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Book SynopsisBy defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural communication and as a subject of scholarly research. Ben-Amos's work is well-known for sparking lively debate that often centers on why his definition intrinsically acknowledges tradition rather than expresses its connection forthright. Without tradition among people, there would be no art or communication, and tradition cannot accomplish anything on its ownonly people can. Ben-Amos's focus on creative communication in communities is woven into the themes of the theoretical essays in this volume, through which he advocates for a better future for folklore scholarship. Folklore Concepts traces Ben-Amos's consistent efforts over the span of his career to review and critique the definitions, concepts, aTrade 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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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis powerful collection of 16 critical essays takes aim at the myriad forms in whichhate, violence, othering, disenfranchisement, etc., manifest in social life as the resultof dominant power structures supported by the "legacies of white supremacy,homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, ableism, and other injustices and forms ofdiscrimination" (19). It is these power structures, among others, that have keptcertain individuals and communities at the margins. The "margins," as presented in thebook, vary by author and range from the physical (such as prisons) to the symbolic (asin the intersections between methodologies and ideas). . . . The result is an illuminating, moving, and reflexivity-inducing work that takes us into and through very different marginal worlds "among, and with, Mexican, Wolof, Native American, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Haitian, Martinican, Andean, North American, African Diaspora, and LGBTQI folk cultures and communities"(13). -- Julián Antonio Carrillo * Journal of Folklore and Education *Table of ContentsPart I: Critical PathsIntroduction: How does Folklore find its voice in the 21st century? An offering/invitation from the margins1. White Traditioning and Bruja Epistemologies: Rebuilding the House of USAmerican Folklore Studies2. Un Tumbe Ch'ixi: Incorporating Afro-descendant Ideas into an Andean Anti-Colonial Methodology3. Disrupting the ArchivePart II: Framing the Narrative4. Afrolatinx Folklore and Visual Representation: Interstices and Anti-Authenticity5. Behaving Like Relatives: Or we don't sit around and talk about politics with strangers6. Political Protest, Ideology, and Social Criticism in Wolof Folk Poetry7. Sugar Cane Alley: Teaching the Concept of "Group" from a Critical Folkloristics Perspective8. movimiento armado/armed movementPart III: Visualizing the Present9. Ni lacras, ni lesbianas normalizadas: Trauma, matrimonio, conectividad y representación audiovisual para la comunidad lesbiana en Cuba10. "¿Batata? ¡Batata!": Examining Puerto Rican Visual Folk Expression in Times of Adversities11. Forming Strands and Ties in the Knotted Atlantic: Methodologies of Color and Practice of Beadwork in Lukumí Religion12. Of Blithe Spirits: Narratives of Rebellion, Violence, and Cosmic Memory in Haitian VodouPart IV: Placing Community13. "No one would believe us": An Auto-Ethnography of Conducting Fieldwork in a Conflict14. "La Sierra Juárez en Riverside": The Inaugural Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands Audition on a university campus15. Hidden thoughts and exposed bodies: art, everyday life, and queering Cuban masculinities16. Complexifying Identity through Disability: Critical Folkloristic Perspectives on Being a Parent and Experiencing Illness & Disability through My ChildIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book makes important contributions to scholarship in the fields of anthropology and refuge/migration studies. Most ethnographies of forced migration tend to focus on adult refugees. Lems provides an intimate, close-up look into the experiences of teenage unaccompanied minors."—Nell Gabiam, Iowa State University"Frontiers of Belonging beautifully and tragically renders the concept of 'exclusive inclusion' by exploring the stories of several unaccompanied refugee youth in Switzerland. . . . It calls our attention to the vast discrepancy between who refugees know themselves to be and what the Swiss bureaucracy, and the pedagogical agents (pedagogues) who come into everyday contact with refugees believes they are. . . . It is emotionally evocative and thought provoking."—Jennifer Riggan, Arcadia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. On Doing "Being Normal"2. The Model(led) Pupil3. The Poster Child of Integration4. The Unlucky Many5. The Integration Pilot6. Existential Balancing ActsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCompiled by editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz and Sunil Sharma, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women showcases writings from 45 Muslim women — acquired through an extensive selection of writings in 10 languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Punjabi, Indonesian, English and others. . . . What emerges is a group of women writers who were not afraid to voice their thoughts in the presence of authority figures and unfavourable circumstances. Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women Writers is an enduring testament to just a few of the countless fascinating stories documented by women travellers throughout the ages. -- Fehmida Zakeer * The National News *This anthology will be of interest to anyone working on travel, colonial history, Muslim women, and comparative literature, Islamic Studies. It will also be an excellent resource in many courses that cover a range of topics be it religious piety, feminism, travel, travel writing, and much more. -- Shobhana Xavier * New Books Network *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Translation, Transliteration and SyntaxIntroduction: Muslim Women, Travel Writing and Cultures of Mobility, by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Daniel MajchrowiczPart I: Travel as Pilgrimage1. The Widow of Mirza Khalil: A Bereaved Wife Seeks Solace2. Nawab Sikander Begum: A Queen's Impressions of Mecca3. Mehrmah Khanom: Adventures on the Road to Iraq4. Hajiyeh Khanom Alaviya Kermani: Iran to Mecca by Way of Bombay5. Sakineh Soltan Khanom Esfahani Kuchak: Iraq Diary6. Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum: The Long March to Medina7. Ummat al-Ghani Nur al-Nisa: Notes from Mecca and the Levant8. Begum Sarbuland Jang: Seeking Sisterhood in Damascus9. Rahil Begum Shervaniya: Life Aboard a Pilgrim Ship10. Nur Begum: Poems from a Punjabi Pilgrim11. Zainab Cobbold: At Home in the Hijaz with a British Convert12. Fatima Begum: An Indian Haji Observes her Fellow Pilgrims13. Qaisari Begum: The Long Road to Mecca14. Begum Hasrat Mohani: Letters from a Pilgrimage to Iraq15. Mahmooda Rizvi: Three Months in IraqPart II: Travel as Emancipation and Politics16. Melek Hanim: A Turk among the Greeks17. Huda Shaarawi: A European Summer on the Eve of War18. Zeyneb Hanoum: A Turkish Désenchantée in Europe19. Selma Ekrem: Alone in New York City20. Şükûfe Nihal Başar: Three Days in Finland21. Halide Édib: A Turkish Nationalist in Colonial India22. Amina Said: An Egyptian Feminist at an Indian Conference23. Shareefah Hamid Ali: Representing India at the United Nations24. Suharti Suwarto: Ten Indonesian Women in the Soviet UnionPart III: Travel as Education25. Atiya Fyzee: Living and Learning in London26. Maimoona Sultan: To Turkey by Train through a Child's Eyes27. Sediqeh Dowlatabadi: An Iranian Feminist Travails in France28. Begum Habibullah: With Three Boys at an English Boarding School29. Iqbalunnisa Hussain: At the University of Leeds30. Muhammadi Begum: Oxford Diary31. Herawati Diah: A Journalist in the Making32. Mehr al-Nisa: An Indian Nurse in Ohio33. Zaib-un-nissa Hamidullah: Sixty Days in AmericaPart IV: Travel as Obligation and Pleasure34. Princess Jahanara: Mystical Meetings in Kashmir35. Dilshad: A Prisoner is Taken to Khoqand36. Sayyida Salamah bint Said/Emily Ruete: A Lover's Flight from Zanzibar37. Taj al-Saltanah: Life and Death in Qajar Iran38. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: A Pleasure Trip to the Himalaya39. Nazli Begum: On Grand Tour with the Nawab of Janjira40. Safia Jabir Ali: Touring Europe on Business41. Sughra Humayun Mirza: Meeting the Caliph in Switzerland42. Sughra Sabzvari: An Indian Family in Iran43. Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah: Life in England on the Brink of War44. Shams Pahlavi: A Shah's Daughter in Exile45. Nyonya Aulia-Salim: An Indonesian Tours America by MotorGlossaryContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos. Platforms such as social media, podcasts, blogs, and digital Bibles all constitute new arenas for debate about social and religious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and the internet's inherent danger and value. In The Digital Evangelicals, Travis Warren Cooper locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States. He focuses on two dominant media traditions: media sincerity, immediate and direct interpersonal communication, and media promiscuity, communication with the primary goal of extending the Christian community regardless of physical distance. Cooper, whose work is informed by ethnographic fieldwork, traces these conflicting paradiTrade ReviewShedding light on the profound phenomenon of digital evangelicalism, this book sparkles with illuminating insights on the contemporary tensions and paradoxes of religious authority, as well as the vital role of new media for religious organizing in a datafied world. The Digital Evangelicals assembles a range of multimodal data across platforms to help us think more deeply about the communicative constitution of religious authority, authenticity and community. -- Pauline Hope Cheong, co-editor of Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and FuturesThe Digital Evangelicals is much-needed intervention in a field chock full of books telling you what so-called evangelicals "really are" or "really should be." Cooper's attention to the discourses that define the boundaries of evangelical identity and community offer an important corrective to the search for the best definition of evangelicalism. Drawing on a unique archive of digital sources, The Digital Evangelicals shows how claims about "authentic" evangelicalism are really battles over authority and power. -- Michael J. Altman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of AlabamaThe Digital Evangelicals is an ambitious, impressive, unprecedented work. Part cultural history, part critical textual analysis, part ethnography, it is more than the sum of these parts. Cooper's book demands a fundamental reconsideration of what it means to analyze evangelicalism as a hybrid online-offline cultural form. -- James Bielo, author of Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for AuthenticityThe Digital Evangelicals is an impressive text. In addition to detailing how today's emerging evangelicals engage new media, Cooper also provides a framework for rethinking what, exactly, this thing called 'evangelicalism' even is. Through richly detailed ethnographies of Twitter debates, Instagram rituals, and Zoom church services, the book charts how communities constitute evangelicalism through media—and how social media might play a role in evangelicalism's undoing. The book is impressive both for its breadth of its analysis and the depth of its theoretical critique. -- Christopher Cantwell, co-editor of Introduction to Digital Humanities: Research Methods in the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Media and Message1. Media Sincerity and Promiscuity: Origins2. Evangelical Media Ecologies from Print to the Internet3. Evangelical Theories of the DigitalPart II: Authenticity Construction across New Media: Case Studies4. #FareWellRobBell: Heresy Discourse and the Horizontalization of Authority5. Feminist Publics and the Progressive Evangelical Blogosphere6. Instagram, Authenticity, AffectPart III: Local Technologies in a Global World7. Emerging Midwestern Evangelicals and Digital Media8. Media Ambivalence in Emerging EvangelicalismConclusion: Zoom Church, Cancel Culture, and the Exportation of Evangelical MediaAppendixGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs catastrophes proliferate around us, We Are All Survivors provides a timely, intimate, and empathetic look at disasters and recovery. Written by a group of outstanding folklorists, most of whom have themselves faced the devastation of traumatic events, this volume explores the role folkloristics has played and can play in disaster stricken communities. We Are All Survivors is a book of thought, methodological skill, and heart. -- Diane Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: We Are All Survivors, by Carl Lindahl2. Into the Bullring: The Significance of "Empathy" after the Earthquake, by Yutaka Suga3. Rebuilding and Reconnecting After Disaster: Listening to Older Adults, by Yoko Taniguchi4. The Story of Cultural Assets and their Rescue: A First-Hand Report from Tohoku, by Kōji Katō5. Critical Empathy: A Survivor's Study of Disaster, by Kate Parker Horigan6. Empathy and Speaking Out, by Amy Shuman7. The Intangible Lightness of Heritage, by Michael Dylan Foster8. Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: Six Months After María, by Gloria M. Colom BrañaConclusion: The COVID-19 Pandemic and "Folklife's First Responders," by Georgia Ellie Dassler and Kate Parker Horigan

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs catastrophes proliferate around us, We Are All Survivors provides a timely, intimate, and empathetic look at disasters and recovery. Written by a group of outstanding folklorists, most of whom have themselves faced the devastation of traumatic events, this volume explores the role folkloristics has played and can play in disaster stricken communities. We Are All Survivors is a book of thought, methodological skill, and heart. -- Diane Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: We Are All Survivors, by Carl Lindahl2. Into the Bullring: The Significance of "Empathy" after the Earthquake, by Yutaka Suga3. Rebuilding and Reconnecting After Disaster: Listening to Older Adults, by Yoko Taniguchi4. The Story of Cultural Assets and their Rescue: A First-Hand Report from Tohoku, by Kōji Katō5. Critical Empathy: A Survivor's Study of Disaster, by Kate Parker Horigan6. Empathy and Speaking Out, by Amy Shuman7. The Intangible Lightness of Heritage, by Michael Dylan Foster8. Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: Six Months After María, by Gloria M. Colom BrañaConclusion: The COVID-19 Pandemic and "Folklife's First Responders," by Georgia Ellie Dassler and Kate Parker Horigan

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScheid's knowledge of Lebanese art, its socio-political context and its historical unfolding are unequal. Her ethnographic immersion in that field is also unequal. What's more, a vast body of comparative and theoretical literature is brought to bear on the subject. The result is a genuinely important work, conceptually innovative, thoroughly educative, and highly stimulating. -- Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne Future Generations Professor of Anthropology, author of The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the WorldWhere there is no art, this book finds much that art does. In a place where the ontology of art is seen as belonging to an elsewhere, this book steams the tapestry of complex local art-acts into view. If concerned with the becoming of art and its social consequences in societies overlooked by high modernism and in turn self-belittling, read Kirsten Scheid's book. -- Walid Sadek, Philippe Jabre Endowed Professor in Art, author of The Ruin to Come, Essays from a protracted warA highly original, richly textured, and meticulously researched study of three major Lebanese artists and their reception in Beirut. The works of Moustapha Farrouk, Omar Onsi, and Saloua Raouda Choucair come alive in Scheid's evocative prose. Essential reading for scholars of modern art in postcolonial, postwar, and Muslim societies. -- Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, author of Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990The most important book about middle eastern art and social life I've read, Fantasmic Objects gives Humanists and Social Scientists a uniquely intra-disciplinary tour de force, that produces new knowledge about Lebanon, its art, modern citizenships, double decolonization, and methods to rethink local art histories. Scheid's brilliant offering of taswir, the polysemic Arabic word for imagination, compels us to rethink what art is and does. You need this book; it will change the way you think. Beautifully written, breathtakingly observed, and nothing less than inspiring, this brilliant book will guide art historical enquires of the global for decades to come. -- Hannah Feldman, author of From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962Table of ContentsPreambleAcknowledgmentsNotes on LanguageNotes on Sources1. Introduction: No Art Here2. Exhibitions: Sociality as Fantasm3. Nudes: The Citizen as Fantasm4. Landscapes: The Nation as Fantasm5. Art Lessons: Fantasmic Formations of the Lady-Artist6. Portraits: Towards a Fantasmic Ontology of Art ActsConclusion: Between Art and HereBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn accessible guidebook to navigating America's new landscape of gender and sexualityTrade ReviewDespite the fact that fights over "good" sex versus "bad" sex are often fought in the name of protecting young people from danger, young people's own voices are rarely given a hearing. In refreshing contrast, in this volume Catherine Roach gives her college students a platform to speak on their own behalf about their worries and hopes for sexual pleasure. In so doing, she cuts through moral panics and political smokescreens to issue an accessible, lucid, and expansive call for new possibilities for living gender and sexuality. Good Sex is an uncommon blast of good sense. -- Ann Pellegrini, New York University, coauthor of "You Can Tell Just By Looking" and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and PeopleIn Good Sex: Transforming America through the New Gender and Sexual Revolution, Catherine Roach sets out an optimistic vision of a New Gender and Sexual Revolution happening in the United States and beyond, which she argues builds on earlier sexual revolutions of the 1960s and 70s. Roach offers a positive and optimistic vision of how students define and manage their sexuality and experience of sex, showing that this new gender and sexual revolution goes much further than earlier revolutions that largely focused on sex. The views here from students are much bigger statements of cultural change, optimistic in terms of the future, offering a more egalitarian and positive vision of change and presenting exciting vistas for the future. -- Ann Brooks, editor of The Routledge Companion to Romantic LoveI loved reading this ManiSexto! Catherine Roach has charted the path from puritanical past to the new gender and sexual revolution with verve. Without shying away from hot button topics she explores the evolving norms of sex and love and their impacts on civic life, lucidly and decisively navigating what makes sex good, what sex is worth having and how we might make it better. -- Clarissa Smith, Northumbria University, NewcastleRoach emphasizes equity throughout and discusses the need to appreciate bodies that are not 'fit, abled, youthful, and light-skinned' and to rewrite gender scripts to be more accepting of emotional expression in men and desire for sex in women. The student quotes capture a panoramic view of how Generation Z thinks about sex, with Roach's analysis expertly distilling the social forces driving their anecdotes and opinions. The result is a perceptive volume on the contemporary culture of sex. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPrefaceForeplay: Introducing the Manisexto: A Manifesto for the New Gender and Sexual RevolutionManisexto #1: Positive Sexuality: Sexuality Is a Normal, Healthy, and Pleasurable Aspect of Being Human1. Sex: It's Complicated2. What Do We Mean by "Good" Sex?3. The Misunderstood Meaning of "Sex-Positive"4. The Two-Sided Story of Sex in America5. Romancing the PuritanManisexto #2: Equity and Inclusion: Gender and Sexual Identities Are Diverse—and That's Okay6. Why Diversity Matters across the Rainbow Spectrum, for Us All7. Conversation, Consensus, and Cultural Competence8. The Meanings of Queer9. Sex Is Not Everything: The Surprising Lesson of Asexuality as Part of DiversityManisexto #3: Body Positivity: All Bodies Are Good Bodies10. The Naked Truth: Embracing Body Positivity and Diverse Ways to Embody Gender11. Body Positivity Doesn't Mean "Let Them Eat Cake!": It's about Holistic Well-Being12. It's Not about "Looking Good" but about Feeling Good—and That Includes Your Genitals Too13. Sex Is Not Only for the Young and BeautifulManisexto #4: Consent: Full Consent Is Fundamental to All Sexual Activity14. The Role of Consent in Good Sex15. What Consent Is (Good Communication) and Is Not (Green Eggs and Ham, or a Blanket)16. Saying Yes, Saying No, Expanding the Gender Scripts17. Boys Don't Belong in a BoxManisexto #5: Shared Pleasure: Good Sex Is Mutually Pleasurable and Respectful18. Power With, Not Power Over19. Who Gets to Feel Good?: Gender and Pleasure beyond the Shame-and-Blame Tightrope20. Closing the Orgasm Gap: Porn and Hookups21. Cliteracy and the Politics of Pleasure22. Climax: Drawing the Line toward New Visions of LoveAfterglow: Where We Go from Here: Toward Better Sex Education in AmericaAcknowledgments and Note on Student ResponsesSource Citations and Resources for Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisAn accessible guidebook to navigating America's new landscape of gender and sexualityTrade ReviewDespite the fact that fights over "good" sex versus "bad" sex are often fought in the name of protecting young people from danger, young people's own voices are rarely given a hearing. In refreshing contrast, in this volume Catherine Roach gives her college students a platform to speak on their own behalf about their worries and hopes for sexual pleasure. In so doing, she cuts through moral panics and political smokescreens to issue an accessible, lucid, and expansive call for new possibilities for living gender and sexuality. Good Sex is an uncommon blast of good sense. -- Ann Pellegrini, New York University, coauthor of "You Can Tell Just By Looking" and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and PeopleIn Good Sex: Transforming America through the New Gender and Sexual Revolution, Catherine Roach sets out an optimistic vision of a New Gender and Sexual Revolution happening in the United States and beyond, which she argues builds on earlier sexual revolutions of the 1960s and 70s. Roach offers a positive and optimistic vision of how students define and manage their sexuality and experience of sex, showing that this new gender and sexual revolution goes much further than earlier revolutions that largely focused on sex. The views here from students are much bigger statements of cultural change, optimistic in terms of the future, offering a more egalitarian and positive vision of change and presenting exciting vistas for the future. -- Ann Brooks, editor of The Routledge Companion to Romantic LoveI loved reading this ManiSexto! Catherine Roach has charted the path from puritanical past to the new gender and sexual revolution with verve. Without shying away from hot button topics she explores the evolving norms of sex and love and their impacts on civic life, lucidly and decisively navigating what makes sex good, what sex is worth having and how we might make it better. -- Clarissa Smith, Northumbria University, NewcastleRoach emphasizes equity throughout and discusses the need to appreciate bodies that are not 'fit, abled, youthful, and light-skinned' and to rewrite gender scripts to be more accepting of emotional expression in men and desire for sex in women. The student quotes capture a panoramic view of how Generation Z thinks about sex, with Roach's analysis expertly distilling the social forces driving their anecdotes and opinions. The result is a perceptive volume on the contemporary culture of sex. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPrefaceForeplay: Introducing the Manisexto: A Manifesto for the New Gender and Sexual RevolutionManisexto #1: Positive Sexuality: Sexuality Is a Normal, Healthy, and Pleasurable Aspect of Being Human1. Sex: It's Complicated2. What Do We Mean by "Good" Sex?3. The Misunderstood Meaning of "Sex-Positive"4. The Two-Sided Story of Sex in America5. Romancing the PuritanManisexto #2: Equity and Inclusion: Gender and Sexual Identities Are Diverse—and That's Okay6. Why Diversity Matters across the Rainbow Spectrum, for Us All7. Conversation, Consensus, and Cultural Competence8. The Meanings of Queer9. Sex Is Not Everything: The Surprising Lesson of Asexuality as Part of DiversityManisexto #3: Body Positivity: All Bodies Are Good Bodies10. The Naked Truth: Embracing Body Positivity and Diverse Ways to Embody Gender11. Body Positivity Doesn't Mean "Let Them Eat Cake!": It's about Holistic Well-Being12. It's Not about "Looking Good" but about Feeling Good—and That Includes Your Genitals Too13. Sex Is Not Only for the Young and BeautifulManisexto #4: Consent: Full Consent Is Fundamental to All Sexual Activity14. The Role of Consent in Good Sex15. What Consent Is (Good Communication) and Is Not (Green Eggs and Ham, or a Blanket)16. Saying Yes, Saying No, Expanding the Gender Scripts17. Boys Don't Belong in a BoxManisexto #5: Shared Pleasure: Good Sex Is Mutually Pleasurable and Respectful18. Power With, Not Power Over19. Who Gets to Feel Good?: Gender and Pleasure beyond the Shame-and-Blame Tightrope20. Closing the Orgasm Gap: Porn and Hookups21. Cliteracy and the Politics of Pleasure22. Climax: Drawing the Line toward New Visions of LoveAfterglow: Where We Go from Here: Toward Better Sex Education in AmericaAcknowledgments and Note on Student ResponsesSource Citations and Resources for Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this remarkable book, Hagar Salamon reveals unsuspected relationships and new domains of meaning communicated between species. Meat Matters is a major contribution at the vanguard of a challenging new scholarly field and should be required reading for ethnographers from across the disciplines."—Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and African and African American Studies at Harvard University"A rich, sensitive and nuanced ethnography of the interlaced practices, ideas, meanings, beliefs, and symbols of meat for the Beta Israel community. Beautifully conceptualized, written and illustrated, Hagar Salamon's evocative book offers illuminating insights into the singular Ethiopian Jewish experience and Ethiopian culture more broadly."—Jonathan Miran, author of Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in MassawaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Enduring Exposures: Everyday Bonding with Creatures2. Zooming In: Creaturely Sentiments3. Zooming Out: Emerging from the Pen4. Shifting Focus/Lenses: Interreligious Negotiations5. Transposing and Splitting: Under New Hegemonies6. Candid Camera: Focusing the Lens on Lost Meats7. Upraising the Vision: God Watches over Flesh8. Concluding Words and Continuing QuestionsReferencesGlossary

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an unusually lucid account of the moral tensions produced in a rural South African community as people are interpellated simultaneously as rights-bearing, equal individuals and as relational persons embedded in a gendered and generational social hierarchy. It will be of great interest not only to scholars of the region but much more broadly. The rich ethnography and precision of the argument make it ideal for classroom use as well."—Michael Lambek, author of Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte and The Ethical Condition."Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa is a thoroughly researched ethnographic account of the ambiguities inherent in local understandings of 'rights' and the ways in which they are mobilized in and through gendered interactions in communities that are experiencing severe economic precarity and significant transitions around modes of social reproduction and simultaneous 'ideological transformations'. It makes an important contribution to understandings of the impact of such transformations as described above on young rural women's lives."—Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, University of Massachusetts Boston"This marvellous book lucidly unpacks the evolving gender and generational relations and tensions in rural South Africa after apartheid. It shows how the individual rights are enshrined in the celebrated South African constitution collide with social hierarchies of power and culturally embedded notions of personhood, rights, and responsibilities in rural communities on South Africa's eastern seaboard. Rice shows how different cultural and constitutional frameworks of rights and entitlements are a constant source of struggle over meaning, status, and identity in the rural landscape."—Leslie Bank, Walter Sisulu University in South Africa.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Lodge and the NGO2. Rights and Responsibilities3. Social Grants and the Moral Bureaucracy of Merit4. Working Women, Wives, and Rural Feminine Personhood5. The Moral Ambiguity of UkuthwalaConclusion: Rights and Responsibilities RevisitedGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an unusually lucid account of the moral tensions produced in a rural South African community as people are interpellated simultaneously as rights-bearing, equal individuals and as relational persons embedded in a gendered and generational social hierarchy. It will be of great interest not only to scholars of the region but much more broadly. The rich ethnography and precision of the argument make it ideal for classroom use as well."—Michael Lambek, author of Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte and The Ethical Condition."Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa is a thoroughly researched ethnographic account of the ambiguities inherent in local understandings of 'rights' and the ways in which they are mobilized in and through gendered interactions in communities that are experiencing severe economic precarity and significant transitions around modes of social reproduction and simultaneous 'ideological transformations'. It makes an important contribution to understandings of the impact of such transformations as described above on young rural women's lives."—Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, University of Massachusetts Boston"This marvellous book lucidly unpacks the evolving gender and generational relations and tensions in rural South Africa after apartheid. It shows how the individual rights are enshrined in the celebrated South African constitution collide with social hierarchies of power and culturally embedded notions of personhood, rights, and responsibilities in rural communities on South Africa's eastern seaboard. Rice shows how different cultural and constitutional frameworks of rights and entitlements are a constant source of struggle over meaning, status, and identity in the rural landscape."—Leslie Bank, Walter Sisulu University in South Africa.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Lodge and the NGO2. Rights and Responsibilities3. Social Grants and the Moral Bureaucracy of Merit4. Working Women, Wives, and Rural Feminine Personhood5. The Moral Ambiguity of UkuthwalaConclusion: Rights and Responsibilities RevisitedGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Neil Roos's Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society is an outstanding work of scholarship. This is a book which will be both a signal contribution to the social history of Southern Africa, but also of considerable interest to scholars working on issues of race in the United States and elsewhere. It's lively, engaging and personal style, combines academic rigor with accessibility."—Jonathan Hyslop, Colgate University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Neil Roos's Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society is an outstanding work of scholarship. This is a book which will be both a signal contribution to the social history of Southern Africa, but also of considerable interest to scholars working on issues of race in the United States and elsewhere. It's lively, engaging and personal style, combines academic rigor with accessibility."—Jonathan Hyslop, Colgate University

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface1. Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: Issues, Terms, and ContextsTeresa de Lauretis2. What's New in Women's HistoryLinda Gordon3. Writing History: Language, Class, and GenderCarroll Smith-Rosenberg4. Lab Coat: Robe of Innocence or Klansman's Sheet?5. Making Gender Visible in the Pursuit of Nature's SecretsEvelyn Fox Keller6. A Desire of One's Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective SpaceJessica Benjamin7. Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing, and the ReaderNancy K. Miller8. Feminism and the Power of Interpretation: Some Critical ReadingsTania Modleski9. Inhibiting Midwives, Usurping Creators: The Struggling Emergence of Black Women in American Fiction10. Considering Feminism as a Model for Social ChangeSheila Radford-Hill11.From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and FeminismCherrie Moraga12. Feminsit Politics: What's Home Got to Do with It?Biddy Martin and Chandra Talpade Mohanty13. Female Grotesques: Carnival and TheoryMary RussoNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisIncludes essays devoted to traditional narratives found in Africa and in the New World.Trade Review"These essays ... are of immense importance to anyone interested in the issues of origins and folklore texts." Choice " ... this is Bascom at his best... an attractive and full-bodied book." FabulaTable of ContentsForeword by Alan DundesAcknowledgmentsPrefaceONE Oba's Ear: A Yoruba Myth in Cuba and BrazilTWO The Talking Skull Refuses to TalkTHREE Trickster Seeks Endowments; Measuring the Snake: Challenging Birds (Insects) to Fill a Container; Milking a Cow (Deer) Stuck in a TreeFOUR Bird's Head (Leg) under Its WingFIVE Inside Cow's (Elephant's) BellySIX Deer's Hoof and Ear; Dog and Dog HeadSEVEN Holding the RockEIGHT Taught an Icriminating Song (Saying)NINE Moon Splits Hare's Lip (Nose)TEN Dogs Rescue Master in Tree RefugeELEVEN Agreement to Sell Mothers; Agreement to Kill Mothers; Cutta Cord-La!TWELVE Knock Dust (Water) Out of Rock; Waiting on the LordTHIRTEEN Birds' Fasting (Singing) ContestFOURTEEN Diving Contest

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Book SynopsisCharts the hidden history of amateur film, examining how ideological, technical, and social constraints have stunted amateur film's potential for extending media production beyond corporate monopolies and into the hands of everyday people.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Pleasure or Money2 Entrepreneurs, Artists, Hobbyists, and Workers: 1897-19233 Professional Results with Amateur Ease: 1923-19404 Cameras and Guns: 1941-19495 Do-It-Yourself: 1950-19626 Reinventing AmateurismNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA book that surveys the social, religious, and cultural significance of food in Russian and Soviet life. It offers insights into what food ways reveal about Russia's history and culture, from Kievan times to post Soviet Russia.Trade Review"... the specificity and breadth of this [work] makes it unique... lively reading ... particularly recommended for academic collections with a strong focus in Russian history." oLibrary Journal "... a remarkable new collection of essays ... The book reads like a literary hybrid of cookbook, historical treatise, and novella; its subject is, literally, the essence of life itself... Glants and Toomre deserve further praise for the book's consistent, animated directness of style." oThe Boston Phoenix

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Book SynopsisExplores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world.Trade Review" ... a fascinating and important book." --Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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Book SynopsisExamines the Latina subject whose work as dramatist, actress, theorist, and/or critic further defines the field of theater and performance in the United States. This book considers the emergence of a Latina aesthetics developed in the United States, but simultaneously linked with Latin America.Trade ReviewArrizón's (Arrizon's) important book revolves around the complex issues of identity formation and power relations for US women performers of Latin American descent. Latinas use writing and performance to address gender and sexuality within an ever—changing framework of their lives and history, redefining Latina identity and subjectivity. The Chicana/o theatrical tradition since the 1960s owes a debt to the popular Spanish—language vaudeville forms performed by Beatriz Escalona (La Chata Noloesca), the work of Josefina Niggli in community theater, and other performers who recognized the common core of their community as based on a consciousness of historical collectivity and pluralistic sensitivities. The Latina experience is broad and complex, and the term traversing in the title indicates a movement that induces the subject into an uncertain position, with transitions in identity and space. In Cross—Border Subjectivity and the Dramatic Text, Arrizón (Arrizon) addresses geopolitics and cultural survival in work by Milcha Sanchez—Scott, Dolores Prida, and Josefina Lopez; Self—Representation: Race, Ethnicity, and Queer Identity looks at the work of performance artists Monica Palacios and Alina Troyano/Carmelita Tropicana. Valuable for anyone interested in theater history and criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies with attention to Mexican American, Chicana/o, and Latina/o studies. Upper—division undergraduates through professionals. -- E. C. Ramirez * Choice *

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Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. This book features practical examples of how semiotics can be used. It is suitable for those who want to understand the whys and wherefores of semiotics.Table of ContentsPart I: Basic Notions and ViewsWhat is Culture?The Field of Cultural SemioticsThe Signifying OrderPart II: The Semiotic Study of CultureThe BodyLanguageMetaphorSpaceArtObjectsNarrativeMedia: Television and AdvertisingPart III: A Practical SynthesisSemiotic AnalysisActivities and Questions for DiscussionBiographical SketchesGlossaryWorks Cited and General BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn experience-rooted analysis of Bushman society and religion is contrasted with other anthropological approaches to ambiguity which are biased towards a rational structure. In order to convey both the diversity and the dynamism of Bushman religion and society, this study presents information on Bushman groups from all over southern Africa.Trade ReviewDespite the voluminous material on Botswana's Bushman (the contentious ethnic label knowingly adopted by the author), this is an important contribution for a number of reasons. First, Guenther (Wilfrid Univ., Canada) provides an invaluable summary and commentary on the multilingual literature on these people. Second, and more important, the text takes up the topic of Bushman religion and cosmology, which, like its social organization, is fluid and varied. In discussing this relatively neglected concern, the author pays particular attention to the significance of the trickster, an ambiguous and disorderly creature from the beginning of time in indigenous thought, and the trance state, an important feature of Bushman ritual system. The value of Guenther's long-term fieldwork among a segment of these people is clearly demonstrated in his examination of these topics and in their relationship to gender issues. He concludes with a suggestion for anthropologists to pay greater heed to the relevance of ambiguity in Bushman society and cosmology but does not mention the theoretical work of Simmel in this context. Otherwise, this is a first-rate piece of scholarship. Upper-division undergraduates and above.W. Arens, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2000jul CHOICE.Table of ContentsPreface iChapter 1: Introduction: The Challenge of Bushman Religion 1The Challenge of Bushman Religion 4 Bushman Religion: A Brief Summary 9 Notes on Methodology and Orthography 10Chapter 2: Bushman Society 15Nharo Society, 1790's to 1890's 17Nharo Society, 1890's to 1990's 25Bushman Social Organization 29Chapter 3: Values and Individuals 50Values 53The Individual 63Bushman Society's " Struggle of Society against the State" 71Chapter 4: Belief and Cosmology 74The Diversity and Ambiguity of Bushman Belief 75Divinity 78Mantis and Moon Worship? 81Cosmogony: Primal Time 84Cosmology: The Human-Animal Nexus 89Ambiguity of Bushman Religion: Social and Cultural Factors 101Social-Structural Factors: 102Cognitive-Cultural Factors: 107"Foraging for Ideas": The Factor of Acculturation 110Socio-Cultural Change and Bushman Religion 118Chapter 5: The Trickster 121The Trickster's Many Faces 124The Embodiment of Ambiguity 128The Trickster as God 139Gauwa Meets Jesus Christ 147The Abomination of the Trickster God 153Chapter 6: Stories, Story Telling and Story Gathering: 160 The Case of the Moon and the Hare Textual Variation of the Myth 162Story Transmission and the Foraging Ethos 169Foraging Ideology or Ideology of Foraging? 178 The Text and Its Meaning 181Chapter 7: Myth and Gender 185Gender Relations in Bushman Society 187Gender Relations in Bushman Myth and Lore 190The Equality of Bushmen and Women 198The Limitations of Structural Analysis 202Chapter 8: Initiation Rites 207Female Initiation 209Male Initiation 211Variations 214Male Initiation or Hunting Magic? 218Transition and Transformation 219Transformation, Anti-Structure and Egalitarianism 225Chapter 9: The Trance Dance 228Liminality, Transformation and Transcendence 231The Trance Dance and Cultural Revitalization 242 Flexibility, Adaptability and Variability of Bushman Ritual 248Chapter 10: Missionaries and the Bushmen 251The Bushman Mission in the Cape at Colonial Times 254The Failure of the Cape Mission 261Contemporary Missions to Bushmen 273Two Incongruous Belief Systems 282Chapter 11: Conclusion: Bushman Religion and the Tolerance of Ambiguity 284Coping with Ambiguity 288Bushman Society and Religion as Communitas and Anti-Structure 298 Do the Bushmen (and Hunter-Gatherers) Have Societies? 303The Analytical and Methodological Challenge of Ambiguity 306References Cited 312Endnotes 341Index 352

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Book SynopsisDealing with the decomposition of cultural myths, these essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics.Table of ContentsPart 1. Conferencing About the Unnatural1. Introducing UNNATURAL ACTS, 1997 Susan Leigh Foster2. ACTING UNNATURAL:Interpreting Body Art Amelia Jones3. Listening to Local Practices: Performance and Identity Politics in Riverside, California Deborah WongPart 2. Contesting White Spaces4. Black Noise / White Mastery Ronald Radano5. Like a Weed in a Vacant Lot: The Black Artists Group in St. Louis George Lipsitz6. Yayoi Kusama's Body of Art Kristine C. Kuramitsu7. "Oh, You Can't Just Let a Man Walk Over You":Staging Threepenny Opera in Singapore Sue-Ellen CasePart 3. Acting Manly8. The Britten Era Philip Brett9. A Question of Balls: The Sexual Politics of Argentine Soccer Jeffrey Tobin10. Music at Home, Politics Afar Timothy D. TaylorPart 4. Talking Vulvas and Other Body Parts11. Looking Like a Lesbian: Yvonne Rainer's Theory of Probability Catherine Lord12. Structure, Size, and Play: The Case of the Talking Vulva B.J. WrayPart 5. De-composing the Unnatural13. Decomposition Elizabeth WoodNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the values and politics of beauty as they affect our everyday lives.Trade Review"... lively and well-written ..."--British Journal of Aesthetics, April 2002Table of ContentsForeword: Cutting Two Ways with Beauty Eleanor Heartney AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: How Beauty Matters Peg Zeglin BrandPart 1. Beyond Kant1. Kantian and Contextual Beauty Marcia M. Eaton2. Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor Nokl Carroll3. Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors, or: Four Logical Petitions Concerning Race, Beauty, and Aesthetics Paul C. Taylor4. Beauty and Beautification Arthur C. DantoPart 2. Body Beautiful5. Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors Kathleen M. Higgins6. Beauty (Re)Discovers the Male Body Susan Bordo7. Miss America: Whose Ideal? Dawn Perlmutter8. Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in China Eva Kit Wah Man9. From the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Beautiful Things Can Be Made Anita SilversPart 3. Body as Art10. Whose Beauty? Women, Art, and Inter-subjectivity in Luce Irigaray's Writings Hilary Robinson11. A Man Pretending to Be a Woman: On Yasumasa Morimura's Actresses Kaori Chino12. "A New Kind of Beauty": Karole Armitage's Early Ballets Sally Banes13. Bound to Beauty: An Interview with Orlan Peg Zeglin BrandContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisShows how concert parties combined an eclectic array of cultural influences, adapting characters and songs from American movies, popular British ballads, and local storytelling traditions into a spirited blend of comedy and social commentary.Trade Review"... succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating character of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues." --Karin BarberTable of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsNote on Orthography1. Introduction2. Reading Blackface in West Africa: Wonders Taken for Signs3. "The Rowdy Lot Created the Usual Disturbance": Concerts and Emergent Publics, 1895-19274. "Ohia Ma Adwennwen," or "Use Your Gumption!": The Pragmatics of Performance, 1927- 19455. Improvising Popular Traveling Theatre: The Poetics of Invention6. "This is Actually a Good Interpretation of Modern Civilization": Staging the Social Imaginary, 1946-1966Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow religious issues shape gender and domestic life in West AfricaTrade ReviewIn the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier reveals how these women have had to define Islam on their own terms, especially as a practice that governs education, participation in prayer, domestic activities, wedding customs, and who wears the veil and how. Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today.July 2010 * Frauensolidaritaet Informationsarbeit zu Frauen in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika *. . . explores the timely and difficult topic of the impact of modern forms of Islamic revivalist movements on the Hausa-speaking population of this West African community. . . . Recommended.July 2010 * Choice *[A] magnificent study of the region and the people that will stand as definitive in our time. * African Studies Review *Masquelier skillfully combines theory and ethnography in a well-written and captivating account of an understudied region in West Africa. . . . [T]his book is an important contribution to the growing literature on Islam in Africa, new religious leaders, globalization and the agency of Muslim women.Vol. 40, 2010 * Journal of Religion in Africa *Masquelier's book offers not just a very fine (and historically grounded) ethnograhy of this remote corner of the Muslim world, but one which merits the attention of all anthropologists of Islam. 2011 * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Adeline Masquelier has written a fresh and engaging ethnography of West African women. Vol. 81.3, 2011 * Africa *Masquelier's rich contextualization of the interplay among religious movements, as well as her explanations for their appeal to believers in different social, political, and economic circumstances, make this an indispensable book for scholars of contemporary West Africa. * American Ethnologist *Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today. * Allegra *[T]his book should inspire scholars in the field of religious, gender, and African studies. It contributes to the study of contemporary Niger, a country on which very little has been written. * Islamic Africa *Based on theoretically informed and empirically grounded research, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town sketches with great historical depth a vivid account of the ethnographic present in Dogondoutchi, a provincial town in southwestern Niger inhabited by the Mawri people. Although focused on a small Sahelian town, it has much wider applications, offering a window onto the impact of reformist Islam and global processes of social transformation on local traditions and touching on questions about how Muslim identities are (re)negotiated in daily life . . . .11/29/10 * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Gender and Islam in Dogondoutchi2. "Those Who Pray": Religious Transformations in the Colonial and Early Postcolonial Period3. Debating Muslims, Disputed Practices: The New Public Face of Islam4. When Charisma Comes to Town: Malam Awal or the Making of a Modern Saint5. Building a Mosque in the Home of a Spirit: Changing Topographies of Power and Piety6. How Is a Girl to Marry without a Bed? Weddings, Wealth, and Women's Value7. Fashioning Muslimhood: Dress, Modesty, and the Construction of the Virtuous Woman8. "The Fart Does Not Light the Fire": "Bad" Women, "True" Believers, and the Reconfiguration of Moral DomesticityClosing RemarksGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA vivid and moving account of life in a north Indian village in the late colonial period.Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: Introduction to the Second Edition by Vasudha DalmiaIntroduction to the First Edition by Gordon C. RoadarmelGodaan: The Gift of a CowGlossary

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Book SynopsisLeading figures in anthropology, history, and cultural and literary studies reflect on the complex interplay between individual and collective trajectories, examining their own experiences as students, scholars, and teachers.Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: At home in the diaspora: South Asia, Europe, the United States Jackie Assayag and Véronique Bénéï1. Knowledge, circulation and collective biography Arjun Appadurai2. My place in the global republic of letters Partha Chatterjee3. Off-center: Feminism and South Asian studies in the diaspora Purnima Mankekar4. Crossing borders and boundaries Vasudha Dalmia5. Representing rural India Akhil Gupta6. De-ghettoizing the histories of the non-West Shahid Amin7. Journey to the East, by the West Prasenjit Duara8. The location of scholarship Gyan Prakash9. Globalisation, democratization, and the evacuation of history? Dipesh Chakrabarty10. On the advantages of being a Barbarian Sudipta Kaviraj11. The ones who stayed behind Ramachandra Guha12. My brothers' keeper Sanjay Subrahmanyam13. Recasting women in the publishing world Urvashi ButaliaContributors:Shahid Amin is Professor of History at the University of Delhi.Arjun Appadurai is William K Lanman, Jr. Professor of International Studies and Anthropology at Yale University.Urvashi Butalia is an independent writer and a publisher, Kali for Women, New Delhi.Dipesh Chakrabarty is Professor of South Asian Studies and History at the University of Chicago.Partha Chatterjee is Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Vasudha Dalmia is Professor of Hindi Literature and South Asian Studies at California University, Berkeley. Prasenjit Duara is Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago.Ramachandra Guha is an independent writer and Visiting Professor in several universities. Akhil Gupta is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University.Sudipta Kaviraj is Professor of Political Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.Purnima Mankekar is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University.Gyan Prakash is Professor of History at Princeton University.Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Directeur d'études (Research Professor) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Professor of Indian History and Culture at Oxford University.

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of the Algerian presence in France and the transnational Berber movement.Trade Review"An insightful chronicle...." —John Bowen".. admirably broad study...." —Times Literary Supplement"" —"... a remarkable work about the dislocating effects of modernity... sure to be influential in the fields of postcolonial theory, French politics, and migration studies." —David A. McMurray"[A] richly nuanced and informative [analysis] of France at the beginning of the twenty-first century." —Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley, H-France"... this is an important call that diaspora should become as important a theme in North African history as it has been in that of sub-Saharan Africa." —H-Africa"This is work of impressive erudition which is richly documented, theoretically sophisticated, and epistemologically provocative in that it situates itself firmly on a transnational axis linking France and Algeria across the Mediterranean." —Susan Terrio"[Silverstein] has elaborated an incisive inquiry into the complex configurations of state power and minority agency that marks a central contribution to the academic study of transnationalism and globalization." —Ruth Mas, University of Colorado at Boulder, Journal Middle East Women's Stds JMEWS, Vol. 6, No. 2 Spring 2010"This informative and sophisticated work... examines Algerian immigration to France... [Silverstein] deftly summarizes the history of Franco-Algerian relations." —Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005"[Silverstein] approaches his subjects through the medium of everyday life, following the random individuals encountered during his field work in the 1990s, applying an ethnographical methodology with a highly critical and self-reflexive awareness of the environment he shared with them.... [This] is a critical work in opening up a broader consideration of the complex set of identifications running between France, Algeria, and the wider Arab and Muslim world." —H-Levant, April, 2011Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Immigration Politics in the New Europe2. Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity3. Spatializing Practices: Migration, Domesticity, Urban Planning4. Islam, Bodily Practice, and Social Reproduction5. The Generation of Generations: Beur Identity and Political Agency6. Beur Writing and Historical Consciousness7. Transnational Social Formations in the New EuropeConclusion

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic exploration of consumption and social dynamics in a Middle Eastern city.Trade ReviewAnthropological studies are most interesting and effective when they reach beyond broad generalization to convey sharp sociocultural insight and identify implicit regularity in seemingly haphazard behavior. Success is often inversely correlated with the scale of the population and/or space being analyzed. It is not surprising that an attempt to capture the essence of Damascus, one of the world's oldest cities, succeeds only in part. Indeed, it is not all of Damascus that is even the focus, but rather the old city; not really a description of present Old City Damascus life, nor even a construction of its past, but instead a meditation on indigenous discourse about Old Damascus. Salamandra (Lehman College) tries to enable an understanding of why Old Damascus has become a focus for contemporary elite nostalgia, a site for social encounter, and even political expression. She further examines the role of new wealth and its display, a fostering of Damascene authenticity (with attendant class, regional, and religious/ethnic friction), and Damascus's extensive portrayal and manipulation by Syrian media, often for political reasons. At its best, the book conveys the complexity of contemporary imagining of Old Damascus, but the city itself, the people and places, never really come alive. Summing Up: Recommended. Most levels/libraries. -- L. D. Loeb * Choice *. . . A New Old Damascus is an ambitious attempt to shed light on the complexities of elite Damascenes . . . [I]t remains a noteworthy contribution to the emerging study of globalization, elites, and urbanism in the Middle East. * American Anthropologist *. . . Recommended. * Choice *. . . Salamandra's book presents a compelling analysis that sheds light on the socio-spatial relations prevailing in Old Damascus and gives the reader a rare glimpse into the lives of upperclass Syrians. June 2007 * H-Levant *. . . [this] book will be required reading for scholars generally interested in sectarian politics in the Middle East and scholars specifically interested in Lebanese Shi'i history and politics because the rich account it offers is also helpful for positioning Shi'i activism in Lebanon since the 1960s.Vol. 39 2007 -- Lara Deeb * University of California, Irvine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: A Return to the Old1. "His Family Had a House in Malki, So We Thought He Was All Right": Socio-Spatial Distinction2. "That Color Looks Great on You": Consumption, Display, and Gender3. Old Damascus Commodified4. Ramadan Lived and Consumed5. Conservation, Preservation, and CelebrationConclusion: Weapons of the Not-So-WeakEpilogue: Of Hubble Bubbles and Cell PhonesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA vivid account of ritual, power, and social inequality in rural India.Trade Review. . . [An] engaging text that is accessible to scholars at all levels. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration1. IntroductionPart I. Dominance in the Making2. Who Is the ?r?3. The Ash Theft4. Making Social Distinctions5. Habit, History, and Thevar DominancePart II. Remaking the Village6. Gods of Yanaimangalam7. Making Good at Kotai Festivals9. Hindu Nationalism and Dalit Reform: Two Responses to Thevar Domination10. ConclusionGlossaryNotesReferences CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores Berber cultural identity and performance in Algeria, France, and on the world music scene.Trade Review. . . This astute and well-written book is essential reading not only for scholars and students of the Middle East and North Africa but also for anyone interested in how history and aesthetic forms combine to create heritage and cultural identity in the public sphere. . . * American Anthropologist *. . . Jane Goodman's Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video is an absolute gem. Her ability to untangle and articulate complex webs of interaction and levels of meaning is quite impressive. Goodman seamlessly balances the ethnographic with the theoretical, her prose effortlessly flowing from examples to the theories that they demonstrate. The distribution of the book's three sections, moving from history to text to performance, makes the work applicable in a number of classroom settings. Goodman's framework reflects the value of interdisciplinary research, giving readers a better understanding of her subject matter and providing them with intellectual tools with which to analyze and perceive their own academic and personal situations. * Journal of Folklore Research *. . . a most welcome addition to North African scholarship. . . . Such beautifully written depictions of cultural performances within cultural performances make 'Berber Culture on the World Stage' not only a provocative ethnography but also a compelling addition to the classroom, sure to captivate undergraduates through advanced scholars.Vol. 41 2009 -- Paul A. Silverstein * Reed College *Goodman displays a deep grasp of the historical dynamics and local, national, as well as global political and social transformations of Kabyle culture and music. . . . Berber Culture on the World Stage is a valuable source for students and scholars of anthropology, North African studies, and ethnomusicology. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Orthography and TranslationIntroductionPart I. Circuits1. The Berber Spring2. Refracting Berber Identities3. The Mythical VillagePart II. Texts4. Collecting Poems5. Authoring Modernity6. Copyright MattersPart III. Performances7. Staging Gender8. Village to VideoEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisBy featuring the life histories of eight senior men, this work explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. It concentrates on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation.Trade ReviewAfter a quarter-century of gender ethnography focusing on women, this study on manhood is long overdue. . . . Apart from being a fascinating retrospective of eight full lives, this book is indeed a mnemonic monument for these same men and their children. * Africa *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrologue and Personae1. "To Be a Man Is Hard": Masculinities and Life Histories2. Children and Childhood: Work and Play, 1900–19303. Forms of Education: Apprenticeships and Schools, 1919–19474. The Employment of Men: Clerks, Police, Soldiers, and Teachers, 1930–19515. The Marriages of Men: Sexuality and Fatherhood, 1930–19706. Speaking Sensibly: Men as Elders in the Twentieth CenturyEpilogue: "No Condition Is Permanent"PostscriptGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisGlobalization is inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Mexico, the US, Europe, India, and China, this book investigates the impact of globalization in the context of families, age groups, and intergenerational relations.Trade Review. . . [S]mart and persuasive . . . At once big and small, this conceptually engaging and emotionally touching volume holds great appeal for students of age, generation, and globalization across the social disciplines. * Population and Development Review *. . . [T]his collection is well worth exploring for its insights into generational shifts that occur in the midst of processes of globalization in a cross-section of countries, including two in Africa—Botswana and Madagascar. * African Studies Review *. . . well worth the read for its insightful analyses. In particular, the case studies presented throughout the book bring to life the fact that globalization does not take place 'out there.' Rather, it takes place as individuals continuously make decisions about specific relationships and through their struggle to shape livable environments in the present and future. Indeed, we are aptly reminded that it is as much in the home and in families, as in financial markets and international agreements, that the reproduction — and regeneration — of populations and societies takes place.Vol. 36.1–2, Spring/Summer, 2009 -- Barbara A. Mitchell, Ph.D * Dept. of Sociology/AnthropologySimon Fraser University *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Age, Regeneration, and the Intimate Politics of Globalization Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham1. Chinese Children, American Education: Globalizing Child Rearing in Contemporary China T. E. Woronov2. Continuity and Change in San Pedro Tlalcuapan, Mexico: Childhood, Social Reproduction, and Transnational Migration Roger Magazine and Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez3. Fresh Contact in Tamatave, Madagascar: Sex, Money, and Intergenerational Transformation Jennifer Cole4. Empowering Youth: Making Youth Citizens in Botswana Deborah Durham5. Aging across Worlds: Modern Seniors in an Indian Diaspora Sarah Lamb6. Maintaining Local Dependencies: Elderly Women and Global Rehabilitation Agendas in Southeastern Botswana Julie Livingston7. The Old World and Its New Economy: Notes on the "Third Age" in Western Europe Today Jessica Greenberg and Andrea MuehlebachList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA rare, intimate glimpse into the daily lives of middle-class women in urban PakistanTrade ReviewZenana is a well-written and highly readable book that neither assumes prior knowledge of the literature on Karachi or Pakistan nor simply rehearses old debates about Pakistan's political history. Ring, rather, introduces the reader to issues cetnral to Pakistani society through a careful consideration of ethnographic vignettes. Volume 44/2—2010 * the Journal of Modern Asian Studies *. . . living among strangers remains an existential problem for many urban residents. In Karachi, a city riven by ethnic and sectarian violence since the 1980s, such problems take on added significance. In her gracefully written and incisively argued book, Laura Ring contends that the everyday efforts of women in Karachi to transform neighbors into—if not quite kin—something other than strangers, are the labors of peace. * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote to the Reader1. Introduction: The Zenana Revisited2. A Day in the Life3. Tension4. Anger5. Intimacy6. Conclusion: Emotion and the Political ActorGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis rich volume should . . . be commended for its comprehensible style making it accessible to nonspecialists in Central Asian societies and to virtually anyone interested in the region. * Ab Imperio *Sahadeo and Zanca have collected a large range of essays written in a clear and accessible style well suited as a textbook for undergraduate teaching or anyone interested in learning about the region. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *[A]n excellent and compelling collection of essays . . . . [T]his book is a valuable addition to our understanding of not only a region heavily influenced by the Russian/Soviet colonial legacy, but also of the ways in which the everyday confronts often competing notions of identity. Vol. 9.3 Winter 2008 -- Robert O. Krikorian * George Washington University *[A]n excellent study . . . . Readers will be attracted to the richness of the collected stories about the social and cultural diversity of Central Asia. The book provides a sympathetic and insightful analysis of Central Asian societies that face common challenges in their transition to a better life. In sum, this innovative work is a significant contribution to various fields in Central Asian studies.Vol. 53.1 Spring 2009 -- Anara Tabyshalieva * Institute for Regional Studies, Kyrgyzstan *[This] book . . . offers to the curious reader a better understanding of Central Asian people, their histories, and everyday lives—a diversity of people who otherwise may have been conceptualized as a grey and anonymous mass, or, worse yet, as mere numbers.October 2008 -- Irene Hilgers * H-Soyuz *Part of a series of books on everyday life in various parts of the world, this volume offers essays on the different ways that Central Asians lead their daily lives and navigate shifting historical, political, and economic trends in past and present times. . . . Many of the selections concern the difficult transitions from Soviet rule to independent statehood, restrictions on political and social activity, widening gaps between the rich and the poor, and new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression. The essays on the varying beliefs and practices of Muslims across this wide region are especially informative. The volume contains illustrations and a listing of the contributors' backgrounds and qualifications. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Central Asia and Everyday Life Part One: BackgroundIntroduction 1.Turks and Tajiks in Central Asian History Scott LeviPart Two: CommunitiesIntroduction 2. Everyday Life among the Turkmen Nomads Adrienne Edgar 3. Recollections of a Hazara Wedding in the 1930s Robert Canfield 4. Trouble in Birglich Robert Canfield 5. A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities:Locating Lives and Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape Morgan Y. Liu Part Three: GenderIntroduction 6. The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan Douglas Northrop 7. The Wedding Feast: Living the New Uzbek Life in the 1930s Marianne Kamp 8. Practical Consequences of Soviet Policy and Ideology for Gender in Central Asia and Contemporary Reversal Elizabeth Constantine 9. Dinner with Akhmet Greta Uehling Part Four: Performance and EncountersIntroduction 10. An Ethnohistorical Journey through Kazakh Hospitality Paula A. Michaels 11. Konstitutsiya Buzildi: Gender Relations in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Peter Finke and Meltem Sancak12. Fat and All That: Good Eating the Uzbek Way Russell Zanca13. Public and Private Celebrations: Uzbekistan's National Holidays Laura Adams 14. Music Across the Kazakh Steppe Michael RoulandPart Five: Nation, State, and Society in the EverydayIntroduction 15. The Shrinking of the Welfare State: Central Asians'Assessments of Soviet and Post-Soviet Governance Kelly McMann 16. Going to School in Uzbekistan Shoshana Keller 17. Alphabet Changes in Turkmenistan: State, Society, and the Everyday, 1904-2004 Victoria Clement 18. Travels in the Margins of the State: Everyday Geography in the Ferghana Valley Borderlands Madeleine Reeves Part Six: ReligionIntroduction 19. Divided Faith: Trapped between State and Islam in Uzbekistan Eric McGlinchey20. Sacred Sites, Profane Ideologies: Religious Pilgrimage and the Uzbek State David Abramson and Elyor Karimov21. Everyday Negotiations of Islam in Central Asia: Practicing Religion in the Uyghur Neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan Sean Roberts 22. Namaz, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: The Diversity of Everyday Religious Life in Central Asia David Montgomery 23. Christians as the Main Religious Minority in Central Asia Sebastien PeyrouseIndexContributors

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"There is a growing preoccupation... of violence in the world, and particularly in the 'South' or the 'developing world'. Governments in advanced industrialised countries... have increasingly strained to catch up with the realization of just how pervasive violent conflict and other manifestations of violence are in much of the world." -from Violence in Developing CountriesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: A Whiff of Angola 1. Violence, Memory, and Progress 2. Categories, Trends, and Evidence of Violent Conflict 3. Deviant Conditions 4. Angola and the Theory of War 5. How to Pay for a War 6. Passionate Interests 7. The Great Post-Conflict Makeover Fantasy Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publicsTrade Review. . . fascinating and probing treatments of issues that press on both museum workers and folklorists.October 15, 2008 -- Lee Haring * Brooklyn College (Emeritus) *Museum and Difference is about the role that museums play in shaping the stories that we tell about who we are and how we are different from other people. It is an interesting subject.Jan. 23, 2009 -- Matt Shinn * Museum Practice Magazine *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Daniel J. ShermanPart 1. Representing Difference1. Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High Ideals Andrew McClellan2. "The Last Wild Indian in North America": Changing Museum Representations of Ishi Ira Jacknis3. National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern Japan Angus Lockyer4. Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Musée du Quai Branly Nélia Dias5. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and Difference Peter M. McIsaacPart 2. Representing Differently6. Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory W. Fitzhugh Brundage7. Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Musée de l'Homme, 1928–1950 Alice L. Conklin8. Dossier: "Inventing Race" in Los Angeles Ilona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman9. Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British Museum Lissant Bolton10. Museums and Historical Amnesia William H. TruettnerContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the landscape of Turkish-language broadcasting in Berlin. This work elaborates a different approach to "migrant media" in relation to the larger cultural and political spaces through which immigrant life is imagined and created.Trade Review"[Kosnick's] work contributes not only to the anthropology of media, but also to other areas of anthropology, such as community and migration studies. Her work is truly timely, as it offers answers to questions that German politicians are now (again) asking with populist overtones." —H-SAE, H-Net Reviews, March 2011"[D]irectly addresses a burgeoning field of inquiry concerned with multiculturalism in Europe and the formation of transnational public spheres.... [A] model of clarity and rigor in its arguments, and the case study material is presented in a sympathetic and engaging way." —Martin Stokes, University of Chicago"This book makes an excellent contribution to existing scholarly literatures on media and migration in Europe [and also] helps to define a new subfield in the anthropology of media, which I might call 'migrant media' in comparison with the literature on 'indigenous media' from the 1980s and 1990s." —Dominic Boyer, Cornell University"... a splendid, theoretically provocative, and productive ethnography." —Y. Michal Bodemann, University of Toronto in Berlin, H-German, July 2009Table of ContentsContents<\>Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. The History of Broadcasting for Migrants in Germany3. Foreign Voices—Migrant Representation on Radio MultiKulti4. The Gap between Culture and Cultures5. Bringing the Nation Back In: Media Nationalism between Local and Transnational Articulations6. Coping with "Extremism": Migrant Television Production on Berlin's Open Channel7. Signifying with a Difference: Migrant Mediations in Local and Transnational Contexts8. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA poignant portrayal of the price of postsocialist transition for industrial workersTrade ReviewKideckel's extensive fieldwork among Romania's Jiu Valley and Fagaraş coal miners, coupled with the workers' narratives quoted throughout the book, lends authority to his detailed analysis of the denigrating conditions suffered by "once celebrated" people. The regions under study were prosperous coal-producing areas that attracted a multicultural workforce. In the postsocialist era, as a transformed Romania becomes a consumer society, the miners are the "canaries in the coal mine of postsocialism," Kideckel asserts. The workers strive to maintain "a tenuous hold on life, work, family, and community" in the face of economic restructuring, privatization, and buyouts. The security and status they felt in socialist society have disappeared. This book contains many firsthand accounts from workers, grounding Kideckel's generalizations in the gritty lives endured by the miners and their families. Kideckel's contribution is the eighth in the publisher's "New Anthropologies of Europe" series. It is emblematic of the series goal to publish ethnographic manuscripts that examine topics such as globalization, ethnicity, and market reform and, at the same time, contribute to theory building in social sciences. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- Choice L. De Danaan, emerita, Evergreen State College, April 2009"Kideckel's book gives a voice to the Romanian working class and lets them speak for themselves... [he] states in a pointed manner that the meaning of 'getting by' has shifted from 'manipulating the system in one's interest' to managing basic survival' in every sphere of life." —H-SAE, June, 2011"What makes the book a ‘must-read’ for those interested in post-socialist Eastern Europe, or labour issues, is the fact that David Kideckel listens. He transforms the detailed account of day-to-day lives into authentic carefully interpreted written testimonies. This corpus of reflections makes an important contribution to Eastern European studies and reading it cannot leave a heart unmoved by the simple but powerful experiences thatan entire social class was and is struggling with in post-socialist Romania." —Gabriela Walker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Europe - Asia Studies, Vol. 61.9 Nov. 2009"... the text is wholly evocative, compellingly written, and clearly organized. 'Getting By in Postsocialist Romania' should appeal to a wide range of audiences, including scholars of postsocialist studies, those interested in issues of economic policy and development, health, and gender studies, and to students at all levels." —Karen Kapusta-Pofahl, American Ethnologist"The book is a valuable contribution to the field of postsocialist studies offering a compassionate discussion of the day-to-day experience of the depressed former industrial worker. It is engagingly written... by the author who has over thirty years of ethnographic research experience in Romania. It makes an excellent text for both undergraduate and graduate courses that deal with working-class culture, postsocialism, Eastern Europe, as well as social transformation and political economy to show how consumption and production are intimately related in the development of working-class identity." —Canadian American Slavic Studies"David Kideckel challenges celebratory images of postsocialism by focusing on the often neglected working class and allowing the disenfranchised to speak for themselves. In so doing he provides a contribution to the ethnography of eastern Europe that speaks poignantly to broader discussions of work, class, and gender under neoliberalism." —Gerald Creed, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York"Overall, this is a very valuable book that sheds considerable light on a subject that is rarely covered in most literature on Romania." —Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 88.3, July 2010Table of ContentsContentsPreface 1. Getting By in Postsocialism: Labor, Bodies, Voices2. How Workers Became "Others": Talking Alienation3. Postsocialist Labor Pains: Fear, Distance, and Narrative in the Workplace4. The Postsocialist Body Politic5. Houses of Stone or of Straw? Postsocialist Worker Communities6. Strangers in Their Own Skin: Workers and Gender in Postsocialism7. The Embodied Enemy: Stress, Health, and Agency8. What Is to Be Done? NotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThe reinvention of identity in today's worldTrade Review"A provocative, original, and thoughtful writer, someone who addresses topics that are central to our culture from a fresh vantage point, and someone who is willing to challenge orthodoxies-right, left, and center-which prevent theorists of other stripes from seeing what's in front of their eyes." -Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence CultureTable of ContentsContentsSightingsPreface: Entertainment Is Dead, Long Live TransformationIntroductionSection 1. Self-Transformation in a Popular CultureSection 2. Traditional TransformationsSection 3. Status TransformationsSection 4. Modern TransformationsSection 5. Postmodern TransformationsConclusionAppendix: The Argument in a Single PageNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisTraces the longstanding interaction between these two regions, showing that the Indian Ocean world provides many examples of cultural flows that belie our understanding of globalization as a recent phenomenon. This work features contributors on this topic from the fields of history, literature, dance, sociology, gender studies, and religion.Trade Review. . . the essays in this volume on Indian Ocean slavery and the African settlements in India are a useful lens into the larger debates that surround this rapidly growing arena of scholarly study.Vol. 40.3 August 2009 -- Gaurav Desai * Tulane University *[A]dds to the growing literature on the Indian Ocean world . . . and cultural interpretations and representations of India and Africa in art, film, music, religion, and other intellectual and sociocultural activities. The text serves as a great introduction or 'crash course' because aspects of the volume serve as historiography of fiction and non-fiction literature about the Indian Ocean and its diasporas all over the globe. Vol. 44.2 2009 -- Catherine Cymone Fourshey * Susquehanna University *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Unrecorded Lives, by John C. Hawley1. Slave Trades and Indian Ocean World, by Gwyn CampbellPart 1. India in Africa2. The Indentured Experience: Indian Women in Colonial Natal, by Devarakshanam Govinden3. Shops and Stations: Rethinking Power and Privilege in British/Indian East Africa, by Savita Nair4. Bhangra Remixes, by Anjali Gera Roy5. "Hindu" Dance Groups and Indophilie in Senegal: The Imagination of the Exotic Other, by Gwenda Vander Steene6. The Idea of "India" in West African Vodun Art and Thought, by Dana Rush7. Politics and Poetics of the Namesake in Mauritius: Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès, by Thangam RavindranathanPart 2. Africa in India8. Siddi as Mercenary or as African Success Story on the West Coast of India, by Rahul C. Oka and Chapurukha M. Kusimba9. Religion and Empire: Belief and Identity Among African Indians of Karnataka, South India, by Pashington Obeng10. Marriage and Identity among the Sidis of Janjira and Sachin, by John McLeod11. African Indians in Bollywood: Kamal Amrohi's Razia Sultan, by Jaspal SinghList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explores the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality.Trade Review[This book's] contribution lies in the rich and well-researched empirical case-study chapters that demonstrate in detail the various different ways in which territory, populations, and authority structures have been organized relative to one another in different places and times.Vol. 23.2 April 2010 -- Eric A. Heinze * University of Oklahoma *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Sovereignty and the Study of States Douglas Howland and Luise White2. Sovereignty on the Isthmus: Federalism, U.S. Empire, and the Struggle for Panama during the California Gold Rush Aims McGuinness3. The Foreign and the Sovereign: Extraterritoriality in East Asia Douglas Howland4. Wilsonian Sovereignty in the Middle East: The King-Crane Commission Report of 1919 Leonard V. Smith5. Colonial Sovereignty in Manchuria and Manchukuo David Tucker6. Alternatives to Empire: France and Africa after World War II Frederick Cooper7. The Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The United States and the Global Human Rights Cases of the 1940s and 1950s Mark Philip Bradley8. What Does It Take to Be a State? Sovereignty and Sanctions in Rhodesia, 1965–1980 Luise White9. Legal Fictions after Empire John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan10. Sovereignty after Socialism at Europe's New Borders Keith Brown11. Environmental Security, Spatial Preservation, and State Sovereignty in Central Africa Kevin C. Dunn12. The Paradox of Sovereignty in the Balkans Aida A. Hozic13. The Secret Lives of the "Sovereign": Rethinking Sovereignty as International Morality Siba N. GrovoguiList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites, this study recounts how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life. It describes the identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges in various domains, from consumption and daily rhetoric to urban geography and health care.Trade Review[This] book is a must-read for anyone with an interest in postcommunist transition and its effect on day-to-day living. It will also be a great resource in undergraduate classes on market transitions, contemporary Russia and consumption. * Contemporary Sociology *[Shevchenko's] fascinating and insightful survey shows how the ethnographical approach may cast new light on social and economic stakes in Russia, and highlights the role of cultural categories in times of large-scale social change. * Europe-Asia Studies *This fascinating and elegantly written book will be of tremendous interest and use to scholars of Soviet/post-Soviet societies, particularly in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. . . . The accessibility of Shevchenko's writing will make this book useful for both undergraduate and graduate courses. 69.3, July 2010 * The Russian Review *. . . a sweeping panorama of everyday life that covers work, leisure, private life, and public (dis)engagement in postsoviet Russia.46 2009 -- D.N. Shalin * University of Nevada *Olga Shevchenko's book leaves us with tools and a template for rigorous qualitative research that can benefit research in a wide range of cases of profound transformations. Vol.115.5 March 2010 -- Balazs Vedres * Central European University *[A]n innovative contribution to the sociological study of quotidian life, alas not life under ordinary cir- cumstances. Shevchenko s book stretches beyond micro-sociological concerns towards fuller understanding of broad concepts such as social change, crisis and normality. The book is an ambitious effort to apprehend the sociological relationship between crisis and normality in the dramatic decade of change that followed communism's collapse. . . . [A]n illuminating, engaging contribution . . . . * Social Forces *Shevchenko's work is timely and should be of interest to anyone concerned with the nature and consequences of economic and social change as well as those with a curiosity for all things Russian.Vol. 89.1, January 2011 * Slavonic and East European Reivew *Olga Shevchenko's Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow sets a very high standard of scholarship. A thoughtful, innovative and thought-provoking study, this book gives important insights into what proved to be one of the most dramatic episodes in Russia's recent history. . . . This book is an invaluable contribution to the study of contemporary Russia, with its mulitple paradoxes and contradictions. Vol. 5.1, 2010 * Cultural Sociology *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Living on a Volcano2. How the Crisis of Socialism Became a Postsocialist Crisis3. A State of Emergency: The Lived Experience of Postsocialist Decline4. The Routinization of Crisis, or On the Permanence of Temporary Conditions5. Permanent Crisis, Durable Goods6. Building Autonomy in Everyday Life7. What Changes When Life Stands Still8. ConclusionAppendix 1. MethodologyAppendix 2. List of RespondentsAppendix 3. List of Interviewed ExpertsAppendix 4. Discussion TopicsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that examines the political and ideological components of national drives to possess and test nuclear weapons.Trade Review[The author] Abraham has brought together scholars writing on both Pakistan and India to reflect on the place of science, the atomic question, popular culture and the state. In doing so, he has managed to push forward a perspective that is transnational in a meaningful way for the subcontinent. . . . Vol. 43.2 June 2010 -- Jahnavi Phalkey * British Journal for the History of Science *For the first time scholars in this book present a multivoiced assessment of the subtle sociocultural effects of the 1998 nuclear tests in India and Pakistan. ...This book proves conclusively, again, that a partition done haphazardly in 1947 led to very different experiences in the evolution of military–industrial–political complexes in each country. But where others have focused largely on states and strategic cultures, these authors, under Abraham's able editorship, show how these two atomic publics are constructed and interact with their surroundings.Vol. 83.2 June 2010 -- Robert S. Anderson * Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics / Itty Abraham2. Fevered with Dreams of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to Pakistan / Zia Mian3. India's Nuclear Enclave and the Practice of Secrecy / M. V. Ramana4. The Social Life of a Bomb: India and the Ontology of an "Overpopulated" Society / Sankaran Krishna5. Pride and Proliferation: Pakistan's Nuclear Psyche after A. Q. Khan / Ammara Durrani6. The Politics of Death: The Antinuclear Imaginary in India / Srirupa Roy7. Pakistan's Atomic Publics: Survey Results / Haider Nizamani8. Gods, Bombs, and the Social Imaginary / Raminder Kaur9. Nuclearization and Pakistani Popular Culture since 1998 / Iftikhar Dadi10. Guardians of the Nuclear Myth: Politics, Ideology, and India's Strategic Community / Karsten FreyList of ContributorsIndex

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