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Indiana University Press Impulse to Act
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon AlexandrakisPart I: Affect as Political Condition1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou 3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano 4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion 5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni PanourgiáPart II: Agency as Ethical Condition6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad 7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe 8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill 10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh 11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex KhasnabishConclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon AlexandrakisList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Israel in the Making
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWritten with a high awareness of folkloristic theory, the book will appeal not only to scholars interested in the evolving modern culture of Israel, but also to folklorists interested in critical and practice theory applied to traditionalized activities. * Choice *A richly researched book that meaningfully weaves together material culture study and narrative discourse, traditional and popular cultures, and politics and play, Israel in the Making is a multi-layered contribution to many adjacent fields. * Journal of American Folklore *Hagar Salamon's book is among a number of fascinating postmodern responses to the traditional concept of folklore. Its present-tense title, Israel in the Making, already liberates folklore from its frozen image and its association with ethnic groups and the past. A look at the contents reveals its presentation of a wider definition of what is folk and what is lore than has been the standard. The book deals with contemporary Israeli folklore, which is dynamic, constantly changing and far from a matter of the past. * Nashim *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Studying Israeli FolklorePart One: Folklore in the Israeli Public ArenaPart One Invitation: Bumper Stickers as a Podium in Motion1. Folklore as an Emotional Battleground: Political Bumper Stickers2. "We the people": "Ha'Am" in the Turbulent Sphere of Israeli Roads3. Kinetic Cosmologies: Sovereign and SovereigntyPart One Recapitulation: Public Interaction on the MovePart Two: Expressions in the Intimate Arena of EmbroideryPart Two Invitation: Embroidering Identity—Needlework and Needle-Talk4. Embroidering Their Selves: Femininity and Embroidery in a Jerusalem Women's Group5. Life Story as a Foundation Legend of Local Identity6. The Intimate Career of a Transitional Object: Needlepoint EmbroideriesPart Two Recapitulation: Needle Texts—Knowledge, Passion, and EmpowermentPart Three: Between the Public and the Private—The Mirrors of AmbivalencePart Three Invitation: Emplacing Israeliness—Shifting Performances of Belonging and Otherness7. The Floor Falling Away: Dislocated Space and Body in the Humor of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel8. What Goes Around, Comes Around: Rotating Credit Associations among Ethiopian Women in Israel9. "David Levi" Jokes: The Ambivalence over the Levantinization of IsraelPart Three Recapitulation: Between Longing and Belonging—The Folkloric Expressions of AmbivalenceClosing Words: The Birth of Public Enunciation from the Spirit of Everyday LifeBibliographyIndex
£62.90
Indiana University Press Israel in the Making
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWritten with a high awareness of folkloristic theory, the book will appeal not only to scholars interested in the evolving modern culture of Israel, but also to folklorists interested in critical and practice theory applied to traditionalized activities. * Choice *A richly researched book that meaningfully weaves together material culture study and narrative discourse, traditional and popular cultures, and politics and play, Israel in the Making is a multi-layered contribution to many adjacent fields. * Journal of American Folklore *Hagar Salamon's book is among a number of fascinating postmodern responses to the traditional concept of folklore. Its present-tense title, Israel in the Making, already liberates folklore from its frozen image and its association with ethnic groups and the past. A look at the contents reveals its presentation of a wider definition of what is folk and what is lore than has been the standard. The book deals with contemporary Israeli folklore, which is dynamic, constantly changing and far from a matter of the past. * Nashim *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Studying Israeli FolklorePart One: Folklore in the Israeli Public ArenaPart One Invitation: Bumper Stickers as a Podium in Motion1. Folklore as an Emotional Battleground: Political Bumper Stickers2. "We the people": "Ha'Am" in the Turbulent Sphere of Israeli Roads3. Kinetic Cosmologies: Sovereign and SovereigntyPart One Recapitulation: Public Interaction on the MovePart Two: Expressions in the Intimate Arena of EmbroideryPart Two Invitation: Embroidering Identity—Needlework and Needle-Talk4. Embroidering Their Selves: Femininity and Embroidery in a Jerusalem Women's Group5. Life Story as a Foundation Legend of Local Identity6. The Intimate Career of a Transitional Object: Needlepoint EmbroideriesPart Two Recapitulation: Needle Texts—Knowledge, Passion, and EmpowermentPart Three: Between the Public and the Private—The Mirrors of AmbivalencePart Three Invitation: Emplacing Israeliness—Shifting Performances of Belonging and Otherness7. The Floor Falling Away: Dislocated Space and Body in the Humor of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel8. What Goes Around, Comes Around: Rotating Credit Associations among Ethiopian Women in Israel9. "David Levi" Jokes: The Ambivalence over the Levantinization of IsraelPart Three Recapitulation: Between Longing and Belonging—The Folkloric Expressions of AmbivalenceClosing Words: The Birth of Public Enunciation from the Spirit of Everyday LifeBibliographyIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press Impulse to Act
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon AlexandrakisPart I: Affect as Political Condition1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou 3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano 4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion 5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni PanourgiáPart II: Agency as Ethical Condition6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad 7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe 8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill 10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh 11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex KhasnabishConclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon AlexandrakisList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market
Book SynopsisLarisa Jasarevic offers an unforgettable look at the everyday experiences of people living in post-socialist, post-war Bosnia. Not at all existing on the world's margins, Bosnians today are concerned with the good life and are as entangled in consumer debt as everyone else. The insecurities of living in an economy dominated by informal networks of trade, personal credit, and indebtedness are experienced by Bosnians in terms of physical ailments, some not recognized by Western medical science. Jasarevic follows ordinary Bosnians in their search for treatmentfrom use of pharmaceuticals to alternative medicines and folk healers of various kinds. Financial well-being and health are woven together for Bosnians, and Jasarevic adeptly traces the links between the two realms. In the process, she addresses a number of themes that have been important in studies of life under neoliberalism in other parts of the world.Trade ReviewFor scholars working on health and medicine across any number of disciplines, subfields, and regions, this book can serve as an example of how to make use of these conceptual categories without being beholden to them. Perhaps most of all, the book provides a service by moving beyond the emphasis on ethnicity that has dominated most academic work on the Balkans since the 1990s. * Social History of Medicine *Jašarević's work provides fresh and distinct insight into the connections between medical anthropology and political economy, and thus is a necessary read and a great inspiration for all scholars looking to approach their own research from a sideways approach. * Suedosteuropa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Oddly Bodily Lives in the Market1. Just Surviving: Living Well Since the Better Life2. Insanely Generous: Making Wealth in an Economy of Debt3. On the Edge: Worries in Common and Circumstantial Communities 4. Medical Detours: Materiality and Magicality of Quotidian Cures5. Strava: Distant Bodies at Hand6. What if Not For Real? Troubles with Medical EfficacyBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Popobawa Tanzanian Talk Global Misreadings
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPopobawa joins the ranks of zombies, witches and vampire studies of Africa and proves that there is still more to say in the generative discourses of the monstrous and mysterious if we are willing to listen well. * Journal of Modern African Studies *A well-researched and well-documented addition to the body of knowledge on local legends and their global manifestations. * Journal of Folklore Research *Thompson's movement between local and global discourses demonstrates the importance of a phenomenon that could otherwise be viewed as exotic ethnographic trivia, while her theoretical orientation makes the text as relevant to linguistic anthropologists as to African studies scholars. Especially important is her understanding that marginalized individuals in Zanzibar do offer social critique. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Contextualizing Popobawa2. Voicing Expertise and Authority3. Talk and Believe: How to Prevent a Popobawa Attack in Two Easy Steps4. The Butt of a Joke5. Queering Popobawa6. Women as Sexual and Discursive Agents7. Batman in Africa8. Global MetanarrativesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Popobawa Tanzanian Talk Global Misreadings
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPopobawa joins the ranks of zombies, witches and vampire studies of Africa and proves that there is still more to say in the generative discourses of the monstrous and mysterious if we are willing to listen well. * Journal of Modern African Studies *A well-researched and well-documented addition to the body of knowledge on local legends and their global manifestations. * Journal of Folklore Research *Thompson's movement between local and global discourses demonstrates the importance of a phenomenon that could otherwise be viewed as exotic ethnographic trivia, while her theoretical orientation makes the text as relevant to linguistic anthropologists as to African studies scholars. Especially important is her understanding that marginalized individuals in Zanzibar do offer social critique. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Contextualizing Popobawa2. Voicing Expertise and Authority3. Talk and Believe: How to Prevent a Popobawa Attack in Two Easy Steps4. The Butt of a Joke5. Queering Popobawa6. Women as Sexual and Discursive Agents7. Batman in Africa8. Global MetanarrativesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press An Archipelago of Care
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewa distinctive perspective on global processes, and a valuable addition to the growing literature incorporating emotion into understandings. of migration. * Feminist Review *[T]his book's exploration of transnational care and flows of affect offers a powerful critique of the limits of state-based articulations of belonging, responsibility and entitlement. It poses novel questions to scholars engaging with migration and care ethics in particular. * Ageing and Society * Archipelago of Care is a stimulating contribution to the literature on reproductive labour. * Two Homelands *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsOn TransliterationIntroduction: Archipelago of Care1. In London2. At Church 3. On Facebook4. In the Community Center5. At Our House6. Back Home7. In TransitConclusion: Care and the Global Shatter ZoneNotesBibliographyIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press An Archipelago of Care
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewa distinctive perspective on global processes, and a valuable addition to the growing literature incorporating emotion into understandings. of migration. * Feminist Review *[T]his book's exploration of transnational care and flows of affect offers a powerful critique of the limits of state-based articulations of belonging, responsibility and entitlement. It poses novel questions to scholars engaging with migration and care ethics in particular. * Ageing and Society * Archipelago of Care is a stimulating contribution to the literature on reproductive labour. * Two Homelands *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsOn TransliterationIntroduction: Archipelago of Care1. In London2. At Church 3. On Facebook4. In the Community Center5. At Our House6. Back Home7. In TransitConclusion: Care and the Global Shatter ZoneNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Blood Ties and the Native Son
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is an important contribution to a growing literature on Central Asian politics and society, and by complicating dominant narratives about the dangers of weak state institutions, Ismailbekova has much to offer to the broader research project on democratisation and clientelism. * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsForeword: On Native Sons, Fake Brothers, and Big Men / Peter FinkeAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationList of AcronymsIntroduction: The Native Son and Blood Ties1. Kinship and Patronage in Kyrgyz History2. Scales of Rahim's Kinship: Zooming In and Zooming Out3. "Renewing the Bone": Kinship Categories, Practices and Patronage Networks in Bulak Village 4. The Irony of the Circle of Trust: The Dynamics and Mechanism of Patronage on the Private Farm5. Patronage and Poetics of Democracy6. The Return of the Native Son: The Symbolic Construction of the Election Day7. Rahim's Victory Feast: Political Patronage and Kinship in SolidarityConcluding words: Native son, Democratisation, and Poetics of PatronageGlossary of Local TermsBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Blood Ties and the Native Son
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is an important contribution to a growing literature on Central Asian politics and society, and by complicating dominant narratives about the dangers of weak state institutions, Ismailbekova has much to offer to the broader research project on democratisation and clientelism. * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsForeword: On Native Sons, Fake Brothers, and Big Men / Peter FinkeAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationList of AcronymsIntroduction: The Native Son and Blood Ties1. Kinship and Patronage in Kyrgyz History2. Scales of Rahim's Kinship: Zooming In and Zooming Out3. "Renewing the Bone": Kinship Categories, Practices and Patronage Networks in Bulak Village 4. The Irony of the Circle of Trust: The Dynamics and Mechanism of Patronage on the Private Farm5. Patronage and Poetics of Democracy6. The Return of the Native Son: The Symbolic Construction of the Election Day7. Rahim's Victory Feast: Political Patronage and Kinship in SolidarityConcluding words: Native son, Democratisation, and Poetics of PatronageGlossary of Local TermsBibliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Dystopias Provocateurs Peasants State and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy concentrating on the local strategies of combination in the areas of uprootedness, Materka has made an interesting and valuable contribution to our knowledge of human behavior. References and the use of Polish words for important concepts are exemplary. . . . [H]er collection of narratives provides food for thought on the relation between formal regulation and human ingenuity. * Baltic Worlds *Materka has produced an eloquently written, exciting, and meticulously analyzed ethnographic history that marks an alternative to the vast majority of strictly archival-based historical literature on the German-Polish borderlands. Within the field of Polish history, this book is also an important contribution as the first extensive work on the critical role of informality in the politics, society, and economy of People's Poland. -- Peter Polak-Springer * H-German *Indeed, Dystopia's Provocateurs is an unorthodox scholarly work with regard to both content and form. Venturing beyond scholarly conventions, Materka smoothly blends ethnographic analysis with cultural criticism as she dissects the ghosts of kombinacja in post-1989 Poland (p. 173–193) and when she compares the current developments in Pomerania and Silesia (p. 201–210). . . . Dystopia's Provocateurs is a highly inspiring book not only for those interested in the history of East Central Europe, but also scholars working in the vibrant field of informality studies. -- Kornelia Kończal * Hsozkult *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Pronunciation and Translation AcronymsIntroduction1. History's Ghosts2. Kombinacja's Histories3. Recovering Territories4. Magical Stalinism5. Proletarian Memories6. Kombinacja's Ghosts 7. Border MemoriesBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Dystopias Provocateurs
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy concentrating on the local strategies of combination in the areas of uprootedness, Materka has made an interesting and valuable contribution to our knowledge of human behavior. References and the use of Polish words for important concepts are exemplary. . . . [H]er collection of narratives provides food for thought on the relation between formal regulation and human ingenuity. * Baltic Worlds *Materka has produced an eloquently written, exciting, and meticulously analyzed ethnographic history that marks an alternative to the vast majority of strictly archival-based historical literature on the German-Polish borderlands. Within the field of Polish history, this book is also an important contribution as the first extensive work on the critical role of informality in the politics, society, and economy of People's Poland. -- Peter Polak-Springer * H-German *Indeed, Dystopia's Provocateurs is an unorthodox scholarly work with regard to both content and form. Venturing beyond scholarly conventions, Materka smoothly blends ethnographic analysis with cultural criticism as she dissects the ghosts of kombinacja in post-1989 Poland (p. 173–193) and when she compares the current developments in Pomerania and Silesia (p. 201–210). . . . Dystopia's Provocateurs is a highly inspiring book not only for those interested in the history of East Central Europe, but also scholars working in the vibrant field of informality studies. -- Kornelia Kończal * Hsozkult *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Pronunciation and Translation AcronymsIntroduction1. History's Ghosts2. Kombinacja's Histories3. Recovering Territories4. Magical Stalinism5. Proletarian Memories6. Kombinacja's Ghosts 7. Border MemoriesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press On Islam Muslims and the Media
Book SynopsisOn Islam helps break the cycle of biased media coverage with information and strategies to understand and report the modern Muslim experience. A concise and frank discussion of the Muslim experience, On Islam provides facts and perspective at a time when truth in journalism is more vital than ever.Trade ReviewThis book goes a long way in combating Islamophobia and exposing how media representations often exacerbate the ignorant fear of Islam and Muslims. * Publishers Weekly *On Islam: Muslims and the Media couldn't appear at a more useful time. . . It is an indispensable guide for reporters and for anyone who wants to gain a more informed, nuanced view of the faith and its adherents. * Bloom Magazine *The formal essays are equally fresh, candid, and direct. . . . 'Do Muslims Believe in Jesus?' and 'What is jihad?' Read this book to find the answers. * Bloom Magazine *On Islam: Muslims and the Media discusses the portrayal of Muslims in the media through a series of essays and other writings. -- Margarita H. Tapia * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *On Islam responds to a clear need of the political moment— the need for more interaction and discussion between journalists, writers and editors of various sorts, and academics. . . . At a time when many academics are drawn to work and writing addressed to the public, the collection represents one attempt to provide journalists writing about Muslims and Islam with a useful model for continuing this work in the future. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsEssaysPrologue: The Vision Behind Muslim Voices / Hilary KahnChapter 1. Reflecting on Muslim Voices / Rosemary Pennington Chapter 2. Shattering the Muslim Monolith / Arsalan IftikharChapter 3. So Near, Yet So Far: An Academic Reflection on the Endurance of American Islamophobia / Peter Gottschalk Chapter 4. Life as a Muslim in the Media / Zarqa NawazChapter 5. The Prisons of Paradigm / Rafia Zakaria Chapter 6. Unveiling Obsessions: Muslims and the Trap of Representation / Nabil Echchaibi Chapter 7. How Does the British Press Represent British Muslims? Frameworks of Reporting in the UK Context / Elizabeth PooleChapter 8. How to Write about Muslims / Sobia Ali-Faisal and Krista Riley Chapter 9. A Journalist Reflects on Covering Muslim Communities / Robert King Chapter 10. Muslims in the Media: Challenges and Rewards of Reporting on Muslims / Ammina Kothari Chapter 11. New Media and Muslim Voices / Rosemary Pennington Muslim VoicesVoice 1. Faiz Rahman: Understanding Will Take TimeVoice 2. Sohaib Sultan: What Muslims BelieveVoice 3. Heather Akou: The VeilVoice 4. Sheida Riahi: Arabic and Persian CalligraphyVoice 5. Zaineb Istrabadi: The SufiVoice 6. Uzma Mirza: The Role of Women in IslamVoice 7. Andre Carson: Life as a Muslim PoliticianVoice 8. Sarah Thompson: Women in Islam, ConvertingVoice 9. Daayiee Abdullah: Being Out and Being MuslimVoice 10. Aziz Alquraini: Mosques—Houses of Prayer, Hearts of CommunitiesCrash Course in IslamCrash Course 1. The Five Pillars of Islam Crash Course 2. The Six Articles of Faith Crash Course 3. The Profession of FaithCrash Course 4. Do Muslims Worship Muhammad? Crash Course 5. The Will of AllahCrash Course 6. What Is Jihad?Crash Course 7. What Is the Meaning of the Word "Islam"? Crash Course 8. What Is a Fatwa?Crash Course 9. The Qur'an: Just a Book?Crash Course 10. Ishmael and IslamCrash Course 11. Do Muslims Believe in Jesus? Crash Course 12. The Crescent Moon and IslamCrash Course 13. Muslim Prayer: How Do Muslims Pray?Crash Course 14. Are Non-Muslims Allowed to Go to Mosque?Crash Course 15. The Muslim GreetingIndex
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Indiana University Press State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor the African postcolonial state and Olaniyan and contributors, epistemological, theoretical, and pragmatic questions surrounding authority, ownership, and institutional forward progression should commence in the realm of culture. Curious readers inquiring the same should seek out this volume. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Culture and the Study of Politics in Post-Colonial AfricaPatrick Chabal2. Joined at the Hip: African Literature and Africa's Body-PoliticNiyi Osundare3. Philosophy and the State in Postcolonial AfricaOlúfémi Táíwò4. Soccer and the State: The Politics and Morality of Daily Life Michael G. Schatzberg5. The Enchanted History of Nigerian State TelevisionMatthew H. Brown6. "Performing like there's no tomorrow": Theatre, War and Social Vulnerability in MozambiqueLuís Madureira7. Fissures of Trespass: Women as Agents of Transgression Amidst National DisenchantmentNévine El Nossery8. The Sudanese Nation and Its Fragments: Tayeb Salih's Literary ArchaeologySofia Samatar9. The African Postcolonial Predicament: A Logic of Revenge, Prison Poetry, and Becoming HumanKen Walibora Waliaula10. "Jesus Christ Executive Producer": Pentecostal Parapolitics in Nollywood FilmsAkin Adesokan11. Hi-fi Sociality, Lo-fi Sound: Affect and Precarity in an Independent South African Recording StudioLouise Meintjes12. Talibé Trafficking: The Transformation of Koranic Teaching in SenegalLark Porter13. Tradition of Resistance in Nigeria's Print Media: The Example of TheNEWSKunle Ajibade14. Improvisational Characteristics of an Urban Fragment: Oxford St., AccraAto Quayson15. Gaining Ground: Squatters and the Right to the CityAnne-Maria Makhulu16. African Urban Garrison Architecture: Property, Armed Robbery, Para-CapitalismTejumola OlaniyanIndex
£62.90
Indiana University Press State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor the African postcolonial state and Olaniyan and contributors, epistemological, theoretical, and pragmatic questions surrounding authority, ownership, and institutional forward progression should commence in the realm of culture. Curious readers inquiring the same should seek out this volume. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Culture and the Study of Politics in Post-Colonial AfricaPatrick Chabal2. Joined at the Hip: African Literature and Africa's Body-PoliticNiyi Osundare3. Philosophy and the State in Postcolonial AfricaOlúfémi Táíwò4. Soccer and the State: The Politics and Morality of Daily Life Michael G. Schatzberg5. The Enchanted History of Nigerian State TelevisionMatthew H. Brown6. "Performing like there's no tomorrow": Theatre, War and Social Vulnerability in MozambiqueLuís Madureira7. Fissures of Trespass: Women as Agents of Transgression Amidst National DisenchantmentNévine El Nossery8. The Sudanese Nation and Its Fragments: Tayeb Salih's Literary ArchaeologySofia Samatar9. The African Postcolonial Predicament: A Logic of Revenge, Prison Poetry, and Becoming HumanKen Walibora Waliaula10. "Jesus Christ Executive Producer": Pentecostal Parapolitics in Nollywood FilmsAkin Adesokan11. Hi-fi Sociality, Lo-fi Sound: Affect and Precarity in an Independent South African Recording StudioLouise Meintjes12. Talibé Trafficking: The Transformation of Koranic Teaching in SenegalLark Porter13. Tradition of Resistance in Nigeria's Print Media: The Example of TheNEWSKunle Ajibade14. Improvisational Characteristics of an Urban Fragment: Oxford St., AccraAto Quayson15. Gaining Ground: Squatters and the Right to the CityAnne-Maria Makhulu16. African Urban Garrison Architecture: Property, Armed Robbery, Para-CapitalismTejumola OlaniyanIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press Masquerading Politics Kinship Gender and
Book SynopsisTrade Review[This] book as a whole stands as a major achievement not only in Yoruba history and historical anthropology, but in recent historiographic trends using ritual institutions and performances as primary historical sources. It will have a major impact in Yoruba studies, and in the study of West African history more generally. Willis should be commended for penetrating a complex and socially guarded ritual resource to glean the hidden histories manifested therein. * African Studies Review *Willis's work should be a must-read for students and established scholars alike. * Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Early History of Otta and the Origins of Egungun and Gelede2. "Children" and "Wives" in the Politics of the Oyo Empire during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade3. The Emergence of New Warriors, Wards, and Masquerades: The Otta Kingdom during the Era of Imperial Collapse4. "A Thing to Govern the Town": Gendered Masquerades and the Politics of the Chiefs and the Monarchy in the Rebuilding of a Town, 1848–18595. Wives, Warriors, and Masks: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in Otta, 1871–1928Conclusion: Egungun and Gelede at Otta TodayBibliographyIndex
£63.00
Indiana University Press Masquerading Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review[This] book as a whole stands as a major achievement not only in Yoruba history and historical anthropology, but in recent historiographic trends using ritual institutions and performances as primary historical sources. It will have a major impact in Yoruba studies, and in the study of West African history more generally. Willis should be commended for penetrating a complex and socially guarded ritual resource to glean the hidden histories manifested therein. * African Studies Review *Willis's work should be a must-read for students and established scholars alike. * Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Early History of Otta and the Origins of Egungun and Gelede2. "Children" and "Wives" in the Politics of the Oyo Empire during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade3. The Emergence of New Warriors, Wards, and Masquerades: The Otta Kingdom during the Era of Imperial Collapse4. "A Thing to Govern the Town": Gendered Masquerades and the Politics of the Chiefs and the Monarchy in the Rebuilding of a Town, 1848–18595. Wives, Warriors, and Masks: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in Otta, 1871–1928Conclusion: Egungun and Gelede at Otta TodayBibliographyIndex
£25.19
MH - Indiana University Press Sacred Art Catholic Saints and Candomble Gods in
Book SynopsisBased on the words and works of working-class artists in Brazil, Sacred Art holds rich, fresh information for all who care about art and religion.Trade ReviewThis book is a must for those interested in sacred materiality, vernacular art, and the creative and imaginative blending of two diverse but congruent belief systems. * Journal of American Folklore *Table of ContentsAn Introduction1. The Historical Center2. Modern Masters of Sacred Art3. The Sculptor's Story4. Markets for Sacred Art5. Ibimirim: Carvers in the Sertão6. Maragojipinho: Sacred Clay in Bahia7. Tracunhaém: Sacred Clay in Pernambuco8. Painting in Olinda9. Carving in Cachoeira10. Return to Pelourinho11. Saints and Orixás in Pelourinho12. Smiths of the Sacred13. The Painter of Orixás14. Power and Beauty15. Time PassesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£34.20
Indiana University Press On Islam Muslims and the Media
Book SynopsisOn Islam helps break the cycle of biased media coverage with information and strategies to understand and report the modern Muslim experience. A concise and frank discussion of the Muslim experience, On Islam provides facts and perspective at a time when truth in journalism is more vital than ever.Trade ReviewThis book goes a long way in combating Islamophobia and exposing how media representations often exacerbate the ignorant fear of Islam and Muslims. * Publishers Weekly *On Islam: Muslims and the Media couldn't appear at a more useful time. . . It is an indispensable guide for reporters and for anyone who wants to gain a more informed, nuanced view of the faith and its adherents. * Bloom Magazine *The formal essays are equally fresh, candid, and direct. . . . 'Do Muslims Believe in Jesus?' and 'What is jihad?' Read this book to find the answers. * Bloom Magazine *On Islam: Muslims and the Media discusses the portrayal of Muslims in the media through a series of essays and other writings. -- Margarita H. Tapia * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *On Islam responds to a clear need of the political moment— the need for more interaction and discussion between journalists, writers and editors of various sorts, and academics. . . . At a time when many academics are drawn to work and writing addressed to the public, the collection represents one attempt to provide journalists writing about Muslims and Islam with a useful model for continuing this work in the future. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsEssaysPrologue: The Vision Behind Muslim Voices / Hilary KahnChapter 1. Reflecting on Muslim Voices / Rosemary Pennington Chapter 2. Shattering the Muslim Monolith / Arsalan IftikharChapter 3. So Near, Yet So Far: An Academic Reflection on the Endurance of American Islamophobia / Peter Gottschalk Chapter 4. Life as a Muslim in the Media / Zarqa NawazChapter 5. The Prisons of Paradigm / Rafia Zakaria Chapter 6. Unveiling Obsessions: Muslims and the Trap of Representation / Nabil Echchaibi Chapter 7. How Does the British Press Represent British Muslims? Frameworks of Reporting in the UK Context / Elizabeth PooleChapter 8. How to Write about Muslims / Sobia Ali-Faisal and Krista Riley Chapter 9. A Journalist Reflects on Covering Muslim Communities / Robert King Chapter 10. Muslims in the Media: Challenges and Rewards of Reporting on Muslims / Ammina Kothari Chapter 11. New Media and Muslim Voices / Rosemary Pennington Muslim VoicesVoice 1. Faiz Rahman: Understanding Will Take TimeVoice 2. Sohaib Sultan: What Muslims BelieveVoice 3. Heather Akou: The VeilVoice 4. Sheida Riahi: Arabic and Persian CalligraphyVoice 5. Zaineb Istrabadi: The SufiVoice 6. Uzma Mirza: The Role of Women in IslamVoice 7. Andre Carson: Life as a Muslim PoliticianVoice 8. Sarah Thompson: Women in Islam, ConvertingVoice 9. Daayiee Abdullah: Being Out and Being MuslimVoice 10. Aziz Alquraini: Mosques—Houses of Prayer, Hearts of CommunitiesCrash Course in IslamCrash Course 1. The Five Pillars of Islam Crash Course 2. The Six Articles of Faith Crash Course 3. The Profession of FaithCrash Course 4. Do Muslims Worship Muhammad? Crash Course 5. The Will of AllahCrash Course 6. What Is Jihad?Crash Course 7. What Is the Meaning of the Word "Islam"? Crash Course 8. What Is a Fatwa?Crash Course 9. The Qur'an: Just a Book?Crash Course 10. Ishmael and IslamCrash Course 11. Do Muslims Believe in Jesus? Crash Course 12. The Crescent Moon and IslamCrash Course 13. Muslim Prayer: How Do Muslims Pray?Crash Course 14. Are Non-Muslims Allowed to Go to Mosque?Crash Course 15. The Muslim GreetingIndex
£13.29
Indiana University Press Women and Genocide
Book SynopsisTrade Review Women and Genocide is an immense scholarly accomplishment that has the potential to fund creative advances in each of the scholarly disciplines it engages, as well as human rights, peace, and anti-violence programs of advocacy. * Reading Religion *This book is a must, not only for classes on gender and sexuality, war and genocide, and feminist studies, but also approachable for anyone interested in war, genocide, or gender as it explores an uncommon, yet crucial, aspect of genocide. -- Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface / Joyce W. WarrenIntroduction: Memory, Body, and Power: Women and the Study of Genocide / Elissa Bemporad1. The Gendered Logics of Indigenous Genocide / Andrea Smith2. Women and the Herero Genocide / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey3. Arshaluys Mardigian/Aurora Mardiganian: Absorption, Stardom, Exploitation, and Empowerment / Donna-Lee Frieze4. "Hyphenated" Identities during the Holodomor: Women and Cannibalism / Olga Bertelsen5. Gender: A Crucial Tool in Holocaust Research / Marion Kaplan6. German Women and the Holocaust in the Nazi East / Wendy Lower7. Romani Girls: Resiliency and Caretaking during the Holocaust in Romanian-controlled Transnistria / Michelle Kelso8. Birangona: Bearing Witness in War and 'Peace' / Bina D'Costa9. Very Superstitious: Gendered Punishment in Democratic Kampuchea , 1975-1979 / Trude Jacobsen10. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide / Victoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos Alvarez-Arenas and Kathleen Dill11. Gender and the Military in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Georgina Holmes12. Narratives of Survivors of Srebrenica: How Do They Reconnect to the World? / Selma Leydesdorff13. The Plight and Fate of Females during and Following the Darfur Genocide / Samuel Totten14. Grassroots Women's Participation in Addressing Conflict and Genocide: Case Studies from the MENA Region and Latin America / Lisa David and Cassandra AtlasSelected Bibliography: Further ReadingsIndex
£62.90
Indiana University Press Women and Genocide
Book SynopsisTrade Review Women and Genocide is an immense scholarly accomplishment that has the potential to fund creative advances in each of the scholarly disciplines it engages, as well as human rights, peace, and anti-violence programs of advocacy. * Reading Religion *This book is a must, not only for classes on gender and sexuality, war and genocide, and feminist studies, but also approachable for anyone interested in war, genocide, or gender as it explores an uncommon, yet crucial, aspect of genocide. -- Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface / Joyce W. WarrenIntroduction: Memory, Body, and Power: Women and the Study of Genocide / Elissa Bemporad1. The Gendered Logics of Indigenous Genocide / Andrea Smith2. Women and the Herero Genocide / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey3. Arshaluys Mardigian/Aurora Mardiganian: Absorption, Stardom, Exploitation, and Empowerment / Donna-Lee Frieze4. "Hyphenated" Identities during the Holodomor: Women and Cannibalism / Olga Bertelsen5. Gender: A Crucial Tool in Holocaust Research / Marion Kaplan6. German Women and the Holocaust in the Nazi East / Wendy Lower7. Romani Girls: Resiliency and Caretaking during the Holocaust in Romanian-controlled Transnistria / Michelle Kelso8. Birangona: Bearing Witness in War and 'Peace' / Bina D'Costa9. Very Superstitious: Gendered Punishment in Democratic Kampuchea , 1975-1979 / Trude Jacobsen10. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide / Victoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos Alvarez-Arenas and Kathleen Dill11. Gender and the Military in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Georgina Holmes12. Narratives of Survivors of Srebrenica: How Do They Reconnect to the World? / Selma Leydesdorff13. The Plight and Fate of Females during and Following the Darfur Genocide / Samuel Totten14. Grassroots Women's Participation in Addressing Conflict and Genocide: Case Studies from the MENA Region and Latin America / Lisa David and Cassandra AtlasSelected Bibliography: Further ReadingsIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Culture and Value
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFolklorists need to be 'in the room' as equal partners, whether as professional experts, advocates, or mediators. To attain this, the discipline needs to address the whole issue of cultural heritage as currently understood by a set of wider and influential interests, and develop empirical and theoretical approaches which embrace opportunities within emerging contexts, while maintaining the underlying essentials. Overall, [Culture and Value] is a valuable, possibly necessary, summary of changing attitudes and disciplinary approaches over the past half-century. -- William Roberts * Folklore * Comprising a concatenation of previously published articles, as well as unpublished conference presentations, Culture and Value presents some of the most important scholarship on these topics in the field of folklore in an eminently readable form. * Asian Ethnology *This book provides some useful historical materials for those interested in the development of both the anthropological and folkloric aspects of heritage and tourism studies. * Choice *Bendix has made a significant contribution to the study of cultural resources with Culture and Value. . . .It is a must read for scholars particularly interested in politics and the allocation of funding and personal rights over tangible and intangible culture. * Western Folklore *Table of ContentsCulture and Value: An Introduction Section IIntroduction: Creating, Owning, and Narrating within Tourist Economies 1. Tourism and Cultural Display: Inventing Traditions for Whom?2. On the Road to Fiction: Narrative Reification in Austrian Cultural Tourism3. Fairy Tale Activists: Narrative Imaginaries along a German Tourist Route (with Dorothee Hemme) 4. Capitalizing on Memories Past, Present and Future: Observations on the Intertwining of Tourism and Narration Section IIIntroduction: Heritage Semantics, Heritage Regimes5. Heredity, Hybridity and Heritage from One Fin-de-Siècle to the Next 6. Heritage between Economy and Politics: An Assessment from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology 7. Inheritances: Possession, Ownership, and Responsibility 8. The Dynamics of Valorizing Culture: Actors and Shifting Contexts in the Course of a CenturySection IIIIntroduction: Culture as Resource—Culture as Property 9. Expressive Resources. Knowledge, Agency, and European Ethnology 10. Daily Bread, Global Distinction? The German Bakers' Craft and Cultural Value-Enhancement Regimes 11. TK, TCE, and Co: The Path from Culture as a Commons to a Resource for International Negotiation12. Patronage and Preservation: Heritage Paradigms and Their Impact on Supporting "Good Culture" Index
£28.80
Indiana University Press Culture and Value
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFolklorists need to be 'in the room' as equal partners, whether as professional experts, advocates, or mediators. To attain this, the discipline needs to address the whole issue of cultural heritage as currently understood by a set of wider and influential interests, and develop empirical and theoretical approaches which embrace opportunities within emerging contexts, while maintaining the underlying essentials. Overall, [Culture and Value] is a valuable, possibly necessary, summary of changing attitudes and disciplinary approaches over the past half-century. -- William Roberts * Folklore * Comprising a concatenation of previously published articles, as well as unpublished conference presentations, Culture and Value presents some of the most important scholarship on these topics in the field of folklore in an eminently readable form. * Asian Ethnology *This book provides some useful historical materials for those interested in the development of both the anthropological and folkloric aspects of heritage and tourism studies. * Choice *Bendix has made a significant contribution to the study of cultural resources with Culture and Value. . . .It is a must read for scholars particularly interested in politics and the allocation of funding and personal rights over tangible and intangible culture. * Western Folklore *Table of ContentsCulture and Value: An Introduction Section IIntroduction: Creating, Owning, and Narrating within Tourist Economies 1. Tourism and Cultural Display: Inventing Traditions for Whom?2. On the Road to Fiction: Narrative Reification in Austrian Cultural Tourism3. Fairy Tale Activists: Narrative Imaginaries along a German Tourist Route (with Dorothee Hemme) 4. Capitalizing on Memories Past, Present and Future: Observations on the Intertwining of Tourism and Narration Section IIIntroduction: Heritage Semantics, Heritage Regimes5. Heredity, Hybridity and Heritage from One Fin-de-Siècle to the Next 6. Heritage between Economy and Politics: An Assessment from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology 7. Inheritances: Possession, Ownership, and Responsibility 8. The Dynamics of Valorizing Culture: Actors and Shifting Contexts in the Course of a CenturySection IIIIntroduction: Culture as Resource—Culture as Property 9. Expressive Resources. Knowledge, Agency, and European Ethnology 10. Daily Bread, Global Distinction? The German Bakers' Craft and Cultural Value-Enhancement Regimes 11. TK, TCE, and Co: The Path from Culture as a Commons to a Resource for International Negotiation12. Patronage and Preservation: Heritage Paradigms and Their Impact on Supporting "Good Culture" Index
£59.50
Indiana University Press Funeral Culture
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFuneral Culture offers a detailed ethnography of funerals in South African Swaziland, and scholars and students alike can breathe fresh air with this comparison of the neo-funeral cultural changes amongst the Southern African countries. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIVChapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead"Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the WitchChapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and CremationChapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento RadicalisConclusion The Afterlives of WorkAppendixI. siSwati-American English GlossaryII. List of AbbreviationsReferencesIndex
£63.00
Indiana University Press Funeral Culture
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFuneral Culture offers a detailed ethnography of funerals in South African Swaziland, and scholars and students alike can breathe fresh air with this comparison of the neo-funeral cultural changes amongst the Southern African countries. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIVChapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead"Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the WitchChapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and CremationChapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento RadicalisConclusion The Afterlives of WorkAppendixI. siSwati-American English GlossaryII. List of AbbreviationsReferencesIndex
£22.79
Indiana University Press Latinos in Israel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alejandro Paz demonstrates the processes by which margins of identity are constructed or challenged. Israeli identity is routinely imagined in relation to Arab, particularly Palestinian, identity. The fact that the space occupied by undocumented Latino youths in Israel is negotiable shows the complexity and contingency of national identity, raising interesting points about how it actually works."—Bonnie Urciuoli, author of Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class"Latinos quest for recognition as citizens is publicly grounded in their ability to convey their similarity to Israelis and their difference from Palestinians. Thus, speaking like a citizen is much more than a surface performance, as Alejandro Paz convincingly shows, and Latinos themselves are transformed in the process."—Dafna Hirsch, author of 'We Are Here to Bring the West': Hygiene Education and Culture Building in the Jewish Society of Palestine during the British Mandate Period"This fine-grained ethnography of the Latino migrant community in Israel illustrates the ways in which every day linguistic practices—such as 'speaking like a citizen'—can become cunning political tools in the hands of undocumented populations. Moving boldly beyond regionally-bound ethnographic approaches, Alejandro Paz's study demonstrates how the precarious lives of Latino communities in Israel are implicated in larger global histories of displacement and colonialism, even as it reminds us that the fate of the non-citizen Palestinian and the non-citizen labor migrant are intimately intertwined."—Rebecca L. Stein, author (with Adi Kuntsman) of Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media AgeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TranscriptionIntroduction: Language and the Unexpected CitizenChapter 1: Becoming Non-Citizens: Modernizing Agency in Latino Arrivals to IsraelChapter 2: Strangers in their own Home: Educación, Domesticity and (Trans-)National IntimacyChapter 3: Inculcating Citizenship: Language, Performance and Commensurating Cultural Difference Chapter 4: Chisme as Latino Public Life: La Alcachofa and Marginal Public VoicesChapter 5: El Sapo Speaks: Police Informers and the Voice of the StateChapter 6: Becoming Israeli Citizens: Latino Youth, Uncanny Similarity and the Message of Citizenship Epilogue: The Unexpected Citizen as Voice of ResponseReferencesIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Latinos in Israel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alejandro Paz demonstrates the processes by which margins of identity are constructed or challenged. Israeli identity is routinely imagined in relation to Arab, particularly Palestinian, identity. The fact that the space occupied by undocumented Latino youths in Israel is negotiable shows the complexity and contingency of national identity, raising interesting points about how it actually works."—Bonnie Urciuoli, author of Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class"Latinos quest for recognition as citizens is publicly grounded in their ability to convey their similarity to Israelis and their difference from Palestinians. Thus, speaking like a citizen is much more than a surface performance, as Alejandro Paz convincingly shows, and Latinos themselves are transformed in the process."—Dafna Hirsch, author of 'We Are Here to Bring the West': Hygiene Education and Culture Building in the Jewish Society of Palestine during the British Mandate Period"This fine-grained ethnography of the Latino migrant community in Israel illustrates the ways in which every day linguistic practices—such as 'speaking like a citizen'—can become cunning political tools in the hands of undocumented populations. Moving boldly beyond regionally-bound ethnographic approaches, Alejandro Paz's study demonstrates how the precarious lives of Latino communities in Israel are implicated in larger global histories of displacement and colonialism, even as it reminds us that the fate of the non-citizen Palestinian and the non-citizen labor migrant are intimately intertwined."—Rebecca L. Stein, author (with Adi Kuntsman) of Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media AgeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TranscriptionIntroduction: Language and the Unexpected CitizenChapter 1: Becoming Non-Citizens: Modernizing Agency in Latino Arrivals to IsraelChapter 2: Strangers in their own Home: Educación, Domesticity and (Trans-)National IntimacyChapter 3: Inculcating Citizenship: Language, Performance and Commensurating Cultural Difference Chapter 4: Chisme as Latino Public Life: La Alcachofa and Marginal Public VoicesChapter 5: El Sapo Speaks: Police Informers and the Voice of the StateChapter 6: Becoming Israeli Citizens: Latino Youth, Uncanny Similarity and the Message of Citizenship Epilogue: The Unexpected Citizen as Voice of ResponseReferencesIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press Tradition in the Frame
Book SynopsisSfakians on the island of Crete are known for their distinctive dress and appearance, fierce ruggedness, and devotion to traditional ways. Konstantinos Kalantzis explores how Sfakians live with the burdens and pleasures of maintaining these expectations of exoticism for themselves, for their fellow Greeks, and for tourists. Sfakian performance of masculine tradition has become even more meaningful for Greeks looking to reimagine their nation's global standing in the wake of stringent financial regulation, and for non-Greek tourists yearning for rootedness and escape from the post-industrial north. Through fine-grained ethnography that pays special attention to photography, Tradition in the Frame explores the ambivalence of a society expected to conform to outsiders' perception of the traditional even as it strives to enact its own vision of tradition. From the bodily reenactment of historical photographs to the unpredictable, emotionally-charged uses of postcards and commercial labels,Trade ReviewIn this original, beautifully written, and often moving monograph, Konstantinos Kalantzis has produced a lasting contribution to the anthropological study of contemporary Europe. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Tradition in the Frame explores with exquisite detail a number of timely themes—the social life of photographs, conflicting tourist and local images of Crete, the performance of gender stereotypes, and the complex tension between tradition and modernity. The author's ability to view the world through the eyes of natives and foreigners, and to deconstruct visual signs and symbols, is nothing short of stunning. For anyone interested in Europe and the Mediterranean world today, this richly documented and theoretically sophisticated volume is a must read. -- Stanley BrandesThis rich account, of empirical depth and theoretical elegance, gives us a fine-grained and nuanced exploration of the work of photographs in a Cretan community. Focusing on the temporal and spatial practices of photography, it gives a cogent account of the visual culture through which questions of identity, historical imagination, nostalgia, and constructions and performances of tradition are negotiated by 'insider Sfakians'' and 'outsiders'. In demonstrating the significance of the humble snapshot, postcard and poster within networks of cultural negotiation, this book provides an exemplary case study of the value of the visual as a prism through which to consider broader questions. Bringing together, as it does, questions of centre and periphery in relation to nation, to tourism and to contemporary politics, it is in the very best traditions of both ethnographies of Europe and of visual anthropology. -- Elizabeth EdwardsTradition in the Frame is a richly innovative ethnography focusing on the visual dimensions of modern Cretan mythmaking, and especially on the material reproduction and negotiation of time-honored stereotypes of warrior masculinity. Writing of a society that has largely shifted its economy from shepherding to tourism, Kalantzis incisively demonstrates how the realities of commercial exploitation and socio-political change re-frame familiar images of a society at once proudly central to the symbolism of national identity and yet also still reluctant to accept the merest hint of intrusive authority. -- Michael HerzfeldKalantzis' marvellous and wise book, the product of meticulous ethnography and theoretically sophisticated analysis, documents photographic practices in Sfakia that create stereotypes and also undermine them. "Thinking through the frame" and moving the debate on exoticism far beyond familiar binaries, this landmark ethnography of photography is filled with compelling description and powerful conceptual formulations that are both subtle and clear. Offering the reader wonderful evocations of places and people, this account of the fluid intersection of identity with media practices, where "tradition is demanded", is a major achievement by a key figure in Visual Anthropology. -- Christopher PinneyIn the face of a long tradition of 'iconophobia' in anthropology, Tradition in the Frame. Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis highlights the anthropological prospects opened up by the study of a society's images and the study of a society through images. Taking an insightful and critical ethnographic approach, the writer presents the ways in which the external gaze of folklorists, photographers, tourists etc who construct stereotypes and feed other people's imaginings of 'Sfakia' and 'the Sfakians' engages in dialogue with local perceptions of the self, national narratives and international expectations. These local perceptions challenge dominant idioms, suggest alternative interpretations and significations of photographic representations, and foreground 'tiny sparks of contingency' as per Walter Benjamin which resist any national, folklorist or urban imagination. The anonymous, atemporal 'Cretan', 'the shepherd', 'the picturesque villager' is recognized by the locals and transformed into a relative, a friend with a name and a specific history, recalling the philosophical political thesis of Ariella Azoulay on the revolutionary potential of photography. Photographs themselves become objects of reappropriation and they are activated through bodily performances as they become points of reference and imitation for new photographic portraits in the present, effectively connecting contemporary with ancestral bodies. Sounds, scents, tastes, memories, experiences of Sfakia are substantiated in images and the critical writing of Kalantzis, thus allowing 'tradition' to escape from 'the frame' and reminding readers that the visual is part and parcel of our multi-sensory experience of the world, always in dialogue with imagination, desire, and expectation in (and for) the past, the present and the future. -- Eleana YalouriKalantzis has produced remarkably detailed and perceptive ethnography (if that is a word that can still be used) of a very particular society in southwestern Crete, aspects of which, however, would be immediately recognizable to anyone who has spent time anywhere in Greece and would also, I think, be found in very many contemporary societies around the world: hence my graceless intrusion of expatriate London Australians, or Irish or Texans in this review. But good ethnographies always move us from a consideration of the particular to its resonances in society in general. -- Roger Just * Journal of the Anthroplogical Society of Oxford *The valuable theory produced by the book's in-depth ethnography of the complex milieu of tradition in Sfakia and the way it links to the meanings, limits and creative subversions in visual frames, can take many movements-directions as it joins together the anthropological study of Crete, gender, exoticism, nationhood, agency, and resistance. -- Ilektra Kyriazidou * Entaglements *Immediately upon reading Tradition in the Frame, the reader is transported to the mountains of the Aegean Sea where Kalantzis unfolds layer after layer of paradoxes and tensions and, as good ethnography should, works to explain how they are resolved and mitigated. . . . Those looking to explore how to incorporate visual methods in unexpected ways will find this book particularly useful; in fact, the dedication to the use of photography to explore the myriad tensions between past/present, traditional/modern, Crete/Greece, while situating this all within a larger framework of Europeanization is a welcome model. -- James Hundley * Entaglements *Based on fieldwork in Crete, Tradition in the Frame is an ethnography that turns the seemingly facile observation that tradition is important to Greeks into a fascinating exploration of how visuality, and photography in particular, shapes dynamics of power and people's understanding of themselves. . . . In its breadth and sophistication this book is an invaluable contribution to visual anthropology and to the study of modern Greece. -- Sophie Stamatopoulou-Robbins * Journal of Modern Greek Studies *In Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, Konstantinos Kalantzis explores the experiences of Sfakians in Crete to reflect on how tradition is made meaningful today and what this can tell us about the dynamics of localisation, globalisation, modernity and belonging in our contemporary world. This is a rich and enjoyable read that will be of interest to scholars and students looking for new, generative approaches to visual culture at the intersection of the local and the global, -- Kristina Gedgaudaitė * London School of Economics Review of Books *The tools that Kalantzis generously lays out for his fellow anthropologists will, no doubt, open up this conversation toward new horizons for there is indeed much to be seen beyond the edges of cultural convention. -- Myriam Lamrani * Visual Anthropology *The study of tradition, along with that of power, remain colossal concerns across the social sciences and humanities. Joining a significant lineage on these topics is Konstantinos Kalantzis' book, Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, which offers an ethnographically precise and broad-ranging analysis of the architectonics of power and tradition in and in relation to Sfakia, a mountainous coastal region in southwest Crete. . . . for its plethora of visual-ethnographic examples, engaging storytelling, and depth of analytical insights, Tradition in the Frame will be of great interest to students and scholars working across anthropology, photography, visual culture, and beyond. -- Shireen Walton * Ethnos *Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPart 1 Spatial and National Contexts1. Driving Up the Yellow Lines: Geography and Imagination2. Sfakians in the Nation-StatePart 2 On Hegemony3. Mountain Men as Photographic Subjects and Spectators4. Performing the Stereotype: Between Containment and "Recalcitrant Alterity"5. The Experiential in the Fictive: A Film Shoot as Visceral History6. Who Is Imagining? The Encounter between Shepherds and ScientistsPart 3 Modernity and Its Discontents7. Polluting Modernity, Disturbing Pasts: Photography and Montage Logic8. Sfakians and TouristsEpilogueBiobliographyIndex
£59.40
Indiana University Press Tradition in the Frame
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this original, beautifully written, and often moving monograph, Konstantinos Kalantzis has produced a lasting contribution to the anthropological study of contemporary Europe. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Tradition in the Frame explores with exquisite detail a number of timely themes—the social life of photographs, conflicting tourist and local images of Crete, the performance of gender stereotypes, and the complex tension between tradition and modernity. The author's ability to view the world through the eyes of natives and foreigners, and to deconstruct visual signs and symbols, is nothing short of stunning. For anyone interested in Europe and the Mediterranean world today, this richly documented and theoretically sophisticated volume is a must read. -- Stanley BrandesThis rich account, of empirical depth and theoretical elegance, gives us a fine-grained and nuanced exploration of the work of photographs in a Cretan community. Focusing on the temporal and spatial practices of photography, it gives a cogent account of the visual culture through which questions of identity, historical imagination, nostalgia, and constructions and performances of tradition are negotiated by 'insider Sfakians'' and 'outsiders'. In demonstrating the significance of the humble snapshot, postcard and poster within networks of cultural negotiation, this book provides an exemplary case study of the value of the visual as a prism through which to consider broader questions. Bringing together, as it does, questions of centre and periphery in relation to nation, to tourism and to contemporary politics, it is in the very best traditions of both ethnographies of Europe and of visual anthropology. -- Elizabeth EdwardsTradition in the Frame is a richly innovative ethnography focusing on the visual dimensions of modern Cretan mythmaking, and especially on the material reproduction and negotiation of time-honored stereotypes of warrior masculinity. Writing of a society that has largely shifted its economy from shepherding to tourism, Kalantzis incisively demonstrates how the realities of commercial exploitation and socio-political change re-frame familiar images of a society at once proudly central to the symbolism of national identity and yet also still reluctant to accept the merest hint of intrusive authority. -- Michael HerzfeldKalantzis' marvellous and wise book, the product of meticulous ethnography and theoretically sophisticated analysis, documents photographic practices in Sfakia that create stereotypes and also undermine them. "Thinking through the frame" and moving the debate on exoticism far beyond familiar binaries, this landmark ethnography of photography is filled with compelling description and powerful conceptual formulations that are both subtle and clear. Offering the reader wonderful evocations of places and people, this account of the fluid intersection of identity with media practices, where "tradition is demanded", is a major achievement by a key figure in Visual Anthropology. -- Christopher PinneyIn the face of a long tradition of 'iconophobia' in anthropology, Tradition in the Frame. Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis highlights the anthropological prospects opened up by the study of a society's images and the study of a society through images. Taking an insightful and critical ethnographic approach, the writer presents the ways in which the external gaze of folklorists, photographers, tourists etc who construct stereotypes and feed other people's imaginings of 'Sfakia' and 'the Sfakians' engages in dialogue with local perceptions of the self, national narratives and international expectations. These local perceptions challenge dominant idioms, suggest alternative interpretations and significations of photographic representations, and foreground 'tiny sparks of contingency' as per Walter Benjamin which resist any national, folklorist or urban imagination. The anonymous, atemporal 'Cretan', 'the shepherd', 'the picturesque villager' is recognized by the locals and transformed into a relative, a friend with a name and a specific history, recalling the philosophical political thesis of Ariella Azoulay on the revolutionary potential of photography. Photographs themselves become objects of reappropriation and they are activated through bodily performances as they become points of reference and imitation for new photographic portraits in the present, effectively connecting contemporary with ancestral bodies. Sounds, scents, tastes, memories, experiences of Sfakia are substantiated in images and the critical writing of Kalantzis, thus allowing 'tradition' to escape from 'the frame' and reminding readers that the visual is part and parcel of our multi-sensory experience of the world, always in dialogue with imagination, desire, and expectation in (and for) the past, the present and the future. -- Eleana YalouriKalantzis has produced remarkably detailed and perceptive ethnography (if that is a word that can still be used) of a very particular society in southwestern Crete, aspects of which, however, would be immediately recognizable to anyone who has spent time anywhere in Greece and would also, I think, be found in very many contemporary societies around the world: hence my graceless intrusion of expatriate London Australians, or Irish or Texans in this review. But good ethnographies always move us from a consideration of the particular to its resonances in society in general. -- Roger Just * Journal of the Anthroplogical Society of Oxford *The valuable theory produced by the book's in-depth ethnography of the complex milieu of tradition in Sfakia and the way it links to the meanings, limits and creative subversions in visual frames, can take many movements-directions as it joins together the anthropological study of Crete, gender, exoticism, nationhood, agency, and resistance. -- Ilektra Kyriazidou * Entaglements *Immediately upon reading Tradition in the Frame, the reader is transported to the mountains of the Aegean Sea where Kalantzis unfolds layer after layer of paradoxes and tensions and, as good ethnography should, works to explain how they are resolved and mitigated. . . . Those looking to explore how to incorporate visual methods in unexpected ways will find this book particularly useful; in fact, the dedication to the use of photography to explore the myriad tensions between past/present, traditional/modern, Crete/Greece, while situating this all within a larger framework of Europeanization is a welcome model. -- James Hundley * Entaglements *Based on fieldwork in Crete, Tradition in the Frame is an ethnography that turns the seemingly facile observation that tradition is important to Greeks into a fascinating exploration of how visuality, and photography in particular, shapes dynamics of power and people's understanding of themselves. . . . In its breadth and sophistication this book is an invaluable contribution to visual anthropology and to the study of modern Greece. -- Sophie Stamatopoulou-Robbins * Journal of Modern Greek Studies *In Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, Konstantinos Kalantzis explores the experiences of Sfakians in Crete to reflect on how tradition is made meaningful today and what this can tell us about the dynamics of localisation, globalisation, modernity and belonging in our contemporary world. This is a rich and enjoyable read that will be of interest to scholars and students looking for new, generative approaches to visual culture at the intersection of the local and the global, -- Kristina Gedgaudaitė * London School of Economics Review of Books *The tools that Kalantzis generously lays out for his fellow anthropologists will, no doubt, open up this conversation toward new horizons for there is indeed much to be seen beyond the edges of cultural convention. -- Myriam Lamrani * Visual Anthropology *The study of tradition, along with that of power, remain colossal concerns across the social sciences and humanities. Joining a significant lineage on these topics is Konstantinos Kalantzis' book, Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, which offers an ethnographically precise and broad-ranging analysis of the architectonics of power and tradition in and in relation to Sfakia, a mountainous coastal region in southwest Crete. . . . for its plethora of visual-ethnographic examples, engaging storytelling, and depth of analytical insights, Tradition in the Frame will be of great interest to students and scholars working across anthropology, photography, visual culture, and beyond. -- Shireen Walton * Ethnos *Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPart 1 Spatial and National Contexts1. Driving Up the Yellow Lines: Geography and Imagination2. Sfakians in the Nation-StatePart 2 On Hegemony3. Mountain Men as Photographic Subjects and Spectators4. Performing the Stereotype: Between Containment and "Recalcitrant Alterity"5. The Experiential in the Fictive: A Film Shoot as Visceral History6. Who Is Imagining? The Encounter between Shepherds and ScientistsPart 3 Modernity and Its Discontents7. Polluting Modernity, Disturbing Pasts: Photography and Montage Logic8. Sfakians and TouristsEpilogueBiobliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSwahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience highlights the great diversity of postcolonial Muslim lives in Kenya and the nuances of race and language that inform religion as a mediated experience that infiltrates life on the coast. Deeply ethnographic and well researched, this book is an important addition to the libraries of African studies scholars, anthropologists and historians of Africa and Islam, and anthropologists of media. * American Ethnologist *This well-researched study should be considered for purchase by any library with an extensive African studies collection. * Choice *Kresse's ability to weave together questions of rhetoric, postcoloniality, religion, culture, and politics, and to understand them from the epistemological vantage point of ethnographic actors themselves, is truly remarkable. -- Marcus Timothy Haworth * Reading Relgion *
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Indiana University Press Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSwahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience highlights the great diversity of postcolonial Muslim lives in Kenya and the nuances of race and language that inform religion as a mediated experience that infiltrates life on the coast. Deeply ethnographic and well researched, this book is an important addition to the libraries of African studies scholars, anthropologists and historians of Africa and Islam, and anthropologists of media. * American Ethnologist *This well-researched study should be considered for purchase by any library with an extensive African studies collection. * Choice *Kresse's ability to weave together questions of rhetoric, postcoloniality, religion, culture, and politics, and to understand them from the epistemological vantage point of ethnographic actors themselves, is truly remarkable. -- Marcus Timothy Haworth * Reading Relgion *
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Indiana University Press Making Intangible Heritage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewValdimar Hafstein [is the] author of some of the most mordant and witty critical analysis of intangible heritage protection. -- From "UNESCO and the Strange Career of Multiculturalism," published in the Los Angeles Review of BooksWhile a prior knowledge of international heritage policy can help, students, scholars, and professionals in anthropology, folklore, and allied fields and disciplines – those interested in heritage theory and practice, and those out on the frontlines of "ICH" work – should read this book. * Cultural Analysis *The book is a useful tool for the study of critical heritage studies as well as for the expansion of our knowledge about the uses and resignifications linked to the concept of intangible heritage. * Anthropological Journal of European Cultures *Table of ContentsPrelude: Confessions of a Folklorist1. Making Heritage: Introduction2. Making Threats: The Condor's Flight3. Making Lists: The Dance Band in the Hospital4. Making Communities: Protection as Dispossession5. Making Festivals: Folklorisation RevisitedPostlude: Intangible Heritage as Diagnosis, Safeguarding as TreatmentConclusion: If Intangible Heritage is the Solution, What is the Problem?AcknowledgmentsWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press An Ethnography of Hunger
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is ethnographically rich and presents us with new ways of thinking about development practices and environmental politics broadly defined. More importantly, An Ethnography of Hunger makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the relationship between power, politics and the environment. The book, for many years to come, will provoke intellectual debate about the place of politics and the environment in Tanzania, Africa, and beyond. * Political and Legal Anthrology Review *Recommended. * Choice *Phillips's nuanced analysis of the lived experience of hunger, its embeddedness in social relationships, and its impact on political subjectivity are truly original and set this book apart from other anthropological studies of hunger, subsistence farming, or political subjectivity. -- Jennie E. Gurnet - Georgia State University * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Subsistence CitizenshipPART I: The Frames of Subsistence in Singida: Cosmology, Ethnography, HistoryChapter 1 Hunger in Relief: Village Life and Livelihood Chapter 2 The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun: Cosmology, Conquest, and the Politics of SubsistencePART II: The Power of the Poor on the Threshold of SubsistenceChapter 3 We Shall Meet at the Pot of Ugali: Sociality, Differentiation, and Diversion in the Distribution of FoodChapter 4 Crying, Denying, and Surviving Rural HungerPART III: Subsistence CitizenshipChapter 5 Subsistence versus DevelopmentChapter 6 Patronage, Rights, and the Idioms of Rural Citizenship Conclusion: The Seasons of Subsistence and CitizenshipNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Social Housing in the Middle East Architecture
Book SynopsisSocial Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.Trade ReviewCovering Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran and Israel, [this book is] a worthy overview of an oft-overlooked typology in the region. * RIBA Journal *Social housing is an architectural effort to engage social issues, and that places this well-edited, clearly organized, tightly written book firmly on essential reading lists for architectural and social historians, planners, and policy makers. * CAA Reviews *Table of Contents1. Marginalized Histories of Global Modernity: Social Housing in the Middle East / Kıvanç Kılınç, Mohammad GharipourPart I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing / Eliana Abu-Hamdi3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Mohamed Elshahed4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey / Bülent BatumanPart II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia / Nancy Demerdash6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948–1953 / Yael Allweil7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity / Michalis Sioulas and Panayiota Pyla8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait / Mae Al-AnsariPart III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements / Noam Shoked10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945–1960 / Jaleh Jalili and Farshid Emami11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in Izmir / Gülsüm Baydar, Kıvanç Kılınç, and Ahenk YılmazIndex
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Indiana University Press Social Housing in the Middle East Architecture
Book SynopsisSocial Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.Trade ReviewCovering Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran and Israel, [this book is] a worthy overview of an oft-overlooked typology in the region. * RIBA Journal *Social housing is an architectural effort to engage social issues, and that places this well-edited, clearly organized, tightly written book firmly on essential reading lists for architectural and social historians, planners, and policy makers. * CAA Reviews *Table of Contents1. Marginalized Histories of Global Modernity: Social Housing in the Middle East / Kıvanç Kılınç, Mohammad GharipourPart I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing / Eliana Abu-Hamdi3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Mohamed Elshahed4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey / Bülent BatumanPart II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia / Nancy Demerdash6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948–1953 / Yael Allweil7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity / Michalis Sioulas and Panayiota Pyla8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait / Mae Al-AnsariPart III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements / Noam Shoked10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945–1960 / Jaleh Jalili and Farshid Emami11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in Izmir / Gülsüm Baydar, Kıvanç Kılınç, and Ahenk YılmazIndex
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Indiana University Press The Palace Complex A Stalinist Skyscraper
Book SynopsisThe Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw, exploring the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.Trade ReviewThe most brilliant book on a building in many years, making a case for Warsaw's once-loathed Palace of Culture and Science as the most enduring and successful legacy of Polish state socialism. -- Owen Hatherley * The New Statesman's "Books of the Year" list *The author of this remarkable work left Warsaw at six years old (in 1990) and has frequently revisited his birthplace. His book, the outcome of a Cambridge PhD, magnificently illustrated, often with the author's own photographs, traces the controversial history of its central building. -- Anthony Kemp-Welch * SLAVIC REVIEW *Warsaw has developed a very complex love-hate relationship with this astonishing building. In his Palace Complex Michał Murawski, a British leftist social anthropologist of Polish extraction, analyzes this relationship with great sophistication, playing on the double meaning of the word complex that signifies both something multifaceted and comprehensive and something indicative of a deep emotional entanglement that is only partially conscious. . . . [An] excellent book. -- Konstanty Gebert * AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST *[Murawski] makes a novel argument that departs from anthropologists' frequent focus on architectural failures, positing instead that the skyscraper can be seen as a case of a resounding success. This provocative argument, going against the received (or perceived) wisdom that socialism produced only unlivable and ineffective environments, rests on the persistence of the Palace's public character, in contrast to much of its urban context, which since 1989 has undergone a thorough (re)privatization. . . . The Palace Complex is a clear, engaging, and, at times, quite entertaining read. -- Vladimir Kulić * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *Michał Murawski's book is an ambitious anthropological biography of Poland's tallest and most infamous building, the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. . . . It is a truly fascinating story that challenges a tenacious stereotype, and Murawski tells it brilliantly, judiciously layering literatures from multiple disciplines, his own ethnographic work, and personal anecdotes. -- Patryk Babiracki * H-Net History *While the book has several theoretical interventions and themes (the gift dynamic, Althusser's work on ideology, debates on urban centres and periphery, to name a few), it is first and foremost a detailed narrative about the Palace and its extraordinariness. The author keeps introducing new exciting stories, details, characters and developments in the Palace's life (even in the Conclusion) and then some more come in the Epilogue, which focuses on the most recent relations of the Palace and the emphatically antipost- communist political regime of the 'Law and Justice' party. -- Anna Zhelnin * Anthropological Journal of European Cultures *Table of ContentsPreface: Politicized PerambulationsIntroduction: Palace Complex/Complex Palace1. The Planners: Conceiving the Palace Complex2. Public Spirit, or the Gift of Noncapitalism3. Designing Architectural Power: Scale, Style and Location4. Site-Specific: Varsovian Interpretations of the Palace5. Varsovianization: The Palace Complex After 19896. "The Center of the Very Center"7. The Extraordinary PalaceConclusion: Complex AppropriationsEpilogue: The Still-Socialist Palace and the War Against Post-CommunismAppendix: Palaceological Survey: Summary of ResultsBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Palace Complex
Book SynopsisThe Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw, exploring the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.Trade ReviewThe most brilliant book on a building in many years, making a case for Warsaw's once-loathed Palace of Culture and Science as the most enduring and successful legacy of Polish state socialism. -- Owen Hatherley * The New Statesman's "Books of the Year" list *The author of this remarkable work left Warsaw at six years old (in 1990) and has frequently revisited his birthplace. His book, the outcome of a Cambridge PhD, magnificently illustrated, often with the author's own photographs, traces the controversial history of its central building. -- Anthony Kemp-Welch * SLAVIC REVIEW *Warsaw has developed a very complex love-hate relationship with this astonishing building. In his Palace Complex Michał Murawski, a British leftist social anthropologist of Polish extraction, analyzes this relationship with great sophistication, playing on the double meaning of the word complex that signifies both something multifaceted and comprehensive and something indicative of a deep emotional entanglement that is only partially conscious. . . . [An] excellent book. -- Konstanty Gebert * AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST *[Murawski] makes a novel argument that departs from anthropologists' frequent focus on architectural failures, positing instead that the skyscraper can be seen as a case of a resounding success. This provocative argument, going against the received (or perceived) wisdom that socialism produced only unlivable and ineffective environments, rests on the persistence of the Palace's public character, in contrast to much of its urban context, which since 1989 has undergone a thorough (re)privatization. . . . The Palace Complex is a clear, engaging, and, at times, quite entertaining read. -- Vladimir Kulić * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *Michał Murawski's book is an ambitious anthropological biography of Poland's tallest and most infamous building, the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. . . . It is a truly fascinating story that challenges a tenacious stereotype, and Murawski tells it brilliantly, judiciously layering literatures from multiple disciplines, his own ethnographic work, and personal anecdotes. -- Patryk Babiracki * H-Net History *While the book has several theoretical interventions and themes (the gift dynamic, Althusser's work on ideology, debates on urban centres and periphery, to name a few), it is first and foremost a detailed narrative about the Palace and its extraordinariness. The author keeps introducing new exciting stories, details, characters and developments in the Palace's life (even in the Conclusion) and then some more come in the Epilogue, which focuses on the most recent relations of the Palace and the emphatically antipost- communist political regime of the 'Law and Justice' party. -- Anna Zhelnin * Anthropological Journal of European Cultures *Table of ContentsPreface: Politicized PerambulationsIntroduction: Palace Complex/Complex Palace1. The Planners: Conceiving the Palace Complex2. Public Spirit, or the Gift of Noncapitalism3. Designing Architectural Power: Scale, Style and Location4. Site-Specific: Varsovian Interpretations of the Palace5. Varsovianization: The Palace Complex After 19896. "The Center of the Very Center"7. The Extraordinary PalaceConclusion: Complex AppropriationsEpilogue: The Still-Socialist Palace and the War Against Post-CommunismAppendix: Palaceological Survey: Summary of ResultsBibliographyIndex
£28.80
Indiana University Press Remembering Absence
Book SynopsisNicolas Argenti considers the citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping with moments of contemporary national crisis.Trade Review"A beautifully written ethnography of remembrance of exodus and the tragedies that caused it, this book is an essential reading to scholars of the role of collective memory in trauma, international migration, diaspora, and exile. Argenti conjugates the political with the emotional, the personal with the collective in a groundbreaking ethnography of memory as strategy of resistance to oppression and to the challenges of time in the formation of social identity. "—Joëlle Bahloul, author of The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962"Like cubist painting, Argenti's multidimensional book offers multiple perspectives on a seminal event that continues to explode in differing modalities of history. Telling the story of one of the first humanitarian crises in Europe, it traces the means by which the memories and historicities of the disparate groups associated with an event come to be embedded in the experience of time itself."—Antonis Liakos, author of Pos to parelthon ginetai istoria? [How does the past turn into history?]Table of ContentsPrefaceNote on TransliterationRemembering Absence1. The Light of Certain Stars: From Memory to Historical Simultaneity2. Full Fathom Five: On the Temporal Dimensions of Exodus3. Crisis and Famine: Sovereign Debt, Political Violence, and Oneiric Revelation4. The Love of Flowers: Catastrophe in the Aegean5. Emptiness of Anavatos: Exile, Commemoration, and Melancholia6. Ruins of Kidianta: Dwelling, Oblivion, and Resurrection7. The Abbess of Nea Moni: The Contemporaneity of Divine Vision. 8. Life in the Tomb: Rocket Warriors of Vrontados9. The Darksome Line: Aegean Temporality Reference ListIndex
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Indiana University Press Remembering Absence
Book SynopsisNicolas Argenti considers the citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping with moments of contemporary national crisis.Trade Review"A beautifully written ethnography of remembrance of exodus and the tragedies that caused it, this book is an essential reading to scholars of the role of collective memory in trauma, international migration, diaspora, and exile. Argenti conjugates the political with the emotional, the personal with the collective in a groundbreaking ethnography of memory as strategy of resistance to oppression and to the challenges of time in the formation of social identity. "—Joëlle Bahloul, author of The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962"Like cubist painting, Argenti's multidimensional book offers multiple perspectives on a seminal event that continues to explode in differing modalities of history. Telling the story of one of the first humanitarian crises in Europe, it traces the means by which the memories and historicities of the disparate groups associated with an event come to be embedded in the experience of time itself."—Antonis Liakos, author of Pos to parelthon ginetai istoria? [How does the past turn into history?]Table of ContentsPrefaceNote on TransliterationRemembering Absence1. The Light of Certain Stars: From Memory to Historical Simultaneity2. Full Fathom Five: On the Temporal Dimensions of Exodus3. Crisis and Famine: Sovereign Debt, Political Violence, and Oneiric Revelation4. The Love of Flowers: Catastrophe in the Aegean5. Emptiness of Anavatos: Exile, Commemoration, and Melancholia6. Ruins of Kidianta: Dwelling, Oblivion, and Resurrection7. The Abbess of Nea Moni: The Contemporaneity of Divine Vision. 8. Life in the Tomb: Rocket Warriors of Vrontados9. The Darksome Line: Aegean Temporality Reference ListIndex
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Indiana University Press Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community A Giving
Book SynopsisAuthors, Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley collaborate with members of the Osage Nation to discuss how gift exchange, motivated by the values of generosity and hospitality, serves as a critical component in the preservation and perpetuation of Osage society.Trade ReviewReaders whom the title might lead to expect a visually attractive presentation of a traditional form of Osage textile art will not be disappointed. But they will encounter much more: an extremely effective account, based on insiders' perceptions for the most part, of central and recurrent expressions of ethos, which anyone interested in Osage people must read. -- Williams M. Clements - Arkansas State University * Journal of Folklore Research *Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley richly craft together history, practice, and the nuances of kinship making by using the materiality of wedding clothes as the entry point. Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community speaks to multiple audiences from those interested in material culture (beyond wedding clothes to understand gifts of blankets, broadcloth, food, and animals), religion, and complex social relations within Indigenous communities living under the pressures of American colonialism. -- Fiona P. McDonald - University of British Columbia, Okanagan * Museum Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, Osage NationAcknowledgementsA Note on OrthographyIntroduction1. Mízhin Wedding Ceremonies2. The Material Culture of Osage Weddings3. The Osage Ilonshka4. The Modern Ilonshka and Transfer of the Drum5. Enduring Values in Osage SocietyAppendix: Gift Exchange and the Reproduction of Osage SocietyGlossaryReferences CitedIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press Feminism Violence and Representation in Modern
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Locating Violence in Salento and Beyond2. Women before Women: Italian Feminists and the Struggle for Visibility3. The Creation(s) of Femminicidio4. Being Witnesses, Not Victims: On the Affective Politics of Representation5. Producing Witnesses: The Perlocutionary Effects of the Politics of Representation6. Fare come se (Doing-as-if) and Artistic Engagements: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Politics of BecomingConclusionsQuoted ReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press Feminism Violence and Representation in Modern
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Locating Violence in Salento and Beyond2. Women before Women: Italian Feminists and the Struggle for Visibility3. The Creation(s) of Femminicidio4. Being Witnesses, Not Victims: On the Affective Politics of Representation5. Producing Witnesses: The Perlocutionary Effects of the Politics of Representation6. Fare come se (Doing-as-if) and Artistic Engagements: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Politics of BecomingConclusionsQuoted ReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press Roger Sandalls Films and Contemporary
Book SynopsisIn this book Lorraine Mortimer reunites film and anthropology through the works of Roger Sandall, a New Zealand-born filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part of the vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film culture in New York in the 1960s. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Trusting the Material: Maíz (1962)2. Environments Fit for the Spirit: The Flahertys, Sandall, and some Anarchist Anthropology3. They Were Still Participants: The Ritual Films (1966-1976)4. The Colors of the Infinite: Camels and the Pitjantjara (1969)5. "What You Thinkin' About, Little Horse?": Coniston Muster: Scenes from a Stockman's Life (1972)6. Harmony and Fire: Making a Bark Canoe (1969) and Ngatjakula: A Walbiri Fire Ceremony (1967 and 1977)7. More Optional and More Fragile: Weddings (1976)8. In the Floating Desert with Jayasinhji Jhala Part 1: The Tragada Bhavai: A Rural Theater Troupe of Gujarat (1981), A Zenana: Scenes and Recollections (1982), and The Bharvad Predicament (1987)9. In the Floating Desert with Jayasinhji Jhala Part 2: Close Encounters of No Kind (2002), and NomadsA (Relative) ConclusionAppendix I: Roger Sandall's Filmed Material Held at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander StudiesAppendix II: Roger Sandall's Films Made (Produced, Directed and Edited), Film Awards, and Special ScreeningsAppendix III: Innovation in Sound Recording Made During the Filming of the AIAS Ritual Films According to David MacDougallAppendix IV: Availability of Sandall's Non-Restricted FilmsFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£70.55
Indiana University Press Roger Sandalls Films and Contemporary
Book SynopsisIn this book Lorraine Mortimer reunites film and anthropology through the works of Roger Sandall, a New Zealand-born filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part of the vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film culture in New York in the 1960s. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Trusting the Material: Maíz (1962)2. Environments Fit for the Spirit: The Flahertys, Sandall, and some Anarchist Anthropology3. They Were Still Participants: The Ritual Films (1966-1976)4. The Colors of the Infinite: Camels and the Pitjantjara (1969)5. "What You Thinkin' About, Little Horse?": Coniston Muster: Scenes from a Stockman's Life (1972)6. Harmony and Fire: Making a Bark Canoe (1969) and Ngatjakula: A Walbiri Fire Ceremony (1967 and 1977)7. More Optional and More Fragile: Weddings (1976)8. In the Floating Desert with Jayasinhji Jhala Part 1: The Tragada Bhavai: A Rural Theater Troupe of Gujarat (1981), A Zenana: Scenes and Recollections (1982), and The Bharvad Predicament (1987)9. In the Floating Desert with Jayasinhji Jhala Part 2: Close Encounters of No Kind (2002), and NomadsA (Relative) ConclusionAppendix I: Roger Sandall's Filmed Material Held at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander StudiesAppendix II: Roger Sandall's Films Made (Produced, Directed and Edited), Film Awards, and Special ScreeningsAppendix III: Innovation in Sound Recording Made During the Filming of the AIAS Ritual Films According to David MacDougallAppendix IV: Availability of Sandall's Non-Restricted FilmsFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£27.90
Indiana University Press Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFaces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examine the dynamic relationship between individual representatives of tradition and the evolution of the traditions themselves. -- A. C. Shahriari, Kent State University * Choice *This notable volume, comprising five schol-arly articles illuminating different aspects or genres of folk performance traditions in China, is solidly grounded on meticulous research and thoughtful discourse. -- Joanna C. Lee * Journal of American Folklore *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts / Levi S. Gibbs1. Grasping Intangible Heritage and Reimagining Inner Mongolia: Folk-Artist Albums and a New Logic for Musical Representation in China / Charlotte D'Evelyn2. Chinese Singing Contests as Site of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions / Levi S. Gibbs3. Dynamic Inheritance: Representative Works and the Authoring of Tradition in Chinese Dance / Emily E. Wilcox4. Collecting Flowers, Defining a Genre: Zhang Yaxiong and the Anthology of Hua'er Folksongs / Sue Tuohy5. From Field Recordings to Ethnographically Informed CDs: Curating the Sounds of Yunnan for a Niche Foreign Market / Helen ReesGlossary of Chinese Terms and PhrasesIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press The Socialist Good Life
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a thought-provoking and enlightening, if in places frustrating, collection of interdisciplinary essays that will be of benefit to social scientists interested in consumer lifeworlds under communist rule. -- Gediminas Lankauskas, University of Regina * The Russian Review *The volume is a useful study of Eastern European consumption during socialism and an invaluable tool with which to think about writing the histories of consumerism and state socialism in general. The provocative conclusions regarding socialism's failures as reverse echoes of our world today, with its own tortured relation to consumption, should, one hopes, resonate beyond the confines of the fields of Eastern European and socialist history. -- Victor Petrov - University of Tennessee * H-Net (Socialisms) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Pleasures of Backwardness / Zsuzsa Gille, Cristofer Scarboro, and Diana Mincytė2. Consuming Dialogues: Pleasure, Restraint, "Backwardness," and "Civilization" in Eastern Europe / Mary Neuburger3. Just Rewards: The Social Contract and Communism's Hard Bargain with the Citizen-Consumer / Patrick Hyder Patterson4. Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People's Republic / Brian Porter-Szűcs 5. Oranges and the New Black: Importing, Provisioning, and Consuming Tropical Fruits and Coffee in the GDR, 1971–1989 / Anne Dietrich6. VCRs, Modernity, and Consumer Culture in Late State Socialist Poland / Patryk Wasiak7. The Enchantment of Imaginary Europe: Consumer Practices in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Tania Bulakh8. The Late Socialist Good Life and its Discontents: Bit, Kultura, and the Social Life of Goods / Cristofer Scarboro9. The Prosumerist Resonance Machine: Rethinking Political Subjectivity and Consumer Desire in State Socialism / Zsuzsa Gille and Diana MincytėIndex
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Indiana University Press Folklore Concepts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNow Folklore Concepts is a more comprehensive anthology, and its significance equals the "greatest hits" volumes of other leading folklorists such as Alan Dundes (2007) and Lauri Honko (2013), whose works belong to the primary readings in academic training. The editors Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have done an impressive and thoughtful job in selecting the articles, tying them together, and writing the introductions. -- Ulo Volk * Asian Ethnology *Table of ContentsThe Project / Henry GlassieThe Contours of the Book / Elliott OringForeword / Dan Ben-Amos1. The Idea of Folklore: An Essay2. The Encounter with Native Americans and the Emergence of Folklore3. Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context4. Analytical Categories and Ethnic Genres5. The Seven Strands of Tradition: Varieties in Its Meaning in American Folklore Studies6. A History of Folklore Studies – Why Do We Need It?7. The Concept of Motif in Folklore8. "Context" in Context9. Two Benin Storytellers10. "Induced Natural Context" in Context11. The Name is the Thing12. A Definition of Folklore: A Personal NarrativeBibliographyIndex
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