Social and cultural anthropology Books
University of Illinois Press Storytelling in Siberia The Olonkho Epic in a
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Harris' book is significant, accessible, and intriguing. . . . Wonderfully reflexive, providing a glimpse into dialogue with key people in the revitalization effort, people who are concerned that history of the prized ethnic tradition is recounted rightly." --Western Folklore"A most-welcome contribution to the analysis of the problems facing traditional art forms in the modern world." --Journal of American Folklore"Deeply researched . . . With detailed analysis, Harris describes the changes that olonkho has endured from before the Soviet time, during the Communist regime, through perestroika, up to its present day."--Songlines"Strong ethnography is what makes Storytelling in Siberia an important text, taking readers to a place little studied, to the particularity of olonkho." --Ethnomusicology Forum"Harris has crafted a complex and critical evaluation of a cultural-revival project in practice." --The Russian Review"Of relevance to understanding the challenges of cultural reemergence in other parts of the globe, this compelling book informs anthropologists and ethnomusicologists as well as a much broader audience about one of the true masterpieces of the world's oral literature-- its origins, content, and future. Readers witness the interplay of Christian and pre-Christian interpretations, the sad legacy of cultural loss during the Soviet years, and the aspirations of a modern nation to reclaim its vanishing cultural heritage amid a rapidly changing world. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Rich in information about a sonic performance tradition little known in the West, Storytelling in Siberia is an important introduction to both Sakha storytelling and its history. Multidisciplinary in scope." --The World of Music“Robin Harris’s up-close and vividly written account of how an epic tradition from Siberia was proclaimed a UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity is a masterpiece of contemporary ethnography in its own right.”--Theodore Levin, Dartmouth College "Ancient artistry comes to us through the trial of centuries. This book gives us hope that the heroic epics of the Yakuts, having survived under Soviet power, will outlive these rapidly changing, turbulent times as well."--Eduard Alekseyev, Academy of Spirituality, Sakha Republic (Yakutia) "Harris accomplished a laudable work. . . . Storytelling in Siberia is an important introduction to both Sakha storytelling and its history." --World of MusicTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Notes on Transliteration from Russian and Sakha xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Encountering Olonkho 1 1 Epic Traditions, Performers, and Audiences 11 2 Effects of Change during the Soviet Era 33 3 Esteem for a Masterpiece: The Quest for Recognition 64 4 Examining the Role of UNESCO and Intangible Cultural Heritage 89 5 Elements of Resilience: Stable and Malleable 108 6 Epic Revitalization: Negotiating Identities and Other Challenges 135 7 Ensuring Sustainability through Transmission and Innovation 156 Glossary of Russian and Sakha Words 163 Notes 165 Works Cited 203 Index 225
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University of Illinois Press Shame
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Title, 2018 "This well-written, thought-provoking, and comprehensively researched work is an important contribution to the growing area of emotions in society. . . . Essential."--Choice “Shame: A Brief History takes the reader on a breathtaking journey examining shame and shaming practices around the globe and through the ages. Stearns deftly delineates continuities and discontinuities across time and cultures, integrating key perspectives from psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics and more. This masterful work is delightfully written and thought provoking, exploring the uses of shame across multiple domains—education, childrearing, penology, international politics, to name a few. For better or worse, shame is with us—past, present, and future."--June P. Tangney, coeditor of Shame in the Therapy Hour"Shame: A Brief History knits together dispersed analyses of emotion of shame in individual cultures. . . .Stearns's long-term history of shame crosses the boundaries of classical, medieval, early modern and modern periodization so common in the history of emotions." --Social History"The central argument of Shame is a brilliant and incisive piece of cultural criticism, on par with some of Stearns's best work." --American Historical Review“Stearns is a leading authority in the field of American emotions. The depth and breadth of his knowledge is unrivaled. This is a wonderful book, a careful, in-depth study of one of the most important emotions of the current period.”--Joanna Bourke, author of The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
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University of Illinois Press Shelter from the Machine Homesteaders in the Age
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Progressive Magazine's Favorite Reads of 2020 "Part ethnography, part regional history, part memoir, and every bit entertaining, Strange's book will be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of students of Appalachia, environmental writing, cultural studies, or simply good, compelling writing." --Arkansas Review"The most compelling aspect of Jason G. Strange's Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism is its narrative trajectory; what begins as an examination of political economy morphs into a heartfelt travelogue. . . . As his title suggests, the 'machine' is not merely an instrument but also the omnipresent (and inequitable) relationship between power and wealth." --H-Net Reviews"This well-written book offers a judgment-free assessment of the core reasons for our nation’s cultural divide, along lines created by disparate access to education and opportunity. " --Progressive"Do yourself a favor, and read Shelter From The Machine." --Smokey Mountain Living Magazine"[Strange's] book has many moments of humor and presents a rich array of folk wisdom imparted by real folk." --Homestead.org”An important and much needed addition. Strange does a strong job of providing the historical context for homesteading and the reasons why it is so significant today. But even more important are his willingness to ground the book in the words and deeds of the homesteaders themselves and his own history with homesteading, and to go beyond a historical description to explore the role of class and capitalism in explaining the homesteaders' differences.”—Stephen L. Fisher, coeditor of Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia”An intimate but sprawling, profound but accessible gem of a book, Shelter from the Machine provides a useful and accessible critique of our 'macroparasitic' political economy and a timely reminder that transformative change is as possible as it is necessary.”—Shaunna L. Scott, coeditor of Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking"Strange offers a nuanced exploration of the concept of literacy." --Choice
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MO - University of Illinois Press Signs of the Spirit Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life
Trade Review"The real strength of the text lies in its reliance on the author's long-term fieldwork experiences and his nuanced and clearly communicated musical analysis to help elucidate the practices of a community whose experiences are worth recounting." --H-Net Reviews"Perman's approach is an unambiguous recognition of the interpretive community's perspectives on an ethnography study's subject or text, which represents a clear adherence to a widely acknowledged good practice." --African Studies Quarterly"Refreshing . . . Along with the theory and history, peppered throughout the text are the author's descriptions of people, places, and events; these are beautiful, person-centered and humanizing, in a way I wish all ethnographic writing would strive for." --Journal of Folklore Research”A thoughtful application of Peircean semiotics to the musical rendering of spirit mediumship. With his ethnographic finesse and attentive listening, Tony Perman leads us through a spirit possession ceremony. We meet real people and real ancestral spirits in actual moments of feelingful performance. He shows us how relations with departed spirits vitalize social worlds that are made by hard work, imbued with violent history, ensnared in bleak politics, and animated by hope and artistry. A humanizing book about a densely social life world that encompasses the dead.”—Louise Meintjes, author of Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid”Tony Perman's highly original contribution to ethnomusicology and anthropology extends beyond his attention to the Ndau of the Chipinge region of southeastern Zimbabwe—largely ignored by nationalist policies as well in the scholarly literature. Based in a deep understanding of Ndau history, spirituality, musicking, and a profound analysis of a single spirit possession ceremony, Perman replaces standard cultural relativistic explanations of an alternative belief system with a portrayal of what is simply true and real for Ndau ceremonial participants. This alone marks an important theoretical advance. But perhaps of the greatest benefit for anyone in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, Signs of the Spirit provides the most thorough and coherent general theory of music and emotion to date. Perman's theory, in turn, is based on a highly specified explanation of the ways that musical performance and emotion are meaningful and, especially, the ways iconic and symbolic generality are transformed into an unqualified experience of the indexical here-and-now.”—Thomas Turino, author of Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation
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University of Illinois Press Kusamira Music in Uganda
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"An important work, this book is the first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of spirit mediumship as both a healing mechanism and musical way of life in south-central Uganda. It is relevant to African studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, and public health."--Damascus Kafumbe, author of Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda
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University of Illinois Press A History of the Ozarks Volume 3
Book SynopsisBetween the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneersa cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality. Brooks Blevins tells the cultural history of the Ozarks as a regional variation of an American story. As he shows, the experiences of the Ozarkers have not diverged from the currents of mainstream life as sharply or consistently as the mythmakers would have it. If much of the region seemed to trail behind by a generation, the time lag was rooted more in poverty and geographic barriers than a conscious rejection of the modern world and its progressive spirit. In fact, the minority who clung to the old days seemed exotic largely because their anachronistic ways clashed against the backdrop of the evolving region around them. Blevins explores how these people's disproportionate influence affected theTrade Review"This book is superbly executed -- a fun, informative, and essential read for any scholar interested in the Ozark region, its states, and rural America." --Journal of Southern History "While taking on such a complex history in 253 pages is daunting, for sure, Brooks Blevins has delivered once again. This volume, and the other two in the series, will long stand as the starting point for any serious study of the Ozarks region. Indeed, with the completion of this monumental effort, Blevins can justifiably claim the title once proudly held by Vance Randolph as 'Mr. Ozarks.'" --Missouri Historical Review "Blevins writes history in a way that is compelling and readable, and this work is no exception. . . . Blevins has once again managed to deliver an important, intriguing, and relevant work about the history of the Ozark region." --Arkansas ReviewTable of ContentsTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Change and Continuity2. Living off the Land3. Industry and Image4. Ozarks Society5. Exposing the Ozarks6. Putting on a Show7. Farm to FactoryConclusionNotesIndexBack cover
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University of Illinois Press The Costs of the Gig Economy Musical
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University of Illinois Press Quinoa Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Linda J. Seligmann’s book brilliantly examines the role of the superfood quinoa in and on a local Andean community, exploring gender relationships, local production systems, and the communal sense of place, as these phenomena intersect with the nation state and global capitalism.”--William P. Mitchell, author of Voices from the Global Margin: Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in the Andes"Seligmann succeeds in showing how interconnected quinoa is to local and global food politics, economic development, and sustainability initiatives in Peru." --H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Quinoa ProspectsPart One. Backstories: Land Struggles, the Allure of Infrastructure, and Development Desires in HuanoquiteChapter 1. Agrarian Reform, Revolution, and ReversalsChapter 2. The Power and Seduction of InfrastructureChapter 3. Contesting Development, Alternative PathsPart Two. Soup and Superfood: The Politics of Quinoa Production and ConsumptionChapter 4. The Expansion of Quinoa ProductionChapter 5. Food Sovereignty, Food Security, and SustainabilityChapter 6. To Be Strong and HealthyChapter 7. Voracious ConsumptionConclusion: Pragmatic Spirituality and Quinoa DesiresNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Illinois Press Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent
Book SynopsisAs the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic transformation that took place when southerners in particular and Americans in general changed their thinking about when one should die, how that death could occur, and what decent burial really means. As she shows, death care evolved from being a community act to a commercial one where purchasing a purple coffin and hearse ride to the cemetery became a political statement and the norm. That evolution also required interactions between perfect strangers, especially during the world wars as families searched for their missing soldiers. In either case, being put away decent, as southerners called burial, came to mean something fundamentally different iTrade Review“The history of death in the South during the twentieth century is much more complex, much more dynamically connected to modernizing trends, and much more revealing of social realities than previously imagined. McCusker not only explores historical change, but also the racial and political dimensions of changing attitudes toward death in the context of transformations in notions of health care and life extension.”--Gary Laderman, author of Don’t Think about Death: A Memoir on MortalityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Death and the South Part One. Death and the New South Chapter 1. Selling Our Dead: Evolving Rural Burial Practice Chapter 2. Heavenly Reunions and Progressive Reform Chapter 3. Life Extension and the Emergence of a Death Commerce System Part Two. World War I and Challenging Southern Death Care Chapter 4. Lonely Coffins: World War I and the Spanish Influenza Epidemic Chapter 5. Remembering the War, Forgetting the Flu, Burying the Military Dead Part Three. Death Care in the 1920s South Chapter 6. Purple Coffins and Cadillac Hearses: Purchasing a Good Death Chapter 7. Indifference, Shame, Selfishness and Wrong Living: New Ways to Grieve and Comfort Chapter 8. “Health is just everything”: Expanding Healthcare in the South in the 1920s Part Four. Death and the New Deal Chapter 9. Making Deadly Landscapes Healthier: The First New Deal Chapter 10. Revitalizing a Sick South: The Second and Third New Deals Part Five. Dying in World War II Chapter 11. Flying and Dying as Americans Chapter 12. Muddy Roads and Sacred Duties: Bringing Home the World War II Dead Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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MO - University of Illinois Press Ten Traditional Tellers
Book SynopsisExamining storytelling through the voices of the tellers themselves, this book looks at their lives and art as they discuss their reasons for telling, their uses of the stories, and the influence of their cultural heritage. It also includes brief introductions for each teller and one or two of their representative stories.Trade Review"MacDonald has provided a valuable contribution to the study of oral narratives and storytelling. . . . Ten Traditional Tellers is a solid contribution to the popularization of folklore and brings needed attention to wonderful storytellers."--Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale "A successful melange of interviews and tales."--Western Folklore
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University of Illinois Press Puyo Runa
Book SynopsisThe Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. This book presents a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements.Trade Review"If there is a single book that is capable of condensing and addressing all of the issues of exchange, articulation with global economies, and ethnogenesis in Amazonia, it is Whitten and Whitten's book Puyo Runa.--Ethnohistory "As a convincing and accessible account of one people's struggle to comprehend and overcome the challenges of colonial history and a tumultuous geopolitical moment, Puyo Runa stands as a powerful argument for the essential perspective that only long-term, rigorous, and imaginative ethnography can provide."--Anthropological Quarterly "This career capstone volume will be broadly useful for all social scientists as well as Latin Americanists. . . . Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements ix Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation xxi Notes on Pronouns, People, and Pseudonyms xxv 1. Puyo Runa and Nayapi Llacta 1 2. Cultural Reflexivities, Images, and Locality 30 3. Empowerment, Knowledge, and Vision 59 4. Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua Women Dorothea Scott Whitten 90 5. Imagery and the Control of Power 119 6. Cultural Performance 140 7. Aesthetic Contours: History, Conjuncture, and Transformation Dorothea Scott Whitten and Norman Whitten 167 8. Return of the Yumbo: The Caminata from Amazonia to Andean Quito Norman Whitten, Dorothea Scott Whitten, and Alfonso Chango 200 9. Causaunchimi!: Processes of Empowerment 231 Glossary 259 References 271 Index 293
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University of Illinois Press Made from Bone
Book SynopsisPrimordial, mythic narratives from the indigenous Wakuénai of South America, available in English for the first time everTrade Review“Interlacing worldview and myth with song and story, [Hill] conveys on various levels his detailed knowledge of Wakuenai ways. . . . Enticing and evocative.”--Journal of Folklore Research"A great achievement. The clear text allows readers to comprehend the complexity of the Made-from-Bone trickster, a figure that represents the principles of the Wakuénai culture itself. Hill shows that myth is not mere 'folklore' or 'text' but something deeper, a field of unseen forces and powers by which people experience the world through dynamic, shifting forms."--Michael Uzendoski, author of The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador"An absorbing journey through the mythic history and musicscapes of the Wakuénai people. Jonathan D. Hill masterfully captures the sensuous and poetic dimensions of Wakuénai narratives while highlighting their enduring engagement with the events, struggles, and uncertainties of modern life. This is a painstakingly assembled Amerindian bible complete with its own hardcore exegesis."--Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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University of Illinois Press Ritual Encounters
Book SynopsisThe mythic roots and modern future of Ecuadorian indigenous communities in the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"An intelligent and welcome book."--Anthropology Review Database"An important addition to the literature on Andean ethnography and the anthropology of ritual."--Latin American Music Review"Ritual Encounters offers a richly textured reading of core Otavalan ritual performances and the cosmological discourse that sustains them."--Journal of Folklore Research"When I first witnessed the powerful images, music, and hypnotic rhythms of the Otavalos' Inti Raymi dances, I yearned for an ethnographer's deep analysis. Michelle Wibbelsman's eloquent ethnography has set a new standard for the study of ritual in the Andes."--Robert E. Rhoades, author of Development with Identity, Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes"An engaging study of diverse rituals that take place in indigenous communities in the northwestern highland region of Ecuador. Although previous ethnographic work conducted in the Otavalo area has examined ritual performances, none other focuses exclusively on ritual expression beyond a single community. Wibbelsman's work fills this gap in northern Andean ethnographic work."--Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, author of Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA
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University of Illinois Press Music and Cultural Rights
Book SynopsisGlobal and local perspectives on the meaning and significance of cultural rights through musicTrade Review"Illuminating and thought provoking. Music and Cultural Rights will challenge musicians, music scholars, and music educators to reexamine their preconceived notions of culture, music's purpose within culture, and the social responsibilities that come when using this music."--Music Educators Journal"The best perspective to date on the issues of music and cultural rights. This anthology speaks to the many scholars who believe that engaged scholarship is the way of the future."--Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture"A volume on music and cultural rights is both timely and welcome, particularly one that relies upon diverse ethnographic studies as this one does. An innovative interdisciplinary contribution to ethnomusicology."--Rosemary J. Coombe, Senior Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture, York UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Bell Yung; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Andrew N. Weintraub; 1. Agency and Voice, The Philippines at the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Ricardo D. Trimillos; 2. Use and Ownership, Folk Music in the People's Republic of China: Helen Rees; 3. Access and Control, A Key to Reclaiming the Right to Construct Hawaiian History: Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman; 4. National Patrimony and Cultural Policy, The Case of the Afroperuvian Cajon: Javier Leon; 5. Historical Legacy and the Contemporary World, UNESCO and China's Qin Music in the 21st Century: Bell Yung; 6. Representation and Intracultural Dynamics, Romani Musicians and Cultural Rights Discourse in Ukraine: Adriana Helbig; 7. Representing Tibet in the Global Cultural Market, The Case of the Chinese-Tibetan Musician Han Hong: Nimrod Baranovitch; 8. Music and Human Rights, AfroReggae and the Youth from the Favelas as Responses to Violence in Brazil: Silvia Ramos/Ana Maria Ochoa; 9. In Search of a Cross-Cultural Legal Framework, Indigenous Musics as Worldwide Commodity: Felicia Sandler; Bibliography; Glossary of Chinese Characters for Chapters By Baranovitch, Rees, and Yung; Notes on Contributors; Index Preface: Bell Yung; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Andrew N. Weintraub; 1. Agency and Voice, The Philippines at the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Ricardo D. Trimillos; 2. Use and Ownership, Folk Music in the People's Republic of China: Helen Rees; 3. Access and Control, A Key to Reclaiming the Right to Construct Hawaiian History: Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman; 4. National Patrimony and Cultural Policy, The Case of the Afroperuvian Cajon: Javier Leon; 5. Historical Legacy and the Contemporary World, UNESCO and China's Qin Music in the 21st Century: Bell Yung; 6. Representation and Intracultural Dynamics, Romani Musicians and Cultural Rights Discourse in Ukraine: Adriana Helbig; 7. Representing Tibet in the Global Cultural Market, The Case of the Chinese-Tibetan Musician Han Hong: Nimrod Baranovitch; 8. Music and Human Rights, AfroReggae and the Youth from the Favelas as Responses to Violence in Brazil: Silvia Ramos/Ana Maria Ochoa; 9. In Search of a Cross-Cultural Legal Framework, Indigenous Musics as Worldwide Commodity: Felicia Sandler; Bibliography; Glossary of Chinese Characters for Chapters By Baranovitch, Rees, and Yung; Notes on Contributors; Index
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University of Illinois Press Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies
Book SynopsisConsidering the vicissitudes of political, social, and cultural issues, this title provides an understanding of concepts such as history, community, culture, identity, politics, ethics, globalization, and technology.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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University of Illinois Press Wrigley Regulars
Book SynopsisA unique exploration of creating community in a fragmented worldTrade Review"An interesting inside look at the character and camaraderie created and shared by the community of Wrigley regulars."--NINE "Wrigley Regulars provides a very sophisticated analysis of community and then examines it using a provocative, compelling, and unusual case study about baseball. Because baseball is so deeply entrenched in American history and culture, Holly Swyers's case study has broad appeal."--Robert Elias, author of The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad
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University of Illinois Press Global Circuits of Blackness Interrogating the
Book SynopsisLocating and connecting diasporic identities on the global sceneTrade Review"Global Circuits of Blackness pushes the envelope on the theorizing of race in an interconnected global network. The editors have assembled a fresh intervention on the politics of globalization by synthesizing eras of black cultural theory with the pressures of contemporary global displacements."--May Joseph, author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of CitizenshipTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Miscognition, and Self-Recognition ixPercy C. Hintzen and Jean Muteba RahierI. Practices of Exclusion and Misrecognition 1. The African Diaspora as Imagined Community 3Felipe Smith 2. The Ecuadorian Victories in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the Ideological Biology of (Non-) Citizenship 29Jean Muteba RahierII. The Emergence of Diasporic Consciousness 3. Race and Diasporic Imaginings among West Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area 49Percy C. Hintzen 4. Continuity, Change, and Authenticity in Toronto's 1990 Caribana Concert 74Lyndon Phillip 5. Rethinking the African Diaspora and HIV/AIDS Prevention from the Perspective of Ballroom Culture 96Marlon M. Bailey 6. Remapping South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries 127Stephane Robolin 7. Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the Paradoxes of Black Nationalism 152Reena N. Goldthree 8. Diaspora Homecoming, Vodun Ancestry, and the Ambiguities of Transnational Belongings in the Republic of Benin 174Jung Ran Forte 9. Somos Negros Finos: Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship in Revolutionary Cuba 201Andrea Queeley References 223 Contributors 255 Index 258
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University of Illinois Press Histories of the Present
Book SynopsisA unique examination of ethnography as a theory-constructive endeavour focused on indigenous and Afro-descended Ecuadorian peopleTrade Review"The length and breadth of the Whittens' fieldwork in Ecuador adds a level of depth and insight that is unparalleled in Latin American studies. Their way of integrating earlier and more recent theories allows readers to understand how the contemporary concern for ethnogenesis, interculturality, and alternative modernities was anticipated several decades ago in works that still speak to us today in relevant terms."--Jonathan D. Hill, author of Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon"This book provides a fertile ground for thinking about the contributions of indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples to transformative politics in Ecuador, and it is one that is sure to yield fruitful insights well into the future."--American Anthropologist"In the Whittens' hands, culture is deeply relational. They develop a vocabulary of interculturality, alternative modernity, and emergent culture to convey how the transformative capacity of people operates in their power over signs."--The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology"This book historicizes ethnography in a unique, witness-participant way, bringing margins to center but also showing how indigenous and African-descended Ecuadorians have 'taken over' the country's history-in-the-making."--Kris Lane, author of Quito 1599: City and Colony in TransitionTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: To Remake the World 1 Prelude 23 1. colonial Mentality in Making the World 25 Prelude 43 2. Indigenous Constructions of "Blackness" 45 Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Rachel Corr Prelude 65 3. The Topology of El Mestizaje 67 Prelude 91 4. The Ecuadorian Indigenous Uprising of 1990 93 Prelude 115 5. Ecuador in the New Millennium 117 Prelude 141 6. Indigenous Ethnographers Portray Their World 143 Dorothea Scott Whitten Prelude 163 7. Indigenous Modernity 165 Conclusion: Ethnography and Theory in Cultural Life 187 Notes 203 References 211 Index 243
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University of Illinois Press Maya Market Women
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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University of Illinois Press Africans to Spanish America
Book SynopsisAfricans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. While a majority of the research on the colonial Diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Editors Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O''Toole, and Ben Vinson III arrange the volume around three themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Across these broad themes, contributors offer probTrade Review"A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach."--Kris Lane, author of The Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires"A page-turning secret society history based on solid research and accuracy."--Southern Historian“Africans to Spanish America is both useful and provocative, with chapters drawing on a range of methodological approaches to explore the complexities and nuances of racial identity in diverse Spanish American societies.”-- Journal of Latin American Studies"Aside from "expanding" diasporic history geographically, Africans to Spanish America also reminds us that between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries the experiences of people of African descent in Spanish America were more varied than the paradigmatic plantation-centered historiography of the Caribbean and Brazil has implied."--New West Indiana Guide"Expands the spatial and chronological contours of the African diaspora. A rich anthology comprised of short, clearly argued, and jargon-free essays."--Hispanic American Historical Review"Deeply researched work. The essays pay due attention to the religious and political institutions that enabled Spanish colonial rule but show how African-descended subjects--in a departure from third-wave scholarship--identified with those institutions more often than they resisted them."--American Historical Review"The authors add valuable knowledge to the literature on slavery and colonialism in the Americas as they shift attention to the earliest phases of European imperialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to locations throughout the hemisphere. . . . An empirically rich work that contributes valuable knowledge to a fast-growing field of research."--International Migration Review"A truly significant contribution to the field of the African Diaspora in colonial Spanish America in the era of slavery and slave society. The volume's most striking feature is the depth of inquiry into various features of Spanish American slave society and their impact on the lives of people of African descent and on the character of the colonial societies and imperial policy."--David Barry Gaspar, coeditor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the AmericasTable of ContentsIntroduction 1Sherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'ToolePart 1. Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America 1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America 27Leo J. Garofalo 2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 50Frank "Trey" Proctor III 3. To Be Free and Lucumi: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru 73Rachel Sarah O'ToolePart 2. Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley 4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas 95Charles Beatty-Medina 5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley 114Joan C. Bristol 6. "The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima 136Nancy E. van DeusenPart 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba 7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints 163Karen Y. Morrison 8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba 186Michele Reid-Vazquez 9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate 206Herbert S. Klein Glossary 223 Bibliography 229 List of Contributors 263 Acknowledgments 268 Index 269
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University of Illinois Press Play and the Human Condition
Book SynopsisIn Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play--the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and culture--Henricks identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. Offering a general theory of play as behavior promoting self-realization, Henricks articulates a conception of self that includes individual and social identity, particular and transcendent connection, and multiple fields of involvement. Henricks also evaluates play styles from history and contemporary life to analyze the relationship between play and human freedom. Imaginative and stimulating, Play and the Human Condition shows how play allows us to learn about our qualities and those of the world around us--and in so doing make sense of ourselves.Trade 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 PlayTable of ContentsCoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Variations on a Theme2. Play Compared to Other Behaviors3. Play as Sense-Making4. The Psychology of Play5. Play's Nature6. Play and the Physical Environment7. The Social Life of Play8. Cultural Play9. The Play of PossibilityReferencesIndex
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University of Illinois Press Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization
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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University of Illinois Press Women and Power in Zimbabwe
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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MO - University of Illinois Press Reinventing Chinese Tradition The Cultural
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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University of Illinois Press AfroParadise
Book SynopsisTourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population''s one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues that the dialectic of glorified representations of black bodies and subsequent state repression reinforces Brazil''s racially hierarchal society. Interpreting the violence as both institutional and performative, Smith follows a grassroots movement and social protest theater troupe in their campaigns against racial violence. As Smith reveals, economies of black pain and suffering form the backdrop for the staged, scripted, and choreographed afro-paradise that dazzles visitors. The work of grassroots organizers exposes this relationship, exploding illusions and asking unwelcome questions about the impact of state violence performed against the still-marginalized mass of Afro-Brazilians. Based on years of fiTrade 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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University of Illinois Press The Street Is My Pulpit Hip Hop and Christianity
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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University of Illinois Press The Minor Intimacies of Race
Book SynopsisAn attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nation's trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It also showed how multiple minor publics as well as the dominant public responded to the ongoing issue of race in Canada. In this new study, Christine Kim delves into the ways cultural conversations minimize race's relevance even as violent expressions and structural forms of racism continue to occur. Kim turns to literary texts, artistic works, and media debates to highlight the struggles of minor publics with social intimacy. Her insightful engagement with everyday conversations as well as artistic expressions that invoke the figure of the Asian allows Kim to reveal the affective dimensions of racialized publics. It also extends ongoing critical conversations within Asian Canadian and Asian American studies about Orientalism, diasporic memTrade 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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University of Illinois Press Politicizing Creative Economy
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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University of Illinois Press Recasting Folk in the Himalayas
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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University of Illinois Press Humane Insight
Book SynopsisIn the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relationship between the spectator and victim and urges viewers to move beyond the safety of the gaze to cultivate a capacity for humane insight toward representations of human suffering. Utilizing the visual studies concept termed the look, Baker interrogates how the notion of humanity was articulated and recognized in oft-referenced moments within the African American experience: the graphic brutality of the 1834 Lalaurie affair; the photographic exhibition of lynching, Without Sanctuary ; Emmett Till''s murder and funeral; and the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Contemplating these and other episodes, Baker traces how proponents of black freedom and dignity used the visual display of violence against the black body to galvanize action against racial injustice. An innovative cultural study that connecTrade 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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University of Illinois Press Shelter from the Machine
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Progressive Magazine's Favorite Reads of 2020 "Part ethnography, part regional history, part memoir, and every bit entertaining, Strange's book will be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of students of Appalachia, environmental writing, cultural studies, or simply good, compelling writing." --Arkansas Review"The most compelling aspect of Jason G. Strange's Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism is its narrative trajectory; what begins as an examination of political economy morphs into a heartfelt travelogue. . . . As his title suggests, the 'machine' is not merely an instrument but also the omnipresent (and inequitable) relationship between power and wealth." --H-Net Reviews"This well-written book offers a judgment-free assessment of the core reasons for our nation’s cultural divide, along lines created by disparate access to education and opportunity. " --Progressive"Do yourself a favor, and read Shelter From The Machine." --Smokey Mountain Living Magazine"[Strange's] book has many moments of humor and presents a rich array of folk wisdom imparted by real folk." --Homestead.org”An important and much needed addition. Strange does a strong job of providing the historical context for homesteading and the reasons why it is so significant today. But even more important are his willingness to ground the book in the words and deeds of the homesteaders themselves and his own history with homesteading, and to go beyond a historical description to explore the role of class and capitalism in explaining the homesteaders' differences.”—Stephen L. Fisher, coeditor of Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia”An intimate but sprawling, profound but accessible gem of a book, Shelter from the Machine provides a useful and accessible critique of our 'macroparasitic' political economy and a timely reminder that transformative change is as possible as it is necessary.”—Shaunna L. Scott, coeditor of Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking"Strange offers a nuanced exploration of the concept of literacy." --Choice
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University of Illinois Press Signs of the Spirit
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The real strength of the text lies in its reliance on the author's long-term fieldwork experiences and his nuanced and clearly communicated musical analysis to help elucidate the practices of a community whose experiences are worth recounting." --H-Net Reviews"Perman's approach is an unambiguous recognition of the interpretive community's perspectives on an ethnography study's subject or text, which represents a clear adherence to a widely acknowledged good practice." --African Studies Quarterly"Refreshing . . . Along with the theory and history, peppered throughout the text are the author's descriptions of people, places, and events; these are beautiful, person-centered and humanizing, in a way I wish all ethnographic writing would strive for." --Journal of Folklore Research”A thoughtful application of Peircean semiotics to the musical rendering of spirit mediumship. With his ethnographic finesse and attentive listening, Tony Perman leads us through a spirit possession ceremony. We meet real people and real ancestral spirits in actual moments of feelingful performance. He shows us how relations with departed spirits vitalize social worlds that are made by hard work, imbued with violent history, ensnared in bleak politics, and animated by hope and artistry. A humanizing book about a densely social life world that encompasses the dead.”—Louise Meintjes, author of Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid”Tony Perman's highly original contribution to ethnomusicology and anthropology extends beyond his attention to the Ndau of the Chipinge region of southeastern Zimbabwe—largely ignored by nationalist policies as well in the scholarly literature. Based in a deep understanding of Ndau history, spirituality, musicking, and a profound analysis of a single spirit possession ceremony, Perman replaces standard cultural relativistic explanations of an alternative belief system with a portrayal of what is simply true and real for Ndau ceremonial participants. This alone marks an important theoretical advance. But perhaps of the greatest benefit for anyone in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, Signs of the Spirit provides the most thorough and coherent general theory of music and emotion to date. Perman's theory, in turn, is based on a highly specified explanation of the ways that musical performance and emotion are meaningful and, especially, the ways iconic and symbolic generality are transformed into an unqualified experience of the indexical here-and-now.”—Thomas Turino, author of Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation
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University of Illinois Press Storytelling in Siberia
Book SynopsisOlonkho, the epic narrative and song tradition of Siberia’s Sakha people, declined to the brink of extinction during the Soviet era. In 2005, UNESCO’s Masterpiece Proclamation sparked a resurgence of interest in olonkho by recognizing its important role in humanity’s oral and intangible heritage. Drawing on her ten years of living in the Russian North, Robin P. Harris documents how the Sakha have used the Masterpiece program to revive olonkho and strengthen their cultural identity. Harris’s personal relationships with and primary research among Sakha people provide vivid insights into understanding olonkho and the attenuation, revitalization, transformation, and sustainability of the Sakha’s cultural reemergence. Interdisciplinary in scope, Storytelling in Siberia considers the nature of folklore alongside ethnomusicology, anthropology, comparative literature, and cultural studies to shed light on how marginalized peoples areTrade Review"Harris' book is significant, accessible, and intriguing. . . . Wonderfully reflexive, providing a glimpse into dialogue with key people in the revitalization effort, people who are concerned that history of the prized ethnic tradition is recounted rightly." --Western Folklore"A most-welcome contribution to the analysis of the problems facing traditional art forms in the modern world." --Journal of American Folklore"Deeply researched . . . With detailed analysis, Harris describes the changes that olonkho has endured from before the Soviet time, during the Communist regime, through perestroika, up to its present day."--Songlines"Strong ethnography is what makes Storytelling in Siberia an important text, taking readers to a place little studied, to the particularity of olonkho." --Ethnomusicology Forum"Harris has crafted a complex and critical evaluation of a cultural-revival project in practice." --The Russian Review"Of relevance to understanding the challenges of cultural reemergence in other parts of the globe, this compelling book informs anthropologists and ethnomusicologists as well as a much broader audience about one of the true masterpieces of the world's oral literature-- its origins, content, and future. Readers witness the interplay of Christian and pre-Christian interpretations, the sad legacy of cultural loss during the Soviet years, and the aspirations of a modern nation to reclaim its vanishing cultural heritage amid a rapidly changing world. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Rich in information about a sonic performance tradition little known in the West, Storytelling in Siberia is an important introduction to both Sakha storytelling and its history. Multidisciplinary in scope." --The World of Music“Robin Harris’s up-close and vividly written account of how an epic tradition from Siberia was proclaimed a UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity is a masterpiece of contemporary ethnography in its own right.”--Theodore Levin, Dartmouth College "Ancient artistry comes to us through the trial of centuries. This book gives us hope that the heroic epics of the Yakuts, having survived under Soviet power, will outlive these rapidly changing, turbulent times as well."--Eduard Alekseyev, Academy of Spirituality, Sakha Republic (Yakutia) "Harris accomplished a laudable work. . . . Storytelling in Siberia is an important introduction to both Sakha storytelling and its history." --World of MusicTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Notes on Transliteration from Russian and Sakha xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Encountering Olonkho 1 1 Epic Traditions, Performers, and Audiences 11 2 Effects of Change during the Soviet Era 33 3 Esteem for a Masterpiece: The Quest for Recognition 64 4 Examining the Role of UNESCO and Intangible Cultural Heritage 89 5 Elements of Resilience: Stable and Malleable 108 6 Epic Revitalization: Negotiating Identities and Other Challenges 135 7 Ensuring Sustainability through Transmission and Innovation 156 Glossary of Russian and Sakha Words 163 Notes 165 Works Cited 203 Index 225
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University of Illinois Press Kusamira Music in Uganda
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"An important work, this book is the first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of spirit mediumship as both a healing mechanism and musical way of life in south-central Uganda. It is relevant to African studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, and public health."--Damascus Kafumbe, author of Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda
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University of Illinois Press Quinoa
Book SynopsisQuinoa's new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru to track the mixed blessings brought about by the surging worldwide popularity of this exquisite grain. Focusing on how Indigenous communities have confronted globalization, Seligmann examines the influence of food politics, development initiatives, and the region's agrarian history on present-day quinoa production among Huanoquiteños. She also looks at the human stories behind these transformations, from the work of quinoa brokers to the ways Huanoquite's men and women navigate the shifts in place and power occurring in their homes and communities. Finally, Seligmann considers how the consequences of nearby mining may impact Huanoquiteños' ability to farm quinoa and thrive in their environment, and the efforts they are taking to resist these threats to their way of life. The untold story behind the popularTrade Review“Linda J. Seligmann’s book brilliantly examines the role of the superfood quinoa in and on a local Andean community, exploring gender relationships, local production systems, and the communal sense of place, as these phenomena intersect with the nation state and global capitalism.”--William P. Mitchell, author of Voices from the Global Margin: Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in the Andes"Seligmann succeeds in showing how interconnected quinoa is to local and global food politics, economic development, and sustainability initiatives in Peru." --H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Quinoa Prospects Part One. Backstories: Land Struggles, the Allure of Infrastructure, and Development Desires in Huanoquite Chapter 1. Agrarian Reform, Revolution, and Reversals Chapter 2. The Power and Seduction of Infrastructure Chapter 3. Contesting Development, Alternative Paths Part Two. Soup and Superfood: The Politics of Quinoa Production and Consumption Chapter 4. The Expansion of Quinoa Production Chapter 5. Food Sovereignty, Food Security, and Sustainability Chapter 6. To Be Strong and Healthy Chapter 7. Voracious Consumption Conclusion: Pragmatic Spirituality and Quinoa Desires Notes References Index
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University of Illinois Press Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent
Book SynopsisAs the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic transformation that took place when southerners in particular and Americans in general changed their thinking about when one should die, how that death could occur, and what decent burial really means. As she shows, death care evolved from being a community act to a commercial one where purchasing a purple coffin and hearse ride to the cemetery became a political statement and the norm. That evolution also required interactions between perfect strangers, especially during the world wars as families searched for their missing soldiers. In either case, being put away decent, as southerners called burial, came to mean something fundamentally different iTrade Review“The history of death in the South during the twentieth century is much more complex, much more dynamically connected to modernizing trends, and much more revealing of social realities than previously imagined. McCusker not only explores historical change, but also the racial and political dimensions of changing attitudes toward death in the context of transformations in notions of health care and life extension.”--Gary Laderman, author of Don’t Think about Death: A Memoir on MortalityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Death and the South Part One. Death and the New South Chapter 1. Selling Our Dead: Evolving Rural Burial Practice Chapter 2. Heavenly Reunions and Progressive Reform Chapter 3. Life Extension and the Emergence of a Death Commerce System Part Two. World War I and Challenging Southern Death Care Chapter 4. Lonely Coffins: World War I and the Spanish Influenza Epidemic Chapter 5. Remembering the War, Forgetting the Flu, Burying the Military Dead Part Three. Death Care in the 1920s South Chapter 6. Purple Coffins and Cadillac Hearses: Purchasing a Good Death Chapter 7. Indifference, Shame, Selfishness and Wrong Living: New Ways to Grieve and Comfort Chapter 8. “Health is just everything”: Expanding Healthcare in the South in the 1920s Part Four. Death and the New Deal Chapter 9. Making Deadly Landscapes Healthier: The First New Deal Chapter 10. Revitalizing a Sick South: The Second and Third New Deals Part Five. Dying in World War II Chapter 11. Flying and Dying as Americans Chapter 12. Muddy Roads and Sacred Duties: Bringing Home the World War II Dead Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press Saharan Frontiers Space and Mobility in Northwest
Book SynopsisRethinking place and history in Northwest AfricaTrade ReviewThis edited volume presents a compilation of coherent, well-structured case studies addressing highly significant issues for the contemporary Sahara. [O]ffers a groundbreaking study of the Sahara. * Social Anthropology *Altogether, this book is highly recommendable. Its key contribution is in teaching us to conceive of the Sahara not as a region clearly defined by natural features, but as a space that exists, extends, and expands according to its vibrant human interconnectedness. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *[This] book makes a compelling case for the importance of Saharan history, both in its own right and in its articulations with the histories of other regions.November 2013 * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on spelling and transliterationIntroduction Time and Space in the Sahara Judith Scheele and James McDougall Part I. Framing Saharan History1. Situations Both Alike? Connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara Peregrine Horden2. On Being Saharan E. Ann McDougall3. Saharan Trade in Classical Antiquity Katia Schörle4. Frontiers, Borderlands, and Saharan/World History James McDougallPart II. Environment, Territory, and Community 5. The Rites of Baba Merzug: Diaspora, Ibadism, and Social Status in the Valley of the Mzab Fatma Oussedik 6. Celebrating mawlid in Timimoun: Ritual as Words in Motion, Space as Time Stood Still Abderrahmane Moussaoui7. Villages and Crossroads: Changing Territorialities among the Tuareg of Northern Mali in the Twentieth Century Charles Grémont 8. Ethnicity and Interdependence: Moors and Haalpulaar'en in the Senegal Valley Olivier LeservoisierPart III. Strangers, Space, and Labor9. Mauritania and the New Frontier of Europe: From Transit to Residence Armelle Choplin10. Living Together and Living Apart in Nouakchott Laurence Marfaing11. Cultural Interaction and the Artisanal Economy in Tamanrasset Dida BadiPart IV. Economies of Movement12. Notes on the Informal Economy in Southern Morocco Mohamed Oudada 13. Garage or caravanserail; Saharan Connectivity in al-Khalīl, Northern Mali Judith Scheele14. Movements of People and Goods: Local Impacts and Dynamics of Migration in the Central Sahara Julien BrachetReferencesContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Global Filipinos Migrants Lives in the Virtual
Book SynopsisDiscusses changes and continuities produced by globalizationTrade ReviewThe problems of overseas Filipino workers with loneliness; long absences from spouses, children, and other relatives; abuse by employers and governments; and efforts to use their time and talent to further individual opportunities are understood easily in McKay's monograph. The photos of her Filipino informants . . . add a human touch to the topic of overseas workers. . . . Recommended. * Choice *McKay's study makes for fascinating and recommendable reading, well beyond the realm of Filipino specialists or of migration scholars more broadly. Development, mobility, emotion, home, and home-making are all research areas to which Global Filipinos has much to contribute and inspire. * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *Global Filipinos is more than an ethnography of migration. Covering large theoretical and disciplinary ground, McKay presents an engaging and important study on wider questions of what it means to live and cope at the margins of development economies, national identities and transnational citizenship. * Social Anthropology *This in-depth and well-written narrative provides a rare glimpse into the lives of individuals shaped by globalization and migration. It also raises critical questions about the concept of a virtual village in which migrants' lives are enmeshed. It is especially recommended for readers interested in anthropology and cultural studies. * Sojourn *This book is a refreshing departure from more conventional tales of Filipino migration . . . [T]aking an avowedly anthropological approach . . . McKay's book builds from a village study; . . . The book is an important contribution nor only to debates on migration and development, but also as an exemplar of multi-sited ethnography and the study of emotion and affect. . . [T]his text should be required reading for scholars of migration and development, and indeed for anyone wishing to learn more about the implications of global mobilities in a globalizing Southeast Asia. * Aseasuk News *Global Filipinos is a significant contribution to the literature on global migration and diaspora. It likewise provides a crucial and timely corrective to Eurocentric studies of affect, subjectivity and cosmopolitanism. . . . By chronicling how a village 'extends into the world' . . . , Global Filipinos succeeds in reminding us anew that the world makes itself known and felt through the dynamics of the village. * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *What is happening to Haliap is certainly not unique to its residents. . . Change Haliap for Southern Philippine's Baroy in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur and you will find similar conflicts with OFW [overseas Filipino workers] family members – as well as ongoing optimism over the promise of overseas work and life. It is this recognition of a malady that affects the entire nation that makes Global Filipinos a captivating . . . read.March 2014 * Jrnl Royal Anthropological Inst JRAI *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsOn TransliterationIntroduction: The Parade1. Finding the Village2. Becoming a Global Kind of Woman3. Failing to Progress4. New Territories5. Haunted by Images6. Moving On7. Come What MayConclusion: The Virtual VillageOn Affect: A Methodological NoteNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Culture of Colonialism The Cultural
Book SynopsisDetails colonial authority and progress in rural AfricaTrade ReviewAlthough the Kaguru have been a backwater in world affairs, Beidelman's extensive contributions have made them a major subject of African studies. An important addition to understanding the local and global in anthropology. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *We are fortunate to have this book. Not only is it a very useful addition to colonial studies, but it also demonstrates the value of decades of teaching and writing in assessing the centuries-long trajectory of political institutions in one area of Tanzania. * Journal of African History *This volume is a handsome addition to Beidelman's scholarship and serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students of colonialism, anthropology, political science, and African history. * American Ethnologist *Spring 2014 * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Colonialism and AnthropologyPart 1. History 1. Kaguru and Colonial History: The Rise and Fall of Indirect RulePart 2. Colonial Life 2. Ukaguru 1957–58 3. The Kaguru Native Authority 4. Court Cases: Order and Disorder 5. Subversions and Diversions: 1957–58 6. The World Beyond: Kaguru Marginality in a Plural World, 1957–61Part 3. How It Ended and Where It Went Epilogue: Independence and After ConclusionAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press New Routes for Diaspora Studies 21st Century
Book SynopsisConsiders how to rethink diasporas and the geographies of differenceTrade Review"Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of 'diaspora' to address the cross-border movements of people in past and present... [and] in mapping diaspora as a process, invites future discussions and interrogations on the subject." -Rhacel Parrenas, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Routing Diasporas / Sukanya BanerjeePart 1. Interrogating Terms 1. The Middle Passages of Black Migration / Jenny Sharpe 2. Making the Exodus from Algeria "European": Family and Race in 1962 France / Todd Shepard 3. Enslaved Lives, Enslaving Labels: A New Approach to the Colonial Indian Labor Diaspora / Crispin Bates and Marina CarterPart 2. Maps of Intimacy 4. Empire, Anglo-India, and the Alimentary Canal / Parama Roy 5. Domestic Internationalisms, Imperial Nationalisms: Civil Rights, Immigration, and Conjugal Military Policy / Rachel Ida BuffPart 3. Nation, Narrative, Diaspora 6. Serial Migration: Stories of Home and Belonging in Diaspora / Lok Siu 7. Building Associations: Nineteenth-Century Monumental Architecture and the Jew in the American Imagination / Martin A. Berger 8. Cultural Forms and World Systems: The Ethnic Epic in the New Diaspora / Betty JosephAfterword: Diaspora and the Language of Neoliberalism / Aims McGuinness and Steven C. McKayList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press African Migrations Patterns and Perspectives
Book SynopsisDetails African populations in motionTrade Review[Explores] new terrain and [gives] nuance to our understanding of African migrations and the African Diaspora.56.1 March 2015 * Journal of African History *[T]he theoretical insights coupled with a strong selection of empirical case studies make overall for an informative and enjoyable read. * African Affairs *The 14 engaging case studies assembled here add to understanding the social processes of voluntary and forced displacement within the continent and across the seas. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: African Patterns of Migration in a Global Era: New PerspectivesAbdoulaye Kane and Todd H. LeedyPart I. Psychological, Socio-cultural and Political Dimensions of African Migration1. Overcoming the Economistic Fallacy: Social Determinants of Voluntary Migration from the Sahel to the Congo Basin Bruce Whitehouse2. Migration as Coping with Risk: African Migrants' Conception of Being far from Home and States' Policy of Barriers Isaie Dougnon3. Navigating Diaspora: The Precarious Depths of the Italian Immigration Crisis Donald Carter4. Historic Changes Underway in African Migration Policies: From Muddling Through to Organized Brain Circulation Rubin PattersonPart II. Translocal and Transnational Connections: Between Belonging and Exclusion5. Belonging amidst Shifting Sands: Insertion, Self-exclusion, and the Remaking of African Urbanism Loren Landau6. Securing Wealth, Managing Social Relations: Rural-urban Migration and the Moral Politics of Reciprocity, Gender, and Belonging in Neoliberal Tanzania Hansjoerg Dilger7. Voluntary and Involuntary Homebodies: Adaptations and Lived Experiences of Hausa Left Behind in Niamey, Niger Scott Youngstedt8. Strangers are like the Mist: Language in the Push and Pull of the African Diaspora Paul Stoller9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora Afe Adogame10. Somali Assistance Networks: the Social Dynamics of Sending Remittances Cindy HorstPart III. Feminization of Migration and the Appearance of Diasporic Identities11. The Feminization of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives Jane Freedman12. Migration as Factor of Cultural Change Abroad and at Home: Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou13. What the General of Amadou Bamba saw in New York City: Gendered Displays of Devotion among Migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa Beth A. Buggenhagen14. Towards Understanding a Culture of Migration among 'Elite' African Youth: Educational Capital and the Future of the Igbo Diaspora Rachel R. ReynoldsContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Book SynopsisAddresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledgeTrade Review[T]his volume is a valuable contribution to the general field of anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa. . . . Recommended. * Choice *This volume is a good addition to the anthropological body of work on the region. * Social Anthropology *Spanning audiences of undergraduates, graduates and established researchers, this volume will be an extremely useful reference point for scholars of the MENA region, in anthropology and beyond. * African Studies Bulletin *The volume, including its comprehensive bibliography, will benefit students of Middle East studies looking to see how anthropology contributes to the study of the region. Anthropology students will find theoretical topics germane not only to the region but also to broader anthropological conversations. Readers will also enjoy the fine ethnography that drives these major theoretical trajectories in the anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa. * Review of Middle East Studies * Anthropology of the Middle East is a remarkable contribution to the field. * Anthropology of Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Power and Knowledge in the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa Sherine Hafez and Susan SlyomovicsPart I. Knowledge Production in Middle East and North Africa Anthropology 1. State of the State of the Art Studies: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa Susan Slyomovics2. Identity and Difference in the Middle East and North Africa: A Review Essay Seteney Shami and Nefissa Naguib3. Anthropology's Middle Eastern Prehistory: An Archaeology of Knowledge Jon W. Anderson4. The Pragmatics and Politics of Anthropological Collaboration on the North African Frontier Paul A. Silverstein5. Post-Cold War Politics of Middle East Anthropology: Insights from a Transitional Generation Confronting the War on Terror Lara Deeb and Jessica WinegarPart II. Subjectivities: Youth, Gender, Family and Tribe in the Middle East and North African Nation-State6. Anthropology of the Future: Arab Youth and the State of the State Suad Joseph7. The Memory Work of Anthropologists: Gendered Studies of Conflicts and the "Heroic Life" in Middle East and North Africa Sondra Hale8. Rejecting Authenticity in the Desert Landscapes of the Modern Middle East: Development Processes in the Jiddat il-Harasiis, Oman Dawn Chatty9. Notable Families and Capitalist Parasites in Egypt's Former Free Zone: Law, Trade, and Uncertainty Christine Hegel-CantarellaPart III: Anthropology of Religion and Secularism in the Middle East and North Africa 10. Will the Rational Religious Subject Please Stand Up? Muslim Subjects and the Analytics of Religion Sherine Hafez11. Defining and Enforcing Islam in Secular Turkey Kim Shively12. Sharia in Diaspora: Displacement, Exclusion and Anthropology of the Displaced Middle East Susanne Dahlgren13. A Place to Belong: Colonial Pasts, Modern Discourses, and Contraceptive Practices in Morocco Cortney L. HughesPart IV: Anthropology and New Media in the Virtual Middle East and North Africa 14. "Our Master's Call": Mass Media and the People in Morocco's 1975 Green March Emilio Spadola15. The Construction of Virtual Identities: On-line Tribalism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond Sebastian Maisel16. Youth, Peace, and New Media in the Middle East Charlotte Karagueuzian and Pamela Chrabieh BadineReferencesContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Creatures of Politics Media Message and the
Book SynopsisExamines some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their ownTrade Review...Very few scholars can match [the authors'] detailed analysis of political and media discourse. The authors illuminate the subtle, multimodal, and intertextual mechanisms by which messages are constructed. Those who read their work will learn much about the semiotics of presidential campaigns as well as the cultural expectations that regulate and naturalize our electoral character contests. * Presidential Studies Quarterly *A quirky, sharp and depressing analysis of the current state of campaigning. * Kirkus Reviews *[Creatures of Politics] cover[s] different aspects of messaging with interesting discussions, and provides[s] new ways of thinking about campaign coverage. * Foreword Reviews *[Creatures of Politics] makes for a fascinating read and an illuminating look into the complex realm of political rhetoric. * Publishers Weekly *The authors draw on findings from electoral politics, the mass media and linguistic anthropology to analyse political communications, exploring how the 'messages' of presidential candidates are crafted not only through their platforms, but through verbal, sartorial, gestural, behavioural and linguistic cues. * Survival *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Message is the Medium2. Getting it Ju:::st Right3. Addressing "The Issues" 4. Ethnoblooperology5. Unflipping the Flop6. The Message in Hand7. What Goes Around. . .
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Indiana University Press Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Book SynopsisAddresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledgeTrade Review[T]his volume is a valuable contribution to the general field of anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa. . . . Recommended. * Choice *This volume is a good addition to the anthropological body of work on the region. * Social Anthropology *Spanning audiences of undergraduates, graduates and established researchers, this volume will be an extremely useful reference point for scholars of the MENA region, in anthropology and beyond. * African Studies Bulletin *The volume, including its comprehensive bibliography, will benefit students of Middle East studies looking to see how anthropology contributes to the study of the region. Anthropology students will find theoretical topics germane not only to the region but also to broader anthropological conversations. Readers will also enjoy the fine ethnography that drives these major theoretical trajectories in the anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa. * Review of Middle East Studies * Anthropology of the Middle East is a remarkable contribution to the field. * Anthropology of Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Power and Knowledge in the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa Sherine Hafez and Susan SlyomovicsPart I. Knowledge Production in Middle East and North Africa Anthropology 1. State of the State of the Art Studies: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa Susan Slyomovics2. Identity and Difference in the Middle East and North Africa: A Review Essay Seteney Shami and Nefissa Naguib3. Anthropology's Middle Eastern Prehistory: An Archaeology of Knowledge Jon W. Anderson4. The Pragmatics and Politics of Anthropological Collaboration on the North African Frontier Paul A. Silverstein5. Post-Cold War Politics of Middle East Anthropology: Insights from a Transitional Generation Confronting the War on Terror Lara Deeb and Jessica WinegarPart II. Subjectivities: Youth, Gender, Family and Tribe in the Middle East and North African Nation-State6. Anthropology of the Future: Arab Youth and the State of the State Suad Joseph7. The Memory Work of Anthropologists: Gendered Studies of Conflicts and the "Heroic Life" in Middle East and North Africa Sondra Hale8. Rejecting Authenticity in the Desert Landscapes of the Modern Middle East: Development Processes in the Jiddat il-Harasiis, Oman Dawn Chatty9. Notable Families and Capitalist Parasites in Egypt's Former Free Zone: Law, Trade, and Uncertainty Christine Hegel-CantarellaPart III: Anthropology of Religion and Secularism in the Middle East and North Africa 10. Will the Rational Religious Subject Please Stand Up? Muslim Subjects and the Analytics of Religion Sherine Hafez11. Defining and Enforcing Islam in Secular Turkey Kim Shively12. Sharia in Diaspora: Displacement, Exclusion and Anthropology of the Displaced Middle East Susanne Dahlgren13. A Place to Belong: Colonial Pasts, Modern Discourses, and Contraceptive Practices in Morocco Cortney L. HughesPart IV: Anthropology and New Media in the Virtual Middle East and North Africa 14. "Our Master's Call": Mass Media and the People in Morocco's 1975 Green March Emilio Spadola15. The Construction of Virtual Identities: On-line Tribalism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond Sebastian Maisel16. Youth, Peace, and New Media in the Middle East Charlotte Karagueuzian and Pamela Chrabieh BadineReferencesContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Ethnographic Encounters in Israel
Book SynopsisExplores the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friendsTrade ReviewEthnographic Encounters offers outstanding ethnography, persuasively close to its subject but at the same time posing wider themes and questions vital to Israel and to the practice of anthropology in an intensely "edgy" contemporary society. * Journal of Anthropological Research *[I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015 * H-Judaic *A collection of first-person accounts . . . [of the] contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization in the fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience.Summer 2014 * Jewish Book World *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big Place Fran MarkowitzPart I. Confrontations and Conversions1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli Jackie Feldman2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in Israel Tamir Erez3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized Israel John L. Jackson, Jr.Part II. State Categories and Global Flows4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop Ethnography Uri Dorchin5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant Workers Keren Mazuz6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in Israel Gabriella DjerrahianPart III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern Negev Emily McKee8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic Reflections Jasmin Habib9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling Territory Joyce Dalsheim10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in Israel Hilla Nehushtan11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-Restraint Virginia R. Dominguez
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Indiana University Press Ethnographic Encounters in Israel
Book SynopsisExplores the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friendsTrade ReviewEthnographic Encounters offers outstanding ethnography, persuasively close to its subject but at the same time posing wider themes and questions vital to Israel and to the practice of anthropology in an intensely "edgy" contemporary society. * Journal of Anthropological Research *[I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015 * H-Judaic *A collection of first-person accounts . . . [of the] contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization in the fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience.Summer 2014 * Jewish Book World *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big Place Fran MarkowitzPart I. Confrontations and Conversions1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli Jackie Feldman2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in Israel Tamir Erez3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized Israel John L. Jackson, Jr.Part II. State Categories and Global Flows4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop Ethnography Uri Dorchin5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant Workers Keren Mazuz6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in Israel Gabriella DjerrahianPart III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern Negev Emily McKee8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic Reflections Jasmin Habib9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling Territory Joyce Dalsheim10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in Israel Hilla Nehushtan11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-Restraint Virginia R. Dominguez
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MH - Indiana University Press Jewish Poland Revisited Heritage Tourism in
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that Jews and Poles use spaces, institutions, interpersonal exchanges, and cultural representations to make sense of their historical inheritancesTrade ReviewIn Jewish Poland Revisited, [Lehrer] excavates forgotten history and discusses surprising recent developments—including the large number of Jewish tourists coming to Poland and the growing interest among non-Jewish Poles in Jews and Judaism. . . She boldly asserts that 'Poland—the epicenter of the destruction of European Jewry—is now a key site for the regeneration, rearticulation, and redefinition not only of a local Jewish community, but of inventive, hybrid ideas of post-Holocaust Jewishness itself.' 4/24/15 * Jewish Book Council *Lehrer's monograph is a refreshing approach to the subject of Jewish Poland. As a study in tourism and heritage, the book provides an interesting addition to a growing field. * Slavic Review *Jewish Poland Revisited is a valuable book for anyone headed to Poland-or perhaps to any 'heritage tourism' location. And because it raises profound questions about Jewish engagement with other ethnicities, I suspect it will provoke reflection even in those with no interest in leaving home.Fall 2015 * Jewish Book World *Erica Lehrer gives a detailed, extensive, and fascinating account of the making, unmaking, and remaking of Poland's Jewish heritage. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Well researched and clearly written, Lehrer's book is a personal exploration and a learned analysis of a new and fascinating chapter in Polish Jewish history and society, and readers will gain a much deeper appreciation for recent developments in Poland as well as the country's ongoing role in contemporary Jewish culture and memory in North America, Israel, and other locales. . . . Indeed, this is one of those rare academic books that successfully fulfills the needs of both the popular and the academic communities. * Religious Studies Review *Lehrer offers a fresh and delightful portrait of Jewish renewal in Poland. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *The unquiet nature of Poland as a Jewish heritage place is changing rapidly, and Lehrer's Jewish Poland Revisited is an up-to-date and detailed guide to the shifting landscape. * Canadian Jewish News *[T]he main asset of Lehrer's work is its huge potential and argumentative power to influence and change the prevailing . . . negative attitudes towards Poland among many people in the international Jewish community. Thanks to her work perhaps more Jews will no longer conceive Poland only as the site of Holocaust and as a widely antisemitic country, but rather as a place full of hope and future for the recognition of Polish Jewish culture, history and heritage and for the Jewish communities here. * New Eastern Europe *Jewish Poland Revisited is appropriate for a wide readership from specialists in cultural anthropology, graduate students, and college students to well educated general audiences. * American Ethnologist *Recommended. . . * AJL Reviews *[O]ne of the most nuanced and enthralling studies on Jewish space, heritage tourism, and the role that memory and identity play in the complex post-Holocaust and post-Communist Polish society. . . Jewish Poland Revisited is unequivocally an obligatory reading . . .April 2015 * H-Poland *The result of Lehrer's twenty years of intense engagement with Kazimierz is a tour-de-force volume as important for Jewish studies as it is for tourism studies and heritage studies. * H-SAE *Often the history of the Jews in Poland and Polish history are written as two distinct narratives. On the one hand, this separation is necessary to accommodate the different experiences and trajectories of the historical actors. On the other, the split often provides a disjointed view of Polish-Jewish relations and lived experiences in Poland. Lehrer's book is an important point of intersection between these narratives and it highlights the problem of a Polish history lacking Jews, and the important role of Jews in Polish culture and vice versa. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Jewish Poland Revisited is an important and insightful study, one that will hopefully lead to a wider range of new works devoted to Polish-Jewish relations and heritage in Cracow and beyond. * Center for Interdisciplinary Studies *This book is of interest to a wider readership than might be suggested by its title. Not only does the work provide a detailed ethnographic monograph about Jewish heritage and tourism in Kazimierz in Kracow, Poland, but it also analyses the challenges of ethnographic research and heritage interpretation more generally. The context of Kracow, Auschwitz and Jewish heritage in Poland is, of course, by no means unfamiliar to anyone interested in the complexities of heritage interpretation in a 'dissonant' environment. However, Erica Lehrer provides many thought-provoking and (for some) controversial alternative narratives to the construction of Jewish culture, heritage and identities post-Holocaust. * Journal of Heritage Tourism *Table of ContentsPrologue: Scene of ArrivalIntroduction: Poles and Jews: Significant Others1. Making Sense of Place: History, Mythology, Authenticity2. The Mission: Mass Jewish Holocaust Pilgrimage3. The Quest: Scratching the Heart4. Shabbos Goyim: Polish Stewards of Jewish Spaces5. Traveling Tschotschkes and "Post-Jewish" Culture6. Jewish like an Adjective: Expanding the Collective SelfConclusion: Towards a Polish-Jewish milieu de mémoire
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Indiana University Press Apocalypse Postponed Essays by Umberto Eco
Book SynopsisTraces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collectionsTrade ReviewFerry is primarily concerned with three fields in which minerals are valued: ore mining, mineral collecting, and mineralogy. As any respectable ethnographer, she aims to understand the intimate bond between the human and the object (in this case, the mineral) and how meaning is attached to it, value created, and value given or taken away. . . [A] jewel to those interested in ore mining, mineral collecting and mineralogy, or the anthropology of value.May 2015 * American Ethnologist *Students with little knowledge of the topic as well as scholars in this area will enjoy this book, part of the 'Tracking Globalization' series. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Minerals, Collecting, and Value makes a novel contribution to the anthropology of natural resources by weaving together theories of value and concepts from actor network theory to historicize the formation of U.S.-Mexico as a transnational space. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Value and U.S.-Mexican Space1. Histories, Mineralogies, Economies2. Shifting Stones: Mineralogy and Mineral Collecting in Mexico and the United States3. Making Scientific Value4. Mineral Collections and Their Minerals: Building Up U.S.-Mexican Transnational Spaces5. Making Places in Space: Miners and Collectors in Guanajuato and Tucson6. Mineral Marketplaces, Arbitrage, and the Production of DifferenceConclusionAppendix: Sources and MethodsNotesReferencesIndex
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