider the predominance of violence in the genealogy of African diaspora communities, and in the contemporary lives of their members, in Brazil and elsewhere. It is an excellent demonstration of the importance of performance studies for socio-cultural anthropology."--Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology "This book powerfully demonstrates that Bahia's exotic allure is in fact no afro-paradise. In a unique fusion of ethnography and textual analysis, the author reveals how in the 'land of happiness,' anti-black violence is pervasive and deadly. As the question of anti-black violence continues to emerge as the key political issue of our generation, Afro-Paradise brings a much needed global perspective to our discussions of anti-blackness and black survival."--Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, author of Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil"A compelling look at anti-black violence in contemporary Brazil. From the pelourinho to the forms of policing that followed emancipation, through to the military dictatorship and post-1989 processes of gentrification, Smith demonstrates in specific ways how violence against black bodies is foundational to the state. An exciting contribution to a number of fields."--Deborah A. Thomas, author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica"This provocative ethnography is extremely timely. The current upsurge of antiracist activism on U.S. and Brazilian streets and also the availability of a rich repertoire of theoretical, and methodological, and ethical tools that anthropologists like Christen Smith strategically engage have set the stage for this compelling social analysis, which is situated where scholarship and activism intersect. In a remarkably sophisticated and creative way, the author brings street theater, carnival, state violence and social movements into a trenchant conversation on race, gender, class and the paradoxes of citizenship, as Black Brazilians embody and perform them in Salvador, Bahia. In this book Smith performs a powerful act of counter-storytelling at its best."--Faye V. Harrison, author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in a Global AgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 INTERLUDE I: CULTURE SHOCK 31 1 Afro-Paradise: Where the Whip Tears the Flesh 41 INTERLUDE II: "THE BERLIN WALL" 71 2 The Paradox of Black Citizenship 77 INTERLUDE III: "TERRORISM" 113 3 The White Hand: State Magic and Signs of War 117 INTERLUDE IV: "THE POLICE RAID" 153 4 Palimpsestic Embodiment 155 INTERLUDE V: REPRISE 177 5 In and Out of the Ineffable 179 Appendix: Methodology and Timing 207 Notes 213 Bibliography 231 Index 251

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Opens a window on one dimension of how younger, politically conscious Kenyan Christians express their faith."--Christianity Today "Well written, entertaining, and eye-opening."--Daily Nation "Refreshing and highly informative."--Christian Century "A remarkably imaginative and personalized approach to popular music and youth culture, which sheds fascinating light on Kenya's changing culture, history, politics, and especially Christianity."--Paul Gifford, author of Christianity, Politics, and Public Life in Kenya"A very provocative, fascinating, even entertaining peek into the youthful ferment under way in African Christianity."--Emmanuel Katongole, author of The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa"Reading The Street Is My Pulpit is refreshing in diverse ways. It is a lesson on the intersection between creativity and social media in Africa, a continent that is reaping the benefits of information technologies in fundamental ways. The book is also a journey into ethnographic research in the digital age."--Kimani Njogu, author of Youth and Peaceful Elections in Kenya

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Christine Kim's The Minor Intimacies of Race is a necessary and insightful look into the process of defining race and the experience of prejudice. . . . Kim should be applauded for her nuanced and informative approach to a very important topic."--Ethnic and Racial Studies "A valuable contribution to the study of Asian Canadian and Asian American literature. Importantly, Kim's compassion for and integrity to the subject is evident and admirable."--English Studies in Canada"Provides an exceptionally generative paradigm for thinking about those forms of collective identification that do not achieve the solidity of fully-fledged political movements but that nonetheless register in illuminating ways the everyday life of race in Asian North America. A fascinating and timely study."--Daniel Kim, author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of Identity"A refreshing and original focus on the ephemeral and the minor rather than on the grand and universal. Kim offers sophisticated, critically engaged, and smart discussions of current topics in Asian Canadian and Asian American studies."--Eleanor Ty, coeditor of Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory"Capacious in its method, wide-ranging in scope, and compellingly written, Minor Intimacies of Race offers--in its multifaceted contemplation of the geopolitics of feeling and meditation on multiple publics--a remarkably original and decidedly sophisticated diasporic critique."--Cathy Schlund-Vials, author of Modeling Citizenship, Jewish and Asian American Writing"A worthwhile discussion of Asian Canadian and Asian American culture and its fraught relationship with the tenets of official multiculturalism. This beautifully captures the registers and modalities of feeling produced in more conventional novels as well as aesthetically experimental works by visual artists and writers."--Josephine Lee, coeditor of Asian American Plays for a New Generation

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFills a gap in terms of uncovering the history of contemporary groups and locating their political work in the contexts of intersecting issues of class, caste, gender, and political power play. Importantly, it also carefully exposes the political conditions under which groups such as Janam and Budhan operate and the limitations and possibilities of their operations. Situating the work of the above-mentioned groups in the context of developmental discourses and within global networks of power (especially the role of UN organizations in defining 'creativity' and its implications for local contexts within India) adds an extremely important dimension to the work.--Nandi Bhatia, author of Performing Women/Performing Womanhood: Theatre, Politics, and Dissent in North India"An ambitious book. . . . offering both a critical analysis of the sentiment of optimism that so frequently surrounds the creative economy and a sympathetic critique of the compromised opportunities that this discourse allows for marginal and oppositional cultural groups in postcolonial India."--Geraldine Pratt, author of Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wonderfully engaging and engaged, this ethnography and history moves us between the microcosm of once remote central Himalayan communities, and the macrocosm of cosmopolitan musical transformations. Recasting Folk helps us deeply understand questions of contingency, authenticity, identity, and economy and the ideas of folk music and Indian civilization through the reflexive lens of musical value and the refractive prism of its production." Daniel M. Neuman, coauthor of Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Musical Cultures in West Rajasthan"A deep, detailed exploration of local musicians engagement with modernity and media and the construction of ˜folk" music in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Rather than take the idea of ˜folk " as an unexamined given or reject it altogether, Fiol seeks to understand it as a discourse within the history of postindependence India and Uttarakhand, offering a framework for thinking about other regional music cultures in modern India. ” Carol Babiracki, Syracuse University"Recommended."--Choice"Recasting Folk provides an ethnographically rich account of a range of performers and the social dynamics of making a living, particularly in a music industry that continues to be plagued by caste politics." --Ethnomusicology Forum

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